Meta Physics-Music-Harleys-Home Brewing
Desperate nerds in high offices all over the world have been known to enact the most disgusting pieces of legislation in order to win votes (or, in places where they don't get to vote, to control unwanted forms of mass behavior). Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water... they were passed to get votes. Seasonal anti-smut campaigns are not conducted to rid our communities of moral rot...they are conducted to give an aura of saintliness to the office-seekers who demand them. If a few key phrases are thrown into any speech (as the expert advisors explain to these various heads of state) votes will roll in, bucks will roll in, and, most importantly, power will be maintained by the groovy guy (or gal) who gets the most media coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in various businesses will do okay too. All governments perpetuate themselves through the daily commission of act which a rational person might find to be stupid or dangerous (or both). Naturally, our government is no exception... for instance, if the President (any one of them) went on TV and sat there with the flag in the background (or maybe a rustic scene on a little backdrop, plus the flag) and stared sincerely into the camera and told everybody that all energy problems and all inflationary problems had been traced to and could be solved by the abolition of MUSIC, chances are that most people would believe him and think that the illegalization of this obnoxious form of noise pollution would be a small price to pay for the chance to buy gas like the good ol' days. No way? Never happen? Records are made out of oil. All those big rock shows go from town to town in fuel-gobbling 45 foot trucks...and when they get there, they use up enormous amounts of electrical energy with their lights, their amplifiers, their PA systems...their smoke machines. And all those synthesizers...look at all the plastic they got in 'em...and the guitar picks...you name it...
Iggy Pop & the Stooges, Anti-Flag, Roky Erickson, Soul Coughing, Exploited, Black Flag, Trower, Montrose, X, Zappa, Mojo Nixon, COBRETTI, Blue Cheer, DEPUTY PIGZ, SRV, Vandals, Misfits, Sex Pistols, Bowie, KISS, Wishbone Ash, DEVO, Cramps,Circle Jerks
MATRIX: Take the red pill. It is time to get unplugged.
"I am gross and perverted. I'm obsessed 'n deranged. I have existed for years, but very little has changed. I am the tool of the government, and industry too, for I am destined to rule and regulate you. I may be vile and pernicious, but you can't look away. I make you think I'm delicious, with the stuff that I say. I am the best you can get. Have you guessed me yet? I AM THE SLIME OOZIN' OUT FROM YOUR TV SET. You will obey me while I lead you, and eat the garbage that I feed you, until the day that we don't need you. Don't go for help no one, no one will heed you. Your mind is totally controlled, it has been stuffed into a mold, and you will do as you are told until the rights to you are sold. That's right folks .. DON'T TOUCH THAT DIAL!! Well, I am the slime from your video, oozin' along on your living room floor. I am the slime from your video, can't stop the slime, lookit me go"
You are epistles, read of all men
Neil Young: never sold out. Hunter S. Thompson.