The Defenestration Unit - upcoming gigs...

This should be a fun show at SHFL:


and then the next day at Helios we play a benefit for HPPL

HPPL is a registered 501 (c)(3) non-profit animal welfare organization, founded in 1989 by a group of individuals who were concerned about the plight of homeless dogs and cats in the Houston area; specifically, animals that would not usually be put up for adoption by the local animal shelters.


I'd tell ya more about it - the gig - but I don't know much...
we go on around 4 - there will be 12 bands on 3 stages from 1 - 9 or so I think...

Phronesisaical: Flower Man, Infernal Bridegroom Productions

Phronesisaical: Flower Man, Infernal Bridegroom Productions: "Last night, we saw the Infernal Bridgroom Productions production of 'Speeding Motorcycle,' a new rock opera about Daniel Johnston. It was wonderful in the way only rock operas can be, an exuberant portrayal of psychosis that was as sad as it was funny. My favorite scene involved a grotesquely proportioned Captain America--based on his appearance in Johnston's own drawings--battling health-care workers. It made me cry, in both sad and funny ways. So that's probably a good sign . . ."

Speeding Motorcycle

just got word that tickets are moving incredibly quickly today...
if you haven't seen the show and still plan on trying to you need to call
TODAY and make a reservation...

713-522-8443

TDU's 10th Anniversary continues...

#2 in the TDU 10th Anniversary podcast series is now available -

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Here's the skinny:

Part Two of TDU's 10 Year Anniversary Series - A brief totally random overview of TDU history - in more than one part

The Defenestration Unit - Another Fine Mess

1. Even Dwarfs Started Small (excerpt) - from "Massage The Joint"

2. We Three Kings - from "A TDU Christmas"

3. Screaming Hell - from "Drenched by Rain and Reverb"

4. Leroy's Groove/Will the Circle be Unbroken - from "Sweatbox"

5. Never been fond of the water - From "TDU060406"

A mix of several different periods of The Defenestration Unit...
the last bit being from a recent practice...

Infernal Bridegroom Has a Hit With 'Speeding Motorcycle' - New York Times

Infernal Bridegroom Has a Hit With 'Speeding Motorcycle' - New York Times

At a recent performance of "Speeding Motorcycle," scores were turned away at the door. Many moped around outside, hoping someone might leave at intermission.

In a telephone interview Mr. Johnston described it as "very cool" and said he had seen the show three times.

Infernal Bridegroom (the name comes from a line in an Arthur Rimbaud poem) was founded in 1993 to develop new audiences by producing hard-edged and challenging plays. But Mr. Nodler, who returned to the company after a peripatetic three-year hiatus to work on "Speeding Motorcycle," said, "More than anything, we do plays that we desperately want to do."

O.k. - The New York Freakin' Times just said it's a hit...

what more do you want?

retroCRUSH: The World's Greatest Pop Culture Site

retroCRUSH: The World's Greatest Pop Culture Site: "There were certain days were I’d say, 'We’re going against the storyline here. You’re supposed to be pursuing me.' There were times that she was a little bit late coming to the set or I’d see her talking to Russ. Then I found out. Erica would say well, 'BeBe is staring at us. That’s the girl I’ve been dating.'"

retroCRUSH: The World's Greatest Pop Culture Site

retroCRUSH: The World's Greatest Pop Culture Site: "I’ll have to bust myself. I hated the line, 'It’s my happening and it freaks me out.' That’s what I’m most famous for in the film. I didn’t think it was hip enough. I’m a San Francisco kid who had come out of Haight Ashbury. I was going to balk at that line. Russ finally shamed me into it. He said, 'You’re an actor aren’t you?' That shut me up. I didn’t think it was hip, but Mike Meyers used it in the first Austin Powers. You know that whole series. That’s my line. He should give me a million or two because of it."

retroCRUSH: The World's Greatest Pop Culture Site

retroCRUSH: The World's Greatest Pop Culture Site:
"Russ went to battle with Charles Keating who was the head of the American League against Obscenity. Charles Keating got Vixen banned in Ohio. To this day it is still banned. There were all these court hearings Russ spent thousands of dollars on to fight Charles Keating. He was such a good American that he ripped off all these old people in the S&L scandals. Now he’s in jail or whatever. That’s what a good American he was. It’s not okay to fuck, but it’s okay to rip people off of their whole life savings."

bartenders

The only thing worse than a slow bartender with a weak pour, and that's a rude bartender...

;: "So just to get my bitching out of the way, let me share with you the big moment of the evening. I’d invited Karen to come see the Sharks and Sailors; Jonx; and Motion Turns It On show. Karen, being the trooper, agreed despite being a bit tired from going out with some friends on Thursday. So she comes out and orders a water from the buzz-cut non-Roy bartender who takes her order with a huff. Later in the evening, Karen says that she’s going to grab a beer and heads to the bar. Roy is busy by the taps and the other guy is slowly moving toward us at the bar. Then, he makes this left sweep towards us. He points to the guy to Karen’s left (he’s ok), he points to me and my half finished beer (I point to Karen), he looks at Karen and walks away. Arms go up! “NO!” “He did NOT just do that!” “OOOOH! Man!” To stay would have been undignified if she’d have ignored it or bloody if she’d given the idiot what-for so, with a “Fuck this!”, Karen leaves with her dignity intact. I came close to leaving but I felt some commitment to shoot some good shots of S&S and stuck around despite losing all the happy momentum of the evening. So after Saturday’s belvile/ Something Fierce record release party I am boycotting Walter’s for the foreseeable future."

I have a friend who always asks, and waits for, a particular bartender at Rudyard's. I don't go that far, but I'd rather catch Myrna or Brad behind the bar than anyone else. I've known Brad for a long time, and we've almost been in a band together (at least I think there was talk of it once, drunk talk to be sure, but talk nonetheless.) And what can you say about Myrna except she's Myrna, and that's enough...

I generally let other people order drinks at The Proletariat, as it is the only place I've ever really fought with a bartender.

The guy at the Beer Cellar on Friday nights is good.
Knows my drink.
Gets a good pour to me quick.

Even when Poison Girl is busy it never takes an unreasonable amount of time to get a drink.

My least favorite bartenders in town used to be at Emo's... I would watch people walk up to the bar all around me and get served, the bartender take a call, watch some tv, anything to keep from serving me my drink...happened often, but it was Emo's - where else could I see all the AmRep bands and older folks I hoped I would not become and now fear that I have.

My advice, tip your bartender, unless they piss you off...
then make them throw you out.

