Chairman Ralph's Ministry Of Truth

Live: Friday, August 12, 2011 at the Harbor Vision Festival, Dwight P. Mitchell City Center Park, Benton Harbor, MI, during the "Xpression Session" crew's segment...featuring myselfon vocals only (no guitar), and captured with my Olympus digital voice recorder.

Dedicated to a customer from Aarhus, Denmark, who bought a compilation by the '70s British punk group, Eater (THE HISTORY OF EATER VOLUME I) -- whose preteen ages grabbed headlines (as did drummer Dee Generate's dismissal of Sex Pistols frontman Johnny Rotten as being "too old"!). No deeper meanings here, just the first in a series of musical greetings for my eBay/GEMM.com customers!

I wrote this song after gas prices shot up to $3 per gallon -- no small matter when I still commuted 40-odd miles to work every day, realizing that $15-20 a pop was going out the window, no matter what I did. On a bigger level, the lyrics address the politics of scarcity, and how absurd they can get on an every day level.

For what it's worth...my take against the whole "Cribs" phenomenon on MTV, hence, the chorus: "Is that your home, or your final resting place?"