There is nothing in this video to indicate this is a former liberal - or even "lifelong" New Yorker - although he is clearly a real New Yorker for long enough to be considered a "real" one. E.g. the thing with the diners.
Plus I was in a doctor's office recently where in the waiting room they were playing some old game shows, like from the 70s. Along with soap operas they did a GREAT job of INCREDIBLY vacuous programming for stay-at-home moms of the time. Like no fucking wonder they were ready to work FFS.
Heh, well I had a high-miles 300SD (bought for $800) and it was solid but for all the little things wearing out. Like window regulators where you have to buy the whole arm instead of the little plastic piece that breaks. Once I was up to about 5 grand on things like that (about 2 years) I sold it.
Well, I have to disagree with the analogy here. When I first saw RHPS it was out in public with all that going on and I thought it suuuucked. Eventually I got curious and rented the thing, and was like, wait a minute, this is actually surprisingly well done. The music, the cinematography, to a certain extent the acting (purposefully bad, which is a trick in and of itself), Curry's outrageous performance - not to mention that when you really look at it, it is not glorifying all the excess and debauchery, but rather pointing out it's not that great after all.
It's precisely because "you must see it in a movie theater etc etc" that for most it remains criminally underrated as an actual movie.
The fact that he's had such a long ass career really doesn't speak well of the musical sensibilities of many many people. I think "Jack and Diane" is fucking insufferable, and really very boring both lyrically and musically. And that's his high point.
Same in the US, we call them subsidies (so I learned a new word today, cool!). Same thing is happening with other shit, for instance PG&E (California power company) is slashing the rate they buy power back at for solar as it's now flooding the system during the day enough they don't know what to do with it, so orders for new solar are plummeting and companies laying workers off etc. Funny how this kind of thing happens ANY time the government tries to interfere in the market....
And parabolic mics (for those unaware, you can see them if you watch football for example on the sidelines with the TV crews) are amazing, and quite directional.
Here is Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto using one for gathering actual sounds and voices for the album Actual Sounds and Voices.
No, that was an actual invasion. Stopped by Charles the Hammer in France and eventually pushed back out.
Edit: So they learned that won't work, and here we are with the soft invasion/takeover approach.