natural born killers

[boxy]

An ironic kind of tale, especially from Quentin. Who is he to lecture on the glorification of gratuitous violence?

What I took out of it... the "it takes a village to raise a child" proverb has reached it's limit. It simply doesn't work in a society that is so populous, that no one cares what their neighbour does, as long as it doesn't affect them personally. To make a society, it takes individual effort and risk, as shown by the snake handler.

"The Future"

Give me back my broken night
my mirrored room, my secret life
it's lonely here,
there's no one left to torture
Give me absolute control
over every living soul
And lie beside me, baby,
that's an order!
Give me crack and anal sex
Take the only tree that's left
and stuff it up the hole
in your culture
Give me back the Berlin wall
give me Stalin and St Paul
I've seen the future, brother:
it is murder.

Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
Won't be nothing
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
has crossed the threshold
and it has overturned
the order of the soul
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant

You don't know me from the wind
you never will, you never did
I'm the little jew
who wrote the Bible
I've seen the nations rise and fall
I've heard their stories, heard them all
but love's the only engine of survival
Your servant here, he has been told
to say it clear, to say it cold:
It's over, it ain't going
any further
And now the wheels of heaven stop
you feel the devil's riding crop
Get ready for the future:
it is murder

Things are going to slide ...

There'll be the breaking of the ancient
western code
Your private life will suddenly explode
There'll be phantoms
There'll be fires on the road
and the white man dancing
You'll see a woman
hanging upside down
her features covered by her fallen gown
and all the lousy little poets
coming round
tryin' to sound like Charlie Manson
and the white man dancin'

Give me back the Berlin wall
Give me Stalin and St Paul
Give me Christ
or give me Hiroshima
Destroy another fetus now
We don't like children anyhow
I've seen the future, baby:
it is murder

Things are going to slide ...

When they said REPENT REPENT ...

LEONARD COHEN

Oh, and you Leonark Cohen fans... suggest to me an albumn to start with. I haven't got one yet... but have been interested for a while on what little I've heard from him.

[Outlaw Yogi]

Sounds a bit 'Lets blow up the world for Jesus' or taking the piss out of the doomsday nutter crowd/s.

[J.W. Frogen]

Boxy, I listen to a lot Cohen's music on the Internet but do not own one album: I found him as a poet first, I have two books by him before I knew how powerful he was in the world of music.

I love this man's work.

[boxy]

Sounds a bit 'Lets blow up the world for Jesus' or taking the piss out of the doomsday nutter crowd/s.

There is something strangely evangelical about it... an unquestioning belief in doing what feels right, even if that is "kill, kill, kill!!!!".

Yeah, I've heard bits and pieces on the interweb too, Frogs. But I'd like to experience it in the original context. I think we're losing some context of musical art by "browsing" soundbites through the internet and "ipod shuffle", where tracks are presented as stand alone pieces.

I might start with "The Future", next time I head to town.

[freediver]

I still don't bother downloading music, and I listen to the entire album at a time. For most good artists, an album is more than just a commercial package.

[J.W. Frogen]

Absolutely Boxy, just listening to songs in bits and pieces from the Internet is like trying to understand the classical world from the fragments or their art.

Still, it is cheap and easy and these days that is the way I like it.

[J.W. Frogen]

Cohen came to Perth recently and I could not afford the tickets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wrote to him asking for a scholarship, several times, until the restraining order was served.

[J.W. Frogen]

I am trying to get my son Sam out on a paper route, to teach him responsibility to my wallet , but they won't give five year olds paper routes the ageist bastards!

[boxy]

I've often ended up prefering secondary tracks by buying albumns on the basis of "singles" that later fade into insignificance for me.

And yes... I'm yet to see the attraction in classical music... but then, I've only given it the soundbite browsing, so far

[Sappho]

most people who claim not to like classical music, when introduced to baroque like it very much.