"The Revolution Will Not Be on the 'Net" genre: Experimental/Post Rock
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	The Revolution Will Not Be on the Internet. Sampled modem and guitars top of a big beat. Goota hear it.
	Credits: All music and vocals Rich Rath
	Story Behind the Song Gave a class on Media and Society at Oberlin College in 1998-99. wrote this instead of my lecture near end of the semester...inspired by Gil Scott Heron and dub poet Mutabaruka. Lyrics THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE ON THE INTERNET. Rich Rath The revolution will not be on the internet. The revolution will not begin in http, ftp, mailto, localhost, file, “/”, “//”, or “///”. The revolution will not be backslashed The revolution will not be on web tv, webmagazines, web radios. The revolution will not end in html, asp, shtml or “slash”. Your connection will not be reset The revolution cannot be saved. It will not be Read-Only. There is no help. You will not pull down menus to get to the revolution. Revolutionary words are in no scriptable language. The source will not be revealed. You will not press “OK” to continue the revolution The revolution will not come from keyboards, joysticks or mouse clicks. The revolution will not be on screen, online, or onanistic. The revolution will not happen in chat rooms, discussion boards, usenet, listservs, MUDs, IRC or CUSeeMe. Not even ASCII :) The revolution will not need to be capitalized in order to SHOUT. The revolution will not be in mpeg, jpeg, gif or tif. It will not be interlaced or animated. The revolution will have no transparent background color. The revolution will not flame you. Sitting behind firewalls will not hide you from the revolution. You will not download the revolution. The revolution is too big for your floppy disk, zip disk, or hard disk. The margins cannot be adjusted. Centering will not hold. The revolution may be unformatted. You cannot format an Other. The revolution will have no CABs. It will not be zipped, TAR’d, feathered, ARC’d, HQX’d or SEA’n. You will not surf it. There are no Wav’s. It will not fit in MP3’s. The revolution cannot be compressed. The revolution will eat up all your memory. The revolution will not be a secure transaction. You cannot be removed from this list. It will not come in your email. The revolution will not be spammed. The revolution will not offer you a free account. The revolution will hold you accountable. Advertisements will not make it free. The revolution will not ask you for a cookie. The revolution will not be shoutcast, netcast, simulcast, narrowcast or recast. It will not be in Vivo, beatnik, liquid, MIDI or streaming. It will not be in Real media. The revolution will be real. Let’s dance to that. The revolution will not require winamp, windoz, linux, nodoz, java, (e)unix, vaxen, apples, a highspeed connection, a handshake or flow control. The revolution will not have skins. There will be no plugins: No director, no shockwave, no flash. The revolution will not be Installed, setup, or executable. The revolution will mess With your operating system. The revolution may cause unexpected errors. You will not have to restart your computer for the revolution to take effect. The revolution cannot be searched. Not even by boolean operators. Yahoo! The revolution will not be googled. It will not be beta or meta. The revolution will not be found by filling out a form, or a form that fills out forms. You cannot hit “send” to submit to the revolution. There may be no hits, n hits or 2,398,571,986 hits. The results will not be displayed In order of relevance. The revolution will not be Refined, limited, searched within or tried again. The revolution will not be on the internet. The revolution is not found and waiting for a reply. The revolution is not hosted, not even virtually. You will not be @the revolution.com .net .org .edu or @therevolution.gov You will not come.to/therevolution. Its domain has no name. The revolution has no registered alias. It cannot be Resolved. Let us underscore that: The_revolution_may_contain_illegal_characters. The revolution cannot be renamed. The revolution will not be new media, old media, imedia, emedia, remedial: The revolution is immediate.

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