IT'S A MIRACLE!
IT WORKS!
THE SONG PLAYS!
SCROLL DOWN!
IT WORKS!
THE SONG PLAYS!
SCROLL DOWN!
My Geiger Counter Basement & Garage Scientists List just mentioned the vodka brand called Everclear. It turns out it's 95 percent ethanol by volume (190 proof) and makes a great laboratory solvent.
The most lost and depraved adolescents and college-age kids I know just adore Everclear. (Also industrially fortified fruit and candy-flavored schnapps.)
Why don't they save their money and just stab themselves in the liver with a rusty knife?
Well, anyway, obviously as an homage, a famous punk band from Oregon named itself Everclear.
These are not Happy Campers, and they don't sing Valentines Day songs.
But they give away Free Music, and their website claims if I paste this code here, you can hear their hit "Jesus Was a Democrat" here.
If you can't hear it here, un-mute your speakers and go to Everclear's website , and this fine song will begin playing for you immediately.
Maybe this is how all theology and politics should be distributed. I get bored in church and in meeting and synagogue and fall asleep.
(I knew a girl whose parents sent her to Lutheran private school, and she'd fall asleep in chapel every day. Her teacher told her that the Devil tempts people to fall asleep in church. It's not that the thermostat was set too high.)
Big crowds of political freakazoids make me nervous. In Democracies, they do really weird things. In non-Democracies, they do even weirder things. Officially, Zimbabwe is a parliamentary democracy with elections.
But here's some theology and politics that's a real ear-opener, and probably won't put you to sleep. Here are the lyrics. If it ain't Ira Gershwin or Cole Porter, it has its own musical and lyrical virtues.
Jesus Was a Democrat
by Everclear
Jesus Christ didn't have blue eyes or blond hair
He looked just like all those people that you want to kill
Spin your hell into a heaven you can sell
Make it look like California with a bible belt
Jesus didn't look like the boy next door
Unless you live in Palestine
I wonder what you mean by the golden rule
I think it is a scary play on words
I wonder what they taught you back in Sunday school
I bet you think of him
As a nice clean long haired Republican, nah
He would be all locked up in Guantanamo Bay
If he were alive today
He would have been a revolutionary
Wanted by the CIA
I picture him in all the wrong places
Finding diamonds in the dirt
A star of David tattoo
And a Che t-shirt
Jesus Christ was a left wing radical Jew
Murdered by people like you
If Jesus was a Democrat like the bible says he was
I don't think he's going to want to take the blame
For all the awful things you say and do in his name
If Jesus was alive he would be sad to see
That it is no different than it used to be
Someday he's going to call you out
I am pretty god damned sure ......
He is going to be angry
He is going to be angry
You want to know what I think?.......
I think Jesus would have been a card carrying liberal
If he was a young man born in the USA
He would not be "fiscally conservative"
And he wouldn't vote for John McCain
All those so called Christians that you see on TV
Maybe they scare Jesus like they scare me
Kick you the hell out of my temple too
Too many elephants in the room
If Jesus was a Democrat like the bible says he was
I don't think he's going to want to take the blame
For all the awful things you people do and say in his name
If Jesus was alive today he would be sad to see
That it is no different than it used to be
Someday he's going to call you out
I am pretty god damned sure......
He is going to be....mad
He is going to be angry
He is going to be....mad
He is going to be....mad
You say Jesus loves the little children
And I say I know that's true
I say he loves all the Muslims and the Jews
All the addicts and the porn stars too
You say Jesus died to save us all from a fiery hell
I say Jesus died to save us
Save us from ourselves
Will you save me from myself?
If Jesus was a liberal like the red letters say he was
I know he would have big love for all the killers and the racists
And the bullies in this world
If Jesus was alive today
And you had a chance to meet him face to face
I'm pretty God-damned sure that you and your friends
Would find some way to kill him all over again
You would kill him all over again
Again and again and again
Just like you always do
You do just what you always do
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Everclear upcoming concerts:
Friday 1 May 2009 8 PM
Kentucky Derby Festival
Fest-a-Ville Stage
Louisville, Kentucky USA
Free w/ $3 Pegasus Pin
Thursday 7 May 2009 7:30 PM
L’auberge du Lac Casino Pool
Lake Charles, Louisiana USA
FREE
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3 comments:
Yep, it works loud and fine ! Not Hardcore Punk as such, my definition of HC is different, includes stuff like Minor Threat and the Bad Brains, both from your town of birth. Everclear remind me of vintage Flipper, which is also very cool. I shall listen to some of theier songs and decide what I think about them.
The good thing about the current economic situation is that more and more people are getting extremely pissed off. They were pissed off in the mid-70s and we got the Ramones, they were pissed off when Reagan came to power and we got Dead Kennedys and all that.
And right now the kids out there who only know the term recession from history are unhappy, unsure, frustrated, angry. No job, no money, no fun, no future.
And if some of those kids will pick up a guitar and turn their frustration into music then we might get rid of all those Britneys and Beyonces for a while. And get some interesting and intense music instead.
Yeah, explain this to me: When everything'a going smoothly and everybody can afford to go to college and everybody has a good job and health care ... the music sucks.
As far as music's ability to physically grab me and shake me and convince me music is a centrally important part of my life, my community's life, my planet's life ... well, all I can think of is those 5 years of crazy loud noises that exploded out of the Vietnam War.
It certainly seems to have been the same in Europe before and after World War One. Before: Waltzes and Marzipan. After: Weill and Brecht, and even screwier -- Alban Berg and his pals.
Literature, the visual arts, theater, film the same -- the creative volcano reflects social collapse and dysfunction; Dystopia punches and squeezes the best out of musicians and artists.
Whoa Mark drinks Everclear screwdrivers and he takes 'depraved' as a compliment most of the time -- although he's more of a snarly old tom cat.
Hope things are going well for you out in outer space.
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