Aaron Russo dead at 64...

RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
edited August 2007 in A Moving Train
PP actually has the best page and information about it thus far.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2007/240807_b_aaron.htm
Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.

http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    ah that sucks.....rip aaron.....:(
  • JuberooJuberoo Posts: 472
    never heard of him
    Makes much more sense, to live in the present tense.

    A truly liberal person is conservative when necessary.

    Pro-life by choice.
  • jeffbrjeffbr Seattle Posts: 7,177
    Bummer!

    I just referrenced his Freedom to Fascism film in another thread today.

    RIP.
    "I'll use the magic word - let's just shut the fuck up, please." EV, 04/13/08
  • Juberoo wrote:
    never heard of him

    shame...watch some of the video at the bottom of th PP link I posted. Great interview on his life.
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

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  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    RIP Mr. Russo your tenacity in reporting the unknowns in America will be sorley missed.

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • NOooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo!

    Goddamnit!

    WHY THIS?
    WHY NOW?
    I'm drunk and fragile.
    :( :( :(

    I knew it was coming.
    Seirously, this makes me want to cry.

    Aaron was such a fucking patriot, and he was such a force in "the movement"

    :(

    god fucking damnit.

    Only the good die "young".
    If I was to smile and I held out my hand
    If I opened it now would you not understand?
  • btw,
    the Alex Jones - Aaron Russo interview is a MUST WATCH for anyone who is confused about this sad world we live in.

    If you think things we say aren't true,
    watch the geniune humanity with witch Aaron speaks ...
    if you think that man is lying, you may as well kill yourself now.

    :(
    If I was to smile and I held out my hand
    If I opened it now would you not understand?
  • sorry.
    another pointless bump for Aaron.

    This has really got me.
    :(
    If I was to smile and I held out my hand
    If I opened it now would you not understand?
  • don't need a helmet, got a hard, hard head
    don't need a raincoat, i'm already wet
    don't need a bandage, there's too much...blood...
    after a while, seems to roll right off...hmm...
    whipping, ah...they're whipping, ah...
    ...they're whipping, ah...they're whipping...
    don't need a hand, there's always arms attached
    oh, don't get behind, i can't fall back
    why must we trust all these rusted rails?
    they don't want no change we already have
    they're whipping, ah...they're whipping, ah...
    ...they're whipping, ah...they're whipping...
    don't mean to push, but i'm being shoved!
    ohh, i'm just like you, think we've had enough
    i can't believe a thing they want us to...oh...
    oh, we all got scars, they should have 'em too...
    oh, they're whipping, ah...they're whipping, ah...
    ...they're whipping, ah...they're whipping...
    they're whipping, ah...they're whipping, ah...
    ...they're whipping...yeah...they're whipping...
    If I was to smile and I held out my hand
    If I opened it now would you not understand?
  • Tidal waves don't beg forgiveness
    Crashed and on their way
    Father he enjoyed collisions; others walked away
    A snowflake falls in may.
    And the doors are open now as the bells are ringing out
    Cause the man of the hour is taking his final bow
    Goodbye for now.

    Nature has its own religion; gospel from the land
    Father ruled by long division, young men they pretend
    Old men comprehend.

    And the sky breaks at dawn; shedding light upon this town
    They'll all come ‘round
    Cause the man of the hour is taking his final bow
    G'bye for now.

    And the road
    The old man paved
    The broken seems along the way
    The rusted signs, left just for me
    He was guiding me, love, his own way
    Now the man of the hour is taking his final bow
    As the curtain comes down
    I feel that this is just g'bye for now.
    If I was to smile and I held out my hand
    If I opened it now would you not understand?
  • http://gordonunleashed.com/blog/2007/08/24/may-aaron-russo-rest-in-peace/

    Come to send
    Not condescend
    Transcendental consequence
    Is to transcend, where we are
    Who are we? Who we are

    Trampled moss on your souls
    Changes all, you're a part
    Seen it all, not at all
    Can't defend, fuck the man

    Take me for a ride, Before we leave
    Avalance
    Falling Fast
    Guidin' winds
    Happenstance
    Off the track, in the mud
    That's the moss, in the aforementioned verse

