This shit is dope

[Third_Eye]

Got Serj Tankian's debut solo album Elect the Dead today. I highly recommend it. It is oustanding. In fact, rather than just recommend it I am going to order you all to go and buy it... or download it. Serj has enough money. But do yourself a favor and get this album one way or another. And do it now. Do not wait. Go. Stop reading this. You should no longer be reading this post, because you are supposed to be going and getting this cd. serious. stop fucking reading. i can see you, ya know. sitting there with that smug look on your face, like "who the fuck is this guy, telling me what to do". well fuck you then buddy. fuck you right in your pie hole. you don't know what i am capable of. i know people who know people. do as i say or pay the consequences. i got a whole lotta whoop ass just waiting to be unleashed, and your name is now at the top of my list. should have just stopped reading this post and bought the damn cd while you had the chance



*goes back to rocking out*

[*~TaNi~*]

How do you feel about contributing to the Foundation for the Miseducation of TaNi? Part II. Does Mikey want a creamie! Yesh he does! Good boy! Good BOY Mike! Now fetch me my edumacations!

:2cents::2cents::2cents::2cents::2cents: :2cents:

Does that make cense?

[Third_Eye]

How do you feel about contributing to the Foundation for the Miseducation of TaNi? Part II. Does Mikey want a creamie! Yesh he does! Good boy! Good BOY Mike! Now fetch me my edumacations!

:2cents::2cents::2cents::2cents::2cents: :2cents:

Does that make cense?

It does. I made you a mix cd a long time ago called the miseducation of TaNi because you listened to crappy music and I felt you needed to be saved. You are insisting that I should make you a copy of this cd also to continue your education. Hang out this weekend, and it shall be done :)

[*~TaNi~*]

u share me teh infos and i will leave it to you to also send the flowers and make dinner so my girlfriend can be persuaded easily!

I hear the whip cracking now. I'm whOOped.

No worries, on the burnage. I'll pick up a copy on my next cd extravaganza. I'm in a cd buying mood lately. One day I'll spoil myself with clothes to keep warm. One day.

And as for hangage outtage, time will find a way to let me see you drunk. After this midtermish little mess I'm in, I'll find you that time! Until then, let me study up my musical talent. I blame being involved in music such as piano, guitar, and the drums, aside singing and private art lessons. No time to sit and listen to what the world's listening to. I'm anxious to build my collection. Serj def belongs in it. ;) See, I use you a little bit. I just wait until your informative posts about new cd releases, concerts, and musical inspiration. :) You still need to let me whoop your ass at poker. I ain't yo' bitch, nigga! But you gonna pay me!

[Third_Eye]

werd



we are probably going to start having a poker night at my place each week. we talked about trying to find a good poker table, so if that happens you are definately on the guest list. Plus, since I will be in the comfort of my own home and not need to drive and can pass out in my own bed, the drunkening of Mike can occur.

[Third_Eye]

We don't need your democracy
Execute them kindly for me
Take them by their filthy nostrils
Put them up in doggie hostels
We don't need your hypocrisy
Execute real democracy
Post-industrial society
The unthinking majority

Anti-depressants
Controlling tools of your system
Making life more tolerable
Making life more tolerable
Anti-depressants
Controlling tools of your system
Making life more tolerable
Making life more tolerable

We don't need your hypocrisy
Execute real democracy
Post-industrial society
The unthinking majority

Anti-depressants
Controlling tools of your system
Making life more tolerable
Making life more tolerable
Anti-depressants
Controlling tools of your system
Making life more tolerable
Making life more tolerable

We don't need your hypocrisy
Execute real democracy
Post-industrial society
The unthinking majority
Post-industrial society
The unthinking majority
We don't need your hypocrisy
Execute real democracy
Post-industrial society
The unthinking majority
Post-industrial society
The unthinking majority

I believe that you're wrong
Insinuating they hold the bomb
Clearing the way for the oil brigade
Clearing the way for the oil brigade
I believe that you're wrong
Insinuating they hold the bomb
Clearing the way for the oil brigade
Clearing the way for the oil brigade

Anti-depressants
Controlling tools of your system
Making life more tolerable
Making life more tolerable
Anti-depressants
Controlling tools of your system
Making life more tolerable
Making life more tolerable
Anti-depressants
Controlling tools of your system
Making life more tolerable
Making life more tolerable

I believe that you're wrong
Insinuating they hold the bomb
Clearing the way for the oil brigade
Clearing the way for the oil brigade

We don't need your hypocrisy
Execute real democracy
Post-industrial society
The unthinking majority
We don't need your democracy
Execute them kindly for me
Take them by their filthy nostrils
Put them up in doggie hostels
We don't need your hypocrisy
Execute real democracy
Post-industrial society
The unthinking majority

I believe that you're wrong
Insinuating they hold the bomb
Clearing the way for the oil brigade
Clearing the way for the oil brigade

[Boombaka]

Serj wrote this right after 911 and Sony actually pulled it from its website. Its really good:

Understanding Oil
By Serj Tankian
9/13/2001

The brutal attacks/bombings this week in New York, and Washington D.C., along with threats of attacks there and elsewhere in the country have changed our times forever. While the mass media concentrates on the details of the destruction, and the blanketed words of politicians, I will attempt to understand and explain the events from the fence. BOMBING AND BEING BOMBED ARE THE SAME THINGS ON DIFFERENT SIDES OF THE FENCE.

