[NewMusic] More anti-carbon floop-print poopoganda

[Michael Henry]

Gino Robair wrote:


>>Like all of us on the list, I will continue  being "positive" and
"constructive" by creating music-sound-art. However, it's the fact that "we"
have to educate the masses that there are sonic alternatives to the music
equivalent of fast food that makes "us" work harder than ever as an artist.
It's certainly not bitterness. Just trying to save the planet, mister. And
getting angry is somewhat unavoidable during times like these... :-)


I hear you Gino. I'm angry too.

Warning.....I have a bug up my ass about this....and it is a lightning bug.

I've noticed a significant amount of postings lately on this list that are essentially about some sort political-musical connection, whether it be "ecto (sic..."plasmic?") touring" or some other subject.

You know...like that need to "educate the masses" about the "evil corporate" influences that are degrading our culture, killing our art (not to mention lots of people and wildlife), and so on.

Well, here is a question I would like to pose, to you folks who are so musically/politically aware and active:

How come so many of you have My-Fucking-Rupert-Murdoch-Space pages (proudly advertised in your email signatures)?

I mean, please explain to me why you put your art up on a site where the resulting ad revenue enriches one of the most evil fucking propagandists on the fucking planet. I really would really like to know.....is it just cluelessness, i.e you are unaware of who owns My-Fucking-Rupert-Murdoch-Space.com? Or do you just not care? Because those are the only possible answers to my question that I can see. If there are more answers that I am unaware of, I'd certainly like to hear them.

I mean, even the Wired piece Gino forwarded, which snidely quips about Pepsi's corporate sponsorship of this event (which I'm happy to join in on), has links at the bottom "for previewing the bands on MySpace" as if somehow that is not the same. Excuse me while I puke.

Just take for example, one of San Francisco's own, one of the famous anarcho-punk "politically aware" bands....I quote: " not interested in having any racist, sexist, fascist or homophobic friends (here on My-Fucking Rupert-Murdoch-Fox-Nooze-Racist-Sexist-Fascist-Homophobic-Propaganda-Space.com). If you consider yourself one of these please DO NOT send a friend request. Also anyone who voted for Bush can just take their Avengers CDs and... cash them in at the used record store, right now. Everyone has a right to their beliefs and everyone has a right to choose their friends."

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=3127605

Well, Penelope and the Avengers. I'm sorry to say this but I think I know who Rupert-Fucking-Murdoch voted for. I hope he burned his Avengers CD's after he saw your page.

You say, "We Are Not Fascist Pigs"......Oh, puhleeese. Rupert-Fucking-Murdoch is certainly one of the biggest fascist pigs in history. So why do you want to help enrich one of the biggest fascist pig bastards on the planet by having a presence on the site he owns? Or is it OK as long as the fascist pig gives you some of his gruel in return?

Another example....A friend of mine recently contacted me. He is active in Green Party politics, in Colorado. His band has played at many Green Party events, fundrasers, etc.

He calls me up to pick my brain about marketing his band, because they have a new CD in the can and he says to me, "Well, we really need to get a web presence....so I suppose a Myspace page would be obligatory."

I'll spare you the rest of the conversation. Please use your artistic imagination.

I'm really sorry to bring this up in such an angry manner. But I'm feeling angry tonight. After so many years of bush-shit and associated propaganda, there are days when I wonder if I am sane, or if it is that the only "sane" people left are the ones that society labels as "insane." Because if Bush or Rupert Murdoch is sane, I'm definitely not.

So I'd really like someone here to justify or explain to me their My-Fucking-Rupert-Murdoch-Fox-Nooze-Evil-Corporate-Bastard-Space.com presence. Please, oh please enlighten me because the lightning bug up my ass just flew away, and I have no more light left to read with and I don't watch TV. I carry a TV-B-Gone with me wherever I go, and despite my age, my trigger finger has a reflex time of less than a nanosecond.

And one more thing....I read earlier today that Rupert-Fucking-Murdoch is getting worried. So someone out there had better post some more stuff to his site in order to make him happy again:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/may/07/rupertmurdoch.usa?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews

Poopagandaly yours,

-MH