For the Filibuster, they should read "It Can't Happen Here"

[EC]

by Sinclair Lewis out loud...maybe a fiction will hit home - instead of repeating all of this administrations crimes...or maybe both, read and point out what is happening here at the end of each chapter...

[villager]

1. yes! The time for that book is *now*

I proposed to a theater listserv I was on that someone needed to do a stage version of the book -- this was back in early 2001...

[EC]

2. I was thinking the same

didn't the Pet Shop Boys do something with this?

[villager]

4. did they? It needs to be a TV movie, or miniseries. *Now*

n/t

[Canuckistanian]

3. It Can't Happen Here (Zappa Version) (abridged)

It can't happen here
It can't happen here
I'm telling you, my dear
That it can't happen here
Because I been checkin' it out, baby
I checked it out a couple a times, hmmmmmmmm

(snip)

Who could imagine that they would freak out somewhere in kansas...
Kansas kansas tototototodo
Kansas kansas tototototodo
Kansas kansas
Who could imagine that they would freak out in minnesota...
Mimimimimimimi minnesota, minnesota, minnesota
Who could imagine...

Who could imagine
That they would freak out in washington, d.c.
D.c. d.c. d.c. d.c. d.c.
It can't happen here
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
It can't happen here
It can't happen here
Everybody's safe and it can't happen here
No freaks for us
It can't happen here
Everybody's clean and it can't happen here
No, no, it won't happen here
I'm telling you it can't
It won't happen here
(bop bop didi bop didi bop bop bop)
Plastic folks, you know
It won't happen here
You're safe, mama
You're safe, baby
You just cook a tv dinner
And you make it
(bop bop bop)
No no no no
Oh, we're gonna get a tv dinner and cook it up
Go get a tv dinner and cook it up
Cook it up
Oh, and it won't happen here
(no no no no no no no no no no no
Man you guys are really safe
Everything's cool).
Who could imagine
Who could imagine
That they would freak out in the suburbs
I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
They had a swimming pool
I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
They had a swimming pool
I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
They had a swimming pool.

(snip)

Suzie...
Yes yes yes--I've always felt that
Yes I agree man, it really makes it...yeah...
It's a real thing, man
And it really makes it
(makes it)

Suzie, you just got to town,
And we've been, we've been very interested
In your development,
Since you first took the shots.
Forget it!
Hmmmmmmmmm
(it can't happen here)
(can't happen here)
(can't happen here)

[Dogmudgeon]

5. Not exactly the same thing

The original book by Sinclair Lewis was about a fascist named Berzelius Windrip who became the fascist dictator of the USA after the 1936 election.

The closest equivalent from Zappa is probably "Concentration Moon". The liner notes on it are eerily prescient, discussing the evil reign of a future President Reagan -- in 1968!

--p!

[Canuckistanian]

6. I know

I'm just funning around, that's all.

And thanks for the 'Concentration Moon' cite.

I tried to read Lewis once. I think it was "That Hideous Strength" or something like that.

I remember being repulsed by the book and never finished it.

[Nutmegger]

7. Isn't that CS Lewis you're talking about? n-t