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(21,110 posts)NBachers
(17,149 posts)Sky Jewels
(7,149 posts)Hotler
(11,445 posts)Hieronymus Phact
(369 posts)I wish someone would make the movie by now. Calling stone? jackson? spike? peel? herzog? moore? morris? somebody? queen latifah? tarantino? ok maybe not tarantino for this. scorsese maybe?
KPN
(15,662 posts)given up over the past 90 years. They are still beating the same fear mongering drum about horror! socialism, or worse! communism. They werent dormant, just being covert over most of those years. They learned from 33-34: better to keep your head down until you actually have sufficient authoritarians in power. Most frightening, they did that really well.
dlk
(11,578 posts)He was far from the benign leader so many believed.
Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)Towlie
(5,328 posts)
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I don't think these lyrics would go over well today:
Don't try to remain aloof . . .
I might snatch you up screamin' through the window all nekkid
An' do it to you on the roof, don't mess with the zomby woof
stopdiggin
(11,377 posts)much easier to admire - from a considerable distance. (as will be attested by friends, family and co-workers)
blazing intellect - crippled by an aloof, detached - unaware, unconnected (and sometimes uncaring) personality. you wouldn't have wanted to live with the man.
lame54
(35,326 posts)Eyeball_Kid
(7,434 posts)Zappa wrote much worse. Zappa mocked the sexually repressive mores of the time. His satire pointed at power hungry sexualized males. He made it all ridiculously crazy as social commentary. Ive been a Zappa listener for decades and dont believe that Zappas lyrics were ever a big part of his legacy. It was his musical genius that made its mark with decades of rock, avant-garde, and jazz.