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Nov 21st -- No Music Day

Bill Drummond, founding member of the KLF, the Timelords, the Justified Ancients of MuMu, talks to NPR about "No Music Day". 24 hours of no music, no humming, no radio, no iPod...a fasting for your ears.

Currently in its third year, this year the movement is picking up momentum -- BBC Radio Scotland will be playing no music in response to this and many others are paying attention. Could it be that the man that has centered his life around pulling the biggest prank has found something worthwhile and meaningful? No more burning of money, no more dumping massive sharks painted yellow on the steps of the stock market, no more going on stage substituting his synthesized pop bands for hard core noise metal band while accepting a lifetime award for his contributions to music.

When posing the question, Is God A Cunt, a somewhere blasphemous exhibit where people were enticed to explain why or why not they felt He was, Drummond announced his own belief that, "No. God is responsible for all the things I love, the speckles on a brown trout; the sound of Angus Young's guitar, the nape of my girlfriend's neck, the song of the blackcap when he returns in Spring. I never blame God for all the shit, for the baby Rwandan slaughtered in a casual genocide, the ever-present wars, drudgery and misery that fills most of our lives."

Maybe he is getting soft, but I like the new somewhat spiritual Drummond.

Listen to the No Music Day story at NPR.

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