[ale] Quiet

[F. Grant Robertson]

This reminds me of what my finacee refers to as the "Radiohead rule of
acceptable content"

Radiohead had a video, and I forget for what song, that featured nudity
and violence. They ended up making three different verisons, one for the
US, one for Canada and one for Europe as a whole.  

The US version left in the violence, and removed the nudity

The Candian version removed the violence, and left the nudity alone

The European version ran unedited. 

Why we remain so uptight about sex but so comfortable with violence just
makes no sense to me. As Greg Proops once said, when asked by a brit why
we Americans are so uptight.. "Thanks for sending us over your best and
brightest to kick off the party!"

-G


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On 
> Behalf Of Sean Kilpatrick
> I am far more worried
> about "first-person shooter" video games. To me the
> images of blood, guts, and gore being splattered across
> the screen are far more pornographic than pix of men
> and women doing what comes naturally. 

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