Hi everybody!

Last time I checked in, was right after the East Bay Express article about Project: Courage and Consequence. Our grassroots funded LP/Digital Download record with the same title as Karl Rove‘s book, set to come out the week before.

Well, we did it.



Over $3,000 raised, and the records are on their way. If you want to check it out you can download it right now in any format you’d like.

The attention from Calitics was well timed and much appreciated.

however, we still need your help!

For one thing, if you live in the bay area, you can attend the record release show at the Elbo Room on wednesday:



Also, we are now to the FUN PART, where we get to mess with Karl Rove big time.

More under the cut:

Dear Internet User and Karl Rove Hater,

By now we figure you’ve either bought the album, are not going to ever buy

the album or are waiting for payday to buy the album so this isn’t a push

for record sales or downloads. It’s also not a push for you to attend the

vinyl release show at the Elbo Room on March 3rd – we know you’ll be there

if you can make it. No, this is a letter asking for help in the real mission

of this project. We hope that you can take a small amount of time out of

your day to seed the name and website of this compilation on as many places

as possible around the internet.

You see, the real mission of this project is to fill up search results for

Karl Rove’s book Courage and Consequence with our vinyl compilation of songs

of the same name. Maybe even confuse a few right-wingers to buy it out of

curiosity or their lack of reading comprehension. Since the mp3s are free to

download, we are offering something as well.

I guess in some way you could say that every band, project, art show, etc

needs promotion like this in this internet age and you’d be right – but this

time our fish is big and evil and his book is an insult and he needs to be

fried. It may not seem like much but we sincerely hope it works. It also depends on you and people like you.

Here are some very easy things you can do. If you want to. If you’re still

reading this. Oh please, please keep reading this. I worked so hard on it.

Do you frequent a forum? Please use the appropriate area in your forum to

post information about the compilation (an example is provided below) and

links. Do you have a Reddit, Digg, Tumblr, Stumblr, Total Fark, Something

Awful, Last.fm, Google Buzz, Notcot, Wonkette, TPM, Freep (you sick puppy), or

De.li.cious account? It would help quite a bit if you could post and/or rate

our website link in these different areas. (links for some provided below).

There’s no reason you can’t sign up for these accounts just to rate these

links, either. It takes very little time and you do not generally have to

put in any personal info. Ask your fellow web 2.0 buddies to up rate, thumbs

up and like as well. They like you, they’ll do it. If there are other sites

you frequent around the web that allow open posts to promote a project or

share interesting stories – please feel free to do so. Don’t ask for permission, just do it!

Do you like the YouTubes? Below is a list of links to fake videos of each

of the compilations songs. Please log in and rate these videos Awesome! and

even favorite them if you like. Google runs youtube now and they weight

their video results by views and by rating so please! it only takes a moment

to do this, and when this inevitably hits the radar of the right wingers, we all know the comments will be a battleground anyway.

If you’re some sort of weirdo and do not like the songs, rate

them Awesome! anyway. Don’t worry, the internet police won’t know.

Hey, I bet you have a blog. Do us a favor and make an open post containing

some or all of the information below. I’m sure your readers will be thrilled

at the content you are providing them.

Facebook. Yeah, yeah, we’ve already done a lot on facebook – it helped us

receive at least 50% of the funding (and music and ideas) for this project.

Frankly, we are a little worried about FB fatigue and are therefore

reluctant to keep posting on OUR pages about it. But you! You hardly ever

post anything – why not do us a solid and make a post linking to the main

web page. In fact, if you’re an infrequent Facebook user, it would help a

lot. If you’re worried about conservative family members or friends getting

offended well…that’s just a bonus.

Are you an e-mail forwarder? I’m sorry. I really am. BUT, in this instance

it might help us. Forward away. Hell, forward this email as is and maybe

more people will join in the fight to push Karl Rove’s book Courage and

Consequence to the 2nd page of Google results. A person can dream, can’t

they?

Final request. Let us know what you’ve done! Send me an email or message

with a link to your post or forward so that I may add your efforts to the

list and keep them going. Especially let us know for sites that allow

ratings and I’ll add those links to this email and the website.

Thank you and screw Karl Rove’s book.

Links:

http://www.karlrovebook.net – Official site

http://karlrove.bandcamp.com/ – Bandcamp page / sales

http://cdbaby.com/cd/krove – cdbaby

http://seismicwave.net/project… – root of official site

http://twitter.com/bookkarlrove – Project Twitter

http://www.electrical.com/phpB… – Electrical Audio Forum Discussion

http://courageandconsequence.b… – Courage and Consequence Blog

http://www.kickstarter.com/pro… – Fundraiser site (successful)

http://www.last.fm/music/Death… Last Fm

Bandcamp links:

http://karlrove.bandcamp.com/t…

http://karlrove.bandcamp.com/t…

http://karlrove.bandcamp.com/t…

http://karlrove.bandcamp.com/t…

http://karlrove.bandcamp.com/t…

http://karlrove.bandcamp.com/t…

http://karlrove.bandcamp.com/t…

http://karlrove.bandcamp.com/t…

http://karlrove.bandcamp.com/t…

http://karlrove.bandcamp.com/t…

http://karlrove.bandcamp.com/t…

http://karlrove.bandcamp.com/t…

http://karlrove.bandcamp.com/t…

Songs on last.fm:

