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day 7! INSTITUTIONALIZED. (Patreon)

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2015-12-21 01:59:51
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yo peeps.


the 12 DAYS OF AFPNESS CONTINUE....


today's offering is a humbler offering, because it's already been released...but the release was lost in the madness of other things (whatever it was at the time...book, probably, or death. it was always one or another for a couple years there).

anyway, this is the first time i'm putting it up on my channel.


there's a great little label called American Laundromat run by a dude named joe who have been putting out wonderful tribute albums for years...if you remember The Dresden Dolls covering "Pretty in Pink", that was from a similar collection (w00t w00t john hughes soundtrack tributes). this was recorded with the grand theft boys when we were making "theatre is evil" in melbourne, engineered by john congleton at sing sing.


anyway, it's perfect because this song is reflecting my fuckin mood.


i grew up worshipping the soundtrack to repo man.

iggy pop, black flag, circle jerks...it was a gateway tape.


i wasn't generally into hard hardcore fasty fasty shouty punk, i was more of a melody-addict, so i was more into the clash than the sex pistols if you know what i mean.  


btw, repo man is an amazing movie...if you haven't seen it, grab a substance and get down to it. cult classic for a good reason. but the soundtrack captured something really essential about the statement of the film.


being in los angeles as i am right now, i'm definitely feeling some rage against the machine. the sun is nice, the people are friendly, but there's a pain in the crass commercialism here that makes you just want to...strangle yourself? strangle someone else? ...in my case...i'm not into strangling. i just want to flee away from the beautiful people and the stores selling pocketbooks and start a commune somewhere, anywhere.


you think i'm kidding? i'm not. 


shit is driving me crazy.


the baby is taking my filter off.


the phones, the money, the capitalism, the lack of connection...we're asleep.


i'm ready to flee and squat.


i'm not crazy.

you're the one that's crazy.


They stuck me in an institution
Said it was the only solution
To give me the needed professional help
To protect me from the enemy:


myself. 


i'm not the one that's crazy.

i'm not the one that's crazy.

i'm not the one that's crazy.


ALL  I WANTED WAS A PEPSI.


stay with me. 


i love you

xxx

AMFMAFAFAJFAJFAJFP



p.s. you can find the whole album here: 

http://www.alr-music.com/main.php?content=shop&no=alr-0028

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Amanda Palmer covers Institutionalized (Suicidal Tendencies)

Institutionalized · Amanda Palmer + The Grand Theft Orchestra from "a tribute to Repo Man" Michael McQuilken - Drums Chad Raines - Guitar Jherek BIschoff - Bass AFP - vocals engineered by John Congleton at Sing Sing Studios in Melbourne, Australia.

Comments

Daniel

This is so great! Thank you! I know exactly what you mean about LA. It always nags at me when I'm there.

Lisa

Wow. I love the energy in this! I don't know the original either. The band sound fab! *Hugs*

Anonymous

Pepsi is definitely some people's drug of choice. ;) The holidays are overly commercialized. I just enjoy the pretty decorations, the socializing (while trying not to pick up any winter colds!), the aroma of yummy foods, the ice skating.... That song's f*ckin' rad, btw. ;) Now I need to see Repo Man! Many ::hugs::!

Lynn

Dear Amanda, living in Germany, I find the way into communism myself at the moment. There is no point in struggling for money within this machinery. Thanks to some great, dying, hidden socialism I have enough of it to feed my family and stop, stare and cringe. We drown in clutter. Everyone wants to get rid of tons of stuff they accidently bought. They stuff it down our throats, screaming "YOU NEED THIS!" in our faces on animated LED-Walls as high as skycrapers. Money is spent for this. Refugees get no homes and no right of residence. Yet volunteers anounced over the radio that people should please stop bringing their useless shit to the helping points. That is all we seem to have to offer to them. Soulless is everywhere. I quit on coffee and refined sugar. I think they are two major narcotics easily put into everything we consume. Of course I quit on cigarettes and alcohol too. And animals. I moved to the periphery of the city. At daytime I hide my child in a tiny parents' initiative kindergarden in the woods (she loves it). What can I say. I dream about a free world. About choice. About knowledge. Knowledge of what it is I breathe, what it is I eat. Knowledge of what I have just signed. Not being forced to sign. About the option to not fuel war. About love. If I could just grab us all by the neck and drag us there next week. Even my whole lifetime spent on fighting for it won't let me see us reaching the goal. Or maybe we are not supposed to see it. Maybe there is no point in an happily ever after world. It makes me so sad to finally get why my grandparents folded long ago. Their world has been destroyed. And so will be mine. Dear Amanda, when you find a beautiful place one can run to and hide, please tell me where it is. Loves, Lynn

Felicia Angel

Yes, Repo Man (and not the Genetic Opera one, but the right one, with a car and aliens in the trunk). I love that you did this and reminded me of it. My dad introduced me to the insanity of the movie and I'm so glad you did that cover! it's great :D thank you so much

Nicola

Fuck yes. perfect toon for right now. Thanks. All I want is a Pepsi

Len Tower Jr.

i filter out billboards & ads. (unless I want to investigate the design.). have to turn the filter off next time I'm in LA LA.

Thorri

You do hard hardcore fasty fasty shouty punk very fine, as expected. I like this :)

Melanie Arriaga

I hear what you say about LA a lot. I usually live (I'm in a small village in France right now - I'm a couch surfing writer) in mid LA and don't think I see this any more else than anywhere else in the US. Maybe because my beloved ex-home town of SF has become all about things and money and how many social media friends you have and what you own. The small towns of Burgundy are different - people stop at between 12-2/3 every day. They seem to believe patience is important and it doesn't matter how many friends you have, only the kinds of friends you have. I believe this too (although I'm not patient) and in LA I can find this truth just as much as I could in Austin or Portland or Concord. I guess how do you see crass commercialism in LA more than most places in the states or online? Google remarketing to us. I really want to know. I find this crass commercialism everywhere in the US/online/most places. It's not too bad in this small village in Burgundy which is why I'm here.

Megan Rubenstein

I've always loved this song and I LOVED your interpretation of it!! I saw ST when I was 17, and then again with Metallica when I was 19 or 20. They RULE!! I have not seen Repo Man. I was born and raised in Las Vegas, and LA and Vegas both make me feel the way you’re describing. Also, the lack of trees in Vegas has always made me edgy. I live in Memphis amongst greenery now and I’m way happier overall. You are doing Goddess work with the whole child-raising thing. You’re a braver woman than I. Keep it up, lady. And thank you for These Twelve Days. They have lifted my spirits through this difficult time of year. Love you.