Dear DachsieWEENIE,
Absolutely no hurry. Please don't derange yourself when you're up to your armpits in family business. Sending best wishes for your B-I-L's speedy recovery.
Thanks for that. It looks like my brother with live to fight another day. From what I've heard from the cardiac surgeon, though, he is one, very, lucky boy.
See if you like the You Tube Music video. It is a single taken from "Clash's last album (Joe Strummer is doing the lead vocals). It's got a White English nationalist vivive to it. But I wouldn't stress about that. In a lot of the "Clash's" REALLY massive songs or albums (like "London Calling") the lyrics that are written for most - but not All - of the songs are pretty much incomprehensible. Having said that, Joe Strummer write some of the greatest ever lyrics the history of rock in the 20th-century (like the the tracks of the famous album: "London Calling". When you read the song lyrics on the back of the LP, it is difficult to untangle the meaningings of each track; but, strangley, when you listening to the LP through your headphones or (whatever), the worlds speak to you with a magical/enchanted lucidity; and immediately, YOU GET IT - BIG TIME. It's kind of like this...remember I 'm a pharmacist, and was was taught the
art back in the days when pharmacists had to make up their own :emulsions; snuff powderers; Mag Trisilicate. Suspensions; Paraldehyde draughts; Extract of Squill Elixiers; suppositories; medicinal gargles (for those naughty young girls who [I/ always[/I] seems to present with strained lower jaw muscles, and a "nondescript, sticky, ("milky,") matter deposited all over the upper surface of the tongue ChristiFANNY (it's the work of the
Divil, ChristieFANNY- the work of the
"Divil, I say !! Getting back to the explanation I wanted to suggest for how Joe Strummer's lyrics are often incomprehensiible in terms of making conventional, rational sense (even their iconic single, "London Calling" falls into this category when it is read aloud as (lyric) poetry without any musical accompaniment. It must be some strong, synergism at work, because in 1979, every pimple-headed 19 year old c**t got the message, and the "London Calling" LP shot up like a rocket into the rare depths of heaven and blew away every vinyl sales record, that ever been set in the Western music industry. All the more astonishing because ABBA and the Beatles, Elvis Pressley and Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan and the "Band" wrote great music AND had great "crystal clear" lyrics to accompany their tunes.
As much as I loved all of Joe Strummer's music whether he was playing with the "Clash" or the "Mescaleros; and I will never forget the announcement of his sudden death at the age of 50, on 22 December 2002 (from a congenital heart disorder). I think had I ever had the chance to meat him in person we would never see "ever-to-eye" politically.
Joe was pretty much to the far-left of centre. He was not anything loopy like a doctrinaire Marxist (socialist) or a card-carry- communist.He had too much imagination and valued his individual freedom way to much to end up falling down that kind of rat-hole.
Meanwhile, I was a traditional (Burkean) conservative, and I would not have received a very friendly greeting from Joe once he knew this.
I think it would be a great thing if celebrities like Taylor Swift and the now deceased Joe Strummer, (and all the rest of the comics and humorists and film-makers and business people could just get together and agree that they are not going to incorporate partisan political material into their routines. I mean Taylor Swift is a HOTTIE with the the most SEXY legs (and all the rest !!) and she's pretty and a has lots of talent; BUT what does she know about conservative political philosophy? The answer must be "next to nothing.". Right ? She also has a sizeable chuck of political power in the US. Unless she has a thorough and rigorous education and enough relevant experience, I don' think she has any right to use her power to intervene in "big picture" American politics (Republican or Democrat).
This brings me to the Music Video of
"This is England." This song is performed by Joe Strummer, and was recorded in 1983. Joe Strummer, called himself a "Punk" during one stage of his career, at a time when the Punk/Skinhead/White Supremacist/anti-immigrant movement had strong links to extremist, racist, White Nationalist,English, political Parties like the British National Front, and emerging Neo-Nazi?racist/Skinhead outfits like "Blood and Honour", an organisation started by English, White Supremacist and singer, Ian Stuart. The list of Skinhead/White Nationalist/anti-immigrants organisations, is extensive in Britain and the USA to this day. I think is was a foolish error for Joe Strummer and the "Clash" to wear the appurtenances of shaved scalps hob-nail boots, Mohawk hair- styles, etc; because, historically, it was the violent/White Nationalists who were the first sub-cultural group to explode out of England's foundational Punk Rock scene. There is absolutely no atom of evidence to suggest that Joe and the "Clash" were racist/White supremacists.Also while the "Clash" viewed themselves as "Punk Rockers", the truth is that they were actually mainstream "Rock and Rollers" who had a great "pop sensibility "the Clash" were really a mainstream pop-music band for most of their careers. Joe Strummer experimented with other musical genres as well when he formed a band called "The Mescaleros." This is exquisitely poignant track that Joe wrote on a "Mescaleros" album called "Street Core" soft haunting elegy that is drenched with emotions of sadness and regret for the tragic loss of lives on the 9/11 terrorist assault against America in NYC. i
I want you to listen to it Christie FANNY because I already know that it will blow you away. It picked up broad airplay in America when it was released and it was called
"Ramshackle-Day Parade" (check it out, CF !!) It is a spiritually beautiful piece of music. when you play it somewhere quit it, you are kind of frozen still whenever and wherever you happen to be. It ended up being used as the signature tune for a movie called "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly." My point is that a hard-core "Punk-Rocker" like, Johnny Rotten< could not have performed this song.
Getting back (at last) to the video Track I sent you (above) What we have here is Joe Strummer in classic leftie political mode. The year is 1983 and after looking around at the state of Britain, Joe decides to issue his own SOTU address.above. He blames every thing he sees that is bad: stratospheric inflation; unemployment (i.e stagflation), a struggling economy, power cuts, "states emergency", gang violence in the inner-cities, the Falkland's War; the collapse the the beloved British motorcycle production, the wave of ultra- nationalist, jingoistic patriotism that followed Britain's victory in the Falklands; the "too high" prevalence of violent racist/anti-immigrant strife in Britain's inner urban communities; the phenomenon of police oppression, plus standard "Clash/Strummer themes of protest, disillusionment, alienation and so on.
The true story is as follows...Labour administrations in Britain during the 1970s and , in particular, bough Britain to it knees between 1978 and 1979. In 1979 the country was lashed with the most freezing winter weather in many , many decades. Hence this period of Winter frigidity came to be known by the public as
"The Winter of Discontent" (After, Shakespeare - "Now is the Winter of our Discontent." Richard iii . The Winter of Discontent began on 24 August....20,000 railwaymen went out on strike, haulage worker walked of the job, petrol tank drivers and eventually municipal workers - 1, 250,000 organised a 1-day national strike, hospital services were reduced' trash was uncollected and dumped in huge amounts along city streets, and on the 22 Jan 1979 the most notorious incident was the grave-diggers strike on Merseyside which left many of dead the unburied.
Margaret Thatcher was elected conservative Prime Minister in May of 1979..She know what the problem was and directly cut off the Unions' power. Thirty years later Britain had no problems at all with any of the Big British Unions.
Dachshund - the WONDER HOUND
DLM....Dachsund Lives Matter
Sigh'.... i just checked my JPP in-box, but there is still no mobilie Phone No from you....Sigh !
Finally, the 1983 Msic Video (above) exposes Joe Strummer's political stupidity and ignorance for what it is.
Dachshund - the WONDER HOUND
DLM....Dachshund Lives Matter !!
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