Rambling

I went to see Reverend Billy and the Church of stop shopping on Sunday. I went with a group of friends and I had to say that it was pretty funny. The guy is not a real reverend but doing political activist comedy. The group's message does have a moral quality to it. I mean they are telling people to stop shopping, in particular to not shop with the big transnational corporations. I think they realized that they might start to sound sanctimonious with their message. So why not go a step further and be sanctimonious. Become a religious organization. Satire. I love it. The crowd was into it too. Yelling out change-allujah, amen brother, and other religious type stuff. They also brought in the Billboard Liberation Front. They are a cool group that is doing a lot of subversive culture jamming work.

I'm thinking that I want to do a culture jamming or media class as a Wednesday class. I'd have a lot of fun with that, though I would have to walk a thin line about talking about subversive stuff and condoning students' subversive behavior. Not that I personally mind at all if they did subversive stuff but at the same time... I don't want to get kids in trouble.