Barrytowners in Mao III or what was on the tube or in the morning papers (315)
Michael Bailey
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Mon Dec 14 01:29:55 CST 2009
didn't know that - thanks!
- Mike, from Michigan, Florida, Kansas and Florida, far from hip in any
of its manifestations
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 7:39 PM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> Barrytown "I can see by what you carry / That you come from Barrytown"
> Song: Barrytown Album: Pretzel Logic
>
> A town in upstate New York, close to Annandale-on-Hudson and Bard
> College (Becker & Fagen's alma mater). Its biggest claim to fame would
> be as the headquarters of The Unification Church, a.k.a. "The
> Moonies", a religious cult who gained notoriety in the 70s from
> reports of its mass weddings & alleged brainwashing of members. As a
> fundraising measure, followers would often stand at street corners,
> carrying small bouquets of flowers for sale (hence the lyric).
>
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- "Souvenirs out of a childhood Doc had never felt he wanted much to
escape from"- IV, p 125
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