Pedestal
Another one for the road!
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- Mon 14 May Bit of an about turn of events…I’ll be heading back to Singapore this Sunday for a couple of weeks to play… http://t.co/vxOeo3ZD
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There Is No Love
Just about to go board a plane, but here’s a little something we recorded at Eastern Bloc Studios late last year. A big thank you to Ben Dumas and Matthew Neighbour for letting me slave-drive them to death while putting it all together. More videos to come soon, promise!
KOTOR
My attempt to follow the Republican primary, or what’s left of it anyway, would have been a lot more nauseating if not for the daily dose of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s comedic cushioning. It’s hard to escape the whole illuminati cliché when you’re trawling YouTube for some counterpunches to right wing agitprop, but you have to admit it’s getting easier to deduce that the system is governed by a handful of predesignated krangs looking out for their own homies while setting up a well-lit circus to present their troupe of floundering presidential wannabes to the ever-hopeful ninety-nine percent who are still looking for “real change”. Every debate has been littered full of wonderful distractions, but peel back the minor bickering and you’ll find that both parties are really under the same roof. Once again, the landlords will be cashing in regardless of the outcome, and everyone else will have to clean up the mess.
Then there is Ron Paul, the only candidate who is least likely to be a shapeshifting reptilian and appears to be just as pissed off as the rest of us. There is little doubt about his message’s consistency, and it’s easy to see why his policies are appealing, especially to the incensed youth. It’s a simple killer combination of raging against the machine while implementing the golden rule of doing onto others what you expect in return. While there are just as many skeptics who have branded him a madman for being overly simplistic, you have to wonder whether that cynicism is largely derived from the fear of an old system being drastically overhauled and taken to where it’s never been before. But even if they are right, the only problem with Ron Paul would be that he just has way too much faith in humanity. And well, if there really are darker and more twisted powers at work currently incapable of being brought down by a president and his people anyway, then he’s probably better off not being elected for his own sake.
It’s quite strange; you get overwhelmed and disillusioned by all of this crap for a while, but then you find your way back into the groove, like none of it mattered in the first place.
I mean, I’m just a musician. So what do I know, right?
Prayer
C.S. Lewis on prayer, from the 1993 film Shadowlands.
I have a lot of trouble believing in an interventionist God, but I still cry out to him anyway.