WILL THIS BE ANOTHER YEAR LIKE 1968?

Here's a shot of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, when Mayor Daley's cops launched a "police riot" (according to the Walker Commission report) while anti-war demonstrators shouted "The whole world is watching." Are we in for another year like 1968? Some people think so. The year was a crossroads of turbulent change culturally and politically; a watershed year for music and film against the backdrop of a divided nation, an unpopular war, and career politicians deaf to the shifting times. Are we at another crossroads, forty years on?
Chicago 10 movie trailer

An article from the Post-Bulletin:
http://news.postbulletin.com/newsmanager/templates/localnews_story.asp?z=35&a=321854

An interesting project, "The Whole World is Watching," with audio clips:
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968/


Cream perform "Crossroads" live in 1968

HOT-BUTTERED SOUL

Flight of the Conchords follows a two-man neo-folk band from New Zealand living in the New York trying to make it big in music. They're desperate and talented, and they travel in and out of musical numbers, spoofs, and derivative masterpieces such as this sexy nugget of hot-buttered soul, "Business Time." We wish them the best.