Armed Polite Society
Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Perd Hapley on November 11, 2017, 12:10:50 PM
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When my wife gave me an MP3 player a couple of months ago, I loaded it with whatever music was on my desktop hard drive. It was mostly CDs I haven't listened to in a while - including RATM, Evil Empire. So far, I've only had a few outbreaks of screaming helplessly at the sky. #resist #wellpaidcommies
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For some reason I always liked those commies, but only if I get to suspend disbelief. Loved Morello's guitar playing, but if you're gonna push the black Spartacus angle it is more convincing if you don't live in a multi million dollar house.
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Zack de la Rocha was the real political nut in that group. It was his heavy hand with the politics that caused them to disband.
The others actually just wanted to make some music. :rofl:
I bought the poster with them dressed like third world freedom fighters back when I was 8th grade. It's still on the wall, although you can't really see much of it anymore since one of my big bookshelves is in front of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0kJLW2EwMg&list=PL2EbESdPFdo5Xwx2SHw0_SsayQzOqZaNZ&index=3
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Zack de la Rocha was the real political nut in that group. It was his heavy hand with the politics that caused them to disband.
The others actually just wanted to make some music. :rofl:
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Oh, man, politics and artistry. No :rofl: from me.
Tried to collaborate with someone during the Viet Nam thing on a novel and got into that problem. He wanted to make it a mouthpiece story on social --meaning socialistic --issues. We had been good shootin' / foodin' / marriage problem discussin' buddies before politics reared its ugly head. We had never really discussed politics before, and it wrecked our collaboration.
In mid-project, he moved to a People's Republic State and we tried to continue doing the novel by mail. (Surface mail back then, 1960s.)
No good. He was the type who would mention Nixon, spelling his name with a swastika for the "x."
Put it this way: he had burned his draft card, and I still have mine.
I finished the novel myself, never tried to publish it. It ended up being kind of a mish-mosh and I didn't want to rewrite it.
Yeah, friggin' politics. :mad:
Terry
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I'm old. When I read "pocket full of shells" in the title I figured it was a post about squirrel or bird hunting.