Posted on 01/29/2014 6:47:26 AM PST by Borges
I don’t always agree with Seeger about how he would’ve created a more perfect world. But I’d whole heartedly support going back to honest music which expressed people’s thoughts and emotions.
They were in my youth, if often less good-looking too.
For a while it seemed worth adopting their politics. But eventually the stupidity and dishonesty of the whole crowd drove me back toward the light.
This is the problem with the few cultural offerings from the right.
Conservatives need to create music and movies that can stand alone, that are interesting, even compelling without preaching. The message has to be subtle. We are competing for cultural shelf space, and losing badly.
When Rolling Stone interviewer Mikal Gilmore prodded Dylan for the first time, trying to get him to say that Obama was being criticized because he was black, Dylan said:
“They did the same thing to Bush, didn’t they?"
The fourth time Gimore pushed the issue, Dylan said:
“Do you want me to repeat what I just said, word for word? What are you talking about? People loved the guy when he was elected. So what are we talking about? People changing their minds? Well, who are these people who changed their minds? Talk to them.”
When Rolling Stone interviewer Mikal Gilmore prodded Dylan for the first time, trying to get him to say that Obama was being criticized because he was black, Dylan said:
“They did the same thing to Bush, didn’t they?"
The fourth time Gimore pushed the issue, Dylan said:
“Do you want me to repeat what I just said, word for word? What are you talking about? People loved the guy when he was elected. So what are we talking about? People changing their minds? Well, who are these people who changed their minds? Talk to them.”
The best thing Pete Seeger ever did for me was to make my 1963 Vega long-neck banjo valuable. Ah, capitalism.
If you find it in Your heart, can I be forgiven?
Guess I owe You some kind of apology
I've escaped death so many times, I know I'm only living
By the saving grace that's over me
By this time I'd-a thought I would be sleeping
In a pine box for all eternity
My faith keeps me alive, but I would still be weeping
For the saving grace that's over me
Well, the death of life, then come the resurrection
Wherever I am welcome is where I'll be
I put all my confidence in Him, my sole protection
Is the saving grace that's over me
Well, the devil's shining light, it can be most blinding
But to search for love, that ain't no more than vanity
As I look around this world all that I'm finding
Is the saving grace that's over me
The wicked know no peace and you just can't fake it
There's only one road and it leads to Calvary
It gets discouraging at times, but I know I'll make it
By the saving grace that's over me
There’s a liberal religious group called The Family that used sex to recruit men. Rose McGowan’s parents belonged to it at one point IIRC.
The goal of getting someone into error is easier than getting them out and most men rush in when it comes to sex.
You may not like his politics, But Pete Seeger sums up my feelings about our POTUS in his song “Waist Deep in the Big Muddy”
Seems like some folks are still following that “Big Fool”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXnJVkEX8O4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Here are the final verses of the Pete Seeger song:
Now I’m not going to point any moral —
I’ll leave that for yourself.
Maybe you’re still walking, you’re still talking,
You’d like to keep your health.
But every time I read the papers, that old feeling comes on,
We’re waist deep in the Big Muddy
And the big fool says to push on.
Waist deep in the Big Muddy,
The big fool says to push on.
Waist deep in the Big Muddy,
The big fool says to push on.
Waist deep, neck deep,
Soon even a tall man will be over his head.
We’re waist deep in the Big Muddy,
And the big fool says to push on.
I am impressed. That Seeger song could be The Ode to Obamacare.
My thoughts exactly.
The creep that taught little kids about “the buzzing of the bees in the cigarette trees.”
What a guy!
Not Dylan!
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