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Introducing Get Up Yourself

Welcome to the new ROOT! single, "Get Up Yourself" and I'm DC.
Wanna improve your CV?^[1]
Wanna get where you wanna be?
Sick and tired of "Generation e"?^[2]
Then come with me.

"Get Up Yourself" comes in two parts.
Part 1 is strategy, Part 2 is allegory.
You get to meet the Unit^[3] and me and Tiffany. Tiffany?
Fictional characters, all three.
Plus a liberal dose of my usual cut price poetry:

A half empty Rohipnol Cruiser^[4] bottle rolled in the nearby gutter.

Well, you get the picture. Just my usual crap. And then there are moments when the music rises, rises, rises like the road to Machu^[5]

Solipsism! Solipsism! Solipsism!^[6]

Ah, yep, those boys can play. Well, that's Get Up Yourself. The sinuous yet spirious slice of self-help to prepare you for the coming of the surface paradise.^[7] Get yours now.

Information

1) Debuted on the ROOT! MySpace, August 8, 2008.
2) Most likely to become track 1 on the Get Up Yourself single.
3) Contains some samples and segments of Get Up Yourself.

Notes

1) CV stands for "curriculum vitae" and is another term for résumé.
2) "Generation e" is a term used when reffering to the young, technologically savvy and often rich demographic which has grown up with easy access to, and the knowledge to maniuplate, technology.
3) The Unit may reffer to the top-secret military unit of the television show, The Unit.
4) Rohipnol is often known as a date rape drug, while a Vodka Cruiser is an alchoholic drink some say is marketed directly toward teens.
5) The Road to Machu Picchu is a series of long trails up the Andes mountains. The highest points on the path are 4000-5000m above sea level.
6) Solipsism is a philisophical idea which says the mind can only know that it, alone, exists. And that what it knows and has expericed are the only things which it knows can be true.
7) Surface paradise is likely a reference to H. G. Wells' "The Time Machine". In the future, one race lives peacefully on the surface world - but it is, in fact, a lie. At night, if they choose or cannot seek shelter, the surface dwellers are devoured by another race which live and toil underground. This is also referenced in I'm A Country Member.