Photo: Kohl Black
Leo Svirsky - Keyboard/Voice
Stephanie White - Voice
Thomas Stanley (a/k/a Bushmeat) - ElectronsThe three members of this group were all students at the University of Maryland when they met at the Yoga class of famed yogi James Sam-Kubam in his home/studio near the College Park campus. They soon discovered that besides indestructible bliss they shared a mutual interest in the dissolution of American Empire. They had also each independently arrived at a critical understanding of the role played by male aggression and American exceptionalism in fomenting the ensuing global crisis. So, of course, they had to form a band. A unique experience intended to provide some breathing room from the psychological crush of the post-everything drunken slide towards 2012…and beyond.
American culture is one preoccupied with surfaces and oblivious to the interiors or depth of things. Imagine a child offered a delicious piece of candy in a brightly colored piece of foil. The child accepts the candy, opens it, and immediately throws the sweet to the ground and begins to lick and suck the shiny wrapper. This is the central problem of the culture we find ourselves trapped in: Our obsession with life’s wrapper allows us to dispose of its most precious contents. This Bag is Not a Toy promises to suffocate the mendacious heart of American Exceptionalism and G8 Imperialism by inverting the same clear plastic film of consumer-patriotism that protects their sovereignty. To the reactionary forces who would uphold this way of life [sic] as virtuous, you have been warned: Keep this sack of skin-clinging soul sounds out of reach of your children. This Bag is not a Toy.