This Is Not A Politcal Blog

This is not a political blog and that said, when I talk about what I did yesterday I will attempt to bring it back to music. Yesterday I went with several of my friends into Boston to see Barack Obama speak at a rally at the World Trade Center. With a minimal amount of gushing, I would like to say that the man made me a believer. I think the time is right to have a candidate with perfect comedic timing and that candidate is Barack Obama (seriously the man makes jokes, he's enjoying himself). The way I tie this into music is that of all my experiences in life, the rally was most like the first time I saw Against Me! play live. This is before they went all hypocritical and changed their sound to suit a more commercially viable audience (Note how I did not use the reactionary 'sold out'), back when they believed and you could believe with them. That was the show where I found myself singing along with the man next to me, smiling and nodding to each other even though we had never met. Last night after a particularly important point I yelled "Yeah" at the same time that the man standing next to me said it. We turn and acknowledged each other and when later as the rally built into a fervor and the man muttered to me "He has to win" it seemed normal. I waited in line for 3 hours, my calves and back were dead, and in that line I talked and made friends the way you can in a crowd of just under 10,000 people who all have the same goal for just a brief time. This is what punk music has always meant to me, in the face of cynicism and the status quo joining with other people, however different, who share our veiw to support the cause we believe in.
To that end I've decided to make my first musical post the new song that Kid Omega is doing. The song is called Elysion. This is the original acoustic demo I did.

Elysion