Sex & Dopes & Rock & Roll & "Natural Law" Catholicism‽

Tuck's Daily Caller on occasion offers something besides the AP, original work that may be matching parts of the PuffHo for inanity. Today's example:

My friend Stephen Catanzarite and I are trying to form a nonprofit organization to study and celebrate popular culture, with a special emphasis on rock and roll, from a conservative perspective. We think that rock and roll is a dynamic source of spiritual and humanistic value, and a powerful celebration of love and the natural law. I am the author of the forthcoming “A Tremor of Bliss: Sex, Catholicism, and Rock ‘n’ Roll.” Stephen is the author of the great book “U2 Achtung Baby: Mediations on Love in the Shadow of the Fall.” We want to launch a website, a journal, and have an annual conference at Georgetown University. We want to challenge the left on its own turf.

Bring it on!! Huh huh.

Some credit will be given for this section, 'though it's all part of the nonprofit, put your money where your mouth is pitch:

For all their complaints about victimology, conservatives are world-class whiners when it comes to popular culture and the arts. Oh, Hollywood is so socialist! Publishing blackballs the right! Britney Spears is corrupting our children! They tsk-tsk and tut-tut and outright blast, then sit back and wait for the next outrage. And they don’t even bother to listen to Britney’s music, some of which – the album “Blackout” – is brilliant. Conservatives have set up their own successful publishing houses, but the books all have that same, well, sameness. Obama the Communist. The Outrageously Outrageous Politcially Correct Politics of Outrage. The Death of the West Parts I-XX. I’m all for the free market and these writers getting rich – hell, I hope “A Tremor of Bliss” makes me rich. But there has to be room for something beautiful, something different, something forward-thinking. The next Elia Kazan needs to be supported.

You can not get any more forward thinking than "the next Elia Kazan." Or can you: Whittaker Chambers, anyone?

I want to make a documentary, “Whittaker Chambers’ Washington.” It would be a walking tour of the spots in my hometown of Washington, D.C., made famous in Chambers’ classic book “Witness.” I thought I could bring a fresh interpretation to this timeless story by viewing it not only as a towering work of anti-communism, but as a religious text, comparable to Dante and St. Augustine. It’s exciting, because these days the technology has made it possible to make a cinema-quality film for $10,000.

Stripped down documentary film making at its finest. We've no idea what renting "cinema-quality" gear costs these days, or how long the Chambers fan wants his film to run, but $10,000.00? US?

Frankly, we are tired of having to get our music news from the likes of Rolling Stone, with its leftist agitprop and narcissistic resentments, and our movie reviews from Entertainment Weekly, while National Review and the Weekly Standard ignore what for many people is the poetry of their souls and soundtrack of their lives, as well as the culture.

Is it really possible to be both a consistent and coherent champion of the conservative mindset and an unabashed (or at least only somewhat-abashed) fan of ‘the Devil’s music’? Rock and roll is, after all, purported to be the music of “rebellion” set to the “rhythm of sexual intercourse,” and its chief practitioners are most often associated with both the agitations and agitators emanating from the leftist-most edges of the political spectrum. But after more than sixty years of growing up together (for rock and roll and the modern conservative movement share a genesis in post-World-War-Two America) is it not possible, and even likely, that these two potent, culture-shaping forces will have become, if not wholly-reconciled, at least conversant with each other? What if the presumption that rock ‘n’ roll is rebel music is, well, wrong? What if it is a modernist art that, at its best, reinforces spiritual and political conservatism? Imagine if that paradigm were to be dismantled.

Indeed, no one would mock you for not being one of the kewl kidz any more, right? We're a little surprised he take the "In a world gone mad w/ political correctness, the real rebels are the spiritual & social conservatives of Catholic Rock!" route, but decided his sales pitch should be based on his desire to squeeze the remaining life from a 70-yr. old genre, a task started by Pat Boone that was essentially accomplished by the time the first Eagles album cast its twanging, nasally harmonious shadow over the musical landscape.

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