Joel Moore Dot Org

No doubt today will be a massive traffic surge for www.georgecarlin.com. As well countless little or never visited blogs and news sites will be loaded down with YouTube videos of Carlin's always ahead of the game commentary. No doubt these things will happen. And no doubt everyone who enshrines him today in their way will be genuinely sad for him to have gone on.

But I wonder how much of his language actually makes it into our way of being; our day to day decisions and behaviors. I often feel when people like him pass we who are left behind are given a moment to consider the validity of the life they lived; the value of the thoughts they expressed. I hope that this guy's mind doesn't just get tucked away into some easy category or some folder designed by those who want to keep us stupid. I'd like to think that people will remember less his seven dirty words and more the notion that we're all being lied to consistently and systematically by almost every voice we encounter. From religion to mass media to myspace bulletins to family and of course politics, the lies are continuous and permanent. Even though to some degree they are necessary to keep societies bound together, they are still lies and should be clearly understood as such.

The people at Performing Songwriter Magazine printed a review of the "Sea Threw" EP in their June 2008 Issue.

"The clever wordplay of the title complements the skewed sound of Moore's material. Fortunately, his tattered ramblings give way to memorable moments, i.e. the indelible chorus of "She Knows" and the frayed Dylan-esque sing-along "She Loves in Stereo." Here's hoping we hear more from Moore."

-- Performing Songwriter, June 2008

Click here to listen to some songs from the "Sea Threw" EP