http://www.last.fm/music/The+H…

http://www.last.fm/music/Rival…

http://www.last.fm/music/Have+…

http://www.last.fm/music/Assis…

http://www.last.fm/music/Lambs…

http://www.last.fm/music/We’re…

http://www.last.fm/music/Carto…

http://www.last.fm/music/Death…

http://www.last.fm/music/Gener…

http://www.last.fm/music/Cold+…

http://www.last.fm/music/Hurry…

http://www.last.fm/music/The+U…

http://www.last.fm/music/Victo…

youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… pitch video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… Mike Malloy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… Heavenly States – A Man For Our Times

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… Rival Dickens – Forget the Naughts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… HaveSpecialPower – A Rove By Any Other Name

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… Lambs of Abortion – New American Century

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… We’re Gonna Fight The Eskimos Next – Don’t Praise the Machine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… Cartographer – The Biggest Asshole In The World

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… Death Dream – Karl Rove Let’s Get Dirty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… Generalissimo – Swarm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… Cold Lake – Courage and Consequence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… Hurry Up Shotgun – Car Bomb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… The United Sons of Toil – Invention VS Innovation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… Victory and Associates – Lies, and the Lying Liars That Sell Them

embeds:

Bands:

http://www.theheavenlystates.com The Heavenly States

http://www.rivaldickens.com/ Rival Dickens, Rick from http://posterchildren.com/ Poster Children

http://www.myspace.com/thelagsf Have Special Power

http://www.lambsofabortion.com/ Lambs of Abortion

http://www.myspace.com/weregon… We’re Gonna Fight the Eskimos Next

http://www.feedbackloop.net/ca…  Cartographer

http://www.myspace.com/deathdr… Death Dream

http://www.generalissimo.mu/ Generalissimo

http://www.myspace.com/coldcol… Cold Lake

http://hurryupshotgun.com/ Hurry Up Shotgun

http://www.unitedsonsoftoil.com/ United Sons of Toil

http://www.victoryandassociate… Victory and Associates

It’s pretty simple. Karl Rove is a treasonous jerk, and he’s putting out a memoir pretty soon. So you are going to be seeing good ol’ Turdblossom all over every talk show spreading his lies. Here’s what we’re doing.

Remember this:



Pretty cool, right?

Well we’re doing the same thing, with this:

Help wipe that smug smile off his face, but not by a competing book, it’s a rocking compilation LP and digital download album OF THE SAME NAME coming out BEFORE his book.

We need about $3000 to do this right, we’re 1/3 of the way there at the time of this writing, and YOU can help.

Help support us producing this compilation of songs and have it released the same day as Karl Rove’s memoir of the same name, “Courage and Consequence”.

(not actual cover!)

The original idea was a “one off band” that wrote a bunch of songs about how lame/bad for America, and the world, Karl Rove is, release it at the same time and Googlebomb the whole internet to sow as much chaos into his book release as possible. Success would be measured by the amount of disorder brought to him, and by nothing else. Even if it never went further than our group of friends it would be worth it.

However, the response was overwhelming, and soon enough enough fantastic bands were interested that it only made sense to do as a compilation. It made sense to create something positive from this. The idea is to release free downloads of the record via the website, with participants, friends, fans, and the internet linking to it and raising its google search results, and a beautiful QUALITY vinyl record for audiophiles and those with the desire for a physical product. Additionally the artwork, for both, should be very similar to the book. (Ala: Sarah Palin’s Going Rouge vs. Going Rogue)

It is a little known fact that most conservative books go to the top of the best seller list and quickly fall off because they are purchased en masse by right wing think tanks and churches and then given away for free.

We believe that by getting this project ready by the time Karl Rove’s disgusting memoir is released we will be able to garner considerable attention (and maybe even confuse conservative book buyers) and, while it will be artistically viable on its own, will be a wonderful example of culture jamming.

Many more established and older artists such as Bob Dylan and Neil Young have called out wondering where the political voices are in music today. They are here but because of the nature of the current music industry we need some help to do anything that gets over the signal to noise ratio.

We stand against Karl Rove, his tactics and what he has wrought, and reject, in its entirety, the idea that turdblossom should get to do his victory lap unanswered.

So we’ve started the process in place to pay for this darned thing.

We’re really hoping we don’t have to pay for the whole thing out of pocket.

If you can repost the link to your social networking groups/mailing lists/internet forums, etc.

that would be wonderful.

If you can

contribute/buy an advance copy, even better!

Any additional money not going to the production of the physical compilation will be going directly to the bands and artists involved in this project, split in an even manner, to recoup recording costs. We do not plan on taking one cent of money as profit.

Costs for pressing of this record and digital distribution are just shy of $3000, there is mastering, laquer pressing, processing costs, labels, shrinkwrap, inserts and jackets… and that’s just the physical production, not including the actual recording costs which are mostly handled by the bands.

We’re 1/3 of the way there, exactly… with $1000 pledged.

