In the guise of a letter to his 16-year-old self, British national treasure Stephen Fry gives a rallying message to the gay community, and to wider society: “[T]he entire achievement of the enlightenment is under threat like never before. The cruel, hypocritical and loveless hand of religion and absolutism has fallen on the world once more.”
What’s particularly nice about this link is the way readers are commenting in the form of letters to their adolescent selves: “Dear me at 16, Natalie is not the be all and end of all of women and sex.” “Dear me at sixteen, Don’t shave your hair to a number 1, it makes you look ill.” “Dear Me at 16, Dont drink from the wine bottle that is handed to you at the beach party – it’s piss.”
The designers who made the promotional Flash video for K&K Mime Ministries (“The Founders of Gospel Mime”) want to introduce epilepsy and terror in the audience. At first, the idea of having some guys over to do a mime about Jesus sounds harmless, but this site makes it sound and look like a visit from the taser-equipped henchmen of a sadistic, irascible Mafia boss when you are well behind on the payments and you impregnated his daugher on her seventeenth birthday. The New Testament in mime could be boring, but clearly these guys make it a terrifying traumatic experience whose memory you’ll want to repress for the rest of your life. Good marketing!
Watching the news nowadays can be pretty depressing, so why not run the audio through auto-tune software, then sing along with the newsreaders and politicians in beautiful harmony? Climate change, financial collapse and Somali piracy become joyous, chart-worthy music.
Looped beatboxing – the live-est of live music – is always welcome here on KDnC. These stunning performances are by a Dub FX, who will be playing various dates in the UK in May.
