Flaming Lips song named state rock song

[kevinpate]

bad for the lips and their fans and the state, great for the stand ups. Gotta love the 4th floor, always providing new material

[soonerguru]

Actually, this is not bad for the Lips, but it's very bad for the state. There are a lot of people in economic development working very hard to keep young people here, and promote the state a forward-moving, progressive place to do business. Few outside Oklahoma actually believe this, and they are certainly unaware of all we have to offer here. There are people here who are actively working against the state progressing. It's sickening and very disheartening. This is exactly the kind of stuff -- just like the Ten Commandments tribute -- that I predicted we would see last fall when the GOP took over the legislature. Anti-gay, anti-science, anti-progress, anti-intellectual, anti-art. That's Oklahoma's representation. And, they are defunding the state with tax cuts, so we can look forward to more underfunded higher education, common education, etc. This is a recipe for economic disaster.

[kmf563]

Like someone wrote on the newsok site, would you support them if they were wearing swaztikas? Symbols have meaning. They disagreed with that meaning and voted it down. Good for them.

What a crock of bull butter. We are not voting on their fashion sense or their choice of language...we are voting on a rock song from a band that has impacted the rest of the world with their music and happens to be from this little Republican prude state! My gosh people, get your head out of your own existentialistic world and realize it isn't about what you personally would choose or not...you have to give credit due to what they have accomplished and that millions...MILLIONS...of fans around the world love them! I find it ironic also that they happen to be very political and community involved and get told by the people they voted in that they are not good enough. Well maybe I don't approve of the things you said about their lips being on fire. That offends me and you should never want someone to be on fire. I think we should veto your state seat.

[BDP]

Well, maybe we should just choose a song from one of the state's most revered song writers, Woody Guthrie...

...oh wait. Nevermind. ; )

[OKCMallen]

Well, maybe we should just choose a song from one of the state's most revered song writers, Woody Guthrie...

...oh wait. Nevermind. ; )

Ha. I see what you did there.

[jbrown84]

I have a feeling Joe Bob Holland in Marlow wouldn't know any better on that one, BDP.

[soonerguru]

Who's the Reynolds nitwit from OKC? What area of town does he represent?

[windowphobe]

District 91: southwest OKC, roughly Penn to I-44 from I-240 to 89th, and Western to I-44 from I-240 to 164th. There's also a small section to the east of Western.

[Steve]

George Lang has the latest on his blog: Flaming Lips Denied Oklahoma Rock Song in House Vote, But Then ZAIREEKA!

[soonerguru]

Good for Brad Henry! He needs to really rub this in their faces now. He should have the band over for a concert and invite the House members! What a bunch of toothless morons.

[jbrown84]

I've never liked Henry more than right now...

[dismayed]

I really hate our politicians. The things they say... sometimes I think they must live the most sheltered, small town lives that anyone possibly could.

[dismayed]

The more I think about this the angrier I get.

Do our politicians not realize that the Lips could live anywhere they want, yet they still live in OKC? Not only that, they live in a high crime uptown area. They are revitalizing that area by slowly buying up houses in the neighborhood.

In addition to that, they are not embarrassed to say they are from OKC. I can think of at least three articles, including big names like the New York Times and USA Today, where Wayne Coyne granted an interview from his Oklahoma house and did nothing but try to paint his home state in a good light.

Coyne is the ultimate OKC ambassador. I find it sickening beyond belief that OKC Rep. Mike Reynolds, 405-557-7337, would do everything he could to ensure that their song was not named the state rock song.

Here is how everyone in the House voted on the Resolution to adopt the song as the state rock song. I plan on giving a few of these folks a piece of my mind.


OKLAHOMA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Fifty-Second Legislature
First Regular Session


SENATE JOINT RES 24 Recognize "Do You Realize?" as the official Oklahoma
Dorman State Rock and Roll Song Emergency

THIRD READING FAILED

YEAS: 48 RCS# 1159
NAYS: 39 4/23/2009
EXC : 14 2:20 PM
C/P : 0


YEAS: 48

Auffet Harrison McDaniel, J. Scott
Bailey Hilliard McDaniel, R. Sherrer
Brannon Inman McMullen Shoemake
Brown Jackson McPeak Shumate
Buck Jett Morgan Smithson
Cannaday Jones Morrissette Steele
Carey Kiesel Pittman Thomsen
Christian Kirby Pruett Trebilcock
Collins Kouplen Renegar Walker
Dorman Lamons Roan Williams
Glenn Luttrell Rousselot Wright, H.
Hamilton McAffrey Sanders Mr. Speaker


