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Our dear friend Shane Crash finished writing his first novel,...

hopeyouhateit — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 21:19:35 -0500

Our dear friend Shane Crash finished writing his first novel, called Forest Life. This summer, he wants to tour to promote and discuss it with you, as well as talk about film, literature, non-violence and social activism. In order to make this happen, he needs your help. Please consider helping him make this a reality - anything at all still gets him closer to the goal. Of course, helping him fund this does not come without some incentives, and you can check them all out on the project page.

Thank you, and please share with your friends and family.

http://igg.me/p/83355?a=240740

SHOWBREAD FORUM REVIVAL...

hopeyouhateit — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:29:00 -0500

SHOWBREAD FORUM REVIVAL PROJECT
http://forum.rawrockmilitia.com

Our old administrator, Sean, brought up recently that the site has slowed down a lot. This is indeed true, especially as the guys have quieted down for a bit while they work on Cancer.

This is our attempt to bring interest back into the RRM - Raw Rock Militia. While the site is Showbread’s street team and focuses heavily on the band, a lot of folks don’t realize that there’s a lot more to it than that. We’re a group of fans that have become family, and would like to extend an invitation to become part of it. We welcome those from any religion (or lack thereof), those of any sexuality, those of any opinion.

Remember, registration is free now, so regardless of how casual, hardcore, or non-existant a fan you are, RRM is always open to you. Almost all of the site and forums are available to every user, and we want you to be one of them. Those who do wish to donate will receive thanks in the form of very exclusive Showbread content and music (please email me if this is something that interests you). All donations are sent from us to Compassion International.

Through this, we hope to recreate the community and family that was and is the Raw Rock Militia. I’d also like to see us become more active as a street team as Cancer gets closer - I will find a way to make this worthwhile to those who are involved; whether it be free merch, unheard Showbread tunes, or more.

Please consider being a part of our amazing community - new and old Showbread fans (and non-fans) alike. Just visit the link at the bottom and start by registering your account. Any questions at all, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with me. Please consider sharing this post to spread the word.

Sincerely,
Jeremy Waterman
RRM Admin - http://forum.rawrockmilitia.com

PS: for those of you who are both Showbread fans and vinyl fans - hang tight. Something I hope to work on in the future may be a possibility and expect news somewhere down the line.

Want to help out some homeless folk?

hopeyouhateit — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:42:18 -0500

My friend Shane Crash posted this to his blog:

The past few weeks I’ve resumed my aimless wanderings through the city streets between 3-6 A.M. I normally use this time to observe and contemplate. However, the past few nights have been considerably warmer than previous evenings and I’ve noticed more and more homeless folks throughout the city. Most of the people I speak with just can’t get into a shelter or continually miss the opportunity to make it to a shelter across town.

So I’ve decided to try and curve my aimless wandering to try and help out some of these folks. I’ll continue walking like I do most nights but I’m going to carry a large backpack filled with clothing and toiletries for anyone I come across who’s in need of these items. Obviously these can get very expensive and I won’t be able to sustain the necessary supplies for very long, at least not on my own. If you’d like to send supplies to help me help my homeless friends, feel free to message me for a shipping address to donate supplies. I don’t want your money. Items that folks generally need include:

WARM SOCKS (THIS IS A BIG ONE)

TOOTHBRUSHES/TOOTHPASTE

SHAMPOO/CONDITIONER

DEODORANT

MOUTHWASH

You get the idea. Feel free to contact me if you’re interested in helping out or if you have any questions.

Please consider what you may be able to do to help (whether it’s sending stuff to Shane (you can get in contact with him on his blog, here) or doing similar stuff in your own city). It’s one thing to share a link to your Facebook. It’s another to get yourself actively involved and make a difference in somebody’s life.

This might just be the most important thing you see all year....

hopeyouhateit — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:50:00 -0600

This might just be the most important thing you see all year. Make Kony famous. End LRA violence. #Kony2012

My heart broke watching this. Please share in any way you can.

Peter releases his official Cancer wallpaper - infinitely better...

hopeyouhateit — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:20:11 -0600

Peter releases his official Cancer wallpaper - infinitely better than my attempt yesterday.

http://blog.peterrollo.com/2012/02/fight-cancer.html
Download: HERE!

hopeyouhateit: Showbread - Cancer desktop wallpaper...

hopeyouhateit — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 18:47:00 -0600

hopeyouhateit:

Showbread - Cancer desktop wallpaper (1280x800)
Download: http://rawrockmilitia.com/images/cancer_1280.jpg

Help support the new album and feature length movie here: Kickstarter.

