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Glasjaw's "Cosmopolitan Bloodloss"

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Just saw the video for "Cosmopolitan Bloodloss" by a band called Glassjaw, which features noted scenester/filmmaker Vincent Gallo in role simillar to that of Richard Ashcroft in the Verve's "Bittersweet Symphony," wherein he walks the streets making a genuine ass of himself to anyone who happens to get in his way. Meanwhile, Glassjaw -- fronted by a truly annoying vocalist who insists on leaning over at an acute angle when singing, as if being probed from behind by an invisible broomstick -- play the song in an alley and jump around a lot, throwing lots of by-now cliched rock poses. By the end of the clip, Gallo (who was once a member of the 'no wave' band Gray, which also featured the late Jean Michel Basquiat) encounters the band, and angrily unplugs their amp, without saying a word. My question is this: are we to sympathize with Gallo who -- prior to merficully silencing the woefully earnest Glassjaw -- has been a complete jackass in the video?

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 15:30 (twenty-three years ago)

if you were shaken out of bed by the noise of glassjaw.....i doubt you'd be in such a great mood.

manuel, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 17:33 (twenty-three years ago)

they are so fucking horrible..

chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 19:49 (twenty-three years ago)

acute to the vertical or acute to the horizontal?

mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 21:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmmmm....acute to the vertical, i.e. his waste is the crux of a right angle and his upper torsos is parallel to the ground.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 21:23 (twenty-three years ago)

if parallel to the ground then sounds more like 90 degrees to the vertical — unless by waste you actually do mean waste, in which case can i stop thinking about this now (ew ew ew)?

mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 21:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Hahahaha.....waste was a freudian slip, I suppose.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 21:37 (twenty-three years ago)


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