I’ve been exploring the boxes through music, and it’s been pretty darn sweet. Minus the Norm-like bar tab, the search has offered continuous insight into the layers.
As last summer, I’ll think that I have it figured out, then realize that I’m deconstructing or simplifying. It interests me to juxtapose anti-fed v. fed with political parties with human behaviors with fate/ free will!
The tracks list represents some of my leisure. I wish I could play music on this site. Alas..! I can and will mail a copy of the disks to interested parties. My first version has been revised and shall continue to be. (Nature of the beast. Pun.)
Like Forrest Gump (one of only many traits we share. Run, Hobbesie, Run!), I’m seeing how “maybe we’re both” or all of the boxes at once. That there’s a pull every bit as real as that between the three branches. Music seems to represent this polynomial, and factoring it presents me with a challenge I’ve enjoyed.
A word on the selections. I’m finding that a few of the songs could fit on any of the disks. One could argue that each of them is federalist, in that they are creative, for instance. “Jump Around” is a high-energy, aggressive song which I placed on the “States of Nature” disk. However, much can be said for the fact that rap handles aggression in a positive way. Phrases which some interpret as violent are most often simply a way to blow off steam. In other words, as sports, music allows a release. I could’ve just as easily placed the piece on disk three.
Anti/ Federalist Vol. I: States of Nature
“Me and a Gun” Tori Amos
“April 29, 1992 (Miami)” Sublime
“Bulls on Parade” Rage Against the Machine
“Pain” 2Pac
“Sabotage” Beastie Boys
“Jump Around” House of Pain
“Wrong Way” Sublime
“Animal I Have Become” Three Days Grace
“Come Out and Play” The Offspring
“Teenagers” My Chemical Romance
“Smells Like Teen Spirit” Nirvana
“Santeria” Sublime
“Been Caught Stealing” Jane’s Addiction
“This Ain’t a Scene, It’s an Arm Race” Fall Out Boy
“U.S. History” Flipsyde
“Testify” Rage Against the Machine
Anti/ Federalist Vol. II: Meltdown
“All in the Family” TV Theme from All in the Family
“Enter Sandman” Metallica
“Faint” Linkin Park
“Intro” Matthew Sweet
“Ugly Truth Rock” Matthew Sweet
“Enth Nd” Linkin Park
“Army of Me” Bjork
“Duel of the Fates” John Williams
“The New World” X
“You Better Be Doubtful” The Housemartins
“The Shadow Government” They Might Be Giants
“Political Science” Randy Newman
“Holiday” Green Day
“I Fought the Law” Green Day
“Gunslinger” John Fogerty
“Beer for My Horses” Toby Keith and Willie Nelson
“The Government Totally Sucks” Tenacious D
“Wake Me Up When September Ends” Green Day
“Wonderful” Everclear
“Pride (in the Name of Love)” U2
“Pacing the Cage” Bruce Cockburn
“The Way It Is” Bruce Hornsby and the Range
Anti/ Federalist Vol. III: Energy Renewed
“Vertigo” U2
“Icky Thump” White Stripes
“Fight for Your Right” Beastie Boys
“Minority” Green Day
“Float On” Modest Mouse
“Signs” Tesla
“Warning” Green Day
“Everything I Am” Kanye West
“Unwritten” Natasha Bedingfield
“In a Big Country” Big Country
“Closer to Free” BoDeans
“The Middle” Jimmy Eat World
“The Goonies ‘R’ Good Enough” Cindi Lauper
“New Song” Howard Jones
“Centerfield” John Fogerty
“I Take My Chances” Mary Chapin Carpenter
“Upside Down” Jack Johnson
“Closer to Fine” Indigo Girls
“This Moment” Matthew Sweet
“Lights and Virtues” Jackson Browne
“Imagine” John Lennon
“This Land Is Your Land” Woodie Guthrie
A look will reveal certain biases: Green Day, my exposure, my age and sublurban upbringing… Also, I realize that the voices of women are under-represented. Perhaps, with your input, that’ll change! Thanks again to Shellee, Larry, and Laura for their evolving input.
Hope you leave some comments on the songs if you know them or share in the dialogue by requesting the disks! 🙂