So, I originally bought the "This Machine Kills Fascists" sticker for my guitar. The sticker was made famous by Woody Guthrie who frequently performed with the slogan displayed on his guitar.
The guitars of musicians who write songs about politics and/or societal idiosyncrasies can be fascists killers. All it takes is a message, an idea, and your fellow countrymen to hear it, feel it, know it, and respond to it.
I have an ol' pal in Libertarian Party of Chicago who always tells me, "What we need is a rock group." I couldn't agree more, T.
Rock, punk, funk, folk, you name it. The message of liberty must come through these expressions of the American voice, and it must come now.
Polygraph Radio is setting up shop for a lot of these artists. Polygraph Radio houses mostly New World Order heavy duty stuff. It may not fit everyone's taste, but nothing fits everyone's taste. Point is, it's the music of many Americans who have begun to see the world with new eyes.
My Facebook friend, Gus Amador, is doing his part, too. Check out his music at http://www.myspace.com/gusamador.
Now, I write about liberty almost everyday on this blog, but my music is different. My guitar, a wooden box of rain and thunder that lends itself so freely to me when I feel a storm coming but can't see the words on the road. And that's quite alright because we've had the words of freedom for as long as we've had America. What we need more of is the vibration of freedom. Music moves people. You can't have a movement without music.
So to get back to that sticker. It was too small for my guitar, so I put it on my laptop - right over the apple logo. Until I become a musical outlaw, I can kill all the fascists I want to with this machine.
PS - Note to the world: I have never seen another person with the "This Machine Kills Fascists" sticker on their computer. I claim today, as I sit in this hipster hangout, that I started the fad, and that I am a true hipster - one who leads mostly and follows sometimes.
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The guitars of musicians who write songs about politics and/or societal idiosyncrasies can be fascists killers. All it takes is a message, an idea, and your fellow countrymen to hear it, feel it, know it, and respond to it.
I have an ol' pal in Libertarian Party of Chicago who always tells me, "What we need is a rock group." I couldn't agree more, T.
Rock, punk, funk, folk, you name it. The message of liberty must come through these expressions of the American voice, and it must come now.
Polygraph Radio is setting up shop for a lot of these artists. Polygraph Radio houses mostly New World Order heavy duty stuff. It may not fit everyone's taste, but nothing fits everyone's taste. Point is, it's the music of many Americans who have begun to see the world with new eyes.
My Facebook friend, Gus Amador, is doing his part, too. Check out his music at http://www.myspace.com/gusamador.
Now, I write about liberty almost everyday on this blog, but my music is different. My guitar, a wooden box of rain and thunder that lends itself so freely to me when I feel a storm coming but can't see the words on the road. And that's quite alright because we've had the words of freedom for as long as we've had America. What we need more of is the vibration of freedom. Music moves people. You can't have a movement without music.
So to get back to that sticker. It was too small for my guitar, so I put it on my laptop - right over the apple logo. Until I become a musical outlaw, I can kill all the fascists I want to with this machine.
PS - Note to the world: I have never seen another person with the "This Machine Kills Fascists" sticker on their computer. I claim today, as I sit in this hipster hangout, that I started the fad, and that I am a true hipster - one who leads mostly and follows sometimes.
Image by strph
i can't believe that you don't like the Black Eye Peas, i love them! i read all of your articles and i found them very informing. i really like the one about Obama needing a reality check, AMEN SISTER! by the way, i knew you would eventually write about J.Depp. hahahahahahaha
Love that sticker! So do you have any contacts in the music world? I would really Love to find some people to play with, though I'm not much of a guitarist. I've been using my voice a lot more lately so if you know of anyone looking for a former soldier turned conscientious objector peace activist to sing for them, let me know! :)
Peace.
We can jam at a freedom event sometime. Funny. I actually have some ideas based upon what you've told me. uh...yea.
Some small-L Libertarian-themed (anarcho-capitalist) Tunes:
Therapy? "Stand In Line"
Therapy? Stop It, You're Killing Me
PIL "The Order of Death" Sex Pistols singer John Lydon's anarcho-capitalist anthem... (Remember his performance on Leno? He saluted Ron Paul. LOL. He's also attended Libertarian Conventions. Leno himself recently suggested people shoot traffic ticket cameras --He likes the speed of cars, and sees no reason to be slowed, ticketed, numbered, tagged, and oppressed. We all have our limits...)
Dropkick Murphys "Guns of Brixton" "When they knock down your door, how you gonna come? ...With your hands on your head or on the trigger of a gun?" Clash Cover...
Amon Tobin "Verbal" (I wouldn't have included this, except that the video shows a post-singularity police encounter...) All of Amon Tobin is great though...
Pitchshifter "You are free to do as we tell you"
Pailhead "I will refuse"
Bad Brains "Banned in DC"
Jefferson Airplane "We Can Be Together" @ 3:00 "We are forces of chaos and anarchy, everything they say we are we are..." Also, "volunteers" ...songwriter Paul Kantner is a self-described voluntaryist anarchist...
Ministry "Lies Lies Lies"
LOL... "Don't listen to me, listen to your head..." (Full disclosure: Singer songwriter Al Jourgensen thinks Obama is different than bush... LOL...)
Of course, no rock and roll is as pro-freedom as the Beatnuts:
The Beatnuts "2-3 break"
The Beatnuts "Ya Don't Stop" "Got shit for hizzoners"
The Beatnuts "Hellraiser" " Now I got you trapped feelin' weak and nervous/Word up Cause I be strapped like the secret service/Cops try to run me down for guns I be weildin'/I'd murder a force to get lost between buildings'"
Firewater: "This is my Life" (to be fair, Tod A. probably wouldn't call himself a capitalist or free trade advocate, but hey, nobody's perfect... And his lyrics are perfect nonetheless. And he's totally anti-war, so this song is perfect, like most of his work... We can iron out our mutual opposition to the Federal Reserve and monetary policy later on...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eyn-OSDQp0&feature=related