“Student debt doesn’t get bail outs but Banks & the rich do. The one sided class war. The working class and poor have no representation in the two party monopoly of politics in the U.S.” (-Ajamu Baraka)
“Lindsey Graham calls for the US military to launch WWIII, shooting down Russian planes, in retaliation for the heinous attack on the US homeland that actually took place thousand of miles away over the Black Sea and cost zero American lives.” (-Max Blumenthal)
“I know the capability that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.” (—Senator Frank Church on Meet The Press, 1975)
“The truth is that the whole world is the enemy of the United States. The US has no friends. Just temporary tools in getting what it wants: permanent hegemony for its corporate masters.” (-Danny Haiphong)
“Monbiot’s criticism of Brand for his choice of targets is laughable. Why is The Guardian columnist so keen to defend the World Economic Forum founder, Klaus Schwab; or former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi; or the former U.S. chief medical adviser, Anthony Fauci; or a World Health Organization financially captive to the Big Pharma lobby; or, even more bafflingly, the Covid-profiteering pharmaceutical giant Pfizer?
The truth is Monbiot has become just another advocate for managerial, technocratic liberalism — a liberalism that has been entirely discredited since the financial collapse of 2008, and is now the target of contempt and ridicule from that same younger demographic and figures such as Greenwald and Brand.
Monbiot is desperate to maintain his credibility. And he imagines he can keep it a little longer by widening the circle of people on the left he smears: from Noam Chomsky and Pilger, Fisk and Hersh, to Brand and Greenwald. But the only person he is damaging is himself, narrowing his relevance down to a group of liberal cultists, those who still believe that the very same people who destroyed our world are the ones who will fix it.”
” Sen Warnock is a moral leader and his silence on the police murder of Tortugita, at the very least, is DEAFENING. I am wildly disappointed in Georgia’s senators. A person was killed by police, many more rounded up and charged with terrorism (for many for simply attending a concert) and somehow the concern lies with the poor, defenseless construction vehicle. People over property.
I am not so naive as to think two sitting senators won’t condemn property damage. But to not also condemn the killing of a human being? Especially given all we now know about Tort’s execution? That is not moral leadership. What I can promise is that history will judge harshly the politicians in Georgia who looked around in this current moment and chose to close ranks with their peers, ignoring the people who gave them power in the first place. I promise that.” (-Hanna Riley)
Know anything about whatever happened to that groovy eighties Batcaveish gothic electrotrash band Jad Wio co starring Denis Bortek, and Christophe K-Bye? I think they’re really cool, I was playing their youtubes for somebody local I’m trying to work with, to hip him a little bit more to like what I consider cool old school subversive glam and punk trash. Suicide, Gun Club influences, cabaret, Soft Cell, Specimen, Berlin, Sisters Of Mercy. That kinda feel. My ole lady’s seen me have to teach so, so many woulbe bandmates everything from scratch, reminds me how it usually ends up with me missing some more old scratchy vinyl and more other people doing my songs, but I’m at a point where I feel like I’m supposed to be making original music again. Passed time/past time. These guys were so awesome!
One of these mornings when I dread the dentist, am gripped by anxiety, worry about the kids, the groceries, the car problems, the many moods of my oversized teenager. Whenever I hear from faraway people they want something fro me, usually like, help with their fame problems, or whatever. They feel like they should be entitled to more privilege, more prestige, more applause, more help selling more online swag. Their rental properties, airbandb’s or merchandise lines. No one wants to work, they never got enough respect from the little people, and it’s so hard to find good help these days. Always with this frenzied desire to own more, have more, keep more, mostly property, vehicles, objects, collections, but they even try to collect people, they wanna own the dead, their songs, my songs, your kids, my kids, all the drugs, all the credit. Capitalist celebrity classers are like fucking nutty King Tuts who think they can take it all with them in their pyramid, or maybe if they just keep repeating whatever it says on the WEF teleprompter, they can live forever with Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos in the transhuman space colony on Mars after NATO finishes ruining the planet with batshit wars of aggression and private plane emissions and “accidental” toxic fires poisoning the farmlands. I’m so bored with the gentrification hipsters and nothing to say model daughters ya know what I mean? I’m outta smokes, it’s makin’ me a bit extra surly today.
YOUR FORMER SHITLIB CELEBRITIES WOULD LOVE TO HELP, BUT THEY ARE TOO BUSY WAVING THE AZOV FLAG WITH PFIZER OR OR CHARGING FIVE GRAND A HEAD AND SIGNIN’ BOOKS & STAYIN’ SHITFACED DRUNK AS FUCK ON THEIR OWN FAME
You know I can’t really vouch for the revolving door lineup and comings and goings of many new and old members, but I will say, I always loved the Kim Fowley manufactured, vetted and recruited, Hollwood Stars, who toured with the Knack and were conceived as a sunnier power poppy West Coast answer to the NY Dolls with songs contributed by both Kim and Mars Bonfire, to me they are the perfect band to play in the car, not that I drive anywhere, okay so the perfect band to play on your Walkman, if only I still had such a thing. I looked for a Walkman and a boombox on Ebay but every fucking thing has gotta be a ripoff now in the Gates-Reset/Klaus New World Order where only billionaires have rights-from Biden/Walton family quadrupled groceries to $23 magazines to $13 spiral notebooks to $85 used copies of Duran Duran books to concert tickets to $2000 rents, I can’t afford any of it. When me and my stoner buds Dave, Dougie and Bryan Bastian and a smalltown rapper named Austin would bring my boombox with us on walks cause we had nothing to do, my friend Beefy’s dad Paul would hear us coming with thet “Vital Idol” cassette blaring “White Wedding” everywhere we went, he’d yell up the stairs, “Ant-kneee! That whiteboy who thinks he’s Prince and is gonna get you in trouble is here!” He’d say that everytime, kinda still makes me smile remembering that shit. Sometimes we’d walk through the wet leaves to the crap mall and sample Baskin Robbins flavors with their little pink spoons, loiter ’round the Musicland record store lookin’ at posters and 45’s. Loiter ’round Readmore bookstore lookin’ at “Creem” and “Smash Hits” and “RIP” magazines. We might hang in front of the arcade where some older dude named John hated our MTV era ragtag gang of bored teenagers for his own reasons I never knew. The other arcade attendendant was named PJ, all his shit was Playboy rabbit logo necklaces and shit. I think he was Puerto Rican, but PJ was cool. Sometimes we’d all get a table and empty our pockets and pool our resources and share a pizza at Parrason’s, we’d all get two pieces maybe, pour out half the parmesean and red pepper flakes on each slice and ask the waitress for more, those were good times. Anyways, if you like seventies power pop this Hollywood Stars stuff is undiscovered bubblegum gold. I think they are really rad and sortof like the Babys meets the Runaways or something. Raspberries influenced.
I need more rocknroll like this in my life. Especially in ripoff fuck you price gouge topdown narrative duplitious times as dark as these.
EMPIRE ESCALATING VIOLENCE ON THE POOR BOTH HERE AND ABROAD!
