They're In The Trees Again Mildred!!

[Shark Black]

Jess Walsh sits in an oak tree in protest Monday, Dec. 4, 2006, in Berkeley, Calif. Activists took to the trees to oppose plans for a new sports training center at the University of California, Berkeley. Three people were perched in trees near Memorial Stadium Monday, protesting campus plans to cut down a grove of coast live oaks to make way for a new Student-Athlete High Performance Center.

I was watching the news and one of the guys in the trees said, hmmm and I quote... This tree is alive!!! If you kill this tree you are committing murder!!!

The school has promised to plant 350 trees in their place....

[kerrick]

Well, I'm not surprised, coming from Berkeley and all. Trees are nice - I like trees. But that is just pathetic.

[Fox]

I assume they don't eat carrots.

There's trouble in the forest.

[Abate]

This is funny. Berkely is close to my apartment.

[Fox]

There is unrest in the forest,
There is trouble with the trees,
For the maples want more sunlight
And the oaks ignore their pleas.

The trouble with the maples,
(And they're quite convinced the're right)
They say the oaks are just too lofty
And they grab up all the light.
But the oaks can't help their feelings
If they like the way they're made.
And they wonder why the maples
Can't be happy in their shade.

So the maples formed a union
And demanded equal rights.
"These oaks are just too greedy;
We will make them give us light."
Now there's no more oak oppression,
For they passed a noble law,
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe, and saw.

[Shark Black]

One of the many reasons Hemishperes is such a great album.

[kerrick]

What is that from? Pretty funny though!

[Gonzalo el Silenciado]

Kerrick, I'd like to blame that last statement on your age, but I was into Rush when I was about thirteen.

[kerrick]

Ah Rush. I [obviously] never got into them. I do like the songs I've heard of theirs (just the ones on the radio), I just prefer that certain sound of metal over rock. I understand what a HUGE influence they are, especially on prog metal and everything, but I guess they're just not my style. I'll probably get a lot of flack for that last sentence...

[Shark Black]

kerrick said:

Ah Rush. I [obviously] never got into them. I do like the songs I've heard of theirs (just the ones on the radio), I just prefer that certain sound of metal over rock. I understand what a HUGE influence they are, especially on prog metal and everything, but I guess they're just not my style. I'll probably get a lot of flack for that last sentence...

Now you have to go straight to itunes and dowload The Trees or the whole fuquing album BECAUSE IT IS A MUST!

[ShadesofGray]

I find irony in the fact that she's perched up in that tree on a sheet of wood.

[kerrick]

Haha! I didn't even think about that. That's a chopped down, chopped up piece of tree!

[BenMech]

admin said:

I find irony in the fact that she's perched up in that tree on a sheet of wood.

Point well made.

WB Colleen, btw. Missed ya, again!

[Shark Black]

admin said:

I find irony in the fact that she's perched up in that tree on a sheet of wood.

That's funny!
Colleen you're as astute as ever