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I should be doing my Arabic homework but instead am writing my first entry into the new / resumed / updated blog. It’s not long, just a quick post to let anyone who may stop by know that the video Ivan and I made last year is now on YouTube.

To make this happen, I had [...]

Ivan wrote the following as a comment to my “About the video – background” entry. Because he edited the video and has a somewhat different take on it than I, I thought his comment warranted its own post.

For me the comparison between the KKK and the door to door Mormon is in that they are [...]

The video is the result of a few days of work on my part and several weeks of work by Ivan. When it was just an idea in my head, I gave him a summary of what I had in mind and asked him if he was interested in editing it. I would pay for [...]

The idea for the video popped into my mind while listening to the song. Except that we aren’t actually f*cked, it just seems that way sometimes.* From this perspective, the video is an expression of anger and frustration, of rage at injustice. The fundamentalists and certain social conservatives have created a climate – world wide [...]

UPDATE 18 April 2009

Here are links to the large version of the video.

WARNING

Before viewing, please note that this is NOT work safe. The audio contains EXPLICIT lyrics. The video contains “unfriendly” hand gestures and brief images of anti-gay violence along with the resulting injuries.

WARNING

Original Entry (edited)

Finally, the video is up. The links above [...]