Oh, man, you got people whose go-to response to any state violence or exposed corrpution is to blame the poor people? I gotta stay away from people like that. One guy I used to know he was real inconvenienced during his commute home from work one time when the public were marching against those kkkops strangling that black guy in NYC for selling untaxed cigarettes on the corner in a neighborhood the Bloomberg elites wanted to gentrify. I used to love that guy who got inconvenienced but nowadays he makes alot of money, drinks expensive scotch, spews bigoted, hateful class war rhetoric about the lesser thans and hates the homeless, so…yeah, fuck him. Another guy who wanted me to care when his sports team patriotic, partisan political party were gettin’ the business from the media, he don’t care what happens when it’s “the others”. Bad shit befalls “the others”, he says that’s what they deserved for not obeying him. When did liberalism become about enforcing your private preferences on others against their will? That’s why I think all these college people were Cointelpro infiltrated and sold a false bill of goods by the permanenet rulers, via the universities… A dude where I live don’t care much when kkkops kill people, he blames the people, they should have been at home smoking pot and watching C-Span and growing their Youtube channel like him, rather than protesting. They shoulda been homeowners. Shoulda, shoulda, shoulda. That is the attitude of most Murkkkans. me, me, me, they shoulda, shoulda, shoulda. And only property is motherfuckin’ sacred to these people, oh yeah, and celebrity tears, celebrity preferences, celebrity feelings. Murkkkans are patriotic, rank and privilege seeking, hierarchy worshipping, consumerist bootlickers. Same way the ruling class killed California and made Manhattan into an elitist enclave for the worst rich people and their obnoxiously, unapologetically awful kids, man they seem to be destroying Canada, too, which is sad. Those davos technocrat creeps are doing a helluva job fucking up the planet and sealing off all the exits. I had one friend who escaped to France and I am happy for her. The politicians keep talking about bombing Mexico now, as if they are somehow responsible for big pharma created drug problems, conceived and developed, and distributed by the USA USA secret police and mercenary private contractor moderate rebels abroad. I think these war industry warpigs just like to slaughter innocent people and spend their big checks from Pfizer and Raytheon. Corporate media headlines screamed that 12 people died during the “insurrection, insurrection, insurrection” as if murderous violence was done by terrorizing protestors, gradually, it was walked back to seven guys, then four guys, then it was admitted somebody drug overdosed, somebody had a stroke later on, one guy died but not really cause he was beaten with a fire extinguisher but because of natural causes, a heart attack and shit. AOC repeated some shit for months about how Maga people killed a dozen innocents, but everyone who died were Maga people. Cop people. But I repeat myself. Who loves the cops more than the Magas, and vice versa, the proud boys and oath keepers are the cops. Watch how the chips fall. Now Erin Brockovich is even being called a terrorist. Something is wrong here. I think the copsucker Blue Lives Matter Maga capital hill protest was an inside job carefully coordinated and made for tv psy op engineered to manufacture consent for laws against protest and to superfund the kkkops after the prior four year BLM protests when everyone was calling to defund the kkkops. First of all, it’s sus ’cause AOC has shown us she is nothing but a corporate sellout with a pretty face recruited to tweet “Orange Man Bad” forever and forever.
“In a tweet on Oct. 24, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez referred to the Capitol riot on Jan. 6 as “a terror attack,” which she said resulted in “almost 10 dead.” She called for “any member of Congress who helped plot” it to be “expelled.”
Journalist Glenn Greenwald commented on Twitter that the claim of “‘almost 10 dead’ from the 1/6 riot is deceitful in the extreme. Four people died on 1/6: all Trump supporters.”
There is reasoned debate about the number who died as a result of the Capitol riot. Ocasio-Cortez is including law enforcement officials who responded to the Capitol that day and committed suicide in the days and months afterward. None of them have been officially designated as “line of duty” deaths, though there is some congressional support for it.
Ocasio-Cortez’s tally also includes two rally participants who died of heart failure — including one who died before other protesters had breached the Capitol. It includes a rallygoer who was initially believed to have been trampled to death in the mayhem that day, but was later determined to have died of an accidental overdose.” (-Fact Check Dot Org an establishment narrative control website)
Now, people protesting the assassination of a Cop City protestor are being held on terror charges and cops in Palestine are referring to Erin Brockovich as a terrorist for organizing sick people to file class action lawsuits against Blackrock who own all the politicians, the train company, and the media. The very definition of a shitlib is someone still Thanking Obama for this ongoing forever war nd imperialist police state he helped escalate and fretting over AOC’s feelings, but never the poor people in Palestine, or East Palestine, never the people killed by racist police, or drones ’cause some classy, dashing president’s donor class bosses wanna plunder more oil or minerals for their electric cars and cellphone batteries and cashless society microchips for Science. You know it’s no secret I used to be as smitten by AOC as anybody was. She blinded ME with shitlib shitlibbing.
“The US complained when Chinese jets flew near a US spy plane in the *South China Sea.*
Now the US is playing victim after Russia forced down one of its drones in the Black Sea. Maybe the US should get its weapons out of places thousands of miles from its shores? Just a thought.
Joe Biden has presided over an administration where inflation is rampant, the banks are collapsing, and the U.S. is moving head-first into World War III. This must be the the “normalcy” that people voted for in the 2020 election.” (Danny Haiphong)
I don’t know where one of my adult children are and honestly that makes it hard to sleep through the night even when I take some Melatonin which gives me crazy dreams. I got anxiety about losing my teeth, all the poverty related problems. No real communication is possible between me and all the people I used to know who became their moms or mother in laws, just dutifully reciting whatever it is they were told by the tv, only really caring about their personal celebrityhood and vanity brand bullshit, ya know? Who cares? Two things I can do without personally, are any more richkid Johnny Thunders coverbands or N.A. celebrity booksigner band dudes publishing more shit about how he beat up smaller people in some eighties parking lot. Sometimes, I’ll try to tell people that the wars are based on lies and just like four people control the whole media narratives, they all look right at me and tell me I’m crazy because Kamala Harris is NOTHING like DeSantis, blah blah blah. I’m like, they work for the same people. That’s why I became a dishwasher years ago, so I could stand in the back and not be involved with all the fulla shite white DJ hipster gentrifiers and doofus goatee, big dumb ugly piercing come lately tattoo shop owners. Whenever I get to feeling really blue about the state of things in this mad, mad world, if I can not find any freetime to get drunk and cry, or listen to old music, or howl up at the big old desert moon, I often turn to MINK DEVILLE, who always soothes my savage, restless soul, somehow. It’s in his decadent heartfelt croon.
“boy I feel so outgunned today, but I’ll get up and fight back anyway/you and I are not huge mainstream stars but unlike them, we’re really what we are…” (-Iggy Pop)
As a lifelong leftist who never changed his principles cause some soldout Tom or Mammy or They or Them was recruited by the deep state to sell wars and authoritarianism to the inattentive haves, I always laugh at people who call me or Caitlin Johnstone, or Dr. Jill Stein, or Black In The Empire on Twitter “Russian Trolls” jes cause all of us know that Trump was not some rare anomaly, and Biden is just as guilty as anything you can accuse Orange Man Bad of. The system is the problem, not one lone, all purpose boogeyman. They really fuckedup the college people with all that redscare safespace bullshit. Anybody who knows me knows I’m not even educated enough to be a commie, I’ve never read no Marx or Engels, I read Creem and Trouser Press, but I do agree with everything Eugene Debs and Fred Hampton stood for, and know I have more in common with the peasants of oil rich Nato targeted countries than I do any tech surveillance billionaires, or shitlib slogan reciting airbandb owners who wanna bore me with Latest Thing talk about Miley Cyrus or Taylor Swift. Rightwingers hate me cause I wear pink and love brown people. Shitlibs hate me cause I am antiwar and don’t believe the television. The ruling class keep trying to pivot to superficial divisions like your diet, or gender, or hue, or sexual preferences, I recognize we are in a class war and most of us don’t even know how bad the pathological super rich are fucking us all over.
FRANKIE DELMANE
Ya know I talk alot about how there’s not that many good songwriters around in the modern age and SUPER LEGEND Frankie from Teenage Frames and the Crazy Squeeze is an exceptionally rare, standout composer of badass rocknroll songs, prolific generator of bands, videos, fanzines, a total creativity volcano. I hope somebody buys him a new leather trench coat! His old fanzine “TRASH” featured some of the best rocknroll writing I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading! I salute him!
