[Cheryl H]

From: Bruce Robertson <the_oil_fish@yahoo.ca>
To: Rusty Shock <rustyshock@alltel.net>
CC: powderworks@cs.colorado.edu, rustyshock@alltel.net
Subject: Re: [Powderworks] Bedlam Bridge Interpretation
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 16:38:02 -0400 (EDT)

'Body never breathless' and 'city on a hill' surface images of the church


I just listened to the Blue Sky Mining interview disc and I'd like to quote 
Rob and Peter directly -

Rob -
"There's a bridge in New York which looks uncannily like our famous Sydney 
Harbour Bridge...and when we got to New York I took that Circle Line, you 
can go around Manhattan Island, you can see incredible wealth and also 
incredible poverty of New York, all in a little microchasm...During the 
Reagan years...was a great time for winners and America is about winners, 
they don't quite tolerate losers well, but of course not everyone can be a 
winner, all the losers turn up in the streets.  They're the ones lining up 
outside the soup kitchens.  This is not a depression.  Reagan left and he 
said in his final speech, 'How stands the city on this winter's night, the 
city on the hill?,' and what he was saying was 'what a great place I've left 
in my ten years' but talk to those people in New York and they might have a 
different answer for you."

Peter -
"'Bedlam Bridge' is, I think, a really evocatave song that talks about the 
real differences between what comes out of the mouths of our leaders and the 
actual lives that real people are leading and living, and I think that it's 
that sort of atmosphere that's really starting to haunt all the big cities 
of the world...the history of the world will look back and see us as being 
incredibly wealthy and incredibly wasteful.  When you have those sorts of 
crazy contradictions you get madness as a result of it, you get human 
madness and you get structural madness, and I think that's part of what 
'Bedlam Bridge' is about."

Cheryl


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