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like a secret santa thing.. but more a secret larry david or something

I know it's practically the same band, minus singers but as far as collected recorded output, ALL is amazing.

if you're a Descendents fan and don't bump ALL and it's because you've never listened to em, check em. if you checked em and don't like em, don't know.

Here's a brief selection of just a few of the numerous gems

freakishly good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY2ylQLdikM

same
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zYaxiLqADE

beautiful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYsdZ4HjaTI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kEMZXjl6EM

so i was broke and stole a yogurt from a supermarket a few days ago. yeah, i shouldn't steal it's bad i get it. but my problem is that in the fifteen minutes between when they called the cops and the cops came, 6 guys beat the shit outta me. two held me and one just went to work on my face. then when i was on the floor they kicked me pretty hard in the jaw, temples, ribs.. i'm not really sure because my adrenaline was pumping and i didn't feel anything, except for when he tried to rip out my plug earing which was excruciating and one particular steel toe boot to the solarplex, i didn't notice i had any swelling or pain until about two days later. however, when the cops came (the scene was me on the floor, with 5 guys over me, two stepping on my back, and broken tomato sauce bottles everywhere. i try to tell the cops to check the cameras because i just got the boots put to me heavy style and their response was yoking me up against the wall, putting the cuffs on so tight i still can't feel my thumb. i got hit with petty larceny and got out two days later. i went to the precint to get my belonging and to file a complaint against the company for what they did. they said "my arresting officer wasn't in that day. he had to be to do the complaint".. they've said that every day since. by now whatever footage of the beatdown is obviously erased and it's just the words of a convicted misdemeanor record having punk against the man.

i gotta stop putting myself in stupid positions.

i had always been interested and done a little research about tarot but it wasn't until i got a very accurate reading from a very awesome person on this board. Since then I've done a lot of digging about history, purpose, intentions, accuracy, different methods and procedures. Has anyone else had any positive/negative/etc experiences and/or feelings about tarot?

of the tartan asian extreme variety and/or anything else..

Watched Cello this morning. quite fucked up and captivating. I like the semi-recurrent themes of vengeful female spirits and less emphasis on gore and more on the pyschological suffering and agony of those involved in the flick. hit me off with a few

New to this mystical smartphone and like any newbie going over board with features. Recorded tweaked old songs I never posted and my new kosmonaut stuff.. So yeah, shoot me your email

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDVkkwl6aJo

nmh covering it.. had to add it just for the intensity of the primal screaming aspect at the end which was johns intention when writing it.. it was an exercise in primal screaming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2Xg2Dpc3og

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9H8eVcL58s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziwsjE1O4Ow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XFfUt7HQWM

Watch the short video on the page
http://timewheel.net/#Video-Jim-Carrey-s-Message-To-Humanity-May-Change-Your-Life-Forever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osb9O8oNU9Q

http://timewheel.net/Image-20-Mystical-Tree-Tunnels-That-You-Would-Want-To-Walk-Through

five most disturbing things found on the "DEEP WEB" (Deep Web: the part of the World Wide Web that is not discoverable by means of standard search engines, including password-protected or dynamic pages and encrypted networks.)

extremely, extremely disturbing. I pray that these are as a fake as the masturbation dolphin but this is the human race we're dealing with..

PART 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlCvqHOWE2c

PART 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVnYSFNKsm0

I approve. Its more translatable than say, breakfast of champions

http://kool.corrections.ky.gov/KOOL/Details/361463


Name:   
TUSSEY, MICHAEL BRANDON
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2/25/2020
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District 15 - Catlettsburg, Boyd County
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41
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White
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Hazel
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http://www.higherperspectives.com/museum-street-artists-1459366125.html

evil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0likGfgPFg

brutal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5XkrpkSFLk

the best

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGJRl-dMa9Y

Third prolific musician died.. Hopefully the fates or whomever are satisfied for a long time

Christian Anti-Masturbation's Mascot "Fappy" Arrested For Public Masturbation While Swimming Naked With The Dolphins At Sea World In San Diego

So um, send me tapes I guess? If there sweet ill put em out.

[Wellbutrin, Serequel, Klonopin]

okay i know some people don't really like to read my tangents, and the peripheral elements of the story and just want the straight up shit but this some ridiculousness that i think someone might appreciate.

