- Rarely does Polish theater get this much run publicly. Apparently
the way to garner some attention is to stage a new production that alludes to
murdering the country's most powerful politician and has sexual scenes
involving the cross and an image of the late Polish pope, St. John Paul II,
although some of the attention the play is garnering comes from prosecutors.
Those legal eagles are investigating the production to determine if the play,
"The Curse," offends religious feelings and acts as an incitement to
murder. Yes, because people always go to the theater and do exactly what they
see the overly makeup-ed, costumed thespians on stage acting out as they sing
and dance around. Those two crimes can be punished with prison terms of two and
three years, respectively, so it’s not a matter to be taken lightly for
Croatian director Oliver Frljic. His play debuted Saturday at Warsaw's Teatr
Powszechny and the politician named in his production is Law and Justice party
Chairman Jaroslaw Kaczynski, which apparently is enough to get the law
breathing down your neck in Poland. Another adversary for the production is the
Polish Bishops' Conference, not known for its tolerance or sense of humor and
which called the play blasphemous and says the scenes involving the cross and
John Paul II are "extremely painful" to people in predominantly
Catholic Poland. Sometimes great art is built on a foundation of pain, uptight
religious leaders, so grab some popcorn and enjoy the show……..
- They’re two odd musical ingredients to mix together, so
who knows what the hell will result from this unusual collaboration? Incubus
and Skrillex have been pictured working together in the studio, apparently as
part of Incubus’ not-much-awaited return from a long hiatus with their eighth
studio album, the unimaginatively titled “8.” The band marked the announcement
of their next album with the single “Nimble Bastard” and have chased that news
with an Instagram photo showing band members in the studio with EDM hero
Skrillex, who is believed to have a guest spot on one of the album’s songs.
Guitarist Mike Einziger posted the photo from the studio, showing band members
sitting around a mixing desk with Skrillex and the cryptic caption, “Nothing
cool is happening right now…nothing at all.” Einziger previously spoke about
the “Nimble Bastard” single and explained that the track was actually a fairly
recent development. “This song actually came very late in the process of
writing new music for our new album that we have coming out very soon,” he
said. “We’re just about done actually and it just kind of happened in the
studio and we were messing around with this musical idea and the next thing we
know we had a song.” The track, he noted, is a story about someone who manages
to consistently overcome adversity in life and always seems to come out of
those trials looking like a rock star. One of the album’s remaining tracks will
apparently be Skrillex’s chances to shine, so here’s hoping he makes the most
of it………
- Only in the South. Of any corner of the United States,
there’s only one region where weaponizing processed pork products is a go-to
move in a dispute with a family member. It’s the perfect place for a man like Terry
Bernard Ball Jr., who was recently arrested for simple battery for allegedly
assaulting his mother with a pork chop and then head-butting her for not buying
him cigarettes. That’s the tale being told by Athens-Clarke County police, who
noted that a good, upstanding citizen like Ball was also charged with a
probation violation from a prior case six months earlier. Proving once again
that cancer sticks are hazardous to one’s health in more ways than one, this
smoking addict was eating a pork chop at his home on Simmons Street around 7:30
p.m. when a major problem arose. Ball’s mother, for some odd reason, refused to
pony up the necessary cash and make a trip to the store to buy her son’s lung
darts, prompting her own child to pick up his pork and hurl it across the room
at her. At least he didn’t pick up the chop, use it like a club and try to
assault his beloved mother, but he did then use his head as a battering ram,
head-butting mom and prompting his father to step in and restrain his son until
police could arrive. As always, at least there’s a good reason police had to be
called to a residence to quell a dispute that never should have happened and
now, the Ball family kitchen can hopefully return to being a place of peaceful
pork products…….
- The no-one-wins game of international sports chicken is
down to just two foolish cities, both driving toward sure disaster at a
reckless rate of speed, determined to make sure that they become the latest
municipality to take on the financial albatross that is hosting the Olympics. Budapest
figured out what a terrible idea it would be to continue with its pursuit of a
bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and officially hit the eject button,
leaving only Los Angeles and Paris in the race. Hungarian government spokesman
Zoltan Kovacs confirmed the withdrawal, which was a joint decision by Prime
Minister Viktor Orban, Budapest mayor Istvan Tarlos and the Hungarian Olympic
Committee. All three deserve immense credit for making the right choice and
although the measure must be formally voted on by the Budapest City Assembly,
that rubber stamp is only a matter of time. The country’s governing party,
Fidesz, said the decision was made to avoid "a loss of international
prestige" for Hungary because the country had a very small chance of
success, but the reason is irrelevant. Those involved should be saluted for
their forward thinking because all that matters is that Hungary won't be
wasting billions of dollars building Olympic venues that will be abandoned
ruins within months of the games or constructing infrastructure that will only
be needed for the three weeks of the Games. The International Olympic Committee
will choose the host city in September and the worst part of this news is that
residents of L.A. and Paris now have a 50/50 chance of having the Olympics shoved
down their throats and plunging their town into fiscal ruin all in the supposed
name of national pride………..
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