Okay, Mike, I debated whether to pit you for this, but I’m in a mood…
Love what you did with Fahrenheit 9/11, sweetheart. You’ve assembled a well-crafted well-researched cinematic opinion piece, made a convincing case for why Bush/Cheney should be tossed out in November, and reminded a lot of people why “war is hell” is not just a catchy phrase. I know you’re tickled pink that the box office take is breaking records all over the place, pissing off neocon idjits in the process.
Geez louise, guy, I loved that song. Not only was it one of my favorite tunes growing up in the '80s, not only was The Greatest American Hero a show too cool for words, but it’s also just an uplifting piece of music. Pop without being sugary, melancholic without being sad, great vocals by Joey Scarbury.
And you played it during Dubya’s “Mission Accomplished” stunt! :mad:
Sorry, Mike, but that’s pissing me off. It’s been three days since I saw Fahrenheit 9/11, and I can’t even hum “Believe It Or Not” without seeing George W. Bush smirking like a dipstick on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, or whatever the name of the carrier was. Couldn’t you have found some other tune to play instead? A little Jim Morrison, maybe? Heck, “Weird Al” Yankovic’s “Dare to be Stupid” would be appropriate as well.
You owe me a Ralph Hinkley music video on the Fahrenheit 9/11 DVD, bub.
Once again rjung, we’ll have to disagree over the movie. I was a big fan of “Greatest American Hero,” I still have a vinyl 45 of the single (somewhere around here), and I couldn’t imagine a better use for it.
“Look at what’s happened to me,
I can’t believe it myself.
Suddenly I’m up on top of the world,
It should’ve been somebody else.”
I’m kinda pissed at him for airing the footage of Ashcroft singing. Although the nation DOES need to know we have an Attorney General who sings to the press corps, which is deeply weird, I still have his terrible terrible song stuck in my head.