John Irwin
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John Irwin
@johnirwin_john
Artist, writer,art teacher and student. Providence College alum.
Rhode Island USA Katılım Aralık 2012
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@IanGaudrea30195 Welcome the phony, hypocritical art world.They have an agenda, if you don’t go along with it,you’re out.Especially in Rhode Island. Be true to yourself and keep making art.
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@DannyDrinksWine Schrader is a clown and Easy Rider is an American masterpiece.
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Paul Schrader on why American liberals & leftists overlooked the drawbacks of the superficial "Easy Rider" (1969):
"'Easy Rider' (1969) is a very important movie — and it is a very bad one, and I don’t think its importance should be used to obscure the gross mismanagement of its subject-matter. Dennis Hopper’s film about two drug- culture motorcyclists (Hopper and Peter Fonda) who, in the words of the Easy Rider ad, ‘set out to discover America’, has captured the imagination of the above- and underground press alike.
The underground identification was instant and understandable. 'Easy Rider' fuelled the paranoia which is the staple item of the youth culture (often rightly so). As a friend said, ‘It’s a picture that doesn’t cop out,’ presumably meaning that the young idealists are senselessly massacred and the audience is left without hope.
The reservations of the Life and Newsweek reviewers were overridden by their eagerness to agree with the film’s propositions. As Joseph Morgenstern wrote, ‘Easy Rider’s essential truth is brought home by what we ourselves know of our trigger-happy, hate-ridden nation in which increasing numbers of morons bear increasing numbers of arms.’ The mass media, having exploited every other youth truth, was now usurping youth’s paranoia.
My complaint is that 'Easy Rider', for all its good intentions, functions in the same superficial manner ‘liberal’ Hollywood films have always functioned. Easy Rider’s superficial characterizations and slick insights stem from the same soft-headed mentality which produced such anathema ‘liberal’ films as Elia Kazan’s 'Gentleman’s Agreement' (1947) and Stanley Kramer’s 'Defiant Ones' (1958). But because liberals and leftists of all varieties so desperately need the strong statement 'Easy Rider' makes, they are willing to overlook the film’s shallow, conventional method of argument."
[Excerpt from Paul Schrader's review of 'Easy Rider' (1969) in Los Angeles Free Press, 1969]
Paul Schrader was fired from the paper because of this review.
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@MoniqAR I did one down there in the 90s. I don’t think Buddy had to approve it.
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Honest question: did all other murals in the City of Providence "go through the proper channels"?
WPRI 12@wpri12
The mayor said that if any other business or building owner in the city decides they want the mural, his office won’t step in to stop it, so long as it goes through the proper channels. wpri.com/news/local-new…
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This is actually the proper way to bench. This what happens when we undervalued physical education in grade school. Stuff like this shoulda been taught at an early age
Jay @Jayzus_
Don't listen to the people sayin 225 is an easy bench. They be the same ones doin this bullshit
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Tires with 11,000 miles and a nail. Firestone told me they are not repairable. Firestone said this is not repairable because of the location and that I would need a new tire. It's a slow leak, about 1-2 psi a day. I am in disbelief that this is not repairable.. Can I not just get a fix kit? 🤧

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Will be featuring this deranged lunatic on the Scott Jennings Show today.
End Wokeness@EndWokeness
Rep. David Morales (D-RI) says the mural for Iryna Zarutska "does not reflect our values"
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"Roll Me Away" (1983)
Written after a real motorcycle trip to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, one of my favorite places in America.
This became one of Bob Seger's signature songs.
It wasn't a No. 1 hit, but it became one of his signature songs.
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Hey, where are those "No Kings" people complaining that the mayor is trying to dictate freedom of speech for political reasons?
Ryan Medeiros@RRyanmedeiros
#Developing: I just spoke with Mayor Smiley’s office, and they tell me he wants this Iryna Zarutska mural taken down. The project was already paused by the owners of The Dark Lady following community backlash. More on this tonight on @NBC10.
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