Dylan sums up my feelings about Bush and his thugs

[rumguy]

Two parts of Masters of War:

You fasten the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
As young people's blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud

And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand o'er your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead

[Webster Green]

1. A timeless classic!

I did this for a homework assignment for my Illustrator class last semester.

[rumguy]

2. very nice work!

[Webster Green]

7. Thenk yew!....and, by all means.......

I can configure a version that will print much better though. I saved this as a jpeg to post it on the web, but some of the text and colors are fuzzy as a result. I can save the original illustrator file as a PDF, and e-mail it or post it on my website. That version will print nice and clear as a n 8.5" x 11' page. If you send me a personal message, we can work it out.

[leftchick]

9. thanks wg....

will do! :)

[leftchick]

3. excellent!

May I reprint this? I have a rethug neighbor who is a diehard dylan fan. Who knew one could be both? I would love to put this on my fridge for him to see....

[Webster Green]

8. Oops, leftchick, my post #7 was meant for you!

n/t

[Minstrel Boy]

4. See Dylan's film "Masked & Anonymous"

The only American film I've seen which speaks to the reality of the Bush years. (Review in Counterpunch: http://www.counterpunch.org/vest09202003.html)



"Gentlemen," he said,
"I don't need your organization. I've shined your shoes;
I've moved your mountains and marked your cards.
But Eden is burning. Either brace yourself for elimination
Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards."

...

They said what's up is down, they said what isn't is
They put ideas in his head he thought were his
He was a clean-cut kid
But they made a killer out of him,
That's what they did

...

As he turned away to walk, his Ma was still in shock
At seein' the metal brace that helped him stand.
But as he turned to go, he called his mother close
And he dropped his medals down into her hand.

[rumguy]

5. I've been wanting to see that movie real bad, is it good?

So many of the reviews have been pummelling...

[Minstrel Boy]

6. I loved it. Saw it twice.

Read the Counterpunch review. I think DU Dylan fans will be more receptive to what Dylan's doing than most.

...

In spite of what you may have read, the film is not "set in some imaginary third-world country at some point in the future," anymore than King Lear is about prehistoric England. Failure to recognize the true setting should immediately disqualify any reviewer. "Masked and Anonymous" is a spot-on accurate portrayal of what is going on RIGHT NOW, seen through the eyes of someone with vision and not just eyesight, someone who has looked through the eyes not only of Charley Patton and Elizabeth Cotton but also of Emmett Miller and even Daniel Decatur Emmett.

All America's chicken-hawk foreign wars have come home to roost. The horrors once visited upon El Salvador, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Somalia and Iraq are now rolling through the streets of California. All the electoral disgrace of recent campaigns has been compressed into one presidential speech. As for the major media as portrayed in this film, it is impossible not to think of Christiane Amanpour's recent admission that CNN "was intimidated" by the Bush administration and operated in a "climate of fear and self-censorship" during the invasion of Iraq.

When the new president (Mickey Roarke) concludes his "war-is-peace" oration at the end of the film with the sarcastic words "May God help you all," it is merely what anyone with a perceptive imagination can hear Bush or Cheney saying when they conclude their speeches with the formulaic "God Bless America." Certainly the administration portrayed in "Masked and Anonymous" is no more thuggish than the one currently rooting at the trough in Washington.
http://www.counterpunch.org/vest09202003.html

[randr]

10. A funny thing happened on my way to my life

The year may have been 1964 and I was so much younger then. Dylan had a local hit with "Subterranean Homesick Blues". The local AM radio station had a contest to write all the words down and get them in first for some sort of prize. Well----this was in Wilmington, Delaware and I don't know if it occurred elsewhere--- I can attest that to this day that many of us that took the time to really listen to what Mr.Dylan had to say are still listening.
"Johnny is in the basement mixing up the medicine, I'm on the pavement thinking about the government------

[Jacobin]

11. ..........ya don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows...

[onecitizen]

12. You guys are killing me.........

I wish I were around all of you all, all the time. I have no one around me that appreciates Dylan or anything else from those days. :cry: