System of a Hastert
I read about this this morning. Oh, the joys of having the Speaker of the House's office in your town:
System of a Down singer to rally at Hastert's office
The article
System Of A Down singer to rally at Hastert's office
Publication: Kane County Chronicle
Date: September 27, 2005
Section(s): Local News
KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE
BATAVIA -- Lead singer Serj Tankian, of the metal band System of a Down, is expected to be part of a rally at noon today at U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert's office.
The event, which will take place in front of Hastert's office at 27 N. River St., is in support of legislation to recognize Turkey's destruction of 1.5 million Armenians between 1915 and 1923.
Hundreds of people are expected to attend the rally, organizers said.
River Street will be closed during the rally, which is set for noon to 2 p.m.
Tankian is expected to speak at the rally. Members of the Armenian National Committee of America and the Armenian Youth Federal also are scheduled to speak.
System of a Down's four band members -- Tankian, Daron Malakian, Shavo Odadjian and John Dolmayan - are of Armenian descent and have made awareness of the genocide, and genocide around the world, a central message of the band.
All have lost family members to the Armenian genocide, the band's Web site states.
Brad Hahn, Hastert's spokesman, said he was aware that Tankian would be at Hastert's office today and that the speaker would be in Washington, D.C., presiding over Congress.
Not that I am a huge System of a Down fan, but I am familiar with the band. Way, way too familiar. When I worked in the repair shop at the music store, I had a particular coworker who basically listened to them for a month straight. It came to a point where I could play "Aerials" on the oboe. Note that the oboe is not my main instrument. (I still thought it was wicked cool that I could do that, though. And I pissed off my coworker in the process, too, because he couldn't play it on the guitar, which is something he *can* play, as he was one of our string techs. Better still, I freaked out one of my students when he was like, Miss W, look what I learned, and he played it for me and I named it for him.) Of course, I am behind on reading the paper and this happened on Tuesday. Still, it's something interesting.
What does bug me is this: Why do they demonstrate at his office when he's not there? That seems like the dumbest thing ever. Cindy Sheehan did the same thing. Why not wait until he's in town, or go to Washington?
Or maybe I'm just jealous that my little town doesn't get mentioned by name when these little demonstrations are on the news--it's more like, "at Hastert's suburban Chicago office." *sigh*
System of a Down singer to rally at Hastert's office
The article
System Of A Down singer to rally at Hastert's office
Publication: Kane County Chronicle
Date: September 27, 2005
Section(s): Local News
KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE
BATAVIA -- Lead singer Serj Tankian, of the metal band System of a Down, is expected to be part of a rally at noon today at U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert's office.
The event, which will take place in front of Hastert's office at 27 N. River St., is in support of legislation to recognize Turkey's destruction of 1.5 million Armenians between 1915 and 1923.
Hundreds of people are expected to attend the rally, organizers said.
River Street will be closed during the rally, which is set for noon to 2 p.m.
Tankian is expected to speak at the rally. Members of the Armenian National Committee of America and the Armenian Youth Federal also are scheduled to speak.
System of a Down's four band members -- Tankian, Daron Malakian, Shavo Odadjian and John Dolmayan - are of Armenian descent and have made awareness of the genocide, and genocide around the world, a central message of the band.
All have lost family members to the Armenian genocide, the band's Web site states.
Brad Hahn, Hastert's spokesman, said he was aware that Tankian would be at Hastert's office today and that the speaker would be in Washington, D.C., presiding over Congress.
Not that I am a huge System of a Down fan, but I am familiar with the band. Way, way too familiar. When I worked in the repair shop at the music store, I had a particular coworker who basically listened to them for a month straight. It came to a point where I could play "Aerials" on the oboe. Note that the oboe is not my main instrument. (I still thought it was wicked cool that I could do that, though. And I pissed off my coworker in the process, too, because he couldn't play it on the guitar, which is something he *can* play, as he was one of our string techs. Better still, I freaked out one of my students when he was like, Miss W, look what I learned, and he played it for me and I named it for him.) Of course, I am behind on reading the paper and this happened on Tuesday. Still, it's something interesting.
What does bug me is this: Why do they demonstrate at his office when he's not there? That seems like the dumbest thing ever. Cindy Sheehan did the same thing. Why not wait until he's in town, or go to Washington?
Or maybe I'm just jealous that my little town doesn't get mentioned by name when these little demonstrations are on the news--it's more like, "at Hastert's suburban Chicago office." *sigh*