    Just a little time, Before we leave

    Stop light plays its part
    So I would say you've got a heart
    What's your part? Who you are
    You are who, who you are
    If I was to smile and I held out my hand
    If I opened it now would you not understand?
  • If I was to smile and I held out my hand
    If I opened it now would you not understand?
  • arc
    If I was to smile and I held out my hand
    If I opened it now would you not understand?
  • If I was to smile and I held out my hand
    If I opened it now would you not understand?
  • JamMastaEJamMastaE Posts: 444
    R.I.P. Brother!!!!!!!

    i salute your bravery,integrity,honor & decency!!!
    "In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot". Mark Twain


    "I would rather die on my feet than to live on my knees."
    Emiliano Zapata
  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 30,240
    i feel like such an uninformed ass he was born here in ny i didn't even know he's body of work at all i have to get caught up now shame on me ...
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • i feel like such an uninformed ass he was born here in ny i didn't even know he's body of work at all i have to get caught up now shame on me ...

    Aaron Russo:

    Invented womens bikini underwear
    FIRST PERSON TO BOOK LED ZEPPELIN IN AMERICA
    Produced Bette Midler's THE ROSE
    Manger of Bette Midler
    Produced Eddie Murphey's TRADING PLACES
    Wrote, Directed & Produced MAD AS HELL
    Wrote, Directed & Produced AMERICA: FROM FREEDOM TO FASCISM
    Was a great patriot
    Will be dearly missed by many

    :(
    If I was to smile and I held out my hand
    If I opened it now would you not understand?
  • JamMastaEJamMastaE Posts: 444
    i feel like such an uninformed ass he was born here in ny i didn't even know he's body of work at all i have to get caught up now shame on me ...


    http://www.freedomtofascism.com/
    "In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot". Mark Twain


    "I would rather die on my feet than to live on my knees."
    Emiliano Zapata
  • JamMastaEJamMastaE Posts: 444
    Aaron Russo:


    FIRST PERSON TO BOOK LED ZEPPELIN IN AMERICA

    :(


    no shit? i didn't know that one.
    "In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot". Mark Twain


    "I would rather die on my feet than to live on my knees."
    Emiliano Zapata
  • If I was to smile and I held out my hand
    If I opened it now would you not understand?
  • If I was to smile and I held out my hand
    If I opened it now would you not understand?
  • AhnimusAhnimus Posts: 10,560
    That bites donkey nuts man, I liked Russo.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire

  • A man before his time, unfortunately not sterile or clinical enough for the brainwashed plastic headed masses.
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

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  • VINNY GOOMBAVINNY GOOMBA Posts: 1,818
    I just watched Freedom to Fascism again... What a powerful film. Everyone should watch this movie and take heed to what this guy is saying.

    Refuse the National ID card!!!
  • http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/ThePartysOver.jpg

    (thanks driftin good flick so far)
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

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    ( o.O)
    (")_(")

  • np.
    that movie bummed me out in a major way, even while i was the whole time going "thats right", "yep", "yep", "thats how i feel" ...

    ... i mean getting through highschool, developing "progressive" thoughts and thinking "radical" ... "going green", and reaching for self-actualization ... it all seems so important ... until you finaly solve the problem by realizing there is no solution.

    That's the message i think this video really communicates.
    Try your best, do what you can, what you gotta do, and try to embrace the pain. Because i truly belive the world is in for it all. Blech.

    I say blech, but i actualy get excited about it.
    Bring it on, lets go. Lets do it now. I talked to one of my closest friends to highschool the otherday for the first time in about 5 years. We used to, and still do, share so many of the same values goals and outlooks. She asked me about somethings, like if i truly bought in to zeitgeist. Then we talked about oil and political corruption. Then we talked about peak oil, and ecosystem collapses, and other sundries warm and fuzzy affairs.

    She asked me what i had come to conclude about it all, what my take was, and how i intended to address it - if at all.

    I told her that I simply felt it was insurmountable. That I felt some of the greatest minds on the subjects of sustainability (William McDonough, Amory Lovins, etc) are so pessimistic about the possibility of corporations truly changing in time; that so many of the problems are beyond the ability of "the market" or all of the worlds governments to truly address; that population overshoot is truly unfixable; that oil-culture is inherently doomed and quickly reaching its end ... that it is just not worth trying to address.

