You Are Missed, Mr. Bill Hicks (12.16.61 – 2.26.94)

[Last_Stand]

"I'll show you politics in America. Here it is, right here.
'I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs.'
'I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking.'
'Hey, wait a minute, there's one guy holding out both puppets!'
'Shut up! Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control. Here's Love Connection. Watch this and get fat and stupid. By the way, keep drinking beer, you fucking morons.'"
-- Rant In E-Minor, released 1997


"Another Dead Hero" - Tool, 1996

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Hicks

[buff2]

1. It's not fair that his life was taken at such an early age

and DICKHEAD cheney still lives on. What a travesty. :grr:

[Last_Stand]

2. His voice would have been appreciated during the *'s presidency...

...I'm sure it would have made his 'dark poetry' about limbaugh look like a nursery rhyme.

[dem mba]

46. ummm Bill Hicks drank and smoked throughout his life

his death is a huge loss, but not really a mystery, you know?

[walldude]

3. K&R Hicks was nothing short of genius.

Brilliant, funny, scathing, and we lost him right when we needed people like him the most.

[Echo In Light]

4. K&R I still have a very old Hicks poster filled w/quotes in our basement

[Echo In Light]

5. Fantastic bit

The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think it’s real because that’s how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it’s very brightly coloured and it’s very loud and it’s fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question, is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, “Hey – don’t worry, don’t be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride…”

And we… kill those people.

“Shut him up!...We have a lot invested in this ride. Shut him up. Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and my family. This just has to be real.”

Just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. But it dozen’t matter because: It’s just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one.

Here’s what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.

[Last_Stand]

7. Thank you...

I should have posted an example of his work in the OP. I'm new at this and none too bright sometimes. lol

[Echo In Light]

9. No prob...none of us are likely half as bright as we prefer to cast ourselves as being

;)

[Ignis]

6. K&R, with a side of quotes for the kiddies:

Drugs:

You never see a positive drug story on the news. They always have the same LSD story. You've all seen it: "Today a young man on acid...thought he could fly...jumped out of a building...what a tragedy!" What a dick. He's an idiot. If he thought he could fly why didn't he take off from the ground first? Check it out? You don't see geese lined up to catch elevators to fly south; they fly from the fucking ground. He's an idiot. He's dead. Good! We lost a moron. Fucking celebrate. There's one less moron in the world.

---

Wouldn't you like to see a positive LSD story on the news? To base your decision on information rather than scare tactics and superstition?, perhaps? Wouldn't that be interesting? Just for once?

"Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration – that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather."

Intelligence:

I've noticed a certain anti-intellectualism going around this country; since about 1980, oddly enough. … I was in Nashville, Tennessee, and after the show I went to a Waffle House. I'm not proud of it, but I was hungry. And I'm sitting there eating and reading a book. I don't know anybody, I'm alone, so I'm reading a book. The waitress comes over to me like, {gum smacking} "What'chu readin' for?" I had never been asked that. Not "What am I reading?", but "What am I reading for?" Goddangit, you stumped me. Hmm, why do I read? I suppose I read for a lot of reasons, one of the main ones being so I don't end up being a fucking waffle waitress.

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You ever notice that everyone who believes in creationism looks really unevolved? Eyes real close together, big furry hands and feet. "I believe God created me in one day." Yeah, looks like He rushed it.

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And I'll tell you something too. That's starting to annoy me about UFOs, the fact that they cross galaxies or universes to visit us, and always end up in places like … Fyffe fucking Alabama. Maybe these aren't super-intelligent beings, you know what I mean?

Also, see here for more info on new books, movies, etc.: http://www.billhicks.com/

[Initech]

17. He is available for children's parties, by the way.

[Ignis]

24. "I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel..."

"...But I am, so that's how it comes out."

[EFerrari]

8. Part 1 of 3: Letterman's memorial to Bill Hicks w/ Bill's mom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUbB_D-dYp8

:hi:

[Abies]

10. What is really sad is how most everything he said is relevant (n/t)

[Initech]

19. Pro-lifers murdering people... base-level irony but I like it!

[Ignis]

33. Saint Hicks had a hard-on for the anti-choice crowd.

You ever look at their faces? "We're pro-life." Don't they look it? Don't they just exude joie de vivre?

[Initech]

36. I love his bit on marketing and advertising:

"Oh by the way if anyone here is in marketing or advertising - kill yourself. No this is not a joke seriously kill yourself, you have no rationalization for what you do, you are Satan's little helpers. I bet you sleep like fuckin' babies at night. "Oh hi honey how was your day?" "Oh we made arsenic-flavored children's food. We just asked the question are your kids complaining too much?."

