boysetsfire silentbob In Chrysalis Explanations Voice over Around the world, and in America specifically we are subjected to a regularly scheduled program of fear and violence brought to us by a twin attack of the media and politicianswho feed our fear of each other. Blacks fear Whites, Whites fear anyone different and we all fear that which we do not know. Even though, according to many studies, violent crime statistics are down we keep adding more police and giving those police more and more power. We are trading our rights for the illusion of safety and in doing so we give the real criminals even more potency. The Tyranny of What Everyone Knows We are taught that Christopher Columbus discovered America. From the Revolution [in America], to the Civil War, history is written from the biased perspective of the power elite. From our birth we are lies and myths and not expected to only believe them, but to worship them. At America's false altar of progress we must learn to question history and measure each "fact" on its own merits. (please read Howard Zinn's 'A People's History of the United States', and Noam Chomsky's 'What Uncle Sam Really Wants'). Loser of the Year Award It has always been frustrating to try and explain why we've played shows for gas money and sometimes less. "You drove six hours and got paid twenty bucks? What a bunch of losers!" Yeah, I guess we are. "You went on tour without getting any guarantees? Are you guys idiots?" Yeah, I guess we are. Cavity It gets difficult to remain positive in the face of, it seems, overwhelmingly negative odds about never affecting anything positively. Doubt sets in, then depression is coupled with anger. When even Maximum Rock'nRoll has an interview with a band that spends several paragraphs talking about how lame Boy Sets Fire is, and how they are never going to change anything. But the we got a letter from someone who we have affected or inspired to make changes withing themselves in the hope that they will change the world. Change is natural and must happen. How that change comes and whether that change is for good or evil is up to us. (silentbob likes to steal other's writings) 001223 ... Lucien Boy Sets Fire are sell outs...i know everyone calls everyone sell outs for something but boysetsfire takes the gold on this one....they gave up daryl, there bassist i believe, on the new album because they wanted to sign to victory...they gave up there best friends for more money and now they sound like all the other corporate hardcore victory puts out.......go listen to some reversal of man.... 001224 ... silentbob and you're trendy. for screaming the sellout cop-out. 001225 ... Lucien I dont think they sold out because they signed on to victory...i think they sold out because in their first album they said that friends were the most important things to them....then the band gives up their best friend to make more money.....if they had signed to victory and started getting played all over the radio, but kept daryl, i wouldnt call them sell outs, its just because friendship is worth more than money.... 010127 what's it to you? who go blather from