Dimestore Haloes drummer, Jimmy Reject was a good kid. I wish he was here to call on the phone right now. (RIP) When the Halos were busy makin’ these records, me and my own gang of debaucherous, excessive boozing, danger prone lords of late night damage and backstreet blackouts were writin’ some pretty good songs in a dank Cambridge basement and runnin’ riot in all those dark, loudly throbbing, ever seductive late night bars in Kenmore Square, and dirty old Allston, but while we found plenty of seedy temptations and wild women galore, we could never keep a drummer or locate anybody willing to record us….except for one guy…who just used some demos we made to learn our songs that he never stopped covering and claiming as his own, so that was a bit maddening and hurtful and frustrating…meanwhile we’d see guys like Jessie Malin getting all these great producers and record deals and nightclub investors and more, more, more opportunities forever and wow it felt like punishing, grueling torture for years, we just could not claw our way up and outta the gutter to the “make records” level, no matter how hard we tried. We had people tell us we were “promising songwriters” all the time, whatever that means and who knows anyway, maybe they were lying, I dunno man, but it made me bitter as a young man. Chaz describes the “Long Ride To Nowhere”, yeah, well. Ugh! Right? Fallen gutter punk angel, dear, sweet Jimmy Reject was a supportive comrade and was always nice to me, we did some laughin’ and cryin’ together, and I could identify with summa his struggles he detailed in his book. Our pal from across town, Chaz Halo who Jimmy always said was “Better Than Westerberg!”, undeniably wrote some smokin’ hot songs way back when, that still stand up today, and I’m glad I got to see him play at that bowling alley with A Streetcar Named Disaster when we were young, and I would like it if his old drummer Frank would will me his Alfred E. Neuman tie. I’d love to see all those guys again. Good lads, all. I gave poor Chaz a bit of grief in our early twenties cause I’m just a moody hateful embittered antisocial bastard sometimes, but when I saw him self referencing as Lux INFERIOR, ya know that kinda self deprecating charm is kind of hard to resist and over time, I came to really like that guy alot actually. He is smart, funny, overcame obstacles, did it on his own terms, plays a mean guitar, got what he wanted, won big, hit the bigtime if you ask me. I’m legit happy for him. Not that many people in this mediocre fakeass fuckedup meritocracy pyramid sceme ever earn anything on their own, but as a songwrier and performer, I can tell you Chaz earned his success and worked hard to get there and just keeps getting better. His modern day band, Cheap Cassettes are one of the best outfits goin’. I wish them all the best of everything. Good lads.
One of the last songs I really liked by the former Hanoi Rocks gang was “People Like Me”, it was kindof like “While You Were Looking At Me” and a righteous protest against the Evil Industry blacklisting of real rocknrollers and installing all these awful industry puppet billionaire kids and just hiring different sylists and producers and handlers to dress them up on trend every six months-aint you sick of all this boyband bullshit yet? Harry Styles or Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift all that shit just feels so artificial and lab born and not real at all. Bad muzak is bad for you, it’s just such a drag on the soul, ya know the fake political parties both like to do alot of yap yap yappin’ about fake news, but I say fake muzak is even worse, it makes ya sick. I’m so sick of boy band bullshit being rebranded as glam rock, that’s not glam-that’s illuminati NWO Bill Gates puppetry garbage. I try my best to stay away from Pig-5 mockingbird propaganda media and all their manufactured muppets.
If you’re gonna be plastic theatrical, I say go all the way, entertain me-ya know like the old school cracked actors from the old school glam daze. Lately I been diggin’ into some ole Alvin Stardust! One of the guys I was kinda stealin’ summa my moves and looks from back before all my bands broke up and the old lady split with the kids.
BUZZOFF WEF SCHOOL FUTURE FASCIST FAKE AS FOOK NEW AGE PELOSIS
“Do the Code Pink staffers that prevented Medea Benjamin from speaking alongside libertarians at Rage Against The War Machine also condemn the progressive lawmakers who worked with Matt Gaetz to craft the Syria War Powers Resolution?
Either way, they should all be sent packing.” (-Max Blumenthal) FREE THE KKKOP CITY PROTESTORS! WE ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE THE RIGHT TO PROTEST BUT CHENEY & OBAMA EVISCERATED OUR BILL OF RIGHTS FOR THEIR GATES-RESET PLAN.
I don’t believe in the voting bullshit anymore-not since that W selection way back when that ushered in all the permanent far right Patriot Act spook surveillance and proxy wars. We voted for hope and change, instead, they gave us a smooth talker overthrowing Libya, lying about Syria and helping proxy war steal one third of their land-the oil rich region, fracking, torture, drones, bailout for the rich and NSA monitoring all our communications for the oligarchy, and he still struts around with a big smug smirk feeling like a superstar celebrity though he never even lifted a finger to help fix Flint.. We filled stadiums for Sanders TWICE, instead, they gave us Gropey Joe, more militarized kkkops, war on Russia, trying to drum up wars with China and Iran, blind blankcheck support of tyrannical KSA bombing the piss outta Yemen and Israeli’s racist boot on Palestinians, culture war nonsense and domestic psy-ops, industry captured regulatory agencies, train fire chemical bomb poisoned Palestine, and hyperinflation. And a full fledged Gitmo torturer sicko Desantis waiting in the wings. I think voting’s a waste of my time if the fix is in and there’s zero representation in congress and no bribe taking inside trading jetset millionaire liars advocating for the human rights or civil liberties of the poor. At this point, I think all that red versus blue media bullshit and happy tweeting of “I VOTED TODAY” stickers is for the boomers who mostly just inhertied rank and privilege so they like to think that shit is real. I guess if Robert F. Kennedy runs, I’ll go vote for him. I don’t think my dear comrade and ally and fellow traveler Jimmy Dore stands a real snowball’s chance, though I’d love to see him on a debate stage with those lying fascist fucks, if the real ruling class stopped Bernie when he was far and away the most popular politician in the country, if the propaganda media was able to brainwash dumbfuck got-mines into parroting nonsesne forever about how Nader was to blame for the W/Jim Baker/Deep State/Supereme Court/Skull N Bones swing of a selection to the CIA fortunate son secret society fratboy, c’mon. No hope for the poor and all the change is just to benefit the diabolical billionaires who meet in secret and have happy marketing puppets who give peppyTed Talks about depopulating. I sure aint voting for Sanders again, I’ll tell ya that-he sold out his own Revolution gave all that working class money to the crooked Hillary pro war DNC. This new age safespace woke and seen/Deepak Chopra/Oprah feelgood/Omming flake Marrianne is a sad joke for more war, who can’t win against anyone. Why do these vanity brands even waste my time? They stand for nothing. Same with all the hipster music that’s just rehash, rich people showing off their equipment, pasting their face on some shit that means nothing, says nothin’, has no heart. Fuck off, empty brand hucksters and youtube unboxers. Democrats I know are no longer anti censorship, anti mass incarceration, anti funding the police, or anti war. They don’t want to hear anything about the origins of Covid, only that Fauchi is a super smart savior for science and so is Bill Gates. They don’t care if the primaries were fixed, or if the wars were all based on lies or even remember anything about Tara Reade or Anita Hill. They think the toxic burn poisoned people in Palestine deserve to die if they voted for the wrong candidate and they’ll say it proudly on tv. They don’t care if Biden is cutting Snap benefits while all the rent has gone up and Wal Mart’s doubled all the prices, they hate the poor, dismiss anyone who stands for leftist values as conspiracy theorists, and usually just want to get back to Thanking Obama or cancelling Dave Chappelle, some more. They might as well be Republikkans, they are atheist Republikkans, rather than worshipping some wrathful patriarchal John Wayne God, they worship a scolding cancel culture mean spirited divorcee Judge Judy, social hierarchy, money, power, control with some afterthought lazy, half hearted feelgood Bennetton marketing. I can’t be around that shit. Bernie sold us out and that nutty Qanon, Marjorie Green Taylor chick is somehow to the LEFT of the squad on a lot of topics, that’ s embarrassing but they have no shame. No time to explain voting for war, child cages, foodstamp cuts, or supporting kkkop city. They’re all on their way to be fitted for the photo op at the Woke Science and Safespace Special Feelings Diversity Ball.