ABOUT THE MOVEMENT

ABOUT THE MOVEMENT:
"It has been suggested that there are only two chances of everyone volunteering to stop breeding: slim and none. The odds may be against preserving life on Earth, but the decision to stop reproducing is still the morally correct one. Indeed, the likelihood of our failure to avoid the massive die off which humanity is engineering is a very good reason to not sentence another of us to life. The future isn't what it used to be."

Cecil Taylor - All The Notes

Cecil Taylor - All The Notes: "To say Taylor is larger than life is an understatement. His musicianship is informed by a deep intellectual underpinning. One of the earliest sequences shows him seated at his grand piano, poring over a book of architecture and discussing his pianism in terms of structurel integrity on the same level as bridge spans. His scores, 'unhooked from the stave paper and using 'not notes -- alphabets', look more like calculus that might for example, tell you the density of suns. Many insights into his complex superclustered playing are gleaned: that for example he has forsaken standard intervels such as the perfect fourth and fifth, that he is interested in perfecting contrary motions of the hands; and that he spends hours each day playing his piano at home, staring at the movements of a tree that grows right outside his window. "

This is a film I need to see.

Vision Festival.ORG || Home

If I wasn't doing the most amazing show ever then I'd be figuring out how to get to NYC right now...

Vision Festival.ORG || Home

Planned Parenthood of Houston and Southeast Texas: Survey - Reproductive Independence

Planned Parenthood of Houston and Southeast Texas: Survey - Reproductive Independence

"Show your state pride & prevent Texas from becoming the next South Dakota!"

go sign the petition.
it's important.

Rolas de Aztlan � Blog Archive � Re:Mix #2: Kid Ornery

Rolas de Aztlan � Blog Archive � Re:Mix #2: Kid Ornery: "Today's Re:Mix Friday for KPFT listeners comes from a guy I would like to think is a local music myth and legend. I say this, of course, because I've known Mike Switzer since my early loudmouth days at the University of Houston. Even back then, Mike was a great musician and super-smart dude. These days, he's bringing Houstonians a super-smart musical podcast that's very much worth note as this week's pick."


YAY! and thanks to my old friend Ernesto for the shoutout and kind words...

Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.

Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.: "SK: You’ve got a big event planned on June 11th to kick off the soundtrack release for Season Two. Can you tell me a little bit about what’s going on that night?
McCREARY: This is the first performance of its kind that I know of. We are doing a CD release show for the second season album and we’re going to be performing the score live at an intimate venue called The Mint in Los Angeles. You’re going to see nine musicians who are the same men and women who perform the score each week. Steve Bartek, John Avila, and Johnny “Vatos” Hernandez, from Oingo Boingo are going to be there playing all the crazy instruments they play. The percussionist, electric fiddle player and the duduk player are going to be there. We’re going to do live music, show some exclusive video footage and then do a CD signing at the end. Best of all you can pick up a copy of the second season album a week before it ships. I’m really excited about it and think the fans are going to really enjoy it."

Rollins writes Coulter

and you can watch him do it here.

I'm pretty ambivalent about ol' Hank - he's mostly right on, but he's a bit of a jackass...and I was (GASP!) never a black flag fan.
sad, but true.

This bit however makes me smile.

More BLP - with Ann Coulter and Bill O'Reilly

yes folks...
it's another couple of clips from "32 short stories about Brazosport"

BLP brings you - hot chicks - backstage at BLP's "Asshole Parade"

don't say The BLP didn't never give ya nothin'

leopardboy - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting

The Defenestration Unit - 10 year anniversary

In celebration of TDU's 10 year anniversary the rest of this month's podcast
will be a mix of unreleased, classic, and new TDU tracks.

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This recording comes from a brief period in the band's life when we played songs and had a singer.
She's under contract now, so I won't mention her name, but she's awesome...
We brought her in to do "Theme de Yoyo" and that sounded so good we added the Nina Simone cover - next thing ya know we were working up a set, and soon free jazz legends, TDU, were an R&B/Soul band...

next week classic TDU, something from Sweatbox, and a preview of the newest NEW TDU!!!

Track Listing:

1. Feeling Good
2. Theme De Yoyo
3. Breath of Fresh Air
4. All Mine
5. Space is the Place/Transmission



ENJOY!!!

Writer turns 1920s anarchists into slapstick comedians

via Bookslut:Writer turns 1920s anarchists into slapstick comedians: "'I thought it would be fun to play around with the genre. I specifically came up with the genre of comedy teams. And then at some point the names Sacco and Vanzetti popped into my head and it seemed like such a perfect comedy team name. Once that clicked, all the parallels between slapstick and anarchy started coming at me,'' Binelli says."

Sounds interesting.

2006 Commencement Address - Stephen Colbert

2006 Commencement Address:
"It has been said that children are our future. But does that not also mean that we are their past? You are here to replace us. I don’t understand why we’re here helping and honoring them. You do not see union workers holding benefits for robots."

supernatural

Since "Supernatural" is one of the only new genre shows that got picked up for a second season I'm currently watching season one.
You should watch episode 13.
It's the story of a racist ghost truck,
or a truck inhabited by a racist ghost,
or something...
anyway,
killer trucks are awesome,
even if racists aren't.

WHO OWNS DC9 'COCAINE ONE' AIRLINER?

WHO OWNS DC9 'COCAINE ONE' AIRLINER?:

"Eight weeks after Mexican soldiers at a rural airport in the Yucatan discovered 5.5 tons of cocaine onboard an American-registered DC9 painted to resemble aircraft from the U.S. Dept of Homeland Security, Mexican and U.S. law enforcement officials seem no closer to publicly identifying either the owner of the plane, or the tons of cocaine."

When those anti-drug commmercials say that yr drug money is going to terrorists they are in fact correct.
As long as you accept the CIA as terrorists.

depressed as all git

making new mistakes daily
burying my head
in the sand

talking the real talk
while real drunk
may not have been best

a million things unsaid
but won't any of them
make it better

damn.

what's up?

Speeding Motorcycle is still amazing.
Make yr reservations NOW!

other than that
just looking for work
(had a second interview recently that went well)
and drinking a bit
(or more than a bit,
or perhaps just
several successive bits)
and trying to finish casting
"the adding machine"
and trying not to panic
about this or that
or any other thing
and taking naps
lots of naps
sometimes at night
in fact
I think I'm going
back to bed now
or shortly
maybe
I'll watch some TV
or read some comics
or sing "Wedding"
to myself 100 times
(did I mention
that you
should go see
Speeding Motorcycle?)

Go read Starfucker's latest coupla
posts on the show...

last night was a good night
some good friends saw the show
and dug it much.
Daniel came and saw it again
with his band "the Nitemares"
They also all dug it much.
Drank at the axiom,
rudz, then...

last night
a notsuoh night

some disappointed
I left before daylight

just drank soda there though...

so now I really do think
it's back to bed
so I can be ready
and fresh
(after a red bull or two)
for the show tonight.

