Does SWC need a theme song? Of course! here is my first nomination. Anybody join in with suggestions.
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=...3&FORM=VIVR13#
Does SWC need a theme song? Of course! here is my first nomination. Anybody join in with suggestions.
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=...3&FORM=VIVR13#
Last edited by slapout9; 11-17-2009 at 12:57 AM.
Vanishing Point is a great film! I wrote a bit about Kowalsky and the America he was riding through (away from) here, way back in February. . .
Yep, Kowolsky rules! Saw it about 25 times at the Drive In.
Some of the ole timers will have to turn down their hearing aids, but RATM voice speaks to the greater issues of revolution, grievances, and small wars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ou0wIUUZ_I
Here is something I believe we can all agree on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIz3_3-8cN8
"We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again." Gen. Nathanael Greene
Mix tape time!
(Where's the little pink *heart* Smilie???)
Four year old thread and not a one of you gave a nod to the MOUT origins of this digital rag?
Last edited by AdamG; 12-13-2013 at 03:51 AM.
A scrimmage in a Border Station
A canter down some dark defile
Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail
http://i.imgur.com/IPT1uLH.jpg
Music from the Billy Jack movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qswm7...eature=related
Slap,
No offense to Billy Jack, but I can't abide by "One Tin Soldier" being the them song for the SWJ. Advocates "Peace on Earth". Just like all those Christmas Cards I get. They are all trying to put me out of a job!
"I can change almost anything ... but I can't change human nature."
Jon Osterman/Dr. Manhattan
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I don't either and I debated long and hard about putting it up on this thread but I did it because it was the theme song from the movie which is about how PACIFISM sucks against a corrupt government and the only way that the Freedom School could survive was through the protection and wonderful violent methods of an ex-Green Beret named......BillyJack.
does "grow" on one, as one "digs" in.
Roland has two appealing images; one in black & white:
and another in color:
"He" even has "his own" video clip (besides the many Zevon performances), titled "African Bush Wars".
BTW: the scenes in the video clip have nothing to do with Roland, Biafra, the Congo or Mombasa (as its first 10 seconds graphically tell us).
Of course, Roland is an acoustic warrior deployed under artistic license. As such, the lyrics easily present their own mythology and version of history. I suspect that finding a common SWC mythology and version of history - which must underlay a "theme" song - would be as difficult as in 55 Days At Peking (at 03:30-05:45, battling anthems; and especially the clip of the relief column scene).
The realities of "small wars", to those actually involved in those conflicts, extend the conflict beyond military operations to very different perceptions of what happened and why. As an example, these four short clips present the partial viewpoint of one of the professional military units that fought on one side of one small war.
Youtube1
Youtube2
Youtube3
Youtube4
I suppose if one wants to make a valid historical point about the story told in those four clips, one could fairly say that a butterfly flexed its wings in Lisbon in 1974; and the days of UDI became even more numbered than they had been - thus, end of story, or at least end of chapter, by 1980. But, human nature being involved, the story has more facets than a well-cut diamond, or an ill-cut diamond (and the arguments will continue as to which variant viewpoint should be accepted and which should be rejected).
And, so it has always gone ...
Refs:
For those Warren Zevon fans, go here (100s of clips, e.g., playlists of 9 concerts from 1980-2000, including the 1982 Passaic NJ concert - IMO the best renditions of Roland and Werewolves).
Regards
Mike
Last edited by jmm99; 12-29-2013 at 09:25 AM.
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