Listening to my friend’s wild Eighties Lower East Side sonic collage, it’s like a cutup fanzine, snatches of smarmy fifties propaganda dialog, archaic commercialism merged with smacked out jazz saxophones and Pink Floyd acoustic guitars beamed in from other times, it’s an extended play 12 inch remix of our collective memories, highbrow experimental aural mosaics, skewering all the decades of absurdist capitalist programming with old school Mad magazine wit and parody. White Album Number Nine dragged through the eighties underground film movement and Coltrane, the Velvet Underground and Basquiat’s band Gray. Only got through twenty four minutes of it but it really took me back to another time when there was still like, an underground art movement in the city. Most of what I scroll through on the youtubes nowadays is Prince related, you know like Andre’s sold eighties new wave records, interviews with Dez Dickerson, or Lisa & Wendy, Jill Jones-that kinda thing. Imagine being a strange old man in a remote desert dustbowl town, explaining to mosaic tile casita airbandb renting home remodelers or Men With Trucks how you’re looking to start a new wave or post punk band with some goth influences. Nobody knows what the fuck I’m talking about. I’ll be like, you remember that song, “Melt With You by Modern English”, or like “But Not Tonight” by Depeche Mode? Okay how about Bowie, David Bowie? “That Queer?” is about as close as they can get to it, if it’s not Football, hunting, patriotiism, guns, or off road vehicles, it’s not really something anybody can grasp here. They all like Queen, though, which is really not that close at all to what I’m talking about. I am so not interested in crossbow deer hunting, or raising cows. Or even driving fast through mud puddles, different strokes. I’ve been planting my own little “Roadhouse Garden” out of quiet desperation, cause even on the rare day when I can successfully somehow acquire some booze, I have to do it when the loud kid’s asleep and most usually, he and his ma are on the same schedules, so I just kinda end up drifting from lawnchair in the sun, to reading, to playing old cassette tapes to looking for some old phone number in my old lyric notebooks to try to make contact with some faraway long lost human who was there in the eighties or who still remembers a culture before the douchey boybands and autotune-rappers and slutpuppet heiress daughters and rah rah war machine copaganda. Not a lotta luck with any of that. So I get back to this cool rock book my imaginary friend Michael Goldberg sent me and immerse myself in stories from the old eighties like “Creem Magazine” glory days era. That’s just fucking kinda my thing man, I am not into the gentrification posers or the trust fund garbage at all. If I wanted to hear a rich kid cover Johnny Thunders again, I’d…well, I wouldn’t be me, I’ll tell ya that. Fuck I hate that shit, the millionaire son kareoke and fuckin artisinal fake divebar cover bands all just lost me back in ’92, it’s not my thing man. Squares who’ve never done heroin covering “Chinese Rocks” some more. “oooh, alhh”, yeah we’ve heard it. I don’t even get it. I used to see this horrible grunge band fill a room, overfed dudes with money and drugdealer balls and cocaine in their pockets, I always thought they sucked so bad, but I was coming from a Fleshtones kindof happy, joyous, upbeat FUN tradition and I thought that grunge band’s microwaved second hand gloomy buzzkill bleating was just a bumtrip, seemed like the Black Friday people only liked it cause those dudes Owned Shit, Vintage Stuff and Recording Studios, Bars and Cars. Had The Good Drugs. Still Sucked Ass, Honestly. Popular People Angst. I did not get it, still don’t. All those dudes were really into Jay Z, they were wannabe drug dealers. I’ll pass. I can’t relate to the genetrification brunchers-I knew this guy who has his own studio, tour bus, hotel/hipsterart gallery, merchandise line, film making equipment, art school diploma, totally supportive wife, fuckin cashflow and internet fame and 15 cd’s of his own music but whenever I saw him, he’d be telling me how constrictted he felt when he was not on tour. Parents who aren’t even that involved with raising the neurotypical kids, or people who never have kids of their own, have no idea what it’s like to not be able to really Do Anything while careproviding for teengers with disabilities who need to verbally process 15 hours a day and who also have no peers, even when I’m planting seeds in the morning chill, somebody’s throwing pinecones at me, I mean, it’s my honor to be his sidekick most of the time but now he’s getting to be that age where he wants to Get Rich and Buy Property and Own Stuff and Wear Gucchi and Be Popular like Jay Z, too, it’s a lot to listen to for fifteen hours at a time. I can’t stand capitalist rappers or rich people who like try to assimilate Basquiat into their brands like Jay Z and the Strokes do. I can’t stand this fuckedup winner takes all dochebag inheritance capitalist society. I miss the new wave eighties. I wanna go back.
GRAY
I used to live on Rivington and all those 80’s artists were still around.
Aint nothing that cool in our hot garbage dystopian culture no more, I did see how Chris Rock represented Prince on his Netflix special and he was very, very good, actually. Maybe almost as good as Chappelle who also always honors the memory of Prince. Rock’s gotten bolder, more political, talks about class and the fake P.C. bullshit that distracts from REAL PEOPLE WHO NEED HELP. Solidarity, yo!
“Nuland is a hard-line neoconservative who was a key sponsor of a 2014 coup that overthrew Ukraine’s democratically elected, geopolitically neutral President Viktor Yanukovych and installed a pro-Western regime, setting off the war that continues to this day”
(-Ben Norton)
THE PROXY WAR IS A BIG MONEY LAUNDERING SCHEME JUST HANDING MORE BILLIONS TO RICH WEAPON MAKERS FOR MASS MURDER!
“America Albright “Killing 500,000 Iraqi children was worth it”. Bush jokes “Those WMDs have got to be here somewhere” after lying us into a war that killed a million people. Hillary “We saw, we came, he died” after the murder of Gaddafi. Obama shrugs “Ok, we tortured some folks”.
Don’t forget that when the U.S. Gov’t lied and said Iraq had WMDs to give us a reason to invade that country, as bad as a person as you think Saddam Hussein was, he was the one telling the truth.
Remember when Biden said the U.S. would end the pipeline, it blew it up, his Administration celebrated it, and then they all tried to make us think we were crazy for saying they did it.
Joe Biden, Lindsey Graham, Bernie Sanders, Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi and AOC all agree that spending $100 billion on Ukraine and our weapons manufacturers is the right thing to do Stop voting for the GOP and Dems, they don’t care about you and both Parties are bought off.
The owners knew from Biden’s decades long resume that he would gladly do exactly what he was told, that’s why the Establishment of both Parties helped him get elected and why our tax payers just gave $100 billion to their donors for the proxy war they’ve worked on for years.
Apparently, the United States gets a head start on how many countries they get to invade before our Presidents and their warmongers are considered war criminals What is it like a thousand? People that want billions of our tax dollars to go to a proxy war that our Gov’t spent years trying to start when most of that money is going to their donors will ignore the facts we present and write it all off as “Russian propaganda”.
People that want billions of our tax dollars to go to a proxy war that our Gov’t spent years trying to start when most of that money is going to their donors will ignore the facts we present and write it all off as “Russian propaganda”. That’s how brainwashed many Americans are.
They are already setting us up to make sure we hate China enough to support getting Taiwan destroyed in their next proxy war. If Covid came from the Wuhan lab, the United States paid for the research. It’s scary to know how many people will believe anything our Gov’t tells them as long as it comes from the politicians they like.
Remember when Ukrainian soldiers laid 10 Russian POW’s face down on the ground and shot them all in the back of the head and nobody cared?
51 former Intelligence Agents didn’t just drop out of the blue sky and decide to call Hunter’s laptop ‘Russian disinformation’ They were sent by the Establishment to help interfere in our election, and somebody needs to start answering some questions. After our Gov’t and media lied to us for 20 years about what was happening in Afghanistan, how could you not even wonder if what you are being told now by the same people isn’t propaganda too? China didn’t take our jobs from us, the people that are trying to get us to be ok with going to war with them gave our jobs away to make more money for themselves. There is a Peace Rally in DC on March 18, I can’t make this one, but fully support it
I know some may be bitter about what was done to try to destroy the Rage Against the War Machine Rally.