Rolling Stone : Was the 2004 Election Stolen?

Rolling Stone : Was the 2004 Election Stolen?

The short answer is yes.

Podcast - Last Bastions - Tomorrow Never Knows

Thought I'd combine the themes of the last two podcasts and give you what may be the last bastions only cover. This piece was comissioned by trombonist David Dove and later released in a private edition of 17.
It includes the quietest music we've ever played (the begining and end), a beatles cover (the whole thing) and us playing in front of people who were not expecting us (the horns were recorded on the streets of downtown houston on a Friday night.)
I'm pretty proud of this one.
Hope you enjoy it.


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and if yr enjoying the podcasts you can buy music from Last Bastions, The Defenestration Unit, and more over at Charlie's store.

more madness from maybe BLP

or at least some BLP related madness or something...

Yahoo! 360� - Skews Me - Summer Camp

Yahoo! 360� - Skews Me - Summer Camp:
"I remember 'the screwdriver.' Upon hearing a particular trigger phrase, I was to lie down to bed that night, wake up the next morning, get money from a bank, purchase a camera, then go to 'the scene of the crime' and take a picture. Even then I refused to complete the final step as it just wreaked of a setup.

That trigger was pulled on me in 1996 at a job I had where they eventually ganged up on me to get me fired. The job was across the hall from a dentist's office where about once a month so much nitrous oxide was used it poured into the hallway. On those days, people at the other jobs didn't show up to work and the children leaving the dentist's office looked spaced out and their parents very serious. I reported my suspicions by phone to the FBI, but all they said was 'no crime is being committed.'"

File Under: I love my country, but I fear my government

A History Of US Secret Human Experimentation:
"1966 U.S. Army dispenses Bacillus subtilis variant niger throughout the New York City subway system. More than a million civilians are exposed when army scientists drop lightbulbs filled with the bacteria onto ventilation grates.

1967 CIA and Department of Defense implement Project MKNAOMI, successor to MKULTRA and designed to maintain, stockpile and test biological and chemical weapons.

1968 CIA experiments with the possibility of poisoning drinking water by injecting chemicals into the water supply of the FDA in Washington, D.C.

1969 Dr. Robert MacMahan of the Department of Defense requests from congress $10 million to develop, within 5 to 10 years, a synthetic biological agent to which no natural immunity exists."

Warrenellis.com � Alex Toth Is Dead

Warrenellis.com � Alex Toth Is Dead: "Alex Toth, one of American comics’ greatest illustrators, died today. "

speeding rudyardscycle

all day today
in the parking lot:
music
beer
bar-b-q

at 8pm
IBP presents:
Songs from "Speeding Motorcycle"

We're gonna rock this town tonight!

This is your chance to hear a full set of tunes
from the show
for free

Come celebrate with us!

speeding rudyardscycle

all day today
in the parking lot:
music
beer
bar-b-q

at 8pm
IBP presents:
Songs from "Speeding Motorcycle"

We're gonna rock this town tonight!

This is your chance to hear a full set of tunes
from the show
for free

Come celebrate with us!

� Kure Kure Takora (Gimme Gimme Octopus)

� Kure Kure Takora (Gimme Gimme Octopus):

"Kure Kure Takora, aka Gimme Gimme Octopus, an insane 60s Japanese TV show for kids, starring an octopus and a peanut who are in love with the same walrus. However, love stories are notoriously boring, so the creators of this series made the wise decision to drop copious amounts of acid, and to infuse the series with lots of crime, gratuitous violence, and insect repellent. The music is already great, but the episodes themselves are unbelievable. "

the almost 6 gig torrent of the entire series (available at the link above) is totally worth it.
YAY CRAZY JAPANESE PEOPLE!!!

Speeding Motorcycle

the grooveblog: "The pairing of Infernal Bridegroom Productions & Daniel Johnston is like a fine wine with a fine meal. This is a beautiful and moving show."

Bienvial - Regional Geographic

Bienvial - Regional Geographic:
"One thing that also made me really mad was seeing all of the Daniel Johnston drawings on the wall. 2 years ago at SXSW they were selling his 8.5 x 11' marker drawings outside his show for $20 each (originals). I didn't buy one because I didn't have any more cash and didn't want to pay the ATM fee at the bar he was playing at. But I am very happy for Mr. Johnson. He DEFINITELY deserves it."

Home - Defend DeLay

You can go see a clip from Colbert, yes Colbert, over at the defend Delay site:
Home - Defend DeLay

this is insane.

The new podcast - Last Bastions - points/songs

hey! not only does the main page for my podcasts work now,
but I've got a new one for ya...

this week it's Last Bastions "Points/Songs"

Two unfinished Last Bastions projects combined with one track from "Music for Bathing" (w/ Ben Lind).
Last Bastions are Kid Ornery and Charlie Naked.
Songs were meant to have singers, but we never found any...
The "Music for Bathing" track has vocals which makes it as songlike as anything in our catalog...
You'll get points as soon as ya hear 'em...
very process oriented pieces...

hope ya dig 'em...

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ran across the Sugar Shack cover Justin and I knocked out a while back when I was putting this one together,
so look for that and more Defenestration Unit, and maybe some really ancient stuff in the near future.

Daniel Johnston’s SPEEDING MOTORCYCLE

Daniel Johnston’s SPEEDING MOTORCYCLE

We have the preview tonight and open tomorrow...
but the preview and opening night are sold out.
You want to see this show?
of course you do.
I'd make reservations soon as I expect us to sell out most of the run.


here's more on the show:

Unrequited love is a major theme in the music of Daniel Johnston, a Texas singer-songwriter who is known as much for his erratic behavior over the years as his wonderfully ebullient pop songs. Countless articles and a recent full-length film documentary have recounted his personal demons. Throughout his life, Johnston has channeled his swirling emotions and desires into his music, which bears the mark of his daily struggle. Johnston’s prolific catalogue of songs is one of extremes; it is heavily weighted in both the depths of dejection and ecstatic joy. Recurring characters make appearances: Captain America, the Beatles, Joe the Boxer, Casper the Friendly Ghost, and the Devil.

Somewhere among these sprawling episodes, a narrative was lurking. The recurring episodes told a story about a boy who loved a girl, but everyone knows love can be an earth-shattering emotion, both hellish and heavenly—maybe even literally. In Daniel Johnston’s music, Heaven and Hell are very real places.

