GUTTER GOSPEL…GENERAL LABOR STILL THINKIN” SOME MORE ABOUT HIS DEAR OCCUPY ALLY THE GREAT POET SOUL YVONNE de la VEGA PRESENTE, HELLO DIASTER, RICHIE JAMES EDWARDS, HUNTER S. THOMPSON, PHOEBE LEGERE, JULIAN ASSANGE, THE LEATHER NUN, CYCLE SLUTS FROM HELL, BOB DYLAN, MORGAN & ROBBIE FROM DV8 VIDEO, OPPOSING DEEP STATE/CORPORATION CENSORSHIP INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, FAKE SHITLIBS CALLING FOR MORE ONLINE CENSORSHIP & LAWS AGAINST PROTEST MOVEMENTS BECAUSE THEY WERE VETTED FOR THEIR APPEARANCE NOT THEIR CHARACTER. FREE ASSANGE! WILD POET FRONTMAN SEEKS EXCITEMENT GANG TORCH & TWANG BANDIDOES TO HELP SAVE ROCKNROLL! WHO’S SCREWING UP KENNEDY’S CAMPAIGN FROM THE INSIDE? HE PRAISED WATERS COURAGE THEN CHUMPED OUT & BACKPEDALED, OR SOMEONE DOING HIS TWITTERS DID, ANYWAYS, SEEMS UNCHARACTERISTIC OF PRINCIPLED TRUTH TELLER, ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. WEAK MOVE. I STAND WITH ROGER WATERS!
PROBABLY MY FAVORITE MODERN WRITER, CAITLIN JOHNSTONE ON VOTING! I VOTED MY LITTLE HEART OUT FOR RALPH NADER & DR. JILL STEIN, JUST AS HARD AS I COULD & IT MADE NO DIFFERENCE! THE KKKOPS EVEN KIDNAPPED DR. JILL STEIN TO PREVENT HER FROM ATTENDING A DEBATE! REMEMBER WHEN HILLARY’S THUGS BRUTALIZED RAY McGOVERN FOR GIVING THE PEACE SIGN & TURNING HIS BACK TO HER? SOME OF YOUR OWN LOVED ONES PROBABLY STILL THINK THAT’S SOME KINDA “FEMINISM”. THAT IT WAS “HER TURN” BUT THOSE RED PUTIN BERNIE BROS HACKED HER ELECTION WITH THOSE NEFARIOUS BUFF BERNIE FACEBOOK MEMES! A TANK WITH A RAINBOW FLAG ON IT IS STILL A TANK THIS FAUXWOKE IDENTITY POLITRICKS BULLSHIT IS THE SAME OLD HONKY DEATH MACHINE TRUSSED UP FOR HALLOWEEN IN THE SAME OLD DRAG I GOT EXPELLED FOR!
“Democrats are already sending out fundraising emails. Don’t give them a dime. They’ve done nothing to fight back against Republicans in any meaningful way because they are on the same side and serve the same wealthy donors. Invest in your local communities & help people directly.” (-Ryan Knight)
“The Democrats don’t even allow democracy in their own Party. I guess Graham cheering Russians being killed isn’t as bad as when Bush made a joke about killing a million Iraqis, Hillary laughed hysterically at murdering Gaddafi, Obama shrugged off us running a torture program or Albright saying killing 500,000 kids was worth it.” (-Black In The Empire)
“When there is a “Democratic Nominee” that the majority have not nominated (and in fact are rejecting), it doesn’t seem very democratic to me. “Democratic” in itself implies being a part of decision making. When the decision was made for you, though, again and again and again…” (-Human Bean)
“How do you think these people become billionaires?!
Through exploitation, abuse of power and fraud.” (-Jory Micah)
“The crazy thing about Azov is that Americans were fighting harder to say they weren’t Nazis than they were” (-Black In The Empire)
“The US never actually calls for Peace, because there is no money in it. For those who already forgot, our $113 billion didn’t stop Russia from taking Bakhmut, but it sure put a lot of money into the pockets of our weapons manufacturers.The Pentagon that usually can’t account for trillions of dollars, all of a sudden found $2 billion more to spend on Ukraine.
