Bill Hicks

[David Morris]

http://www.salon.com/audio/nonfiction/2001/07/10/bhicks/
War on Drugs
By Bill Hicks

William Melvin Hicks was born Dec. 16, 1961, in Valdosta, Ga. His family 
lived in Florida, Alabama and New Jersey before moving to Houston when Bill 
was 7. There, with his friend Dwight Slade, Hicks formed a comedy double act 
at age 12. Bill was bored with the area and mystified by the appeal of 
living the so-called American dream. "One time a friend of mine -- we were 9 
-- runs over and goes, 'Bill, I just saw some hippies down at the store.' I 
go, 'No way,' and he goes, 'I swear,' and my dad goes, 'Get off this 
property! We don't swear on this property!'"

http://www.dailyglobe.com/comicgod.html

I wish you'd known me when I was alive, I was a funny feller. The crowd 
would hoot and holler for more. I wore a drunk's red nose for applause. Oh 
yes, I was a comical priest "with a joke for the flock and a hand up your 
fleece." Down the cardboard front of my dirty dog-collar

Now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead. And 
I'm going on to meet my reward. I was scared, I was scared, I was scared, I 
was scared. He might have never heard God's Comic

So there he was on a waterbed. Drinking a cola of a mystery brand. Reading 
an airport novellete, listening to Andrew Lloyd-Webber's "Requiem." He said, 
before it had really begun, "I prefer the one about my son." "I've been 
wading through all of this unbelieveable junk and wondering if I should have 
given the world to the monkeys."

Now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead, now I'm dead. And 
I'm going on to meet my reward. I was scared, I was scared, I was scared, I 
was scared. He might have never heard God's Comic

-- Elvis Costello


>From: JBFRAME at aol.com
>tiarnan.o'corrain at cmg.nl writes
>
> > As Bill Hicks said, 'Go back to sleep America, your rulers are in
> > charge again.'
> >
>What irony....  I just purchased the CD "Best of Bill Hicks" this morning!
>
>jbf


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