Link & blockquote via David Gilmour's 'My moon-landing jam session' Guardian article...

See also Moon 8: Dark Side of the Moon Arranged for NES.

We [Pink Floyd] were in a BBC TV studio jamming to the landing. It was a live broadcast, and there was a panel of scientists on one side of the studio, with us on the other. I was 23.

The programming was a little looser in those days, and if a producer of a late-night programme felt like it, they would do something a bit off the wall. Funnily enough I've never really heard it since, but it is on YouTube. They were broadcasting the moon landing and they thought that to provide a bit of a break they would show us jamming. It was only about five minutes long. The song was called Moonhead - it's a nice, atmospheric, spacey, 12-bar blues.

I also remember at the time being in my flat in London, gazing up at the moon, and thinking, "There are actually people standing up there right now." It brought it home to me powerfully, that you could be looking up at the moon and there would be people standing on it.

  

Just 'cause it's cracked,
doesn't mean that it's broke
Just 'cause it's a butt
doesn't mean it's a joke

With a heart like an apple
butt hard like a stone
stuck in the mud
'cause it stuck to the bone

... and this is how it starts
and this is what it seems
and this is who we are
and this is what will be

The future is all planned
and now comes to pass
artificial men
artificial...

End of the line
look at the time
time ticking
and you tell me
that you think it's clean

Where there's a way
there's is a lie
everybody
we trusted
not to be
so mean

What we discussed
was so disgusting
filling it up
and busting
at the seams

Putting the peas
out with the pies
everybody combusting
but the buttmachine

Cracked like a bell
but don't mean that it rings
and just 'cause it's shiny
don't mean that it's clean

The movement is over
the flush has begun
and just 'cause it's ugly
don't mean it's no fun

... and just because we can
it don't mean
that we should
and just 'cause it's modern
don't mean
it smells good

Function over form
fiction over pain
and just because
it's chrome
don't mean
it won't stain

Single the word
double the talk talk
triple the babble
to tell me
what they say

Jingle the bell
held up in the heck well
only the funny one
kind'a knows
the way

Putting the peas
out with the pies
everbody's combusting
butt the butt
it seems

End of the days
and so abrupt
everybody's corrupted
but the buttmachine

buttmachine... buttmachine (X4)

Buttmachine
.. just like I told ya
sold your soul
... they said it for ya
hold your own
... don't let them scold ya
hold your nose
... they'll blow it for ya

Half of the work
all of the class
can you show us
the reason
that it works
so well

Give it a jerk
spilling the gas
and I betcha
it's silent
but it just might smell

Half of the will
some of the time
all of the reasons
we left it
in the kitchen sink

Shining it up
another butt
more than half
of the battle
is that it
just might stink

Quick and the fast
gelatinous mass
so soft was the goo
and so we
poked right through it.

Tree in the woods
making a sound
no one around
and so we
just say screw it

End of the line
look at the time
time ticking
and you tell me
that you think
it's clean

Follow your nose
and get the joke
now that nobody's laughing
but the buttmachine

  

Via flickr...


  

  

Fact: In 1992, nicknames like "Spictor" (good guy, btw) were so controversial that no one thought twice about it being published in the yearbook.

Recently, a friend/colleague was forced into early retirement for using the word "mammy" while passing a piece of paper to another colleague. I had to look it up myself, but baby boomer's and beyond know it as the following.

To be fair, she is old enough to know what she was saying and she was never known for having the greatest filter in or out of the office. But also to be fair, one of her most trusted confidants (25 years and counting) is black and she spent the last 25 years serving an underprivileged, inner-city community for which she truly cared.

I say this: if her accuser really believes she meant prejudice, fine. It sucks we live in the world we live for both the accused and the accuser. But if the accuser used this slip of the tongue to end the career of the accused just because she simply didn't like her? Well, at least I have cleared my conscience, beotch.


  

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