Oklahoma House fails to approve state rock song

this reminds of the painting I did of a JU-87 Stuka dive bomber. I put it up at a few shows with mixed remarks from the public. However, last fall I was asked why I painted said painting by a 60ish Russian man.
After telling him it was just an illustration and nothing more, he went on to tell me the carnage said plane had wreaked on his home and eastern Europe. I already knew this but it kinda hit home.

Sure this is just a t-shirt, but it was worn in our state capital by someone being recognized. You guys are bat **** crazy if you think it wasn't going to get a reaction.

 

Why on Earth does everyone always assume the legislature has more important things to do? By God, I'm glad they're wasting time on the useless and mundane...it keeps them busy from doing something ****ty that has consequences.

 

Oh, great. Now Jerk knows where to start the killin'. Nice work, *sshole!

 

I have no idea what the Flaming Lips guy had in mind by wearing the hammer and sickle.

Some of you may see it as bringing the symbol of the hated enemy into the Oklahoma state capitol building by a member of a rock band that is supposed to represent the state. I get that.

In my own small way of thinking, the hammer and sickle symbol is already a discarded cliche, an oddity, or possibly even an important step in the human development story.

The symbol for workers was a reaction to the industrial revolution and pretty egregious conditions imposed on the working class at that time. Read Grapes of Wrath again if you need a refresher on how difficult it was for our grandparents.

Communism was a failure. It will always be a failure. We are not going down that road again unless something cataclysmic drops us 200 years back in industrial production and we are again forging iron with a hammer and harvesting our wheat with a scythe.

Our current world is run by capital.

You can say that capitalism, flow of capital and capital markets have run amok and there will be a backlash and I think there will be. But, the common everyday guy and gal cannot have their jobs without the capital in this “new economy”, even if that capital is just freshly printed money by the US government to support our paper thin economy.

This may be a new step in our development story and it may be another major false step.

In my opinion, the bigger threat is that capital runs the political system in a reverse takeover. The old money and old shareholders die, while the new private shareholders brought in are going to control a sizeable chuck of the American economy and will have a very large say in how it is run. This is the new game of the century. Fascism is scarier to me than that failed notion of communism.

I have no idea what the dude meant by wearing the t-shirt. I don’t think it was either hip or subversive. It could have been stupid or silly. Regardless, I don’t see it as threatening or particularly newsworthy.

And, Jerk, Cambodia under Pol Pot wasn’t communism. It was just bat**** crazy idea of taking a whole country back to year zero with a solely agrarian society, so they had to officially drop the hammer, so to speak. Okay, bad pun.

 

well, i just listen to the song and I dont think it deserved to be the state RR song. Not that it was a bad song, just didn't do anything for me.

I guess i am an old school RR.

 

which begs to say
Have ya ever heard me say I wanta keep ya down ?
Dint think so

 

Dayum Commies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIPv9AtZ2zE

 

Well, I was pretty drunk last night, and pretty pissed off. I'm not going to go kill random people wearing sickle and hammer shirts.

But, theoretically, if there was ever a Civil War 2, and it was hard to tell who is one whos' side, then those shirts would make target identification much easier.

Just saying

 

i like the Lips and the song, but i can totally see where someone could have genre issues with the song being picked

i don't think it's very rockin' either

 

Kinda like a practical application of the Star Trek "redshirt" rule?

Comrade, over here! I found something! AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!

 

Online voting is a pretty dubious means to select a winner. How do we know that some Lips fans from out of state didn't load the vote to their favor?

 

Probably MoveOn.0rg that did it...

 

I'm wit' ya, Homer. I just listened to it on YouTube, and was underwhelmed, to put it mildly. Pretty lame, when you consider all the legitimate musical talent, including R&R, that this state has produced. I guess it's fitting that our beloved Governor Gump issued an "executive order" to name it thusly, by fiat. Sheesh!!

 

Well, seeing as how the majority of Oklahoma citizens who voted in the poll picked it, and the resolution passed the Senate 49-0, and it actually won the House vote but fell three votes short of ratification, I don't really think this is being forced on you "by fiat". Nice try at indignation, though.

 

I haven't read the entire thread yet, but I'm glad they got voted down. I hate the Flaming Lips and anyone that listens to that band is ghey.

 

Ditto. 3.6 million people in this state, and we let 10k stoners pick the state rock song. If we're going to select an official state ANYTHING by vote, it should be on an official ballot. This song is like something a high school band would make up, and has nothing to do with Oklahoma. Put to a REAL statewide vote, it would probably get the same (10k) number of votes. Or less, because voter registration is like so unhip, y'know

 

You personally? No. But it's not like a bunch of armed civilians running amok hasn't ended badly before. See the French Revolution for an example.

 

I don't have to try very hard to be indignant these days, with the idiot neo-socialists we have running our government at several levels. And by the way, IMO the song still sucks.

 

Matt from Stardeath and the White Dwarves had a pretty funny shirt on tonight.