The supernatural is a realm quite suited to rock music and live performance. As longtime fans of Johnston’s work, Infernal Bridegroom Productions approached Johnston for the opportunity to set his music to stage and tell his passionate, supernatural love story. “I thought it sounded like a cool idea,” says Johnston, “and then I saw some videos of IBP shows, and my heart jumped for joy, because the shows were really entertaining and really put together well.” With Johnston’s blessing, IBP applied for, and was awarded, a prestigious MAP Fund grant by the Rockefeller Foundation to develop the production. After over a year of development, with Johnston supplying his songs and concepts and IBP founder Jason Nodler arranging the story and providing additional text, Johnston’s hidden narrative is ready to be told. And a tale born of rock music naturally demands the appropriate vessel: a rock opera. Its title, taken from one of Johnston’s songs: Speeding Motorcycle.

Daniel Johnston’s SPEEDING MOTORCYCLE
Preview performance May 24 Sold Out
Opening Night May 25 Sold Out
Remaining performances: Fridays and Saturdays, 8pm, May 26, 27; through June 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17, 23, 24 - $15
All performances at the Axiom, 2524 McKinney. For reservations, call 713-522-8443 or purchase tickets online

Warrenellis.com � For Joss’ Adoring Millions: BUFFY Season 8 Is Comics-Only

Warrenellis.com � For Joss’ Adoring Millions: BUFFY Season 8 Is Comics-Only:

"BUFFY Season 8 Is Comics-Only"


Whedon is writing 6 issues of "Buffy" that will take place post season 7.
Fray was great, but I hope the "Buffy" books stay on schedule, otherwise I'll just wait for the trade...

The Free Press -- Independent News Media - Molly Ivins

The Free Press -- Independent News Media - Molly Ivins: "Naturally, in Texas, National Laboratory for Bad Government, we do it all first and worst. We started with this dandy plan to outsource applications and enrollment for social service programs such as food stamps and Medicaid. In theory, we were to save millions -- though I never could understand it myself. You see, Texas has one of the cheapest state governments on the continent, but when we hire outside contractors, they expect to make a profit. Add profit, add cost. Oh well. "


Molly gets it all right,
and she calls folks out,
and just generally rocks
like the brilliant Texas
woman she is.

Yay!

Secret rooms, the entire internet? at Pandagon

Secret rooms, the entire internet? at Pandagon:
"But the big news of the day is Wired took the big step and published all the documents from the NSA whistleblower, and with that offered a big, fat fuck you to AT&T and their mewling about keeping secrets while they were invading your privacy. This shit is damning stuff, seriously. Room numbers, photographs of the secret room, detailed descriptions of exactly how the NSA was routing information and rifling through it, the whole banana. It’s tawdry, seriously. There’s so much in here that strikes me as even worse than I imagined."

So, reading all this stuff,
well, it hits me hard,
that maybe
this grand experiment
is over.

Goodnight America,
we barely knew ya...

Burnt Orange Report: :: Stagflation Lite on the Horizon?

Burnt Orange Report: :: Stagflation Lite on the Horizon?:

"Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke may be facing a central banker's nightmare this year: what Allen Sinai, president of Decision Economics Inc. in New York, terms ``a mild dose of stagflation.''"

Bush gets to be Nixon and Carter.
I find that funny.

VH1's 'Supergroup' Debuts May 21 - Starpulse News Blog

VH1's 'Supergroup' Debuts May 21 - Starpulse News Blog: "In 'SuperGroup,' Ted Nugent, Scott Ian (Anthrax), Sebastian Bach (Skid Row), Evan Seinfeld (Biohazard) and Jason Bonham, are poised to re-conquer the rock world (and hopefully spread a little debauchery in the process) in the ultimate musical experiment."

The best possible outcome:

Scott Ian kills Ted Nugent in a bow hunting mishap.

Eno Blogging:: My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts ::

missed the man's birthday...
to make up for it I'll make sure you all know about the gift him and David Byrne decided to give all of us...


go here and download the original multitracks for "my life in the bush of ghosts"
and then make something amazing with them.


:: My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts ::

go here and download the original multitracks for "my life in the bush of ghosts"
and then make something amazing with them.

Eno Blogging: the original soundtrack

via Warren Ellis:
the original soundtrack:
"Frustrated by this, I put on Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy), and as 'Mother Whale Eyeless' was spinning these lyrics flew out:

'Take me--my little pastry mother take me--there's a pie shop in the sky...'

The proof was in the pudding. The answer was suddenly crystal-clear: I had to see how Eno worked. Not in the studio, but in the kitchen. ("

More BLP madness...

just go watch...
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Polite Dissent � Lex Luthor Knows Musical Theater: comics, medicine, and medical comics

Polite Dissent � Lex Luthor Knows Musical Theater: comics, medicine, and medical comics:
"Apparently Superman’s not the only one with a taste for Broadway. Here’s Lex Luthor — in his battlesuit even — letting loose with a little improptu song from Oklahoma!"

Let me take this opportunity to say that while I am not enthused about a Batman musical I would be interested in a Lex Luthor or Dr. Doom opera.

Yes, I am a nerd.

podcast - Kid Ornery presents...

So...
I just spent a long time creating and then uploading this file...
and it should be available at the url below,
but I haven't seen it yet.
let me know if it's there.

Kid Ornery presents...
The Covers - Vol. 1


1. 1969 - The Stooges - Kid Ornery
2. I Save Cigarette Butts - Daniel Johston - Ornery (kid ornery, charlie naked, justin crane)
3. It's all over now baby blue - Bob Dylan -Kid Ornery and Jack Babylon
4. Caravan - Duke Ellington - The Defenestration Unit
5. Pretty Singing Boys - The Mathletes - Kid Ornery w/Charlie Naked
6. Penetration - The Stooges - The Slightly Nervous Boys w/Bliss Blood
7. Space is the Place - Sun Ra The Defenestration Unit
8. Anne - The Stooges - Kid Ornery
9. Venus in Furs - The Velvet Underground - Charlie Naked and Kid Ornery

Tested subscribing in Itunes via the rss feed and that seems to work...

the rss feed is : http://kidornery.podOmatic.com/rss2.xml

Why don’t grown-ups believe in Santa Claus? at Pandagon

Why don’t grown-ups believe in Santa Claus? at Pandagon:
"Actually, now that I think about it, there’s really only one real argument for religion, which is social control. The spirituality argument is really the inverse of the “nice soul, be a shame if something happened to it” argument. Hell is coal in your stocking, spiritual bliss in heaven is the new Nintendo system under the tree. Even in real world terms, your spiritual reward that you get belonging to the church is dependent on your compliance to community’s norms. But the post-death promises are important all the same because otherwise you might get the idea that you can have an empowered exchange of good behavior for social acceptance and for some damn reason, that’ll never do."

wait a minute...
there's no santa claus?

houstonpress.com | Music | Motorcycle Madness

more press for the show!
yay!

houstonpress.com | Music | Motorcycle Madness: "The most recent feather in Johnston's eccentric career cap is the brand-new rock opera Speeding Motorcycle, lovingly mounted by Houston's Infernal Bridegroom Productions. Two years in the making and funded by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, Motorcycle is a two-act musical narrative culled from Johnston's extensive body of work."

