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I am
starting to think about 2007, wrapping up all my personal goals for the
year. 2006 was interesting because it was all about loving
myself. As I'm sure you experienced a huge transformation in
loving yourself this year. We all did. Everyone I know
worked on themselves this year. Anything I expected anyone else to
do for me, didn't happen like that this year. But I got other
things. I received a lot of self-love, and more than that,
self-acceptance, self-care and inner-peace. Relationships are
always challenging, but when I focus on who I am and what I want, things
get better and work out for the best.
Emotionalism.
E-Motion/Al(I-S+M) is a film script I wrote once. It's like
this: energy minus motion divided my all of it times I minus the s
& m, is pretty much my physics theory on our emotions. It's
nonsense, I know, but really it makes sense. Here's why: If
I stay still (energy - motion), and I divide that part by my whole life
(all of it) and then I multiply that by myself minus the s & m,
basically all the pain I instigate and allow to happen to me, I get a
range of existence that equals my feelings.
My energy is 80
My motion is 20 if I'm mellow today - (if I was particularly
active it could be 90)
Therefore, my e-motion is 60
My life is 100
How much I love or identity with my positive self today is let's say 95
How abusive I was to others today is 40 (I was more negative that usual
today because our office is in transition and things were really heating
up)
How abusive I was to myself today is 25 (I allowed the negativity in and
that's not good)
Then
according to my theory, my emotionalism today would be 18. Hmm,
that's a pretty good assessment for how I was feeling today. Not
great, mind you, but not completely bad.
I don't
know, what do you guys think? Does this work? You know I'm
always trying to come up with some pop psychology theory.
Anyway,
back to 2006. This weekend I spent a lot of quality time looking
at what I want out of life, and how I am going to get there. I
realized what is really important to me these days is emotional
support. I need more of it. My friend Billy was really there
for me on Saturday night, and I appreciate that. I love
Billy. He is emotionally supportive...which feels really nice.
For the
rest of 2006, I am going to focus my energy on creating and manifesting
all the emotional support I can accept, so when 2007 comes around, I
will be in a great space to share it with my friends, lovers and
partners. I hope 2007 will bring lots of love, joy and happiness
my way. I think it will, because I have a good feeling about it.
Create
good National Karma, vote for peace on November 7th.
xoxo,
Jodi
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Third World America
with Randy Nerve
Talk It Out with Jodi Leib
featuring Randy Nerve
Summer 2006
Jodi:
Talking it out with Randy from The Nerve! The nerve of us…
Randy: You know my name is Randy Nerve?
Jodi: For real? Your last name is Nerve?
Randy: We all call ourselves Nerve. Like the Ramones were
all named Ramone.
Jodi: Oh, that’s cool!
Randy: I read some of your interviews and I really liked them.
Howard Dean, Moby…I read them when I first met you, and I remember the
general feeling. It seemed like you were talking about positive
things and drawing the positive things out of the people you were
interviewing. I don’t know, I just liked it. They didn’t
seem like your typical, run-of-the-mill interviews.
Jodi: My feeling is that you were seeking something in yourself
and that’s what you found. So, I’m excited that you found
positive, happy things in yourself. So what is it that jazzes you?
What is it you feel most proud of in your life?
Randy: I’m very proud of something that lately has also been
causing me a lot of grief and stress, which is kind of sad in a way.
It’s my music. It brings me pleasure and pain. It’s sometimes
difficult being in a band situation where you have all these
personalities to deal with. But I love making music. It’s what I
do best, and I’m recently realizing I make music to be of service.
It’s something I read about in the Artist’s Way, and it really
struck me. I’m making music to do service. And, I need to
be in a joyous, spiritual, God-filled, centered place to be of service.
Music, to me now, is not about making the money, and the going on tour,
all that stuff and the chicks and the record companies, na na na.
