Live 8 couch potatoness

[rebness]

It was incredibly easy to remain cynical about Live 8 when Will Smith tried to rally people across America, Europe and Asia to click their fingers, then to spoil the moment by going on and on about his hometown. The concept of the three-second thing resonates, but it's too easy to dismiss the concerts as a stunt or ultimately worthless (as alleged in the media) when one doesn't have to put faces to the dead.

It was quite another thing when Bob Geldof brought on a beautiful young Ethiopian woman who was captured on film as a mere baby close to death from starvation, declaring that she had survived through the help of Live Aid. Oh, God. Please let more lives be saved because of this. We owe it to that gorgeous young woman who spoke so earnestly.

Still not buying Madonna's new accent, though.

ETA: Peter Kay-- LMFAO!! He's going to be in so much trouble. >:)

Comments

[wig-maker.livejournal.com]

I thought that was a beautiful moment to bring that woman on stage, to the world. Are you listening world?

[rebness.livejournal.com]

It's horrible to think that the fate of further people like her rest, in the end, on a dozen or so people. But God, she looked so happy and so healthy and so... alive. I can't imagine anyone not being touched by that.

[wig-maker.livejournal.com]

At the end of the day it's stupid that she even had to be brought before their eyes just to prove there's good coming from all of this, but in the face of what is happening and what is being ignored I'm glad she was there. And I'm mostly happy that she, and some others, will have survived. Though more would have if these people weren't off playing golf or whatthehellever.