http://johntracy.disqus.com/enTue, 13 Dec 2005 09:12:02 -0000http://www.johntracy.com/blog/2005/12/12/the-w-sticker/#comment-2115880<p>ratm is great, pickups are great...but good 'ole boys and president bush can all suck it and suck it hard.</p><p>shree, rage fans are just that. fans. we are not to be taken as a political force, nor should we be expected to make ANY kind of political impact.</p><p>thats like asking you to make an impact as a fan of that horrible hippie music you listen to. what with your mesh stockings and your tie dye clad, moppy-haired hero posters on your walls.</p><p>still with kyle? if so, tell him i said hi. see you soon.</p>versiononeTue, 13 Dec 2005 09:12:02 -0000http://www.johntracy.com/blog/2005/12/12/the-w-sticker/#comment-2115879<p>yeah..he has threatened many times..but those best buyers..(they know who they are)..will run all of our independent music stores out of business.</p><p>plus he can just smoke pot at home now..and feel free to do so in boxers so that his bubblegum psych pop will not run anyone off.</p><p>maybe moby grape will get him through his lonely nights and bubble puppy through his lonley mornings..</p><p>i remember going there the week of opening and ordering a sonic youth cd. probley the first cd i ever owned..and thinking.."this is really cool"..i could not have been older than 14...</p><p>weird.</p><p>i am going to take photos..not that i don't have a hundred of all of us standing around..running our mouths..maybe i will do a post of them one day.</p><p>don't forget to respond to my post and send me your address.</p>violetpeacock27Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:11:09 -0000http://www.johntracy.com/blog/2005/12/12/the-w-sticker/#comment-2115878<p>hahahahaha. Oh man, that was good.</p><p>By the way, I heard Phil was closing. The news broke my heart. I may have to come back to Montgomery just to wish him a fond farewell.</p>absurdityMon, 12 Dec 2005 23:03:45 -0000http://www.johntracy.com/blog/2005/12/12/the-w-sticker/#comment-2115877<p>i see the irony.</p><p>one time i was on spring break in gulf shores..when this idiot in a rage against the machine shirt tried to hit on me..needless to say it did not go well for him..but during his attempt he mentioned the fact that he loved "rage"..and i was like..well i think they are aweful as a band..but at least they made more kids politically aware..and i think that is a good thing. he then blew up on me for like 5 mins..on how wrong i was..and blah..blah blah..and how much better the world is because of them...and i was like well..to reconsider my point..i don't think they have done alot of good..and he starting going on again about their influence..so i asked him..are you registered to vote? and he said no.</p><p>i walked away.</p><p>your story is example number two in my life of the meaningless of their stickers..or shirts..or fans..to the actual political impact they have had.</p><p>meaningless.</p><p>their fans should be shot.</p>violetpeacock27Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:56:23 -0000http://www.johntracy.com/blog/2005/12/12/the-w-sticker/#comment-2115876<p>i was gonna say that maybe it was a tongue in cheek thing, or that he was being purposefully ironic, or that he was specifically trying to confuse people by being ambiguously extreme.</p><p>but then i remembered you said it was on a pickup truck. oh well.</p>clevortrevorMon, 12 Dec 2005 17:19:06 -0000