Hmmmmm

Από cosmo.gr:
"Εντυπωσίασε η Madonna στην πρεμιέρα της περιοδείας της [...] Καθισμένη σε ένα διαμαντένιο θρόνο που είχε έμβλημα το «M» [...] έκανε την εμφάνισή της η Madonna στη σκηνή του Millenium Stadium του Κάρντιφ

[...]

Για μια ακόμα φορά, χρησιμοποιεί τη σκηνή για να περάσει πολιτικά μηνύματα, καθώς προβάλλονταν βίντεο με τις μορφές ανθρώπων που εργάζονται για παγκόσμιους σκοπούς όπως ο Bono και ο Al Gore να εναλλάσσονται με εικόνες από χώρες που σπαράσσονται από πόλεμο και πείνα."

Hm.

Ιστορία ενός αρχιεπισκόπου διηγημένη απο αυτόν τον ίδιον εις τη κόλαση (Ανδρέας Λασκαράτος)

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νυχτοπάππαρος, e-nictopaparus (ego)

"Στην Κύπρο απαντώνται 16 είδη νυχτερίδων από τα οποία τα 15 ανήκουν στα μικροχειρόπτερα και είναι εντομοφάγα. Μόνο ο νυχτοπάππαρος ή νυκτοκόρακος (Rousettus aegyptiacus) ανήκει στα μεγαχειρόπτερα και είναι φρουτοφάγο"

κι αυτόν τον καραγκιόζη τον Αλ Γκορ

"Αυτό που με κάνει σκανταλιάρη, πάντως, είναι το politically correct. Τη σάχλα αυτή τη σιχαίνομαι - τη μοντέρνα οικολογία, τους οικολόγερους και τις οικολόγριες κι αυτόν τον καραγκιόζη τον Αλ Γκορ. Παίζει και στην παράσταση! Είδα το ντοκιμαντέρ «Μια ενοχλητική αλήθεια». Αυτός υπέγραψε για βομβαρδισμούς στο Ιράκ και τη Γιουγκοσλαβία και σου λέει μετά ότι δεν φταίνε τα πλουτώνια, πρέπει ν' αλλάξεις τη λάμπα και να κλείσεις την τοστιέρα..."

Τζίμης Πανούσης ( απο συνέντευξη εδώ )

Makes you wonder

1a
1b
2
3a
3b
4

Mr. 1 thought that "Gandhi-ism and all it stands for will, sooner or later, have to be grappled with and finally crushed". Also, that "It is alarming and also nauseating to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle-Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal palace...to parley on equal terms with the representative of the King-Emperor". And: the apartheid state.

No need to talk about Mr. 2, I think. Quoting his democratical and peace-loving words "I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves", "Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac" etc.

Mr. 3 let us all know about the threat of the ManBearPig . Also he wants us to know that we will save the world if we unplug the TV while we sleep [but travelling with his private jet(s) is ok].

To Mr. 4 we should bow.

Mr. 1 was voted greatest Briton. Mr 2 and 3 got a nobel peace price. Mr 4 didn`t.

Problems, problems, problems

The importance of our every-day 'problems'.
(Picture: A high-school in iraq, got it from here)

Day after tomorrow

[...]
They fill us full of lies, everyone buys
'bout what it means to be a soldier
I still do`nt know how I`m supposed to feel
'bout all the blood that`s been spilled
Will God on this throne
get me back home
on the day after tomorrow

You can`t deny, the other side
don`t wanna die anymore than we do
what i `m trying to say is don`t they pray
to the same God that we do?

and tell me how does god choose
whose prayers does he refuse?
who turns the wheel
who throws the dice
on the day after tomorrow

I`m not fighting for justice
I`m not fighting for freedom
I`m fighting, for my life
and another day in the world here

I just do what I`ve been told
We` re just the gravel on the road
and only the lucky ones come home
on the day after tomorrow

and the summer, it too will fade
and with it brings the winter`s frost dear
and i know we too are made
of all the things that we have lost here

I`ll be 21 today
I been saving all my pay
and my plane will touch down
on the day after tomorrow

