Watch: Ken Tanaka at the Smithsonian in Washington D.C.
Oh, yes it does.
Listen: “No Place Like Home” by Devo
Edited to the masterpiece animation Automania 2000.
A song of truth and beauty for you
In the bigger scheme of things
We haven’t been around here more than a moment
And yet too many, it seems, believe
We are creating a brand new world around us
We are creating a brand new world without us
Maybe it really is ok
Although, we’re digging our own graves
At this moment
If we should all just disappear
The skies and waters will clear in a world without us
And there’s no place like home
There’s no place like home
There’s no place like home
To return to
We push against the rest of life
As if we can survive without the world around us
Can’t have a rainbow without the rain
Can’t have a painting without the pain
Can’t have a lover walk out without the love
Leaving with them
There’s no place like home
No place like home
To return to
And there’s no place like home
There’s no place like home
There’s no place like home
To return to
And there’s no place like home
there’s no place like home
there’s no place like home
To return to
And there’s no place like home
there’s no place like home
there’s no place like home
To return to
Listen: “Thirteen Men” by Ann-Margaret
Last night I was dreamin’
I dreamed about the H-Bomb
Well the bomb went off and I was caught
I was the only gal on the ground
Mmm, there were 13 men and me the only gal in town
Uh, there were 13 men and me the only gal in town
And, as funny as it may be
The one and only gal in town was me
Uh, 13 men and me the only gal in town
Uh, there were two men every morning
A-seein’ that I was well fed
And believ-a you me, one sweetened my tea
While the other one a-buttered my bread
Uh, 2 men giv-a me oil wells
Uh, 2 men giv-a me gold
And another sweet thing bought me a diamond ring
About a-forty carats I am told
Ah, 13 men and me the only gal in town, uh
Uh, there were 13 men and me the only gal around
It was something I can’t forget
‘Cause I think of those a-13 a-gentlemen yet…
Uh, 13 men and me the only gal around
Mmm. well there were 3 guys dancin’ the Mambo
Uh, 3 guys ballin’ the jack
And all the rest really did their best
Boy, surely was a lively pack
Ah, 13 men and me the only gal in town
There were 13 men and me the only gal around
Though she won’t tell you where she’s been
‘Cause it was a just a dream I hope I dream again
Uh, 13 men and me the only ga-hal around
Uh, there were 13 men and me around
There were 13 men and me the only livin’ gal in town…
Meet: Josephine Baker
“Josephine Baker (June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975) was an American dancer, singer, and actress who found fame in her adopted homeland of France. She was given such nicknames as the “Bronze Venus”, the “Black Pearl”, and the “Créole Goddess”.
Baker was the first African American female to star in a major motion picture, to integrate an American concert hall, and to become a world-famous entertainer. She is also noted for her contributions to the Civil Rights Movement in the United States (she was offered the unofficial leadership of the movement by Coretta Scott King in 1968 following Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, but turned it down),[3] for assisting the French Resistance during World War II,[4] and for being the first American-born woman to receive the French military honor, the Croix de guerre.
Baker worked with the NAACP.[4] In 1963, she spoke at the March on Washington at the side of Martin Luther King, Jr.[17] Wearing her Free French uniform emblazoned with her medal of the Légion d’honneur, she was the only woman to speak at the rally.[18] After King’s assassination, his widow Coretta Scott King approached Baker in Holland to ask if she would take her husband’s place as leader of the American Civil Rights Movement. After many days of thinking it over, Baker declined, saying her children were “too young to lose their mother”.[3]
Baker had 12 children through adoption. She bore only one child herself, stillborn in 1941, an incident which precipitated an emergency hysterectomy. Baker raised two daughters, French-born Marianne and Moroccan-born Stellina, and ten sons, Korean-born Akio, Japanese-born Jeannot (or Janot), Colombian-born Luis, Finnish-born Jari, French-born Jean-Claude and Noël, Israeli-born Moïse, Algerian-born Brahim, Ivorian-born Koffi, and Venezuelan-born Mara.[19][20] For some time, Baker lived with her children and an enormous staff in a castle, Château de Milandes, in Dordogne, France.”
