PORT OF LONG BEACH, 4 August — Newton’s Laws of Motion: First Law: A body in motion tends to stay in motion. Second Law: An idea in motion tends to go anywhere it flippin well pleases and there’s pretty much no predicting or controlling where that’s gonna be.
Newton’s 2nd Law (VB/CO Edition) had a lighthearted invocation at VB41 – Rock the Casbah today, that had a remarkable, unexpected resonance with it’s much grimmer invocation in the case of The Clash’s Rock the Casbah.
The King told the boogie-men ‘you have to let that rāga drop’
In the Cultural Impact section of the Wikipedia entry for Rock the Casbah they note the irony that this song about fighter pilots refusing the order to drop bombs and playing rock music instead has somehow become a military favorite:
The song was chosen by [United States’] Armed Forces Radio to be the first song broadcast on the service covering the area during Operation Desert Storm. In 2006, the conservative National Review released their list of the top 50 “Conservative Rock Songs,” with “Rock the Casbah” at No. 20, noting its frequent requests during the Iraq War.
In one of the campfire scenes late in the 2007 documentary Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten, a Granada friend states that Strummer wept when he heard that the phrase ‘Rock the Casbah’ was written on an American bomb that was to be detonated on Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War.
Wikipedia further notes: “following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the song was placed on the list of post-9/11 inappropriate titles distributed by Clear Channel.”
In a far lighter invocation of Newton’s 2nd Law of Ideas in Motion, at today’s loosely scripted “clash” the most compelling event was the completely unscripted speedboat death match when Laurel Leavitt with her ridiculously underpowered boat foolishly challenged sweet, innocent, “who me?” speedboat maniac, Red Leader Yordie Sands. So dominant was Sands’ boat that Leavitt’s Team Purple Leader, Monerda Skute, resigned and defected to Sands’ Team Red.
R E L A T E D . M A T E R I A L S
• Hot Summer
• Rock the Casbah / Previz
• Rock the Casbah / Production
• Jackie Graves
• Jackie Graves / Xue
• GRAVES Leather Latex Metal / Second Life URL
• Rock the Casbah / Cast
• Raw Images / Flickr
• Rock the Casbah / Wikipedia / Cultural Impact
• The Clash / Wikipedia
• Joe Strummer / Wikipedia
Click any thumbnail below to enter “slide show” mode, then use arrow keys to scroll thru this VB41 document
Pro Tip: You can click play on the video, then click for the slide show, and keep listening to the song
Agnes Sharple
Botgirl Questi
Bumblebee (Wendz Tempest)
Canary Beck
Carissa Arthurine Somerset
Eva Marie
Fuschia Nightfire
George Coghill
Ironyca Lee
Jeremy Owen Turner
Joseph DeLappe
Kathleen Cool
Katie Vizenor
Krista Hoefle
Kristine Schomaker
Lizzie Gudkov
Aero Bigboots
RMarie Beedit
Marmaduke Arado
Isabella Medici
Nadya Tolokonnikova
Nathan Shafer
Pixel Reanimator
Ravanel Griffon
Scarlett Luv
Strawberry Singh
Tabitha Raincloud
Toni Tyldesley
Trilby Minotaur
Vanessa Blaylock
Xue Faith
Yordie Sands
These are so priceless! I laughed so hard remembering how it all went down. But ya know what? I had no idea who shot me in the back until now 😀
Thanks to everybody for one of the most fun times I have had in SL while remaining clothed 😛
Me too, Monerda! Great times!
Luv the post! I had so much fun rampaging around in the killer boat. hehe I didn’t have a chance to shoot a single pic because that Purple team was shooting me. I had to kill them you see? It was kill or be killed. And i had to kill. hahahhahahha
Some peeps think “OOC” means “Out Of Character” but when it comes to Red Leader, I think we all know it means “Out Of Control!”
Homecoming Queen’s Got A Gun? So what!? Red Leader’s Got A Killer Speedboat!
http://youtu.be/xG3yGdQYwqg
Yeah… here’s the thing, Vanessa, you don’t know the thrill yet. I urge you to get a Street Dancer (L$0 on Marketplace, search “MM SD35”) and go to a Rez Zone on the Blake Sea (try Hona Lee Air Field docs). Rez that speedboat and then head out on the Blake Sea (be sure to have mini-map up). Here’s my bet, you’ll be a speed demon in a half-hour. I have many mild mannered girlfreinds who, when behind the wheel of a Street Dancer, become fiends. hehehe