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Featured Songs and Rarities : The Big One
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This section of the site is growing to feature a number of Sarah's songs for you to download as well as some of the stories behind the songs for you to share in and perhaps discuss over on the boards.
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I think it was my friend Brian Reed (who recorded and produced this song) who told me about an article he had read where increased shark attacks were connected with an old un-detonated bomb found off the coast of Georgia. Somehow the bomb-juice was making the sharks cuckoo for cocoa-puffs. Not sure how the physics and biology of such news works, but it sent me thinking in the direction of "the world is stranger, and living things more beautiful than I thought before."
Last night (today is October 12, 2005, Dorothy's school picture day-I have to keep up on these things), David and I were watching "Fog of War" a documentary on Robert McNamara, waxing philosophical over his role in world history as perhaps the most influential military strategist of the 20th century. Anyhoo, in an effort to explain the lesson he learned when he and others were trying to talk the Kennedy administration out of blowing up Cuba, he said unless you can empathize with your enemy you're probably not going to make successful military decisions.
Another advisor to the administration (was it Tom Thompson? Somebody look this up for the message boards) was just such man who could imagine what Kruschev (Soviet leader at that time with a finger tickling the other nuclear "button") might be thinking. And it was suggested if his advise to give the former Soviet leader the "salvation of Cuba card" to play had NOT been taken, we would be living in a very different world (if we would have one at all). Come to find out, the fella Thompson lived with Kruschev for a while (which I think is both hilarious and too much—does anyone else think so?).
I digress. Empathy may be the love that makes the world (literally in the case of the missile crisis) go round, or on. Every-thing's waiting. And in the mean time, little "big one"s are throwing all kinds of escalating violences at men (and ladies), and mothers and countries and babies and flags are trying different ways of staying alive. I think I'm trying to describe some of that in "The Big One". It's a weird one for sure. Thought I would throw it out there though.
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