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...only audience member at Sanders who didn’t seem to appreciate Miller??s ingenuity was James Otis, Class of 1743, whose austere white marble bust stood just a few feet behind the artist. When Miller scrolled Wilson’s notorious quote across the Sanders stage, one could almost see the statuesque Otis shudder. After all, Otis was killed by a bolt from the heavens in 1783; the lightning metaphor might have struck too close to home for the august alum...
...others in attendance, Wilson’s “lightning” quote could have applied to Miller??s masterpiece—except that the postmodernist deejay would likely object to the notion that “truth” can be objectively defined...
...Miller??s Rebirth opens with the artist flashing national insignias at a speed of 10 images per second—until the Jamaican banner becomes indistinguishable from the Confederate flag. Meanwhile, Miller plays Jimi Hendrix’s Woodstock version of the “Star Spangled Banner,” which devolves the anthem into unrecognizable scratches of sound. Miller describes the montage as “a metaphor for what would happen if all these flags didn’t mean so much...
...therein lies Miller??s predicament. Remixing in real-time, he can’t compete with the disturbing but undeniable brilliance of Griffith’s carefully constructed epic...
...Spooky” persona will appear in Miller??s to-be-released novel Flow My Blood the DJ Said, a takeoff of the classic Philip K. Dick novel Flow My Blood the Policeman Said, which examines the links between semiotics and the DJ culture. The name “Spooky” refers to the eerie interplay between the absence and presence of sound, whereas his “That Subliminal Kid” epithet refers to a character from William S. Burroughs’ Nova Express...