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May Featured Song - Masquerade of the Macabre

Our Myspace featured song for the month of May is Masquerade of the Macabre. It is probably our song most likely to get stuck in your head. So, I guess that's our "radio friendly" tune if we have such a thing. It is also the only song on Geoparasitism that the lyrics were not written by Brannon. Brannon did however add the two line refrains that end the verses throughout the song as well as come up with the title. The rest however was written by Kim. While this may be as close as to radio friendly as we get there is one notable mutation. The choruses are instrumental only. Let the dance begin...

Masquerade of the Macabre

I think I'll begin where the end has no name
I think I will write what you cannot say
To be lost for words in a world of doubt
Silence speaks volumes
Just because you hear doesn't mean you listen
Just because speek doesn't mean you know
The truth always lies in between all the lines
You are not your own Your being played
Dancin' on a string in the Masquerade of the Macabre

It will never be farther than where it dwells
Not quite Heaven but almost Hell
Their thoughts will remain forever unknown
Because madness makes a house a home
Give them all a piece of your mind
And they will take it all just to leave you blind
But never loose yourself or let your spirit fade
Never be a prop in the Masquerade of the Macabre

Then someone came and stole their land
Only to return it with blood on their hands
Blood will spill for the need of oil
Will the Earth start to shake and the waters boil
Man will become the dinosaur just to quinch his need for more, more, more
Is it not for you do you feel betrayed?
Walk away from the Masquerade of the Macabre

May Featured Song - Masquerade of the Macabre

Our Myspace featured song for the month of May is Masquerade of the Macabre. It is probably our song most likely to get stuck in your head. So, I guess that's our "radio friendly" tune if we have such a thing. It is also the only song on Geoparasitism that the lyrics were not written by Brannon. Brannon did however add the two line refrains that end the verses throughout the song as well as come up with the title. The rest however was written by Kim. While this may be as close as to radio friendly as we get there is one notable mutation. The choruses are instrumental only. Let the dance begin...

Masquerade of the Macabre

I think I'll begin where the end has no name
I think I will write what you cannot say
To be lost for words in a world of doubt
Silence speaks volumes
Just because you hear doesn't mean you listen
Just because speek doesn't mean you know
The truth always lies in between all the lines
You are not your own Your being played
Dancin' on a string in the Masquerade of the Macabre

It will never be farther than where it dwells
Not quite Heaven but almost Hell
Their thoughts will remain forever unknown
Because madness makes a house a home
Give them all a piece of your mind
And they will take it all just to leave you blind
But never loose yourself or let your spirit fade
Never be a prop in the Masquerade of the Macabre

Then someone came and stole their land
Only to return it with blood on their hands
Blood will spill for the need of oil
Will the Earth start to shake and the waters boil
Man will become the dinosaur just to quinch his need for more, more, more
Is it not for you do you feel betrayed?
Walk away from the Masquerade of the Macabre

Die Die Die my Denton...

If your not from Denton please read anyway. This WILL happen to your town if it hasn't already. This is the new trend. Since the economy has to keep growing more more places will be pilaged, raped, beaten, and left to die.

