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Beyond the Rocks
The Squid and the Whale
Reel Paradise
Breakfast on Pluto
The 24nd annual Three Rivers Film Festival, presented by Pittsburgh Filmmakers, runs from Fri., Nov.4, through Thu., Nov. 17. The program of more than 40 films includes foreign-language works, American independents, documentaries, experimental cinema and a restored silent classic, as well as new works from local filmmakers.
Tickets for most films are $7 each; exceptions are tickets for the opening night film, Beyond the Rocks ($10); the "nickelodeon shorts" program on Nov. 5 (5 cents); X: The Man With the X-Ray Eyes, with live music by Pere Ubu ($15); Film Kitchen on Nov. 8 ($4), and the closing film, Blackmail ($10). A Six Pack festival pass offers 6 single admissions for $35, plus a free T-shirt.
Except for the opening night feature at the Byham Theater, Downtown, all films screen at the Harris Theater, Downtown (809 Liberty Ave.); the Melwood Screening Room, North Oakland (477 Melwood Ave.); or the Regent Square Theater, Edgewood (1035 S. Braddock). For more information, call 412-681-5449 or see www.pghfilmmakers.org.
Following are reviews and descriptions of films screening Nov. 4-10.
BEYOND THE ROCKS. It's a rare moment when any lost silent film is found and presented again in a restored form, but the discovery of Sam Wood's 1922 film is particularly noteworthy. Beyond the Rocks starred not one, but two, of the silent era's legendary actors: Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino. At that time, such a pairing of A-list stars was rare, and this two-fer finds the couple at the peak of their talents. The story, based on the popular novelist Elinor Glyn's work, is typical of her class-obsessed melodramas: A sweet girl (Swanson) marries a dull but rich old man to appease her cash-strapped family, while in truth she pines for Lord Bracondale (Valentino), who cannot honorably pursue a married woman. Students of film history will also note the obsessive claim to high culture within the film -- a tíªte-a-tíªte at Versailles -- indicative of the industry's self-propelled ascension out of the muck of its working-class and immigrant roots. The film will be accompanied with live piano music performed by Philip Carli. 7:30 p.m. Thu., Nov. 3. $10. Byham Theater (Al Hoff)
BREAKFAST ON PLUTO. This year's go-to bad-boy, Cillian Murphy (Batman Begins, Red Eye), gets naughty again, this time as an Irish transvestite in the early 1970s who gets mixed up with the IRA while searching for his birth mother. Director Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) adapts Patrick McCabe's novel. Liam Neeson and Stephen Rea also star. 8 p.m. Fri., Nov. 4, and 5:15 p.m. Sun., Nov. 6. Harris
Cí"TE D'AZUR. It's a summer beach holiday as sexually liberated as only the French can make it. Between bottles of wine and succulent shellfish, one family comically unravels under the Mediterranean sun. Dad's uptight (or is he?), Mom's imported her affair south for the summer, teen-age son Charly might be gay -- his visiting best friend sure is -- and everybody spends too much time in the malfunctioning shower. Clearly, it's going to take a totally hot local plumber to sort out this mess. Olivier Ducastel's lighthearted domestic sex-comedy (with the occasional musical number) is a sun-lit bon bon -- not particularly filling or nutritious, but enjoyable. And certainly its pan-sexual heart is in the right place. In French, with subtitles. 9:15 p.m. Wed., Nov. 9, and 9:15 p.m. Thu., Nov. 10. Harris (AH)
DARWIN'S NIGHTMARE. Hupert Sauper's documentary examines the devastating human costs of globalization by focusing on one bit of trade -- the importing of Nile perch from impoverished Tanzania bound for European supermarkets. The film will be preceded by the short film "Flight and Fight," by local filmmaker T. Foley. In English, and Russian and Swahili, with subtitles. 7:30 p.m. Sun., Nov. 6, and 7:15 p.m. Mon., Nov. 7. Melwood
DAS BUS. Out on the gridded prairie of Kansas City, documentarian Benjamin Meade asks, What are these ships of the city that move among us, these buses? We meet drivers and passengers, who share lore including that of "trolley dollies" -- women hot for a man in a bus driver's uniform. Meade examines attitudes about transit, which are somewhat predictable yet significant: intimate ambivalence from the bus-bound and ignorant scorn from the car-contained. Also: a revealing 1969 municipal film, a pointless-yet-entertaining Tech N9ne bus-themed performance, a bittersweet montage with KC alum Iris DeMent, and other interludes that beg for the express treatment. In Das Bus, KC-MO holds out a mirror and a warning to Pittsburgh: Neglect buses, and they become a parsimoniously patronized social service. Maybe we need a Yinz's Bus to appreciate what we've got and demand more. Director Meade is scheduled to appear at the screenings. Das Bus will be preceded by the short film "Kundalini Rising," by local filmmaker John Allen Gimble. 4 p.m. Sat., Nov. 5, and 3 p.m. Sun., Nov. 6. Melwood (Julie Mickens)
DEAR WENDY. (See review.) 9:15 p.m. Wed., Nov. 9, and 7:15 p.m. Thu., Nov. 10. Regent Square
DORIAN BLUES. There's a lot to like about writer/director Tennyson Bardwell's first feature film. In many good ways it's a small movie, touching in its sincere treatment of two brothers, one gay and one straight, and how they navigate their rocky relationship with a domineering, emotionally abusive father. The performances are as heartfelt as the script, especially Michael McMillan as the despondent gay brother, Dorian, and Stephen C. Fletcher playing the smug righteousness of the dad. (Of local interest is the appearance of several actors with a history in the Pittsburgh theater scene, including McMillan, Lea Coco, Portia Kamons and -- a big blast from the past -- Jeff Paul.) As with some first-time outings, Bardwell relies a bit too heavily on narration to move along his story, and the film's ending is abrupt; this is a movie that stops, rather than ends. But it's to Bardwell's credit that he leaves us wanting more. 9 p.m. Sat., Nov. 5, and 9:15 p.m. Mon., Nov. 7. Harris (Ted Hoover)
DUMPSTER. Slam a moony, disconsolate and over-privileged frat boy into a sardonic and financially strapped campus janitor and, if the screenwriter is Carnegie Mellon prof and working-class poet Jim Daniels, you get an often-incisive microcosmic study of social class in America. Francis (David Conrad), who's long overdue for his diploma, and Jim (Jeff Carpenter), who's got a skeptical live-in girlfriend (Elena Pasarello) with a kid, see each other simultaneously through the lens of cliché and all too clearly. This 64-minute featurette -- shot, cast and crewed in Pittsburgh, and directed by John Rice -- is hamstrung by exceptional talkiness, some muffed stabs at comedy and the visual limitations of its three settings. But on a literary level, the protagonists' inability to agree on anything -- the meaning of "servant," The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, even the desirability of snow -- combines with subtler parallels between them, and with Daniels' refusal of easy resolution, in an intriguing package. The director, cast and crew will attend the screenings. 6:30 and 9 p.m. Sat., Nov. 5. Melwood (Bill O'Driscoll)