#FightTheCancer

Click to go to the Kickstarter project. In 2010 Showbread...

hopeyouhateit — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 14:49:00 -0600

Click to go to the Kickstarter project.

In 2010 Showbread purposefully withdrew from the basic bottom-line of the music industry: Make music to make money. Partnering with non-profit organization Come&Live!, we asked ourselves a strange question—what if we gave our records away for free?

We did just that. Tens of thousands of copies of our last album Who Can Know It? were downloaded—for free—all over the world. We went further and decided to tour to support the record and not charge for the concerts either. For a year, we traveled to 9 different countries, encouraging people to have our album as a free gift. Wherever we went and wherever the record was played a simple message was proclaimed: Jesus is alive, he’s in love with you, and hope, freedom and truth are all yours in him.

We’re ready to do the same things—on an even bigger scale—with a new album in 2012.

Cancer is a long-gestating idea that we’ve toyed with for years, but never had the resources to adequately accomplish our vision. A science-fiction concept album with an elaborately detailed universe fleshed out with music, lyrics, visual art and a movie.

The landscape of our last concept album, Anorexia Nervosa, was… grand. We want to go bigger. Much bigger. An intricate world of a story set to the soundtrack of a Raw Rock space opera and accompanied by it’s own feature film! We want to gather/combine all our creative resources into telling a massive, multi-sensory extravaganza of a story that screams an incredible truth: Jesus has conquered death!

We want to do all this and then give it away. For free.

Of course, you can’t give a record away for free on a giant record label… but then, without a giant record label, you have to find some way to pay for the whole thing. And this crazy idea is a crazily expensive idea. That’s why we need you… again.

We’re not terribly preoccupied with how the music industry will survive or where it will go. We learned a lot with the last album fundraiser about what to do and what not to do. But most of all, we learned (again) that God is generous and so are you guys. You’re outstanding and overwhelming kindness literally carried our message and our hope all over the world again and again. You are our brothers and our sisters. You are our family.

As was the case last time, without your help this vision will not come to be.

Let’s come together again and declare that the kingdom of darkness, death and despair is defeated. Let’s fight the Cancer.

Get ready, folks.

hopeyouhateit — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:36:19 -0600

Get ready, folks.

rachelvirginia: I saw this vehicle outside of Hamilton Hall...

hopeyouhateit — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:12:24 -0600

rachelvirginia:

I saw this vehicle outside of Hamilton Hall today, the film and television building for the school i go to, SCAD.

SOPA Blows.

hopeyouhateit — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:33:10 -0600

Sorry for the last-minuteness of this, but Raw Rock Militia will be participating in the SOPA Strike tomorrow (today for some people). From 8AM EST to 8PM EST our website and forums will be blacked out and in it’s place will be a message from SOPA Strike and information on how to contact US Congress.

As a Canadian, SOPA won’t be affecting me personally (not yet, anyways) but I know the majority of our users are American and this could mean huge things for them. I don’t think I really need to explain why we don’t like SOPA, it almost speaks for itself. I’m incredibly unpatriotic but there’s no reason to sit by and watch while America takes a step backwards.

If you need to know more, visit http://sopastrike.com/ and maybe even join in yourself.

hopeyouhateit: Showbread ruined my life.

hopeyouhateit — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:56:27 -0600

hopeyouhateit:

Showbread ruined my life.

Why hate when you can love?

hopeyouhateit — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:13:11 -0600

An open letter to The Flaming Lips.

“I am, of course, an intensely imperfect person. But, I am by no means a racist, hateful, highly politicized, right wing, republican, flag-waving, gun-toting, war-mongering bigot. Neither is Jesus. In fact, actually following Jesus requires unconditional love for all people (including enemies), rejection of violence, rejection of faith in politics and rejection of patriotism. In short, the exact opposite of the traits american Christians are most notorious for. I’m not suggesting that these are or should be your ideals per se, I just mean to point out that an authentic pursuit of Jesus is, sadly, quite the opposite of public perception.”

See full letter here. Please share.

This is weird. Really weird.

hopeyouhateit — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:53:10 -0600

This is weird. Really weird.

Up now at http://joshdies.storenvy.com/. Limited bundles left,...

hopeyouhateit — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:07:27 -0600

Up now at http://joshdies.storenvy.com/. Limited bundles left, but plenty of normal copies! Get in on this asap!