It’s service, man. It’s service. I try to put a message
in my songs. I’m not like, a deep Bob Dylan kind of guy, but I
just try to sing about love, healing, and peace, and the crappy things
that are going on in the world that a lot of people might not be aware
of, because they are plugged into their televisions, and they’re
plugged into American consumer culture, and they’re drugged by it.
They might not be aware of what’s going on. I was talking to a
reasonably intelligent person who I respect the other day, and I
mentioned to this person the recent Rolling Stone article by Robert
Kennedy Jr. about how the 2004 election was stolen, blah, blah, blah,
and I just assumed everyone was aware of these issues. She was
like, “stolen?” She just seemed clueless. She was like,
“I’m no fan of Bush, but, you know, I just figured the people in
power are doing the right thing anyway.” And, it just seemed so
ignorant.
Jodi: Are you talking specifically about the voting machines in
Ohio?
Randy: Oh, that’s just one part of it. There was so much
crap going on. There is so much. You can read about it.
Just not in the mainstream press, who are all a part of it. It’s out
there on the internet, independent newspapers and magazines. It’s all
out there. They can’t censor everything.
Jodi: I think what’s interesting about what you are saying is
that you’re giving service by telling us what you know about politics
and by educating the people about issues that are really present, and
corruption in our government that is really present. This is a
corrupt administration, and that’s an objective statement. There
have been laws that have been broken. People have been shot!
Dick Cheney’s partner! I’m just teasing. I’m
not trying to be controversial here, I’m really not, I’m just
teasing, but what I am trying to do is have you share what you do know,
because we are coming into an election, and I think the people need to
be informed and ought to be informed this year. What’s at the
heart of what you think is really going on, and what can we do as we
move toward November, to prepare ourselves and to make sure we are
voting and our voices are heard in accordance with our inner most
desires and vision for our country?
Randy: First of all, let me just say, I’m not a
political-oriented artist. I’m just trying to put music and
songs out there that have some sort of meaning to me, whether it’s
something politically-oriented or relationship-oriented or something
that’s about love, or self-healing. The songs you listened to
off myspace, I don’t think those were the political ones.
Jodi: Yeah, one of those was about addiction.
Randy: Really. The song “Really”. Yeah, it’s about
addiction. It’s service. I want to put some kind of
message out there. Yeah, a couple of the songs, I’ll give you
the CD, there are a couple of politically-oriented songs on it.
But, I’m not a political artist. I’m not extremely
well-educated on this stuff, but I do know what feels right, and I think
it’s pretty clear that what’s going on right now is just outright
wrong. Fucked up. I don’t articulate it in conversation
well. But I can put it in music, I can put it in song. I can
put it in lyrics. If you really want to know how I feel about
what’s going on, I’d rather you hear my songs, because I get all
tongue-tied when I talk about politics. I wish I could talk about
it better. I wish I could be a politically articulate person when
I speak, like a politically articulate musician, like a guy like Eddie
Vedder of Pearl Jam. Very politically active in his music, and if
you hear him talk about this stuff, he sounds like he knows what he’s
talking about. While I have the words in my head, I can’t get
them out. Basically, we’re all being lied to. I think we
live in a system that doesn’t allow the individual to really live up
to his full potential. Unless you really, really, bust your fucking
ass….which I do. Most people, the average person is too worried
about paying the bills every month. How they are going to get
food? How they are going to feed their kids? They’re too caught up in
the day to day to be concerned with other things, with larger things,
with war, with poverty, THIRD WORLD POVERTY THAT OCCURS IN THIS COUNTRY.
In this fucking country, the richest country in the world, there are
people living in extreme poverty. The average, regular people are
just struggling to live everyday, and so when you’re struggling to
have a life, you’re not thinking about these things. And rightfully
so. And, I think a lot of people are in the dark about what’s going
on, maybe naïve, buying into the idea that everything we do, we’re
doing in the name of freedom, and in the name of democracy, and it’s
so not that. It’s so undemocratic, and so not about freedom.