Don’t let that stop your support for this one, we need as many people as we can get…” (-Black In The Empire)
The local online weather forecast says it’s supposed to warm up later today. I sure hope so ’cause I kinda had plans to plant some more flowers and vegetables, fuss around with the yard but so far this morning, it’s too cold to be outside comfortably. My teen’s online searching for his long absent siblings, we don’t even know what cities they’re in half the time which is hard on the old man’s heart. Excited about the garden cause I needed some project while my music ventures await some kinda adaptor arriving in the mail for the little amplifier and trying to find a time when an eccentric guitar player is available to help lay some new tracks down and the old lad’s been sick and we’re all on different schedules and the guitarist is a pedestrian like myself, etc. She wakes up, does her job, or takes kid to class at his alternative learning school, I end up spending too much time alone cause the terrain here makes is perilous to go for walks. Part of the culture here is snarling dogs everywhere. Me and the boy tossed a brand new Wilson football back n forth until we determined that there are just too many goat’s heads in the yard and moved out to the street. All our neighbors are, um, well, typically characteristic of the desert Southwest I guess you could day-the brothers down the road a piece on the other side of the burned down house and the vacant squat, who are always fighting down on one end-they live behind badly build sheet metal scraps in a series of junk RV’s. Guy across the street is coming and going, switchin’ out his vehicles, leavin’ again all day. He’s got a Let’s Go Brandon sign in the yard and a frequent visitor who seems to have Tourette’s. Everybody is weird in the desert, I can tell you that. It’s because of all the tedium, the monotony is a killer. It’s why all the kids want to run away to the big city. City slickers come here but can’t stand it by the fourth day, just buy up property to have and to hoard, to gloat about…so many houses are never occupied, or only occupied four days a year. People on the other side got vehicles in the yard and lights come on at night, but I’ve never seen ’em. People behind us, a dude in his forties with a big truck and his mom, they got an electric fence and a series of buildings and they seem secretive and standoffish, real paranoid vibes, like, “don’t look at me!”, which is fine by me, we ain’t here to make friends, but it kinda reminds me of that Tom Waits song, “What’s He Building In There”. Our cats love the picture windows cause there’s bird’s nests in the trees. Way behind us on the other end, an old man has shit tons of turkeys and chickens. I love the deadend desert except for the boredom, the weaponized dogs, the psycho hermits, and I am def. sick of the same old food. Garbage food, here. would you prefer Wal-Mart or McDonald’s or gas station or ridiculously overpriced pizza? That’s the funny part about all the airbaand b city slick gentrifiers who think they’re gonna get rich quick transforming a ruined old elderly ghost town into a fifteen minute mimosa city, they don’t have any posh food to eat cause there aint none. One place that tries to be posh for tourists is only open like three hours a day four days a week. Man I can’t stand hipsters. My old record store boss Thom Jones has a great podcast called “HIPSTERS SUCK”.
“The first NY Times mention of Seymour Hersh’s blockbuster investigation into the Nordstream bombing came in the 25th paragraph of article relying on unnamed US officials spinning out an implausible narrative to deflect blame away from the US government. Op Mockingbird lives.
Tlaib’s handlers insist a public meeting about environmental issues is not the time or the place to ask a sitting member of Congress about US responsibility for bombing Nordstream – one of the worst acts of environmental sabotage in history.” (-Max Blumenthal)
“You know Groups, they sail around the world destroying international undersea energy infrastructure.”
(-CaitlinJohnstone)
“There might be too many countries refusing to obey the orders of the United States now for our Gov’t to coup them all. As Americans we must wake up and get out of this Dem vs GOP, Fox vs MSNBC world they’ve created for us.
We have to understand that we don’t live in a democracy and our owners don’t care about democracy. We must stop allowing our country to do what they condemn from others.
It’s not speculation. Our Gov’t knowingly funded Nazis in Ukraine for years. That’s not a conspiracy theory, or Russian propaganda. It is literally in legislation.
used to think the “Deep State”, “Permanent State” or whatever you want to call it was a conspiracy theory too. Then I had a chance and time to pay attention to the world outside of the propaganda I used to be a victim of and still partially probably am. It has us in this war.” (-Black In The Empire)
“Since the U.S. claims it wants to crack down on misinformation campaigns, perhaps it should investigate the NYTs misinformation campaign on Nord Stream attack? The arrogance of the white supremacist mind makes it impossible for it to understand how latest propaganda ploy with the misinformation campaign on the U.S. attack on Nord Stream pipelines is making the U.S. press a laughing stock around the world.” (-Ajamu Baraka)
“Scholz’s visit underscored that US media is state media. No joint presser, for obvious reasons: they can’t risk a question from a German reporter about Sy Hersh’s Nord Stream scoop.
Everyone here got the memo: no US outlet covering Scholz’s visit even mentioned Hersh’s story.” (-Aaron Mate’)
Growing up in a pre Ebay world, rich people still left our second hand stores alone until like the 90’s when those greedy scumbag hipsters satreted ransacking the thrift stores for their awful hipster boutiques, driving up the prices of everything. When I was a teenager I paid about $5 for the Wayne Kramer “Negative Girls” 45, not $100, and the people who sold it to me knew perfectly well who he was and took delight that some MTV new wave kid was exploring older music from the Motor City. I had that Iron Virgin 45 that fetches huge collector prices and just bought it on a whim along with a lotta other cool lookin’ second hand swag. Now you can’t even get that shit half the time. A t shirt I wanted is $50. T shirts we’ve owned in the past twenty years are listed for $500 on Etsy. It’s crazy. So I usually don’t even think about buying books or records or music equipment or old posters or concert tickets anymore. It’s a tough hustle just to keep the cabinets stocked with groceries. Dispicable politicians go on tv and brag about how great the economy is for themselves and their Goldman sachs and Moderna and Lockheed Martin and Wal-Mart friends, but not for any of us peasants, I can tell ya that. When I moved to Ny and Boston and saw what bigcity shops wanted for old glam 45’s I was shocked way back in the nineties, now everything is owned by people I don’t like and that’s just the way it goes, read ’em and weep. As X sang, “We’re desperate/get used to it”. I’ll never join the obedience signaling, sniveling snitch squad, cancel culture scolding committes or be a stormtrooper for the evil empire, cause out here on my lonely desert planet, Rebels Rule.
“Governments do not willingly reveal their crimes. We need fearless publishers like Julian Assange. Fearless whistleblowers like Chelsea Manning and Daniel Hale.” (- @GabrielShipton, brother of Julian Assange)
“Fascism is capitalism in distress. The great reset, AKA stakeholder capitalism, is cementing that fascism under a flowery new name. This was always the end goal, all of the exploitation with no ability to resist or push back. It’s just a front for corporations truly owning us.” (-The Snow Himbo)
” The Democrats have essentially become the party of the coastal upper middle class, academia, and big tech. Fighting for meaningful domestic and foreign policy reform has been replaced with identity based virtue signaling, to distract from Reaganomics based neoliberalism.” (-Tom Pietrycha)
“A friend wrote this to me on Facebook “Chomsky once said if all the Post-World War II US Presidents were tried according to the Nuremberg Charter, they’d all be hanged.”
Facebook had a note saying “This comment is hidden because it might be offensive.” (-Maragret Kimberley)
“People keep saying “Capitalism is failing”, but it’s just not true.
After centuries of exploitation, Capitalism is finally poised to achieve its ultimate goal: the transfer of EVERY PENNY of wealth into the hands of a few wealthy psychopaths. Say Hello to the Great Reset.” (-So Called Johnny Graz)
“According to Democrats if you criticize Pete Buttigieg you are homophobic & if you criticize Kamala Harris you are sexist & racist. The party has no interest in being held accountable & why would it when it can just weaponize identity politics to shield itself from any criticism. As the majority of the wealth in the U.S. gets even more concentrated at the top both capitalist parties are leaning into the culture wars & insisting that the problem is your neighbor to deflect from the fact that the problem has always been our capitalist & imperialist system.” (-Ryan Knight)
“If the invasion of Iraq was a “mistake”, western government officials would be residing in prison cells at The Hague, countless pundits and journalists would now be working behind cash registers in retail shops, and US foreign policy would have undergone a massive, dramatic overhaul. Instead the exact opposite has happened — the western officials who launched the Iraq War are esteemed members of elite society, the pundits and journalists who manufactured consent for it are at the top of their field, and securing US unipolar hegemony by any means necessary is the accepted status quo norm in mainstream politics.
