Open Letter to MMJ (Health Care Reform)

[AMightyCaporal]

Ya'll crack me up.  :D

[kydiddle]

I love the fact that the band is passionate about more than just music. What do you want? Do you want a group of egotistical bastards who produce C-grade music and don't even look up at the world around them?

Complaining about the website as a platform is pointless since Jim manages to get his opinions out through his interviews (*gasp!*). He's incredibly insightful and even if I don't agree with everything he has to say, it doesn't hurt to learn someone's opinion. To truly understand Jim, MMJ and the music they produce, I think it's best to know everything. Well, okay, not everything. But if that means they support health care reform, Jim wants to adopt a baby from Namibia or they ask fans to bring canned goods to the next concert...who really cares?

This world needs more love and less complaining or finger pointing.

[Love Dogg]

...or they ask fans to bring canned goods to the next concert...

I think this would be great anyway.

[BH]

...or they ask fans to bring canned goods to the next concert...

I think this would be great anyway.

Just make sure they get dropped off before Off The Record gets played, cause if there are any canned sweet potatoes laying around they won't last long.  I'm just sayin'

[Love Dogg]

...or they ask fans to bring canned goods to the next concert...

I think this would be great anyway.

Just make sure they get dropped off before Off The Record gets played, cause if there are any canned sweet potatoes laying around they won't last long.  I'm just sayin'

;D

[AMightyCaporal]

...or they ask fans to bring canned goods to the next concert...

I think this would be great anyway.

Just make sure they get dropped off before Off The Record gets played, cause if there are any canned sweet potatoes laying around they won't last long.  I'm just sayin'

throwing glow sticks at the stage is one thing- throwing full cans of creamed corn is a completely different story.

although- patrick throws beats at us- maybe we should be able to throw beets back at him!

[el_chode]

...or they ask fans to bring canned goods to the next concert...

I think this would be great anyway.

Just make sure they get dropped off before Off The Record gets played, cause if there are any canned sweet potatoes laying around they won't last long.  I'm just sayin'

throwing glow sticks at the stage is one thing- throwing full cans of creamed corn is a completely different story.

although- patrick throws beats at us- maybe we should be able to throw beets back at him!

I hope the next announcement for a special concert where they incorporate a theme is the "high school lunch concert" where everyone is encouraged to wear smocks and start a food fight.

[AMightyCaporal]

...or they ask fans to bring canned goods to the next concert...

I think this would be great anyway.

Just make sure they get dropped off before Off The Record gets played, cause if there are any canned sweet potatoes laying around they won't last long.  I'm just sayin'

throwing glow sticks at the stage is one thing- throwing full cans of creamed corn is a completely different story.

although- patrick throws beats at us- maybe we should be able to throw beets back at him!

I hope the next announcement for a special concert where they incorporate a theme is the "high school lunch concert" where everyone is encouraged to wear smocks and start a food fight.

DIG THAT!

[kydiddle]

...or they ask fans to bring canned goods to the next concert...

I think this would be great anyway.

Yes it would! There is a classic rock station in my area that sometimes will ask fans to bring canned goods to certain concerts to help support local food drives. That's why I threw that one out there.  :)

[kydiddle]

...or they ask fans to bring canned goods to the next concert...

I think this would be great anyway.

Just make sure they get dropped off before Off The Record gets played, cause if there are any canned sweet potatoes laying around they won't last long.  I'm just sayin'

throwing glow sticks at the stage is one thing- throwing full cans of creamed corn is a completely different story.

although- patrick throws beats at us- maybe we should be able to throw beets back at him!

I hope the next announcement for a special concert where they incorporate a theme is the "high school lunch concert" where everyone is encouraged to wear smocks and start a food fight.

DIG THAT!

Food + music = two giant weaknesses for Ky. Please stop talking like this...it's getting hot on this board...

[aMillionDreams]

...or they ask fans to bring canned goods to the next concert...

I think this would be great anyway.

Yes it would! There is a classic rock station in my area that sometimes will ask fans to bring canned goods to certain concerts to help support local food drives. That's why I threw that one out there.  :)

They've done that more than once here in Louisville for Kentucky Harvest.

Or maybe it was the Coalition of Outspoken Socialist Idiot Musicians Against Human Beings Needlessly Dying Fund.  ;)

[Angry Ewok]

Lovin' the canned food idea.

[AMightyCaporal]

...or they ask fans to bring canned goods to the next concert...

I think this would be great anyway.

Yes it would! There is a classic rock station in my area that sometimes will ask fans to bring canned goods to certain concerts to help support local food drives. That's why I threw that one out there.  :)

They've done that more than once here in Louisville for Kentucky Harvest.

