Boom!: we know who you are

The video below belongs to my husband, whom I love dearly. While we do disagree on things from time to time (what healthy couple does not), we will never differ in our ideas and values! Life is as it should be when you marry your best friend—he is pictured on my profile with our son.

The video is short, a song by one of his many side projects. We selected the video material from various sources, and it was stitched together using Kdenlive, mostly (a rather nice and rather free Linux video editor). Actually, my husband did most of the selecting because he had the idea for a long time, however I was adamant about syncing the Howard Dean shot with his guitar solo; also about that ridiculous shot of Tony Blair, which gets me rollin' every time. Guess that makes me sort of a backseat producer.

Why is the project called Suicide Television? We were watching a documentary recently. The title slips my mind; we watch a lot of them, and not ironically, it was on our television (well, actually, computer). The documentary was about how Coca-Cola destroyed India’s water supply. There was a part during the movie in which an Indian wife speaks candidly to the camera about how her husband committed suicide. He couldn’t afford the debt Americans had placed on their farm, and he drank some of the pesticide he was instructed to use on his crops. Actually, quite a few families spoke of their similar, very sad, very preventable situations, and it got us to thinking about ways to channel their anger into something that might resonant with intellectuals angry with the direction of our society and angry with what our country has inflicted on itself and on others, like some self-destructive, feral, escaped mental patient; in other words, we wanted to reach people smart enough to detect the problems and angry enough to realize that things just can't go on this way. Someone has to lock the patient back up, and soon. So, here's to anger.

Here—