Musicians, Artists, and Performers of all types: Hear my plea!!!

So I got this idea...

I'm in summer school, bored off my ass, and pretty much all alone in a tiny little room that is honestly smaller than my car. I wish I was joking. I've been in prison cells are bigger than this blue-walled hell hole, so fitting my guitar... let alone my organ, in this glorified broom closet is already asking too much... With this being my currently pathetic situation, I thought "Hey, when life gives you lemons... who the hell says you gotta make lemonade? Fuck that shit, I'll throw those bitches back in life's face!"

Anyways...
Here's my idea: I'm sick of being alone here, and I want to do something amazing... monumental.... INSPIRING!!! I'm 21 years old... I've got my whole life ahead of me, and I want to look back one day and realize that I fucking did something good for the world in this age of evangelical crusades and spun-out press. So, let's all get together... here, in Clinton, SC, and let's have a "Freedom-Fest" along the same lines as Woodstock, but made for the eclectic and under-represented folk, blues, and all other "progressive" musicians who still thrive here in our nation. Our artistic value has been diminished for far too long, and we have been ignored by the press and mainstream media in exchange for a pop culture that has been shoved down our throats and enforced with the penalty of being cast into a plethora of individuals who are regarded as "social delinquents" - for lack of a better way of saying this.

So, instead of allowing our very essence... our worth, and our lives to be determined by a pool of financially and politically elite individuals, let's take a stand and come together in order to show that the pulse of THIS generation of artists, dreamers, and inspiring musicians is INDEED thumping below the surface of "popular culture." Let's show that both our collective and individual integrity, value, and right to disagree with our government go far deeper than any pop-culture media network can possibly "spin" for their own advantage. Damnit, let's take control of our destiny, and let's take control of our freedom! Did the French country-folk not rise up and assert themselves when they found themselves in a similar situation? Did our forefathers not boldly sieze their liberty from the oppressive and manipulative government of their time? This, my friends is OUR time! It's time to pay our dues on the ticket of freedom that we're told we are riding on! It's time to end the stagnation of the present and insure the progression of tomorrow! IT'S TIME FOR US TO LIVE!!!!!

So, are you in? Would you come? Will you grip life with both hands?

 

yep i sure would.........but i live in England..boohoo

 

No.

 

I'm in Virginia. I could get there, but does it deserve me?

 

dude, get off the fucking internet and out on the streets to get the word out. if you're serious, you're not going to get real commitment out of some bums you find on a forum.

but yea man, go for it

 

wher is it going to be?? big open feild or something. is there going to be vendors, will the artist make money or will it be for the sake of music/art. who will be there any big name or sorta an open stage bit. will ther be electricity and what not porta poopers. who is going to take care of the millions of dollars in insurance you would have to buy. do you have permits. if so i'll be there.

 

lol... dude who posted above me, you're full of shit if you think i'm all about playing by the rules. This is America, and we have the right to freedom of assembly whether paranoid hippies believe it or not. If people just show up and crowd the damn town, then that's all it will take. Fuck paying for shit, and fuck getting permits! I'm saying that we need to all meet up and take back our piece of the pie as hardworking musicians who come together to stand up for our value! Be bold, break laws, and bend the world if you aren't happy with the way it's bending you... that's what I say to you friend.... Quit living in a nation you aren't satisfied with when all you have to do is put in a little hard work to make sure that nation gives you all it has to offer. The starving shouldn't take a small sample of free food at a fancy party, so why should we deny ourselves the lives that our forefathers tried to insure we would have? That's my question to you... and if you're still gonna ask questions about the legalities of it all and the other technical bullshit... then you're already cut from the team. Thank you, and come back next year after you learn to be bolder in life...

 

so your talking more like a rally/ revolution thing. im down with that, i didn't mean no conflict i just wasn't sure what kinda thing you was talking about, like a woodstock type thing or what. now that i know what you mean i fully support you and i'll help you in any way i can. you seem like the type of person who is willing to take action and i give you much kudos. don't think im just on of those pesimistic pricks or anything. i don't have much to offer but what i got i give to you.if you need ppl to spread the word, some to be with you on the frontline. let me know when. and if your not about "playing by the rules" are ya ready to take some tear gas and rubber bullets.

 

Have you seen my gun collection in my gallery??? My dad was a ranger back during 'Nam, and he's always been a deputy in some way or another as far back as I can remember, so kevlar, ceramic plated reinforcement vests, and gas masks gallore tend to pop up in my life the same way that guys who work on cars all the time end up with random free cars.

Man, I am strongly against violence being employed in order to get a peaceful message across, but I don't play around either. If someone hits me when I haven't caused any physical threat to them or anyone else, then I hit them back, and I hit them not out of defense, but only for the sole purpose of eliminating the threat they have chosen to present to me. There was a sniper for the swat team in our old town that I used to "fight" with out in our front yard whenever he came over to chill with my dad. It was all in fun, but still... I ain't afraid to beat some cop's ass! I thought it was great fun to put on riot armor or training gear and completely go to town on this dude! He'd do the same to me if he got lucky, but I was a boxer in highschool as well as having a 2nd dan blackbelt in tae kwon do... he only had some minor jujitsu training in the marines.

Either way, rubber bullets... tear gas... swat teams... they don't really intimidate me that much when I know how I can confuse them tactically like it's nobodies business! If they shoot at me with rubber bullets for talking, then I'll just carry a wooden sheild and look just as ridiculous as they do. Then all you gotta do is break them down on a mental level, and when they're completely confused, take their guns and pour small rocks, salt, and dirt down their barrels. Then all they have is their riot batons and pepper spray, and a good old fashioned hammer, black jacks, and crowbars will completely out-do their cool looking retractable black rods. Sure, those batons can break bones, but all that common hardware I just listed can't? I'd rather have a hammer than a riot baton any day! Pepper spray coming at you? Goggles, yo.... goggles... every hippy should carry them nowadays... they're small... efficient, and you'd almost be stupid to stand up against authority without them... just remember to close your mouth and hold your breath when they spray you... and it's not like you can't spray them back... Tazers however... well... that's a dirty lil' fucker right there, but they're only a one time kinda deal unless it's a handheld point-blank toy... in which case you shouldn't have allowed the bastard to get that close to you in the first place!

Maybe I'm already at a disposition to oppose authority due to my Scottish and Irish bloodlines, but that alone gives me the confidence that I need to win. How much does it suck to have your ass kicked by a bunch of badasses in "skirts?" How big do your balls have to be to continue to wear that skirt even after hundreds of years of persecution under Roman and English rule as well as being subject to international ridicule? Man, I'd love to wear my kilt and get shot by rubber bullets! I'd catch them in my teeth and fire them back outta my ass... that way the cops would know they just got into some shit, fo' sho'!

I ain't skeered, how 'bout yall???

 

If I were in South Carolina I so would. Im in Florida, and have no transportation,

 

pump my ass full of crank and send me in. there aint no stopin a man who forgets all reallity and the fact that his is still mortal. just jokin but hopefully it all goes peacfully let me know when everything is under way.