Laurie Anderson - Mach 20 video free download

Thylias Moss

Absolutely love this piece; wish I'd seen it before I consulted a sperm donor 23.5 years ago! Excellent!

Thiago Carvalho

Ladies and gentlemen, what you are observing here are magnified examples or facsimiles of human sperm.Generation after generation of these tiny creatures have sacrificed themselves in their persistent, often futile, attempt to transport the basic male genetic code. But where is this information coming from? They have no eyes. No ears.Yet some of them already know that they will be bald.Over half of them will end up as women.Four hundred million living creatures, all knowing precisely the same thing--carbon copies of each other in a Kamikaze race against the clock.Some of you may be surprised to learn that if a sperm were the size of a salmon it would be swimming its seven-inch journey at 500 miles per hour.If a sperm were the size of a whale, however, it would be traveling at 15,000 miles per hour, or Mach 20. Now imagine, if you will, four hundred million blind and desperate sperm whales departing from the Pacific coast of North America swimming at 15,000 mph and arriving in Japanese coastal waters in just under 45 minutes.How would they be received?Would they realize that they were carrying information, a message?Would there be room for so many millions?Would they know that they had been sent for a purpose?

perito moreno

what does "mach 20" mean in that context? I'm not a native speaker

Troy Tempest

The math is mind boggling as is the way she thought to convey it - fab.

Thom Vanek

Inventive and thought-producing. Laurie is so creative and far ahead of her time.I love her works.

Tia Tull

leonardo di caprio - his sister, he sure resembles her - here at her age, in this video

N8STEEL1

then japan was impregnated....?

Harry Schumacher

Everybody, obtain your ticket to a Laurie Anderson concert for a great comedy! Say "SPERM" and... giggle! Save the stub of the ticket for later needs to prove everybody your "art stuff" expertice, intelligence, maturity and whatnot.

Adam Music

Would they know that they were sent for a purpose?

jerry dial

I remember this show, I think I watched every episode and was sad to see it cancelled. I really liked it if I remember correctly. I absolutely adore Laurie Anderson. Thanks for posting this.

Tia Tull

................ jumpin jesus - no kidding!!!!

Ken Stox

if a sperm was the size of a whale, it would move at a velocity of Mach 20.

Kenn Monkey

From "The New Show" Season 1 (only season) Episode 8, March 16, 1984 Lorraine Newman left SNL in 1980. Lorne Michaels produced it so no wonder it looks like an SNL set.

Predrag Petrovic

#LaurieAnderson 

patternsinchaos

You cut off "ladies" (in ladies and gentlemen) at the beginning. ;-) Thanks for uploading this. Laurie is awesome.

Seloa

@lingshu8 I think she just means in general. All of them have the potential to become a human and in that sense half of them would become women. Actually it just seems like she's blanketing the facts over a larger scale so really... either way.

Lenka Urbanová

Zamyšlení ;-)

perito moreno

she talks about huge sperm whales arriving the Japanese coastal waters...

perito moreno

Can someone provide a transcript of what she says ( a mean a native speaker) ?

brian bergquist

I saw this on Saturday Night Live years and years ago, but it may have been on another show as well.

Happy Rhodes

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