Happy Birthday
Im writing this on July 4th. On the television there are flickering satellite pictures of Americans at play and very rum too: blond children, their faces deeply smeared with watermelon, the Tallahassee Munich Restaurant Marching Band in leather shorts and braces, the Ice Maidens of Ohio squaredancing with no clothes on.
LETTER FROM BRITAIN
Simon Frith
Happy Birthday
Im writing this on July 4th. On the television there are flickering satellite pictures of Americans at play and very rum too: blond children, their faces deeply smeared with watermelon, the Tallahassee Munich Restaurant Marching Band in leather shorts and braces, the Ice Maidens of Ohio squaredancing with no clothes on. And only half a hippie in sight. Hes playing the Beethoven theme from the Clockwork Orange on a banjo on the White House Lawn in protest.