Saturday, Nov. 6th - New Orleans, LA - The Fundred Dollar Bill Project "Rescue City To Be" Benefit!
$10, ALL AGES! WE PLAY AT 9PM!!!
I often assess the phrase, "Making a difference," and what this means or how it plays a role and is implemented into my life; daily and all-encompassing. I often think to myself this is an overused phrase with all kinds of subtext that can be rather full of bullshit and confounding implications, rather than something directed for or toward any type of physical, mental, or creative action that might enact or amass people into a situation producing results. We can all be compelled or inspired into action, it's infinite. Without any type of explainable rationale, even! Activism is something that I believe can't be effortless or watered-down. We (I, personally) began doing this band under no specific notion that this might become my little mechanism for discerning and sharing, spreading and expressing my discourse and disposition to want to help people. Now, years later, I've begun to be more or less aware of this importance, and fulfill this conquest in the desire to actualize something not only self-involved or servicing, but that help and creates something joyful yet thought-provoking and challenging, curiously poised with a never-ending query, but some type of action that provides a solution to the damaging elements of exploitation, pain and sorrow, the commercialization and propagation of fear, so adequately dispersed and diffused into a pool of acceptance as if it's "the way it's supposed to be," or even worse, "the way things are." This is my activism, this is our activism, be it positive or provoking, it's something that we do, arming ourselves with stuffed animals or a message to deflect the abuse, it's what we do because we have to do it, because we know it offers something right to the so much wrong (or at least perplexing and insane), that I, you, we, see daily and choose to ignore or only question internally, as to mask, suppress and stay silent in the solitude of "not knowing what to do" so we just do that...we stick to the solitude and do nothing, nothing gained, nothing lost, just a victim of the silence subjugated by the choice to remain in solitude.
And then every once in a while something comes along that is undeniable. Undeniable in practice, proof, validity, and acknowledgement. This isn't about blame or even spreading awareness, it's about something even greater...the safety of the planet, the safety of it's inhabitants and creatures of all, all put on a level plane, as if no distinction plays any role or could possibly remain, because that kind of segregation is deafened by the impending consequences of no action, of the silence, of the solitude. And then you get the chance to immerse yourself in being a part of it, and you realize, this is what it's all about. There is no silence here, so long as we are all willing to sing in tune, the tune of a new world, the tune of a new reality, the new of a new possibility and the measures of attainability necessary to achieve that...that the only way things are "the way they are" are because we justify the silence, the solitude, because we deafen ourselves, and thus, the issues, the desire for change only then can fall on deaf ears.
Well, this time around this is not the case. And we are grateful to join this cause, this movement, this momentous moment in time and history that will hopefully set precedent to the future of how we are to treat our mother planet, the chance, choice, and ability we've been given at life, and of course, each other.
YOU can be a part of this magnificent movement in time to help yourself and all the citizens of Louisiana. All you have to do is visit,
www.fundred.org and
Make a Fundred, Make a Difference!
Also, stay tuned: We will be holding another Paint For Peace event is being planned for this December. More details soon, but it's going to be a doozy!! :)
We hope you'll join us,
<3Stefan