Jodi: I want to dispel some of the myths that are propagated in
our country, and one of those myths is that we are the wealthiest
country in the world. A country in as big a debt as we are cannot
possibly be the wealthiest country in the world. It’s
impossible. I think people should know that. What do you
think about that?
Randy: I think you just enlightened me. Not that I have any
illusions about us being in debt, which is funny, but how quickly I am
to say, “We’re the wealthiest country in the world.” Which
is sort of true, but we’re wealthy because it’s twisted, because we
are in debt. We squander money on killing people, plundering,
polluting the environment that we live in. That’s a big issue.
Have you seen the Al Gore movie?
Jodi: I haven’t seen it yet. What’s it like?
Randy: You’ve got to see it. I’ll see it again.
I’ll go see it with you.
Jodi: Alright.
Randy: It’s hard to get excited and say, “Oh it was great,”
because it’s not a “feel good” movie. It’s truth.
The title says it all. It’s “An Inconvenient Truth.”
He’s putting some truth out there and it’s hard to swallow.
Jodi: What’s interesting, and it goes back to your desire be of
service, is there is a common ground in the name of service between the
musician and the politician. Both started out to do something good
for the world, to be of service, to do something important for others,
for their community, to make a difference.
Obviously, some musicians only want to be powerful and get all
the chicks and dudes and money, and glory and fame; and some politicians
want absolute power and will corrupt with no regard to consequence.
Some wanted to be the President of the United States, or the
Congressman of xyz town to say that they accounted and amounted to
something, which to some degree is the American Dream. What little
kid doesn’t want to grow up to be the President of the United States?
But, I think deep down, the best politicians and the best musicians are
there to give service, to deliver a messenge, to change the world for
the good. That’s why I’ve always done the kind of musician
interviews I’ve done, because I’ve always found those musicians to
be the most fascinating people. The most interesting musicians
have something important to say and say it to be of service. And
that’s why I’m also drawn to politics and to politicians, because
I’m also somebody who wants to give service, and make a difference in
the best possible way I can. So, I heard Krist Novoselic, from
Nirvana is running for a political office in the Northwest (I can’t
find info on the web to support this – someone please let me know if
this is true and in what town. I know he is vocal in support of
election reform.), and you mentioned Eddie Vedder. What do you
think about musicians entering into the actual world of politics?
Randy: I think more should do it. I think more regular
people should do it. That is what politics is supposed to be, and
that’s what it was meant to be, way back when. Somehow, over
time, you find that the people who are entering politics are the rich,
the wealthy, industrialists, the oil people. Bush comes from a
huge oil family. Politics is supposed to be “the regular guy.”
You mentioned before kids used to want to be President, and I don’t
know if kids are having that dream these days, but back in the day, back
before my parents, or in my parents’ days, kids thought about that.
I think it was more possible for a regular guy to be President.
Now it just seems it’s about how much money you have. You need
millions. You need millions to have a successful campaign, or even
a semi-successful campaign. I would like to see more non-business
people, non-millionaires. I guess a lot of famous musicians are
millionaires though. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’d
like to see more people who you wouldn’t think are politicians getting
in there. Because that’s what the American system was supposed
to be.
Jodi: I think being in a high office in America has always been an
elitist game. But, I think there is hope, when you see somebody
like Bill Clinton, who had a challenged childhood, who rose through the
scholarship system to become the President of the United States.
Not to say that it’s all or nothing, one extreme to the other, but I
think that’s why Bill Clinton did appeal to so many people, and his
popularity was so strong. People really did identify with him.
And, I think that’s what George W. Bush tried to do by becoming the
next-door-neighbor cowboy, and I think a lot of people bought that for a
long time, but I think that was, sort of, another lie, because he never
was that.
Randy: Of course.
Jodi: He never knew poverty. Ever.
Randy: He never had to struggle for anything.
