Sock Blog

">

Naïve Orleans: The Ignored Poverty

So fair warning this is probably border lining on a completely emo blog, but I have to share my heart about our experience in New Orleans this past week.
We have toured all across the US from Austin to Atlanta, from St. Louis to Nashville... it doesn't matter where we go we seem to encounter something in each city that we didn't expect. Such was the case in New Orleans, LA... but to an extent that couldn't have been anticipated by any of us. Here you have a city that has, in the past two years, suffered from a blight not experienced before on American soil. Pain, agony, homelessness, poverty, starvation... each are daily occurrences for nearly 20% of New Orleans CURRENT population. All of these plagues in plain sight, yet it somehow goes unseen by so many.

It strikes me as a jaded form of irony when you take into consideration that less than a mile away from a "tent city" set up for the homeless there sits a multi-million dollar football franchise, a billion dollar trump tower under NEW construction (post hurricane Katrina), and thousands of suit-clad businessmen that seem to ignore the extreme suffering around them.
New Orleans is a city surrounded by so much controversy, invaded by so much turmoil... a city full of poverty and overflowing with disappointment. The air was thick with oppression... the streets that we walked on heavy with the pain of broken dreams... and that is exactly what attached itself to me as we walked... brokenness. I began to feel the broken lives of an oppressed people. The very lives that go un-noticed on a daily basis. It is then that I realized where we as a people have begun our folly... we are "willingly ignorant." We are spoon fed what is easy to digest. And most of us are none the wiser, partaking of our daily rationed diet of commercialism and self aggrandisement.
So lets make a pact to change our role in this production we call society. Lets become aware, lets turn your eyes in a new direction and see what we have ignored. Lets choose to become conscious of our surroundings, so that little by little we can extend our area of influence, make an impact, leave a legacy, and... change the ignored.
Mucho amo,
Clint

Snowy Virginia

Backstage Fun Kung Fu Style

">

Hotels are made for music

Check out this video: South Carolina Christmas in room 247

Total Axxess In Nashville

So last night we had a radio interview in Nashvegas at the world reknown WayFM!

It was an amazing experience across the board. Wally, the total axxess guy, had some pressing questions for all of us and pretty much tried to demoralize me and called into question my current spot on the road with Chasen by making an attempt to auition for my position as the bass player. However his evil plan was thwarted by my extra vocal talent to which he cannot touch with a stick. So no sweat!

One of the stipulations for our interview was playing a song called the "circle bunny" song. More or less the song was a lullaby the Wally sang to his daughter when she was young, but due to his late night work schedule he has now delegated the task to whatever band is in the studio that night.

Check out the link to the total axxess chasen page with the interview and songs including the

amazing "circle bunny" song right here....

http://www.totalaxxess.com/vault.php?gallery=a,152

Mucho amo,

Clint

"You can find me in St. Louie..."

"Rolling on dubs, blowin' up like cocoa puffs"

St. Louis is a totally sweet city. We have had an absolute blast here in the big STL... from the Big-a-arch to accidentally driving down Martin Luther King Dr. I also got to see my best friend from high school (Daniel aka "D") while I was here and hang our alot with our new bros from Candlefuse. BTW if you ever roll through STL make sure you check out the City Museum probably one of the coolest places you'll ever go. Here is a few pics from the road... go to my mysace for more.
Mucho Amo,
Clint