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Posted by Daniel Manuszak
When actors start taking off their clothes on stage, I always wonder if they are going to go all the way. In the next minute or so as they run around the stage doffing shirts, wigs, red and blue socks amidst sweat breathing leaps to flutter lights and techno beats… will they drop their white vestigial tights – the final tethers of societies’ mask making feathers?
But, I’m taking you straight to the climax… and we haven’t even wandered through the planetarium, bow-legedly mimed riding a horse, accused our parents of Doublespeak or even leaned back on our slick hair and cocked the crook leg of our Deanness. I have to admit that the only James Dean movie I’ve ever seen is “Rebel Without a Cause” (a shortcoming I plan to remedy by watching “Giant” tonight.) However, I know what a foot to the throat means. And, I understand the antagonizing chaos muddled amuck with movie script lines delivered from the depths of a Bill Hicks’ throat-mic satan. These and other mechanisms employed by Miguel Guitierrez and the Powerful People accentuate the fact that I know enough about James Dean, America, Orwell, confusion and the silence of transparency to understand that we all want to do something meaningful. We all want to be good at that which we do. We all want to get laid. We would all love to be able to sing our national anthem beautifully, with pride. And, on some level, we all want to get naked!


However, I wonder if that act even matters anymore. Does getting naked onstage have any symbolic meaning? Well, it sure mattered when you were a teenager. If you follow the progression delineated by Guitierrez companies’ Dean intimations and the cross-referencing dissections therein, you’ll find that it sure mattered when you were a teenager. And, that’s where we as a country are currently mired; America looks good on screen. We sure appear to be fresh and cool, but when things get fucked up (which life does and countries eventually do) we (the people) are too immature and confused to really know what to do. We’re young, dumb, and hopefully we don’t drive too fast down future’s highway. Gotta know to handle the curves, America, not just the lines.
Or, maybe I’m reading too much meaning into things. Regardless, I do like to be antagaonized and titillated by art. The confusion was a bit much, but I choose to interpret it as symbolic, just as I choose to interpret the unexplained removal of clothing.. I find it less annoying to think of it that way…

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