It’s a miracle! Neither Party is against sending billions to Ukraine or increasing Defense spending. Are Dem voters ready to listen to how this Dem vs GOP is all an act now, or you gonna keep voting for these Establishment crooks again in 2024? They aren’t fighting each other, their job is to keep us fighting each other, they all work for the same people, and that’s not us.. The next time you turn around Biden will be spending another few billion on Ukraine again. When they are gonna cap or cut something they always make sure to let you know it’s not gonna be Defense spending. The US must destroy their closest military rival Russia and their closest economic rival China to maintain their hegemony. All this talk about Freedom, Democracy, Sovereignty and Human Rights are a smokescreen, as you can tell by looking at how the US behaves on the world stage.. They might be able to argue that stealing money from the American people to help Ukraine makes sense, but the problem is that they know that Ukraine has no chance to take back all the territory they lost. Which means our Gov’t is just using Ukrainians as pawns to weaken Russia. The more of our money we allow our Gov’t to spend on this war, the richer the weapons manufacturers get, the more kickbacks the politicians get and the more Ukrainians get dead. One thing you can’t count on is that no one in DC will ever even pretend that Defense spending will not go up. The US convinced the West and their allies that the sanctions would destroy Russia They were wrong about that and about their ability to isolate Russia, because I really don’t think they understand how much the rest of the world wants to escape American rule.. America has mastered going around the world and getting brothers, cousins and neighbors to kill each other for their own geopolitical goals. Everytime somebody from the West goes to a country in Africa and talks about Putin war crimes they respond with “Why hasn’t your country arrested people like Bush, Blair or Obama?” They think Africans don’t know what’s happening in the world, when it’s Americans who don’t know. Maybe one day Americans will figure out that our Gov’t are the terrorists.” (-Black In The Empire)
FREE SPEECH, PEACE, HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT STANDS WITH ROGER WATERS AGAINST ALL SLANDEROUS TABLOID SMEAR MERCHANTS & LIARS ON THE TAKE! P.S. SHITLIB, AZOV NAZIS STILL SUCK!
You can’t even say you’re against the war without some deep state Biden admin spooks censoring you, or puttin’ you on some list. I am reading a good back about San Francisco punk by Will York, I’d previously thought it was by Will Shatter cause he features so prominently in the underground scene in the post punk era, but all those bands were way more radical than anything by anybody nowadays. The Manics were always kept off the airwaves over here, espacially after 9/11 when the Dick Cheney corporate spook armies weaponized the media, but to those of us who really received their vial, eye opening messages, they were transforming, if not always uplifting or peppy like the Green Day shit they thrust on us over here-the chewing gum commercial punques are the clown red lipstick of dictatorships. The Manics read a lot and encouraged their fans to learn and grow and think about the world around them. I always say my friends Max and Frank and Chaz “got” the Manics before I did-inititially, I was so ginned up about my own emerging catalog of protest songs back then that I dismissed them as come-lately Clash wannabes at first and was not all that impressed with “New Art Riot”, but “Stay Beautiful” won me over, I remember thinking it was like the Buzzcocks meets Generation X. Sounded great echoing off the high ceilings of my old roommate Nikki’s rent controlled apartment in Central Square. I always thought Murkkans were dumb fickle sheep cause even in muzak, the sceneseters always required an artist be Tipper Gore Approved by the man or some shit-you had to have a rich person vouch for you and give you money in order for people to listen to your stuff or take you seriously. Same college brainwashed P.C. idiots who all love and praise the Replacements til doomsday will Simon Cowell critique an off key band of inebritated janitors UNLESS some middle class money person throws some cash behind ’em. Same idiots who praise the Manics retroactively always gave me guff for being “too political”, it’s futile trying to communicate to most of the tv zombies who are too sports conditioned to only care about rooting for their hometeam to ever pay attention to anything except the trappings of mainstream success. They all like Rihanna or whoever they tell ’em to like, ya know? Say Nothings. They gotta have a hall pass from the ruling class, an applause sign from some media managing narrative control gatekeeper. At some point, even the Manics knew they needed to take time off cause they were getting a bit redundant, repetitive, but man, what a path they blazed, what a story-ever read about when they went to Cuba to meet Castro? I still love the Manics and think we need ’em now, more than ever. Help teach the kids about Richie Edwards, he was important. Who else would think to duet with Tracey Lords on an anthem about beauty as a commodity or objectification? He was an amazingly poignant and insightful and sensitive motherfucker. I love ’em all.
This was the closest we came to having a Murkkkan version of the Manic Street Preachers and of course they brokeup acrimoniously after their ep, “Young & The Useless”. I’ve been calling on ’em to reunite and make new music for decades. Used to talk to all those guys all the time before I got lockedout of social media for antiwar shitposting. I still love ’em.
