Hey, remember John from Cincinnati, that wispy, maddening enigma of a series that was on HBO last summer? A year later, and I still can't quite figure what the show was about, but I don't mind it, and I think that's mostly because of the song under the opening credits - "Johnny Appleseed" by Joe Strummer (1952-2002) and The Mescaleros (once of The Clash, "London Calling," and one of my all-time favorites, "Rock the Casbah" ... Shareef don't like it...)
So here's the best of John from Cincinnati, that opening song, in Joe Strummer's original video ... and, hey, just for good measure, I'd put on Rock the Casbah, too ... the immortal soul of punk ... but embedding has been disabled (he thinks it's not kosher...)
My reviews of John from Cincinnati: Some Thoughts on John (from Cincinnati) ... Episode Two ... Episode Three ... Episode Four ... Episode 5 ... Episode 6 ... Episode 7 ... Episode 8 ... Episode 9 ... Episode 10
See also John from Cincinnati: The Meaning in a Sentence or Two and John from Cincinnati is ... Neo in the Matrix!
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