Jodi: One is an acting job, and one is…and I’m not trying to
put down the president, I’m really not.
Randy: I am.
Jodi: I’m just trying to tell it like it is. One is a
persona, and one is –
Randy: A person.
Jodi: A person. And I’m not defending Bill Clinton either,
I’m just trying to visually make a distinction between these two
characters, these two people. I don’t know. Kind of going
back to your music, because I think it’s important to dispel the
myths. I think the American people need to know what is an urban myth
perpetuated by the media. Right after 9/11, I’ll never forget
that Vanity Fair had the President of the United States on the cover,
and I couldn’t help but realize that’s where the propaganda machine
really, really started with this administration. I don’t think
it has stopped since. If we could talk more about, how do we
destroy the myths in our culture? I think musicians are really
great about giving an alternative perspective. People talk about
thinking outside the box; I think musicians present a very great
outside-the-box mentality, which is why musicians have been persecuted
in other cultures, for being different, for being smarter.
That’s why many artists have been persecuted, and we can’t allow
ourselves to be treated that way, and we won’t. There has been a
lot of talk about Bush and this current administration scapegoating, and
there has been talk about scapegoating gays, because of the Federal
Marriage Amendment. There’s always a potential for absolute
power to corrupt and scapegoat artists, to scapegoat women. I
think women have been bashed in the head with these anti-abortion,
anti-choice legislative attacks to the point that women are a scapegoat
for this administration as well, and we can’t deny that. I think
it’s really important for the media to make sure we give voice to
musicians and to alternative ways of thinking. That’s why blogs
are so great, and the web is so great. We’ve got to be united
against censorship where the government limits our information access;
we’ve got to be very strong in action to push forward in what we know
to be truth, which means dispelling all these political myths our
country is putting out there, like the war in Iraq and the Middle East is great,
current carbon dioxide levels in our atmosphere are healthy, like Dow chemical really gives a flying shit about
humanity. Do you realize how war heats up our planet? We really need to speak out and vote for politicians who
support real people, people who are innocent. What you said when you talked about the
everyday American is just worried about putting food in his or her
mouth, that’s the way our economic system is set up. That’s
the point.
Randy: Oh yeah. That is the point. Distraction.
Jodi: The point is to distract us with poverty, and the
hand-to-mouth -
Randy: Exactly. To distract us with everything. With
entertainment, consumer culture, Coca-Cola, television, war.
We’re just bombarded with images in TV shows that don’t say
anything, with movies that don’t say anything. They plug into
the consumer culture so you’re distracted by entertainment, by your
economic situation, so people don’t want to think about this stuff.
You talk to people and their eyes kind of glaze over. Not all
people, but I think a lot of people. I don’t want to make a
generalization, but I also travel, and we travel in more artistic
circles and with people who are all trying to change themselves. I
guess if you go outside of it, to the whole suburban, strip-mall kind of
existence, maybe they would be a little more clueless than we are.
Maybe.
Jodi: Do you think one big problem we’re facing is that because
wars typically benefit the economy, in a very upside-down way, that
because some people are not suffering in America as much, because
economically some people are doing better, do you think they tend to
forget and think it’s not important to fight against the war?
Randy: That could be part of it too. Complacency.
Comfortability. “Oh, things are okay.” But things are
not okay for everyone. See my life’s goal is to make everyone
comfortable. There are still people living in poverty, in horrible
conditions, in this country alone. And never mind the rest of the
world, the Third World, the extreme poverty that’s going on. I
just envision the United States as nobody having to live in poverty, and
I envision the world that way.
Jodi: Let’s talk about who in America is living in extreme
poverty. Obviously, we know the people in New Orleans are living
in extreme poverty right now. Third World conditions without access to
healthy, clean water.
Randy: Third World conditions in the United States.
Jodi: Yes. No access to healthy water.
Randy: That’s unacceptable.