Think Progress � New Presidential Memorandum Permits Intelligence Director To Authorize Telcos To Lie Without Violating Securities Law

Think Progress � New Presidential Memorandum Permits Intelligence Director To Authorize Telcos To Lie Without Violating Securities Law:
"In recent days, AT&T, Bell South and Verizon have all issued statements denying that they’ve handed over phone records to the NSA, as reported by USA today.

There are three possibilities:

1) The USA Today story is inaccurate;

2) The telcos left enough wiggle room in the statements that both the USA Today story and their statements are accurate; or

3) The statements from the telcos are inaccurate.

Ordinarily, a company that conceals their transactions and activities from the public would violate securities law. But an presidential memorandum signed by the President on May 5 allows the Director of National Intelligence, John Negroponte, to authorize a company to conceal activities related to national security. (See 15 U.S.C. 78m(b)(3)(A))"

This is the worst bunch of criminals we've ever had in office...
worse than Reagan's or Nixon's bunch.
No respect for the law whatsoever.
Insane.

The Telephone Call - my first and only music video

This is my only foray into film making.
A short experimental music video.
A week or two after I shot this my camera was stolen.

A short scene from "Asshole Parade"

Worst dick dancer ever! EVER!

This Modern World � Blog Archive � “The Conservative Nanny State” by Dean Baker

This Modern World � Blog Archive � “The Conservative Nanny State” by Dean Baker:
"For decades the media (and conservatives) have pushed a particular framing of political views on the economy: conservatives favor free market policies, while progressives want the government to intervene in the market. In fact, The Conservative Nanny State explains, this is completely untrue: conservatives are strongly anti-free market. They depend on the government to make the wealthiest people in America even more stupendously rich."

Baker's giving it away as an e-book...
go get it.

I've said again and again if you want to see an example of how the system is rigged you have to look no further than than the way the "free market" handles capital vs. how it handles labor.
Until labor is as free to move across borders and organize itself as capital is all talk of "free markets" is just so much hot air.

The game is rigged.

Speeding Motorcycle

speeding motorcycle
won't you change me?

Think Progress � Telcos Could Be Liable For Tens of Billions of Dollars For Illegally Turning Over Phone Records

Think Progress � Telcos Could Be Liable For Tens of Billions of Dollars For Illegally Turning Over Phone Records: "In other words, for every 1 million Americans whose records were turned over to NSA, the telcos could be liable for $1 billion in penalties, plus attorneys fees. You do the math."

If you have a land line you should be on the phone to your attorney right now.

Beckett Blogging

The Chronicle: 5/12/2006: Happy Days (and Possible Endgames) for Beckett Collections:

"Mr. Knowlson would make frequent trips to Beckett's Paris apartment and return with a briefcase full of manuscripts each time. Among them was an item that Mr. Garforth describes as 'one of the Holy Grails of Beckett studies': the Whoroscope notebook, named after an early poem of Beckett's. It holds jottings from the 1930s in English, French, German, Latin, and Greek on everything from the weight of the Eiffel Tower to musical notations from The Marriage of Figaro.

'It's devastating, the amount of material there,' Mr. Garforth says. 'All sorts of weird and wonderful facts and figures. Sometimes it can be decades later before they surface in another work.'

The notebook, which measures about 4 inches by 6 inches and has a burgundy cloth cover, doesn't leave its special case very often. It accompanied Beckett on an extended German trip in 1936-37. 'It's obviously been in his pocket the six months he traveled around Germany,' the archivist says. 'It looks beautiful. It smells beautiful. You could read it forever and find something new each time you look through it.'"

The more I read of and about the man the more I appreciate where he was coming from...

File Under: Ron is right!

REAL ART (and politics and culture): "Everyone who sees how fucked up things are has a patriotic obligation to rant and rave in people's faces until, well, forever. That's what being an American is all about."

but I wonder what we do when ranting and raving aren't enough? what do we do then? do we rest easy knowing we tried to klang the warning bell? Is voting enough? Is marching? How do we even know when we've reached that point?

things you learn when you finally break down and install sitemeter

1. Not only has someone from Dubai seen my blog,
but they found it searching for balloon animal tutorials.
That rocks.

2. That doing a google search for "bush and the lizard people"
is likely to bring you to my blog, as it did one lucky visitor
from Oklahoma!!!

3. People in Wisconsin are seaching for the "Married to the Mob" soundtrack.

4. If I wanted to stick to writing about the most popular items on the blog then "this is not a compliment" would soon be nothing but posts about conspiracy theory and Brian Eno.

I am learning so much.

wang dang sweet poontang shakin - Google Search

I've never been prouder to be #1!!!

wang dang sweet poontang shakin - Google Search

another poem about the devil

I'm worried...

about the devil.

He's been
a little down.

He shows
no joy in
accepted vices,
in his eyes
no hint
of the thrill
new temptations
usually bring.

He hardly
seems himself.

Perhaps a drink,
or a sacrifice...
maybe he needs a hobby?

I know,
I know,
it seems silly,
but still...
I'm worried
about the devil.
He's been
a little down.

Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.

A west memphis three movie is in the works.
I think ultimately, bad or good movie, this is a good thing.
Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.: "It's a frustrating case, where evidence against these boys were literally along the lines 'He reads Stephen King books and wears black.' The whole thing is twisted and one real life horrific figure stands above everybody else by the time you finish Berlinger and Sinofsky's second film... John Mark Byers, step-father to one of the murdered boys. Even if he had nothing to do with the murders of the kids, this man is scarier than any horror icon of the last half century."

The War on Peons Fucking at Pandagon

The War on Peons Fucking at Pandagon: "So there you have it–anti-choicers are anti-sex all right, but they’re also anti-marriage, anti-child and anti-woman in real life terms, not in airy, abstract religious horseshit terms. They want sex to be a point of tension, not joy, in couples’ lives. They want children to be so numerous they can’t be cared for properly. And they want women to be resigned to a choice between being treated like whores or treated like incubators. The religious nuts in the anti-choice movement are deeply un-Christian, siding with the powerful against the weak, accepting whole-heartedly the idea that happy coupling and sexual pleasure should be privileges granted only to the wealthy."

yes! yes! yes! the anti-choice movement is anti-women and anti-sex. So maybe some of my friends are right that "keep your laws off my body!" isn't the right approach, but when you are in a battle for control over half the human race why pretend it's a battle over something else? The bad guys need to pretend it's about "the culture of life" because if they said it's really about control, they'd lose. We can only profit by pointing out the reality of the debate.