I was seeing a quack doctor. he said he didn't take insurance and made me pay $75 dollars for each visit. he would literally ASK ME what type of medication i wanted to take. at the time i was suicidal, anxiety through the roof and honestly just wanted help. I've been through the mental health ringer and know my way around psychotropic drugs/benzodiazapenes/etc. anyhow, he had me on a pretty absurd cocktail.. Xanax 2MG 3X daily, Elavil (which is super strong and leaves someone looking like they're on Thorazine.. think the "Thorazine shuffle. he also threw in an anti-depressant for good measure to cover his own ass, lexapro, which i was told by my new shrink i just started seeing, her words verbatim "as soon as you go home THROW THAT OUT. it makes you feel MUCH worse". but back to the quack.. i told him i was lethargic and thought maybe the cocktail wasn't really working. his answer was to give me the strongest amphetamine that can legally be described Dexedrine.. It makes the strongest adderal/ritalin look like baby aspirin. and then to come down at night? Ambien. I was living the pharmacopoeia life. 

so here's the interesting part. This quack doctor, he was involved in the Japanese Yakuza gangs. They apparently fronted him money to get his business going. Since this "doctor" only takes cash, by the end of one day, any random day, he has close to $4,000. They waited in the bathroom until closing and then robbed him, beat him to a bloody pulp and left him crippled. He was also being investigated for his obvious unethical dolling out any pill that anyone wanted as long as they coughed up the bread.

So i go to the doc the other day (the quack) appointment I see police barricades and his office is boarded up. Obviously it's beyond the point of ethics, but it's borderline manslaughter. people can die from benzo (Xanax and the likes) withdrawal and he left us all high and dry.

So I find a new doc. She took one look at my medication history and was appalled. She saw what I was being prescribed and said it was an embarrassment, represents everything detestable about her profession and how people like that ruin lives and reputations and had pity for my horrific experience.. akin to using me as either a guinea pig or just didn't really give two fucks. She changed my entire regiment so I wanted to ask people if they have any positive/negative experiences with these substances. I know it takes 2 weeks to kick in and i know it may not work (it's a continuous and concerted ongoing thing to find the right remedy.

So now I'm on Wellbutrin, Serequel, Klonopin, and Abilify. I don't want to be a bloated, gray phantasm, but i also don't want to die. i'm dangerously impulsive. I'm also manipulative, calculating, selfish, and plenty of other detestable characteristics. I was close to killing myself twice this month, and prior to that was in a pyschward where they let me out in under 24 hours (with cuts all over my body)..

i don't want attention. this may seem like a cry for help but it's not a cry. it's a whimper. i don't know how to be alone. I don't know what it means to be okay because all i know is me. I don't know what it means to be happy. well, that's not true. I'm actually hyper aware of being happy because it happens so infrequently that it stands out vibrant and italicized. i hope this new combination works. I was just seeing the quack before, no therapist. so now I'm going to be seeing both and hopefully i'll find some hope. i have hope, it's in me or else i would of just done IT. but for whatever reason when it really comes down to it, my desire to live is stronger than it is to die. It's not easy. though. literally yesterday the only thing that kept me from doing something very compulsive was i found a new writer i really like and want to finish his book before i make any absolute solutions. (Thomas Ligotti by the way. That's the author. The book is a collection of his short stories.. Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimsribe) I just really hope the medication and combination of talk therapy helps but it's hard. I'm afraid to really open up. If i saw i'm suicidal they'll just throw me back in the pyschward and i can't do that again.

i think so at least.

it's pretty slow round these parts

Tragedy. Young and had a lot to offer the world
His music helped me through depressing times and also during the influential later high school years.. but enough about the music, even though he lives on through it... I'm superstitious at times and i have seen that deaths us usually do come in threes

R.I.P. Leatherface guitarist Dickie hammond!!

if you were one of the people who never bothered to listen to leatherface because you heard they were synonymous with Jawbreaker/Hot Water Music/"beard punk" you get the jist.. but no, they wouldn't be the pantheon of bands wearing the influences more than just on their sleeve, it's on their entire attire and tattooed on their face and schlong. They are liked because they make music that transcends genres. They write amazing songs. If they played folk music, they'd write amazing folks songs.. jazz, same situation. They write brilliant, honest songs that can't be contained, random ones have been stuck in my head at random periods for random years. check them out if you haven't at the very least in respect for the dearly departed.

