The East is Red

Thomas Seay entheogens at yahoo.com
Fri Mar 1 21:24:14 PST 2002


--- Dennis <dperrin13 at mediaone.net> wrote:


> Wasn't it Stendahl who said that politics in art is
> like a pistol shot at a
> concert? Depends on the concert and who's doing the
> shooting,

I like the one where a reporter asked Picasso about his aesthetic theory and he took out a revolver and fired it in the air.

I suppose. For
> my money nothing beats the films and music released
> during the Cultural
> Revolution --

I hope that you are kidding...You are kidding, right?

If
> anyone knows how to get ahold of "The East is Red,"
> a Maoist musical, sort
> of a Red Guards version of "Oklahoma," let me know.

I have a rendition of it on DVD. You can come to my house and watch it if you like...but leave your little red book at home tongzhi.

Thomas

===== "The tradition of all the dead generations

weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living"

-Karl Marx

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