tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20205216.post5875339379940112459..comments2022-03-24T20:35:07.859-07:00Comments on The Caravan of Dreams: The Future Is UnwrittenSteve-Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13178592004360406877noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20205216.post-48972566741267228152007-12-18T00:16:00.000-08:002007-12-18T00:16:00.000-08:00As a second thought, The Clash really grabbed hold...As a second thought, The Clash really grabbed hold of the Zeitgeist in the 70's British depression. While the Pistols were pure nihilism, The Clash seriously addressed the issues of the day within the punk idiom. Guns of Brixton comes to mind as well as these lyrics from Career Opportunities:<BR/><BR/>"The offered me the office, offered me the<BR/>shop<BR/>They said I'd better take anything they'd got<BR/>Do you wanna make tea at the BBC?<BR/>Do you wanna be, do you really wanna be a cop?"<BR/><BR/>This has always reminded me of the Sears Catalog people of our age looked at for Halloween Costumes. Girls were limited to being a princess, a ballerina, or a nurse, while men could be a fireman, policeman, or a cowboy.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10022956841251987737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20205216.post-45862585920127206892007-12-18T00:06:00.000-08:002007-12-18T00:06:00.000-08:00I'm going to netflix to get it in my queue. I cou...I'm going to netflix to get it in my queue. I couldn't agree more about how some music just stares down time...15 or 40...just as meaningful. While I wasn't awake enough to music when I was fifteen to grasp Townes Van Zandt, I feel his music has the same cache (as I blogged about recently <A HREF="http://fortworthblogorrhea.blogspot.com/2007/11/townes.html" REL="nofollow">here</A>)Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10022956841251987737noreply@blogger.com