ELECTRIC EDWARDIANS: THE LOST FILMS OF MITCHELL AND KENYON. Early British film pioneers Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon shot numerous scenes of everyday life during the early 20th century: life on the street, sporting events, parades, local industries. These films were exhibited simply for the marvel that they were: "moving pictures" of real life. This 90-minute compilation culled from more than 800 films has been assembled from the original negatives, recently found in a basement. To be preceded by the short film "Two If By Sea," by local filmmakers George Davis and Brian Dean Richmond. 7:15 p.m. Thu., Nov. 10, and 7:15 p.m. Fri., Nov. 11. Melwood
FILM KITCHEN. (See preview.) 8 p.m. Melwood
FILMIC ACHIEVEMENT. Kevin Kerwin's mockumentary follows several "UNY" film students through the academic year, skewering many of the foibles and conceits of this subset of artists. Kerwin, a former Pittsburgher, is scheduled to appear at the screenings. 9 p.m. Thu., Nov. 10, and 7 p.m. Sat., Nov. 12. Melwood
HARLAN COUNTY, U.S.A. Barbara Koppel's heartbreaking 1976 documentary about a year-long coal-miner's strike in Harlan County, Ky., in the early 1970s. In places the film seems unreal -- folks couldn't be that poor, big companies couldn't be that criminally selfish, unions couldn't be that corrupt -- but every shocking grim thing is true. Small victories are won, but at terrible costs, and ultimately, the viewer comes to understand that the strike is just one hard time in a life -- in generations of lives -- of desperately hard times. Tough, but compulsory viewing. Koppel's now-historic film won the Academy Award for Documentary Film, and will be presented in a newly restored print. 7 p.m. Sat., Nov. 5, and 7:15 p.m. Mon., Nov. 7. Harris (AH)
IRON ISLAND. In this black comedy from Iran's Mohammad Rasoulof, a group of homeless men, women and children, under the control of Captain Nemat, live in an abandoned and sinking oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. In Persian, with subtitles. 4:45 p.m. Sat., Nov. 5, and 7:15 p.m. Wed., Nov. 9. Harris
JESUS, MARY AND JOEY. In this romantic comedy, two young lovers find their families can't get past the difference in their religious backgrounds: He's Catholic from an Italian-American family; she's a fundamentalist Christian. James Quattrochi directs, and the cast includes Olympia Dukakis, Charles Durning and Stacy Keach. 3 p.m. Sun., Nov. 6, and 7:15 p.m. Tue., Nov. 8. Regent Square
THE LAST VICTORY. John Appel's documentary follows the hopes and dreams of Tuscans as "Il Palio," the local historic horse race, approaches, and as the long-standing desires and rivalries both unite and divide the community. In Italian, with subtitles. 7:15 p.m. Thu., Nov. 10, and 4:30 p.m. Sat., Nov. 12. Harris
MUTUAL APPRECIATION. A young musician moves to New York City to start a band, but finds himself easily distracted by girl troubles and employment woes. This low-key improvisational comedy is directed by Andrew Bujalski, who tackled similar themes and techniques in Funny Ha Ha. To be preceded by the short film "Ruthless," by local filmmaker Michael Maraden. 5 p.m. Sun., Nov. 6, and 9:30 p.m. Mon., Nov. 7. Melwood
NICKELODEON SHORTS. One hundred years ago, the world's first nickelodeon opened in Pittsburgh. Such venues were named for their admission price -- one nickel -- and helped introduce people to the cinema with an ever-changing selection of short films. Relive the experience with this selection of short silent films, ranging from comedies, westerns, dramas and documentaries -- all for the price of a nickel, natch. Philip Carli will provide live accompaniment on the piano. 2:30 p.m. Sat., Nov. 5. Harris
THE NINTH DAY. During World War II, a Catholic priest from Luxembourg is forced to choose between his ideals and his fellow clergymen, still imprisoned in Auschwitz, in this drama about faith, responsibility and guilt from Volker Schlondorff (The Tin Drum). In German and French, with subtitles. 2:30 p.m. Sat., Nov. 5, and 5 p.m. Sun., Nov. 6. Regent Square
The President's Last Bang. Writer/director Im Sangsoo won't add much to your scant knowledge of Korean history, but he may have created a whole new film genre: slapstick political thriller. Last Bang is based on the real-life 1979 assassination of Korean dictator Park Chung Hee by the head of his security service, Kim Jaegyu. But the film completely eschews political content -- partly because introductory material was deleted by Korean courts, but mostly because Sangsoo doesn't really care. Kim (Baik Yoonsik) seems more driven by his bad liver than by his occasional revolutionary rhetoric, and his co-conspirators appear as surprised by the plot as Park himself. Sangsoo convincingly depicts the banality of evil -- Park's regime comes across as a cadre of vulgar womanizers -- but his broader argument seems to be that all of history is banal. As you watch Kim duck out of the assassination half-way through (so he can get more bullets) you wonder if the real force driving human events is sheer ineptitude. In Korean and Japanese, with subtitles. 7 p.m. Sat., Nov. 5, and 9:30 p.m. Mon., Nov. 7. Regent Square (Chris Potter)
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. It's a timeless story -- will the star-crossed lovers unite? -- but told with such wit and clever observation that Jane Austen's novel of social manners easily supports yet another film adaptation. Joe Wright's film is lovely and well made, with location shooting in old English manors and marvelously fluid camerawork that'll have you immersed in the social swirl. Pride boasts meticulous production details -- I can't say for sure, but the hair, clothes and interiors look truly authentic (I loved the shaggy 'dos, Napoleonic mullets and matted wigs, and the fact that the only make-up appeared to be the blush of love upon creamy cheeks). Keira Knightley's 21st-century modernity crossed with fragrant English rose is well suited for her turn as the sharp-tongued but dutiful Lizzie and, as Mr. Darcy, relative newcomer Patrick McFadyen's smoldering dark looks, infuriating haughtiness and tender pains are sure to have the cheap seats swooning. Rounding out an excellent cast are Donald Sutherland and Brenda Blethyn as the squabbling Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, and Judi Dench as Lady Catherine De Bourgh. 8 p.m. Fri., Nov. 4. Regent Square (AH)
PURE. Scottish director Gillies MacKinnon depicts the world according to Paul, the 10-year-old son of a widowed junkie, forced to come of age too quickly while struggling to keep his faltering family afloat. A sleek visual style conveys a real sense of place in the seedy neighborhood beneath London's West Ham stadium and presents heroin abuse with a "train-wreck approach" that is horrifyingly captivating. Fans of Ken Loach's Sweet Sixteen and Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher will appreciate the dark reality of MacKinnon's characters. But don't be fooled by the poster for Pure, which features Brit It-girl Keira Knightly (who has a supporting role) since this film belongs first to young Harry Eden, who acts with superb naturalism as Paul, and second, to Canadian actress Molly Parker, who plays Paul's mum, a woman both pathetic in her addiction and
