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harumph harumph those pesky greens...
folks, i am confused.
if this production reaches people and inclines them to get actual information about sustainability--say---then so much the better.
any debate about environmental (a strange category, aint it? it's like background) would only benefit if more folk who played had more and better information, dontcha think? and if that's what this giant claymation beast of a concert does, then the downside starts where exactly?
well, there is a downside, really, and the downside involves the mindbending lameness of the line-ups. i couldn't imagine sitting through any of it. but i could see why the idea would make folk snippy---if i were worried about being roped into your laz-ee-boy by a gang of roving green thugs and forced to watch network coverage of a long series of lame-ass bands follow one another between important messages brought to you by our sponsors, i would be in a snit as well.
o no, wait: i bet you imagine there are folk who would confuse the on-stage patter of the performers with substantive information about stuff. because you think anyone who imagines that environmental consequences to capitalist activity is perhaps maybe something to take into account is a fucking idiot. obviously.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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