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...pyromania--Insomniac is an indeterminate blur of bleakness. The CD's opening song, Armatage Shanks (the name of a toilet manufacturer), isn't about anything, really, and that may be its point. In the song, lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong wails about confusion: "Stranded/ lost inside myself...Self loathing freak and introverted." On the album's anthemic final number, Armstrong blurts out a series of snotty lyrics that sound like an amalgam of parental advice and fortune-cookie sentiments, concluding with the declaration: "I have no belief/ but I believe/ I'm a walking contradiction...
Sexual anxiety in "Hour" has more to do with delusional love than anxiety. It's not just his wife Johan fears, it is high society itself--quick to leech off him for his artistic skill but just as eager to jeer at him as a spurned suitor or a freak...
...Wong Foo" could have been at least funny. In Beeban Kidron's directorial thumbs, it becomes schlock. In the spirit of drag and "gay humor," Kidron tried to camp up the movie, and instead made it forced and silly. Catering to straight middle America, Kidron turns drag queens into freaks and drag shows into freak shows. The Webster Hall drag contest at the beginning of the movie was reminiscent of Jabba the Hut's palace from "Return of the Jedi...
...anyway: implied opposition to gays in the military (and in general) stems from bigotry, ignores good reasons for keeping ban on gays in military, includes a passionate lesbian kiss. The center presented the last one as though it was a completely radical element included just to freak the audience...
...profile of Unabomber as a single white male, probably in his early 40s, with at least a high school education and some experience, even if indirect, with higher learning. Although Unabomber claims to belong to an anarchist group called F.C., he appears to be a loner and a neat freak, whose deadly packages are constructed with care, even though some elements are homemade...