sympathetic in her angst. 9:30 p.m. Tue., Nov. 8, and 7:15 p.m. Wed., Nov. 9. Regent Square (Heather Mull)
REEL PARADISE. Self-described "indie guru" John Pierson (author of Spike, Mike, Slackers and Dykes) packs up his family for a mid-life crisis on a remote island of Fiji, where he decides to run a movie theater for a year. For his last month, he lets Steve James (Hoop Dreams) film the experiment. While some of the inevitable culture-clash moments are funny or genuinely illuminating (there actually is a market where they truly enjoy Rob Schneider movies), Pierson is a prickly unlikable sort, and he brings an unmistakable white-man's-burden aspect to his cultural altruism. He is never more blind than when he presents a "student film festival" of presumably American experimental shorts which the Fijian kids quite rightly walk out of. There's potentially fascinating material here about our exportation of film around the globe, and how it's often the lowest form of the art that transcends and binds us all. But James' fly-on-the-wall approach gives Pierson's petty tantrums more screen time than any broader analysis. In English, and some Fijian, with subtitles. 4:30 p.m. Sat., Nov. 5, and 7:15 p.m. Mon., Nov. 7. Regent Square (AH)
THE SQUID AND THE WHALE. The divorce of two literary types in 1986 Brooklyn brings assorted trouble to their two sons in Noah Baumbach's painfully funny dramedy. While the parents sulk, spar over joint custody (including that of the cat) and get self-actualized, 16-year-old Walt dips a tentative toe in the dating pool, while his younger brother goes quietly off the rails. A wry script and a strong cast -- including mom Laura Linney, and Jesse Eisenberg and Owen Kline as the brothers -- neatly skewer the fractured Berkman family, yet keep our sympathies aligned with their frailties and basic good intentions. Still, everyone this fall will be talking about Jeff Daniels, a heretofore blandish actor who, with a gloomy gray beard that lends him a perpetual hangdog look, plays the pathetic and self-absorbed dad: He's a sad fool you can't take your eyes off of. 7:30 p.m. Sun., Nov. 6. Regent Square (AH)
SQUONKUMENTARY. For four weeks in 2000, Pittsburgh's Squonk Opera played the smallest theater on the biggest street in the theater world -- Broadway. Peggy Sutton's documentary follows the troupe's trajectory at New York's Helen Hayes Theater from ecstatic anticipation through a scathing New York Times review; pounding the streets to drum up audiences, even bussing a load of Pittsburghers in for a show; and finally packing the whole outlandish extravaganza up and heading home after the show became financially untenable. It's fairly standard fare: Small-town folks head to The Big City and damn near make it, too, and everyone learns a little bit about themselves. While it's heart-tugging to see them fail, it's great to be along for the venture. What stands out most is the show footage of the kooky, lavish production. The late great Stanley Frankowski of the Bloomfield Bridge Tavern is charming, speaking about Squonk's early days as weird bar art. The Fri., Nov. 4, screening will be followed by a live performance from the Squonk Opera. Director Sutton will be present at both screenings. 8:30 p.m. Fri., Nov. 4, and 2;30 p.m. Sat., Nov. 5. Melwood (Melissa Meinzer)
SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE ONE. Shot in 1968, William Greaves' underground-classic film-cum-social-experiment was lost for years, until a print surfaced in 1991. In it, Greaves films his actors enacting a marital break-up, while secretly laying the seeds for those same actors to become frustrated with the production and revolt within it, so his camera could capture it. To be preceded by the short film "Downtown Towndown," by local filmmakers Tony Balko and Nick Falwell. 8 p.m. Sun., Nov. 6, and 7:15 p.m. Tue., Nov. 8. Harris
A TOUT DE SUITE. In this thriller from Benoit Jacquot, a Parisian art student joins a bank robber on a cross-European escape. In French, with subtitles. 9:15 p.m. Thu., Nov. 10, and 6:30 p.m. sat., Nov. 12. Regent Square
VIDEO DATA BANK PRESENTS SOFT SCIENCE. This collection of short innovative videos mines the cross-fertilization between art and science, whether it's examining form, technology or odd creatures that grow in the laboratory. This 100-minute program includes digital movies by biologists alongside contemporary video art. Brigid Reagan from Chicago's Video Data Bank is scheduled to appear. 8 p.m. Wed., Nov. 9. Melwood
THE WORLD. A big juicy metaphor sits right in the middle of Beijing, just waiting to be turned into a movie set. It's World Park, a themeyard featuring reduced-scale "famous sites from five continents," from pyramids to the Eiffel Tower, plus production numbers. Fortunately, the filmmaker who got to it first is China's Jia Zhangke, who centers his subdued, poetic drama around pretty Tao, a World Park dancer, and her security-guard boyfriend, Taisheng. With beautifully patient visuals (wide shots, long takes), Zhangke uses his singular and absurd setting to capture both the dislocation and uncertainty of the globalizing, market-driven metropolis and the time-honored vagaries of young people struggling in the city -- alone, at work and in love. Occasional bursts of animation are invariably linked to the protagonists' dreams -- and also to their cell phones, which says something poignant about the ways communication works and doesn't in this modern world. In Mandarin, Shanxi and Russian, with subtitles. 2:30 p.m. Sun., Nov. 6, and 9 p.m. Tue., Nov. 8. Harris (BO)
X: THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES. In Roger Coman's 1963 sci-fi thriller classic, a doctor (Ray Milland) invents a formula that gives him X-ray vision. Typical of such cautionary tales about technology and human hubris, this remarkable ability quickly moves from useful (diagnosing patients) to dangerous (scamming casinos) to terrifying. In this special presentation, the legendary iconoclastic band Pere Ubu will perform an underscore. 11 p.m. Sat., Nov. 4. $15. Regent Square
Thu., Nov. 3
Byham Theater
7:30 p.m. Beyond the Rocks
Fri., Nov. 4
8 p.m. Breakfast on Pluto
Regent Square
8 p.m. Pride and Prejudice
11 pm. X: The Man With the X-Ray Eyes
8:30 p.m. Squonkumentary
Sat., Nov. 5
2:30 p.m. Nickelodeon Shorts
4:45 p.m. Iron Island
7 p.m. Harlan County, U.S.A.
9 p.m. Dorian Blues
Regent Square
2:30 p.m. The Ninth Day
4:30 p.m. Reel Paradise
7 p.m. The President's Last Bang
2:30 p.m. Squonkumentary
4 p.m. Das Bus
6:30 p.m. Dumpster
9 p.m. Dumpster
Sun., Nov. 6
2:30 p.m. The World
5:15 p.m. Breakfast on Pluto
8 p.m. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
Regent Square
3 p.m. Jesus, Mary and Joey
5 p.m. The Ninth Day
7:30 p.m. The Squid and the Whale
3 p.m. Das Bus
5 p.m. Mutual Appreciation
7:30 p.m. Darwin's Nightmare
Mon., Nov. 7
7:15 p.m. Harlan County, U.S.A.
