about pete selling stuffs

thanks for taking up this issue, aditi,a worthwhile public issue, and one thatlies at the interface of our aesthetic andmoral values and brings to bear on thisissue the serious understanding of mattersof symbolization that you have.no, i don't have ideas about what kindsof protest make sense in a world wherethe public space of dissent has beenhijacked so badly by so many inappropriateforms of discourse that many people nolonger take the appropriate forms seriously.but best of luck.

probably we can start a campaign through Net. We should write in the newspaper. You can post it to your blog.

This just shows how low and petty is the culture of modern technology in relation to the culture of soul and spirit. On the one hand, we can ignore their abuse of culture by saying that since they don't understand, they may as well make clowns of themselves. On the other hand, they cannot so blatantly exploit a revered song for their own little ends and get away with it. I have personally not seen the ad but feel sickened that our modern culture can reveal itself so crudely for the sham and deceit that it really is. If you wish, I can help in writing something to the Chairman or CEO or Head or whatever telling him to his face just what he and his company really are. If he were sitting in his luxury den at the end of a tiring day, would he need a sleek car more than a humanising song? And is such a song meant to minister to a car and all that it represents? The song is superior to the car and always will be. Since this fact is uncomfortable to the makers of our modern world, they will make the song a slave for the march of their products. May they be damned. If you take any initiative by way of a written protest or otherwise, please include my name as a supporter. Thanks so much for bringing up this issue and not keeping silent.

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Sorry if i haven't replied, but i haven't been online. First a bit of info on little boxes:Though Pete's version rocks and I consider it his song, unfortunately his version is not the first. It was originally written by Malvina Reynolds, and to add to the outrage, Her version is currently being used by soem american show(Weeds) as their theme song(the show is a bout a desparate housewife growing crack in her back yard!How sad can you get???)Not only that their getting some strange rock bands to perform it i think.... As for using it to sell stuff....sigh...must think a bit more....

Pete Seeger to SELL stuffs?

I am absolutely outraged at the new advertisement for Zen car

they are using Pete Seeger's 'little boxes' to sell stuffs?

that is totally unacceptable, I dont know how this has happened

i am looking for ways to protest against this.

if anybody has any idea please comment.

I remember michael jackson doing a similar blunder trying to sell Beatles lyrics (revolution) to sell shoes. he faced stern opposition and Nike had to take the ad off air.

NOT EVRYTHING'S FOR SALE

little boxes -- lyrics

Little boxes on the hillside
Little boxes made of ticky tacky

Little boxes

Little boxes

Little boxes all the same

There's a green one and a pink one

And a blue one and a yellow one

And they're all made out of ticky tacky

And they all look just the same

And the people in the houses all go to the university

And they all get put in boxes, little boxes all the same

And there's doctors and there's lawyers

And business executives

And they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same

And they all play on the golf course and drink their martini dry

And they all have pretty children and the children go to school

And the children go to summer campAnd then to the university

And they all get put in boxes, and they all come out the same

And the boys go into business and marry and raise a family

And they all get put in boxes, little boxes all the same

There's a green one, and a pink oneAnd a blue one and a yellow one

And they're all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same

FILM FEST THIS YEAR

thought i would write down a bit of precis-cum-review of the movies seen in this years film fest. the first one i have seen is from switzerland, language french, director fredevic Choffat

REAL LIFE IS ELSEWHERE/La vraie vie est allieurs

which at some level looked like a critical analysis of one night stands, two women and one man embarks on their own separate journeys to separate destinations. one an academic looking forward to defend her project in Marseilles, helps a man in the train who, as he says, have lost his purse and other papers... another girl shifting her home to a Naples gets relentlessly annoyed by the lonely guard...another man gets stuck in a platform as he misses the last train to Berlin to meet his girlfriend and his newborn boy, meets the free spirited bohemian. they all go through different experiences, ending up liking their respective companies in various ways and in various degrees only to resume their regular (unreal?) lives from the next day. the actors were really natural, and i don't know what it is with trains and romance, it keeps on coming back to movies, thinking of nayak (the hero, satyajit ray.

the second one i saw this years in one of the few showcase movies from China, director Quing Hong,

SHANGHAI DREAMS

gives a glimpse of unbearable repression in rural China, specially for young girls. on the one hand they are exposed to the western culture which they are helplessly prone to imitate. on the other there is a strict ban on bell bottoms and Bony M. their predicament is worsened by their parents desperate attempts to leave the village to look for a better life in Shanghai, putting on hold their present as a consequence. all leading to terrible tragedy to young Quinghong's life. very touching tale...the movie felt a little longish, but it brought out the slow built up of pressure and tension.