Monday, April 30, 2007

i have like three poems due by wednesday that i havent written and they will probably be crap...

i got the homework for 2 of 3 classes done for tuesday tonight which feels good.. but tomorrow is the vegan potluck, here (come around 7:00ish)
and i have my biggest assignment for the one class i have left... i know we are supposed to have multiple scholarly sources... i think?
its a cultureal product paper (what does this artistic expression tell you about the culture?) mine is a song by the clash called "something about england" so far what i have is, I know the band and some of their music, I know what punk is and what not... i know a little bit about the social climate of britain during the time... and i know the lyrics which seems to be almost self explanatory for the assignment...
oh and a video interview from youtube... which was funny

but what i need is a scholarly source on punk music, or the clash in particular... and i havent even started looking for that.

They say immigrants steal the hubcaps
Of the respected gentlemen
They say it would be wine an' roses
If england were for englishmen again

Well i saw a dirty overcoat
At the foot of the pillar of the road
Propped inside was an old man
Whom time would not erode
When the night was snapped by sirens
Those blue lights circled fast
The dancehall called for an' ambulance
The bars all closed up fast

My silence gazing at the ceiling
While roaming the single room
I thought the old man could help me
If he could explain the gloom
You really think it's all new
You really think about it too
The old man scoffed as he spoke to me
I'll tell you a thing or two

I missed the fourteen-eighteen war
But not the sorrow afterwards
With my father dead and my mother ran off
My brothers took the pay of hoods
The twenties turned the north was dead
The hunger strike came marching south
At the garden party not a word was said
The ladies lifted cake to their mouths

The next war began and my ship sailed
With battle orders writ in bed
In five long years of bullets and shells
We left tem million dead
The few returned to old piccadily
We limped around leicster square
The world was busy rebuilding itself
The architects could not care

But how could we know when i was young
All the canges that were to come?
All the photos in the wallets on the battlefield
And now the terror of the scientific sun
There was masters an' servants an' servants an' dogs
They taught you how to touch your cap
But through strikes an' famine an' war an' peace
England never closed this gap

So leave me now the moon is up
But remember all the tales i tell
The memories that you have dredged up
Are on letters forwarded from hell

The streets were by now deserted
The gangs had trudged off home
The lights clicked off in the bedsits
An' old england was all alone


i hope i didnt already put this on here... i have no memory for what i post and what i dont...
also sometimes u cant go to bed till you hear the right song, and it just hasnt come on yet (thus it is 4 am)
ok its gonna be this one... together forever by best friends forever... the band alicia described as girls screaming on top of eachother...

"I, I, I, I love the way that you move me, and I, you, you make me so happy, and I, I, I write so many songs for all the people, that mean so much less to me"

goodnight yous.
thanks for the love

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