PART 1: The FarmerPART 2: The MidwayPART 3: The Derby
Tyler Brett, Almost Paradise: PART 3, The Derby 2025. 8 minute video for karaoke. Sound track, Almost Paradise instrumental adaptation of the love theme from the movie Footloose performed by Mike Reno and Ann Wilson. Songwriter(s) Eric Carmen (music) & Dean Pitchford (lyrics). Instrumental backing track by Theo's Music.
Tyler Brett, Almost Paradise: PART 2 , The Midway 2025. 4 minute video for karaoke. Sound track, Almost Paradise instrumental adaptation of the love theme from the movie Footloose performed by Mike Reno and Ann Wilson. Songwriter(s) Eric Carmen (music) & Dean Pitchford (lyrics). Instrumental backing track by Let's Sing Karaoke.
Tyler Brett, Almost Paradise: PART 1, The Farmer 2025. 4 minute video for karaoke. Sound track, Almost Paradise instrumental adaptation of the love theme from the movie Footloose performed by Mike Reno and Ann Wilson. Songwriter(s) Eric Carmen (music) & Dean Pitchford (lyrics). Instrumental backing track by Maestro Aleks.
'I thought that dreams belonged to other men, because each time I get close they'd fall apart again.'
Almost Paradise (karaoke lyric sheet)
I thought that dreams belonged to other men
'Cause each time I got close
They'd fall apart again
I feared my heart would beat in secrecy
I faced the nights alone
Oh, how could I have known
That all my life I only needed you?
Oh almost paradise
We're knockin' on heaven's door
Almost paradise
How could we ask for more?
I swear that I can see forever in your eyes
Paradise
It seems like perfect love's so hard to find
I'd almost given up
You must have read my mind
And all these dreams I saved for a rainy day
They're finally coming true
I'll share them all with you
'Cause now we hold the future in our hand
Oh Almost paradise
We're knockin' on heaven's door
Almost paradise
How could we ask for more?
I swear that I can see forever in your eyes
Paradise
And in your arms salvation's not so far away
It's getting closer
Closer every day
Almost paradise
We're knockin' on heaven's door
Almost paradise
How could we ask for more?
I swear that I can see forever in your eyes
Paradise
Paradise
Paradise
Almost Paradise, performed by Mike Reno and Ann Wilson. Songwriter(s) Eric Carmen (music) & Dean Pitchford (lyrics).
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Agency of subjects
Power within landscapes of struggle
Communal work processes
Spectacle of demolition
Spectacle of radical transformation
Wrecking material objects
Recreating disasters
Cheap entertainment
Lust for destruction
Planned obsolescence
Aesthetic retooling
Organic use of detritus
Transgressive creativity
Wills, needs & desires
Biological limits
Waged bodies
Precarity & security
Consumer dissatisfaction
Envy
Emotion & Desire
Made & remade
Fodder for destruction
Salariat
Precarity & capital
Logic on the landscape
Pasture land
Scientific farming
Bread & butter
Salvaged commuter cars
Competitive cars
Stylized violence & aggression
Surplus Value
Debilitation of mobility
Labour providing leisure time and access to materials
Skills & tools
Independence & ingenuity
Meritocracy & communitarianism
Arenas, grandstands & backless plank bleachers
Mobility of meaning
Rebuilt material environment for own uses
Intentional collisions
Disable competitors
Final heats
Last car moving
Lists derived from Demolition Derby, Working-Class Identity, and Capitalist Geographies by Billy Williams. Journal of Working-Class Studies, Vol 8 Issue 1, June 2023.
Tyler Brett, Almost Paradise, 2011-2025 (video stills).