I did a radio show for five years called “The Politics of Dogs”. I talked about dogs & cats, read poems about dogs & cats, and played songs about dogs & cats. I also answered questions from callers about their dogs or cats.
Before that, I did a show on a local college radio station, WRVU 91.1 fm. They saw the future of radio I guess, sold their license and went all streaming. Back in the day though, it was the place to hear all the new music.
I didn’t do a show about music though, I did a show about movies called “The 4th Row ”. I used to go to the movies 4 or 5 times a week and always sat in the 4th row, so if someone was at the movies and was looking for me, they checked the 4th row.
My show was not exactly high brow, my review of “Pretty Woman” was “It sucked!” and I thought “Sleeping with the Enemy” was just part 2 of that movie. I did play music on the show but it was usually whatever I had listened to on the way to the movie.
Once, I did talk about buying the soundtrack to the movie “Dancing with Wolves ” and returning it to Tower Records. When they asked me why, I told them “It sucked”. (It included none of the Native American music if I remember right.) They considered that a valid reason for a return and gave me my money back.
At any rate, I’ve been thinking lately of a movie I reviewed on my show, “1000 Pieces of Gold”. It was a great movie and this trailer doesn’t do it justice.
Yeah, yeah, so it brushed on Chinese poverty, slavery, the gold rush, and did focus on one woman’s story, but it was the treatment of the Chinese in America that was one of the big things that affected me watching the movie.
It was the late 1800’s and the gold was drying up. The whites drove all the Chinese out of town because they accused them of stealing the gold or hiding “strikes”. In reality, the white were half ass workers; working half days, and the Chinese worked 12 hour days so came back to town with gold at the end of the day.
Leaving the theatre I thought what bad times those were to live in and how great we as a society are today. WTF? I know, I can be a bit loopy sometimes. That night, or a few nights later, there was a piece on the news about Japanese cars being vandalized in Detroit.
The same stuff is happening now. Some race is taking the whites jobs in construction, or in the fields, or in tech, or, still, in the auto industry, so TBTB would like folks to think. FFS!
We weren’t really that great of a society in the 1890’s or the 1990’s. I wonder if we will be by 2090? That’s just what I’ve been thinking bout lately, how bout you?