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What a mess. Guns in schools and people shouting from the telly. And what can we do about what really matters -about starvation, sickness, eliminating third world debt, the rise of neo-fascism- about our own bigotry? Action must be taken. This is not as easy as just flipping the channel. Passive consumers of a culture obese with their own self-satisfaction. Learn pain and learn true pleasure.

Brothers Billy and Gabe Riggs from the Louisville, KY area, formed this guitar based entity in 2000 after frustration in other unions, to work find a new sound and bring rock back into prevalence. They played with various other bands for many different event until combining their skills in Two Leptra. For a succinct list of some of them visit the Gigography. Some influences include: Radiohead; Sting; Oasis; OLP; U2; Led Zepplin; Nirvana; Bush; Paul Winter Consort; even Miles Davis. Billy was quoted as saying, "We make GOOD music..." but others have compared their sound to The Verve or Collective Soul.

Billy Riggs: guitars, vocals, synthesizers, & drum programming Billy's Online Journal

Gabe Riggs: guitars, vocals, synthesizers, & drum programming Gabe's Online Journal

And the woman sat staring at the folded hands in her lap. She gritted he teeth and gave a sigh hoping to swallow the fear that plagued her malnourished body. Feeling every breath, she looked up at the overly plump priest for solace. She found none as he bantered from his pulpit. The coins she had saved all week were a lead weight in her pocket. She knew it would be a terrible sacrifice to give up so much of her wages...
It didn't make sense. It was impractical. The rich didn't give that much yet they had money to spare. They had fancy cloths and fake smiles that gave way to empty black souls and lying tongues. She didn't trust or like them that much, but on the other hand, she had nothing to hold against them. They did not know her life of how she struggled to make ends meet. She thought of the meals her family had missed for the sake of these two lepta. Those rich men did not understand the joy she received from sneaking all of her coins into the money jar by the door as she passed. It took everything but it meant everything for her to give out of what she didn't even have. No one ever saw, and it made her feel special. She looked over at her beautiful daughter next to her on the bench. If only the could see the way she smiles, she thought. If only they could peer on her beaming eyes. She was simple and happy and would give the world for her mothers love.. If only the bigoted and pompously plump friars, could see life through those childlike eyes. She never found solace in the way they talked on and on loving each rancid, hollow, honeysuckle word. Yet one look into His eyes gave her all the answers she needed. She found solace as He stared at her with compassion. It was why she had given all she had for so many years.... her two lepta.... Mark 12:41-44

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