Another activist was later arrested for taking out his own iPad and showing a video of the previous pair of activists showing the video on their iPad.
Just kidding, that last part didn’t happen. Still, if you want to see the film that launched a thousand tweets, the Manhattan-based gallery P.P.O.W. is streaming it on its website.
New York Times Magazine, meanwhile, profilesMick Jagger—painting the flamboyant sexigenarian as a master entrepreneur who, unlike some of his contemporaries, was never bashful about commercialism and has thus made a big pile of money without ever allowing himself to be pegged as a sellout. To wit:
It is not clear… that Jagger was ever that serious about insurrection. Others may have seen the Stones’ music as a sacred repository of anti-establishment values, but for his part, Jagger has always seemed much more interested in rock ’n’ roll as theater, as performance — as show business.
All this might help explain why Shine A Light is such a vital film… and perhaps why Stones in Exile is such a crappy one. Jagger never fancied himself king of the underground. (BTW, mythological indie spectre Jeff Mangumplayed a surprise show in Brooklyn on Friday!) He can have his $310 milliongorgeous, gigantic girlfriend cake and eat it too.
Anyway, according to a new study from a bunch of Oxford physicists, history is not linear but cyclical, with the universe dying and being reborn over and over and over again. So, yeah, have a good Monday.