18-04-2015: lightning bolt - fragment (ferndale)

their music:
http://laserbeast.com/

review:
http://dghjdfsghkrdghdgja.appspot.com/categories/shows/2015/04/18.html

you know, if i'm that gorilla, what i'm thinking is...

shit. listen: i didn't hurt the kid. i swear, i had nothing to do with it.

then...

it's crying. and i'm sitting right beside it. great. no, i'm not taking the fall for this, i'm outta here...

wow, gar. who got you stuck on stage with these fucking hippies?

i could write an essay on this, but i think the key point is in pointing out that both of these "speakers" broke the #1 rule of "movement building": do not mention god, or spirituality, or "morality" or anything of the sort. as soon as you go off on your little trip of indignant moral self-righteousness, all the actual activists in the room get up and walk out. what's left in the room is a church. and there's your movement you're building.

so, have fun selling books to bourgeois idiots if you'd like, but understand that this is no path forward: it's a circle jerk for the privileged.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E96vRjJXhsM