I'm going to refute Gleemer, though I do recall Violent Green in Seattle.
Ok, Richard Linklater's slacker was a major influence on this song. Hence 'Richard said "withdrawl in disgust is not the same as apathy"' comes from Slacker.
But "Lady Slings the Blues" by Spider Robinson. The character in 'Lady' wears a shirt of violent green.
As for "What's the Frequency", that is definitively the Dan Rather attacker and the saying has become mainstream.
So I think this is an ode to Spider Robinson's work and it uses Slacker and the Rather attack to denote the delusional world Robinson wrote of and how it made Stipe feel (the reading on the fiction).
@marcevan So another thing I have been wondering about: what colour, exactly, is "violent green?" (It strikes me as the sort of bizarro superspecific colour name that might be found in a clothing catalogue — though perhaps not of the L.L. Bean or Victoria's Secret varieties.)
@marcevan So another thing I have been wondering about: what colour, exactly, is "violent green?" (It strikes me as the sort of bizarro superspecific colour name that might be found in a clothing catalogue — though perhaps not of the L.L. Bean or Victoria's Secret varieties.)
I'm going to refute Gleemer, though I do recall Violent Green in Seattle.
Ok, Richard Linklater's slacker was a major influence on this song. Hence 'Richard said "withdrawl in disgust is not the same as apathy"' comes from Slacker.
But "Lady Slings the Blues" by Spider Robinson. The character in 'Lady' wears a shirt of violent green.
As for "What's the Frequency", that is definitively the Dan Rather attacker and the saying has become mainstream.
So I think this is an ode to Spider Robinson's work and it uses Slacker and the Rather attack to denote the delusional world Robinson wrote of and how it made Stipe feel (the reading on the fiction).
@marcevan So another thing I have been wondering about: what colour, exactly, is "violent green?" (It strikes me as the sort of bizarro superspecific colour name that might be found in a clothing catalogue — though perhaps not of the L.L. Bean or Victoria's Secret varieties.)
@marcevan So another thing I have been wondering about: what colour, exactly, is "violent green?" (It strikes me as the sort of bizarro superspecific colour name that might be found in a clothing catalogue — though perhaps not of the L.L. Bean or Victoria's Secret varieties.)
@marcevan I’m thinking neon green, it was a popular choice for the ‘youth’ at that time, other than the grunge or goth that was on the cusp. Maybe?
@marcevan I’m thinking neon green, it was a popular choice for the ‘youth’ at that time, other than the grunge or goth that was on the cusp. Maybe?