Sunday, February 05, 2006

Heads (and ears) up for Tuesday

Here are some of the materials I'm going to bring in on Tuesday, all of which are referred to by Herr in Dispatches:

"Trouble Every Day," by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, 1966

http://www.zmag.org/songs/Trouble%20Every%20Day.htm

Watts Riots (subject of the song):

see the Wikipedia for facts

Pres. Lyndon Johnson's response:

http://multied.com/documents/LBJwatts.html

California Prop 14 (one of the triggers for the riots):

http://en.wkipedia.org/wiki/Proposition_14

Lyrics for Jimi Hendrix's songs, "Are You Experienced?" and "Foxey Lady" can be found at
http://www.rocklibrary.net

Lyrics for Jimi Hendrix's "Machine Gun":
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/MACHINE-GUN-lyrics

Lyrics for the Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" and the rest of the album:

http://members.tripod.com/~taz4158/magical.html

Some images from Vietnam by Larry Burrows, a journalist who died in Laos:

http://www.life.com/Life/burrows/vietnam.html

Famous photo of the execution of a Vietcong soldier:

http://www.themodelminority.com/misc/images/execution.jpg

Napalm photo of little girl:

http://www.p10k.net/Images/Vietnam_girl_napalm.jpg

Napalm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napalm

Agent Orange:

And can someone please explain to me why when I call up words like "napalm" and "agent orange" I get BANDS???? What kind of sick is that?

aloha, sms

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