a true legend, brilliant and incendiary musician, knew exactly when they play and when not to, can't speak for a man i don't know but the music of the band he was in got me through some very difficult times in life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXP2Gw23-J4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZQ_7s0Fg48

heh, the worlds pretty funny.



http://thehardtimes.net/2015/10/26/health-conscious-punks-begin-vaping-glue/

[I am looking to play shows for money in Los Angeles. Anybody wants to hear new and olde material, give me a legitimate offer for consideration. Will entertain all requests. This is a public art experiment. You get me, my catalog, and an electric guitar and microphone. Punks and drama queens need apply. I am hoping to earn car money and airfare. This offer will expire in 72 hours to one month.]

okay, so i'm friends with him, or whoever controls his facebook account is, on said facebook. he posted this the other day..

I am looking to play shows for money in Los Angeles. Anybody wants to hear new and olde material, give me a legitimate offer for consideration. Will entertain all requests. This is a public art experiment. You get me, my catalog, and an electric guitar and microphone. Punks and drama queens need apply. I am hoping to earn car money and airfare. This offer will expire in 72 hours to one month.

then this followed

Thanks for all the responses so far. Looks like something could happen. To be clear -- it would be very soon, this show, and very personal. With that in mind, any suggestions for songs from the back catalog? Remember that it is one man and an electric guitar. In other words, anything is possible (in L.A. county).

clearly everyone was going wild and crazy. them wild and crazy punks, man, i'll tell ya! i love the back catalog as much as the next (the new stuff isn't exactly unlistenable, it's just not very appealing to the ear and my particular musical palate) why not have a reunion or something? i dunno, it just seems really, like, i dunno, my post to it was just one word "whore", which was probably inappropriate and i shouldn't throw that word around, i know it's wrong, but i just feel like he's going to charge like a million dollars to come to some house show and play a few songs while a bunch of people sit before him like jesuses disciples, saucer eyed  (I'd be one of them.. I can't lie!!) i just have mixed feelings about it. it sounds super awesome, but it also sounds kinda hokey and like he's settling to sell himself for bar mitzvahs and sweet sixteens and whatever. There's literally a fucking band called Jawbreaker Reunion! if you care give the fans what they want, play a show and try not make it cost like 80 dollars and we'll all be happy (those who care)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLLQK9la6Go

doesn't seem possible. how can i start over? what if dead moon were right, "that love comes once and then it goes?".. it would fit into my life story, that i actually found true love and i destroyed it. me and my self defeating prophecies.. i was so convinced she would leave me, that i'd do something to fuck it up, that i pushed her away by my fear of her leaving.. and a lot of other fucked up things.

even if i found someone, or someone found me (that's how it usually works. i never make a first move), where can i even begin? i've told her (my ex.. it's hard to see the word ex and associate it with HER) everything about me, the bad, the worse and the ugly. no one else could ever love someone so loveless and miserable and twisted.. i'm a very sick man. i don't speak about the things i've done because they would probably make the few people who have stuck by me rid their hands of me for good..

i guess i'm lucky though. many people go through life never finding love. i found it. i had it. and if i had it, i have memories, and there's nothing anyone can do, even me, to fuck those up.

i don't want someone else. i want to go back and start all over again, even though i'm sure the same thing would happen again.

everything makes me think of her. everything.

we used to lay in bed, and cry over the thought that one of us would have to die first, but we made a pact that the one left would be strong, wouldn't end it by their own hand, because we thought that would ruin the chances of us finding each other again in the afterlife.. sounds silly reading it now, but it meant more to me than anything. it wasn't just words. it was my life.

the plan is to do it for the rest of my life. the only thing that would stop me from doing so is me.

if anyone is interested in reading any of them i can post it here, or send em to ya. and any writers, by all means, always feel free to send me anything and everything (i love mail)..