NAYS: 39

Armes Hickman McCullough Peterson
Coody Holland McNiel Reynolds
Cooksey Johnson Miller Richardson
Dank Jordan Moore Schwartz
Denney Joyner Murphey Shannon
Derby Kern Nelson Tibbs
DeWitt Key Ortega Watson
Duncan Liebmann Osborn Wesselhoft
Enns Martin, Sc Ownbey Wright, J.
Faught Martin, St. Peters


EXCUSED: 14

Banz Fields Ritze Terrill
Billy Hoskin Sears Thompson
Blackwell Nations Shelton
Cox Proctor Sullivan


CONSTITUTIONAL PRIVILEGE: 0

[soonerguru]

I'm sure some of you live in that dimwit Reynolds's district.

[soonerguru]

I'm just SHOCKED that Sally Kern voted against it. SHOCKED, I say.

[okcpulse]

What a crock of bull butter. We are not voting on their fashion sense or their choice of language...we are voting on a rock song from a band that has impacted the rest of the world with their music and happens to be from this little Republican prude state! My gosh people, get your head out of your own existentialistic world and realize it isn't about what you personally would choose or not...you have to give credit due to what they have accomplished and that millions...MILLIONS...of fans around the world love them! I find it ironic also that they happen to be very political and community involved and get told by the people they voted in that they are not good enough. Well maybe I don't approve of the things you said about their lips being on fire. That offends me and you should never want someone to be on fire. I think we should veto your state seat.

Which happened to be Democratic by dominance for over 70 years. And people, don't give me this bulls**t that Oklahoma Democrats are 'conservative'. Wrong. The basis of the Democratic party is expansion of government and government programs. Has nothing to do with today's major controversial issues. And Oklahoma's Democratic Party did just that... bloat up state government and increase taxes to cover that bloat during the oil bust.

High car tag fees, high income taxes, high sales taxes. That is what Oklahoma got through our economic crisis back in the 1980s. And that is why Oklahoma went Republican.

It is my hope that one day Oklahoma will become the first Independent party state in the nation. Hopefully then, you bandwagon politicos will get off your high horses.

Kudos to Oklahoma for recognizing its cultural treasures.

[soonerguru]

Very proud of Governor Henry today, also for his veto of the stem-cell bill.

[bornhere]

The hammer and sickle used to be the symbol of communism. Now it's the symbol of pissing off cranky old white guys who are always looking for something to get their silky panties in a twist about.

[old okie]

I'm sure some of you live in that dimwit Reynolds's district.

Egad, yes! And "dimwit" is the nicest thing I could call him; the rest of the terms would violate rules of this site!! We've tried so hard for the last two elections to get that guy booted out...and each time, he's managed to squeak back in. The only good thing I can see is that he will be term-limited soon.........but not soon enough for my taste! This guy is an embarrassment to anyone with two gray cells that work.

[hipsterdoofus]

Personally I wish that the lawmakers would make better use of their time and our money than naming a state rock song or doing studies on how adding an exclamation mark after the word "Oklahoma" on our flag would improve tourism.

[jbrown84]

Very proud of Governor Henry today, also for his veto of the stem-cell bill.

He did more today than his entire time in office!

[fuzzytoad]

the song sucked anyway

[Steve]

For those interested, here are the song's lyrics. I've been to the Panhandle. I've been to Poteau. I've been to Durant, Tahlequah, Lawton, Enid, Muskogee, Alva, Tulsa, Langston, Choctaw and McAlester. I've met farmers, I've met urban pioneers. I've met conservatives, liberals, populists and anarchists (I think some of them were at Sauced when I last went there).
I can't for the life of me figure out how any of them would have a problem with the following lyrics of the song in question:

Do You Realize - that you have the most beautiful face
Do You Realize - we're floating in space -
Do You Realize - that happiness makes you cry
Do You Realize - that everyone you know someday will die

And instead of saying all of your goodbyes - let them know
You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round

Do You Realize - Oh - Oh - Oh
Do You Realize - that everyone you know
Someday will die -

And instead of saying all of your goodbyes - let them know
You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round

Do You Realize - that you have the most beautiful face
Do You Realize

[Karried]

Toby Keith..

We'll Put a Boot up your Ass, It's the American Way....

They would have voted for that one... you know they should have just said we didn't like the song but of course, they have to hop on their high moral horse.. omg.. a curse word!!!

I can almost guarantee that the knuckle dragger probably swears up a storm behind closed doors.

[jbrown84]

Toby Keith is a potty mouth too. It's well publicized.