Being a Dentonite for 6 1/2 years I've heard people bemoan the death of this town since I got here. During this time I've watched a cool artsy town strongly based around a local economy become and more coporatized and gentrified into another Frisco/Plano/Lewisville surban hell. Are we there yet? No, but we are certainly on the fast track. When I first got here the only thing on the loop once you got away for I-35 was Mal-Wart and Lowes, then trees that reached to the sky. Now, its a bustling area that looks like it was surgically cut out of Plano and grafted onto the Denton landscape. Over the last few the City Council has been drooling like vampires in a blood bank over this new plan. They want more bourgois mcmansion owning types and less alternative lifestyle artsy types, all the while claiming Denton as an arts town. They've been chipping away at the soul of this town for a while but sent an A-bomb recently. Fry St. will exsist no more as we have come to know and love it. Kiss is goodbye. No more sitting on the roof of Cool Beans listening to a great band. No more drinking at TJs and finishing the night with some great wings, a good band, and pool. Forget rifling through for burried riches at Treasure Isles, singing Bohemian Rhapsody with strangers at the Tomato, or a romantic night of pasta, wine, and hookahs at Bagheri's. This is all ancient history. Or at least that's the way the city council would have it. A large Californian company has bought the property where all these establishments are located. They are planning on bulldozing it and putting up an 8 story apartment complex with businesses on the bottom that open up to the street. I'm sure the rent for these buisness will be out of the range of most local entrepeneurs. I have to wonder if anyone gives a flying fuck? I've heard some grumblings but not the outrage such a tragedy deserves. Have we really grown this complacent? When will you care? When the Kharma is bought out and bulldozed for a StarFucks? When Zebrahead is replaced? When they use eminant domain laws to take the Delta Lodge? Maybe when Voertman's becomes a Barnes & igNoble college book store and the Inferno becomes a Coyote Ugly? Or will you wait until they decide to change the laws the yard Nazis enforce, and that siding or wood on your home is no longer up to "community standards," and you have to get bricks or tear it down? Maybe when carports aren't good enough and are considered "trashy". Ironic, considering most stuff designed/created by Frank Loyd Wright is out of this world expensive but carports equal white trash. Maybe when there are no clubs left for your band to play at so you'll have to drive to Dallas or Ft. Worth but can't afford the gas so your bands dies from carbon monixide because you can't get out of your garage. It seems like the University might care, but it's sitting on its obsese ass dining off the corpses of the overworked students populus. When college towns lose what makes them unique people stop coming. Denton is on the verge of losing just that. IF UNT wants to change its image from a communiter school they better give students more of an inncentive to live here. That incentive doesn't come from huge corporations. Those are available where they live now. Why move to a place that's just like your hometown but your going to have to pay lodging? UNT, as an alumnus you disgust me. You are a sick bloated whore that needs to have your abssess drained. You do not listen to your student body only to your accountants. Students cry more parking and you give them more dorms. Housing is plentiful in this town. You do not need an eight story apartment complex. You're not that large of a school and never will be if you assist in sucking the individuality out of this town. Many people come here when looking at schools and like the fact its a smaller Austin. You can recognize most of the regulars in the area, but it is made up of a diverse range of backgrounds. Those people will leave when you take away (or at least cut it in half) a cultural haven like Fry St. Thus you will lose students who come here for that reason. The mayor and city council can kiss my ass in Hell. You claim you want an arts town; you want to build an arts walk, you care about the arts in this community. Then why don't you back your words with actions? What you define as art has no underlying substance but it matches that new couch and rug well. This town has more artists (painters, sculptors, writers, musicians, filmmakers) per capita than any town than I can think of. The only problem is they don't make "art" that is pretty and to your liking. Instead of helping bands you hurt them and the clubs (local businesses) by passing ordincences that make it more difficult for them to draw crowds. You don't want Art, you want arts & crafts. Just be honest about it and don't hide behind these facades.
Denton is dying and if you don't think so your either in denial, unobservant, or maybe you just enjoy the suburban nightmare. There is still time left to save her but it is running short. Are you going to strum your guitar while it burns or are you going to crank that amp to 10 and tell the fuckers whose town this really is?

West Memphis 3 -It could happen to me, it could happen to you. - Jello Biafra

If you visit our website (www.TheMadScientists.biz) regularly you know that each month we focus on a different relevant political/cultural issue to help raise awareness. When you look at our myspace page we have a small banner supporting the West Memphis Three. This month on the the website we are also turning our focus on these three young men. For those of you not familar with this case I'll post a brief synaposis from their website (www.wm3.org)

Shortly after three eight-year-old boys were found mutilated and murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas, local newspapers stated the killers had been caught. The police assured the public that the three teenagers in custody were definitely responsible for these horrible crimes. Evidence?
The same police officers coerced an error-filled confession from Jessie Misskelley Jr., who is mentally handicapped. They subjected him to 12 hours of questioning without counsel or parental consent, audio-taping only two fragments totaling 46 minutes. Jessie recanted it that evening, but it was too late Misskelley, Jason Baldwin and Damien Echols were all arrested on June 3, 1993, and convicted of murder in early 1994.
Although there was no physical evidence, murder weapon, motive, or connection to the victims, the prosecution pathetically resorted to presenting black hair and clothing, heavy metal t-shirts, and Stephen King novels as proof that the boys were sacrificed in a satanic cult ritual. Unfathomably, Echols was sentenced to death, Baldwin received life without parole, and Misskelley got life plus 40.
For over 12 years, The West Memphis Three have been imprisoned for crimes they didnt commit. Echols waits in solitary confinement for the lethal injection our tax dollars will pay for. They were all condemned by their poverty, incompetent defense, satanic panic and a rush to judgment.

Over the years many people have been drawn to this case for a variety of reason but two primairy reasons stick out. Anger over the justice systems and its failings as well as its biasises against those who are different and poor (I would liked to add disabled as well, the number of people in prisons who have experienced head trauma, have low IQs, etc. is staggering). Or sympathy from people who were Damien, Jason, and Jesse. "Weirdos" in small towns (and not so small towns) that dressed in black, and listened to "evil" music. T

There is currently a letter writing campaign to the governor of Arkansas going on that you can find out more details at here. Please get the letters in before May 26, 2006. Also, WM3 awareness day (June 3) is quickly approaching and in honor of these events. We are organizing a benefit show at J&Js in Denton on May 22. There will be information about what is currently going on, how you can help, and the current letter writing campaignWe are asking a $3 suggested donation all of the door will be going to help the West Memphis Three. This is in its early stages but all details should be known by the end of the week.

Tom Waits on the WM3:
"These boys didnt get a fair trial. They got picked for wearing black clothes and having long hair. I am fundamentally opposed to the death penalty, and as Lenny Bruce said, In the halls of justice, all the justice is in the halls. Perhaps, a jury is composed of twelve men and women of average ignorance. and a judge is a lawyer who once knew a politician. In our system of justice, the best client for a lawyer is a scared millionaire. The worst thing in our criminal justice system is to be broke or different."