| Subject: Re: Hello Barrett Brown |
| From: Chris Stroffolino <chris.stroffolino@gmail.com> |
| Date: 5/20/11, 19:05 |
| To: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> |
Hi Barrett---
You're doing great work--reminds me a little of the punking of Scott Walker by that guy in Buffalo pretending he's David Koch.
The audio is kind of hard to hear on those pieces, but I'll think about your suggestion and see if I can do anything.
In the meantime, I thought I'd send you this piece; you probably know most of this stuff already,
but a lot of the younger musicians and "culture workers" (need better phrase) don't know this--
(hell, I didn't know all of it until I started researching)---
but I think it's absolutely crucial to know this if we're going to have any chance of getting heard in this day
of FCC being lobbied so heavily they don't enforce regulations even to the extent they once did,
giving us at least a little corner.
Well, it's a long piece--so more later!
Chris
On May 11, 2011, at 9:33 PM, Barrett Brown wrote:
Chris-
Thanks for getting in touch. A well-crafted YouTube video would be extraordinarily useful in bringing attention to this matter. I suppose you could set our conversations with HBGary CEO Aaron Barr and Booz Allen Hamilton VP William Wansley to music (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VENYttckfwM, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1yyHeO3nLQ) and otherwise present some aspect of our investigation in a way that would attract attention. This is where we compile our info: http://wiki.echelon2.org/wiki/Main_Page, and some of us meet here to collaborate on research: http://www.vokle.com/series/10261-operation-metal-gear.
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Chris Stroffolino
<chris.stroffolino@gmail.com> wrote:
David Berman forwarded me your email.
Our ideas are largely compatible; I don't know if I can help
(I'm not very internet savvy, but I'm an idea person, could write songs
or create videos etc; try to get the word out to the (alas too docile flakey apathetic or stoned) local music scene--
(but there's got to be somewhere a few others "out there")--
let me know if there's anything i could do to help.
Thanks,
Chris Stroffolino
--
Regards,
Barrett Brown
512-560-2302