9:15 p.m. Dorian Blues
Regent Square
7:15 p.m. Reel Paradise
9:30 p.m. The President's Last Bang
7:15 p.m. Darwin's Nightmare
9:30 p.m. Mutual Appreciation
Tue., Nov, 8
7:15 p.m. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
9 p.m. The World
Regent Square
7:15 p.m. Jesus, Mary and Joey
9:30 p.m. Pure
8 p.m. Film Kitchen
Wed., Nov. 9
7:15 p.m. Iron Island
9:15 p.m. Cí´te d'Azur
Regent Square
7:15 p.m. Pure
9:15 p.m. Dear Wendy
8 p.m. Video Data Bank
Thu., Nov. 10
7:15 p.m. The Last Victory
9:15 p.m. Cí´te d'Azur
Regent Square
7:15 pm. Dear Wendy
9:15 p.m. A Tout de Suite
7:15 p.m. Electric Edwardians
9 p.m. Filmic Achievement


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7 The ACS and SESTAT in the Future T he addition of a field of bachelorâs degree question to the American Community Survey (ACS) will quickly, profoundly, and perma- nently change the prospects for analysis of the science and engi- neering (S&E) workforce in the United States. It will facilitate analysis of several of the key science and engineering workforce questions directly from ACS data, enable more efficient design of the National Survey of College Graduates (NSCG) and specially targeted surveys, and open the door to targeted surveys of specific subgroups, such as immigrants or dual career households with both spouses in the S&E workforce. Having a field-of-degree question on the ACS will also provide the National Sci- ence Foundation (NSF) with a unique opportunity for strategic planning regarding its priorities for studying the S&E workforce. This planning will necessarily involve all of the components of the Scientist and Engineers Statistical Data System (SESTAT) and may involve rethinking the relevant questions to ask. In this chapter the panel discusses some of the exciting opportunities raised and suggests promising venues of research and analysis of the S&E workforce that will be possible when the ACS field-of-degree information is available. THE ACS AS A DATA SOURCE It is important to note that ACS data do not presently contain the rich set of S&E background and outcome variables now collected in the 68
THE ACS AND SESTAT IN THE FUTURE 69 SESTAT surveys. Nonetheless, the ACS data do contain basic information about the occupations and earnings of people with bachelorâs degrees in science and engineering as well as other fields. With the addition of the field-of-degree data, the ACS information could be tabulated to directly support NSFâs mandated indicator reports. The use of the ACS for this purpose will bring advantages of increased reliability from large sample sizes and significantly improved timeliness, though these advantages are counterbalanced by some loss in detail. The large ACS sample sizes will be particularly valuable when addressing issues of relative employment conditions among rare populations, such as scientists or engineers from groups that have been traditionally under- represented in S&E fields and occupations. This feature is important, given the NSF mandate to monitor the employment status of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities who have college-level training in S&E fields. Recommendation 7.1: The National Science Foundation should use current data from the American Community Survey to evaluate the degree to which the American Community Survey with the field- of-degree question would allow for the production of mandated indicator reports in the future. The ability of NSF to address questions about the S&E workforce beyond the production of indicators will also be enhanced by having the ACS with a field-of-degree question. In the past, analysis of relationships among college major, career choices, and career access were limited to snapshots provided by occasional large surveys. A sufficiently detailed field-of-degree question will enable NSF to track the employment status of rare populations of bachelorâs level scientists and engineers, with rela- tive levels, trends, and fluctuations in both employment and earnings on a continual basis, using the ACS alone. Because the ACS is a household survey, it further expands the types of analyses that can be done with respect to the S&E workforce. For example, the study of dual-career households is possible with existing ACS data, but only for groups defined by occupation and education level. The field-of-degree question on the ACS will add a new dimension, allowing special consideration of dual-career households in S&E fields. The household data will provide additional analytic opportunities as well, especially with in-depth household information not currently collected on the NSCG. The timeliness of ACS data will provide annual information on the S&E workforce close to the reference period. These more timely data pro- vide NSF with a powerful new ability to analyze the effects of real-time
70 USING THE AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY events on the college-educated population. For example, does a particular labor market fluctuation have different effects on workers with different fields of college training? The large sample sizes and ongoing design mean that the ACS data will be useful to many researchers interested in understanding different aspects of the S&E workforce over time. For example, what are the effects of recent immigration on the S&E workforce? Are the effects different in different fields? Why do gender differences in career choices persist, and are there places or time periods in which these differences narrow? The ACS could also be used in other ways to improve the timeliness and relevance of the S&E workforce information. For example, the ACS could provide a frame to do more frequent (and smaller) special topic surveys on topics and groups of special interest. Moreover, the Census Bureau is considering adding supplemental questions that appear one time or rotate in and out of use on subjects of current interest for the whole sample or for subpopulations of special interest. Recommendation 7.2: If the American Community Survey is selected to produce indicator reports, the National Science Foundation and the Census Bureau should develop a supplemental program of spe- cial, targeted surveys to obtain information on topics and groups of interest. ACS EFFECTS AND SURVEY DESIGN Chapter 6 details how the ACS with a field-of-degree question as a sample frame could positively affect the NSCG. As noted, the ACS offers the ability to allocate resources efficiently in designing the sampling frame for the NSCGâs more detailed questions. Not only can people with sci- ence or engineering college majors be oversampled from the ACS frame, it will be also possible to identify specific majors from within this group for particular attention. In thinking beyond the improvements that can accrue to the current NSCG, the ACS itself could be used to suggest improvements to NSCG content or to suggest specific targeted surveys. In the future, issues that cannot be identified with data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) or the decennial census data should be visible from the ACS in time to allow each NSCG wave to add new questions or to target particular groups to address current policy concerns. For example, if it is noted that a given economic contraction has strong effects on workers with a particu- lar undergraduate major, such as when computer sciences were affected by the technology sector retrenchment in the early 2000s, that group could be oversampled in the following wave of the new NSCG. Similarly, if
THE ACS AND SESTAT IN THE FUTURE 71 large changes in migration or immigration in one scientific field appear, those changes could be monitored continuously in new waves of ACS data, and relevant questions could be added to the new NSCG to fill in the details. In the same vein, the ACS can help identify dual-career S&E families and provide information to design a supplemental sample to the NSCG to provide deeper information on dual-career issues. The avail- ability of these data will enhance the ability of NSF to provide a timely picture of a wide variety of emerging workforce issues. In much the same way, the ACS lends itself to serving as the basis for drawing samples of subgroups of interest in order to test and evalu- ate questions (much as is currently accomplished through the content test program) and sample design and methodology improvements. Such testing and evaluation of NSCG content and methodology is especially natural if NSF and the Census Bureau adopt the panelâs recommendation for a rotating panel design. Use of the ACS for the NSCG affords NSF a unique opportunity for continuous improvement. An ongoing program of developing carefully crafted experimental panels would provide the basis for testing the next generation of advances in collection and estimation methodology for the NSCG (and other surveys of its kind). Recommendation 7.3: The National Science Foundation and the Cen- sus Bureau should consider establishing a continuing experimental panel program to support testing and development of techniques and methods for the National Survey of College Graduates. LINKING CENSUS, ACS, AND NSCG DATA There are many reasons for researchers to want NSCG data that are linked to census and ACS data for the same person. Such a linkage was successfully implemented in a match of the 1993 NSCG with informa- tion from the 1990 census. The decision of how much of the linked data to release involves tradeoffs between the competing goals of produc- ing data that can be used for meaningful statistical analysis, protecting the confidentiality of participants, and avoiding the necessity of asking participants to answer the same questions they have already answered on a previous survey. Linking data from the NSCG to outside sources provides an efficient means to study labor market dynamics on short time scales and to understand how NSCG respondents compare with other college graduates. It would be particularly useful to be able to link NSCG responses to common labor market measures, including occupa- tion (using census categories), previous yearâs earnings, and the number of weeks and hours per week worked in the previous year. Demographic