Daily Kos: May 5th, 1886 - Rounding up the Haymarket martyrs

Daily Kos: May 5th, 1886 - Rounding up the Haymarket martyrs: "Parsons believed that the voice of the people was more powerful than the voice of the corrupt establishment. He feared not because he was sure that there would be many more leaders to take his place.

He was wrong.

The execution of the Haymarket martyrs effectively stalled the American labor movement for decades.

Moreover, their memories were erased from the history books. Parsons et al are barely footnotes in American history."


I didn't do any May Day blogging this year,
but this looks like a good series on DailyKos...
so go edumacate yrself already!

Last.fm - The Social Music Revolution

If you want to read every mention of DJ on last.fm then go here:

Last.fm - The Social Music Revolution:

"If you get stupid songs like Daniel Johnston's 'Had a Bad Day' stuck in your head, that's a good sign that you have low input-security. Don't worry though, this does not mean you're retarded. It just means you're going to have to learn to discipline yourself, like I did, if you ever plan to get to my level of sophistication."

Fw: [IPCUSA] Is The Earth's Net Going To Catch On Fire This Month?

Subject: [IPCUSA] Is The Earth's Net Going To Catch On Fire This Month?

Is The Earth's Net Going To Catch On Fire This Month?
By Sherry Shriner
http://sherryshriner.blogspot.com

"So here's the gist, if somehow our atmosphere catches on fire, and this is
the lifting of the veil, or the destruction of our electromagnetic net we
would
probably see a red haze over earth, our skies would be red...i.e. red sky."

The Crisis is coming!!!

catchin' godamn up

jesus fuckin' christ
bloody elbow
bloody knee
a desperation

home and facin'
another night
another mornin'

and more
and more
of the
god damned
same

grrr
rawr

and
more weed
and
a nap

and
fuck
all those
that say
the whiskey
don't help
the weed
don't help
the sleep
don't help
the anger
don't help

jesus
fucking
christ

Boing Boing: Montanans arrested for sedition during WWI - stories and pix

Boing Boing: Montanans arrested for sedition during WWI - stories and pix: "On April 19, 1918, Johnson said in Missoula that the United States Liberty Bonds were no good. That government would not back them up. That the man that bought them would never get his money back. That he would lose it. That the U.S. government was no good. Sentence: 2-5 years"

isn't this the same thing Bush was saying during the social security debates?

www. Michael Righi .com

www. Michael Righi .com: "I’m responsible for the purchase of eight Dell computers for myself, friends and family in the past few years. After this ordeal, I will never again purchase a Dell. I will never again recommend that anybody else purchase a Dell. In fact, from this point forward I will go out of my way to recommend that people looking to purchase a computer avoid Dell altogether. I doubt that I’m alone. With practices like these, Dell shouldn’t be surprised to hear its customers say, “Dude, you’re getting a boycott.”"

I've started running ad-aware se pretty much daily.
My machine still acts funny sometimes, but it's running a lot smoother after I removed the first 5 or so spyware apps running...
Dell gets to battle it out with Sony for the grand prize in stupid evil!

Here and There � Blog Archive � Daniel and Me

Here and There � Blog Archive � Daniel and Me: "From there, it was hearing bits and pieces…Austin lore. This “crazy guy” Daniel Johnston, who made these tapes and sold them at Sound Exchange or bartered them for comics or music. I never got to hear the tapes, mostly out of my own laziness. But I was also in the early stages of a vinyl addiction that, thankfully, has receded. Tapes were out of the question."

Daniel's Visual Art

the aquarium - now on: "Daniel Johnston is a visionary artist whose work in both music and visual art has made him a cult legend. Despite being better known for his heartrendingly honest songs that tell tales of unrequited love, cosmic mishaps and existential torment, Daniel did in fact study art and his work is currently on show at the Whitney Biennial, New York. This, along with a major feature on Daniel’s visual art in the New York Times newspaper, marks a shift from his underground status to a wider acceptance in the fine art world, but we won’t let that get in the way of a show at The Aquarium. We are delighted to have an artist of such creative fervour and inspirational talent joining our ranks of other art desperadoes. Chiefly - James Cauty, Billy Childish, Sexton Ming, Jamie Reid and STOT21stCplanB."

SHEEPSHANK: chance meeting of the year...

SHEEPSHANK: chance meeting of the year...: "this one is a 'lil bit melancholy. been listening to the great DANIEL JOHNSTON lately. he always put me there...

back in late '03, i had a damn near complete nervous breakdown. 'near' complete cause i'm sitting here alive and typing this today. was having many problems and my relationship at the time was going less than swimmingly. so, one particularly miserable day, after a hard 10 spent giving 90 minute narrated historical tours to the obnoxious denizens of clueless walking checkbooks known as tourists (nothing against all tourists, but i met a lot of dicks,) i hit the KHYBER, downed a dozen shots of bourbon plus countless beers under the company of ultra kind barman and local underground cartoonist 'flip,' bounced into a tattoo shop and plunked down $100 clams to get my lady's name in a heart inked on my right wrist, went back to the bar for a few more, and staggered home over the crunching leaves of the booze soaked autumn twilight to tell her that i was too crazy for our relationship to work and that we were through. "

Platitudes and Plutocrats: Hanging upside down inside of a pop song

Platitudes and Plutocrats: Hanging upside down inside of a pop song:

"I listen to the Silver Jews and go, oooh, ah, someone jabs a fork in my guts and unzips the front of my skull. I listen to Daniel Johnston and fall over my typewriter into a dried up well. I listen to my old albums and am transplanted in time and space. Bob Dylan to a friend's bedroom at fourteen."

Shame this guy is not in Houston.

Nothing: Daniel Johnston Friday 14th April - Barbican London

Nothing: Daniel Johnston Friday 14th April - Barbican London: "Then it's Jason Pierce from
Spiritualised.
He seems reverential in regards to Daniel's songs, and performs 'True Love Will Find You in the End',
and 'Funeral Home'. The string quartet and gospel backing singers are a touch too much, the tenuous nature of the songs are rendered
bloated and overblown. The words 'Funeral Home' are repeated ad infinitum to tedium.
Then as the stage is emptied it's the moment we've all been built up for, the Brian Wilson-like, mad, obsessive songwriting
genius - Daniel Johnston. "


Look forward to lots and lots of Daniel blogging as the "Speeding Motorcycle" approaches...