This is because the Iraq War was not a “mistake”. It was a cold, calculated decision which had precisely the effects it was intended to have: the advancement of western energy interests, greater geostrategic control, and the expansion of the US war machine in key geostrategic regions. Someone who makes a “mistake” doesn’t get everything they always wanted as a result and suffer zero consequences for the damage it caused. That’s what happens to someone who took a deliberate, calculated action in their own interests.
You can only pretend the Iraq War was a “mistake” if you accept the official reasons for starting it: getting those WMDs, spreading freedom and democracy to those poor Iraqis who we love, and making the Middle East a safer and more peaceful place for everyone. It’s not okay for grown adults in the year 2023 to believe those were the real intentions behind the invasion of Iraq.
If the invasion of Iraq was a mistake there would have been changes put in place to make sure nothing like it ever happens again. Those changes were never made because they thoroughly intend to do similar things in the future.” (-Caitlin Johnstone)
“Russia’s war is a horrific war but it pales in comparison to the crimes of the US empire. We must bring them all to a stop … How idiotic to you need to be to think we can take on Russia and China at the same time? ” (-Dr. Jill Stein)
“They want you to think that it’s morally right to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to fight to the last Ukrainian. We are here today to say no, no to the war machine, no to the proxy war in Europe!” (-Eugene Puryear)
We have an urgent stake in this war bc this is for the defense of humanity. We cannot continue to stand by & watch the US govt play with our lives. They do not care about the Ukrainian people. Ukraine is a battleground in their war.” – Claudia De la Cruze of @PeoplesForumNYC
Nowadays, some kid with his parent’s credit card can find out about everything online and release his own rehashed/recycled versions of everything, overnight almost, but when we were kids, there were only 3 tv stations and they weren’t playing the latest hip shit from England. When I was growing up, I had Elvis, Suzi Quatro as Leather Tusquedero on “Happy Days”, Sha Na Na, Bay City Rollers, David Essex. It was a long time before I found out about David Bowie and the NY Dolls. I’m from a smalltown in Kentucky. My cousins still like get awards for cows, sell cows for big money, that kinda thing. I was never gonna be a 4-H blue ribbon kid, cause I had this spark inside of me from a young age. When I heard Stray Cats, I loved ’em. The Stones and Doors, though…! That’s what really got me.
Man ya know summa us old school underground punknrollers have seen how the evil muzak industry has hijacked all our old influences and turned them stupid for their bullshit billionaire brainwash agendas, destroyed our favorite places, taken music videos off the air and replaced ’em with unreality show “lifestyle programming” which is mostly just douchey rich kids gloating on beaches, and as Chris Hedges has observed, the takeaway message of all those shows is to be ruthless, undermine your friends, backstab, lie, cheat, steal and vote somebody off the island. I’m not into any of that shit or the nu fauxwoke occult pop muzak which is always the same bullshit about industry slaves selling out to the man, disassociation, monarch programming, all that garbage. Meanwhile, all the old geezers are being “replaced” with theses sucky substitutes. Pig media keeps trying to tell us Lady Gaga is Bowie or some shit, it’s just horrible. We here at the Out Crowd outback bonfire down by the railroad tracks, we try to more properly remember our forebears, even and especially bands who came before us who aren’t particularly venerated by that sham hot garbage evil pyramid scheme industry Hall Of Hypocrisy. One great band, like Suicide and the Hollywood Brats, who never get enough credit or respect, espacially not in the phony baloney selective outrage safespace times, is SILVERHEAD! Robbie Blunt, Rod Rook Davies, Nigel harrison, Pete Thompson, and Michael Des Barres were makin’ our kinda raucous racket with style and flair and runny mascara all the way back in 1972, I was only like two, when they were tearin’ up stages and layin’ down all those hedonistic rocknroll classics, “Hello NY”, “Rollin’ With My Baby” and “16 & Savaged”. After breakin’ up in ’74, Michael went on to front Detective on Led Zeppelin’s Swan Song label before joining Checkered Past with various Blondies and Sex Pistols. Nigel joined Nite City with keyboardist Ray Manzarek and Rare Earth guitarplayer Paul Warren, making two record store memorable albums with those guys before goin’ on to fame and fortune with Blondie. He wrote “Union City Blue” and “One Way Or Another” but was awkwardly rejected when he wished to appear alongside his former bandmates at that Sham Of Fame induction, which was sad. Michael Des Barres of course became a shit hot character actor appearing in tons of movies and tv shows, replacing Robert Palmer in the Power Station, and having that documentary about his life made which we reviewed here awhile back. When I see and hear old Silverhead, ya know I’m like, “THAT’S how ya do it!” I still love that band, in style or not. I hope they release a dvd of those reunion concerts they did in Tokyo awhile back.
Another underrated band that formed when I was just a kid of like maybe five, were the mighty SLAUGHTER & THE DOGS from Manchester who took their name as a tribute to Bowie & Ronson and infamously opened for the Pistols at that notorious Lesser Free Trade hall gig in ’76. Rob Gretton helped them finance their first single, “Cranked Up really High” and later on managed Joy Division. I probably first saw ’em in the “Punk Rock Movie” on some older friend’s third hand copied bootlegged VHS when I was maybe 16, I knew some older dudes who were self proclaimed punks and they lived close to a used record store and gradually acquired a room full of weird records including “Bite Back” and “Do It Dog Style”. Mostly I hungout with those guys cause they never stopped buying beer and cigarettes and their parents let them do whatever they wanted so we spent a lot of time in the unfinished back room of their house where they wrote graffiti all over the walls, jumping up and down and drinking heavily and blaring the Dogs loud enough to disturb their very conventional smalltown neighbors if not their indulgent, perpetually pajama clad, slow moving, Southern Fried elderly parents. In those years, in the cornfields of the Midwest, the older people we met, who’d gone away to college in big cities and shit, who knew about punk, were mostly like hardcore people into Black Flag and Circle Jerks, Dead Kennedys and did I mention Black Flag? I was always comin’ from more of a new wave background, so a band that was punk but also dressed cool and were heavily Slade and Bowie influenced, that was right up my alley. I liked bands who could write songs and have memorable lyrics and catchy melodies. They kinda probably pointed the way to the kinda songs we’d end up writing two or three years later. I’m happy the UK still has that Rebellion festival and “VIVE LE ROCK” magazine who still celebrate this kinda underground punk culture and tradition. I always love when the originals reunite. I’m a sentimental sap like that.
IF YOU WANNA BE PUNK AS FUCK, SAY SOMETHING WITH YOUR PLATFORMS AND ACCESS! ORGANIZE! FREE ASSANGE! PURGE THE WEF POLITICIANS! STOP THE WARS!
“You gotta watch some of these folks who claim to be against the war in Ukraine, but it’s bc they want a war on China. That’s gonna be the case as long as you have imperialism.” (- @freedomrideblog of @blkagendareport)
“I’m not Pro-Putin, I’m anti-American warmongering. If Russia overthrew Mexico’s Gov’t, replaced it with a Gov’t that hates the US and then started training and arming their soldiers to fight us, none of these people flying the Ukrainian flag would be saying our Gov’t should ignore it. I’m gonna keep showing that truth and more until brainwashed Americans stop repeating the propaganda they’ve been fed that this was totally unprovoked. I’ll keep showing the recording of Nuland picking Ukraine’s new Gov’t before the coup.
Video of Graham and McCain pushing Ukraine into war with Russia after a signed Peace Agreement. Ukrainians burning Russians alive in Odessa after the coup and Ukraine shelling Donbass.
Our Gov’t doesn’t care about us, but you think they care about Ukraine. This is a war our Gov’t spent years provoking, with the UK put a stop to a Peace deal last April, is prolonging by providing Ukraine with weapons, and lying to us about Ukraine having a chance to win.