Pre-orders for Josh’s new novel, An Edict Of Worms, starts...

hopeyouhateit — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:35:49 -0600

Pre-orders for Josh’s new novel, An Edict Of Worms, starts tomorrow night, in both a regular and a limited special edition package.

The Ziz return in this bizarre sequel to Joshua S. Porter’s sophomore novelNevada. Several years after a discovery in the Mojave Desert that changed the world, things are better (or worse) than they’ve ever been. Join a group of subversive rebels, a few gay teenagers who have been kicked out of their homes, some white supremacists and a conflicted sociopath as their paths prepare to cross in a most unusual way.

Check out more at http://joshdies.com

Happy New Years, ‘Breadheads. Regardless of your beliefs, convictions, or your plans for...

hopeyouhateit — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:20:11 -0600

Happy New Years, ‘Breadheads. Regardless of your beliefs, convictions, or your plans for tonight, please stay safe.

Merry Christmas from us at Raw Rock Militia. If you...

hopeyouhateit — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 20:23:00 -0600

V/A - Electric Boogaloo

Bandrew - Kotton Kandy Kane

Merry Xmas U Filthy Animals - Volume 1

F3 - A Somewhat Friendly Christmas

Oh Golly - Oh Golly! It's Christmas

Jarod Grice - It's Christmas!

Merry Christmas from us at Raw Rock Militia. If you haven’t figured it out, I absolutely LOVE Christmas music. So as one last gift, here is (once again) our free Christmas album, as well as some other Christmas albums you can download for free, some of them from our artists.

A Raw Rock Christmas 2: Electric Boogaloo
Bandrew - IV: Kotton Kandy Kane
Merry Christmas You Filthy Animals - Volume I
Friends Friends Friends - A Somewhat Friendly Christmas
Oh Golly - Oh Golly! It’s Christmas
Jarod Grice - It’s Christmas!

Non-RawRockChristmas Bands:

Amo Joy - Christmas
Eisley - Eisley Family Christmas EP
No Sleep ‘Till Christmas: 1-3
A Familyre Christmas: Volume 4

As a final gift to members of the Raw Rock Militia forums, here is Showbread’s entire Misfits Cover Set from this year’s Cornerstone Festival. Hey Garrett, here’s your gorgeous mug, just like I promised.

This set can be downloaded in it’s entirety in the Exclusives section of the Raw Rock Militia forums.

Attention Photographers/Cstn Attendees:

hopeyouhateit — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 07:21:48 -0600

Did anybody who was at Cornerstone this year happen to take any shots of Showbread’s Misfits set? This is important, and if you can help me out here, I will hook you up with some RRM goodies. Email me: jeremy@rawrockmilitia.com.

Joshua S. Porter - Nevada; Hardcover #3/50.After hearing about...

hopeyouhateit — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:07:00 -0600

Joshua S. Porter - Nevada; Hardcover #3/50.

After hearing about Showbread’s recent financial (and identity-ial) loss, our friend and RRM member Josh is has decided to sell his hardcover copy of Nevada, Josh Dies most recent novel. He wishes to donate every cent received from this auction, to Showbread in hopes it will help to get them back on their feet and doing what they love real soon.

A link to the auction is here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250953156414#ht_500wt_1156, but you could also send him a message from the link above and he may be willing to deal off of eBay.

These hardcover printings of Nevada are signed and numbered, limited to only 50 total and never to be printed again. These literally sold out within 5 minutes of being put up for sale. Please consider bidding - it may be a bit pricey, however the intentions are good and you may end up with a very limited piece of Raw Rock history.

Treat your ears right. Listen to this album.A Raw Rock Christmas...

hopeyouhateit — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:08:19 -0600

Treat your ears right. Listen to this album.

A Raw Rock Christmas 2: Electric Boogaloo! Featuring new and exclusive tracks from DIES of Showbread, The Afterlife Kids (Brooks Paschal - ex. Sullivan), and loads of other indie bands and artists.

It’s also free to download! Hit “Buy Now”, enter “0” for the amount, and voila! Of course, if you would like to donate, it would be so appreciated - and all donations will go back into Showbread’s ministry.

<a href=”http://music.rawrockmilitia.com/album/a-raw-rock-christmas-2-electric-boogaloo” _mce_href=”http://music.rawrockmilitia.com/album/a-raw-rock-christmas-2-electric-boogaloo”>A Raw Rock Christmas 2: Electric Boogaloo by Raw Rock Militia</a>