= MUSIC

Living with War

by Neil Young

Warner Music Canada 2006
REVIEWED BY NORMAN GARCIA

WHERE HAVE ALL the protest
singers gone? With George W.
Bush in the White House, you’d
think rebel rockers would be pump-
as out anti-war and anti-Bush

es by the convoy. Look no fur-
a because Neil Young is back and
this not a record

pro-peace classics
including
and After the
Goldrush and milestones of social
commentary, including Southern
Man and Alabama, i put out a
album that pulls no punches. A
splendid work of passion and con-
viction, Living with War, is rich and
ragged, spine- ae rock, remi-
hose Crazy Horse-

On the title track Young, backed
by trumpet and choir, makes a gal-
loping declaration in a country
where government illegally spies on
= citizens: “I join the multitudes/I

ise my hand in peace/I never | bow to
fe ae of the thought police

On the The Restless Consumer,
Young’s voice pierces: “Don’t need
no Madison Avenue War; Don’t need
no more boxes I can’t see/ Covered in
flags but I can’t seen them on TV.”
And as the consumer, sold on war,
flies around the world with an
appetite for “efficiency and pace,”
Young shouts that the innocent are
being slaughtered and lay dying, in
need of basic food and medicine.

= Neil Young pulls no punches in rock
blasting the Bush Administration.

On Shock and Awe, the si 1]

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= FILM

Looking for Angelina
Directed by Sergio Navarretta
Platinum Image 2005

THE ISOLATION ai new imeniggent | in

Canada a BROT

WOFr ‘kers in
heavy industry like steel. The lack of a
social safety net. Discrimination.
All of tt hit di

at Bush for his deceitful May of 2003
“Mission Accomplished” photo op on
the USS Abraham Lincoln, where Bush
declared victory in Iraq: “History was

the cruel judge of Age Said ha: in
the days of shock and awe.

Flags of cane eds the day
a son is paraded off to war. His sis-
ter sees Bush on a flat screen, lis-
tening to Bob Dylan in 1963, imply-

’s classic anti-war
rs of War and
Blowin’ in the Wind.

Let’s Impeach the President nails
Bush for misleading the country,
abusing his power, “shipping our
money out the door,” hiring crimi-
nals, spying, “highjacking our reli-
gion” and dividing the country.
Looking for a Leader calls for a
replacement to unite the USA.

m the poignant Roger and
Out, Young yearns for a buddy killed
overseas: “...I guess I'll never know the
truth/If you were really all alone...I
know you gave ue your country/I feel
you in the air today.”

On the final cut, America the
Beautiful, he is boosted by a 100 per-
son choir (of unionized musicians). To
this reviewer, it sounds out of place, as
there’s enough original material on the
record declaring this Canadian’s
love of adopted country.

place in Sault Ste.
Marie circa 1911.
But the underlying
conditions that con-
tributed to murder
and the break up of
a family are not
unlike some of

mea . n a
with globaliza:

tion, j
between rich and poor.
Angelina Napolitano (Lina

Giornofelice) wa: year
i i 1 of four, who
killed her abusive husband Pietro
(Alvaro D‘Antonio) in Sault Ste.
Marie's “Little Italy” in the early 20th
century. Sentenced to hang, a global
media frenzy resulted in her sentence

9g p
Eventually Napolitano was released
\ h

but the rest of her life story was ulti-
oY lost, hence the fi ut ‘S BRE, The

erformances,

Enalih ea iret in [elon are Song

if

and the is issues it raises. Nota a Block:
buster, Looking For
all a good story about a apast wih

which few

- reviewed by Pat Van Horne

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