The Chronicle: 4/7/2006: Dancers as Living Archives

The Chronicle: 4/7/2006: Dancers as Living Archives: "There are other ways of preserving the most ephemeral of the arts: film, video, various forms of notation; the visual record provided by painting, sculpture, and photography; sometimes written accounts. But whether a work's vocabulary is the flexed feet and filigreed hand gestures of South Asian dance, the straight spines and pointed toes of classical ballet, the contracted pelvis and floorbound movement of traditional modern dance, or the arm-swinging walking and running of postmodernism, there is no more viable way to transmit it than dancer to dancer."

pandora

so, I finally went and started playing with pandora today...
pretty damned cool.

"Over the past 5 years, we've carefully listened to the songs of over 10,000 different artists - ranging from popular to obscure - and analyzed the musical qualities of each song one attribute at a time. This work continues each and every day as we endeavor to include all the great new stuff coming out of studios, clubs and garages around the world.

It has been quite an adventure, you could say a little crazy - but now that we've created this extraordinary collection of music analysis, we think we can help be your guide as you explore your favorite parts of the music universe. "
from - http://www.pandora.com/mgp.shtml

I've added links to some of my stations down at the bottom of the sidebar.
any of you web wiz's out there tell me how to format it properly and I'll move it up to the top.
I also finally broke down and installed sitemeter...
whoohoo!

M

The case for onstage violence. By Zachary Pincus-Roth

The case for onstage violence. By Zachary Pincus-Roth: "How about this: Hamlet slashes Laertes across the chest. Blood oozes. Cue the John Williams score. Laertes clutches a goblet and smashes Hamlet over the head. Hamlet throws a plate of hot coals in Laertes' face. Laertes kicks Hamlet in groin. Hamlet doubles over in pain. But watch out—he's grabbed a candlestick!"

AMEN!
more craziness and fights onstage!!!!
more blood and more horror!!!!!

File Under: The ancient prophesies! They are coming true!

Warrenellis.com � The Ancient Musical Code Cut Into A Church: "“In the ceiling is this jump of an augmented fourth, in fact it opens up with an augmented fourth,” says Mitchell. The Catholic Church had banned this interval (seven semitones) from medieval music as it was believed to be disturbing and therefore diabolical… perhaps this explains why carvings depicting the green man, essentially a pagan image, exist alongside carvings of Christ in the chapel…"

COME TO THE PARADE!!! WE GOTS US A REVIEW AND EVERTHING!!!

just like one o' them fancy theatres!!!

 

http://www.houstonpress.com/Issues/2006-04-27/culture/encore.html

 

the reviews from most folks I've talked too have included the word "funny", and a surprising number have included some variation on the phrase, "I think I peed a little".

 

It's a funny show folks...

and only $5.00...

so come on out to the axiom this friday or saturday at 9pm and laugh yr ass off at the

ASSHOLE PARADE!!!

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got out of rehearsal early...

so I just finished watching
"South Pacific in Concert" with Reba McEntire
and the talented Baldwin...
and now it's some special on Broadway and the Boston Pops...
Bernadette Peters introduced it.
They haven't broken in to beg for money yet,
but it must be pledge week...
think I'm going to watch the news.
whoohoo.

Caprica!!!!

Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.: "From executive producers Ronald D. Moore and David Eick ('Battlestar Galactica'), writer Remi Aubuchon ('24') and NBC Universal Television Studio, this new series is set over a half a century before the events that play out in 'Battlestar Galactica.' The people of the Twelve Colonies are at peace and living in a society not unlike our own, but where high-technology has changed the lives of virtually everyone for the better. But a startling breakthrough in robotics is about to occur, one that will bring to life the age-old dream of marrying artificial intelligence with a mechanical body to create the first living robot - a Cylon. Following the lives of two families, the Graystones and the Adamas (the family of William Adama, who will one day become the commander of the 'Battlestar Galactica') 'Caprica' weaves corporate intrigue, techno-action and sexual politics into television's first science fiction family saga."
It looks like the sci-fi channel has a whole lot of interesting things coming up, but if they cast "Caprica" as well as they did "Battlestar Galactica" they'll likely own the two best hours in television from week to week.

Pitchfork: Daily Music News

Pitchfork: Daily Music News: "Unrequited love is a bitch, but as many a musician/patron of the arts/human being knows, it also serves as a muse. Recently, the Houston, Texas-based Infernal Bridegroom Productions have taken hold of this lack of reciprocation, utilizing it as the theme to a rock opera based on Daniel Johnston's life and music"

hopefully this is just the start of the "Speeding Motorcycle" media blitz!!

Horkheimer, Adorno, and The World's Greatest Comic Magazine

Motime Like the Present:
"The Bakhtinian carnival within the lettercols finally spilled over into the main feature in early 1963. The cover of FF #10 depicts the artist and scripter standing with their backs to the reader, marvelling at the raucous situation they’ve concocted this month. An arrow-shaped blurb drives home the point, announcing: “In this epic issue: surprise follows surprise as you actually meet Lee and Kirby in the story!!” The much-anticipated event comes to pass on page 5, which shows the pair in their Marvel office, surrounded by images of the company’s other properties and sacks labelled “fan mail”. The diegetic Lee and Kirby agonize over their incapacity to create a more interesting villain than Dr. Doom, a character they regret exiling to space in a previous issue (a footnote—the first of its kind, and destined to become a trademark aspect of Marvel continuity-consciousness—reminds the reader that this event occurred in issue #6). Their problem is solved when Doom himself wanders onto the scene, barking: “you are searching for a story—well, I shall give you one! Here, phone Mr. Fantastic—say what I tell you if you value your lives” (FF #10, 5). Naturally, they do, and the rematch proceeds apace."

I miss college.

Scholars Discover 23 Blank Pages That May As Well Be Lost Samuel Beckett Play | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Scholars Discover 23 Blank Pages That May As Well Be Lost Samuel Beckett Play | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: "The 23 blank pages, which literary experts presume is a two-act play composed sometime between 1973 and 1975, are already being heralded as one of the most ambitious works by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Waiting For Godot, and a natural progression from his earlier works, including 1969's Breath, a 30-second play with no characters, and 1972's Not I, in which the only illuminated part of the stage is a floating mouth."

brilliant!
God bless the Onion!

Good News! The Rich Get Richer

Good News! The Rich Get Richer:
"There are, of course, obvious reasons the majority of Americans dissent from the White House’s rosy presentation of the economy: Most American households are not, in fact, seeing their economic fortunes improve. GDP is up, but virtually all the growth has gone into corporate profits and the incomes of the highest economic brackets. Wages and incomes for average workers, adjusted for inflation, are down in recent years; the median income for non-elderly households is down 4.8 percent since 2000 (Economic Policy Institute, 8/31/05). The poverty rate is rising, as is the number of people in debt.

But rather than confront these realities, and explore the implications of the White House’s efforts to deny them, most mainstream media instead assisted the Bush team’s PR by themselves feigning confusion over the gap between the official view and the public mood."

