ALMOST PARADISE
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).

© Sony/atv Melody, Universal - Geffen Again Music, E. C. B. Inc.


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).