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Why do we find it ok to create movies, television, and video games about killing and the glorification of gratuitous violence? From war movies, to unlikely duos, from police stories on TV, to dramas, mysteries, and horror movies, etc. It seems we are a society obsessed with violence and killing. A question I would love to pose is,"how many of the people who watch this programming will actually kill someone in their lifetime? We portray murder, revenge actual wars, westerns, gangster movies, and the list goes on. Do you think even 1% of the viewers will ever kill someone? Either way, too much violence in our media goes virtually unpunished. Kids watch R rated movies all day with virtual acceptance by parents and all of America. What are we thinking? Good thing that boy is watching that (violent) program, hopefully he will grow up and kill some people just like what he is seeing on the big and little screen. And above all, let's make sure he is not tainted by seeing a breast or a nipple. Give him anything he wants, just make sure he does not get turned on, or even informed. It seems to me that we have kinda gotten it twisted somehow. Ya'think?

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Independent Media ! the final frontier.

As I watched the music career of my band Biohazard stay strong amongst the fans worldwide in the 90's while our bottom line spiraled down into the murky depths of finacial oblivion, I was plagued by an unceasing sense of impending doom, as if I were the captain of a sinking ship. It made no sense to me since our shows were packed and the tours were awesome, but then I reviewed the books. The income that we made from record sales had diminished to nothing. America had taken it's focus from album rock, and simplified it's sites on pay-ola radio and one hit wonders. The monopolization of the music business by the evil corporate machine that was playing games with my art and treating music as a product rather than a life force had taken the fun out of it for me completeley. I never chose music as a business, it chose me as my religion, my higher power and purpose. It almost felt incestuously wrong to make money from it., but as we grew up and had children and mortgages, it felt great to make a decent living doing what I loved. That is the American dream, yes?

Unfortunately the mindless masses of America have the attention span of what is currently being forcefed to them only. It was not long before long that a band that had sold 4 million albums worldwide, and was a cornerstone of social upheaval was out of business in the states, replaced by goofy commercial copies that were watered down like liquor in strip clubs in florida. Substance was not the key here, only the almighty dollar. A sad state of affairs, we continued our career in Europe, where the lack of a unified language disqualifies radio at any national level and allows the masses to make up their own minds about what they liked. We were like Rambo. Over "there" we could play sold out festivals for hundreds of thousands of people, but back here, in our homeland, we were bums. Maybe not to the loyal fans, who were downloading our music for free at this point, but that is an entirely other blog...

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