Posted on 08/24/2004 1:26:47 PM PDT by PaulaB
Memory joggle... I liked Desperado.
The one with the little girl in Goth costume tossing pens and other things into a shopping cart, who says, "I thought you said, 'school's out forever'".
Then Alice Cooper, the girl's father, says, with a big grin on his face, "No. Its 'school's out for summer'. Nice try, though".
Wow, I have a sudden new-found respect for Mr. Cooper.
School's out for summer!
The times I have heard him talk he seems very intelligent--someone who might at least have half a brain.
He is. I am going to Cooperstown in Cleveland this weekend. Alice is a good egg, one of a kind.
"Besides," he continued, "when I read the list of people who are supporting Kerry, if I wasn't already a Bush supporter, I would have immediately switched. Linda Ronstadt? Don Henley? Geez, that's a good reason right there to vote for Bush."
- - Alice Cooper
you'll love this.
You got it. It was a reference to all rockers - that's all they wanna do!
Here's another classic:
From Samuel L. Jackson's June 1999 Playboy magazine interview:
PLAYBOY: Are you politically active?
JACKSON: I go to premieres, and folks start asking me,
"How do you feel about the president?" I think, What
the f**k do people care what I think about the president?
I'm an actor. All those actors out there stumping for
this candidate or that candidate, it's bulls**t. They
don't do anything past that. They raise some money
and they're out of there. Or they just voice their
opinion: "That Dalai Lama is my boy."
PLAYBOY: So your soapbox message is for celebrities to
get off their soapboxes?
JACKSON: Just pay your taxes. Stop standing up and
saying, "We need to lend our money to so-and-so."
You make $20 million a picture. Shut the f**k up and
give them a million dollars. Don't ask Joe Everyday
for $5. He might need that $5. You've got money to
burn. I don't like giving my political opinions.
[...]
The more of a grasp I can have of myself as an
everyday guy who just happens to have an unusual job,
the better off my life is going to be. I don't think
I'm extraordinary.
And then later:
"...but when people give me this bulls**t thing
about being a role model [through his choice of
acting roles] and my effect on society, I say bulls**t
to you. If people want to know if I'm a role model,
they should know that I've been married to the same
woman for 19 years, I drove my daughter's car pool
until she started driving, I help her with her
homework. I make up beds, I take out the garbage.
I graduated from college, I can read and write. I can
speak correctly. I treat everyone with respect.
I pay my taxes. I've never been to jail. I think
that's the stuff of a role model.
Well well well...
Welcome to our nightmare, Alice.
Those of us of the boomer generation know one thing. If we WERE to listen to a rocker about anything political (let alone who to vote for), it would certainly be Alice over Linda Ronstadt...sheesh.
He was pretty shocking then, but I remember seeing a photo of him (and his newly made money) on a golf course. LOLOL Mr. Suburbia. ;)
Frank Zappa was another rocker who seemed like a real weirdo on stage, but was amazingly intelligent, insightful, and eloquent when the situation called for it.
I got to see Alice in his prime, circa 1971. He was the middle act at the Spectrum in Philly between Humble Pie and Black Sabbath. I remember he had this giant lighted electric chair on the stage. Those were the days!
Alice Cooper was so great in the original "Wayne's World" movie.
Bruce Springsteen is not supporting John Kerry.
He is only concerned with defeating GWB. I saw him interviewed on Larry King and he would not state that he supported John Kerry. Only that he wanted "anybody but Bush".
Now, that's a moron.
Amen. Brilliant man....RIP.
ALICE COOPER is a Christian Conservative Rock icon bump!!!
Thanks for that post!!!
Par for MY course.
A dollar short and a WEEK behind!
(Notice I said "week" , not "weak" behind!)
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