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...Poor but Adorable) and Komando Pasukan Suka Susu (Milk Lovers' Force Command). For an exercise in semantics, the resulting CD, Acronym Wars, is ear-splittingly entertaining. And as presented at Darren Knight Gallery alongside military-style musical memorabilia, it's an intriguing cultural artifact. Elsewhere in the show, machine-gun-shaped guitars carved from mahogany stand sentinel alongside bespoke batik military fatigues, which Kesminas says are key "because in a way the project is all about camouflage." All sorts of things are "hiding behind the acronyms...
...With fun and flair, Kesminas shows that much is permissible. "It's the perfect time," he says, "and in all honesty, five years ago you'd probably be put in jail for doing this." The artist nearly was, though not in Indonesia. While lugging back one of his machine-gun guitars from Yogyakarta last year, Kesminas was detained for five hours at Melbourne Airport. "You could say that I was asking for it, and I am," he says. "The project does straddle that fault line, and for me that's the interesting spot...
...this aspect of Korean culture can hardly be used to explain the case of Seung-Hui Cho. It takes more than cultural stigma to make a person load and cock a gun...
...lives of those that are over there with them. One of the most amazing things to me was the fact that they actually landed a helicopter not even knowing who we were and just assuming that we were military. They came in with their helicopter even though there was gun fire happening around us and still landed the helicopter and saved our lives. That is what we are talking about in this war and that is what they are doing...
...point, Williams asked for a show of hands: "How many of you, in your adult lifetime, have had a gun in the house?" It turned out Gravel, Biden, Dodd, Richardson and Kucinich had. Edwards and Obama hadn't. Clinton clearly wasn't counting the armament that had surrounded her in the White House...