My qualifications for this:

I was the international head of Bands Against Bush, whose only crime was registering young voters, yet it still got me on a “watch list”. I also used to be a front page writer on a blog about California politics that started with a “C”. 🙂

I have played in rock bands for over 10 years, completed 5 US tours, and countless smaller ones, and independently released and distributed 5 full length albums, multiple eps and online singles.

We people of the netroots are used to CONSTANTLY being asked to contribute to causes and political candidates. Some who prove worthy, some who do not. I am asking you now to contribute to a cause and also to a good old fashioned culture jam, AS WELL as to create something that should be pretty great creatively as well. Good music and good old fashioned protest.

At the level of a $20 contribution you get a physical copy of the LP AND high quality digital downloads. You get a lot more the more you can donate.

Plenty of other rewards besides that as well.

(the minimum is $1 BTW, and I’m guessing even the poorest readers have that)

EVERY BIT HELPS!

Do you know the bands on here?

Well, it’s possible, my guess is probably not though, but they are all quality acts.

The Heavenly States

Generalissiimo

Victory and Associates

Cartographer

Cold Lake

United Sons of Toil

Death Dream

Have Special Power

Assistant Cobra

We’re Gonna Fight the Eskimos Next

Poster Children

Bottomless Pit/Tim Midgett (from silkworm) (perhaps!)

And more!

Many people have been super supportive about this and have glowed about what a fantastic idea this is. Well, we can only do this with a little help from our friends.

This is a way that you can help us realize this if you are so interested.

Consider this a massive excercise in free speech and an earnest attempt to ruin a man’s day that has directly wrecked so many lives.

BY DOING THIS WE WIN.

The fact that we’ve put together a quality product is almost inconsequential (but it will be a quality product)

Because I can guarantee that just based on our friends/personal networks and hopefully with a little help from the Netroots, we are going to bum Karl Rove out on his special day.

Go here to help out

Hey everybody,
Below is an article on the upcoming special election in CA-50
involving Democratic candidate Francine Busby, who is considered
strong on environmental and energy issues. Check it out. For more
info visit http://www.californiawomenvote.org/
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  Subject: Will the Earth Shatter on June 6th?

  Dear Maren,

  On June 6th, all eyes will be on California’s 50th Congressional
District.

  If Democrat Francine Busby wins the California special election on
June 6th, her victory would send a shockwave through the political
establishment. If Francine even comes close to winning in this solid
Republican district, no Republican will be able to feel “safe” for
the
next six months. Just listen to how the Associated Press described
it…

“Randy ‘Duke’ Cunningham’s former congressional district is a classic
safe seat, custom-designed to generate Republican wins. But with
Cunningham jailed in a mushrooming political scandal, the San
Diego-area seat is now one the GOP cannot afford to lose.” – AP,
5/14/06

New polls show this California special election to be neck and neck
with only two weeks left. With Dick Cheney in San Diego raking in
millions for Francine’s opponent, we still have an uphill battle in
this race. But we are not walking away from the fight. Not when we
are
fighting for change in Washington – not when we’re fighting to win.

  No Regrets: Help make sure we can give Francine Busby and
challengers
like her everything they need to fight back against the Bush/Cheney
cash machine. Give $25, $50 or more today.

  The DCCC has already spent more than one million dollars supporting
Francine against incredible odds, and it is working. We have aired
television and radio ads in Busby’s district for weeks; exposing her
Republican opponent’s disgraceful and ongoing career in the revolving
door between Republican lobbyists and Congress.

  In a top-tier media market like San Diego, one week of 30-second
television ads can cost as much as $400,000. If every person on our
list gave us $25, we would be able to keep up with Republican
spending
in this and other targeted districts across the country.

  No Regrets: Help make sure we can give Francine Busby and
challengers
like her everything they need to fight back against the Bush/Cheney
cash machine. Give $25, $50 or more today.

  The Republicans underestimated Francine, and they underestimated how
hard the DCCC would battle for her. Democrats will not roll over this
year, and Republicans are learning that the hard way right now. We’ve
helped Francine bring this race within striking distance and we need
to make sure we are ready for the dirty, desperate tactics the
Republicans are planning.

  Will you make a contribution today so we can afford to keep up the
fight in this and other races across the country?

  In an important sense, Francine’s inspirational campaign, a model
for
clean campaigns everywhere, has already won. Our Republican
counterpart, the NRCC, has blown a staggering $3 million on a race
they earlier bragged about having in the bag. They haven’t spent a
dime in this district for more than a decade – and now they are
eating
up resources they were counting on saving to use in November.

  Everyone at the DCCC is working day and night to make sure we’re
positioned to keep going blow for blow with the NRCC, Dick Cheney,
and
Karl Rove. But we cannot win without your support.

  Will you join the DCCC, and prove to the Republicans their reign is
coming to an end?

  No Regrets: Help make sure we can give Francine Busby and
challengers
like her everything they need to fight back against the Bush/Cheney
cash machine. Give $25, $50 or more today.

  A new era is beginning. Thanks in advance for helping make it
happen.

  Sincerely,

  Karin Johanson
  Executive Director, DCCC

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