A little recap today about what the Disco Liberation Movement is all about.
For our musical engagement, here’s what I suggest: please go out and buy the Sunday paper and bring it home. Then, light a candle and listen to Leonard Cohen’s album Ten New Songs while you use a pair of scissors to cut out words from the newspaper. Cut out words that catch your eye and pile them up until you have a bunch of them. Then, start pasting the words onto a clean sheet of paper but before you do, kiss the piece of paper and hold it to your heart for ten seconds. Now, compose a poem or piece of writing using the words you cut out from the Sunday paper. See if you can especially work towards using negative and fearful words used by the paper to manipulate the minds of the masses, and turn them instead to words of love and peace and harmony. This is how we can use religious rituals to rescue our words.
