Current mood:
awake Category: News and Politics
It stuck with me. We lost Hunter too soon... not perhaps surprisingly considering how he lived, and he wasn't all that young... but we NEEDED him now. We needed his view of this world today as America comes closer and closer to the edge... and now he's gone...
and now... so is Carlin... another person who wielded a scalpel and cut chunks out of the collective stupidity of our nation... and humanity in general... He did it just smart enough to make some of it stick... every few bits would click with somebody and change the landscape...
and now he's dead...
Watch his routines on religion and government and disease phobia and false security and maybe you will feel what I feel... a real FEAR that nobody will say stuff like that again!
Who is going to follow him up? DANE COOK! That trumped up freak is not going to make this world smarter he's already sent up reeling in the wrong direction... Fuck him... and most of the main stream comics who never got the point that comedy is about change, finding the bullshit that needs changing and pointing fun at it...
Our last hope comes from queer comics who have learned to attack the system and point at the flaws and cracks... but they are caught up defending themselves from anti-queer rhetoric and people using GAY as a derogatory synonym for stupid. At the end of the day acts like Ian Harvie will maybe be our last hope, when they have paved the gender wars over and move onto our government...
but until then...
Who do we have left?
All I can think of is Mel Brooks... and he hasn't made a movie in years. And no offense to Mel, who is pretty amazing at the social commentary, but I hope thats not it...
Because comics and movie makers are our only chance we have left... politicians are NOT going to help us... they are part of the machine that is making it WORSE....
Sorry I love Barak... and I plan to vote for him... but FUCK HIM! He isn't going to change anything... thats like saying a new driver can make your car into a plane... its a DRIVER it can't change the system...
So the passing of George Carlin leaves us with a huge void in the landscape in terms of pulling ourselves back from the brink... with very very few heros left.
So this is what I ask of you dear reader. Say your goodbyes to Carlin... and have a shot in his name... and they write a letter... yes WRITE A LETTER to Mel Brooks, begging him to make at least one more movie before he are mourning his loss too...
Write him @:
President
Brooksfilms Limited
c/o Culver Studios
9336 W Washington Blvd
Culver City, CA 90232
USA
Lets get this made...
PS: thanks for listening...
PPS: goodbye George... you were the best of us!
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