Day After Tomorrow:
- TW (2004): "The government looks at these 18-year-old kids as shell casings, you know, like we're getting low on ammo, send in some more. We're neck deep in the big muddy and the big chief is telling us to push on and offer up our children. I sure wouldn't want to let my boys go." (Source: "Bard Of The Bizarre". Telegraph Magazine (UK). By Richard Grant)

- TW (2004): "If you write tunes or whatever. I guess that's all you really can do is put a human face on the war. These are MY feelings. You know I just tried to imagine a soldier writing home from ANYWHERE. This is your war you have lost, both sides have lost." (Source: "BBC Interview With Tom Waits." BBC Radio 4 (UK). October 4, 2004. By Mark Coles)

- TW (2004): Tom Waits pauses briefly to consider whether "Day After Tomorrow," which takes the form of a letter home from a soldier at the front, should be interpreted as anti-war in general, or anti-Bush in particular. In the end, he decides, it all comes to the same thing. "Bush calls himself a wartime president, so if you're anti-war you're anti-Bush and if you're anti-Bush you're anti-war," reasons Waits, during a recent phone interview. "I don't know whether he came in knowing he was a wartime president and said, `Well you know what, the only thing missing here is a war.' He's like a doctor who breaks your leg. And then comes in and fixes it for you." (Source: "Songs Of Decay From Waits." Toronto Star (Canada). October 5, 2004. By Vit Wagner)

- TW (2005): "Yeah just a soldier writing home to his family. Tried to make it so it's not really about necessarily this war that we're in now, the Iraq war, but in fact about any war really. Because I guess the letters home are probably the same. I think most of the soldiers are really like the gravel on the road. NS: What do you mean by that? TW: Well the gravel on the road that the others are driving on, you know? Spent shell casings." (Source: "Cool Ivories", American Routes radio show, by Nick Spitzer. February 16-22, 2002)

Day after tomorrow - Tom Waits
Comments taken from: www.tomwaitssupplement.com

September 1st

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Photo by Koichi Kamoshida/Getty Images
Edited by Mparmpedas

Ipokrisia

"Sir Bob Geldof, in contrast, praised the work of the Gates foundation and hailed Gates as the world's most important philanthropist. " - source

"Rolling stones play for Bill Clinton" - source

"U2 party with Clinton" - source

So much hypocrisy you can`t even be ironic. The "greatest" philanthropist one that has so much money that his grand-grand-grand children won`t be able to spend. Greatest than the one who can afford two meals and shares one, even though the last is a case of self-sacrificing. On the rest, no comment is necessary.

Και πόσο αρμόζουν οι στίχοι του Τζιμάκου:

Με ένα ρεφραίν
κάνω το χρέος του κι εγώ
τραγουδώ
για αυτούς που πεινάνε

Υπάρχουνε παιδάκια
που δεν έχουνε φαί
ούτε πικάπ
ν' ακούνε μουσική

Δεν θέλω λεφτά
never
τραγουδάω δωρεάν
για μισό κιλό κοκαΐνη

Στείλτε αποφάγια,
ξεροκόμματα μπιζού
είναι το AIDS της Αφρικής
οργή Θεού

Όλοι μαζί με μια κιθάρα
Πλούσιοι φτωχοί, κουτσοί στραβοί σε μια παπάρα
Αμερικανάκια, προβατάκια COMSOMOL
φιλανθρωπία με ναρκωτικά και ροκ εντ ρολ

Να γίνει το ροκ
immediately
σαν τον Ερυθρό Σταυρό
τα φρικιά, αδελφές νοσοκόμες

Απ' την Αγιά Βαρβάρα
here
μέχρι το Κονέκτικατ
Ο Μάικλ Τζάκσον, ο Χατζής, ο Αραφάτ

Κι αν είμαι ροκ μη με φοβάσαι
προσαρμόζομαι να με λυπάσαι
νηστικό αρκούδι δεν χορεύει, δεν μπορεί
πρέπει να φάει για ν' αγοράσει μουσική

Τζίμης Πανούσης, USA for marketing

Response

To set things straight...

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