Word: joe
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...written statement, "the only thing that could satisfy her womanly vengeance was the life of the one that had, for an instant, taken her place." The couple's plan was simple, he said: he would break Jones' neck, and weight the corpse with barbells before sinking it in Joe Pool Lake in Grand Prairie...
...infidelity. The Whig aristocracy of the 18th and 19th centuries pursued faithlessness with a sportive exuberance that called for tiptoeing up and down the corridors of country houses in the middle of the night. It was a style that John F. Kennedy, brought up under the influence of old Joe Kennedy's dream of being a Whig aristocrat himself, imitated as energetically as he could...
...fact, there are no known recordings of Morello's favorite guitarist: Joe Hill, the Swedish-born singer-songwriter and union organizer who was executed in 1914 on trumped-up murder charges in Utah. The night before his death, Hill sent this message to a fellow labor leader: "Don't waste time in mourning. Organize." Hill's attitude, not his guitar chops, is what inspires Morello today: "He was poet laureate of the labor movement. He put revolutionary lyrics to very simple tunes and helped unite workers of different backgrounds and ethnicities. He helped them see their common interests through music...
Following in the tradition of Joe Hill, the Clash and others, Morello and Rage Against the Machine marry their music to radical politics. The band's sound is terrifically assaultive: on its most recent album, Evil Empire, the songs have the crunch and grind of metal with a bit of the energetic bounce of hip-hop. The band's lyrics also pack a punch: the new single, People of the Sun, is an attack on American foreign policy toward the anti-government Zapatista rebels in Chiapas, Mexico (Morello charges that the U.S. is supporting an oppressive Mexican government when...
...Machine is on Epic, which is owned by Sony) with an Ivy League guitarist to decry networks, millionaires and capitalism, Morello says there's no contradiction. "There's no more or less irony," he says firmly, "than in buying a Noam Chomsky book at Barnes & Noble." And if Joe Hill were alive today--who knows?--he might well be on MTV right alongside Rage Against the Machine...