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Recorded live at Tonic Lounge [R.I.P.] in Portland, Oregon; Sunday May 19, 2013. Live mix recorded direct to 2-channel stereo.

A reworked version of a poem originally performed with improvised music by a musical outfit called Gemet Gemet; only two months earlier on this same stage.

Dedicated to Marshall McLuhan, and also to the irony of social networks.

Also dedicated to our former feline companion Max, who woke me up at 2 am one morning in March, so I could write these words.

lyrics

EH, WOT?

The information highway is neither.
Modern technology has rendered all communication obsolete.
No one has anything to say, of any real significance.
And this is signified repeatedly. Repeatedly. Repeatedly. Repeatedly.

Live, from the dashboard:
Text messages filled with repetitive nonsense _ Viral mania.
Anti-social networks _ suggest _ rhetoric _ sabotage _ language
Shared _ information _ Mined (mimed) _ information _ info - nation.

All your memes belong to us.
All your friends belong to us.
Do you really “Like” your friends?

Say something. Say anything.
Chit-chat. Chitter chatter. Tweet-tweet-tweet.
Any point of interest is only coincidence.

The medium is the message.
I repeat:
The medium is the massage.
Can you hear me now?

c 2013 / J. Free

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from Live at Tonic, track released May 31, 2013
J. Free: vocals, guitars, keyboards, loops, words and arrangements

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A rotating doorway to various compositional styles combining a brash, off-the-cuff sensibility, and a devil-may-care attitude that is sure to inspire listeners to shave off their beards in glowing solidarity.

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