The people we’ve allowed to be in power are pure evil. For all the propagandized people out there,
Russia beat Ukraine a long time ago. Ukraine is now totally relying on NATO for weapons, cash, training and intelligence. Russia is at war with NATO- Ukraine is just responsible for doing the dying for them. Americans
List the countries that are responsilble for the deaths of more civilians than the US in the last 25 years and we’re including sanctions. I realize now that many Americans have heard the word “sanction” so much that they have no idea that it means we are going to try to make innocent people suffer and die in other countries hoping they will turn against their Gov’t. China is making Peace deals, the US is fueling a war they provoked.” (-Black In The Empire)
“The Democrats are so bad that Trump can make a sorta plausible lesser evil case for himself.” (-Aaron Good)
“This is a proxy war but also a dress rehearsal for a bigger war on China. Think about the dimensions of the madness here: the US couldn’t defeat the Taliban but wants to go to war w/ Russia & China. Crazy. Yet there’s no debate. “(- @BrianBeckerDC, director of@answercoalition)
“It’s not a “whataboutism” to say it’s absurd to charge Putin with war crimes without charging Bush, it’s a completely devastating argument against the claim being made. If the law doesn’t apply to everyone, then it’s not the law, it’s just corruption. It’s a tool of the powerful.” (-Caitlin Johnstone)
I haven’t thrown my back out in a long time, but managed to somehow. Up early with the cats again, still dark outside. It’s like a two mile hike to the nearest gas station so I have to confront the cold outside and ask myself if I’m ready to walk a mile for a Camel or if I want that Bud to be for me. I’m hearing Henry Rollins in my head, that old Henrietta Collins ep. Also, Bill Hicks singing commercial jingles mocking our programming that still has me in a bit of it’s spell. Last night I dreamt me and the old natureboy sideman Nasty Bastard were on a softball team with Axl Rose. I don’t have a whole lot of sports dreams, I can tell ya that. To me, “Sports” is a lousy Huey Lewis album, right? Not a sporto, not even on the big game days. I think it’s cause I saw Axl sing at Lisa Marie’s funeral and then guest star with Carrie Underwood, who did all his old dances energetically, he kinda looks like a hulking wrestler nowadays but at least he got rod of the absurd cornrows. I saw an advertisement for the Rainbow Bar & Grill 51st anniversary show being headlined by Geoff Tate who summa my smalltown sorta nerd friends loved, but I was never into the high pitched singing and scoffed at pseudo intellectual sci-fi metalheads who would actually repremand me in the metal years for not having the high pitched screechy vocal range. The Queensryche album “Operation Mindcrime” was taken really seriously by the metal dudes I knew, the way the hippies and the boomers revered Pink Floyd’s “The Wall”, in the decades before they plugged into the propaganda machines and all became pro war slogan echoes. The Rainbow bash will be co hosted by Danny Nordahl the prince of the party and Jesse Camp, that dude who made it on MTV right when they were switching over to douchey boyband Axe cologne lifestyle programming. Man, that guy got on my nerves with his fake surfer valley girl Spicoli speak and it felt like he’d stolen my backstory about running away to Saint Mark’s Place as a kid, but they really gave him the big heave ho industry shove-paid Bubble to be his studio band, put Stevie Nicks on his album for a duet. It still only sold about as many copies as my old 45.Faster Pussycat are worth seein’, cause Taime and Danny got a rambunctious lineup of energetic blouses doin’ alla the old Brent n Greg moves with plenty of youthful gusto. It says the Zeros will be there too, now does that mean Sammy Serious and some ex Astro Vamps or Revlon Reds or Foxxy Roxx kids in purple wigs, or the real lineup that played the big reunion show at the Whiskey? I dunno, but if it’s the original Mr. Insane, Joe Normal, Danny Dangerous bunch, I’d go see them if I was one of you El Lay people. “Lizzy Borden, Santa Cruz and many more…”
On my own until the late afternoon so ya know I got my electronic dog deterrant, my Spiderman backpack, my leather jacket and gloves, my big trail stick, psyched myself up for a dangerous long walk through perilous terrain, but by the time I hit the street in the freezing rain and already heard all the big dogs barking down the road, I could feel my bad lower back is out again and said, “fuck this” and retreated back into my warm house, where I’ll be reading a stack of “Cowboy & Indians” like coffeetable slick magazine for rich farmers, I gotta stack of ’em for free. Hopin’ maybe I can resell ’em online to some rich rancher’s wife.
CORPORATE MONOPOLIES OWN EVERYTHING NOW-EVEN AND ESPECIALLY THE MEDIA PROFESSIONALS
Remember when that jammy grunge bongwater flannel shirt wounded beagle band, Pearl Jam supposedly “took on” Ticketmaster for five minutes before Congress patted them on the head and sent them back to their smoky, self congratulating Seattleland treehouse mansions? Burntout Recluse remembers. Van Morrison told Michael Goldberg that the music industry is more tightly restricted than the banks and it seems like that guy knew what he was talkin’ about. Those greedheads just squeeze and squeeze us Divided Slaves Of Amnesia like we squeeze out the last bits of ten dollar toothpaste. I can’t imagine being rich enough to even contemplate buying tickets to some big show. If I was somehow magically made Lotto ticket middle class somehow, it’d be hard for me to refuse seeing the Cure, Billy Idol, Duran, or that Cruel World festival. I love all those old new wave geezers!
“I don’t believe any claim until its been labeled “Russian disinformation” by the main stream media.” (-Garland Nixon)
“Narcissists can’t ever be wrong. They will bend reality in order to pretend they are right. When you have a group of them all reassuring each other that their shared delusion is fine and that group just happens to have the ability to brainwash a nation into war, that’s a problem.” (-Caitlin Johnstone)
VIVE LA REVOLUTION!
So the French people will still rise up and fight back against the Klaus puppet Macron pushing laws that nobody wants without so much as a vote. Of course, the corporate owned richpeople gestapo kkkops and private mercenaries who do state violence for their masters will always beat the people for protesting. Then they get arrested, have criminal records and the real crooks have martinis in the ivory towers and always get away with their crimes against the poor. My own country have been trained to NOT protest, to NEVER so much as march politely, cause they don’t wanna offend any rich people, or inconvenience business owners. Only time people mobilize here is in some election year astroturf “women’s march” intended to benefit the DNC or during a controlled BLM moment designed to channel our healthy, righteous rage back into the illusion our votes somehow make a difference even after years of seeing all the pretty talkers get elected only to vote with the far right warpigs, or corporate state anti poor people elites, it’s sad. Only protest I’ve ever seen where I live, is when some evangelical teenagers convened to sing gospel on a corner, some new age feminist Wiccan witch ladies came outside their new age boutiques to make noise and try to disrupt them, cause they felt triggered and offended. That’s how intollerant the fauxleft has become in my country, if you don’t share someone’s religious beliefs, so what, have some civility, treat people like you wanna be treated, but no. The pig-media keeps all the people arguing over bullshit. Different preferred sexual positions, different menus, or even shit none of us have any control over, it’s sad, really. Both Democrats and Republicans Love The Rich & HATE The poor. Both Democrats and Republicans Love War & cancel and defriend, shun, and blacklist people who hold their fave politicians accountable. Shitlibs think we are all obliged to unconditionally worship female politicians like goddesses on Mt. Olympus cause that’s what they wre taught at the expensive Navel Gazing University. Got their advanced degrees in Fraudsquad Studies. I have associates who think that protesting is wrong, bad, shameful, something they would never do, unless of course rich women on tv ordered them to, for “science and diversity”. There is a big march on Washington tomorrow, another antiwar rally, but no one I know is participating cause they’re all busy signaling their obedience on Facebook, taking backstage selfies with replacement members of old bands who got lucky in the seventies. That kinda thing. They have all been trained to hate the Russians, the Chinese, the Mexicans, the Muslims, the Iranians, the Palestinians, the homeless…Everybody but their actual rulers, and exploiters, their true oppressors. I’ll show them stuff about how Flint was never repaired and how all the guilty politicians got off, and they’re like “NA NA NA NA NA NA I CAN’T HEAR YOU!!! OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA!” That’s like all they know how to say, now. “OBAMA, OBAMA, THANK YOU OBAMA, DOCTOR JILL BIDEN FOR SCIENCE! DOCTOR, DOCTOR, DOCTOR, DOCTOR! OH, THANK YOU OBAMA! OBAMA, OBAMA, CLASSY OBAMA, WOKE AND CLASSY OBAMA, WOKE AND WOKE AND WOKE AND WOKE…”
They think the Maga people are propagandized and brainwashed, but never themselves, and it’s all Trump or Putin’s fault. Or Chapelle, they really hate him.
