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timepiececlockMy fellow Americans,
READ GEORGE ORWELL'S NOVEL 1984. It's not that hard a read and has plenty of violence and excitement and interesting writing style, if you're afraid it could be slow. It's not.
And then take a glance at the Bush administration and the history of the last few years.
It doesn't even take a hard look. A cursory glance will be frightening enough.
Sincerely,
Rashaka
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My dad was just telling us last night that he's listening to 1984 on tape again, after reading it like twenty years ago. And it's worrying him a bit, because every time he watches Condoliza Rice talk about us going to war for the future possibility of weapons of mass destruction instead of the actual weapons, it looks an awfully lot like rewriting history and "fixing" it, and how we weren't going to war for the reasons we thought we were, we're just remember incorrectly.
I couldn't agree more. My mom said she'd only seen the movie. We were both aghast and told her she had to read the book. My brother read the book last year while out on his Western Pacifc tour with the Navy, and he has also mentioned the freakish similarities.
So has that rock band, Incubus.
MMmmmm..... I like it when artists don't even try to hide who they're politically criticizing, they just throw it out there. "your time is almost up." " 'Impress' me personality." Yep, that's our dear Mr. President Asshat.
"Talk Show On Mute"
-incubus
Take a bow
Pack on powder
Wash 'em out with buzzing lights
Pay an audience to care
"Impress me" personality
Still and transfixed
The electric sheep are dreaming of your face
Enjoy you from the chemical
Comfort of America
Come one, come all
Into 1984
Yeah, three, two, one
Lights, camera, transaction
Quick, your time is almost up
Make all forget that they're the moth
Edging in towards the flame
Burn into obscurity
Still and transfixed
The electric sheep are dreaming up your fate
And judge you from the card castle
Comfort of America
Come one, come all
Into 1984
Yeah, three, two, one
Lights, camera, transaction
Your foundation is canyoning
Fault lines should be worn with pride
I hate to say it but
You're so much more
You're so much more
Endearing with the sound turned off
READ GEORGE ORWELL'S NOVEL 1984. It's not that hard a read and has plenty of violence and excitement and interesting writing style, if you're afraid it could be slow. It's not.
And then take a glance at the Bush administration and the history of the last few years.
It doesn't even take a hard look. A cursory glance will be frightening enough.
Sincerely,
Rashaka
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My dad was just telling us last night that he's listening to 1984 on tape again, after reading it like twenty years ago. And it's worrying him a bit, because every time he watches Condoliza Rice talk about us going to war for the future possibility of weapons of mass destruction instead of the actual weapons, it looks an awfully lot like rewriting history and "fixing" it, and how we weren't going to war for the reasons we thought we were, we're just remember incorrectly.
I couldn't agree more. My mom said she'd only seen the movie. We were both aghast and told her she had to read the book. My brother read the book last year while out on his Western Pacifc tour with the Navy, and he has also mentioned the freakish similarities.
So has that rock band, Incubus.
MMmmmm..... I like it when artists don't even try to hide who they're politically criticizing, they just throw it out there. "your time is almost up." " 'Impress' me personality." Yep, that's our dear Mr. President Asshat.
"Talk Show On Mute"
-incubus
Take a bow
Pack on powder
Wash 'em out with buzzing lights
Pay an audience to care
"Impress me" personality
Still and transfixed
The electric sheep are dreaming of your face
Enjoy you from the chemical
Comfort of America
Come one, come all
Into 1984
Yeah, three, two, one
Lights, camera, transaction
Quick, your time is almost up
Make all forget that they're the moth
Edging in towards the flame
Burn into obscurity
Still and transfixed
The electric sheep are dreaming up your fate
And judge you from the card castle
Comfort of America
Come one, come all
Into 1984
Yeah, three, two, one
Lights, camera, transaction
Your foundation is canyoning
Fault lines should be worn with pride
I hate to say it but
You're so much more
You're so much more
Endearing with the sound turned off
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Date: 2004-03-25 07:50 pm (UTC)David Bowie (heh, had to mention him, gratutious mention! kinda) was going to do a musical based on 1984 but was denied the rights by the widow, so a lot of his songs ended up on the Diamond Dogs album. Here's one particularly poignant song from it, aptly entitled "1984":
Someday they won't let you, so now you must agree
The times they are a-telling, and the changing isn't free
You've read it in the tea leaves, and the tracks are on TV
Beware the savage jaw
Of 1984
They'll split your pretty cranium, and fill it full of air
And tell that you're eighty, but brother, you won't care
You'll be shooting up on anything, tomorrow's never there
Beware the savage jaw
Of 1984
CHORUS
Come see, come see, remember me?
We played out an all night movie role
You said it would last, but I guess we enrolled
In 1984 (who could ask for more)
1984 (who could ask for mor-or-or-or-ore)
(Mor-or-or-or-ore)
I'm looking for a vehicle, I'm looking for a ride
I'm looking for a party, I'm looking for a side
I'm looking for the treason that I knew in '65
Beware the savage jaw
Of 1984
CHORUS
1984
1984
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1984
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Date: 2004-03-25 08:17 pm (UTC)1984
Date: 2004-03-25 08:30 pm (UTC)Re: 1984
Date: 2004-03-26 12:16 am (UTC)Re: 1984
Date: 2004-03-26 01:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-26 05:58 am (UTC)You think your bad, try living in the Uk.
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Date: 2004-03-26 12:05 pm (UTC)