(interrogation scene from the move Three Kings)

Interrogator: What is the problem with Michael Jackson?

Marky Mark: what do you mean?

Interrogator: What_is_the_problem_with_Michael_Jackson?

You understand my question?

Marky Mark: no, I'm not sure I do.

Interrogator: The king of pop... whooo-hooo. heee-heee.

Marky Mark: Yeah, Michael Jackson.

Interrogator: I come to Egypt and I see picture in the newspaper... 'Hello, with the white glove, I'm Michael Jackson in my hotel room with my chopped up face.'

Your country make him chop up his face.

Marky Mark: I don't think so.

Interrogator: Michael Jackson is the product of a sick f*ckin country.

Marky Mark: That's bullsh*t, he did it to himself!


(sounds of Marky Marky being hit)


Interrogator: You are the blind bullsh*t, my main man! It is obvious... a black man, makes the skin white and the hair straight.

And you know why?

Marky Mark: (pause) ...no.

Interrogator: Your sick f*cking country make the black man hate himself, just like you hate the Arab and the children you bomb over here.


.:.


I've seen the movie "Three Kings" before, but I had forgotten about the above scene until recently, when it was used on the Blue Scholars album at the end of a song as an intro for the next (it's at the end of track 9).

I haven't felt really the need to write much about the US, Iraq, Saddam, oil, and American foreign policy, because most of everything that I've wanted to say has already been said to some degree by fellow bloggists Dave, Lot, Akito, and of course, Noam.

However, as an American living and working in Japan at the moment, it's been an interesting experience to view the events of American foreign policy and the Iraq War from an outside perspective.

Japan has been one of the strongest allies of the US, though of course, I would argue that it's out of self-interest. The present circumstances of a loony North Korean dictator pointing ICBMs with nuclear warheads at this country has made Japan a US ally out of self-preservation.

Conservative Japanese politicians have correctly pointed out that in the event of a war in Asia, it's likely that Japan will be on its own - no other Asian country currently possesses very strong ties with Japan, though Japan's strong economic relationships with both China and South Korean is a sort of small deterrent.

On another note in reference to the above dialogue is the idea of self-hate here in Japan... but I've discussed that at length already, haven't I?

Dyed hair, colored contacts, use of (white) foreign celebs to push products...

...(IT IS OBVIOUS).

Oh yeah, Happy Fourth of July to all the people I love in the "Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave." You're what makes life in America great - not English, supersized fast food, SUVs, or wide spaces.
posted by G at 12:43 AM   |

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1. The act or an instance of inscribing.
2. Something, such as the wording on a coin, medal, monument, or seal, that is inscribed.
3. A short, signed message in a book or on a photograph given as a gift.
4. The usually informal dedication of an artistic work.
5. Jeremiah 31:33