Saturday 16 August 2008

Happiness is a Well Educated Gun?

Now we all love national stereotypes... the Germans have no sense of humour, the French are arrogant, the Italians disorganised, and the English, the English make stupid jokes about other nationalities (did you see what I did there?) ...but really, Americans, this is stupid:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7564654.stm


Chris Rock on Gun Control (he says it so much better than I could):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdJGcrUk2eE


Don't really like Tori Amos' music, but here she is doing The Beatles track 'Happiness is a Warm Gun':

http://www.deezer.com/track/95501

'Happiness is a Warm Gun' (as with many covers, Tori sings the same lyrics but in her own order)

She's not a girl who misses much.
Do do do do do do, oh yeah
She's well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand
Like a lizard on a window pane.

The man in the crowd with the multicolored mirrors
On his hobnail boots
Lying with his eyes while his hands are busy
Working overtime
A soap impression of his wife which he ate
And donated to the National Trust.

I need a fix 'cause I'm going down.
Down to the bits that I left uptown.
I need a fix 'cause I'm going down.

Mother Superior jump the gun
Mother Superior jump the gun
Mother Superior jump the gun
Mother Superior jump the gun.

Happiness is a warm gun
(bang, bang, shoot shoot)
Happiness is a warm gun
When I hold you in my arms
And I feel my finger on your trigger
I know nobody can do me no harm
Because happiness is a warm gun.
Yes it is.

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