Occupy the 1930s

We have to review two 1933 movies: 42ND STREET and GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933. In the 2nd one you find it all: a show being foreclosed and girls layed off, getting into misery. The final MY FORGOTTEN MAN is our Irak/Afghanistan veteran….homeless, jobless, unappreciated. And in those two films they already speak of “depression” (not yet “Great Depression”). 42ND STREET was mainly made in 1932, so they already said that in 1932. 

We have to re-discover MY FORGOTTEN MAN. Occupy the traditional jazz bands and have them play that. They should occupy themselves and play that out on the streets. It was a Roosevelt thing too: Roosevelt was downright part of the film propaganda and he invited the whole film crew to join his inauguration. We aren’t hippies — we have tradition with real culture!

Yes, the occupy movement has tradition. Did you know they occupied apartments in the 30s and put the furniture of those who had been put out back? And union men reinstalled gas and water for those who had been put out.

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Extract of my December 2011 comment. I am a jazz trumpeter, singer and tap dancer myself. I added my link here now, because I want to track down clicks, since I've got no idea whether this here makes sense and if I see clicks on my blogspot-stats from here, I know people are reading here. I have a few doubts at times, whether it's worth to work here, so I have to get that straight.