Saturday, November 21, 2009

ok back on track

no more show listings here, that's GG news only. this blog is where we rant, and we're back baby!

2009! oh 2009, where'd you go? hope and change bleeds into winter 2010 with scarcely anything going right: Iraq is treading water with a burning underbelly of violence that isn't covered in the news anymore. Afghanistan is looking at a 40,000 troop increase whenever Obama gets the balls to officially announce it (he's been unofficially announcing this for months to get us used to it). the middle east is the middle east, all the usual suspects doing all the usual things to each other. American drones blow something up in Pakistan once a week. And our tacit support for a Honduran coup is a grand old memory of the America we've always been: an America on the wrong side of justice.

many americans, actually most, don't know the history of their own country. our history is so convoluted that you'd think it's a government conspiracy not to teach it! but that's impossible in a land as free as ours. lets just say that our textbooks are faulty, as well as our news media. for real news we need to turn to fake news in Jon Stewart to give us the real information.

sure the economy didn't completely tank if you believe government GDP numbers. sure we have health care "reform" making it's way through congress. sure we're focusing on a "good war" in Afganistan. all these things are great, if you believe them. but we need real change in this country, which will take a complete break from everything we've learned to be. America's greatest contribution to the world is that of ultra-consumption. but that is no way to live if you want a future. our future without real wholesale change in the way we live, is no future at all.

and that's a sneak preview of our Guerrilla Manifesto album, out 2010..