["You would watch a black-and-white silent film about an evil guitar that stars rock icons Slash, Josh Homme, Lemmy Kilmister, Grace Jones, Iggy Pop, Justice, Henry Rollins, Slayer's Tom Araya, Volbeat, Mark Lanegan, Nina Hagen and Jesse Hughes, right? Of course you would, so it's a good thing that Gutterdämmerung, potentially the greatest Halloween movie of all time, exists. We wouldn't just present you with this amazing concept and then leave you hanging, so take a gander at the trailer above."]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbdJLjm5utc

"You would watch a black-and-white silent film about an evil guitar that stars rock icons Slash, Josh Homme, Lemmy Kilmister, Grace Jones, Iggy Pop, Justice, Henry Rollins, Slayer's Tom Araya, Volbeat, Mark Lanegan, Nina Hagen and Jesse Hughes, right? Of course you would, so it's a good thing that Gutterdämmerung, potentially the greatest Halloween movie of all time, exists. We wouldn't just present you with this amazing concept and then leave you hanging, so take a gander at the trailer above."

and the premise?

""The film is set in a world where God has saved the world from sin by taking from mankind the Devil's 'Grail of Sin'.....the Evil Guitar. The Earth has now turned into a puritan world where there is no room for sex, drugs or rock 'n' roll.

From up on high in heaven a "punk-angel", Vicious (portrayed by Iggy Pop), looks upon the world with weary bored eyes. Behind God's back, Vicious sends the Devil's guitar back to earth and sin in all its forms returns to mankind.

An evil puritan priest (Henry Rollins) manipulates a naive girl to retrieve the guitar and destroy it. On her quest to find the Devil's Grail Of Sin, the girl is forced to face the world's most evil rock and roll bastards. Throughout her journey, she has a rival in the form of a rock chick determined to stop her from destroying the instrument."

SABBAT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGJRl-dMa9Y

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AGHmr1NyBTw

Written and illustrated by Simon Hanselmann, a Tasmanian born comedic genius.

http://girlmountain.tumblr.com/

it's funny the things we take for granted. i see a pattern in my life, during the happiest periods i always find something to be miserable about and when i do something to fuck up those periods, i see how inconsequential everything i worried about was and i'd trade anything to go back to it.

i lost my girlfriend, the only woman i have ever loved and ever will love. i'm about to lose my apartment. i had a bad relapse and i don't see the point in stopping. I've always been codependent, i made my whole life about someone. every decision i made was for them. i lost my friends, family because i blew them off for years just to sit around with her. A week ago I checked myself into the hospital because I knew if I didn't I was going to kill myself. Now I'm out and I don't know what to do. I've been saving my pills up and the only thing stopping me is i don't want to put my father and brother and aunt through it. After my moms death they couldn't handle it.

but what kind of life is that? living just to make others happy? I'm tired of that... too tired.

try to avoid the obvious ones and dig deep..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDymZ_EU3-c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfvvv6PPLVg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oW3dX5VVS0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrvAjUZ3q48

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy10h6wfm-s

Iron and Wine- The Creek Drank the Cradle: The beautiful and haunting instrumentation and melodies aside, I'm not sure why I find this album so comforting. I used to listen to it every night while I laid in bed and tried to fall asleep. Nowadays I put it on when I don't know how I'll put through, when I'm tired of treading water through life and just wanna give up i toss this to myself like a life preserver.

I'll always have a place in my heart for ALK3 even though i got into them later than most. I heard them when I was younger, tony hawk soundtrack (a many a young punks introduction to punk, punk o rama 5 was another big one for me). It was more a time and place and mind frame. some albums I can't help but associate with an entire period of my life, defined by all sorts of things but the music was a unifying theme. I was in a rehab, things weren't going so well in life, i was losing my mind without music, only had the songs in my head to hum so when a buddy loaned me an alkaline trio cd, it was the split with hot water music. it was revelatory. When i'm alone and cold and walking to a bus or something, no matter how miserable I may be their music will hit me right where it needs to.

I listened to OWTH a bunch of times before I really listened to OWTH. it was catchy sure but i heard it as background musically and initially shuffled it away in the Hot water Music/Leatherface/Jawbreaker folder and wasn't interested in another mediocre "oogle" or whatever the fucking word is. It was one winter morning, a bad time in my life, very sad and bitter and lonely and angry and I finally listened to the words, the music, the anger. As cliche an egotostical as it sounds, it was as if it was a concept album written for just me and my life. I grasped it tight and haven't let go since. I don't plan on it.

