As I make my way through the streets of my city on foot every day with my headphones firmly in place, I often imagine what it would be like to run into each song's singer on the street. It only happens once, maybe twice in a lifetime.
It happened tonight! I was turning a corner after exiting a restaurant and there facing me was Justin Sane. I looked shocked, and so he looked a little shocked. I greeted him heartily, attempted to not make an ass of myself as I've seen others do, and made my way to the show. I had a blast! Sure, the opening acts sucked, but after the bill they lined up last tour, they could probably get away with three tours worth of bad opening bands.
In honor of meeting one of my favorite band frontmen of all time (and my very favorite drummer later on) I think I'll list some of my favorite quotes from Anti-Flag. These are the ones I've always found most profound, or that cut right to the heart of the matter at hand.
Join now the ranks of all nations who refuse to go to war
Refuse to pull the trigger of a gun for leaders 'round the world
I'd rather fight to spread some tolerance & unity
Than buy into their nationalistic brainwashing
Killing mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, common human beings
Not savages but people, like you, like me!
Don't fly those stripes, those stars-and-stripes for me
they stand for greed, they stand for hate, for nothing i believe
As corporate welfare, flows from troughs of the state
Big business, takes more than their fair take
But in the end it is suckers like you
Who buy that the poor are givin' you the screw
Their 2 + 2 does not equal 4
Their 2 + 2 equals whatver, they want us to die for
Time and again they manufacture a cause and rally the public around it
Killing to further the interest of private corporations
Killing to control global economic situations
Killing for personal gain (i.e Bush in Panama)
Learn the f***ing truth you won't be so quick to sign on
I think that just about every song from 1999 forward (and many of the previous ones) are amazing; and amazingly relevant. If anyone actually wants to learn something, read the words here. Or better yet, go buy a few of those records. I can't for the life of me understand why everyone doesn't like them as much as I do. Except fascists. I understand why fascists don't like them. Are you a fascist? I know good and well that most of you aren't. So go buy some Anti-flag records.
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I am reminded of a great website...its Canadian but...they had this flag that you could buy. Instead of the stars they had corporate logos. The stripes were the same. Oh yeah the site is adbusters. I think I may purchase one and hang it on the car whilst I drive around for no reason.
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