winter in the world
stefan am 13. Dezember 2002 um 16:54 Uhr[…]
The idea concerns the fact that this country wants nostalgia, they want to go back as far as they can even if it’s only as far as last week. Not to face now or tomorrow but to face backwards, and yesterday was the day of our cinema heroes riding to the rescue at the last possible moment. The day of the man in the white hat or the man on the white horse or the man who always came to save America at the last moment, someone always came to save America at the last moment. Especially in B-movies. And when America found itself having a hard time facing the future they looked for people like John Wayne. But since John Wayne was no longer available they settled for Ronald the Raygun. And it has placed us in a situation that we can only look at like a B-movie.
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Call in the cavalry to disrupt this perception of freedom gone wild, goddamnit, first one wants freedom then the whole damn world wants freedom. Nostalgia, that\’s what we want, the good old days, when we gave \’em hell. When the buck stopped somewhere and you could still buy something with it. To a time when movies was in black and white and so was everything else.
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As Wall Street goes so goes the nation, and here\’s a look at the closing numbers. Racism\’s up. Human rights are down. Peace is shaky. War items are hot. The house claims all ties. Jobs are down, money is scarce, and common sense is at an all time low. At end of trading. Movies were looking better than ever and now no one is looking because we\’re starring in a B-movie. And we would rather have had John Wayne. We would rather have John Wayne.
The idea concerns the fact that this country wants nostalgia, they want to go back as far as they can even if it’s only as far as last week. Not to face now or tomorrow but to face backwards, and yesterday was the day of our cinema heroes riding to the rescue at the last possible moment. The day of the man in the white hat or the man on the white horse or the man who always came to save America at the last moment, someone always came to save America at the last moment. Especially in B-movies. And when America found itself having a hard time facing the future they looked for people like John Wayne. But since John Wayne was no longer available they settled for Ronald the Raygun. And it has placed us in a situation that we can only look at like a B-movie.
[…]
Call in the cavalry to disrupt this perception of freedom gone wild, goddamnit, first one wants freedom then the whole damn world wants freedom. Nostalgia, that\’s what we want, the good old days, when we gave \’em hell. When the buck stopped somewhere and you could still buy something with it. To a time when movies was in black and white and so was everything else.
[…]
As Wall Street goes so goes the nation, and here\’s a look at the closing numbers. Racism\’s up. Human rights are down. Peace is shaky. War items are hot. The house claims all ties. Jobs are down, money is scarce, and common sense is at an all time low. At end of trading. Movies were looking better than ever and now no one is looking because we\’re starring in a B-movie. And we would rather have had John Wayne. We would rather have John Wayne.
Gil Scott-Heron - B-Movie
mandate my ass! btw, hier gibt es haufenweise real audios: http://www.bassics.de/gilscottheron.html