72 USING THE AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY information is easier to collect in a new survey wave, but detailed census demographic measures (race, ethnicity, immigration status, and timing of immigration) are valuable in some studies. Finally, it is vital in some analyses to have access to the census variables that are considered in the decision to include people in the NSCG sample, e.g., educational attain- ment at the time of the ACS interview, age, sex, and broadly aggregated race and ethnicity. The panel recognizes that the data involved in the linking operation are highly confidential and that access must be carefully controlled by the Census Bureau to ensure that the data are protected. Today, such protec- tions are afforded through the Census Bureau Research Data Centers. In the future, alternative means of improving access to the data in a manner that assures that data confidentiality is protected, such as data enclaves, may be judged adequate by the Census Bureau. Recommendation 7.4: The National Science Foundation should sponsor the development of a matched sample of American Com- munity Survey and National Survey of College Graduates respon- dents for research purposes with access provided to researchers through the Census Bureauâs Research Data Centers. STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR SESTAT The field-of-degree question on the ACS, in addition to using the ACS for sampling purposes, provides a unique opportunity for NSF to engage in strategic planning for the SESTAT system. Therefore, it seems appro- priate to examine each element of the SESTAT data system to determine how to best integrate and configure data collections and optimally expend available resources given the available resources. The bulk of the panelâs report addresses integration of the ACS and the NSCG. In this section the committee discusses the potential effects of the ACS on the other SESTAT components. Science and Engineering Doctorates The stock and flow of science, engineering, and health doctorates are well covered by the Survey of Doctorate Recipients (SDR). The SDR has great value as a stand-alone survey, enabling longitudinal analysis of the careers of these doctorate holders. Previous sample frame research conducted for NSF has recognized that the SDR is different, with separate sampling justified by the desire to increase the sample of earned doctorates above the small number of U.S. doctorates in the NSCG and to elicit comprehensive information about
THE ACS AND SESTAT IN THE FUTURE 73 this group (Fecso et al., 2007a, p. 4). Currently, those with U.S. doctor- ates contained in the NSCG are not included in the SESTAT integrated database; people with U.S. doctorates are drawn from the SDR survey. Only those sample cases in the NSCG who have doctorates from institu- tions outside the United States are included in the SESTAT integrated database. The use of the ACS as a frame for the NSCG is unlikely to change the value of and need for the SDR survey for several reasons: ⢠The ACS will not provide a sufficient sample of doctorate recipi- ents unless multiple ACS years are combined, and such a combin- ing of multiple years would nullify many of the quality enhanc- ing features of using the ACS. ⢠The desire for small-domain estimates for these people (e.g., doc- toral field by race or ethnicity by sex) and the ready availability of the Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED), a census of all U.S.-earned science, engineering, and health doctorates, for a sampling frame makes continued use of a separate SDR survey a very efficient approach for the doctorates of interest. ⢠The ACS does not contain information about the date a person receives a degree. Data on age, which are available from the ACS, are not a good proxy for determining year of degree. Data from the 2003 National Survey of Recent College Graduates (NSRCG) show that more than 50 percent of bachelorâs degree recipients in science, engineering, and health in 2001 and 2002 earned their degrees when they were 25 years of age or older, and more than 50 percent of masterâs degree recipients in those fields earned their degrees when they were 30 years of age or older. Therefore, age is an inefficient indicator for selecting recent graduates. Recent College Graduates The NSRCG has twin objectives. One, discussed in Chapter 2, is to generate data to inform the public of the flow of new bachelorâs and masterâs degree recipients (from U.S. institutions) into a science, engi- neering or health field. NSRCG data are useful for employers and gov- ernment to understand and predict trends in graduate school enrollment, employment opportunities, and salaries for recent graduates in S&E fields. The NSRCG provides direct information about the employment and continuation into further education of recent bachelorâs and masterâs recipients in those fields. Another objective of the NSRCG data is to serve as a key component of the SESTAT system, in that it provides the flow of new U.S.-educated science, engineering, and health bachelorâs
74 USING THE AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY scientists and engineers to add to the stock of scientists and engineers from the NSCG. The availability of annual ACS data with field-of-degree informa- tion raises the question of how much the ACS and the NSRCG overlap. Clearly, there is some overlap between the NSRCG and the ACS (with a field-of-degree question) in that the ACS will naturally incorporate recent graduates, but there are differences, too. For example, the ACS alone has no questions that can directly discern recent college graduates or those with a science, engineering, and health masterâs degree. The advisability of implementing a new ACS-based approach to cap- ture the population currently covered by the NSRCG must take into account not only the relative importance of the two functions that the NSRCG currently serves in the set of SESTAT surveys, but also techni- cal issues. For instance, if the rotating panel sample design option rec- ommended in this report is adopted, it would be possible to fulfill the second function of the NSRCG with the NSCG alone because the flow of new degree recipients would occur naturally. It would also be possible to fulfill this function if subsamples from the ACS were drawn with some frequency to capture new graduates. (It should be kept in mind that data on recent college graduates need to be collected with some frequency because the workforce experience of this group is particularly sensitive to labor market conditions.) However, the use of the ACS to identify recent college graduates would not fulfill a primary function of the NSRCGâ providing detailed information on this population. The NSRCG is now used to make estimates for small domains, such as recent college gradu- ates by field, race and ethnicity, and gender. Using the ACS frame to produce direct information about recent grad- uates would require a larger sample for the NSCG and oversampling (and screening) to identify a sufficient number of recent graduates to derive estimates that approach the precision of those currently yielded by the NSRCG. The ACS does not have information on the year of a degree, so to maintain the current coverage of the NSRCG, NSF would have to sub- stantially oversample older people whose highest degree was a bachelorâs or masterâs degree. Most of these older graduates would not have recent degrees. To avoid such costly and inefficient oversampling would require an undesirable revision in the scope of the NSRCG. Currently, the NSRCG samples approximately 9,000 graduates from each graduating class (about two-thirds from bachelorâs degree recipients and one-third from masterâs degree recipients). Obtaining a sample of this size with appropriate demographic oversampling may be difficult to achieve with 1 or 2 years of ACS data, even with a field-of-degree ques- tion. For sampling purposes, the NSRCG obtains reasonably accurate degree data from colleges and universities of recent graduates in science,
THE ACS AND SESTAT IN THE FUTURE 75 engineering, and health in order to target sampling of recent graduates. Although only limited demographic information on each school is avail- able as part of the sampling characteristics that are used, there is sufficient information on past graduates and each schoolâs profile to target the pop- ulation accurately. In addition, schools are able to provide relatively cur- rent contact information on recent graduates, along with detailed degree information. The foregoing discussion suggests that there would be some benefit to considering how the ACS can be used to improve the efficiency of the NSRCG as a part of an overall reconsideration of the design of the SESTAT data system. Recommendation 7.5: The National Science Foundation should use the opportunity afforded by the introduction of the American Com- munity Survey as a sampling frame to reconsider the design of the Scientists and Engineers Statistical Data System (SESTAT) Program and the content of its component surveys. FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES The previous section discusses gains in efficiency and analytical power for understanding the S&E workforce as currently defined that arise from the addition of the field-of-degree question on the ACS. In this section the committee discusses the potential of the ACS with field-of-degree question to contribute to a rethinking of the economic concept of the S&E workforce and the science of measuring and tracking this workforce. In a previous review of NSFâs efforts to track the national infrastruc- ture of human capital in science and technology, Kelly et al. (2004) raised several issues that should be taken into account in developing a data system that would enhance understanding of the science and technology enterprise. One major point that the authors raise is that the composi- tion of the human capital pool used by the S&E sector reflects choices that are made by both firms and workers. Based on the remuneration in other sectors and the costs of other productive inputs, S&E industries will change the field of study and the intensity of training they require for the employees they hire. As wages in different sectors change and rise or fall relative to one another, workers may switch out of or into S&E sectors. Given these employment flows, the S&E employment pool will change over time. â Although the Kelly et al. (2004) study addressed what they characterized as âscience and technology,â it is a concept very similar to what is characterized in this report as âscience and engineering,â and the basic arguments apply.
