130-Degree Air Conditioning

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Video source:
AC-130U (Spooky) attacking terrorist camp in Fallujah

Music source:
Richard Simmons, "You Can Do It", from Reach
(Elektra / Asylum Records, 1982); cassette tape

This music video explores the relationship between getting fit and Boeing's AC-130 fixed-wing gunship, which deploys ordnance with telling names like the AGM-114 Hellfire Missile, the Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System, and the Viper Strike glide bomb - Wikipedia.

Related work can be found in the text-scroll and video-loop god_sticks. 130° AC was screened with live sound mix in Spring 2006 at Abby Trenaman's Hy-Art Gallery in Oxford Ohio, and screened in February 2007 with live talk by Keith Tuma at "The Bomb Will Keep Us Together" (Miami University). The Richard Simmons was edited into the video in March 2007.