From activist Leonard Fein...

The future is not something we discover around the next corner. It is something we shape, we create, we invent. To hold otherwise would be to view ourselves as an audience to history, and not its authors. History, and even our own lives, cannot always be turned and twisted to make them go exactly where we should like. But there is, for people of energy and purpose, more freedom of movement than most ever exercise. *

*From Reform Is a Verb : Notes on Reform and Reforming Jews (1972), p. 152

Coming Soon...

Teaser: I will be writing an in-depth rant of the eventual privatization of education in America. I'll be making the correlation to the privatization of health care in the 1980s and what it might mean for America coming soon. Something to think about...we all know what an HMO is right? But do you know what an EMO is? You will....


Tonight at 11.


Go Bills,

Colin

MMJ

For those that are tired of me talking about this band or this album, sorry.

I was just thinking with the cross-genre nature of the album again and i think that this album, Evil Urges, has produced some of the best, if not the best, songs i heard last year across a few genres. It had an incredible ambient/electronic song (Touch Me I'm Going to Scream Pt. 1&2), the best alt-country song (I'm Amazed), the best funk/freakout song (Highly Suspicious), the best soft rock James Taylor impersonation (Sec Walkin'), a great guitar heavy rock song (Aluminum Park) and a song that eludes my classification, but is just lyrically and emotively awesome (Smoking From Shooting).

I think such a wide variety of people would appreciate an album like this, especially those who would appreciate the band's effort cross boundaries and make something worth that can't rated with five stars on a toolbar. My buddy talked recently about music becoming "disposable" as we download and borrow more and more. The next time you download a really great album just think, would you go to a museum and take a photo of a beautiful painting or watch cell phone videos of a great play? This album needs to be appreciated and owned by listeners.

I would include some links to these songs but until then go here and buy it the old fashioned way:

http://www.recordarchive.com/


Go Bills,

Colin

Still Alive

This is promise to write again soon. Thanks to a friend who actually said to me, "Hey I check out your blog." That has inspired me to write a few more entries. That and that I got a new Mac! Here's a cool link to keep anyone who might read this interested....

http://vimeo.com/3558720

Go Bills,

Colin