January 2008
Monthly Archive
‘A President Like’ Her ‘Father’
Posted by thelumberjackthief on 26 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: Music, MP3
The combination of Obama’s South Carolina win and Caroline Kennedy’s endorsement in the New York Times tomorrow goes well with this Bob Dylan original.
Well, Fuck You Gibson
Posted by thelumberjackthief on 23 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: Music, MP3
Your Heart Is In The Right Place, It’s Your Head That’s In A Mess
Posted by thelumberjackthief on 21 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: Music, MP3
Two sides of the same dynamic at play.
Cold War Kids - Electioneering (Radiohead Cover) (info)
Also, I have a new favorite album of the moment. In terms of D.C., it’s like the second coming of Pacer for me.
And We’re Back.
Posted by thelumberjackthief on 14 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: Music, MP3
I consider this song my trump card defense against any right-winger who tries to dismiss Allen Ginsberg with the conservative truism that hippies are soft on communism. Key graf:
I don’t like communist Censorship of my books
I don’t like Marxists complaining about my looks
I don’t like Castro insulting members of my sex
Leftists insisting we got the mystic FixI don’t like Capitalists selling me gasoline Coke
Multinationals burning Amazon trees to smoke
Big Corporation takeover media mind
I don’t like the Top-bananas that’re robbing Guatemala banks blindI don’t like K.G.B. Gulag concentration camps
I don’t like the Maoists’ Cambodian Death Dance
15 Million were killed by Stalin Secretary of Terror
He has killed our old Red Revolution for ever
More importantly, the totality of his pome points out with simplicity that all ideologies have some kind of down side. Full lyrics here.
On a personal note, the idea of “first thought, best thought” — which Ginsberg championed but did not create — is an important one for me in my approach to personal correspondence.