A THANKSGIVING THOUGHT FOR YOU: both ridiculous and sublime:
First, I highly recommend to you the video of U2 performing "I Will Follow" on Saturday Night Live; pop music is a really weird thing--it's hard to say how or why it affects you the way it does, and U2 have always drifted too close to making Statements for me to like them more than I do--the visceral thrill of their best songs is always almost being overmatched by the intellectual--and I was pretty determined going in not to like this performance, but there's a certain exuberance to it--the joy of making music--that just can't help pulling you along.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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