Jodi: It is. Totally, Third World.
Randy: Yeah, UN-ACCEPTABLE!
Jodi: Who else?
Randy: Who else?
Jodi: Who else in America is living in extreme poverty? Who
are we talking about here?
Randy: New Orleans is a good example. Extreme poverty.
There are communities - you go into some of these inner cities, the
ghetto, maybe that’s not extreme poverty, but it’s a bad situation.
Why should a child have to grow up somewhere where just walking to
school is walking through a battlefield, where you have fear for your
life? Where an eight year-old child has to fear for his life going
to school? There’s something wrong with that.
Jodi: I think this is really, really interesting. I’m
really excited we finally got to core of this Talk It Out session.
I always like the moment when like, “Wow! This is it!”
Randy: I feel like I want to articulate this stuff, but…
Jodi: Oh no, you’re so great. I can’t even tell you how
great you are, because you basically have just turned the world around.
Do you realize what you’ve done?
Randy: Just by putting these words out there? Well, we all
do that.
Jodi: By specifically defining New Orleans as a Third World
country, changes the world.
Randy: Yeah, well, you actually brought up New Orleans. I
brought up the inner cities.
Jodi: Well, you brought up there are Third World conditions in the
United States.
Randy: Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Jodi: And when I thought about what they would be, or what that
is, it would have to be New Orleans. There’s no running water.
There are people from any socio-economic level, and it’s like
they’re on a deserted island down there. They’ve been
deserted.
Randy: They have been deserted.
Jodi: They have been totally deserted.
Randy: Nobody seems to care.
Jodi: Nobody cares.
Randy: They’re not getting any help.
Jodi: The government is spending billions a week in Iraq.
These people can’t get ten million dollars worth of clean water.
Right here in the United States, there are Third World conditions.
Now let’s just look at that for a minute, because this is so huge!
This is so important. I am blown away by how important this
interview is right now, because it’s huge. If we have Third
World conditions in the United States, the day has come. And,
people would say over and over again, “America would never be like a
Third World country.” And it is. How do we have a
president that has created a Third World condition in the United States?
Today. In 2006? People should be outraged that this is a
Third World country. We haven’t let other countries in to help
us. Do you remember how much we criticized Indonesia for not
allowing foreign aid after Tsunami? We’ve done the same thing.
It’s all a government ploy to privatize real estate in New
Orleans.
Randy: I haven’t even thought about that.
Jodi: We have Third World conditions, in a very real sense.
Randy: Yeah, I know.
Jodi: People do not have running water in their houses. They
don’t even have houses. And, we have a president and an
administration that has completely polarized the balance of power, so
that the balance of power has so severely shifted to the point that
there are people with such extreme wealth, yet with Third World
conditions right here in the United States.
Randy: Yes.
Jodi: How profound an awareness is that?
Randy: Very. And people in the middle, most of us, are at the
point where they’re struggling just enough to be distracted.
Because, it’s the people in the middle of these two extremes that
could make a difference, but for some reason they’re not making a
difference, and I think it’s because we’re distracted.
Jodi: Do you think we’re being brainwashed?
Randy: Yes.
Jodi: How so?
Randy: Just by living here, we’re being brainwashed. The
whole culture we live in. It’s the culture we live in. The
culture we live in –
Jodi: Is it because we’re being fed lies?
Randy: We’re being fed lies, but we’re also being fed fun
stuff. We’re being fed junk food, junk entertainment, junk news.
It makes it nice and comfortable. You go home, you sit on your
couch, you flip through the stations. That’s how we’re being
distracted. If you open a newspaper, if you look, the front page
will be either some fluffy story about a celebrity or something really
dark and scary, like a rapist on the loose, or some child got killed,
which of course, is tragic and terrible, but how does that serve anyone?
And you flip through it, and you wait until you get to page eight or ten
and you see a little paragraph, a tiny little article about Iraq, or New
Orleans, or something.
