City Council Elections

Yes, today it's a voting day for me.

City Council Elections.

all this blabbering about the most useless things this town needs, made my political juices bubble.

I recalled several ideas (not to be executed by CC, but by the national government) that didn't hit discussion, tho still doesn't sound all that strange.
Of course I do not know all the ins n outs, the small print is too far away for me to read.
All these things are mere ideas, probably part of an ideology more than of a nearby reality.

Theo Maassen said that we should turn taxes and humanitarian funds 180% around.
We should be sending the taxes we pay for military to the humanitarian funds, and the people who are willing to support the military, are free to do so.

Serj Tankian had the idea that we should be able to divide the taxes we pay, into the funds we support. Perhaps you can show with percentages how much % you want to send to education, how much to health-care, et cetera.

Matthew Bellamy (Muse's frontman) released his latest album with a political statement.
His ideology is part of Georgism. Wikipedia teaches me that Georgism is the ideology that holds that everyone owns what they create, but everything found in nature belongs equally to the monkey called man.

Let me hear it if you know more of these kind of ideas.

Elect the Dead

Okay, so it's "old" to write about.

Serj Tankian's solo album Elect The Dead, which is a masterpiece in many ways I can't describe.

But now, the good just became better.
New Zealand's Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra contacted Serj to give a little (rather say big) twist to the album.
Elect The Dead Symphony. His immense voice with an entire orchestra is an immediate splash in the world of wow. The power that this sound generates gave me goosebumps, and the lyrics (which hasn't changed) give you something to think about.

Serj has also noted that he is thinking about hiring a local orchestra at every gig he plays. His second solo album which he's making, he kindly called a musical clusterfuck. A bit more politically correct, he called it orchestral jazz rock.

He hopes to be releasing it in the late-summer of this year.

Let's hope he's joking and releases it tomorrow.