Warning. I have nothing to say about B&S today. I didn't even get to listen to a single song. I got shut out of CD rotation at work and I'm listening to my new not so good cd's right now. But I was a the record store looking for the Waking Up on vinyl since mine is now Mysteriously missing. I didn't find it, but I pondered buying Billy Bragg's new one since I loved Mermaid Ave I, but not II. Partially because of Wilco maybe, dunno. But then I got to thinking about patriotism and Brits and Yankees and got this. So you've been Warned. I AM LOOKING FOR A TERM ----------------------- Acceptable patriotism? Perhaps that¹s what we do? Billy Bragg puts out a record Half England/Half English and its acceptable to me insomuch that England doesn¹t belong/speak/mean shit to me but I¹ll wear a Union Jack shirt or buy this album. But God/Allah forbid I buy/wear ANYTHING titled America/US/United States. These labels are unacceptable connotations of patriotism to me. It is all the wrongs all the fashion faux-pas all the bad musicians rolled up Larry Flynt-style fat and sweaty with beady/wild eyes in an American flag. What the hell is it? I¹m not anti-US entirely. Is it the unevenness of the flag or the sick Christian majority or the dull white men who rule us or is patriotism a vehicle for media ratings? I am looking for a term that describes not knowing your place not knowing the country that defends you from evils and axis of evil that don¹t involve you in anyway EXCEPT through the rich white men who rule you who also happen to own the land/economy/people BUT who still cannot with no amount of money buy the spirit away from those people. I am looking for a term to celebrate my land while still cheering the defeated. I am looking for a term to make my misaligned patriotism a guided/educated/wholly heartfelt love. I don¹t know that term I don¹t think it exists I think changes must happen changes must happen. America belongs to me. Organically. Spiritually. What is that term? +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+