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So thanks to technology and the World Wide Web and BitTorrent, I am currently listening to a ripped video of "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, (coming at ya on the DVD player in the living room) and ALSO listening to "Mmmmmm....Skyscraper, I Love You" by Underworld, courtesy of pandora.com. Both of these entertainments come at voume eleven...my house sounds like a discoteque of two different era, one '80s, one '90s, but both of them more or less expressing the apothesis of their particular times.

In the course of researching something last week for a personal project, I inadvertently downloaded the so-called Top Thirty Music Videos of All Time, and to the surprise of no one, the top of the list was none other than Michael Jackson's Thriller video. I wish I had some kind of tremendous insight to offer about this seminal project of early MTV land - I don't, really, except to say that I just watched it and I was just goddamn stunned at what a fucking masterwork it was for the time in which it was made.

Art, oddly enough, can be found anywhere. And what makes art ART, IMHO, boy and girls, is when people look at what's going down in the zeitgeist and says, "I can make something better, something that synthesizes the totality of the context in which THIS THING is being expressed - and i can take it to the next level." VERY FEW ARTISTS *EVER* DO THIS. (I'm one of them, so I know.) What makes a critic like me really cream is when someone dares to look at the context and make something brilliant - even if twenty-five years later it looks a little cheesy. Thriller looks cheesy today - but remembering what it was like to watch it then, and knowing what was going down at the time now, makes this video a MasterWork of art that will actually stand the test of time. Can you say the same for your work? I can't. But can you? Please jesus, I really hope so...if just for my sake alone.