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Hi All,
We loved making the Sour Grapes video. It was just a compilation of the top google rank images for Iranian Election. It was fun, easy, and really effective. Now we want to make a video for Burning Out, the other single on the Iranian Democracy EP.
What we really want though is your involvement. Submit any photos that you have taken or have seen that you think are a good fit for this song. We will look at them all and then choose the ones we like and make the video out of them. If we choose a photo that you send us we will definitely credit you for it.
Also, we will choose five people who we think submitted the best photo and send them a copy of Iranian Democracy and a copy of Ashes signed by all band members.
Here are the lyrics. You can listen to the song on this site or our myspace page.
To submit a photo just email it to buddaheadmusic@mac.com
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In my opinion, and I wrote the song so my opinion should count for something, the key lyric in the whole song is A single slide, a single move, a single raised hand in the room could shift the lines that change the whole world too. Sour Grapes is essentially a song about change and behind its musical complexity it carries a pretty simple message: if you want to change your world you have to first change yourself and then stand up for the change. Yes, I know it sounds very Michael Jackson Man in the mirror but so what? That jacko was onto something (before he caught glimpse of his reflection and jumped into another nose job).
However, Sour Grapes begins with the lyric, “We made this bed now we lie in it, started a fire just to burn in it, make no bones about it.” Change is not easy. Our current existence is a bed we have made. To change means we have to be willing to let go of our current identity, to end the safety of what we know. “Sleep now under these uncertainties. Dream now, dream of all the possibilities” It is easy to dream of the possibilities but it is the uncertainty of the outcome that mostly prevents change because what we leave behind after we change is still a part of who we are. I think it was Marcus Aurelius who said (and I am paraphrasing) “What ever is, is also the seed of the change to come”.
So, this being said, the bold steps that the people of Iran are taking, in trying to change is remarkable. They are “peeling layers of life from layers of death” but in death there is life – and it is a new life they are fighting for.
Everything is so connected. Change is so connected. It is remarkable that I have a common understanding with people with whom I may only have an genetic connection. I am blown a way that I am moved by their fight for change.
They are “spitting sour grapes through the skin of their teeth” and asking, “How many lies can we entertain?”
To them I say, “Here is wishing you everything you dream about.” Your change will come. May your leaders take note. They can not stop change. They may only delay it. In the words of John Naisbitt, to conclude, “Change occurs when there is a confluence of both changing values and economic necessity, not before”.
Tags: Buddahead SOur Grapes, Iranian Democracy, Iranian Election, Iranian Revolution, jacko, John Naisbitt, Man in the mirror, Marcus Aurelius, Michael Jackson
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Youtube screwed us. Is it time to move on to vimio?
So, it seems as if the view counter on the buddahead Sour Grapes video of my video is stuck or frozen. The video had a very quick 358 views on the first day and has been stuck since then. From what I can figure out using the youtube forums sometimes youtube freezes counters when it thinks a bot being used – one was not being used here.
But, why, oh why, is there no technical support email (or at least not one that can be found in 30 minutes) anywhere on youtube? This is very frustrating.
There are tons of people who seem to be having this issue and many of them are asking the same question: Is it time to move on to another platform?
Youtube are you listening? YOU NEED TO BE ENGAGED. YOU NEED CUSTOMER SUPPORT. FORUMS ARE JUST NOT ENOUGH!! YOU MAY HAVE THE UPPER HAND NOW BUT IT ONLY TAKES A FEW PEOPLE TO CAUSE A RUKUS FOR LONG ENOUGH BEFORE THE FEW PEOPLE BECOME A MOVEMENT.
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Iran is no longer my world. It hasn’t been so in close to 30 years. My family does not live there. My friends are not from there. Still, while I was looking at this picture of Neda Agha-Sultan, the young Iranian girl, who died as part of the democratic uprising, I felt compelled to do something. This tribe of young Iranians desperately need the world to pay attention to them.
It is amazing that they have against all odds formed a large and influential movement – that they have connected with one another – and somehow connected with me and everyone I know.
Iranian Democracy will be a non-for-profit release featuring Sour Grapes and Burning Out from Ashes, and some new and unreleased tracks. Interestingly theses songs dramatically speak to what the crowds on the streets must have felt. How do I know? Well, I was there 30 years ago when it all happened for the first time.
Tags: buddahead ashes, Buddahead Burning Out, Buddahead SOur Grapes, Iran, Iranian Democracy, Iranian girl, Iranians, Neda Agha-Sultan, young Iranian girl, young Iranians
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