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July 07, 2007
Live Earth 07-07-07
Here's what I really don't understand about the organizers of global concerts: they apparently think the US ends at the East Coast. First it was the Live 8 series - which got as far as Philly. That concert series was plagued by critics saying rockstars were trying to speak for Africans and not even allowing African musicians to speak for their countrymen.
Anyway, this Live Earth series is about something a little closer to home: how we in the developed world are ruining the entire world with our over-consumption. And yes, I'm contributing to that by sitting in my air-conditioned house watching concerts on my over-heating laptop.
So here's the thing: this time, we US'ians got two concerts. Two concerts about two hours apart from each other. Why the hell are their concerts in DC and NYC but nowhere else in the damn States?!?! For goodness sake, the country does not end when you stop seeing the Atlantic Ocean. Give me a concert in Chi-town or Los Angeles, or any other city not on the Eastern seaboard.
I got to say, other than a video on dying man-made lake in Australia, I haven't bothered with the message of this concert series. Instead, I've watched some anonymous world music, Jack Johnson and Crowded House in Australia, recorded Shakira and Foo Fighters in London, and now I'm waiting for Madonna to come on.
Reminds me of when Madonna was on stage at Live 8 with a woman who in her childhood was the face of starvation in Africa. It was an extremely surreal moment, esp since the African woman didn't understand when she was supposed to obsequiously walk off stage and allow Madonna to return to her regularly scheduled rockstar life.
Posted by cj at July 7, 2007 01:19 PM