So. Live8.

[framlingem]

*uses Pink Floyd/Bob Geldof icon because it is SO APPROPRIATE!*

I enjoyed it. I'm not going to go on about the politics and everything, because you've probably all got opinions on that already because you're all intelligent people who are interested in the world, except for this; I think poverty and hunger is a bad thing. I also think throwing money at it is a bandaid solution - good in theory, but there are many underlying causes which can only be addressed if people speak up. Which, of course, isn't to say that money wouldn't have been useful as well, because sometimes you do need bandaids, provided that the root causes are also addressed.

Music-wise, I was a bit disappointed with the sound problems CTV seemed to be having; the Hip sounded _terrible_, and I could barely hear Jann Arden. I hope it was better live. Deep Purple were cool, as were Annie Lennox, the Who, Madonna (I was surprised at how much I enjoyed Madonna), Jet, Blue Rodeo, and Gordon Lightfoot.

And, well, Pink Floyd. No. Words. Pigs have flown, as the sign at Hyde Park said. *hopes this catalyses something and there is maybe a new album out sometime in the next five years* I would have liked different songs, (I think "Watching TV" would have been appropriate, sort of, or "Hey You" if they wanted to do something which actually gets played on the radio every so often) but I will take anything Pink Floyd chooses to give me.

Tomorrow, my Mum and I are going to see Corteo, the new Cirque du Soleil show, in Quebec. Should be awesome, because hey, Cirque.

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[anneheart.livejournal.com]

You got Gordon Lightfoot? I am so jealous!

[framlingem.livejournal.com]

We are SO lucky :)

[darcedor.livejournal.com]

at the risk of sounding ignorant, I've never been able to understand those pictures in that icon that you're using. Could you explain them? Maybe it's because I'm not a Pink Floyd or Geldoff afficienado *shrugs*

[framlingem.livejournal.com]

Pink Floyd did an album (arguably one of the best cohesive pieces of mmusic ever written), a sort of rock opera, titled "The Wall", which is very dark, depressing, unsettling. One of the songs, titled "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 3" (Not to be confused with Part 2, which is the 'We don't need no education' song), goes:

I don't need no arms around me
And I don't need no drugs to calm me;
I have seen the writing on the wall
Don't think I need anything at all.
No, don't think I need anything at all.

The words are from that; the images are from the film made out of the rock opera (which I highly recommend, it's very well-done. Very disturbing, though, you may not want to watch it alone. As an English lit aficionado, you may find the way it deals with various themes interesting, and the words to the songs are extremely poetic), starring Bob Geldof as Pink. The screaming face is from the cover art of the video, while the swimming pool is from a sequence in which Pink floats in a pool, hallucinating that it is filling with his blood. The other picture is him trying to hide in a corner from things only he can see.

Cheerful, eh?

[cathi-eirye.livejournal.com]

Which reminds me - we watched the "best of" the Live 8 on CTV since we were everywhere that day, but the most of what we saw was London. When they had Pink Floyd the announcer said, "and here's Pink Floyd, together for the first time since 1981!".... Um, no. I remember very very fondly that absolutely fantastic concert broadcast live in 1991 - from THE WALL at the tearing down of the wall in Berlin, they played, of course, The Wall. One of my favorite all time albums, and in one of the most amazing events of my life (the wall coming down, not Pink Floyd playing at it though that was definitely fitting and wonderful).

Cathi