Gene Vincent.. the man!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuAtzsAB9O8

Eddie Cochran

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRjlZ8x2uQM

Fats Domino

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6JZW7zMDfY

Link Wray (the one and only.. his songs are the soundtrack to bad people doing bad things)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucTg6rZJCu4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qcQ5yx9O_A

growing up on Long Island, I didn't realize at the time how lucky I was. The basement shows were great of course, but it took hindsight, a decade and a half or so's worth, to realize what exactly I, we, everyone was a part of. one show in particular in the early 2000's, was Against Me!, Latterman, Bent Outta Shape, Solidarity Pact and my shitty little band. Anyhow, I'm excited about this, more than any post-latterman projects which are, were, quite a lot..




"It all goes back to Latterman. There's a sound and a vibe going around in punk right now—the sort of triumphant, melodic gruff-anthems that lean heavily on the "woah-ohs," the fingerpoints, and the feel-good shoutbacks. Many would argue that you can trace it all back to one band: Latterman.

After their demise in 2007, the members of the beloved Long Island band went on to play in or inspire a long line of other acts—RVIVR, Iron Chic, Bridge & Tunnel, and pretty much any other name you'd see listed on the Fest lineup. Now, as if out of nowhere, three members of Latterman have returned to announce Tender Defender, a new project that arose naturally from hangout sessions.

Tender Defender has just released a peek into what they've been working on and DEAR GOD will the beardos get stoked on this. "Hello Dirt" is Phil Douglas, Mattie Jo Canino, and Pat Schramm reminding everyone why they are the undisputed godparents of this sound. Dig in below on this new song, which is set to be released on a still untitled mini-LP via Dead Broke Rekerds.

Tender Defender will also play their first show ever this month. Flyer below. See you there"

[Worms of Ouroboros]

and they turned out to be really awesome. i found some amazing fucking shit.

Worms of Ouroboros - regarded as the first fantasy book. C.S. Lewis and Tolkien praised its release in 1922. Tolkein said it was the finest depiction of imagined worlds. The prose is epic, elegant, eccentric.. Takes place on Mercury, two kingdoms, Demonland and Witchland are at war. Demondland, despite the name, is of human looking norse vikings with horns and ornate robes and opulent abodes and witchland is, well filled with witches and monsters. So it's aliens battling witches with swords on misty mountains and under sea. The other names aren't as creative and thoughtful as Tolkiens borderline maniacally detailed appendixes, (i.e.  Pixyland, Goblinland, and The Ghouls, whom were unfourtantely "wiped out in a genocidal war a few years before the story opens.) but nonetheless gorgeously written, imaginative, inventive, reminiscent of the Iliad in it's scope and scale. find it and check it out. I'm excited to read the trilogy written afterwards. with sentences like this "ase thee and serve me, worm of the pit. Else will I by and by summon out of ancient night intelligences and dominations mightier far than thou, and they shall serve my ends, and thee shall they chain with chains of quenchless fire and drag thee from torment to torment through the deep.", treachery Ala Game of Thrones and Shakespearean, it's quintessential to any fan of sci-fi, fantasy.   


Europeana- A brief History of the Twentieth Century. in a similar realm as the peoples history of the united states, but more dark and cynical.. a more academic vonnegut almost? but not really, it's not actually "academic".. It starts off describing soldiers who died during world war 1 and how it was decided to be more economical to use there's, as well as the executed bodies of traitors for fertilizer instead of having to purchase more, tests of mustard gas on gypsy children just for the fuck of it to see if it works, etc. that sort of thing.   here's a quote from the beginning..

