02-22-2008

Originally Posted by
hamilton
I don't think I'd call the shotgun scenario art
I think you would if you had created it. It's a really great illusion and no compressed web video is going to do it justice.
Hearing about the scene or reading about it in a review causes your perspective to be skewed. It's a suicide. Calling it quits. It's cowardly and of course it's repulsive. Your morals and values are working the wrong way against your brain and you receive it as though it were the real thing and you are reading about it in the paper or hearing it on the news (RIP, Kurt Cobain).
Fact is, it's not real and you should know going into a show that you're going to see things that are not real. When you are waiting in line and the anticipation is building up, you want so much to get through the door and have the bejesus scared out of you... Then you hear a gruff voice around the corner demanding that you get into the room so he can get the party started... a loud *snap* and the lights come on, you can see this dude's got the crazies, shotgun in hand... He starts to breath heavier and faster and you can almost see the fear in his eyes... The barrel comes up to the mouth and EVERYONE IN THE ROOM immediately starts to panic, shouting "Ohhh nooooo... Ohhhh shit... Awwww man...". BANG... SPLAT... Crowd goes wild. Not just sometimes, not every other group, every single time.
That is art, in my opinion. It just works.
To look meant danger, to smile meant death!