You will not be able to stay home, brother
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag
And skip out for beer during commercials, because
The revolution will not be televised
The revolution will not be televised
The revolution will not be brought to you
By Xerox in four parts without commercial interruptions
The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon blowing a bugle
And leading a charge by John Mitchell, General Abrams, and Spiro Agnew
To eat hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary
The revolution will not be televised
The revolution will not be brought to you by the Schaefer Award Theatre
And will not star Natalie Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia
The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal
The revolution will not get rid of the nubs
The revolution will not make you look five pounds thinner, because
The revolution will not be televised, brother
There will be no pictures of you and Willie Mae
Pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run
Or trying to slide that color TV into a stolen ambulance
NBC will not be able predict the winner
At 8:32 on report from twenty-nine districts
The revolution will not be televised
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down brothers on the instant replay
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down brothers on the instant replay
There will be no pictures of Whitney Young
Being run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process
There will be no slow motion or still lifes of Roy Wilkins
Strolling through Watts in a red, black, and green liberation jumpsuit
That he has been saving for just the proper occasion
Green Acres, Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville Junction
Will no longer be so damn relevant
And women will not care if Dick finally got down with Jane
On Search for Tomorrow
Because black people will be in the street looking for a brighter day
The revolution will not be televised
There will be no highlights on the eleven o’clock news
And no pictures of hairy armed women liberationists
And Jackie Onassis blowing her nose
The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb or Francis Scott Keys
Nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom Jones, Johnny Cash
Engelbert Humperdinck, or The Rare Earth
The revolution will not be televised
The revolution will not be right back
After a message about a white tornado
White lightning, or white people
You will not have to worry about a dove in your bedroom
The tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl
The revolution will not go better with Coke
The revolution will not fight germs that may cause bad breath
The revolution will put you in the driver’s seat
The revolution will not be televised
Will not be televised
Will not be televised
Will not be televised
The revolution will be no re-run, brothers
The revolution will be live
הייתי בחופשה במדינת היערות והאגמים המופלאה, חופשיה מהעולם הויראטואלי בתוך השפע והיופי האינסופי של הטבע.
קראתי הרבה בחופשה הזו, בקלות ובעונג שקשה לי למצוא בחיי היום יום. אחרי שלושים שנה קראתי שוב את “בית מטבחיים חמש” של קורט וונגוט, וכל מה שרציתי זה שכל העולם יקרא את הספר הזה, הטוב, המצמרר והחשוב כל כך. בלילה האחרון מצאנו עצמנו בבית הארחה עם טלויזיה גדולה, וכשהדלקנו אותו התחילה מנגינת הפתיחה של סדרת הטלויזה מ*א*ש, שליוותה את נעורי (כי ההורים צפו בה באדיקות) ושאני בעצמי צפיתי בה שנים אחרי, כשבגרתי מעט. את שיר הנושא שלה אהבתי תמיד במיוחד, ולכן הוא גם בתוכנית היום.
די, די למלחמות. אנחנו צריכים פשוט להפסיק להסכים להלחם אותן עבור האלו שם למעלה, ואז לא יהיו יותר מלחמות.
The Playlist:
Yosef Gutman – Time with Abba (3:17) (Upside Down Mountain, 30/9/2022)
Johnny Mandel – Suicide Is Painless (2:52) (1970)
Mistura pura – Vamo vive B (4:34) (2022) rds
Talvin Singh – Butterfly (4:26) (OK, 1998)
Koma Saxo with Sofia Jernberg – Koma Kaprifol (3:30) (Koma West, 2022)
Jimetta Rose & The Voices of Creation – Spirits Up Above (5:55) (How Good it is, 2022)
Daniel Villarreal – Parque En Seis (4:46) (Panamá 77, 2022)
Elvis Costello and The Roots – Wake Me Up (5:53) (Wise Up Ghost And Other Songs, 2013)
Under The Reefs Orchestra – Heliodrome (5:25) (Sakurajima, 23/9/2022)
Kutiman Feat. Dekel – Believe In You (3:17) (Open, 14/10/2022)
Surprise Chef – Money Music (2:49) (Education & Recreation, 14/10/2022)
Freak Power – Moonbeam women (4:48) (Drive-thru-booty, 1994)
Primal Scream – Movin’ On Up (3:25) (Screamadelica, 1992)
Gil Scott-Heron And Brian Jackson – Third World Revolution (4:25) (Secrets, 1978)
Nomade Orquestra – a roda (5:14) (Vox Populi, 2019)