VLVL Berger: the deal

[Otto]

Concentration Moon

Concentration Moon 
Over the camp in the valley
Concentration Moon 
Wish I was back in the alley 
With all of my friends 
Still running free 
Hair growing out 
Every hole in me 

AMERICAN WAY 
How did it start? 
Thousands of creeps 
Killed in the park 
AMERICAN WAY 
Try and explain 
Scab of a nation 
Driven insane 
Don't cry 
Got to go bye bye 
SUDDENLY: DIE DIE 
COP KILL A CREEP! pow pow pow 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith McMullen" <keithsz at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Pynchon Shitlist" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 12:53 AM
Subject: Re: VLVL Berger: the deal


> >>>In terms of the point Berger is attempting to make, it's another 
> example of
> how the 60s generation sold out on itself.<<<
> 
> Agreed. Berger makes up the "government-funded" reading as if it is 'in 
> fact,' which puts the caricaturization of the 60s on the Right instead 
> of where Pynchon is 'in fact' putting it, on the hippie movement. 
> Little wonder that Pynchon makes reference to Zappa, who used rock and 
> roll in the 60s to make fun of hippies, instead of the likes of 
> Jefferson Airplane:
> 
>   We Can Be Together
> 
>   We can be together
>   Ah you and me
>   We should be together
>   We are all outlaws in the eyes of America
>   In order to survive we steal cheat lie forge fuck hide and deal
>   We are obscene lawless hideous dangerous dirty violent and young
>   But we should be together
>   Come on all you people standing around
>   Our life's too fine to let it die and
>   We should be together
>   All your private property is
>   Target for your enemy
>   And your enemy is
>   We
>   We are forces of chaos and anarchy
>   Everything they say we are we are
>   And we are very
>   Proud of ourselves
>   Up against the wall
>   Up against the wall(motherfucker)
>   Tear down the walls
>   Tear down the walls
>   Come on now together
>   Get it on together
>   Everybody together
>   We should be together
>   We should be together my friends
>   We can be together
>   We will be
>   We must begin here and now
>   A new continent of earth and fire
>   Come on now gettin higher and higher
>   Tear down the walls
>   Tear down the walls
>   Tear down the walls
>   Won't you try