    The solution is to EMBRACE it. I told her that i was basicaly "just waiting".

    Her response kind've floored me more than the rest of our discussion put together. She said, "Why is it that all my friends feel the same way?", and continued, "It's like they all just realize we can't do shit. And they want to just get it over with."

    That shocked me. I think it really may be a generational thing. Most of my literate, liberal values, "freaky" 28-32 year old friends are like that, and so apparently are all of hers. That makes me feel a lot less crazy.

    :D

    Speaking of crazy,
    i can't believe how drunk and emotional i was, looking above me at all my Russo rantings.

    I think i really was near tears or with water in my eyes that night.

    What REALLY bums me is that Aaron said (i think in his Alex Jones interview) that he was planning a NEW MOVIE ... and he wouldn't reveal ANYTHING about it, saying only that it was going to be "really good", a real shocker or something ... if only we knew what that new documentary was to be, and if only he got to shoot it.

    :(
    If I was to smile and I held out my hand
    If I opened it now would you not understand?
  • np.
    that movie bummed me out in a major way, even while i was the whole time going "thats right", "yep", "yep", "thats how i feel" ...

    ... i mean getting through highschool, developing "progressive" thoughts and thinking "radical" ... "going green", and reaching for self-actualization ... it all seems so important ... until you finaly solve the problem by realizing there is no solution.

    That's the message i think this video really communicates.
    Try your best, do what you can, what you gotta do, and try to embrace the pain. Because i truly belive the world is in for it all. Blech.

    I say blech, but i actualy get excited about it.
    Bring it on, lets go. Lets do it now. I talked to one of my closest friends to highschool the otherday for the first time in about 5 years. We used to, and still do, share so many of the same values goals and outlooks. She asked me about somethings, like if i truly bought in to zeitgeist. Then we talked about oil and political corruption. Then we talked about peak oil, and ecosystem collapses, and other sundries warm and fuzzy affairs.

    She asked me what i had come to conclude about it all, what my take was, and how i intended to address it - if at all.

    I told her that I simply felt it was insurmountable. That I felt some of the greatest minds on the subjects of sustainability (William McDonough, Amory Lovins, etc) are so pessimistic about the possibility of corporations truly changing in time; that so many of the problems are beyond the ability of "the market" or all of the worlds governments to truly address; that population overshoot is truly unfixable; that oil-culture is inherently doomed and quickly reaching its end ... that it is just not worth trying to address.

    The solution is to EMBRACE it. I told her that i was basicaly "just waiting".

    Her response kind've floored me more than the rest of our discussion put together. She said, "Why is it that all my friends feel the same way?", and continued, "It's like they all just realize we can't do shit. And they want to just get it over with."

    That shocked me. I think it really may be a generational thing. Most of my literate, liberal values, "freaky" 28-32 year old friends are like that, and so apparently are all of hers. That makes me feel a lot less crazy.

    :D

    Speaking of crazy,
    i can't believe how drunk and emotional i was, looking above me at all my Russo rantings.

    I think i really was near tears or with water in my eyes that night.

    What REALLY bums me is that Aaron said (i think in his Alex Jones interview) that he was planning a NEW MOVIE ... and he wouldn't reveal ANYTHING about it, saying only that it was going to be "really good", a real shocker or something ... if only we knew what that new documentary was to be, and if only he got to shoot it.

    :(


    What amazed me, is like yourself, I already had it formulated and the documentary was just confirming what I had already come to the conclusion of. A bit spooky to see it all formally laid out and echoed back to me.

    Around 15 I started realizing what was coming from a population perspective. Being older and factoring in economics and the environment with greater clarity is... well...let's just say it is what it is. Until I start seeing a lot people catching up and actually becoming aware, and start thinking more progressively, my optimism will remain somewhat lack luster towards those who are merrily rolling along unabated and unaffected. It doesn't bother me to any great degree, at least once every day I have a good laughing fit about one thing or another, often throughout the day. My sense of humor has not been affected yet. There has always been great feats of adaptation accomplished by mankind.

    Now that's optimistic! :D:D:D
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

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