REBEL YELL: “…I’m Bill Hicks & I’m Dead Now” (Flashback)

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– “…Whoever is elected President…when you win, you go into this smoke-filled room with the twelve industrialist capitalist scum-fucks who got you in there. And you’re in this smoky room, and this little film screen comes down … and a big guy with a cigar goes, “Roll the film.“ And it’s a shot of the Kennedy assassination from an angle you’ve never seen before”

I’m Bill Hicks and I’m dead now

I have this feeling man, ‘cause you know, it’s just a handful of people who run everything, you know … that’s true, it’s provable. It’s not … I’m not a fucking conspiracy nut, it’s provable. A handful, a very small elite, run and own these corporations, which include the mainstream media. I have this feeling that whoever is elected president, like Clinton was, no matter what you promise on the campaign trail – blah, blah, blah – when you win, you go into this smoke-filled room with the twelve industrialist capitalist scum-fucks who got you in there. And you’re in this smoky room, and this little film screen comes down … and a big guy with a cigar goes, “Roll the film.“ And it’s a shot of the Kennedy assassination from an angle you’ve never seen before … that looks suspiciously like it’s from the grassy knoll. And then the screen goes up and the lights come up, and they go to the new president, “Any questions?” “Er, just what my agenda is.“ “First we bomb Baghdad.” “You got it …”

“I was told when I grew up I could be anything I wanted: a fireman, a policeman, a doctor – even President, it seemed. And for the first time in the history of mankind, something new, called an astronaut.

But like so many kids brought up on a steady diet of Westerns, I always wanted to be the avenging cowboy hero—that lone voice in the wilderness, fighting corruption and evil wherever I found it, and standing for freedom, truth and justice.

And in my heart of hearts I still track the remnants of that dream wherever I go, in my endless ride into the setting sun.”

– Bill Hicks,
R.I.P. 1961 – 1994

Albums:
-Dangerous (1990)
–Relentless (1992)
–Marble Head Johnson (1992)
–Arizona Bay (1997)
-Rant in E-Minor (1997)
-Love, Laughter and Truth (2002)
-Flying Saucer Tour Vol. 1 (2002)
-Shock and Awe (2003)
-Salvation (2005)
–Lo-Fi Troubadour (2010)

Video/DVD:
–Sane Man (Available on Netflix: Streaming) (1989)
–One Night Stand (1991)
–Ninja Bachelor Party (1991)
–Relentless (1992)
–Revelations (1993)
-Bill Hicks Live: Satirist, Social Critic, Stand-up Comedian (Available on Netflix: Streaming)(1994)
–American: The Bill Hicks Story (Available on Netflix: Streaming)(2009)