3 days ago
23 October 2009
War Chant
My Bob Marley marathons are never planned. Usually something random happens, and the next thing I know, I can't do anything but listen to RNM for six weeks straight. I think I might be having one of those moments. The other day, N and I were rolling through the city in Octavia (my responsible-looking Honda Civic), and she--in an effort not to use my iPod to salve our musical wounds--put in Babylon by Bus after Van Hunt finished. I swear, every time I hear "War/No More Trouble" I want to stop whatever I'm doing and start my own revolution--or at least begin televising it. I love the medley so much that I forget that for a long time my ear had been trained to hear "Rat Race" after "War." That's called listening to Rastaman Vibration your entire junior year of college.
New dissertation distraction: compile a "This is Revolution" playlist.
The message is in the music.
Oh, and the I Threes are awesome. F'real, who's cooler than they are?
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1 comment:
his music/story/spirit is absolutely integral to my existence. it sickens me that he has been overly commercialized & commodified. i won't even get in to that tangent today.
anyway - do you like asa? marley is living through her some how....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jIhNOrVG58
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