Author: Steven Garrity

Live 8 in my Living Room

by Steven Garrity

Every once and a while I get an insight into just how extraordinary much of the technology we take for granted actually is.

This Saturday morning in my living room in a small city in the northeastern tip of North America, I was walking around with my little laptop. The speakers on the laptop were playing the live audio of Bono and 200,000 people singing Unchained Melody in Hyde Park in London.

 

Iraq: The Musical

by Steven Garrity

Inspired by Dick Cheney’s youthful enthusiasm about the “war” in Iraq, I’ve written a brief synopsis for a musical about Iraq.

Act 1: Liberation

Heavy on trumpets, flags, and narrated by a plucky young “embedded” reporter in a khaki reporter vest.

Reporter: “Back to you…”
Trumpets: “bap bahda!”
Reporter: [sadder this time] “Back to you…”
Trumpets: “bap bahda!”
Reporter: [slowly, with longing] “in Atlanta”
Act 2: The Insurgency!

Lots of minor chords and flashing lights. A longing father/son duet featuring George Bush Senior and “dubya” in the style of “Somewhere Out There” from Fivel Goes West:

Father Bush: “How many bombs…”
Dubya: “How many bombs…”
Father and Son together: [harmony] “until they love me”
Act 3: Victory

A three part orgasmic climax featuring the hit spin-off singles “Big Mac in Baghdad” and “Freedom is on the March” and the memorable dance number, “Give Freedom a High Five!”

Chorus: “If you’re still alive…”
Chorus: “When democrazy arrives…”
[High-five the person to your right and then left]
Chrous: “Give Freedom a high five…”