Broadside's home is a small little room that's got chairs and a sofa with a tape recorder finishing off the bottom wall space. First people Sis Cunningham welcomed in after me was two-thirds of the New World Singers. Gil Turner took out his 12-stringer, borrowed a flat pick, Sis took out the mike for the tape recorder, and out came a talking blues Gil just wrote about the newspaper strike that had us all quietly laughing. We didn’t want to laugh louder than quietly because that might get on the tape.
Before the song’s over, in walks Bob Dylan and Suzy [Suze Rotolo], who sometimes illustrate's Bob's songs. The last verse that Gil was singing had how he was going to see his friend, Bob Dylan, who is a walking newspaper and will give him the lowdown on what's happening in the world. Bob thought it was a great song just from hearing the last verse.
Then, Gil took out his 6-string Gibson, handed it over to Bob Dylan saying how Bob’s new song “Masters Of War” was a powerful and a great one, one of the best Bob had ever written. I kept on thinking he had written a lot of good ones, some that had real lyric poetry like “Blowin’ In The Wind” and “Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall” (which makes you think right away of Lorca), and I waited for the images of rain, and thunder, and lightning to come out in great spectacles.
But no, this time there was a different kind of poetry, one of great anger, accusation, just saying what the masters of war are, straight forward and without compromising one inch in its short sharp direct intensity. I got a hunch this is the most difficult Dylan song for others to sing right, 'cause it can so easily be over sung, made a melodrama. But when Bob sings it, it rings honest and true. I hope a record is made of Bob singing this song and that a lot of people will listen to the quiet voice that Bob sings this song in because there is a dignity in the words that comes from when they have been thought about for a long, long time.
And right after that, not waiting for a chance to get two breaths, Bob came along with “Playboys & Playgirls Ain't Gonna Run My World," a group song that like Pete Seeger said later in the evening "is going to be sung by a million people in the next year.” Its tune catches whole crowds easy, and the words come right along from the feeling, Hell man, I was born here and I live here, but I’m not goin’ to let rats knock things down where I was born, where I live.
In the meantime, Phil Ochs, his sidekick, and the third third of the New World Singers, Happy Traum, came in. Boy, this room was so jammed packed with people that there was real foot and banjo and guitar shifting necessary to get Phil Ochs close enough to the mike to record his three new songs. Phil Ochs. What a guy! Quiet, soft spoken, but there with his guitar he spun some of the most real verses that's goin' to be written about the death of N.Y. Youth Board worker Louis C. Marsh and the miners striking in Hazard, Kentucky. There was an immediateness about those two songs Phil did. I got a strong feeling that his song on Hazard is going to be remembered past this strike, and be resung in many strikes to come.
Phil’s last song, a fine one of hope with a great group chorus had the last half of it heard by Pete Seeger who later that night was going to sing at the Hazard strikers rally at Community Church. After hearing the tape of the songs, smiling all the way through, Pete sang a number of new songs sent him recently.
We were all out of breath without breathing hard, that feeling you get when a lot of good things happen all at once. Pete expressed it, leaning back in his chair, saying slowly in dreamy tones: “You know, in the past five months I haven't heard as many good songs and as much good music as I heard here tonight.”
That’s what makes Broadside, all that good singing and all that good writing, plus a lot of hard work, labor pains. In the sheets of paper there are many smiles and many glances of anger, and even more the strong hope that these songs just won’t stay on the mimeograph pages, but will live and be sung.
much needed reupload of one of my favorite instances of musical timing in ANY CARTOON. this is one of those scenes where i've been mulling over how to properly express the sheer catharsis and wonderment this clip gives me, pontificate and try to sound smart by gushing about the animation technique or the behavioral implications within the scene but i truly think it's an instance where brevity works best: I LOVE IT
Odd film in the sense it was too scary and morbid for kids but not clever enough for adults. It pulls at your heart a little. I actually thought I'd like it. It's forgettable.
What is the song that gives you the most GSR feels? I’ve finished my dissertation and had a much needed break from writing, but now I’m back in the mood and need some inspiration!
I’ll also take some ACOTOR, TOG, Turnadette, Jisbon or Remadora ideas.
Hoping that Lydia's last name is not related to anyone, it just doesn't feel right to tie her to an original character (and I'm rocking with the last name Turner because it sounds nice)
Honestly, same. I feel like if there are too many tie-ins, it would just make me question the validity of the original canon.
It’s been a while since I’ve seen the movie so correct me if I’m wrong, but I wanna say there was an offhand comment made by Frenchy about her room in the film having once belong to a sister that was at college (and Jane’s room looks a LOT like what I remember of Movie!Frenchy’s room), so Jane being Frenchy’s sister makes sense to me.
The Gil tie-in was cool and it works in the realm of ROTPL canon, but it did feel a little out of nowhere if that makes sense??? Like Movie!Rizzo never talked about relatives so like them being siblings is not inconceivable but Rizzo was also a more private person so like????
Anyway, I also like Turner, that fits very well with her given name
WE POUR LIBATION for our parents (if they have made their transition) and grandparents, who walked this Earth with pride and dignity. It is they who made a way when there seemed to be no way.
WE POUR LIBATION for the Twa, Ethiopians, Egyptians/Kemetians, Ashanti, Dagon, Ibo, Yoruba, Swazi, and, the Zulu, to name a few. We pour libation for those Ancestors who were lost and killed during the voyage of the Middle Passage. We pour libation for those who suffered the cruelty of the horrible institution of slavery, racism, segregation, and oppression in North America, South America, The Caribbean Island, the Middle East, and throughout the World.
WE POUR LIBATION for our great African Revolutionary Leaders like Patrice Lumumba, Amilcar Cabral, and Kwame Nkrumah. We pour libation for our giant visionaries like Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Nat Turner, W.E.B. DuBois, and Sojourner Truth. We pour libation for our leader Marcus Garvey, who worked for African Liberation.
WE POUR. LIBATION for our strong Sisters like Ella Baker and Fannie Lou Hamer, who taught us that we who believe in FREEDOM cannot REST.
WE POUR LIBATION for our intellectual giants like Drs. Cheikh Anta Diop, Frances Cress Welsing, Ben Jochannan, John Henrik Clarke, Asa G. Hilliard III, Ivan Van Sertima, Jacob H. Carruthers, Amos Wilson, others.
WE POUR LIBATION for our warrior, and brilliant intellect of brother, Malcolm X, who told us never to place any restrictions on what we will do to achieve full LIBERATION. We pour libation for our courageous brother Martin Luther King Jr., who taught us his noble values of selflessness and love.
WE POUR LIBATION to those Sentient Beings who touched the soul of our people through the vibration of their sounds/music. Just to name a few, Illuminating giants like John Coltrane, Bob Marley, Fela Kuti, Gil Scott Heron, Tupac Shakur, and others.
Ancestors, we praise and honor you, and may your spirits be filled with LIGHT and PROGRESS; and may that LIGHT eternally guide us through the FEAR and IGNORANCE of our time, for it is you who we pour LIBATION.
So many brilliant artists have worked on the X-Men over the years, with some even delivering their career's best work through it. This is my attempt to show what they have contributed.
SOMEHOW I never uploaded this piece I did back in February 2022. Drew it when I was reviewing Porky the Gob because I was so flabbergasted at how ugly he looked in some scenes... always getting the short end of the stick!!