This year it seems like the creative class that brought you “Rock the Vote” has taken its “we just want people to participate” gloves off. Will.i.am might have been the first off the block, but now there are the rockers. And the jazzers. Hell, even the thereminists are getting in on the action. In new music land, composers got vocal. Emails went out from the likes of Meredith Monk, La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela in support of the “Women Against Sarah Palin” movement. John Adams sent private emails encouraging recipients to make a donation. Now, I know people don’t think “artist” and “Republican” in the same breath very often, but this time around it’s not just Bono up there in the public pulpit. Everyone seems to be falling in. As my favorite 8th-grade cheerleaders used to say, “Let’s get fired up!”
Okay, political pep talk over. You’d think I’d know better than to bring up such topics at dinner, but I don’t and I have and it’s ruined yet another pot roast. I promise we’ll get back to hard-core musical topics after this. For instance, Mind the Gap has received it’s first advice request! Get ready to correct me when I’m wrong.
UPDATE: But meanwhile, I mean, dear lord.
Very exciting! I mean, I don’t think Obama’s gonna single handedly end global warming, care for the sick, and stop corporate corruption, but at least he Wants to do that stuff.
It’s IMPORTANT for any of us with media (blogs, etc.) to raise our voices and talk, LOUDLY, about politics these days. No more politeness, no more proper etiquette, no more worrying about offending people. Offensive? What’s going on in the U.S. right now is horrifyingly offensive on so many fronts. We have a responsibility to speak out! So, good for you, Molly, and here’s to many a ruined pot roast!