Word: video
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White kids wanted to be black, black kids wanted to be like those in the video. MTV executives said, 'Let's kill rap and hip-hop, it's bringing people together--we can't have MTV be nigger TV,'" said...
Bjork's voice, like Gibbons' on Portishead's CD, unifies and personalizes her album. Bjork shrieks and moans and hits strong, fresh notes, or does whatever is required to convey the emotions raging inside her. The seeming spontaneity of her performance is what's exciting. In the video for Joga, the first single from Homogenic, we see computer-generated images of landmasses, as if from a great height, and then Bjork herself, standing on a high hill, a gap in her chest exposing her swirling insides. The camera plunges within. In a future world of computer images, what still attracts...
...much about it. She didn't look for meaning in a diaper, or make distinctions between quality vs. quantity time. She wished she were not so plump, but it would have never entered her mind to take two hours out of her day to jump around to an exercise video. Rocky marriages were talked about over coffee perked in a Farberware pot. But most women didn't expect to find the moon and stars in another human being, or to perfect the institution of marriage. My parents had the good sense not to look for so much from each other...
...show begins with a quick video highlighting the numerous books which have tried to explain or denounce the quirky habits of men--Why Men Aren't Intimate, Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus and the curious Smart Women, Foolish Choices. From books, the video moves to those infamous talk show hosts, Sallie, Oprah and Geraldo who have profited from such titles as Men Who Won't Commit and the Women Who Love Them. Each clip shows a different anguished woman confronting the cowering man beside her as the audience yells with glee and Sallie/Oprah/Phil smiles knowingly...
...bottle pops and, in Disneyesque fashion, all sorts itself out. Dermott, as one of two esteemed and veteran matchmakers, who are constantly battling one another, makes it his 24 hour mission in this tiny hamlet to bring people together in a pleasant way. As he says on his home video (one of the movie's oddly anachronistic touches): "I am a maker of matches, the human kind"--that's for clarity's sake--"where people get together, get married and live happily ever after." He then proceeds to reassure his viewers that this ambitious project of long-term matchmaking...