[BlueIris]

11. RIP, indeed. My favorite Bill Hicks was the bit about how he hated the fundie

belief that evolution wasn't real because "god only put dinosaur bones on earth to test our faith." Bill said that even if that were true, the whole idea of a prankster god really turned him off.

[tigereye]

12. brilliant and greatly missed. Hilarious.

[myrna minx]

13. Rip. n/t

[Initech]

14. See I think drugs have done good things for us, I really do.

If you don't think drugs have done anything good, do me this favor - go home tonight, tale all your albums, tapes and CDs and burn them. Because you know the musicians who created all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years? Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreal fucking high on drugs. Man the Beatles were so high they let Ringo sing a couple tunes, tell me they weren't partying!

RIP.

[Last_Stand]

15. "They had to pull Ringo off the ceiling with a rake to sing that fucking song." n/t

[Initech]

16. Oh and these musicians today who dont do drugs and speak out against them? Boy they suck!

SUCK!!! Ballless, soulless, spiritless, whiny little corporate bitches, suckers of Satan's cock each and every one of 'em!!

[Echo In Light]

18. Bump

[Initech]

20. There are dick jokes on the way plese relax.

[Overseas]

21. K&R-- with thanks for his great routines! //nt

[taterguy]

22. Couldn't we feasibly use that technology to shoot food at hungry people?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCGA9p2-jAo

[Echo In Light]

29. +1

[givemebackmycountry]

23. I love Bill Hicks -

I have a dvd of Bill's appearance on one of Rodney's Dangerfield's first "Young Comedians Special" with:

Lenny Clark
Dom Irrera
Andrew "Dice" Clay
Carol Leifer
Robert Schemmel
Barry Sobel and
Bill Hicks.

Bill Hicks was outstanding.

His bit about a cheating ex-girlfriend seeing him on HBO while she lies trapped under her naked, hairy, 400lb, sweaty, boils on his ass, dead, bile running out of his mouth into her face, redneck trailer park living boyfriend still kills me to this day.

He says something like:

"Hey I'm on TV! How you doin"?

[EFerrari]

40. I liked "Do you think when Jesus comes back he wants to see all those crosses?

No, Dad, I'm not going back -- they're still wearing crosses, they missed the whole point. "

lol

[upi402]

25. I remember music was promoted if the people liked it

Now it's cute chicks/dudes who can sing about fuck all, only.
A National hole where there used to be soul.

[XOKCowboy]

26. He's truly missed....

RIP Bill. Thanks.

[NC_Nurse]

27. His comedy is still spot on. Nothing's changed. Same shit, different decades.

RIP, Bill. :loveya:

[Initech]

32. I'm listening to Rant In E-Minor right now. It's one of those life-changing albums.

[XOKCowboy]

28. 10 minutes of the Best Of Bill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXgzzZXOMIg&feature=related

Rest in Peace old friend.

[Abies]

34. That's great. Thank you.

[XOKCowboy]

41. You are very welcome...

Plus it gives me a chance to kick for the nite owls. ;)

:kick:

[Echo In Light]

30. Another: mandatory marijuana

"I'm a hard liner."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZqYV9KKOZQ

[raouldukelives]

31. Very much missed

RIP Bill

[eppur_se_muova]

35. Bookmarked to savor later. Welcome to DU, Last_Stand! nt

[Gabi Hayes]

37. anybody seen/heard these:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1179947/

http://www.directorsnotes.com/2009/11/01/dn-lff09-american-the-bill-hicks-story-matt-harlock-paul-thomas/

[XOKCowboy]

38. Did you see this quote he wrote after he was diagnosed?

I left in love, in laughter, and in truth and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.

Peace Bill.

[Warren DeMontague]

39. Yep.

A Big K & R & R.I.P.



:kick:

[Greyhound]

42. Bill will always get a K&R from me.

[spiritual_gunfighter]

43. Bill Hicks was a genius

I miss him very much, and it is a fucking crime that Dennis Leary gets away with hijacking Hicks act and becoming a millionaire. I wish Hicks was here to defend himself.

[Fuzz]

47. +1

[TheUnspeakable]

44. k&r

[Leftist Agitator]

45. Why is Dennis Leary famous and Bill Hicks isn't?

Because there's no cure for cancer.

Oh, and fuck Dennis Leary for stealing Bill Hicks' whole goddamned act...