Jodi: A First World country is living in Third World conditions.
We need help. Our country needs some serious help. I don’t
think we’re brave enough to ask for it. I don’t think our
government is meeting our needs. So what can we do? How do
we break free from this imprisonment we’re in, in America? I am
saying it here, right now, “We are in a state of emergency!”
Our country is hopeless. What do you think about that?
Randy: A lot of people don’t see it that way, though.
It’s part of what makes it difficult doing anything about it.
Jodi: Do you think I’m being too harsh and severe?
Randy: Possibly.
Jodi: Are people going to say, “Jodi’s off at it again?”
Randy: It’s really hard to look at things that way, when look
where we are. We just spent some money on some good food.
We’re going outside. We can grab a cab to get home or hop on the
subway. We have this nice, convenient peaceful life here.
Jodi: It hasn’t always been that way, yeah? So, for the
moment it’s peaceful.
Randy: For the moment, yeah. I just think there’s a
certain amount of compassion that’s lacking in our political systems,
in our business systems. There’s a certain amount of compassion
lacking, and I think money is way more important than a human life.
Way more important than a human life, and that’s the way the system is
set up, and it’s just wrong. It’s totally, totally twisted.
That’s why, going way back to the beginning of the conversation,
that’s why I feel like artists, or at least me, I can’t speak for
other artists, my mission is to be of service. To talk about
things, and not necessarily just things political, because just talking
about everyday life things is political in a sense. Changing
yourself as a human being changes the world, so that’s political in a
sense. It seems like everything is political in a way. I’m
doing my best to live my life according to the laws of who I choose to
call God or what I choose to call God. And, that’s a life that
involves compassion and loving everybody. Not necessarily liking
everyone, but just putting love out there, and that changes the world.
That’s political again. So, how do we do all this, and you ask
the question, “How do we change all this stuff?” To change the
stuff directly almost seems impossible and insurmountable, but
individuals can empower themselves. Get off the drugs. Get
off the booze. Get off your ass. Shut off the television. Go
outside once in a while. Turn off, I don’t know, Sex and the
City and watch Bill Moyers for a change, if you’re gonna watch
television. Just shift a little bit, make little changes, drive
your car less, walk more, bike more. Things like, eat a little
more healthy. You don’t have to become like a militant vegan, but go
to McDonalds a couple of days less during the week than you normally
would go. Eat more fruit, whatever. That changes the world,
you know?
Jodi: Organic fruit.
Randy: Organic fruit, yeah. But you know, for someone
who eats McDonalds everyday, and watches TV everyday, and sitting on
their asses, I mean, even if they went for the non-organic as a step in
the right direction, I think it would be okay.
Jodi: Not everyone can be as militantly organic as I am.
Randy: That’s how you change the world, and I try to do that
through my music. To put those messages out there, because, I’m
not just singing about political stuff, because as articulate as you
seem to think I am, I don’t think I articulate that stuff very well.
But, I’ll sing about empowerment. I’ll sing about getting over our
addictions. And then, yeah, I’ll sing about the crap that’s
going on in the higher places.
Jodi: I think that’s great. I’m just so happy that you
came to Talk It Out. I just feel like there’s one more thing I
want to explore, and I don’t know how deeply I want to go there,
because it’s very dark. I have some darkness within I need to
reveal and expose. I feel like we can create danger and we call
danger in and I feel like the more we threaten others the more other
people threaten us.
Randy: Totally.
Jodi: You know, I worry about us. I worry about people who
are standing up for what they believe in, and I worry about good people
who are risking their lives in war. I worry about the silent folk
who don’t stand up, and who are too afraid. I worry about our
voting systems, and that they’re being manipulated and taken for
granted. I can’t help but worry that our life is changing here,
and I just really want to empower the people. If I could do one
thing with my time today, it would be to say to everybody out there who
may be reading this that you have the power to change your life.