I met Phoebe when I was just a lost soul latchkey runaway kid in NYC hangin’ around the Continental Divide in my torn Flesh For Lulu t shirt and bone necklaces and wondering the streets of the East Village all night long. She told me I have a very striking face, I think because of all the blue eyeshadow. She also told me one time that I’m never alone cause all the geniuses of all time are holding my hands, you know she is such an exceptional starburst of talent, kindness, love and soulpower. It’s weird how she is almost the opposite of me-I am primitive, coarse, untrained, unskilled, uncultivated, undisciplined, ugly, mean, and suffering from shattered hopes and lack of faith in this world, but I can still see myself in her, and all that is good and true about humanity, really. I will always love Phoebe Legere. And also Yvonne De La Vega! Me and Yvonne were fellow travelers, likeminded, kindred spirits, it was like some crazy instant connection, just effortless recognition. I was shattered when she died suddenly. God bless Yvonne de la Vega, a heroic, good hearted, righteous libertine freedom fighter! My kinda people. I miss her.
“In the COVID era gestalt, “Safety” means social control through fear. Fear is the instrument of tyranny. What happened to the daring and imagination that built this country? Can’t we aspire to something higher than safety? Yeah, it’s not safe all right. It’s not safe for you to see the data. It’s not safe for you to have your own thoughts. It’s not safe for you to question authority. It’s not safe to criticize the oligarchs who are crushing your freedoms and taking your money. Not safe for them, anyway.” (-Robert F. Kennedy Jr.)
“It’s obvious that no one in Washington actually cares about US government debt, because, in their bipartisan deal to raise the debt ceiling, Biden and the Republicans agreed to INCREASE military spending to $885 billion – an 11% hike.
The war budget is roughly half of all federal government discretionary spending (and “non-defense” spending includes a lot of costs related to war, like veteran care, “international affairs”, and the massive police budgets). Concern trolling about the US federal debt is just a cynical strategy used to justify cutting the few remaining social programs that help poor and working people. Meanwhile, decreasing the war budget is never even considered for a second. It’s sacrosanct.” (-Ben Norton)
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WHEN I WAS A NEW WAVE RUNAWAY GUTTERSNIPE IN THE 80’S
Robbie Mailhouse the Dogstar drummer who used to be a soap opera actor when I knew him and his friend Dive DJ/video editor Morgan Reese used to let me crash at their bigass 11th floor Broadway/Astor Place loft apartment all the time. They got me into “Blade Runner”, “Eraserhead”, Love & Rockets, Joy Division, Fra Lippo Lippi, Negative Trend, Young Fresh Fellows, Happy Flowers, Sonic Youth, Butthole Surfers, got me into bars, bought me pizza and beer, I will always be grateful to them.
The female answer to Zodiac Mindwarp were a blast! I think we saw them at Axis, not sure. Those years were pretty blurry. How cool was it when they were on that tv show with Circus Of Power, Joey Ramone, and Ace Frehley? The Good Old Daze! I miss the Cat Club and Lizmar Lounge!
As a young man, I did not dig much of that so called heartland rock-all the gritty hardknocks Cougar, Seger, Petty songs about divorce and foreclosure, elders dying, ripoffs and disappointments of small town life, ’cause I was really trying to go all big city new wave futuristic nightclub and block out all that factory life bullshit. I did not wanna know about the plight of lonesome farmers who were abandoned by their shopping class wives. Then, it all happened to me, by the time I was 26, all the former peers were scrambling en masse for higher ground-the dames were all lookin’ for the boy with the mama mansion or biggest truck. I never got that shit. The fellas were all cleaning up and being herded into university makeovers for high paying office jobs. A couple were tragically, insanely lured into military service, came back as sad shells-ghosts of their former selves, ruined, traumatized. One guy I knew went to jail for murdering his wife’s boyfriend. A few others were killed by drug dealers, one ex drummer became a cop. I was appalled by all that shit. I was still clinging stubbornly to my own little underground D.I.Y. basement punk lifestyle, resulting in semi permanent exile to the hot hose kitchen dishwasher status. Middle class people loved to borrow my ideas and point me to the closet where I could find the mop bucket and if I wanna get started in the men’s and women’s bathrooms, that’d be great.
