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...everything hanging on the walls, everything because we needed to create this vacuum, clean canvas, have this space so that we could create in it. And that was in some regards the first Blue Man and everything since then has been about accumulation. We've got a lot of shit. We can't hold...
Blue Man Group uses all this "shit" to recreate the accumulation culture of America in the late 20th century. "Tubes" takes the icons of the 'nineties--the Internet, Screen Savers, processed foods and forces the audience to recognize them for what they are--man-made objects which we control; they don't control us. Says Chris Wink, "Modernization has separated us into cubicles, and now we have to buy our way back together. Theater... is the last bastion of direct interaction...
...because they had plenty of time to express their views early in the semester. No one protests anything of moral importance on this campus. There is all sorts of stuff going on in our country with the changes in Congress and education and welfare cuts and nobody gives a shit...
...successful in polluting his room, though. "I used organic fertilizer," he says. His roommate puts it bluntly: "He made my room smell like shit," says Nigel Tufnel (not his real alias...
...long as we suffered in silence," observes the voice of Judge, "the authorities left us alone. But that silent suffering shit was about to end." Crammed into a holding cell, an informal rap session about how to defend Black rights lets the various voices in the community be heard: the pacifist preacher, the young hotheads and derisive random riffraff (played by screenwriter Melvin Van Peebles, the director's father). Above it all rises the calm authority of Huey Newton and his persuasive argument for Black self-defense...