Here's my mashup of "America the Beautuful" at age nine, apparently attempting some sort of mix of poetry, tragedy, mimicry and irony.
Today's Rune: Signals.
Monday, June 15, 2009
1970 Rollin' in Sight
Here's my mashup of "America the Beautuful" at age nine, apparently attempting some sort of mix of poetry, tragedy, mimicry and irony.
Today's Rune: Signals.
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What I hate is that we recognized the impact of man upon the land and environment 50 years ago yet in the quest for profit did nothing. And now we are sitting here collectively with out thumbs still up our ass hemming and hawing about controls that may or may not be put in place within the next forty years.
Humanity is such a collective short sighted creature.
9 years old eh? Out of the mouth of babes.
I can remember that time well, when we were just waking up to pollution and ecology. I had a poster that showed photographs of smoke stacks billowing into the air with just a few few pieces of a jigsaw puzzle revealing an obviously artist-drawn rainbow. It had a Wilfred Owen quote: "Looking for the sky in the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle/Who can find the clouds/Who can find the sun?"
Erik, you did THAT at NINE? What a prophecy, you precocious child! That comercial used to kinda scare me. Did you sing along to "Cherokee People"?
Pretty sharp nine-year-old, you were :)
As we've figured out, our demographics are close. I remember that Public Service commercial well, as well as a few others.
There was a second "Wayne's World" movie, cleverly entitled "Wayne's World 2." It was a lot funnier than I expected it to be (Christopher Walken and the great character actor James Hong were in it). There was a spoof on the "crying Indian" commercial.
The actor who played the "crying Indian" was himself a noted character actor, "Iron Eyes Cody." He was not Native-American, of course, but Sicilian.
Very nice and cute. And also intelligent! ^_^
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