24 July 2007

Dirty Dancing's Anti-Capitalist Message

Recently I, together with my housemates and a bottle of Bushmills, revisited Dirty Dancing. We were all floored by this scene when Robbie -- one of several rich, privileged villains Baby is caught between in the film -- busts out a copy of The Fountainhead, trying to underscore what a dog-eat-dog world it is we all live in.

A-plus, Hollywood. A-plus.

23 July 2007

Text Is Now A Verb

I hesitate to elaborate further, the statement itself being so complete, but it tickles the postmodernist in me endlessly that text is now officially a verb and that it can almost certainly stand for the transferral of cultural capital. Well, personal social capital, at the very least. And isn't the personal political these days?