Roger Guillemin & Le Corbeau: Father and Son
In the minutes before Mayor Jerry Sanders took the stage like a professional wrestler making a heavyweight title entrance, attendees at the State of the City address at Balboa Theatre were treated to a short music video promoting Sanders' ideal legacy: a new central library, a new Chargers' stadium, an expansion of the convention center and a restructured Plaza de Panama at Balboa Park. After the speech, everyone was talking about the video: KPBS, voiceofsandiego.org, U-T San Diego all the local Twitterati. Of course, we mentioned it too.
If you were there, you saw it. However, the video was set to Eminem's "Lose Yourself," and since the city did not pay for reuse of the song, the video has not been released to the greater public.
Until now.
After filing a public-records request, CityBeat was allowed to record the video, without sound, off of Sanders' communications director's computer.
In order to recreate the video as it played live, we have embedded both Sanders' video and Eminem's official video. Simply click play on the Eminem video, jump ahead 20 seconds or so, then start the city's video.
Important to note: The mayor's communications director, Darren Pudgil, asked us to make it boldly clear that the mayor's office did not use the original version of "Lose Yourself," but a family-friendly edit that involved removing anything remotely offensive from the clean version. The dirty version is the only official video online, so that's what we have to use.
If you were there, you saw it. However, the video was set to Eminem's "Lose Yourself," and since the city did not pay for reuse of the song, the video has not been released to the greater public.
Until now.
After filing a public-records request, CityBeat was allowed to record the video, without sound, off of Sanders' communications director's computer.
In order to recreate the video as it played live, we have embedded both Sanders' video and Eminem's official video. Simply click play on the Eminem video, jump ahead 20 seconds or so, then start the city's video.
Important to note: The mayor's communications director, Darren Pudgil, asked us to make it boldly clear that the mayor's office did not use the original version of "Lose Yourself," but a family-friendly edit that involved removing anything remotely offensive from the clean version. The dirty version is the only official video online, so that's what we have to use.
Click play here, jump to 20 seconds, then scroll and click play below.