"Some historians subsequently said that the twentieth century actually started in 1914, when war broke out, because it was first war in history in which so many countries took part, in which so many people died and in which airships and airplanes flew and bombarded the rear and towns and civilians, and submarines sunk ships and artillery could lob shells ten or twelve kilometers. And the Germans invented gas and the English invented tanks and scientists discovered isotopes and general theory of relativity, according to which nothing was metaphysical, but relative.And when Senegalese fusiliers first saw an airplane they thought it was a tame bird and one of the Senegalese soldiers cut a lump of flesh from a dead horse and threw it as far as he could in order to lure it away. And airships and airplanes flew through the sky and the horses were terribly frightened. And writers and poets endeavored to find new ways of expressing it best and in 1916 they invented Dadaism because everything seemed crazy to them. And in Russia they invented a revolution. And the soldiers wore around their neck or wrist a tag with their name and the number of their regiment to indicate who was who, and where to send a telegram of condolences, but if the explosion tore off their head or arm and the tag was lost, the military command would announce that they were unknown soldiers, and in most capital cities they instituted an eternal flame lest they be forgotten, because fire preserves the memory of something long past. And the fallen French measured 2,681 kilometers, the fallen English 1,547 kilometers, and the fallen Germans, 3,010 kilometers, taking the average legth of a corpse as 172 centimeters. And a total of 15, 508 kilometers of soldiers fell worldwide. And in 1918 an influenza known as Spanish Flu spread throughout the world killing over twenty million people. Pacifists and anti-militarists subsequently said that these had also been victims of the war because the soldiers and civilian populations lived in poor conditions of hygiene, but epidemiologists said that the disease killed more people in countries where there was no war, such as Oceania, India or the United States, and the Anarchists said that it was a good thing because the world was corrupt and heading for destruction."

Sabran, AKA John William Wall was a British writer and diplomat and on his spare time using a pen name wrote horrific tales of physiological torture, Stockholm syndrome, imprisonment.. they weren't intended for publication but were. Here are some of the more fascinating ones..







Doll Maker in partciular is rather morbid. "A story of a young girl, caught in the dreadful fascination of willing slavery, the agony of a conscious victim who cannot escape the mordant mastery of an egomaniac practicing unknown horrors." and a sporadic quote,

""You must be a stern master, and if I try to break the spell you must double it and treble it, chain me down in the deepest dungeon in your castle, imprison me in the hollow of an oak in your enchanted wood. You must not let me go!"

"Ah, no," he said with wondering tenderness. "Dungeons I have and hollow oaks, but not for you. One ancient ceremony of bondage is enough. If you want to be my slave I'll perform it"

he had the collected poems of Yeats.

Haven't read through this. It's about as thick as Ulysses, experimental in word layout like Mark Z. Danielewski house of leaves, The Tunnel. This is called Ergodic Fiction, apparently (just learned that a second ago when reading a bit more about it. )

"The Tunnel is a novel about a man named William Frederick Kohler and his attempt to write an introduction to his historical magnum opus, "Guilt and Innocence in Hitler's Germany." But when Kohler tries to flesh out this minor introduction, mostly for the purposes of gloating over his colleagues, he instead finds himself writing a deeply personal book about the history of his own life. As the novel progresses we see the lies, half-truths, violent emotions, and relative chaos of Kohler's life laid bare, and while he continues to dig away at the memories of his past he also begins digging a tunnel out from the basement where he works, a reflection of his tunneling through himself. The novel addresses ideas about history, evil, and the living and the dead."

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so hope someone finds something enjoyable or useful in this thread. Pick up anything by the authors. Everything I've read and skimmed through so far has been spot on and mind blowing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGRriikdXm0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCK8V_MfQLY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3yd-c91ww8

i'm not sure if anyone is familiar with this particular artist, brooke candy but someone showed me this video and if you haven't indulged in her musical contributions to the world nows your chance..

everything wrong about life..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHULK1M-P08

This will probably be a thread that maybe one person, two if i'm lucky will engage in or are interested but hey, sorry!

I've never outgrow certain bands.. op ivy, (spent last night listening to the rancid/nofx split where they cover each others songs), Pulley, No use for a name, etc... but bad religions a partciularly special one.. 1 being my favorite and i'll go from there..

1) Suffer
2) Generator
3) No Control
4) Against the Grain
5) How could hell be any worse?
6) Against the Grain
7) The Process of Belief
8) Recipe for Hate
9) The Empire Strikes First
10) Stranger than Fiction
11) The Gray Race
12) Into the Unknown

As for Post Empire Strikes First (which came out in 2004) that was the last time I listened to their new releases. There was 4 since then, Maps of Hell, Dissent of Man, and True North since then which I haven't heard and if anyone has and their good lemme know. I intenionally left out New America And No Substance because I thought they were pretty miserable.

anyhow, yeah.

I mean, it's gotta be. When are they gonna cut the bullshit and let us know it was all just a witty little rouse and he's just getting publicity for a reality show or to sell more shit and make more billions... it can't be real, can it?

