Ja ja ...
Luego refino...
Sale de esta foto de jack nicholson joker de la primera batman donde piden firmar en foto del joker de heath ledger.busco video batdance de prince pero le cambian pista por una tecateria...
Anyway, despues consegui el video por otro site y lo incluyo aqui. Y cierro aqui. Luego posteare algo mas normal.
Interesante analogia. Comparar el desastre BP con Moby Dick. Donde Ahab es BP...Les incluyo el link de la discusion original debajo.. By the way estoy internalizando todavia el articulo de Rolling Stone sobre BP (http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/111965?RS_show_page=0).
CITA: In the weeks since the rig explosion, parallels between that disaster and the proto-Modernist one imagined by Melville more than a century and a half ago have sometimes been striking — and painfully illuminating as the spill becomes a daily reminder of the limitations, even now, of man’s ability to harness nature for his needs. The novel has served over the years as a remarkably resilient metaphor for everything from atomic power to the invasion of Iraq to the decline of the white race (this from D. H. Lawrence, who helped revive Melville’s reputation). Now, 50 miles off the Louisiana coast, its themes of hubris, destructiveness and relentless pursuit are as telling as ever.
The British petroleum giant BP, which leased the Deepwater Horizon to drill the well, has naturally been cast in the Ahab role, most recently on one of Al Jazeera’s blogs by Nick Spicer, who compared the whaler’s maniacal mission to the dangers of greed, “not just to a man such as Captain Ahab, but to all his crew and to the whole society that supports their round-the-world quest for oil.”
Andrew Delbanco, the director of Columbia University’s American studies program and the author of “Melville: His World and Work,” said, “It’s irresistible to make the analogy between the relentless hunt for whale oil in Melville’s day and for petroleum in ours.” Melville’s story “is certainly, among many other things, a cautionary tale about the terrible cost of exploiting nature for human wants,” he said. “It’s a story about self-destruction visited upon the destroyer — and the apocalyptic vision at the end seems eerily pertinent to today.”
Whaling was the petroleum industry of its day in the 18th and 19th centuries, with hundreds of ships plying the oceans in search of the oil that could be rendered from the world’s largest mammals. The 40-ton bodies of sperm whales could yield dozens of barrels, some derived from blubber and the rest, the most precious kind, spermaceti, from the whale’s head. The oil burned in millions of lamps, served as a machine lubricant and was processed into candles distinguished by their clear, bright flame, with little smoke or odor. In addition, whalebones could be used to stiffen corsets, skin could be cured for leather, and ambergris, the aromatic digestive substance, could be incorporated into perfumes. New England ports, the Houstons of their era, and fortunes were built with whale oil money.
Me vino a la mente este video de King Rat por Modest Mouse. El video es cruel. Y fue dirigido por Heath Ledger, antes de su suicidio y ganar fama con The Dark Night. Video y letra debajo.
King Rat - Modest Mouse Well! Well! Well! Well!
We spun like birds on fire Right down towards the residence, and I I took all that I desired Even crooks have to pay the rent We swam like rats on fire Right, right down the reservoir We took all that we could carry But we tried to carry more
And you know, you know, you know it all went wrong And you know, you know, you know it was all wrong
We choked on street tap water Well, I'm going to have to try the real thing I took your laugh by the collar And it knew not to swing Any time I tried an honest job Well, the till had a hole and ha-ha We laughed about paying rent Because the county jails, they're free
And you know, you know, you know it all went wrong And you know, you know, you know it was all wrong
Deep water, deep water Senseless denial I went down like a rag doll as you would, child Deep water, deep water Senseless denial I went down like a rag doll as you would, child
Oh, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky me again. I said it looks like I've got to use my feet again Well I just spent my last one hundred dollars God, I'll pay my bill again
Oh, I don't care Oh, how I just don't care
Deep water, deep water Senseless denial I went down like a rag doll, shooken and shy Deep water, deep water Senseless denial I went down like a rag doll rat of a child
Well, King Rat has me on his list again I can never be on the fence again I found out it's all loud Open like an organ and it Talk, talk, talk, talk again He promised me that when I cheated him But I could open my eye, well Lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky Lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky me again
Deep water, deep water This senseless denial I got fed like a fish, full of open smiles Blue water, deep water Oh, senseless denial I got fed like a fish on the cardboard smiles
Well, well What do you have to say for yourself? I said, well, well Well? I said well, well, well, well!
Lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky me again I hardly knew I should use my feet again What do you have to say for yourself? What do you have to say for yourself?