I never liked Sundays, residual schoolbus on Monday morning dread, I guess, but nobody ever wants to rock. Now way back in the day, we all would pool our quarters and dollar bills and get in my buddy Scruff’s fuckedup, rusty, terminally unreliable Oldsmobile and cruise over to Indiana and hangout at a punk band’s house or at some cool chick’s place if her mom was gone, or the parking lot of the Holiday Inn where everybody drank in their cars, we’d all listen to Depeche Mode and Sisters Of Mercy and Killing Joke and the Godfathers and Skinny Puppy records, drink malt liquor, boys would skateboard for girl attention, I’d break out a flask of harder stuff. Had a nice girl friend who was always drinking big bottles of vodka and weeping over her many dead traveler gutter punk friends who seemed to always be overdosing. I knew I wanted my own bandhouse where I could host parties and shows for outta town visitors and made that happen with some girlfriend’s help and Little Caesars Pizza Pizza pizza maker money. Used to like making pizza- we all sang songs while we sauced and cheesed. Summa the older guys were embezzling but me I was not even good enough at math to steal! Plus I’ve always been pretty sure that what goes around comes around, so I try to do the next right thing, as often as possible. So yeah, Sundays are always like a slow painful grind, waiting around, tedious chores, nowhere to go, old people moving ever so slow. All the people from Flyover, trained from birth to either watch sports from dirty couches while draining cases of piss beer, or the real ambitious middle class motherfuckers are all outside shirtless, hosing down the truck. I’ll never be a two truck having motherfucker wanting to be seen on his riding lawnmower-just not my thing, man. I had to deal with the general public yesterday and it is hard on my bruised old soul. The town’s five token hipster’s-the lone purple haired guy from who knows where; the video editing tech guy; the managerial type money chick with all the tattoos who is too posh to look any peasants in the eye, the ubiquitous old man who is always cruising for chicks in spite of being married. I bought a two dollar record at a gentrification hipster yard sale. Had a Nerf war with the teenage son of mine. Read a book about punk rock in San Francisco and went to bed early, worried, haunted, depressed. Abandonment issues and fear of death with a touch of boredom and despair and distrust of the murderous, fix is in, house always wins, Predator Culture we live in. Now I am up early with the birds, this is the only quiet time I’ll have today as soon as my kid wakes up, he will be blasting his generation’s music and monologuing about becoming the New Tiger King for fifteen hours without taking a breath. I dread more undesirable interactions with creepy smalltown hustlers and still have not been able to wrangle the town’s lone old punk artsy eccentric to showup with his guitar. My wife’s co worker croaked about two weeks ago and I am constantly reminded how none of this is permanent, especially not the good parts, only the grief and drudgery and slavery and dread. Cats are hassling me to feed them. Then, I gotta water the garden and some old geezer who befriended my wife is supposedly gonna show up to help install some air conditioner in my kid’s bedroom, I’m always skeptical of big talkers who mainly wanna talk to my wife. There’s no young women in this town, so the crypt keepers follow her around in mobs bragging about how they’re gonna help our disabled son with their (fill in the blank) whatever they got, whatever their hustle is-gonna teach that boy some manners, gonna teach him how to be a muscle man, gonna let him pet their dog, gonna show him how to hunt, they got a big truck he can ride in, all that shit. It gets old. Creepy old men using my kid to hit on my wife while they themselves are married. Horrible. Men are gross. The winebox heiress airbandb remodelling new age psychic know it all rich women are even worse. More cooniving, manipulative, divide and conquer destructive. Destroying is their hobby. “There’s somethin’ happenin’ somewhere, baby I just know that there is…” Now I relate to the oldman dad rock I could stand as a kid with a leather jacket and a head full of rock dreams and a pair of creepers and a foo foo haircut.
NON STOP BOOTLICKIN’ COPAGANDA & CORRUPT POLITICIANS HELLBENT ON IGNORING THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE TO TRAIN MORE GESTAPO IN IDF STYLE URBAN COMBAT TACTICS. ONLY THE MOST CLOISTERED SHITLIBS BELIEVE IT CAN”T HAPPEN TO THEM OR THAT THEIR REPS CARE ABOUT THEIR PREFERENCES. THE CROOKED JUSTICE TWEETERS CAN JUST TAKE THE MONEY & FIX THE VOTE ANY WAY THEY CHOOSE.
“… the people demonizing Roger Waters are not idiots. They are liars. They know precisely what they are doing. They know Roger Waters is not an anti-Semite. They are aware of The Wall and his other work. They are not ignorant. They are propagandists.”
Veglam 
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