Can be collection of photography, Oral History, (auto)biographies, whatever the fuck you get the idea..



I recommend them all, obviously, but the Lester Bands compilation is amazing. He chose to write primarily about his true love, music, but as a writer he could have transcended that and crossed any literary boundaries. He's an amazing fucking writer, absurd and brutally honest and poetic, very poetic. I could have put any of his brilliant reviews/philosohpical rants but this piece/interview with Kraftwerk from '78 is real sweet..

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Some skeezix from one of the local dailies was up here the other day to do a "human interest" story on the phenomenon you're holding in your hands, and naturally our beneficent publisher hauled me into his office to answer this fish's edition of the perennial: "Where is rock going?"

"It's being taken over by the Germans and the machines," I unhesitatingly answered. And this I believe to my funky soul. Everybody has been hearing about "krautrock", and the stupnagling success of Kraftwerk's "Autobahn" is more than just the latest evidence in support of the case for Teutonic raillery, more than just a record, it is an indictment. An indictment of all those who would resist the bloodless iron will and order of the ineluctable dawn of the Machine Age.

THEY USED TO CALL CHUCK BERRY A "GUITAR MECHANIC" (at least I heard a Moody Blues fan say that once).
Why? Because any idiot could play his lines. Which, as we have all known since the prehistory of punk rock, is the very beauty of them. But think: If any idiot can play them, why not eliminate such genetic mistakes altogether, punch "Johnny B. Goode" into a Computer printout, and let the machines do it in total passive acquiescence to the Cybernetic Inevitable?

As is well known, it was the Germans who invented methamphetamine, which of all accessible tools has brought human beings within the dosest twitch of machinehood, and without methamphetamine we would never have had such high plasma marks of the counterculture as Lenny Bruce, Bob Dylan, Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, Neal Cassady, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg's "Howl," Blue Cheer, Cream, and Creem [T]he Reich never died, it just reincarnated in American archetypes ground out by hollow-eyed, jerky-fingered mannikins locked into their typewriters and guitars like rhinoceroses copulating....

But there is more to the Cybernetic Inevitable than this sont of methanasia. There are, in the words of the Poet, "machines of loving grace." There is, hovering dean far from the bumt metal reek of exploded stars, the intricate balm of Kraftwerk....
When was the last time you heard a German band go galloping oft at 965 MPH hot on the heels of oblivion? No, they realize that the ultimate power is exercised calmly, whether it's Can with their endless rotary connections, Tangerine Dream plumbing the sargassan depths, or Kraftwerk sailing airlocked down the Autobahn.

In the beginning there was feedback: the machines speaking on their own, answering their supposed masters with shrieks ot misalliance. Gradually, the humans learned to control the feedback, or thought they did, and the next step was the introduction of more highly refined forms of distortion and antificial sound, in the form of the synthesizer, which the human beings also sought to control.
In the music of Kraftwerk, and bands like them present and to come, we see at last the fitting culmination of this revolution, as the machines not merely overpower and play the human beings but absorb them, until the scientist and his technology, having developed a higher consciousness of its own, are one and the same.

Kraftwerk, whose name means power plant, have a word for this ecstatic congress: Menschmaschine, which translates as "man-machine." I am conversing with Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider, coleaders of Kraftwerk....

"I think the synthesizer is very responsive to a person," says Ralf, whose boyish visage is somewhat less severe than that of Florian, who looks, as a friend put it, "like he could build a computer or push a button and blow up half the world with the same amount of emotion." "lt's referred to as cold machinery," Ralf continues, "but as soon as you put a different person in the synthesizer, it's very responsive to the different vibrations. l think it's much more sensitive than a traditional instrument like a guitar.

I asked Hütter if a synthesizer could tell what kind of person you are and he replied: "Yes. lt's like an acoustic mirror." I remarked that the next logical step would be for the machines to play you. He nodded: "Yes. We do this. lt's like a robot thing, when it gets up to a certain stage. lt starts playing...it's no longer you and I, it's lt. Not all machines have this consciousness, however. Some machines are just limited to onepiece of work, but complex machines...
"The whole complex we use," continues Florian, referring to the Equipment and headquarters in...Düsseldorf, "can be regarded as one machine, even though it is divided into different pieces." Induding, of course, the human beings within....