76 USING THE AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY With limited resources, NSF has to date appropriately focused on a clearly identifiable and highly relevant slice of the labor forceâthose with bachelorâs or higher degrees in S&E and S&E-related fields. To its credit, NSF was able to expand the scope of the NSCG to include non-S&E fields in recent years but much more needs to be done to collect information on a larger part of the workforce in more detail and in a more timely manner. NSF does not currently have the capability to inventory S&E skills in all workplaces, nor is it apparent that SESTAT can produce what is and will be desired to analyze the patterns and trends that are embedded in the many choices made by workers and employers. The availability of the ACS with field-of-degree information offers a breakthrough opportunity for gaining a better understanding of the total S&E enterprise and all of the national labor force resources that contrib- ute to innovation and technical change and the economic growth they generate. This requires thinking expansively about the S&E workforce. Occupations and training levels that might have once put a worker unam- biguously inside or outside the S&E sector may no longer serve such a discriminant function. For example, a narrowly trained technician from a community college may, under the current definition, be counted as a science and technology worker if working in the right industry. It may not take a remarkably higher wage to move this worker from a job in the science and technology sector to one in retail trade, in a technical support position, and hence no longer a technology worker. Similarly, if that same worker is employed in retail trade as a support person and hence not a technology worker, a change of sector as a result of a higher wage offer could move that person into classification as a technology worker. NSFâs ability to study the S&E infrastructure in the United States using the expanded concept of a large potential S&E workforce would be enhanced with the availability of additional descriptive data, such as data on earnings. This larger view of the workforce and associated data would permit better analysis of such issues as the S&E worker shortage hypothesis. A professed shortage of workers alongside a decline in their earnings relative to workers with similar levels of education in different fields would help understanding of whether a perceived shortage of S&E workers was localized to a field, part of a more widespread phenomenon, or reflected not a shortage but the presence of better opportunities in dif- ferent industries. The ACS and, as discussed below, the CPS offer data on workers and earnings that provide such additional analytic opportunities for studying the condition of the S&E labor market. The availability of the ACS with field of degree will finally allow ana- lysts to explore the dynamism of the concept of the S&E workforce. Most current analyses rely on comparing workforce participants based on the occupations they hold, leading to what is sometimes known as choice-
THE ACS AND SESTAT IN THE FUTURE 77 based sampling. That is to say, the determination of whether someone belongs to a category is a result of choices made by that individual. The statistical properties of such samples can be somewhat complex. If NSF oriented its sampling around degree and field to define S&E workers, then NSF would be able to devote resources to sampling a larger number of potential S&E workers. (As the panel notes above, degree and field also reflect individual choices; however, once a degree is earned, the possession of that degree and its fields are characteristics of an individual that do not change in response to market dynamics.) The resulting ability to broadly focus on fields without the distraction of current occupation will enhance understanding of how changing relative wages and chang- ing demands in the markets can change the number and composition of S&E workers and, in the process, help to explain innovation. The ACS could also be used to generate a very powerful longitudinal study capacity, much more robust than the current limited longitudinal capacity of the NSCG. At the present time, the ability to track the move- ment of workers through the labor force is the province of such studies as the National Longitudinal Survey, the Panel Study of Income Dynam- ics, and the New Immigrant Survey. These sources certainly help under- standing of the dynamics of all workers, but their limited sample sizes and scopes circumscribe their ability to understand the dynamics of the S&E workforce. The SED and similar data resources help understand the flow of highly trained people into the labor force, but they lack the panel attribute that would enable them to contribute to an understanding of dynamics. A small, well-executed panel survey of college graduates below the doctoral level, drawn from those identified in the ACS, would aid in understanding the labor force dynamics of highly trained workers, even if it did not have the large sample size needed to explore these dynamics in detail for all demographic categories. If supplemented with a longitu- dinal sample of immigrants with advanced degrees, obtained with the cooperation of the Customs and Immigration Services, a comprehensive understanding of the dynamic labor market would evolve. In the process of moving away from the selection of respondents based on occupations that are choice-based (that is, influenced by current and potential earnings and training cost considerations), cross-sectional, general-purpose surveys such as the CPS could be enlisted to provide a broad picture of the employment status for scientists and engineers and also make direct comparisons with other fields. As part of the evolution from a focus on occupations to a focus on fields, it would be useful to enhance the ability of the CPS to supplement the new information from the ACS on a more current basis and contribute to the study of the S&E workforce by adding a field-of-degree question to the survey. The addi- tion of a field-of-degree question to the CPS would enable NSF to assess
78 USING THE AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY S&E workforce trends on a monthly basis in the same manner as the aggregation of ACS cases will provide on an annual analysis, although it is recognized that the CPS will not provide the sort of detail on S&E workers by disability and gender that the current mandates require and thus will not substitute for the ACS. In sum, the ACS is a promising option for efficiently fulfilling a major part of NSFâs mandate. However, the ACS affords much more than an opportunity to do business-as-usual better. It provides an opportunity to repurpose SESTAT to overcome some of the current conceptual limitations that cause analysts to view S&E workers as a well-defined and time- invariant segment of the labor force. The ACS would permit measuring all workers who could, at some set of wage rates and product demands, become S&E workers. In the process, NSF would be able to fulfill its man- date to understand the S&E labor force in a more efficient and timely man- ner that would release resources to invest in more policy-relevant work. CONCLUSION The ACS with a field-of-degree question can affect the mission of NSF with regard to S&E workforce data; indeed, the ACS with field-of-degree information may eventually provide much of the data needed by NSF to produce its mandated reports. If so, then NSF would be afforded a unique opportunity to redesign SESTAT in support of innovative analy- sis to enhance understanding of the key issues regarding S&E human resources. A redesigned SESTAT may include its current components, such as the NSCG, for which the ACS could have a large impact as a more effi- cient sample frame; or SESTAT may become more reliant on the ACS, supplemented by a series of targeted surveys based on trends visible with ACS data, or it may include both. A redesigned SESTAT may even integrate CPS (if a field-of-degree question were added) to provide timely information on income data to frame the important questions of the S&E workforce. It is not too early to begin thinking about the many exciting possibilities that are emerging with the inclusion of a field-of-degree ques- tion on the ACS. Recommendation 7.6: The National Science Foundation should conduct a careful assessment of internal and user priorities for studying the science and engineering workforce to capitalize on the expanded analytical opportunities afforded by the addition of field- of-degree question to the American Community Survey.


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"As an artist, I feel it impossible for me to be truly objective about things. I cannot pan another artists' work because my own art is not perfect. I can praise, and only praise. But I never thought I'd see the day that Rock and Roll would ever be as dead as, to quote David Allan Coe again, the cum stains on the pillow where you once laid your head.
