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“… he [Dana?] slipped into the first shadows trying to hide a shame which was in the public domain and which everyone commented upon on the street, it gave birth to an anonymous song which the whole country knew except him, even the parrots sang it in the courtyards … wild parrots learned it from tame parrots, budgies and mockingbirds learned it from them and they carried it off in flocks beyond his measureless realm of gloom, and in all the skies of the nation one could hear at dusk that unanimous voice of fleeting multitudes who sang … an endless song to which everybody even the parrots added verses to mock the security services of the state who tried to capture it, military patrols in full battle dress broke down courtyard doors and shot down the subversive parrots on their perches, they threw whole bushels of parakeets alive to the dogs, a state of siege was declared in an attempt to extirpate the enemy song so that no one would discover what everybody knew…..”
– Gabriel García Marquez, Autumn of the Patriarch
I guess what I’m trying to say is we’ve finally finished mixing down the song “I Got a Crush on Debbie Cook,” which you can hear if you click below; now we are going to start on the video for the sort of viral YouTube that didn’t exist in the days of García Marquez’ patriarch, but will be comparable to the situation outlined above. E-mail me (ChezVern@aol.com) if you’d like to help with the video! Click “read more” for the lyrics of the song (and fun Photoshops!) 🙂
[audio:http://orangejuiceblog.com/music/debbiecook.mp3]
( Intro: Three power-chord secret code: )
D e Bb ie C ook
I got a crush on Debbie Cook,
you know she’ll make history!
Getting Debbie into Congress is a matter of urgency.
Oh wouldn’t it be nice to have a Congressperson that represents you and me?
Well!
Why don’t you help us send Debbie Cook to Washington DC?
Costa Mesa, Fountain Valley, Huntington Beach,
our time has come at last!
These two decades of embarrassment will soon be a thing of a past.
From Rancho Palos Verdes down the coast to Seal Beach,
We’re taking back our liberty.
So!
We need your help to send Debbie Cook to Washington DC!
I’ll never forget (’89)
when they tried to build a mall and a golf course right on our beach!
With the whole City Hall in their pocket,
it seemed like victory was out of our reach.
(tell us more, tell us more!)
But then we met in her livingroom, plotting strategy week by week,
and it took two years
but the people prevailed
and the beach was saved,
and that’s only one reason why
I got a crush on Debbie Cook: the time for a change is here!
It’s high time to repudiate the politics of hate and fear.
Oh wouldn’t it be nice to have a Congressperson
with just a little sanity?
Well!
Get off your butt and help Debbie Cook get to Washington DC!
I’ll never forget when I gave up surfing:
the water here was making me ill!
Turned out they were spewing out sewage,
soiling the sea with a sickly swill! (Ewww!)
But by then Debbie Cook was on Council and she put a stop to this travesty,
and it’s taken a while
but it’s much less vile
and it’s making me smile
‘cos we’re going out to surf again!
I got a crush on Debbie Cook: we need change desperately!
Bush and Cheney Yes-Men just have to go on the ash-heap of history.
Oh wouldn’t it be nice to have a Congressperson
who understands energy?
Well!
We need your help to send Debbie Cook to Washington DC!
“I got a crush on Debbie Cook…”
“¡Estoy enamorado de Debbie Cook!”
“Debbie Cook,
chúng toi yeu mén
va ung ho Co!”
Nicely done Vern!
You the man Vern! I should have kept playing the piano when I was a kid…
Very entertaining music and lyrics. Humor, wit, great messsage, I love the interlude too – very Lalo Shifrin (to my ear).
I’m waiting for the video!
This is so much fun! Great job!!!
I enjoyed your song, I Got a Crush on Debbie Cook. Keep up the good work.
Fun song, OUTSTANDING candidate! Kudos to the song-writer and musicians, and to DEBBIE COOK, for having the courage to take on this campaign.
Vern,
Awesome!
Kevin 🙂
Great work, Vern! You’re a genius. :o)
What a fun way to get a serious message across. Great song. Great message. This is the year for change. You go girl!
Lame Vern, very lame.
This is a solid Reep district – save your breath.
Remember that Simpsons where Mel Gibson got rave reviews from everybody in Springfield for his subtle and high-minded remake of “Mr.Smith Goes To Washington,” but only trusted Homer who found the effort extremely dull with its lack of violence and slapstick.
Zoom Daddy, do you think we can meet so you can help me make this song less lame?
NOT
Long awaited, but worth waiting for! Just love your subtle cleverity! Can’t wait for the video.
