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THIS IS NOT AMERICA
Tag: David Bowie
THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD
Bowie wrote the song. Who did it better?
COMFORTABLY NUMB
WHO ROCKS THE ORANGE JUMPSUIT BETTER?
RIP David Bowie
I can’t say I was ever a Bowie fan but a few years back David Gilmour of Pink Floyd put on a fantastic show at the Royal Albert Hall promoting his On An Island record. David invited Bowie to sing an early Pink Floyd tune called Arnold Layne. For those not familiar with Floyd, Syd Barret was their original singer, songwriter and Arnold Layne was their first single.
While Syd owns it, Bowie does a damn fine rendition and was an excellent choice on Gilmour’s part. Bowie stays on to sing with Gilmour on Comfortably Numb an belts out a better rendition than Roger Waters IMO. I’m glad Gilmour chose Bowie for this show. He might have escaped my attention but for these two songs. This show also marks one of the final performances by Richard Wright who died the following year.
I like the bald guy dancing in the crowd on the second video. How typically British!
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I’M AFRAID OF AMERICANS
Inspired in part by Admin’s thread, “OBAMA’S ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT RESORT & SPA
“Providence has been pleased to give this ONE connected country to ONE united people — a people descended from the SAME ancestors, speaking the SAME language, professing the SAME religion, attached to the SAME principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs … a band of brethren, united to each other by the strongest ties.”
—————- John Jay, Federalist No. 2, 1788
Regarding that “band of brethren” thingy. No! Not any more ….
—— we don’t speak one language ……. we called our shitfuk mortgage company (SPS) and the very first thing I hear is “Press 1 for English, 2 for Spanish”
Press 2 for Spanish?? FUCK YOU!!
—– 40% of this population trace their ancestry to Africa, Latin America, or Asia
—– illegitimate births among Hispanics is 52%, for Neegrows it is 73%
—– we don’t have one culture …. we are too multiracial, multilingual, and multicultural for our own good
—– race, religion, and preoccupation with “roots” are tearing us apart
— we don’t worship the same God, honor the same heroes, or share the same holidays …. Christ is demonized, Ceasar Chavez is a saint
—- Christianity is in decline, Islam is one of the fastest growing religions
—– Amerikan politics, poisonous toxic rot to its core, exists to CREATE divisions …. “they” haven’t represented me in decades
“If a country is a land of defined and defended borders, within which resides a people of a common ancestry, history, language, faith, culture and traditions, in what sense are we Americans one nation and one people today?” ——— Pat Buchanan
He’s right. This isn’t my America anymore. We are “one people” only in theory. This 2014 version of America ….. I’m not sure I belong here anymore, and that scares me.
“I’m Afraid Of Americans”
Uh-uh-uh …
Johnny’s in America
No tricks at the wheel
Uh-uh-uh …
Nobody needs anyone
They don’t even just pretend
Uh-uh-uh …Johnny’s in America
I’m afraid of Americans
I’m afraid of the world
I’m afraid I can’t help it
I’m afraid I can’t
I’m afraid of Americans
Johnny’s in America
Uh-uh-uh …
Johnny wants a plane
Johnny wants to suck on a Coke
Johnny wants a woman
Johnny wants to think of a joke
Uh-uh-uh …Johnny’s in America
Johnny’s in America
Johnny looks up at the stars
Johnny combs his hair
And Johnny wants pussy in cars
Johnny’s in America, uh-uh-uh
I’m afraid of Americans
God is an American
God is an American
Yeah, I’m afraid of Americans
I’m afraid of the words
I’m afraid I can’t help it
I’m afraid I can’t
I’m afraid of Americans