Forgive the vulgarity, but I am not kidding. Rock and Roll is dead. It has become a novelty. Rock and Roll was once a thriving genre of progression, youth, blues, expression and rebellion. This spirit died in the post-grunge era. I, even at a ripe age, tried my hand at reviving the art with my first rock band, but it was even more apparent, once trapped in the Sunset Blvd vacuum of showcases and glad-handing, that Rock and Roll was a limping corpse.
Now a lot of you will say that Jack White and his multiple bands have revived Rock and Roll, and while, yes, anything that dude touches, in my humble opinion, is cool and fresh and full of Rock and Roll's key ingredients of defiance, cool and mystery, but he is a Rock and Roll renaissance man, an anomaly, not to mention a music genius, WAY ahead of a nation of wimpy Strokes and Interpol copycats out there trying to cash in on whatever the latest trend is. White, Reznor and the few artists of this caliber that have graced our ears will always remain leagues ahead of the game, and will carry a torch alone in a very dark fog of bullshit for others who dare to enter this murky basin hoping to lead the way to a brighter day. God bless them, but for now, they must STAY AWAY from the land mines of Rock and Roll cliches all while dodging cannonballs fired by Busch league spiky haired make-up wearing Hollywood rock stars.
This article was born this mornings as I watched TV with my four year old daughter. A show called Bubble Guppies on Nick Jr featured a band of Guppies with human heads playing in a Rock and Roll band. The song they were playing was a direct rip-off of Aerosmith's "Walk This Way". It struck me then. It's become a gimmick, nothing more. One of the best Rock and Roll bands in history (pre-Perminant Vacation, of course) had been reduced to a novelty moment in a kid's show. In the 1960's Captain Kangaroo would have never tread on this territory as it would have implied the drug use and excesses of the current thriving era of Rock and Roll. But this is different. It's 2011 and REAL Rock and Roll has been forgotten. The children who grew up on the Ramones and the Sex Pistols have had children who grew up believing Green Day are the godfathers of Punk. Now their children watch Bubble Guppies or the Fresh Beat band and Rock and Roll will be first introduced to them as a nothing more than a parlor trick. A costume. We all know the term "Rock Star" has been killed for years. What was once a term referring to the upper echelon of debauchery and consumption has become a novelty phrase, bedazzled across the chest of a fifty year old mother who picks her child up from school in their family van. Disney has tarnished the term, turning it into the new "stud" for this generation. Energy drink companies and Nickleback have furthered that monicker degradation. When my daughter wears sunglasses or a leather studded belt, the seventy-five year old lady at Starbucks calls her a "little Rock Star".
This pisses me off.
I want to run so far away from the word "Rock Star" and "Rock and Roll" and hide under a blanket of Adult Contemporary or Bubble-Gum pop, or any fucking word but "Rock and Roll". This concept then becomes clearer to me as a funnel of pop-culture that is fairly new to our society because of the introduction of Television and Radio and new medias like the Internet. New dangerous concept is created, and over time homogenized over and over until it becomes the least offensive, most safe concept on earth. It's part of the nature of things. Rock and Roll is a joke, Punk rock is a joke. Rap is quickly becoming a joke. Pop was always a joke, to some degree, always wore it's heart on it's sleeve as a Popular trend, meant to feed into and cash in from trends, so for that Pop gets points for being honest.
The only thing that these failing styles can do to try and separate themselves from the corporations waiting to process and shit out culture-complacent versions of them to masses of teeny-boppers waiting to consume them at alarming rates, is Shock-and-Awe methods. Cuss a lot, offend a lot, and you'll stand out… but longevity is not an option. Look at the once-alarming-now-very-lost Marilyn Manson. Poor guy. I bought and LOVED this guy's first four albums. "Antichrist Superstar" was the soundtrack to my later years of high-school. While I never dressed the goth part or really even was cool enough to fit into the "cool uncool" crowds, bands like Marilyn Manson, Ministry, Skinny Puppy and Nine Inch Nails, were a pressure-release valve for my teenage angst and offered a fresh, visceral spin on what was an already dying genre. Rock and Roll was a dead corpse and thanks to Dr. Trent Frankenreznor, a mechanical heart and limbs were installed on our dearly beloved Rock and it came to town to murder every man woman and child within a million miles.
Then the batteries died.
The only styles that have stayed clear of this kind of life and death are Country and Rhythm & Blues. The latter became contemporary R&B with the help of folks like Mary J Blige, Babyface and John Legend, and still sails the seas in all it's honesty, but it's a sinking ship. If folks don't jump off this ship and jump into the AAA territory that folks like Norah Jones and the new-and-toned-down Ryan Adams rule, they will suffer a fate much less like Rock and Roll and more like blues. Just fade away to be re-introduced through certain artists who are fans, but never survive as a strong genre again.
Which brings us to Country music. Country has never been "cool" per se. Sure to undergrounders etc, it's cool and hip to do something not cool and hip so Country is cool. But what is happening now with Country is it's broken into 3 categories in which there are very vague boundaries. First is the most popular form, "Pop Country" as we call it. This is what dominates the Clear Channel-controlled radio these days. One of good taste will listen to "Pop Country" radio for 24 hours and probably hear 3 songs that he/she enjoys. They are out there, but there is not near enough of them to make a change. Albums like Ronnie Dunn's current solo offering, Miranda Lambert's new album "Four The Record" as well as her side-project "Pistol Annies" are progressive, well-written and original and offer a glimmer of hope in the gloom and doom of the current state of mainstream country. People say mainstream music goes in cycles, but honestly we haven't had radio and video formats long enough to prove this correct, and if Rock and Roll is going to have a "comeback" it's going to take an entirely new approach and danger injected into the genre, so don't hold your breath for a new "Outlaw Country" movement in mainstream.
The second category of Country music is what I call the "Ship-jumpers". This applies to two very different sects of people playing country now, neither of which gave a fuck about Country music at a previous time and now they all of a sudden do because it serves them. Lee Ann Womack (one of my favorite artists in the mainstream of country) said it best "Country isn't a place for you to come and die". This statement to me is aimed squarely at Jon Bon Jovi, Sheryl Crow, Aaron Lewis, Kid Rock and all the other rock and rollers who realize they are in a dying genre, and jump ship and start playing mainstream country because it's easy to cash in on the fact that the Country audience is older by nature and contains a lot of folks who bought their records at a younger age. Nashville as a whole is usually very impressed by Hollywood, Hip-Hop, Rock and Roll, any big international money making entities, starfuckers to put it bluntly. This can be seen in the way that they will embrace any celebrity that decides to shine a bit of attention towards their humble home (see Jack White being given the keys to Nashville universe just for moving there, or Justin Beiber's Rascal Flatt's duet/CMT award appearance) And it's just plain easy to have a few Nashville hit-makers, co-write with you or write for you a big dripping pop hit and disguise it with some fiddle and steel and BAM you're a bonafide Country star with a bonafide Country hit!
(Can you believe that Bon Jovi attempted to replace/erase one of the most recognizable titles in Country music history with his debut Country release? I can't. Do you think he was completely unaware of the Hank Williams song of the same name? If so this is an even BIGGER reason why he is in way over his head. If he was aware, shame on him. His record title is writing checks his music can't cash.)
