&&& 1. Sum Over Eigenstates
Hello, and welcome to Volunteer Here by Underscore Eleven Thirty Four.
This album was written, recorded, mixed, and mastered by myself
During the month of February 2012.
While listening to this album, you may be compelled to try certain things
That seem unfamiliar to you. If you notice a strong
Inclination to perform any of the following actions, please
Stop listening to the album and complete the activity to your satisfaction:
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Participate in urban agriculture projects
Brew your own beer, wine, or cider, or ferment your own kombucha tea
Build a geodesic dome
Go to city council meetings and participate in public comment
Join a book club or reading group
Start a collective project space or a tool library
Teach astrophysics to children
Learn how to take apart and repair your bicycle or automobile
Own up to transgressions you've made against others and ask for forgiveness
Draw subversive comic books
Make your own zine and find a distribution channel
Reformat your PC hard drive and install a version of linux to your liking with TOR and truecrypt
Permaculture
Plant a vegetable and herb garden
Create huge paper-mache puppets lampooning corrupt public officials
Make friends with art gallery owners, DJs, bakery workers, janitors and people who clean grease-traps
Familiarize yourself with principles of effective nonviolent direct action
Volunteer at local after-school youth organizations, animal shelters or hospitals
Make gifts for your familty and friends rather than buying them
Donate canned goods to a food pantry sometime besides Thanksgiving or help your city's chapter of Food not Bombs, starting one if it doesn't exist
Grow your own oyster mushrooms with pasteurized straw stuffed into trash bags
Learn a programming language or two. Python for ease-of-use & applicability, or Arduino if you want to try your hand at 3D-printing or battling robots
Compost your food scraps
Skill yourself in operationally precise and gender-neutral language
Participate in local elections, carefully vetting the candidates and ballot initiatives.
Vote out all incumbent squares.
Install solar panels on your house
Travel to areas affected by natural disasters and help the locals rebuild their communities.
Build raised garden beds in a vacant lot and clean garbage from the area
Explore your surroundings and get vitamin D from sunlight
Embrace non-heteronormative relationships
Cancel your credit cards and move your money to a credit union.
Confront and scrutinize the gaping chasm of privilege that separates you from the starving masses
Confront and scrutinize the systemic horrors which keep people poor, dependent, and war-ravaged at the benefit of other bodies
Confront and scrutinize the military-industrial-prison-agricultural complex and the two-tiered justice system that reinforces it
Confront and scrutinize the egregious lapse in morality of governments and media conglomorates the world over
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If at any point while listening to this album, you feel wronged or offended, please feel free to delete it from your computer. Give it to a friend.
You may even wish to recycle physical copies or spray paint them and use them for home decor.
In private, pretend like we never met, but wave hello the next time we see one another on the street.