Slog - Comments on A View From A Plate: The Great Grace Jones http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_great_grace_jones What's most impressive about Grace Jones' new video is it offers the viewer no access to enjoyment or thrills. The whole work is unpleasant to watch and hear--a grinding beat, a morphing monster. This is not a spectacle of corporate capital, corporate greed, corporate hunger. A spectacle seduces the thing it exploits and annihilates. With Jones as the corporate beast, there is no seduction, no sugar, no soft suffocation. Grace Jones makes every effort to fully represent the terrifying force of today's global rich. Go back to 1985 and listen to "Slave to the Rhythm," which with good reason... Copyright 2008 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:11:48 -0800 Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:48:55 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by A I love it when people equate achievement with money.

]]> A http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_great_grace_jones#c1096561 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_great_grace_jones#c1096561 Money Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:23:04 -0800 Comment by MvB Looking on the bright side, it looks like you can conclude that you don't have to be particularly smart to be a successful banker in the U.K., just self-serving. And who can't manage that?

]]> MvB http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_great_grace_jones#c1096608 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_great_grace_jones#c1096608 Money Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:43:33 -0800 Comment by boxofbirds Perhaps those at the top of the corporate power structure would find this beautiful.

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]]> shub-negrorath http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_great_grace_jones#c1096621 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_great_grace_jones#c1096621 Money Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:49:55 -0800 Comment by Reverse Polarity Charles, you've completely lost me. But I still adore you almost as much as I love Grace Jones.

]]> Reverse Polarity http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_great_grace_jones#c1096690 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_great_grace_jones#c1096690 Money Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:28:58 -0800 Comment by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me Wow... When did Grace Jones start producing self indulgent bullshit?... Totally didn't see that coming.

]]> You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_great_grace_jones#c1096703 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_great_grace_jones#c1096703 Money Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:40:28 -0800 Comment by Jersey Grace Jones is brilliant. She's always been two steps ahead. Go back and view her old videos, she had everybody in them. She only scared me when she appeared to be too drunk to function and I thought she'd embarrass her bad self. Now when she was "on" she was truly impressive.

]]> Jersey http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_great_grace_jones#c1096832 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_great_grace_jones#c1096832 Money Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:03:13 -0800 Comment by today Charles, thanks for the brilliant Grace Jones piece. I appreciate an artist who stays relevant.

If you ever read anything post-'68, do let us know.

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sorry if that wasn't clear.

Marxists can be such pedantics.

]]> today and ticking... http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_great_grace_jones#c1096982 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_great_grace_jones#c1096982 Money Sat, 09 Aug 2008 03:47:39 -0800 Comment by herbert browne @9 "Pedants"? I thought it was 'peasants'... (oh wait- that's 'Commies'! forgive me...)
For some reason this inspired a remembrance of Aristide's slogan in the Haitian presidential bid (that he won): Poverty with Dignity. Of course, his blatantly obvious push to inspire the poor got him kidnapped & 'evicted'- to Africa- to enable a more corporate- friendly regime an opportunity there. (I remember Baby Doc Duvalier, upon his overthrow, being whisked away to Paris on a USAF jet...) Thanks, Charles... ^..^

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