I pulled into Nazareth, I was feelin' about half past dead;
I just need some place where I can lay my head.
"Hey, mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?"
He just grinned and shook my hand, and "No!", was all he said.
Take a load off Annie,
take a load for free;
Take a load off Annie,
And (and) (and) you can put the load right on me.The Weight (#41 on the list)
The Band
According to songwriter Robbie Robertson, (of the band "the band") "The Weight" was inspired by the films of Luis Buñuel, about which Robertson once said:
(Buñuel) did so many films on the impossibility of sainthood. People trying to be good in Viridiana and Nazarin, people trying to do their thing. In ‘The Weight’ it’s the same thing. People like Buñuel would make films that had these religious connotations to them but it wasn’t necessarily a religious meaning. In Buñuel there were these people trying to be good and it’s impossible to be "good".[7]
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weight
I just love this song. The Last Waltz is one of my favorite concert films of all times, although I always want to give Levon Helm a bath. He looks like he would reek of cigarette smoke. After reading your post, I just had to watch this:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjCw3-YTffo
I'm always amazed at how things tend to be connected in the art world. I was checking this article out (yes... It's Wiki.. But I check the sources... Usually).. And I found that these guys were really influenced by this Spanish film maker (Bunuel) Then I checked that guy out and found that he was really influenced by the philosophy of Jose Ortega y Gasset.. which was the dude I've been reading recently and quoted a couple of posts ago.
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading.. And thanks for the comments..