The premise is the message to stand down after missile launch alert was not received by all sites and one missile did get launched. That missile was the bound targeted on Jerusalem.
The first consideration is whether it's too heavy-handed. The surface reaction is basic war against religion but it's not true. There are more Jews in the U.S. than Israel so wasting Jerusalem will really piss them off but it won't wipe out Judaism, not even close. The same is true for Christians and Arabs as they will get really pissed off but it won't stop their religions. This target is not selected for any real or imagined war against religion from here in the Rockhouse.
We see many, many things Jesus said which people don't do and I imagine you can easily conceive his reaction if told nuclear weapons exist in the world.
You built fucking what? Tell me again, please. It kills millions of people at one pop?? You're serious??
Since we do not see people following that word, it seems logical, here in the Rockhouse, to see Jerusalem paying the price for that failure.
(Ed: what if people hate it?)
That's not a consideration. I would like people to enjoy my work but I will not compromise the vision.
(Ed: it's gratuitously shocking)
It's shocking for exactly the reasons I write here. I see the logical extrapolation of 'the sins of the fathers being visited on the children.' If you will judge it, at least understand what it says.
A real consideration is reducing the story to punchlines. The first is hearing the story and then discovering it was a false alarm. The second is the relief at the order to stand down but, whoops, one got away and, damn, it blew up Jerusalem.
However, this is not the Great American Novel; we don't have time to devote to setting up a plot twist, character development, etc. Something may seem like a punchline because of the economy needed in delivering it.
If we take the story longer then the song becomes a ballad and Gordon Lightfoot wrote a great one in "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" but it was meant to be long as in a lament and respect for the sailors who drowned. The motive isn't the same because we want the shock because every aspect of nuclear combat is fundamentally shocking right from the start that we're even capable of conceiving of such a thing.
(Ed: that's sixties. Moderns won't accept it.)
Moderns couldn't be more lost if they put clips on their noses and blinders on their eyes. I know that's not true for all of them but you can see many so lost to dogma they will likely never have an original thought. When there was active consideration for nuclear combat during the Ukraine fiasco, it was clear the little cabbages have been watching way, way too much fucking television.
This idea has not been applied to the lyrics yet because I want to stretch it and see if it flubberizes in different ways. The first consideration is, ok, you blew up Jerusalem, now what. We don't want to deliver some pontifical sermon as every guy with a handheld and an Internet stream is a preacher these days.
One possibility is do the announcement Jerusalem just got whacked and fade immediately to black because the viewers will know the consequence of that so there's no point in telling them again. We don't want the story to creep insofar as one moment it's the grand love about Jason and Andromeda which is followed by, oh gee, international foreign policy sure is stupid, huh. That has no value so the fade to black might be it.
(Ed: that's kind of pulling a death of Colonel Potter stunt as they did in M*A*S*H. There was only the announcement he died and then fade to black.)
That's close enough it's worth the comparison because they couldn't do anything else either. Everyone loved Colonel Potter so delivering a eulogy would have been superfluous fluff.
This won't break the structure of the song because I don't see a reason for a separate musical phrase to contain the news. Nuking Jerusalem is one more verse / chorus and the Trips part remains the undying love between Jason and Andromeda.
The first consideration is whether it's too heavy-handed. The surface reaction is basic war against religion but it's not true. There are more Jews in the U.S. than Israel so wasting Jerusalem will really piss them off but it won't wipe out Judaism, not even close. The same is true for Christians and Arabs as they will get really pissed off but it won't stop their religions. This target is not selected for any real or imagined war against religion from here in the Rockhouse.
We see many, many things Jesus said which people don't do and I imagine you can easily conceive his reaction if told nuclear weapons exist in the world.
You built fucking what? Tell me again, please. It kills millions of people at one pop?? You're serious??
Since we do not see people following that word, it seems logical, here in the Rockhouse, to see Jerusalem paying the price for that failure.
(Ed: what if people hate it?)
That's not a consideration. I would like people to enjoy my work but I will not compromise the vision.
(Ed: it's gratuitously shocking)
It's shocking for exactly the reasons I write here. I see the logical extrapolation of 'the sins of the fathers being visited on the children.' If you will judge it, at least understand what it says.
A real consideration is reducing the story to punchlines. The first is hearing the story and then discovering it was a false alarm. The second is the relief at the order to stand down but, whoops, one got away and, damn, it blew up Jerusalem.
However, this is not the Great American Novel; we don't have time to devote to setting up a plot twist, character development, etc. Something may seem like a punchline because of the economy needed in delivering it.
If we take the story longer then the song becomes a ballad and Gordon Lightfoot wrote a great one in "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" but it was meant to be long as in a lament and respect for the sailors who drowned. The motive isn't the same because we want the shock because every aspect of nuclear combat is fundamentally shocking right from the start that we're even capable of conceiving of such a thing.
(Ed: that's sixties. Moderns won't accept it.)
Moderns couldn't be more lost if they put clips on their noses and blinders on their eyes. I know that's not true for all of them but you can see many so lost to dogma they will likely never have an original thought. When there was active consideration for nuclear combat during the Ukraine fiasco, it was clear the little cabbages have been watching way, way too much fucking television.
This idea has not been applied to the lyrics yet because I want to stretch it and see if it flubberizes in different ways. The first consideration is, ok, you blew up Jerusalem, now what. We don't want to deliver some pontifical sermon as every guy with a handheld and an Internet stream is a preacher these days.
One possibility is do the announcement Jerusalem just got whacked and fade immediately to black because the viewers will know the consequence of that so there's no point in telling them again. We don't want the story to creep insofar as one moment it's the grand love about Jason and Andromeda which is followed by, oh gee, international foreign policy sure is stupid, huh. That has no value so the fade to black might be it.
(Ed: that's kind of pulling a death of Colonel Potter stunt as they did in M*A*S*H. There was only the announcement he died and then fade to black.)
That's close enough it's worth the comparison because they couldn't do anything else either. Everyone loved Colonel Potter so delivering a eulogy would have been superfluous fluff.
This won't break the structure of the song because I don't see a reason for a separate musical phrase to contain the news. Nuking Jerusalem is one more verse / chorus and the Trips part remains the undying love between Jason and Andromeda.
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