Great job Vern. You are one talented and loyal democrate. Wish we had more of y’all on the green ticket. I love Debbie but she will not take on the oil companies as she profits from their success. Will she fight for the removal of all off shore drilling rigs? Debbie will not address bringing our troops home or holding those responsible who sent them there. I respect and admire Debbie but she will not bring us the change we need. I ask both Democrats and Republicans, “What is more important, your party or your principals? The party, whether green or republican is a fiction. The people are what matter. We are the people we have been waiting for. We will speak truth to power. We will do it with no corporate funds, through grassroots organizing and by telling the hard truths that we all need to hear in order to make informed decisions. Vote for peace this November. Vote your hopes and not your fears. Only with you can we make a real substantive change in our district.
And so you don’t have to look it up, we’re talking about having your world view center on the view of your belly button.
Tom Lash won’t bring us the change we need because he won’t be elected. Yet he criticizes someone who has fought battles for us in the public arena for over twenty years while Tom has accomplished …….
And he slanders Debbie with comments like this.
Greens like Tom Lash and Ralph Nader continue to destroy any positive effect that the Green Party can have on the political process when their obsessive purity helps crazy jerks like Rohrabacher stay in power.
Tom, we’ll be working together on various issues again in the future as we have in the past. SO STOP INSULTING ME! You know perfectly well “Loyal Democrat” is an insult.
I don’t support Debbie over you because she’s a Democrat.
I don’t even support her mainly because she has a good chance of winning and you’ve got a snowball’s.
I support her because she’s MORE QUALIFIED than you!
Like the last commenter wrote, she has a two-decade record of heroic environmental work in the local community while you have “…….”
She has experience these last seven years writing legislation, and working with conservatives and doing the hard work of getting them to see things in a different way, finding common ground and making actual change happen.
And here is her statement against offshore drilling:
http://calitics.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=52578FBEE435307A1913B31DD27D46C0?diaryId=6227
and here is her plan to get the troops home:
http://www.responsibleplan.com
So knock it off and stop pissin’ me off. This so-called “loyal Democrat” (me) has been busy ripping Pelosi and Hoyer new ones on their FISA capitulation, over where it’s a relevant thing to do: The Liberal OC. Debbie is the kind of progressive Democrat YOU should be supporting.
(PS and a lot of your Green friends are.)
Vern and others loyal to a fiction,
It is not a bad thing to be loyal to ones party. As long as the party is worth being loyal to. What have the democrats done in the last 8 years to get us out of Iraq. Debbie has admitted she knows little about the subject. She only makes anti-war comments now that she has been pushed to the center by other candidates opposing the war. I am loyal to the Green Party platform because it makes sense for the future. What are Debbies views on aggressive war, the Patriot Act, torture. She is silent. She will make no waves when it comes to her oil company paymasters. Debbie profits from oil exploration and exploitation. And she will continue to protect and speak for them if she is elected. I will not. I do not owe any allengence to big oil or their profits. Debbie does. Debbie profits from their abuse of our environment. Vern I do not want to piss you off but your candidate may speak as an environmentalist but her private life is one of profiting from the very companies she will be charged to regulate. If you do not challenge her on that issue you do not have the spine you profess to carry. She is simply the lesser of two evils. The earlier comment, posted by you under another name?? (it speaks volumes when authors do not have the courage to use their own names), mentions the Greens being pure as if that is a bad thing. In politics you are either clean or you are not. Your candidate is not. I am and that is something to shout about. As far as voters looking for honesty….they need look no further. It will be the Rebpulicain voter and the smart Democrat that vote me into congress. Unlike Debbie, I have nothing to hide. I made no money from dirty oil.
I have great respect for Debbie and what she has done over the past twenty years but she is not the person to stand up to the corporate forces tearing our republic apart. I am. I am also the most experienced at running for this office as it is my third attempt. Together we can beat Dana. Join the side that has nothing to hide. We are the people we have been waiting for.
The earlier comment, posted by you under another name??
yeah right that makes so much sense, like i’m the only person on this blog that feels this way, why would I use two names.
Vern,
I took your suggestion and visited the two internet sites you mentioned. They were no help. Debbie says nothing about her views on the war in the second link and in the first link she suggests calling Bush’s bluff and selling ALL THE OFF SHORE DRILLING LEASES. I do not know in what reality you would call someone that profits from selling oil an environmentalist. Your candidate has a conflict of interests. I do not.
Vern,
People do stupid things all the time. Why would someone not what their identity known? I have nothing to hide. Someone does. So far you are the only person on this blog that calls those that profit from oil exploration an environmentalist. LOL
That is like screwing for chastity. BIG conflict of interest. Do you have any idea how much money Debbie has earned from EXXON/Mobile. Would it matter to you? Would you still support her if she profits from environmental destruction caused by the oil industry? You would have to have principals that mean more to you than a ficticious political party.