greed is terrorism

the new gay for johnny depp album has a lyric (read:statement) that i had my engineers 10 year old nephew speak..."greed is terrorism". it'll be out on nov 30th in the UK...just saying. anyway, i thought that having a child say this would have far more impact than me. the rest of the "song" has spoken word of the ethics of the nyse and the patriot act simultaneously. doesn't really make a point if you can't understand it but so goes punk rock. now, the 13 people that read this know.

i saw the new michael moore movie tonight. on day 6 of sober october, i finally hit the point of going to a movie by myself. it's only the second time i've ever done this. i'm always very skeptical of moore's films as they always seem as filled with lefty propaganda as a fox news broadcast is with the views of the right. i won't get into my opinions of his past films, just his current. contrary to most of the reviews i've seen, i really feel this was his best. being a self proclaimed "social democrat", i found many of the points made in this movie to be spot on. moore is essentially calling for a revolution but not the military kind, this isn't the 18th century. he is calling for a new system, one that has learned from the mistakes of it's predecessors. democracy is essentially an experiment that is ever evolving but never forgets the basic rights established by our founding fathers.

i'm not an expert of any sort so i won't embarrass myself by trying to act like one. i will simply say that domestic terrorism is real and it's head quarters is just across river away from me. to paraphrase a part of the movie, in a free market system, you can strive for riches and may succeed or fail. thing is, it seems that by definition, in a free market system if you fail, you should fail. you don't get reimbursed for your gamble like wall street did. i understand that there was a risk of a meltdown, but the people responsible for all this should at least be held accountable, not become treasury secretaries and get bonuses. all these people should be in jail. i live very simply and after seeing this movie, i'm kind of glad i have. greed is terrorism.

did anyone else see the piece on "horrorcore" that appeared on ac360 last night? some disturbed kid killed an entire family. he is into "horrorcore". this is the genre made famous by the genius of the insane clown posse. i don't want to be judgemental...wait, yes i do. have you ever scene the juggalo fest video on youtube? search it. fucking amazing! hip hop invaded middle america white culture but the elements of hessian metal still lingered....enter a bunch of dude in clown make-up rapping about killing people. it's a video game set to a cave man drum beat. that's a no lose. i'm certainly not blaming icp or giving them any credit at all, but they are lapping this up i'm sure. the whole thing made me sad, but i watched it like a trained monkey, guess i'm no better.

stay rock