Thursday, September 17, 2009

Pet Shop Boys, "Go West"

It's September 17 again, the anniversary of my 1996 move to San Francisco, a huge event in my personal development. I've told that story on this blog before, so today I'll just offer a note of tribute to the West Coast. While I've been in NYC for 6+ years and figure to be here quite a while longer, it was in SF I felt most fully at home and most fully able to live and breathe as myself. So for those feeling dislocated today, I offer this simple bit of advice, rendered originally by the Village People but more effectively by the Pet Shop Boys: "Go West."

PS: There's lots of hammer-and-sickle imagery in that PSB video. Glenn Beck, you can go fuck yourself.

1 comment:

Mike Schaefer said...

Ditto on the Glenn Beck (who didn't bother to go to his own teaparty on Sat). But the teabaggers had signs appropriating the Socialist "fist" graphic used on a lot of Tom Robinson Band LPs. WTF?