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Welcome To Club Fed
100 Years
Died Again
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For
a Good Time, stick around and check out my website. You like
cartoons? We got cartoons.
Flash movies? Cargo,
The
Chessmaster Plays
Ohio. How about writing?
Poems
? You like
words? Check out Lexiconophilia.
You like music? We got
music. Lots o' music: Welcome to Club Fed, 100 Years,
Died
Again, Electricity,
Classical
Piano: Joy Crocker, Live, local Bay Area
musicians: LiveAndUnplugged.org.
This is all original content that I've either created or
collaborated on. Enjoy.
Website
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CD: "Welcome to
Club Fed"
$5 including shipping and booklet. Order HERE
Satisfaction guaranteed or I'll refund your money!
This is a rockin', jazzy, slammin' studio album with some great Bay
Area musicians. Fun, groovy songs, with beats and beautiful
harmonies. But you won't hear this album on mainstream
radio. So please support alternative music by listening, and passing the
links on to friends. And if you are so moved, buy yourself a copy of the
CD. If you don't like it, I'll refund your money and shipping
cost.
"Laramie is
the Tom Lehrer of our times, the Musical Michael Moore"
-- Patricia and Daniel Elsberg (author, the Pentagon Papers)
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Hey folks, before you leave, be sure to check out the Senator Barack Obama speech: A More Perfect Union. This kind of thing comes along once in 40 years, and we can witness it now. If you ever wondered what
the big deal about Senator Obama was about, watch this.
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concert
pianist, organist, music director, teacher, award-winning composer, and
world-bopping peace activist, Joy Crocker,
passed away April 21, 2006.
Listen to the amazing recordings we did of her playing piano in March,
on Joy's
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Listen
to my song Electricity,
with drummer Randal Mitros, recorded in Berkeley, CA in March 2006. |
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Lay Me Down
I've written a hymn for fallen soldiers, called
"Lay Me
Down". It is an adaptation of the song "Ballad of the Green
Berets."
Read the lyrics and hear the mp3 here:
Lay
Me Down
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Little Black Boxes
Listen to and see the
lyrics for my song Little
Black Box, which we just played at a rally at the Secretary
of State's office.
It highlights the problems of the Diebold voting machines here in
California and in the rest of the country.
Also, check out my flash movie: "The
Chessmaster Plays
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Breasts Not Bombs!
Here we are at a Breasts Not Bombs rally at the state capital,
Sacramento, CA, protesting the War, the Special Election, and sexual
discrimination in exercising freedom of speech. Read the full
story.
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GOD BLESS AMERICA! In NY
recently, I had a few altercations with NYPD and the MTA station
agents, for committing the crime of exercising Freedom of the Press.
Read about the latest chilling of your rights, New York style.
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CD: "100 Years"
This is an experimental album in layered sound, using chant, digital
looping, and unusual collected sounds.
Check out the tracks and listen to them HERE.
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CD: "Died Again"
Listen to the demo of my new songs from my upcoming album "Died Again":
I'm
Jesus Christ Lyrics
Not
This Time Lyrics
The Christian Life
Lyrics
(Louvin Brothers)
Brownsville
General Store Lyrics
Good
Days Coming Lyrics
A Guy
Named Jim Lyrics
Sinner's
Two Step Lyrics
Organized religion so corrupts spirituality as to loose the point of
the great teachings and spiritual experiences of humankind.
"I'm Jesus Christ" tells of the experience of being Jesus, come back to
Earth and finding that humans still don't get the lessons available in
the Bible, Torah and Koran. Worse, is all the Republichristians who
seem to skip the parts about it being easier for a camel to pass
through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter Heaven, and
about feeding the hungry and giving to the poor, turning the other
cheek, and Thou Shalt Not Kill.
"The Christian Life" is a beautiful old timey country gospel song by
the Louvin Brothers, from 1958, covered famously by the Byrds. I
recorded it when my Christian relatives spurned and rejected me from
their Christian Life for having very carefully chosen moral values that
I follow closely, but nevertheless ones that didn't match their
"Christian Values", once again selectively choosing which parts of
Jesus's teachings to follow.
"Not This Time" is a work in progress, I hope to craft more lyrics that
show the politically pious for what they are.
"I'm Jesus Christ", "Not This Time", and "The Christian Life" are in
the gospel style, and were recorded in Brownsville, VT, October 2005.
"Not This Time", "The Christian Life", and "Sinner's Two-Step" include
the wonderful Wendi Olson.
The album is a skewering of organized religion, but a celebration of
the only really good part of sacred worship: the music. |
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New Recording: "Lucky Man"
Listen to my own rendition of Emerson, Lake and Palmer's Lucky Man -- recorded
October 2005. |
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Live & Unplugged!
A series of music gatherings and performances. Some are open
mic, some are invitational. All are free to attend, and
feature great acoustic music and spoken word. I host or
co-host the events in this series. We've done them in Berkeley, CA, San
Francisco, CA, and Brownsville, VT.
Visit LiveAndUnplugged.org
for more details.
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www.b-rant.com Home of
the Web-Rant. I started this site as a way to vent about the impending
war against Iraq. I then posted links to it when I was working to get
Gov. Howard Dean elected President. Lots of fun, useful information for
informing your Red-State relatives. |
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Check
out the b-rant blog!
This is a group blog that I contribute to, along with a few other
wacky, literary folk. You can see my entries here: Laramie's blog
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Want to read the latest in subersively silly linguistic exploration? Of
course you do! Visit the Lexiconophilia
that I created with Wendi
Olson.
Learn new words like Vapidometer, CubeHead,
Pretentiometer, Borocrat,
and Monogatrois. |
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Wendi
Olson and I founded the Church of the Holy Hedonist to celebrate
Hedonism as a way to spiritual salvation and true moral integrity.
Visit the church at www.HolyHedonist.org.
Celebrate Saturday night, sleep in Sunday morning! |
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created the FU Megacorp parody site to protest the usurpation and
trademarking of the English language by Corporatia. Click to visit FU Megacorp |
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Links
Visit The
Orb Standard World News -- of, by, and for the World.
Visit www.OpenVoting.org
The Open Voting Consortium, who are dedicated to the development,
maintenance, and delivery of open voting systems for use in public
elections.
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