Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh! Look at this!
Please, if you don't know about Woody Guthrie, do begin. He was an amazing champion of the working class, a massive, majorly influencial pioneer in music, an incredibly important American, and someone on this website has made some little school-lesson plans based on Woody's songs and life. I think it is fabulous and am going to check it out ASAP.
Really, really cool.
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I'd love to be able to make a great comment here, but I'm so tired I can barely see straight. Methinks it is time for a nap. Too bad all my kids just woke up. Oh well.
I love Woody, but you know that. I do hope that Todd Haynes works a Woody Guthrie character into his new Dylan biopic. Although I saw a clip from it on YouTube and it looks like he's fallen for the trap of having all the characters speak in famous qoutes. I hate that about biodramas. I'm sure Allen Ginsberg said more to Bob Dylan than, "you tried to put art in the jukebox". Anyway I'm rambling, I love Woody he's a true American icon. I do think that his music has long been hijacked by revisionists. They would like to make us forget that Woody was a supporter of Communist orginazations, that he was a socialist, and hated the song God Bless America. It's a good tool to take an icon that the masses look up to who represents resistance and make it look as though the ruling class supports them. You can then usurpe the resistance movement by making it appear to be patriotism. It costs less, and you don't have to kill as many people that way.
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