Or maybe it was the Coalition of Outspoken Socialist Idiot Musicians Against Human Beings Needlessly Dying Fund.  ;)

BAHAHAHAHAHA SUCK IT OP!

[songdiver]

It makes me sad that there are still fans of My Morning Jacket's music that still don't get what it's all about.  I am not trying to be mean here, but it is pathetic that some of you think this is just about music.  Have any of you actually listened to the words in these songs?  Jim's lyrics are very literal in Evil Urges in terms of supporting this upcoming revolution.  Jim isn't performing this godly music for fun, but to change this fucked-up world.  I would love to make music, but my best way to get the message out is through writing.  Jim just happens to be amazing at making great music, so he uses it as a vehicle to drive the message that people like me support and are getting out every day.

Do I seriously have to educate some people on what is happening in  the world?  Go online or go ask somebody with a brain about what is about to go down in the United States in the near future.  
1.  Our money has NO value.  ZERO!!!  Get off your hipster/poser ass and go educate yourself about the Federal Reserve and find out how they robbed us blind and continue to enslave us.
2.  The corporations run this world.  If you don't understand how serious this is, then you are fully endoctrinated into the system.
3.  Because our currency is worth nothing, we need to push for a health care system that covers everyone.  The money is fake anyway, so it doesn't even matter how much "it costs."  
4.  Once people become more aware to the truth that our government has sold us out to the corporations, we will overthrow everyone in perceived power and have full anarchy or a resource-based economy in which we will thrive beyond the current imagination that has been implanted in us by the school systems.
5.  We are about to have a spiritual awakening...an expansion of consciousness on a world-wide scale.  Jim is singing about this if you've care to pay attention.


We are in this together, and it is My Morning Jacket's purpose to put out good energy into the world and spread the message to people who still think concepts like love, joy, sharing, peace, enlightenment, and knowledge are still important.  I think these things could change the world.  I think we can change the world, and that is what bands like MMJ, Arcade Fire, Bright Eyes, and most of the bands we all listen to believe in.  That is what the Beatles were saying, and the Clash, and U2.  That is the whole purpose of starting a band.  To get a message out there so we can change things.  We are about to go through a time that makes the 60s look like child's play.

If you don't want these bands to have messages and you want to live the rest of your life in corporate America, then go listen to the Jonas brothers or people from American Idol and get the fuck off of this board.  Because you are slowing down the revolution.

Go get a clue, and WAKE UP.  Everything you know is wrong and is a lie.

[goldenlady]

If the band released some sort of EP or live show to go along with this political stance in which some of the proceeds would benefit...would you have such a problem with it????

[Angry Ewok]

If the band released some sort of EP or live show to go along with this political stance in which some of the proceeds would benefit...would you have such a problem with it????

It's their money. I think folks should be able to spend their money the way they want to. If that means political benefits, cancer research, or just beer and pizza - I have no problem with it because its none of my business.

[Ghosts_on_TV]

Mmmm....beer and Pizza.....

[BH]

I just gave a lady five dollars and 37 cents and got back a roast beef sandwich, a side salad and a diet coke so I guess it's still worth something.

[el_chode]

I still have this plan in my head to brew the greatest beer to mankind and call it "One Big IPA" and then I'm gonna send kegs and kegs of it to the band as quickly as possible and they have to put in their rider "One Big IPA must be made available at each bar at the venue" and then the band can take the proceeds from it and donate it to puppies and rainbows, and anyone who doesn't agree with this plan will be known to have the following three flaws in their life:

They hate puppies
They hate beer
They hate rainbows

Then they'll have to wear a tshirt that says "I hate puppies, beer, and rainbows" and the shirt is going to be sewn from the shedded hair of puppies, be rainbow colored, and pre-stained with beer so they'll smell like a homeless person and wish that someone was donating some money to them to go to the dry cleaners.

[Crispy]

I still have this plan in my head to brew the greatest beer to mankind and call it "One Big IPA" and then I'm gonna send kegs and kegs of it to the band as quickly as possible and they have to put in their rider "One Big IPA must be made available at each bar at the venue" and then the band can take the proceeds from it and donate it to puppies and rainbows, and anyone who doesn't agree with this plan will be known to have the following three flaws in their life:

They hate puppies
They hate beer
They hate rainbows

Then they'll have to wear a tshirt that says "I hate puppies, beer, and rainbows" and the shirt is going to be sewn from the shedded hair of puppies, be rainbow colored, and pre-stained with beer so they'll smell like a homeless person and wish that someone was donating some money to them to go to the dry cleaners.