Only you, you think for yourself. A wise person told me, “Use
your own mind.” No matter what everybody tells you, no matter
what you and I tell them.
Randy: Yes. Exactly. Right.
Jodi: No matter what anybody says, people have the power to change
their own life and to do what’s best for them. We all
intrinsically deep down know that things are not right. Our
country is depressed. It’s up to us to step out of it. And
snap out of it, and wake up, and make a change, and get in action.
I think action in 2006 is the magic word. We need to Rock the
Vote. We need to get out there and tell as many people as
possible that there are myths, that there are political myths being
spread. War is not power. True power is love.
Like what you said, and what you say in your music. True power is
compassion and healing, and giving people clean water, and helping
people rebuild their homes and their community. That’s power.
Reaching out a helping hand is true power, and that’s what I hope
takes over our country real soon. I think we’re lacking, and I
think we need more true power. God’s power. God’s will.
I think we need a really healthy dose of love and kindness in our
community. And, it starts with rocking the vote, or voting.
Whether you like rock music or any kind of music or not, it doesn’t
matter. The point is, is that you love yourself, and you reach
out, and you help this country heal, and take a step and make an action
toward a better, a more financially stable world and a more loving kind
world, where people aren’t dying for propagated values. Where
they are living for real dreams.
Randy: Wow! That was intense! I feel like you’re the
interviewee. You’re just saying such powerful, powerful stuff.
Such truth, wow! You just have an amazing spirit, Jodi. I
feel honored to know you and to be doing this interview with you, which
is really not like an interview. It’s more like a conversation
and a dialogue, isn’t it?
Jodi: Yeah, Talk It Out.
Randy: Talking to each other. Talk It Out. Exactly.
That’s beautiful.
Jodi: There’s something It in there.
Randy: That is beautiful.
Jodi: We’re finding out what It is.
Randy: Yeah.
Jodi: We never really know. Sorry, but I never prepare an
interview…rarely. Only once in a while do I write down
questions. I want to feel what you say. You’re the
inspiration for this whole conversation. I had no idea this is
what we’d be saying.
Randy: Yeah. Me neither.
Jodi: I am always an open channel.
Randy: Funny, I told you when we started I was really in a bad
mood and feeling kind of dark, and that this interview might not be very
good.
Jodi: This was a good one. A really good one. So thank
you.
Randy: Thank you, Jodi. Thank you so much. You’re
awesome.
Jodi: You’re awesome. Good luck to you in your music, and
with you and with your music.
Randy: Thanks. And well… do you mind if I plug… I feel
crass plugging myself after talking about the stuff we talked about.
Jodi: You’re letting people know who you are and where to find
you.
Randy: I play in a great band called The Nerve! I am also a
solo artist. You can see me singing and playing guitar on the
train almost any day of the week.
Jodi: I love that.
Randy: And, I’m going to start branching out to bars and cafes
and stuff too and possibly record a solo album, because as great as the
band is, I need to express my own voice as an artist. I’m
getting out there as myself, Randy Nerve.
Jodi: Check it out, look for Randy Nerve.
Randy: And change the world, and go see, “An Inconvenient
Truth”, the Al Gore movie. And go find a movie called, “What
the Bleep do we Know.”
Jodi: Oh, I want to see that! I want to see that!
Randy: Yes, you have to see that movie. And... uh... oh boy.
So many things... Even in the mainstream, there are films that have a
good message, and that are enlightening, and are still fun to watch,
like “V for Vendetta."
Jodi: It’s not to dumb the masses down.
Randy: It’s putting a message out there. I think it’s so
important. Like I said before you don’t have to be a deep Bob Dylan
guy, but if you’re creating something for the masses, something
that’s supposed to be artistic, say something. Say anything. And
if you’re just entertaining, entertain intelligently. Don’t
insult people’s intelligence.
Jodi: I hear you, man. Thank you.
Randy: Alright.
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