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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:55:27 -0500
- From: as010b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (andrew david simchik)
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- Subject: Re: kate and sick ideas
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- In <1992Nov17.184138.2543@midway.uchicago.edu> hcresnic@midway.uchicago.edu (hugh carney resnick) writes:
-
- >In article <9211171220.AA03121@syrinx.umd.edu> jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu (Jeffrey C. Burka) writes:
- >>Someone who didn't bother putting their name at the bottom of their
- >>message wrote:
- >>
- >>> There are many cases of musicians playing certain "characters" in
- >>> their songs that have little or no relation to their personalities
- >>> in real life. For example, Peter Gabriel has a disturbing, haunting
- >>> song called "Family Snapshot," which tells a story in the first-person
- >>> tense of a political assassin, who waits with his gun for a famous
- >>> person to appear so that he can kill him. He does this, he says, to
- >>> get some attention and to "be somebody."
- >>
- >>Well, sort of.
- >>
- >>The song is about a lonely little boy whose parents are approaching divorce.
- >>The 'assasination' takes place in his mind, a game he plays, like "Cops 'n
- >>Robbers" with his toy gun. It's symbolic because Gabriel sees political
- >>assasins as desperate for attention, which is precisely what the boy wants--
- >>he wants his parents to pay attention to him instead of being so wrapped up
- >>in their own problems.
- >>
- >>Jeff
- >____
- > IMHO, it not just any assassin, it's none other than Lee Harvey
- >Oswald. "The Governor's car is not far behind, he's not the one I've got
- >in mind." Wait, maybe I'm wrong.... Any thoughts can be mailed to me, 'cause
- >this isn't really a Katetopic.
-
- >hugh
-
- >P.S. Yes, this is my first post, thanks to all you Katefans out there for
- >--
- >___________________________________________________________________
- > Hugh C. Resnick (hcresnic@midway.uchicago.edu)
- >"Is it my 500th birthday? Well, that's none of your Busnois."
- >___________________________________________________________________
-
- Actually, I think Gabriel wrote the song so that it could be interpreted in
- a number of ways (kinda like Kate Herself!). The above all sound reasonable
- to me. He probably had Oswald in mind when writing the images, but whether
- he intended it to specifically portray Oswald is another matter.
- --
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- * Andrew David Simchik * DISCLAIMER: I said it... *
- * a.k.a. Drewcifer * No one else would! * *
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