Whaledreamers at IMDb
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Rabbit-Proof Fence at LibraryThing
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Attended a screening of the movie Whaledreamers yesterday and a concert by Steve Earle on Friday. Whaledreamers was a pretty bad documentary about worthy subjects, including a displaced and fragile Aboriginal tribe. A treatment I like better of Aboriginal struggles is the book Rabbit-Proof Fence, by Doris Pilkington.
Steve Earle
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Allison Moorer
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Judson Memorial Church
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Steve Earle was most entertaining to me between songs. Adding recorded backup music a few songs in was a very bad move, I think. I enjoyed the music of his opening act, Allison Moorer, more. Earle, 53, and Moorer, 36, are married and have a seventeen-year age-gap relationship. The concert was held at Judson Memorial Church, which describes itself as progressive.
What particularly struck me at these events was the homogeneity of the audiences. Whaledreamers' audience appeared almost all White. Steve Earle's audience appeared actually all White and, moreover, styled incredibly unvaryingly. Button-down shirts, no makeup or hair product, plenty of steel grays. It was like baby boomer Vermont, activist, White, and well-to-do, came to town.
Whaledreamers was marketed as an environmental movie, and Steve Earle is known for his progressive activist politics and country music. Are these all such White movements? Even in New York City? I couldn't help but be reminded of Stuff White People Like, stuffwhitepeoplelike.com, a funny, self-referential blog I recently discovered.
This is my bit of a blog. Rambling words about rambling days. No focus and nothing ambitious. I seem to write most about local color, nature, and animals, and there is an incomplete chunk about my road trips of 2011.
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