Bill Hicks

30.8.2006 10:14 | Přečteno: 2040× | Politika

To jsem jednou poslouchal mé oblíbené rádio, kde běžel jakýsi pořad o taneční hudbě tuc-tuc, a pouštěli We Want Your Soul od "nekorunovaného krále" breakbeatu Adama Freelanda. Jakožto v poslední době jsem hudební ignorant, slyšel jsem to prvně. Dost se mi tam líbil sampl v refrénu, tak jsem si vygoogloval, že jde o hlášky jakéhosi Williama Melvina Hickse, známého hlavně jako Bill Hicks. Žil krátce a rychle, a škoda že už je po smrti. Dneska by měl jen z novinových titulků materiálu, o kterém se mu nikdy ani nesnilo..

Wikiquote obsahuje spoustu jeho citátů, fakt dobře jsem se při jejich čtení bavil. Pro ty kteří zásadně neklikají na linky pár co mi přišly nejlepší zkopíruju. Pro ty líné číst si lze něco i poslechnout.

• "They lie about marijuana. Tell you pot-smoking makes you unmotivated. Lie! When you're high, you can do everything you normally do just as well ... you just realize that it's not worth the fucking effort. There is a difference."
• "Not all drugs are good. Some ... are great."
• "Go back to bed, America. Your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control again. Here. Here's American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up. Go back to bed, America. Here is American Gladiators. Here is 56 channels of it! Watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom. Here you go, America! You are free to do what we tell you! You are free to do what we tell you!"
• "They [Australians] celebrate Easter the exact same way we do: commemorating the death and resurrection of Jesus by telling our children a giant bunny rabbit left chocolate eggs in the night. Now, I wonder why we're fucked up as a race. Anybody got any idea? You know, I've read the Bible. I can't find the word bunny or chocolate anywhere in the fucking book. Where do they come up with this shit? Why not goldfish left Lincoln logs in your sock drawer? As long as you're making shit up, you know, go hog-wild. At least the goldfish with a Lincoln log on its back going across your carpet has some miraculous connotations: 'Mum, today I found a Lincoln log in my sock drawer.' 'That's the story of Jesus.'"
• "I was over in Australia, and everyone's like: 'Are you proud to be an American?' And I was like, 'Um, I don't know, I didn't have a lot to do with it. You know, my parents fucked there, that's about all."
• "Here's how I feel about gays in the military: Anyone ... dumb enough ... to want to be in the military ... should be allowed in. End of fucking story.
• "I'll show you politics in America. Here it is, right here. 'I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs.' 'I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking.' 'Hey, wait a minute, there's one guy holding out both puppets!'"
• "Wouldn't you like to see a positive LSD story on the news? To hear what it's all about perhaps? Wouldn't that be interesting? Just for once?"

  "Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration... that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather."

• theory on the teaching of recent American history to those who end up being president:

  ‘…You go into this smokey room with the … capitalist scumfucks who got you in there and … this little screen comes down and the big guys are goin’ “roll the film.” and it’s a shot of the Kennedy assassination from an angle you’ve never seen before that looks suspiciously off the grassy knoll and the screen goes up and the lights come up and they go to the new president “any questions?”

  Uh…just what my agenda is…”

  “First we bomb Baghdad.”

  “You got it.”

       

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Jeden z nejlepších komiků všech dob. Poukazoval na závažné problémy a na blbost a stádovitost společnosti. Na to, jak s námi může stát vyjebávat, jak nebezpečná mohou být média, jak mohou určovat čemu máme věřit. Věřil ve vlastní rozum a svobodu a byl proti všemu, co ji svazuje. Nebál se také mluvit ani o "tabuizovaných" nebo (pro jiné) "kontroverzních" tématech jako potraty, války, aids, gayové, náboženství, drogy, kouření a alkohol, sex, atd. Nejen, že jeho vytoupení byla neuvěřitelně vtipná, ale nutila přirozeně lidi přemýšlet o věcech jiným způsobem.

Rest in peace (Bill Hicks 1961 - 1994)