I told them that I considered their music rather anti-emotional, and Florian quietly and patiently explained that ",emotion' is a strange word. There is a cold emotion and other emotion, both equally valid. lt's not body emotion, it's mental emotion. We like to ignore the audience while we play, and take all our concentration into the music. We are very much interested in origin of music. the source of music. The pure sound is something we would very much like to achieve."

They have been chasing the p.s.'s tail tor quite a while. Setting out to be electronic classical composers in the Stockhausen tradition, they grew up listening on the one hand to late-night broadcasts of electronic music, on the other to the American Pop music imported via radio and TV-especially the Beach Boys who were a heavy influence, as 5 obvious from 'Autobahn', although "we are not aiming so much for the music, it's the psychological structure of someone like the Beach Boys." They met at a musical academy, began in 1970 to set up their own studio, "and started working on the music, building equipment," for the eventual rearmament of their fatherland.

kraftwerk cover"After the war," explains Ralf, "German entertainment was destroyed. The German people were robbed of their culture, putting an American head on it. I think we are the first generation born after the war to shake this off, and know where to feel American music and where to feel ourselves. We are the first German group to record in our own language, use our electronic background, and create a Central European identity for ourselves.

So you see another group like Tangerine Dream, although they are German they have an English name, so they create onstage an Anglo-American identity, which we completely deny.
We want the whole world to know our background. We cannot deny we are from Germany, because the German mentality, which is more advanced, will always be a part of our behavior. We create out of the German language, the mother language, which is very' mechanical, we use as the basic structure ot our music. Also the machines, from the industries of Germany."

As tor the machines taking over, all the better. "We use tapes, prerecorded. and we play tapes also in our performance. When we recorded on TV we were not allowed to play the tape as a part of the performance, because the musicians union felt that they would be put out of work. But I think just the opposite: With better machines, you will be able to do better work, and you will be able to spend your time on energies on a higher level.
"We don't need a choir," adds Florian. "We just turn this key, and there's the choir."
I wondered aloud if they would like to see it get to the point of electrodes in the brain so that whatever they thought would come through a loudspeaker.
"Yes," enthused Ralf, "this would be fantastic."
The final solution to the music problem, I suggested."
"No, not the solution. The next step."

Don't know if anyone saw it. It may not be for everyone because it was shot in a rather unconventional manner.. It was set up like a play, things such as a bush or a tre or a dog were outlined with chalk and what they were was written in it but it had big name, chloie sevigny, Stellen Skarsgard, Nicole Kidman.. it was about 3 hours and was definetly a bit of a slow burner but i'm glad I rode it out because it was one of the greatest movies of all time (I saw it this morning. I understan this a bold statement and will probably change at some point, maybe today, maybe in a few years, but for now it remains.). And i agree with Queintin Tarentinos initial response was that if it was a play it would of won a pulitizer.

Just found out now it's a trilogy, that the second is already out and the third is on it's way. Dogville nor it's sequel is that new, i think both are from relatively early 2000's, but if you enjoy film and can find it and like movies that kinda hit you like a sawed off shotgun in the gut and leaves you writhing there alone with nothing to do but think about what hit you then get the popcorn and wild irish rose ready.

anyone have anything good in case i'm over and have to drop a duece?

this is what's sitting upside my bowl at the moment..

milin' Smokey Lynn - 1949

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efCZt2MMaIs

Roy Brown - 1950

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY4N5NOAsH0

Earl Bostic - 1949

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epoXc0dxtG0

Big Jay McNeely - 1952

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2SzlcZi5fs

Roy Brown - 1953

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ofd29gua3Ww

The Collins Kids - 1958

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T80aeKMU7wM

Kookie Cook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=908UpstlJvc

http://www.stereogum.com/1790028/captured-tracks-is-releasing-an-album-from-ben-stillers-forgotten-80s-punk-band/mp3s/

like writing a book, comic, webseries, screenplay, cookbook, self help, zine, whatever, anything..

besides my outsider art/comic punk zine i'm working with a really awesome dude i met while busking on the train. he's working on a project called Old Forgotten Art Found  (http://www.ofafthehunt.com) and he's traveling the world finding art looted by the nazis and returning it to the rightful owners. I'm going to be hoping on board as a blogger.