TIM ARMSTRONG - INTO ACTION
(featuring Skye Sweetnam)

Let’s get moving into action
Let’s get moving into action
If your life’s too slow, no satisfaction
Find something out there, there’s an attraction
If you hesitate now, that’s a subtraction
So, let’s get moving girl into action

We take the 43 bus, we got no plans
The girl in the miniskirt, her name’s Suzanne, right
The one with in high heel boots is Sharon
And Karen is the one with the blonde wig on
And with a bullet, man, we’re going number one
And we don’t need any money to have any fun

Let’s get moving into action
Let’s get moving into action
If your life’s too slow, no satisfaction
Find something out there, there’s an attraction
If you hesitate now, that’s a subtraction
So, let’s get moving girl into action

We take the Trans-Bay Tube on the Richmond line
Leave S.F. at eight, East Bay by nine
We may run out of money tonight never out of time
Harmon street we kick, it going to Adeline
It’s anybody’s guess how late were gonna run
We go all night alright to midnight just begun

Let’s get moving into action
Let’s get moving into action
If your life’s too slow, no satisfaction
Find something out there, there’s an attraction
If you hesitate now, that’s a subtraction
So, let’s get moving girl into action

Well when we showed up on the scene, we tried to warn them
That your days were over and the ship was sunken
Respect to New York, respect to London
But we’re from California and our State is Golden

We’re gonna dig dig dig in deep hold our sacred ground
When the music come playing then you jump up, jump down
If you hook up the speakers, man, we’ll bring the sound
And the music will be heard from miles and miles around
We got songs of redemption, songs of war
We got songs like this that can pack the dance floor

Let’s get moving into action
Let’s get moving into action
If your life’s too slow, no satisfaction
Find something out there, there’s an attraction
If you hesitate now, that’s a subtraction
So, let’s get moving girl into action

Saw a great movie yesterday about skinheads in England in the early 1980s, called “This is England” …

Highly recommended. The film focused on a young boy of 12, whose father was killed in the Falklands War in 1982. In the movie, Shaun (played by newcomer Thomas Turgoose), was being picked on by kids at his school … on the way home he was rescued by a small group of skinheads, who took him under their wing.

At first, this group of skins was more traditional, working-class, traditional skins, who grew out of the mod movement of the 1960s … while fighting was definitely a part of their ethos, the racist elements had yet to fully invade; this was a time when both white and black skinheads hung out together, and music was often more influenced by Motown R&B, ska and reggae than by punk rock. Think of the two-tone mod-ska movement of the early 1980s, but with Dr. Martens boots (also known as “Docs”) and red braces, instead of suits and Vespas.

But things change … and disaffected youth are easily influenced … and when the National Front came calling, a number of the group signed up, including young Shaun … until a tragic event opens his eyes.

See the movie; buy it, rent it from Netflix … just see it.