Linus Pauling Quartet Blog: Another fascinating intellectual discussion by the LP4...

How are great rock songs writtne?
For The Linus Pauling Quartet it's all about the process...Linus Pauling Quartet Blog: Another fascinating intellectual discussion by the LP4...: "Charlie:

How do YOU know there are no sword metal pirates? I mean, we can probably all agree there are no sword metal astronauts or sword metal traffic cops, but no sword metal pirates? What were the damn Vikings??

Ramon:

Dude Vikings are not Pirates. Pirates are hoods who sail along the warm Caribbean drinking rum. Now while I will admit that's pretty frikkin cool, Vikings come from the Dark and frigid coasts of Scandinavia where they would probably kick anyone’s ass just because there is nothing else to do but kick someone’s ass when you come from the dark and frigid coasts of Scandinavia. If a pirate dies, he doesn't get to go to Valhalla he goes to Davy Jones' Locker. A hall of mead drinking warriors is cooler than any locker I saw in high school. But most important of all for the sword metal tradition - while Pirates probably would get hotter chicks they were also a lot gayer.

Clinton:

I would only partly disagree: though Vikings engaged in behaviour that was undeniably piratical (such as sailing into France or England, carrying off women and food and gold, etc.), and therefore should be considered pirates, they are a special sub-class of pirates. Pirates, I don't think, are worthy alone of Sword Metal, whereas Vikings clearly are.

I challenge each of you to come up with your Icelandic Saga name by the end of this day, and you will henceforth refer to me as Clinton 'Helmsplitter' Heider."

go read the rest of the hilarious exchange, and then go download "wating for the ax to fall"...

national poetry month - I've lost count

my old man
never
drank in the afternoon
in the dark places
or in the light
he never
raised his hand to me
was always civilized

and now
I run
from
respectability.

Posthuman Blues

Posthuman Blues:
"The Fourth Purpose made the point of mass schooling to serve big business and big government by extending childhood, replacing thinking with drill and memorization while fashioning incomplete people unable to protect themselves from exhortation, advertising and other forms of indirect command."

I was going to post the lyrics to my school song,
but even google couldn't help me remember them...

The Ultimate Fighting Anarchist -- In These Times

The Ultimate Fighting Anarchist -- In These Times: "“I’m not some sort of conspiracy theorist,” Monson says of his political leanings. “I’m not talking about how the government is trying to hide UFOs. I just want to do away with hierarchy. I’m saying that our economic system, capitalism, is structured so that it only benefits a small percentage of very wealthy people. When I was traveling in Brazil, they had us staying at a really posh hotel. Outside the hotel there was a mom sleeping on the sidewalk with her two kids. That’s when reality hits you. What did that woman ever do? Who did she ever hurt?”

Monson wears his politics on his sleeve, as well as the rest of his body. An anarcho-syndicalist star is tattooed on his chest, an anarchy sign on his back and another “A” on his leg. While he loves his sport, he also feels a responsibility to use whatever exposure he receives for a larger purpose. “I don’t think I’m more important than anyone else, but since some people are paying attention, then I’m going to use this as a vehicle to express myself,” he says. Some fans have labeled him anti-American, but he shrugs off such criticism. He was slightly taken aback, however, when three Secret Service agents showed up at his gym in Olympia, Wash., last fall."

awesome!
ANARCHISTS UNITE!

The Stanford Prison Experiment: A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment

The Stanford Prison Experiment: A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment:

"How we went about testing these questions and what we found may astound you. Our planned two-week investigation into the psychology of prison life had to be ended prematurely after only six days because of what the situation was doing to the college students who participated. In only a few days, our guards became sadistic and our prisoners became depressed and showed signs of extreme stress. "

went and read up on the Stanford Prison Experiment after watching the documentary "Obedience" - the film Milgram made of his classic "shock the man to death" experiments...

UP WITH PEOPLE!!!

We do what we're told...

<a href="http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/04/stanley_milgram.html">WFMU's Beware of the Blog: Stanley Milgram's Obedience Movie (video)</a>: "A lot of bad art has come out of Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority Study, not the least of which was the 1975 William Shatner TV movie The Tenth Level (with John Travolta, Ossie Davis and Lindsay Crouse) or the April 2000 episode of Seven Second Delay, in which Andy and I called local merchants to see if they would press a button on their telephone, causing one of us to be shocked, which almost all of them did gleefully [streaming realaudio archive]. And then there's Peter Gabriel's 1986 song We Do What We're Told (Milgram's 37). I'll stop there, but trust me - there's more.

 

With so much dreck inspired by what was possibly the greatest social psychology experiment of all time, it's no surprise that Milgram's own 1965 documentary Obedience was lost in the shuffle."

 

Imagine me in a white coat telling you to follow the link and download the documentary.

http://notacompliment.blogspot.com

 

 

BREITBART.COM - LA Woman Hospitalized With Bubonic Plague

BREITBART.COM - LA Woman Hospitalized With Bubonic Plague: "Bubonic plague is not contagious, but if left untreated it can morph into pneumonic plague, which can be spread from person to person. Bubonic plague is usually transmitted to humans from the bites of fleas infected by dead rodents."

and why are we talking about the bubonic plague you ask?
because a woman in L.A. has it...
via Warren Ellis

Warrenellis.com � Turn Up The Music, My Heart Feels Like A Fucking Rabbitfish

Warrenellis.com � Turn Up The Music, My Heart Feels Like A Fucking Rabbitfish:

"The poisoning can start to cause vivid hallucinations within minutes of eating a poisonous fish and may last for days, often with no other effects. There is no antidote."

maybe it's time to reconsider my feelings about seafood?

Rep. Joel Dykstra: Rape is an undefineable buzzword | Clean Cut Kid

Rep. Joel Dykstra: Rape is an undefineable buzzword | Clean Cut Kid: "“I think ‘rape and incest’ is a buzzword,” said Rep. Joel Dykstra about not including those conditions in the abortion bill. “It’s a bit of a throwaway line and not everybody who says that really understands what that means. How are you going to define that?”"

I just can't believe there are people still trying to convince me Repulicans aren't evil.

pretty dumb things: son of letters they've written

pretty dumb things: son of letters they've written: "My fantasy, you ask? A world with good grammar and spelling."

poetry?

land ownership
is a crime
the powerful
making victims
of us all




most violence,
these days,
is economic




my shirt
looks better
on you

it is
probably
the breasts





not one more sandwich
not
one
more
sandwich




this whole
time thing
is really
really
not working
out for me

can we try
something else?



so,
they missed this one.
you have a right
to disappointment,
but you haven't peaked.
have you?
nothing to do,
but keep doing.
is there?
is there?





should be asleep
here I am
awake

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