now in paris.
riga last night.
amsterdam this afternoon.
we sure do travel a lot…
tomorrow we’re scheduled to play a big outdoor concert in paris, and then sunday is a concert with r.e.m in ireland, then tuesday we’re playing at versailles, i believe, then on to the uk to do the jonathan ross show and then hyde park with new order and then finishing up the tour in athens a week from sunday.
then home.
in theory.
i’m looking at the films that are available in my hotel room, and one of them is ‘debbie goes to war’.
isn’t that a sign of the times?
militaristic hotel porn?
in the 70’s it was all happy and friendly ‘debbie does dallas’, etc.
i’m surprised it isn’t ‘debbie says “bring em on”‘.
i wish that there was a computer program that could look at our culture objectively and tell us about ourselves.
we deal with so much nonsense that we become inured to the actual state of our culture.
no one in the 70’s seemed to think that giant side-burns and bell-bottoms were absurd.
no one in the 80’s seemed to think that mc hammer and parachute pants were absurd.
so what in our culture will seem absurd(and/or offensive)to future generations?
an unjustified war that saw the united states torture enemy combatants?
affluent suburban white guys pretending to be tough gangster-rappers and wearing clothes that are 20 sizes too big for them?
cars that get 8 miles to the gallon?
plastic shrink wrap for plastic products?
a degree of objectivity as regards our culture would be a nice thing to have, and it could even be entertaining.
one of the problems with so many journalists and pundits is that they’re all a bit too caught up in our cultural miasma and they, thus, compromise their objectivity.
it’d be nice to have a zarathustra or a rip van winkle to come and present us to ourselves.
moby
