I tried to think of a time in history when there was no war or oppression or civil unrest, and I came up blank. All art is a protest against oppression, be it government oppression or the oppression of an established opinion of what's acceptable.

Adbusters' insert compilation album, live without dead time, or black spot, or whatever, still holds up for me.

Great as Ledger was, TDK hasn't stood the test of time. Interstellar caused me to look back on Nolan's earlier films like Peter Jackson's The Hobbit made us reconsider LOTR's story-telling competency with a stained perspective. All I see in TDK now is how contrived it all was.

Charlie Parker's sax really captured anti-Nazi sentiment with its untamed unpredictability. Pink Floyd's detail-focused, high level of production control served to mimic and ridicule oppressive human nature at the Nixon-era dawn of globalization. You could make an argument for just about everything!

Gangs of New York.

Honey, I Touched the Kids

Feels. Got the feels. Didn't think that was possible after 11/9.

We need Gwyneth Paltrow to translate.

*touched*

Most of you probably don't know that aqua is another word for water.

You need to reach out to Mad TV with that one.

You could just shorten everything you say to "Get off my lawn" and you'd do the rest of us a courtesy by limiting the garbage we have to read.

I could watch Lawrence in any film. They could superimpose her over Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia and I'd watch it. She could be in a used car commercial, and I'd pay top dollar for a Gremlin, waiving my lemon law rights with glee. Hell, I'd even watch her in Glee. 2 episodes top though.

Goofy hair? Pump your brakes, kid. That man's a national treasure.

If they'd had to write a real post 9/11 Seinfeld ep, I'm pretty sure the whole thing would be Jerry waking up to turn on the TV and gape, joined over the course of the episode by Elaine, George, and finally Kramer who would come in at noon. He'd speak the episode's only words ("What's going on?") until Newman walked…

Of all the sacrifices made that day and that week, this one ranks among the most saddening.

I got a couple hundred in Beijing. Put them on a souvenir t-shirt and hung it in a frame. Gets more comments than any art I have hanging.

All modern technology is descended from Nazi flair.

I worked the Beijing Olympics. One day in the Village store, I was in line behind Lebron and Duane Wade. They were flirting with the adorable Chinese clerk and gave her pins from the Cavs and Heat. But she didn't speak English and they went on their way. I offered her two Olympic mascot pins in exchange for their pins…

Did they make a Barbaro biopic yet?