Terror is not a spontaneous human action without credence. People just dont hijack planes and commit harikari (suicide) without any weight of thought to the action. No one in the media seems to ask WHY DID THESE PEOPLE DO THIS HORRIFIC ACT OF VIOLENCE AND DESTRUCTION?

To be able to understand the answer to this, we must first look at our U.S. Mideast Policy. During most of the 20th century, U.S. businesses have worked on attaining oil rights and concessions from countries in the Middle East and Eastern Europe.

After WWI, secret back door deals by our State Dept. yielded oil rights from then defeated Turkey to fields in what is now Iraq and Saudi Arabia, in return for looking the other way at a crime against humanity, the Genocide of the Armenians by the Turks.

Oil profits have been the motivating factors behind many attempts at counterinsurgency of democratic regimes by the CIA and the U.S in the Middle East (such as Iran in the 1950s, where the Shah replaced the Prime Minister who refused to give up oil rights to the U.S., and since the people couldnt deal with the Shah, an extremist government headed by the Ayatollah Khomeini ultimately prevailed). During the Iran-Iraq war, America supplied both sides with weapons and advice.

These are not the actions of a rich superpower wanting peace. Lets not forget that Saddam Hussein, before being Americas vision of the Anti-Christ, was a close ally of the U.S., and the CIA. So what was the firm belief system of consecutive American administrations that caused all this to occur ? PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST WILL LEAD TO HIGHER OIL AND GASOLINE PRICES.

Lets not also forget the power of the Arms industry, disguised as defense, that still sells billions of dollars of weapons to the area. Therefore it has not been in the short-term economic interest of the U.S. to foster Peace in the Middle East. Using the above reasoning, the U.S. has encouraged extremist governments, toppled democracies, as in the case of Iran to replace it with a monarchy, rigged elections, and many more unspeakable political crimes for U.S. businesses abroad. Lets not also forget the Red Scare.

During the war between the then Soviet Union and Afghanistan, the U.S. armed and supported the Taliban, a fundamentalist Muslim organization, and allowed them to export opium and heroin out of their country to pay for those weapons. Therefore the Taliban rose to power and control with the help of the U.S.A. Today, the bombing of Iraq still continues, no longer covered by the media, the economic embargo still remains, killing millions of children, and recently, while the world and the U.N. General Assembly have cried out to bring in peacekeeping forces into Israel and Palestine, to end the escalated war and recent assassinations, the U.S. has vetoed the rest of the Security Council and has halted the possibility of peace, there, in the most volatile place in the world.

People in Serbia, Lebanon, Iraq, Sudan, and Afghanistan to name a few have seen bombs fall, not always at military targets and kill innocent civilians, as the scene in New York city yesterday. The wars waged by our government in our names has landed smack in the middle of our living room. The half hour of destruction closed down all world financial markets, struck the central headquarters of our military, and had our leaders running into bunkers, and our citizens into fear and frenzy. What scares me more than what has occurred is what our reactions to the occurrences may cause. President Bush belongs to a long generation of Republican Presidents who love war economies. The media has only concentrated on the bombings, if you will, and what type of retaliations are looming for the perpetrators.

What everyone fails to realize is that the bombings are a reaction to existing injustices around the world, generally unseen to most Americans.
To react to a reaction would be to further sponsor the reaction. In other words, my belief is that the terror will multiply if concrete steps are not taken to sponsor peace in the middle east, NOW. This does not mean that we should not find the guilty party(s), Bin Laden, or whoever they may be, and not try them. Put simply, as long as a major injustice remains, violence precipitates to the surface of life.

Native American folklore, the Bible, Nostradamus, and many other major religious beliefs point to this era with the visuals of yesterdays disasters, and conditions of ecological disasters we experience daily in our lives today. War, rumors of war, famine, long burning fires, etc., are at our doorstep. We can prevail over this possible vision with the power of the human spirit, understanding, compassion, and peace. ITS TIME TO PUT OUR NEEDS FOR SECURITY AND SURVIVAL, ACHIEVED ONLY THROUGH PEACE, ABOVE AND BEYOND PROFITS, ESPECIALLY IN THESE TIMES.

SOLUTION:

The U.S. should stop sidestepping the U.N. Security Council, and allow U.N. Peacekeeping troops and missions to the Middle East. Stop the violence first.

Stop the bombing and patrol of Iraq.

With todays gains in the use of alternative fuels, develop them to full usage with autos and other utilities, to make the country less dependant on an already depleting natural reserve, oil.

By initiating peace, we would have already shaken the foundations of support for Bin Laden, and/or all those that sponsor activities like those we saw yesterday, and break the stronghold of extremists on the world of Islam. On the other hand, if we carry out bombings on Afghanistan or elsewhere to appease public demand, and very likely kill innocent civilians along the way, wed be creating many more martyrs going to their deaths in retaliation against the retaliation. As shown from yesterdays events, you cannot stop a person whos ready to die.

[Third_Eye]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GbN9EXYTGnA

http://youtube.com/watch?v=g5epHpFQqQQ

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SEV_1xD8msk

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RaiNWRunTUc

http://youtube.com/watch?v=knZoQrkK0iM


Serj had a video made for each song on the album, each from a different director. Check them out