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Seth Martin

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BANJO JAM @ MIKE'S CABIN, SINCHON, KOREA. WORLD AIDS FUNDRAISER, DECEMBER 1ST, 2007. "If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what a people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. Men may not get all they pay for in this world; but they must pay for all they get. If we ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and, if needs be, by our lives, and the lives of others."--Frederick Douglass GOODBYE GOODBYE (minus 1st verse) @ SNET Teacher Training Seminar, January 2008, South Korea
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Member Since: 9/13/2006
Band Website: openmic.folkalley.com/SethMartin
Band Members: News: 1. THE IRAQISTAN WAR (number 578) , and Well of Eternity on Neil Young’s Living With War website. 2. Looking for places to play and bands to play with in Seoul. --Seth ************************************************************ *************** ************************************************************ ****************Band members have included tin cans, guitars, banjos, out of tune drums, keyboards, synths, harps, violins, piano, toilet flushes, cheap plastic fans (as opposed to the expensive human ones), among other things.And there are the people: David Fuller, Brittn Grey, Valerie Schull, Jamie Klanderud, Anthony Zucati, DeWayne Strange, Dustin Conant, and, among others, Seth Martin.Demand Seth Martin with Eventful!
Influences: dirt, peace, fear, water, heat, goodwill, contradiction, love, hate, hypocrisy, consumption, laughter, violence, sleep, ADAM SWEENEY, DAVID FULLER, BILL JOLLIFF, NEIL YOUNG, TOM WAITS, BALLYDOWSE, DEVENDRA BANHART, JOHN DENVER, JOAN BAEZ, BOB DYLAN, PHIL OCHS, SIGUR ROS, JOHN MICHAEL TALBOT, MARILYN MANSON, IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE, RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, JOANNA NEWSOM, SIMON AND GARFUNKEL, CAT STEVENS, PETE SEEGER, BILL MALLONEE, BRUCE COCKBURN, DERROLL ADAMS, BELA FLECK, DAVE GIBB, DEVOTCHKA, UTAH PHILLIPS, IARLA O LIONAIRD, IRON AND WINE, NICK DRAKE, NIRVANA, SMASHING PUMPKINS, JOSEPH MARTIN. "I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence." --Frederick Douglass
Sounds Like: I CONSUME --Spring 2008, Seoul Bluegrass Festival, South Korea THE IRAQISTAN WAR --January 20, 2008, Itaewon, Seoul South Korea GOODBYE, GOODBYE -- December 3, 2007, Sunae, Korea BRAVEST FIRE -- December 3, 2007, Sunae, Korea WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS--w/6th Grade Korean Students
Record Label: (noun) a large, grotesque, flesh-eating monster.
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My Blog

The Iraqistan War (Lyrics)

Note: I wrote this song after reading a news article about US soldiers in Afghanistan causing an uproar by letting dead bodies of natives bloat and stink above ground unattended, only to torch them wh...
Posted by Seth Martin on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 09:34:00 PST

New Lyrics--for another unfinished song, "on unity and blazing glory"

My reflection smiles softly to me From behind a broken window&Pain, and calls out my namestarts to sing of blood and lies and sufferingAnd asks me if my thoughts are freeAnd asks me if my thoughts are...
Posted by Seth Martin on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:58:00 PST

Lyrics for an upcoming song, "Francois"...

These are the lyrics (as of now) of a kind of a terrified bedtime tune I wrote in an attempt to capture some of the feelings that I had when I saw a photograph of a malnourished infant that my mother-...
Posted by Seth Martin on Thu, 31 May 2007 07:21:00 PST

A longer explanation of the music, and my background...

I am just out of college, just out of my home country, and just coming out of a lot of changes concerning beliefs and actions religious and political. I am trying daily to learn more about myself and ...
Posted by Seth Martin on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 10:02:00 PST

Guantanamo Bay: History of a "Legal [and Convenient] Black Hole"

NOTE:I wrote the following essay in late April 2006. Therefore it does not take into account the most recent developments in American and International Law concerning Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and ot...
Posted by Seth Martin on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 05:43:00 PST

Material Mysticism

"Because this mystery is horrible to us, we have agreed for the most part to live in a world of labels&.We simply do not attempt to unite with Reality." --Evelyn Underhill *******I recently read Evely...
Posted by Seth Martin on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 06:36:00 PST

MORE "PROOF" THAT SOCIALISM IS THE GREAT EVIL OF OUR TIME!

"THE SOCIALIST TEN COMMANDMENTS: USED IN ALL THE SOCIALIST SUNDAY SCHOOLS, AND COMMITTED TO MEMORY BY THE CHILDREN:1. Love your School Companions, who will be your co-workers in life.2. Love Learning ...
Posted by Seth Martin on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 06:04:00 PST

A "sermon": &But the Poor You Will ALWAYS Have With You

Preface: Consider this satirical essay an attempt to sort out much of what I have grown up hearing and to a great extent believing concerning the poor, God, Love, justice, and my place in all of this-...
Posted by Seth Martin on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 06:23:00 PST

Siegfried Sassoon and the Church/State war machine in WWI

Siegfried Sassoon's fictional autobiography, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, presents a multifaceted and often painful representation of the role of Christian religion in Britain on the Home Front and...
Posted by Seth Martin on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 06:12:00 PST

R.I.P. Brad Will (1970-2006): You died for life. Your gift will not be in vain.

"NYC Indymedia Journalist Brad Will Shot Dead by Government Forces in Oaxaca /Brad Will, Documentalista Neoyorquino de Indymedia, Asesinado Por Balas del Gobierno en Oaxaca" (http://www.phillyimc.org/...
Posted by Seth Martin on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 05:59:00 PST