The other half of the "Ship-jumpers" are the mostly-AA-going tattooed ex-punk rockers and hard edged rock-and-rollers who ten years ago were hanging out in a New York or Los Angeles rock club, hanging on to what was left of the glory days of the 80's and when left without a home, decided they liked Johnny Cash a lot, picked up a rockabilly Gretsch guitar and now are country. These folks both the underground and mainstream. While their intensions are much more like poor orphans whose orphanage was closed due to economic difficulties, and they wandered into the Country orphanage with hopes to still be hip at the ripe young age of 48. As much as I'd love to say that I believe Country should stand with open arms to all that come, these folks rarely have done their homework and are perpetuating a national misconception about what Country music is. It is rooted deeply in the traditions and folklore cultures of the poor and working class, and an education on Country music does not come from just listening to Hank Williams Sr and Johnny Cash records. It's understanding WHY they played the music they play, and who their influences are. Can you name two Webb Pierce songs? Can you name a Jimmie Rodgers song besides one of the Blue Yodels? Can you name any of the Carter family besides June? If not, you're most likely a "Ship-jumper". No offense.
I don't mean to sound like a pompous prick here. Yes I was raised in a Country family, but I was a rock and roll kid myself too. It's the nature of growing up in the MTV generation. Garth Brooks was NOT cool growing up to me. Danzig was. But when I finally understood Country, I dove in head first and tried to absorb ALL of country. Folks like Jamey Johnson can school me on certain aspects. That dude can name EVERY song by EVERY artist that ever came up the ranks of Nashville inside or outside the system. He can stand on the stage at Tootsies and point at every artist painted on the wall and sing three songs by them. That's fucking devotion. I'm a little more expensive in my musical tastes than him, but when it comes to Country and pure Country, he embodies that. Even my dad was less pure Country than Jamey. My dad was mentored by Rock and Roll itself, Buddy Holly, and he listened to the Stones, Dire Straits and Fleetwood Mac more than he ever listened to Vern Gosdin or Townes Van Zandt. It was just his nature. We watched Woodstock '94 together and he fell in love with Primus of all the bands on there. He always surprised me with his taste.
Back to my point, the third category are the "Outcasts". Not to be confused with the "Ship-Jumper" the "Outcast" is someone who has an undying love for Country music and it's roots and refuses to play by the rules of Nashville and with-or-without success will continue to play it. The "Outcasts" will always be cool in any genre, but in Country even more so. It's why we started the XXX website over at www.GiveMeMyXXX.com. Because I think there is hope for this brand of folks to have their chance at the mainstream, but it won't come through Country Music as a whole. Thanks to shifts in music that started with bands as early as Cracker or later with darker, more progressive artists like Hank 3, there is definitely a very strong foundation here for this type of music. It will come through an entirely different type of recognition, I believe. I'm not sure if it'll come soon but I know it will come. I don't think that it'll be because of a movement like XXX or Anti-Country or any of the movements started before, but I think they all will help. These folks play what they want to play, bringing in influences from all across the board fearlessly and are creating a new Punk, a new Rock and Roll. That's why it's so exciting to watch because the scene is growing and growing and growing faster than ever. "Pop Country" doesn't have a chance. This isn't music that you'll find on a kids show or in a Jack Black movie at any point in the near future. This is music much too real to be made into a novelty. And it's dangerous. This is where the future of Rock and Roll lies in my opinion.
(Reno, NV's "Outcasts" Hellbound Glory)
Now as you will probably notice, I've skipped over Americana as a whole, because to me, this is a topic all unto itself. It's a very gray category that isn't clear on it's boundaries. Unlike the music of Country "Outcasts", in which you know right away what it is without having to be told, Americana is too broad of a stroke to enter into this category. It is essentially, I guess, best categorized as "roots music". I think ultimately all things Americana will rest in AAA (Adult Contemporary, Progressive Radio, etc which is ultimately Adult Pop), Country, Pop or Rock and Roll. But that is a future left to be seen. Until then the Americana crew will continue to try and be as aggressive and progressive as they can in trying to make people aware of these fringe artists. And they should be commended for that.
So to wrap my whole story up. Rock and Roll is as dead as a doornail, but the spirit is alive in underground Country. And it's gonna break one day folks, just like Rap broke away from R&B, these voices will be heard. They're too strong in importance and number. I predict within five years this will be what we are hearing on the KROQ's of the world (who are still stuck in the 90's because they can't figure out where to go next since Rock and Roll's railroad tracks just stopped at a million mile down drop of a cliff). That is, if terrestrial radio even still exists. The 'Outlaw' name is dead, and as it should be. It was a movement that belonged to a generation that has long since gone, riding off into the sunset and taking with it it's rebellion and rambunctious nature, so I think we should all give the 'Outlaw' thing a rest. Maybe we should hold two funerals at once. A dual-funeral. Rock and Roll and Outlaw Country both layer to rest with one great ceremony. That would be one hell of a hangover for sure."
- Shooter Jennings
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Heathers, the 1989 cult classic whose dark send-up of the high school social hierarchy helped redefine the teen movie, is getting a small-screen reboot courtesy of TV Land, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The single-camera black comedy will update the story's setting to the present day, replacing its original Heathers—played by Lisanne Falk, Shannen Doherty and Kim Walker—with new takes on the members of the much-feared clique.
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It is a great idea to have the proper landscaping in your house. A residential building cannot become a home when it is not properly decorated using the right blend of trees, flowers and decorative plants. Now, you just cannot let the plants in your house's garden look like a bush. There is truly a world of difference between landscaping and a forest reserve. It is vital that you keep the plants and trees at your house in great shape. To work on this, you should do a little bit of yard clean up every now and then.
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A think tank has urged Malaysian authorities, including those not directly responsible for security, to exercise vigilance in the face of calls for Islamic State (IS) supporters to launch chemical attacks at supermarkets and hospitals.
The threat should be taken seriously, but without causing general panic, said Elina Noor, director of foreign policy and security studies at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies.
The SITE Intelligence Group reported last Tuesday that the pro-IS Wafa' Media Foundation had published an article calling on medical personnel to kill "apostates" and "disbelievers" receiving treatment at hospitals. It gave ideas on how to do this.
This followed a message on IS channels that urged supporters to inject cyanide into products sold in supermarkets.
"All threats should of course be taken seriously, including those involving chemical weapons, especially when IS has allegedly used them in Syria and Iraq," Elina said.
She said the public should be educated on actions to take in the case of an attack and the recruitment of "the eyes and ears of as many people as possible" to detect the possibility of attacks. This must be done without arousing suspicion or creating fear, she added.
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Elina said chemical attacks would take "a certain level of skill" to execute successfully.
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IS has reportedly called on operatives and followers, including lone wolves, to mount unconventional attacks instead of using the usual man-and-van tactics.
Two years before last year's attack in the French city of Nice, IS had reportedly told its followers to mount attacks using vehicles.
A 19-tonne truck was used in the Nice attack. It killed 86 people.
Since then, at least five other vehicle attacks have targeted civilians, including two strikes that were followed by stabbing sprees in London this year.
Elina said authorities and members of the public should not be dismissive of new attack ideas even if they seemed far fetched. Source.


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