Stand up
We shall not be moved Except By a child with no socks and shoes
If you've got more to give then you've got to prove
Put your hands up and I'll copy you
Stand up
We shall not be moved Except by a woman dying from the loss of food
If you've got more to give then you've got to prove
Put your hands up and I'll copy you
We still don't understand thunder and lightning
Flash back to when we didn't fund the dam
Didn't fund the damn levi?
No wonder man
Now our whole damn city's torn asunder man
Under water but we still don't understand
We see hurricane spills over on the land
Through gaps you couldn't fill with a 100 tons of sand
No we still don't understand
We've seen planes in the windows of buildings crumbled in
We've seen flames send the chills through London
And we've sent planes to kill them and some of them were children
But still we crumbling the building
Underfunded but we still don't understand
Under god but we kill like the son of Sam
But if you feel like I feel like about the son of man
We will overcome

This goes to show how little i pay attention to the local Denver music scene, it took Alex Jones all the way in Austin, Texas to introduce me to the local Denver band The Flobots. I bought their album yesterday, and I love it! It's different from what i've heard in a while, and the message they're trying to convey is awesome!

I'll post their most popular song "Handlebars" but i personally like the last track "We are Winning", well, really the entire album is fucking sweet, i have fallen in love with it. Their music is real political, hench why they were on the Alex Jones Show.
When the band was on Alex Jones they said they were partly influenced by Tool and a combination of a whole bunch of different styles of music. On their MySpace site they list Saul Williams, Rage Against The Machine, Common, The Roots and Public Enemy as an influence as well. I love the lyrics to the songs, "Stand Up" is also a very good one.



"We Are Winning" By The Flobots

Rival gangsters sit down to plan an after-school program
A religious fanatic posts footage of an interfaith service project
A group of teenage boys watches a video of a father playing catch with his son
An adult film star paints thumbnail portraits of elderly couples, fully clothed and smiling
A record executive records a demo of his apology
A policeman makes reverse 911 calls instructing residents to take to the streets
A patriot reports for duty
She's wearing an orange jumpsuit and holding a picket sign
She's ashamed of her birthplace
But retreat is not an option
Women and children
Frontline
Logon
Tune in
Stand and be counted
Wounded
Stationed
In the belly of the vulture
Watch your back
Theres no civilians
Women children
Frontline
Listen
Consider this a distant early warning
The fires imminent
Pollution gathering dust particles
Funneling through smokestacks
Airwaves
Bandwidth
Disinformation tube fed
Check the label
Delete the virus
Alert the masses
Butterfly wing crosswinds send black hawks toward hurricane survivors
Roses sprout from empty lots and sidewalk cracks
Pacifist guerrillas move undetected through concrete jungles
New forms are beginning to take shape
Once-occupied minds are activating
People are waking up
The insurgency is alive and well
Rise of the flobots
Portrait of the new american insurgent
Rattle and shake the foundation of the world order
Assembly line consent
Resist
Refuse
Inform
Create
Direct loved ones to the trenches
Suit up
Forge rubble into fortresses
Plaster
Cloth
Aluminum
Broken porcelain
Rusted platinum
Burn bloodstains from decompressed diamonds
Hammer the battlecry into braille-studded armor
We are building up a new world
Do not sit idly by
Do not remain neutral
Do not rely on this broadcast alone
We are only as strong as our signal
There is a war going on for your mind
If you are thinking you are winning
Resistance is victory
Defeat is impossible
Your weapons are already in hand
Reach within you and find the means by which to gain your freedom
Fight with tools
Your fate and that of everyone you know depends on it

"There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and it's filled with people who are filled with shit,And the vermin of the world inhabit it."

I should really be going to bed. I just got off work and i have an appointment at 1:30, i should really be getting as much sleep as i can so i'm not a zombie tonight, but i have the night off so oh well.
I haven't been wanting to blog for a while now, cuz all i ever want to post on here is the fucked up news going on, or to rant and rave about this fraud election that is going on.
But i've recently discovered an old musical that has taken away some of the stress of everyday life. And i'm not someone who likes musicals, in fact i'd say The Nightmare Before Xmas and Mulin Rouge are just about the only musicals i like.
But i discovered Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber From Fleet Street.
I LOVE IT!

The story is really very dark, it's about how the desire for revenge eats you up. The play is coming to Denver in June and i can't wait to see it, i'm very excited. For Mother's Day Justin took me to Best Buy and told me to pick out something, so i got the dvd of the play from back in the day. I still haven't watched all of it, but the Tim Burton version is a little better just cuz he cut out all the dumb shit with Anthony and Johanna.
That and i think i like Helena Bonham Carter's version of Mrs. Lovett better than Angelia Lansbury's portrayal.

The music itself with the exception of a few i really love. It's very dark, especially the song "A Little Priest" cuz they're singing about using dead bodies to fill up Mrs. Lovett's meat pies.
I really like the song "Epiphany" were Sweeney goes off and sings,"They all deserve to die!" Fucking great shit, it's how i feel from time to time when shit in the news makes me mad. Not that i want everyone to die, but i get mad easy. There's also a very beautiful song, but again like all the songs, is very dark. "My Friends" is the name of it, Sweeney sings to his razors when Mrs. Lovett gives them back to him. It's a very demented song, he tells his razors,"soon you'll drip rubies" of coarse referring to the blood from cutting people's throats. In that song at certain points in the Johnny Depp version i think he sounds like David Bowie!


"Epiphany"


Todd: No I had him!
His throat was there beneath my hand.
I had swear I had him!
His throat was there and now he'll never come again.
Mrs. Lovett: Easy now, hush love hush
I keep telling you -
Todd: When? Why do I wait?
You told me to wait -
Now he'll never come again.
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit
And it's filled with people who are filled with shit
And the vermin of the world inhabit it.
But not for long...

They all deserve to die.
Tell you why, Mrs. Lovett, tell you why.
Because in all of the whole human race
Mrs Lovett, there are two kinds of men and only two
There's the one they put in his proper place
And the one with his foot in the other one's face
Look at me, Mrs Lovett, look at you.

Now we all deserve to die
Tell you why, Mrs. Lovett, tell you why.
Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief
For the rest of us death will be a relief
We all deserve to die.

And I'll never see Joanna
No I'll never hold my girl to me - finished!
Alright! You sir, you sir, how about a shave?
Come and visit your good friend Sweeney.
You sir, you sir? Welcome to the grave.

I will have vengenance.
I will have salvation.
Who sir, you sir?
No one in the chair, come on! Come on!
Sweeney's waiting. I want you bleeders.
You sir - anybody.
Gentlemen don't be shy!

Not one man, no, no ten men.
Not a hundred can assuage me -
I will have you!
And I will get him back even as he gloats
In the meantime I'll practice on dishonorable throats.
And my Lucy lies in ashes
And I'll never see my girl again.

But the work waits!
I'm alive at last!
And I'm full of joy!