You Can't Deal Bullshit

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=110 BGCOLOR="#111111" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="04900840dyxtip.gif"> <div> <B>The First Church of Holy Rock and Roll</B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" ><B>     |     </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The First Church of Holy Rock and Roll"><U><B>home</B></U></A></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="id30.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="You Gotta Have Rhythm"><U>You Gotta Have Rhythm</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="You Gotta Have Soul"><U>You Gotta Have Soul</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id32.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="You Gotta Have Laffs"><U>You Gotta Have Laffs</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id33.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="You Gotta Have Kicks"><U>You Gotta Have Kicks</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id34.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="You Gotta Have Your Mojo Workin"><U>You Gotta Have Your Mojo Workin'</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id35.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Your Partys Gotta Be Open"><U>Your Party's Gotta Be Open</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id36.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="You Gotta Have Attitude"><U>You Gotta Have Attitude</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id37.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="You Cant Lick Boots"><U>You Can't Lick Boots</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id38.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="You Cant Navel Gaze (Too Much)"><U>You Can't Navel Gaze (Too Much)</U></A>   |   <B>You Can't Deal Bullshit</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=190 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="04311c00egerdp.gif"> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0a98ac80.gif" border=0 width="138" height="200" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Ed Hamell handles the Truth.</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0cda0780.jpg" border=0 width="160" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>On the other hand, as </B><I><B>full of it</B></I><B> as not--that's why he's so </B><I><B>special.</B></I></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=370 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> Commandment Ten: You Can't Deal Bullshit</div> <div> The knife of the best music that blasts from the transom of this Church slices through the crap we're deluged with on a daily, hourly, even minute-by-minute basis. </div> <bR> <div> You bow your head, apply your shoulder, do your level best, but soon get to wondering, "Am I totally crazy for thinking (or feeling) this?" You look around, and don't see a damn soul complaining. Are you an alien, or do you just not <I>get </I>it?</div> <bR> <div> You drag your carcass home, and slap something random on/into the stereo. A few minutes in, you hear those same alien thoughts hurled backatcha, at higher velocity, with sharper eloquence, higher volume, more enflamed passion.</div> <bR> <div> You are <I>not </I>crazy. </div> <bR> <div> <I>This </I>is the promise of the First Church, and one of the hardest for its flock to deliver. This is not to say that <I>some</I> bullshit doesn't have some truth value embedded (Tom Waits, John Lurie, Beck, Pavement <I>might</I> be some examples of this paradox), nor to say that a lot more might be enriched with <I>fun </I>value. What the Church does say is that, much more often than TV, much more directly than novels, and a <I>helluva</I> lot quicker and less complicatedly than films, <I>its hymns deliver</I> <I>the goods necessary to stay sane and survive</I>.</div> <bR> <div> As with any font of noise, there's the process of weeding out to deal with. <I>Lotsa </I>forked tongues out there. </div> <bR> <div> That's what <I>we're</I> here for, brothers and sisters. <I>Stay tuned</I>.</div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>