Transmissions

My forefathers (and mothers):

Robin won himself this awesome misspelled shirt a couple of weeks ago. Now he dances to disco oldies with it on! This could be you people, step it up. Thanks Robin.
Everyone else check out his moves…

If you want a shirt like Robin, you can either win the contest tomorrow night or help a brother out and quit giving your love to corporations every few minutes, and well, give it to me:
http://www.amovingtrain.com/slowguns/

Tomorrow is going to be a very active night for this project; come around. If you aren’t already a MySpace friend of mine go here now:Maxwell at Myspace

If you don’t have a MySpace account start one, and message me about this transmission. For those of you that have been around my madness for a while…tomorrow is going to be active. Let’s play!

Maxwell Black
A Moving Train

I guess since I named my website after the guy, I should give him some love. Check out Howard Zinn:

“On Human Nature and Aggression”

I watched this morning’s “Democracy Now!” with a sense of horror and forgiveness. If you were a “day-shift” friend on MySpace then you already read me blabbing about it. Parts of this actually made me tear up…and I am a grumpy, cynical, prick who recently turned 34! Watch it and form your own opinions.

in solidarity,
Maxwell Black
A Moving Train

Jello Biafra of Dead Kennedys!

If you check out anything today, let it be this first audio:

“Grow More Pot!” It’s not just for stoner’s, it might just save the world.

Now check out this short Swedish documentary on his run for mayor of San Fransisco:

Check out this interview with the young (and thin) Biafra. I assume this is from the early eighties:

Lastly, I would like to dedicate this chorus to Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Dennis Kucinich, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Ron Paul and most of all, Madame Speaker, this one’s for you! You are all oh so…

If you want to support us, go buy a shirt:
http://www.amovingtrain.com/slowguns/

Maxwell Black
A Moving Train

Narrated by Arundhati Roy:

Excerpted form “Society of the Spectacle” by Guy Debord

-In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.

-The images detached from every aspect of life fuse in a common stream in which the unity of this life can no longer be reestablished. Reality considered partially unfolds, in its own general unity, as a pseudo-world apart, an object of mere contemplation. The specialization of images of the world is completed in the world of the autonomous image, where the liar has lied to himself. The spectacle in general, as the concrete inversion of life, is the autonomous movement of the non-living.

-The spectacle presents itself simultaneously as all of society, as part of society, and as instrument of unification. As a part of society it is specifically the sector which concentrates all gazing and all consciousness. Due to the very fact that this sector is separate, it is the common ground of the deceived gaze and of false consciousness, and the unification it achieves is nothing but an official language of generalized separation.

-The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.