KYEO

Reading my last post made me think that I should address the title of my blog. KYEO is a song by a band called Fugazi. They made independent music a respectable thing. They were conscious of the world they played in and reacted to it.

KYEO of course stands for Keep Your Eyes Open. It has a line that I love it says "Don't you know that things have settled down. But silence is a dangerous sound. We must keep our eyes open." I think it speaks to an inherent lack of trust that I believe we should have for the "powers that be." When one steps back and takes a look, I believe we'll eventually find that it is not in the powers' interest to give us what we need. We need to be looking for the ways that we're being cheated, but told that we're living what Jesus called "life abundant."

As for my last post, the radio/music industry (which by the way, when you see the word industry, warning lights should go off immediately) is one of those things that really sticks out to me. Growing up really into punk will do that to people. Music helps feed you, and when you see people butchering it and running the show they don't actually understand, you take offense to it. Being a musician is different than running Capitol Records. Ian Mackaye of Fugazi once said "Fugazi is about being a band... About playing music. The music industry is about making money." They are two VERY different things. In America we look at things through  a "how can this benefit me?" lense. "Benefit" usually means "making money." When that is your lense, you've already cheated yourself and anyone that accompanies you on your journey.

Jesus said "woe to you when all men speak highly of you, for that is how they treated the FALSE prophets." Keep your eyes open.