Amos Poe
Amos Poe is an American New York City-based director and screenwriter, described by The New York Times as a "pioneering indie filmmaker."
Career
Amos Poe is one of the first punk filmmakers and his film The Blank Generation (1976)—co-directed with Ivan Kral— is one of the earliest punk films. The film featured performances by Richard Hell, Talking Heads, Television, Patti Smith and Wayne County.
He is also associated with the birth of No Wave Cinema due to films such as The Foreigner (1978), featuring Eric Mitchell, Debbie Harry, Anya Phillips, and Subway Riders (1981), starring Susan Tyrrell, Robbie Coltrane and Cookie Mueller. During this time he was also the director of the Public-access television cable TV show TV Party hosted by Glenn O'Brien and Chris Stein.
He is part of the Remodernist film movement, which he described as the next development of Postmodernist and the transformation of existing cultural features, but "using the technology and the sensibility of contemporary rather than nostalgia". "My idea of my work's importance is to see how it moves the culture to where I'd like to see it," Poe said in a 1981 interview.
Podcasts:
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by Ice Cube
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by Lissie
Why Me
by: Ice CubeWhy the f**k you wanna murder me?
Your punk ass never heard of me
I never did nothin' to your family
Still you wanna kill a young ni**er randomly
You wanna take the life God handed to me
Send it back to him coz you ain't a fan to me
Scary bitch with a gun that ain't a man to me
That's an animal,
A f**king cannibal
I'm Duranimo(?) and Hannibal
We international Gangsta bull
I'm bull and Barcelona, with a karona
You a fake ass ni**er, where's ya owner?
I'm real live man, you a persona
Now I'm a goner, call ma momma, in the corner
Mister gun man, your plan is working
Coz ni**ers is dieing and mommas is hurting
[Chorus]
Why you wanna murder me?
You never ever heard of me
You don't know who I am
I could be part of your family tree
Sent by G.O.D
To save the word you and me
You never know who you facin'
Who ya chasin'
The life you wastin'
[Verse 2]
I was made by the one and only G.O.D
To take my life to the T.O.P
Now here comes a motherf**kin' D.O.G
Who ain't happy til a ni**er is R.I.P
Tryin' to be som'in' you saw on BET
Either T.I.P or B.I.G
I don't give a f**k what you saw on TV
But a 187 don't make a O.G.
I'm a O.G
Never had to fake it
God gave me this, how you goin' take it
What you goin' tell 'em, when you get to heaven
when he asks you why did you send back his present.
Who the f**k are you, you motherf**king peasant
Even got the nerve to ask the man for a blessing.
Send his ass to Hades with his big Mercedes
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Ni**er, hell on earth is being stuck in the 80's
[Chorus]
Why you wanna murder me?
You never ever heard of me
You don't know who I am
I could be part of your family tree
Sent by G.O.D
To save the word you and me
You never know who you facin'
Who ya chasin'
The life you wastin'
[Verse 3]
Before you shoot me man think about it
lets go have a drink about it
Before you make a stink about it
man lets talk about it
maybe we can walk about it.
But just don't be a coward
and take my life 'cause you got the power
of the white mans gun powder
coz you might face a gun tower.
And time never run out,
They take the fun out, til your life run out.
So don't pull your gun out,
If you ever want a house, just like Run's house.
It's better than a big house,
Less four-five some woman we can dig out,
Find a place we can dig out,
Party all night til the owner say 'get out'
[Chorus]
Why you wanna murder me?
You never ever heard of me
You don't know who I am
I could be part of your family tree
Sent by G.O.D
To save the word you and me
You never know who you facin'
Who ya chasin'
The life you wastin'
[Outro]
Dedicated to all the ni**ers, thats dead and don't know why.
Who wanna look at the ni**er who shot 'em
And ask these questions.