PLASTICS - in this issue…..
The Graduate - Plastics, the Quote
Plastic Fantastic Lover - Jeff Airplain
Dr. Robert Rowen’s Substack on Plastics, the inspiration for this issue
Plastic-Free Resources
Plastic Bag Dresses - Ewwwwww.
Plastic People - Frank Zappa
Plastic California - Stereophonics
THE GRADUATE
Mr. McGuire: I just want to say one word to you. Just one word.
Benjamin: Yes, sir. Mr.
McGuire: Are you listening?
Benjamin: Yes, I am. Mr.
McGuire: Plastics.
In the 1967 film "The Graduate," Walter Brooke's character, Mr. McGuire, advises Benjamin Braddock at a cocktail party that plastics have a great future.2 However, from Benjamin's perspective, plastics sound artificial, boring, and soulless.1 Plastics have been the most used material in the United States since 1976 and will continue to be used in many years to come.0 In the film, plastics are understood to mean a cheap, sterile, ugly, and meaningless way of life, repugnant to young Benjamin.
PLASTIC FANTASTIC LOVER - Jeff Airplane c 1967
Her neon mouth with the blinkers-off smile
Nothing but an electric sign
You could say she has an individual style
She's a part of a colorful time
Secrecy of lady-chrome-covered clothes
You wear 'cause you have no other
But I suppose no one knows
You're my plastic fantastic lover
Dr. ROWEN’s STACK on PLASTIC RAIN
Dr. Rowen has a stack about plastic falling down in the rain. Below his stack I’ve posted a few links to website of people who live a “plastic-free life”.
Plastics are HORMONE DISRUPTORS, yet there are many examples of evening gowns made of black garbage bags and white plastic shopping bags displayed below Dr. Rowen’s article. How are you getting plastics out of your life, your body?
PLASTIC - FREE LIFE RESOURCES
My Plastic-Free Life = https://myplasticfreelife.com/
Life Without Plastic = https://lifewithoutplastic.com/
EcoWorldOnline = https://ecoworldonline.com/my-plastic-free-life/
The Lifehacker’s Guide to Living with Less Plastic (The Ultimate Cheat Sheet to a Plastic-Free Life) = https://onyalife.co.uk/guide-to-living-plastic-free-life/
PLASTIC PEOPLE - Frank Zappa c 1967
FZ: Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States
RC as the President: Fellow Americans
FZ: He’s been sick, I think his wife will bring us some chicken soup
[Chorus]
Plastic people
Oh baby, how you’re such a drag
FZ: I know it’s hard to defend an unpopular policy every once in awhile
[Chorus]
Plastic people
Oh baby, how you’re such a drag
FZ: There’s this guy from the CIA and he’s creeping around Laurel Canyon
[Verse]
Fine little girl, she waits for me
She’s as plastic as she can be
She paints her face with plastic goo
And wrecks her hair with some shampoo
[Chorus]
Plastic people
Oh baby, how you’re such a drag
FZ: I don’t know, sometimes I just get tired of ya, honey
It’s your hairspray or something
[Chorus]
Plastic people
Oh baby, you’re such a drag
FZ: I hear the sound of marching feet down Sunset Boulevard to Crescent Heights and there at Pandora’s Box, we are confronted with a vast quantity of plastic people
[Verse]
Take a day and walk around
Watch the Nazis run your town
Then go home and check yourself
You think we're singing 'bout someone else
But you’re plastic people
Oh baby, now you’re such a drag
[instrumental break]
[Verse]
Me see a neon moon above
I searched for years, I found no love
I’m sure that love will never be
A product of plasticity
A product of plasticity
A product of plasticity
RC: Plastic people are
Your foot, your hair, your nose, your arm
You eat, suck blood, your being is you plastic people
Blah blah blah plastic pebbles
FZ: A prune is not a vegetable
Cabbage is a vegetable
Plastic people
Plastic people
When I first herd this song way back in the early 70's I thought it fit the bill for the times, now in 2019 with the PC craze, and the pretend hippies. It's proving to be a timeless song. Actually the whole album is vary relevant to today's antics. Freak Out fits well also. ~ Jeff Ussery