You just can’t stop the meta. Like a leaky faucet that…maybe the water analogy is not too strong.

Well, guess what. Here’s a statement you don’t hear much on the internet: I am not an astute political thinker. I’m just not. But since I’ve been old enough to notice, everyone in power seemed to be doing an awful job. Before 9/11, I voted either Socialist or Libertarian. Literally flipped a coin. In 2000 I had moved and didn’t re-register. I didn’t really care, except for the social issues which are not really political issues. (Maybe half of Dems aren’t liberal enough on these issues anyway.) In ’04 I registered Dem which almost felt like doing something and since then the Dems have almost felt like doing something. Kinda shitty. I feel the same anger as the Wall Street protesters against the party but I’m against the “revolution” language. What we all really want is “counter-reform” but it’s not as catchy to yell en masse, so of course it’s going to get hijacked by something more extreme. Check out those Greek protests. They’re not protesting against Democrats and Republicans over there. But I’ll redirect you to the first sentence of this paragraph. I will not be running for political office, but as soon as cold weather hits, hopefully the Occupiers will be running for local office wherever they’re from. Because a lot of people seem to be into it, but then voting time rolls around and we’ve all got to choose between the guy who was directly anti-protest and the guy who was not directly anti-protest but who is obviously part of the problem but we can’t vote for that first guy obviously and the only other candidate thinks beer can tabs should be our new currency. So please, do that.

I also said in that post I hate “nutso utopians” as much as conservatives. I don’t know about that. I think society needs nutsos in way it doesn’t need conservatives. Altho in the case of Ayn Rand, same thing. (Just kidding, she wasn’t really a conservative. Hijacked! All these terms are completely useless.)

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I’ve got to get this thing moving this blog back toward record reviews. Joined the Japanese site Netlog the other day, seems like a good place to blog in Japanese, or about learning Japanese, or about learning Japanese in Japanese. (Altho writing about it in English has given me something to write about cause I was blanking on the reviews.) Getting myself used to just being in a constant state of panic cause it seems like it’s going to be a long ride of that. It’s something you can get used to, right? It’s a dry panic.

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No, I am not promoting “the cross”. Not everything is a pun, goddamnit. I’m a buddhist. Sub-buddhist at best, maybe. So what.

I have another blog for my musical endeavors. I think I hate it. I don’t think blogging and art mix that well anymore. Maybe blogging and life in general don’t mix that well anymore. Not how I’m doing it anyway. Well, it was all an experiment. Fine.

So I have this post on politics now. Please note that this post is “Uncategorized”. Every other post is under the “music” category, presumably because every post is about music that I have made or am involved in making, unlike “Music Ja Nai“, which is not about that.

Got all that? OK, so I don’t think music or art in general mix with politics. The subject of art can be political, but the making of it can’t, at least within anything close to any “normal” kind of ideal. Take Komar and Melamid’s Most Wanted/Unwanted Song, democracy in action. Extremely well-done, but not making anyone’s heavy rotation. (Pretty sure FMU has played the Most Unwanted song at least a dozen times, but that doesn’t count.)

A lot of people don’t like politics because it’s boring. Yes! It should be boring. When politics gets exciting, there’s a serious problem. We all vote on what we’re trading for something else and that’s about it. Civil rights and religion should not even be political issues. I might sound like a conservative sometimes but I hate conservatives as much as nutso utopians. Really they are almost the same thing; Conservatives just think that utopia was achieved at some point in the past. (Altho I am picking FDR as my favorite president…what can you do.) Objectively speaking a progressively taxed democracy benefits the most people. (Also, objectively speaking Ayn Rand was a terrible writer.) It’s not socialism, but it’s half-way. So it’s also half-fascist? Does that make any sense? If it’s not all the way it’s not either, it’s democracy. Boring shit, the way it should be. Does your water meter have TV in it? No. It’s not there to entertain you. It just has it’s job, in the background. “Oh shit, we used a lot of water this month. Could use less or I could FUCK YOU, WATER METER!!!” Not the meter’s fault, dude. Could protest for free water, how do you know the water’s clean? Who fixes the pipes? Shit costs money.

This is where things break down: music is not clean water. Art is not civil rights. Since I don’t have extreme beliefs, I have no need to speak in code. The idea that current Republicans (since Reagan) are ruining the country is the moderate position. I tried to make it clever because stating the obvious is not an interesting topic. Maybe you’re a closet Republican! Ever thought of that?

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I love Evelyn Glennie and I love this video, but what is it doing in the sidebar? It’s a bit much.

It was really a complement to the first post, which sat there while, while I was deciding what this blog was going to be about. Oh, those times. Whatever. There doesn’t need to be a youtube playlist at all, I just thought it was cool you could do that. Saw some people doing it, said “hey, that’s cool.”, looked around to see if there was anybody home because I try not to get caught taking to myself. Seems crazy. Nothing crazy about this video, tho. But it’s way more about live performance than records.

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