--- Leigh Meyers <the.buffalo.in.the.midst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I rely on Steve Earle & Rodney Crowell (Johnny Cash's protege' and
Roseanne Cash's husband since 1979) for my country fix. There are
others... but they don't appear on the Country Music Channel Awards
either
Rodney will now say the 'Obscenity Prayer' for the list:
http://leighm.net/sounds/archive/mp3/op.m3u
( with windoze replace .m3u with .mp3, right click/save as, for a copy)
Leigh
"I don't need some stinky pinky to sing to me about the common man
some two bit fake thinks all it takes is a hat on his head and a
grammy in his hand"
--Terry Allen
Response Jim C:
Thanks so much for the musical treat and the Terry Allen quote; priceless.
This "Country Genre" (and various sub-genres within it) is an important
element in the overall SSA of Imperialism and is linked-in/articulated with
other dimensions of the overall SSA of imperialism: 1) NAASCAR (estimated
71 million regular viewers/attendees--a truly fightening thought); 2)
Military/USO tours and pep rallies for the troops, families and general
public; 3) Gladiator "Sports" and Fake "Sports"; 4) Fox and Fox-type media;
5)Soc/Theo/Neo/Paleo-Con "Culture"; etc.
The pure music is often engaging and sophisticated which meakes this genre
more appealing an dangerous. In th eold days, when you played Country music
backwards, instead of Satanic messages you got with playing Rock n Roll
backwards, you got your Job, Wife, Girlfriend, Pick-up Truck, Shotgun and
Hound Dog--BACK. Now when you play it backwards you get the boot OUT of
America's enemy's asses, flag burners BACK from forced deportation or
internment and the Dixie Chicks BACK on ACMA; it is a lot more explicitly
ultra-rightist political, in-bred, racist, sexist, misogynistic and just
plain moronic than before.
Other elements of the "cultural" isde of the shifting SSA of U.S.
Imperialism (increasingly mimicked among "cultures" of U.S. allies):
a) Herbert Spencer meets Walter Mitty: Survivor, Big Brother, Temptation
Island, The Bachelor, the Bachelorette, Fear Factor etc;
b) "We know who you are and we know what you did"--The
Omnisicient/Omnipotent/Omnipresent State and Science in its Service:
Three CSIs, NCIS, Crossing Jordan, Cold Case, Missing etc;
c) The Warriors: We need to do what it takes when needed to keep you safe
and only terrorists and their allies or people with something to hide whine
about civil rights anyway: The Unit; NCIS, 24 Hours; etc
d) Rapture time: Who gives a fuck about global warming, war, pestilence,
famine, floods or whatever; it is all coming down, nothing anyone can do
about it, it has all been prophesized, grab your bible, turn to
Revelations, get ready for a rather dramatic evacuation from earthly
terrors, Jesus is coming and boy is he pissed...Many wil be called, few
chosen.: Jericho, PTL, 700 Club, Falwell, History Channel specials etc;
e) Gladiator Sports: Football, NAASCAR, WWF, Ultimate fighting, etc.
f) Get-rich-quick: Yes, you can have it all and have it now: Lotto, Texas
Hold-em, Real estate Seminars, foreign Exchange speculating, Green/Red
arrows to play the Stock market--so simple even a Country singer can do it,
Gold "investing", pork bellies etc,
Jim C.
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