Not Workish

I'm not feeling workish this morning, although I've a lot to do. This is marginally work. I watched, The Future is Uncertain last night. Its a good documentary about Joe Strummer the front man of The Clash. Like most non-fiction it left me wanting more. Strummer had 20 years of post Clash life...a 10 year semi-disapearance...and a great rivial before an untimely death via-heart attack. And although all those things are talked about, there was not perspective.
The director used 2 tropes to great effect in the movie. One was the symbolism of campfire, a unity activity that Strummer himself embraced. The other was less obvious. It was Strummers connection to George Orwell's Animal Farm. The director cut snatches of the story into the picture throughout allowing Strummers story to represent the different charecters.
Strummers life was of revolution, change, expression and freedom. It was facinating how he began like all of the animals, head down and working hard to initiate change. This would be his early life, his early clash days. And then, as Strummer says, the Clash made it huge and they made every mistake stardom allowed them, the director emphaisis the Pigs, "everyone is equal. Some are more equal than others."
After the Clash disbands and Strummer finds himself at sea, the director drops the Animal Farm references, but in many ways they are still relevant.
It has been since highschool since I read Animal Farm but it was one of the first books that I read and re-read, and the charecter that most stands out for me is the Horse, slow to motion, slow to be disuaded of the revolutions failure (the Pigs betrayal) and heavy of work. The horse is the moral center of teh story and his sentence to the glue shop the books key moment. Strummer, after The Clash, seems to personify the horse. Always believing, always moving forward, always accepting others, funneling other voices and ideas. And it is the loss of people like Joe Strummer and their instance on thier works and their voices that we most miss. It is those voices that are least replaceable.