FRANCE FIGHTS BACK! I can always identify more with resistance cultures than I can they obedient hut two slaves.
“It would be comical if it wasn’t so dangerously pathological how the U.S. and Europe refers to themselves as the “world.” Most of the real world sees the U.S. as greatest threat to peace & U.S./Europe as an existential threat to collective humanity. can anyone figure out what the U.S. strategy is supposed to be with all of these escalations targeting the Chinese? Also, does anyone know why the Chinese & Russians became the enemy?” (-Ajamu Baraka)
Hyperactive musician JOE NORMAL has finally put most of his singles together on one album. “Small Town Factory”, “Bayway Refinery” and “Living In The Borough” pay homage to his hometown Elizabeth, New Jersey mixing nostalgia and blue collar stories. “Setback” offers us an interesting mix of blues and electronic percussions while “New England Girl” offers us some well-arranged romantic pop. On the other hand, you’ll hear a touch of sadness in “I Ain’t No” and in “Warinanco Pond” as well as a bit of psychedelism in “Is It My Imagination”. The BEATLES influence is quite obvious when listening to these songs especially in “Ya Gotta Open Your Heart” or in “The Usung Heroes That Time Never Knew”. Joe describes is music as Glamericana and that’s quite a good word for it when you listen to “Summer Jobs” or “We Are The Normal”. Former ZEROS member is now turning into a working class hero, make sure you listen to this album. /Laurent C.
“A summary of Joe Biden’s presidency in two figures: $886 billion for the military industrial complex. $0 for the poisoned people of East Palestine.” (-Danny Haiphong)
“Whatever you think of the SVB bailout, I want you to really sit with the fact that rich VC’s just got an Insta bailout while the people of East Palestine can’t even get a straight answer as to whether their kids have been poisoned.” (-Krystal Ball)
FREE SPEECH DOES NOT MEAN SPEECH THAT MAKES YOU FEEL GOOD OR SPEECH THAT YOU AGREE WITH!
I understand if people protesting the construction of an enormous IDF style urban military training facility funded by like 25 private corporations in the Atlanta forest is not everybody’s cause, but when a citizen is shot to death while sitting cross legged with his hands up, witnesses say he had no gun, that cops were returning friendly fire, and presented zero bodycam evidence that they had any legit reason to “fear for their lives” and all those people demonstrating against assassination of a treesitter kid are imprisoned without bail and charged with domestic terrorism, we are not free, which is why I stood with the Capital Hill Maga people’s right to protest, even though defending Donald J. Trump is certainly not my personal preferred cause. I’ve seen footage of Qshaman being ushered around by cops in the capital. Big media coverup of the cop city killing and dozens of protestors being charged with “terrorism” by the extrajudicial state executioners, sheesh, just like in east Palestine purposeful chemical burn making people sick and killing pets and wildlife and destroying all those farms on the Ohio/Pennsylvania border where they wanna get rid of the Amish and strip mine for cobalt. Cops there are branding Erin Brockovich a terrorist for organizing sick people against Blackrock.
BUCKCHERRY ARE STILL MAKING ENERGETIC SLEAZY EIGHTIES HAIR METAL! UNREAL!
I might go to see some new wave bands but I do not even understand how all the sports and events people can stand to shell out hundreds upon hundreds of dollars to be herded into stadiums like livestock and just see pre recorded bullshit and greedy old men going through the motions of pretending to play forty year old songs in wigs with big screens and pyro. Guns N Roses and Poison and the Crue are just like so not rocknroll to me at this point, they are mainstream moneymaking machines, might as well be fucking Foo Fighters and none of them can really write good songs anymore. That “Hard Skool” song did not even get one vote at Sleaze Roxx year end poll. Which makes sense cause they just aint got it anymore, no music people wanna hear those shite covers they play with their twenty piece employee orchestras. Shoulda consented to equal sharing the loot with Izzy.
I was preachin to all the people I used to know all the way back in the Sub-Pop years that some mediocre bands were being applauded and praised not because their songs rang with any lasting truth or conveyed any real emotions or featured any artistic innovations. Starting around that time, post college radio, post grunge, lots of these trustafarians were being applauded because their parents were wealthy and gave them shit. There was very little in the way of real art or music happening, it was all tribute band fourth hand retro imitation coverband rehash, but people were very excited by some tailored high end clothing, or vintage looking musical appartus-all it takes, I blame all that “The Hills” and “Kardashians” and Jake Paul influencer unreality show get rich Spin magazine lifetstyle programming. People were not even listening for good songs, it’s like they were giving a standing ovation to the price of all the shit the hipster bands owned. I’ve never been much of a pricetag praiser, personally. I even liked summa the hairspray metal bands a bit better than much of the hoax alternative and inheritance-indie shit that followed Cobain’s death.
I’ve said before how I thought that cool lookin’ Jetboy suffered from a certain lyrical dumbness in spite of all their snazzy apparel, although I do think “Don’t Touch My Hair” is a great song title for a glam band, but I felt like American Heartbreak really had a promising awareness of like, what makes a song at least above average, if not always exceptional, rather than just some halfass metalhead genre exercise like you know, “Feel The Shake/Feel The Earth Shake”, I mean that’s some sub Quiet Riot writing there in my opinion, but people loved it, I dunno know how, but metalheads don’t ask alot from their bands, do they? You know I totally can say that about that “Feel The Shake” chorus just always being dumb to me, but alsoeasily still agree Jetboy were infinitely better than some of the other also ran, lesser band, stupid spandex monkeys of the Sunset Strip. After reaching a higher peak of being able to write better, more power pop influenced songs with American Heartbreak, you’d think the Jetboy/American Heartbreak guy, Billy Rowe would encourage Buck Cherry’s still energetic livewire frontman Josh Todd to wanna work harder on his lyric writing, cause as a collective nowadays, they seem to have such renewed promise with Rowe onboard but it seems to kinda imply a band are more career oriented than art oriented when they are kinda lazily goin’ through the party time halfhearted heavy metal parking lot songwriting motions, ya know what I’m sayin’? With all the revolving door lineup brands especially like Guns N Roses and L.A. Guns, it seems many of the aging headbands are coasting on their old fame rather than feeling any urge to create anything new, or vital, or lasting, or meaningful for their fans.Most all the remaining hairbands seem primarily money oriented, hawking overpriced t shirts, overpriced Cameos, overpriced meet n greets, and playing big venues for the bread. Buck Cherry and Kix both seem harder working than most of their contemporaries though and both of those bands at least always endeavor to at least give the fans a real worthwhile, energetic live show. Vince has turned into Sam Kinison. Who even knows who is in L.A. Guns this week? Both guys are such complainer divas. I think Frankie Delmane from the Crazy Squeeze is more talented and authentic than any of the big money tattooed millionaire ex glam guys on the festival circuit.
When they have some halfway decent songs, like they did on their first record, Buck Cherry aren’t bad at all, probably even better than their original role models Guns N Roses, post-Appetite, I loved that first album and still consider it to be the last real good hard rock album to crack the mainstream. Songs like, “Lawless & Lulu”, “Borderline”, “For The Movies” and “Lit Up” are still echoing loudly through my traumatized old numbskull in spite of the fact that I went on a date with a hot girl named Ginger once to a meathead bar in the midwest and had to excuse myself early cause she could not stop talking about Josh Todd, but after that masterpiece sleaze metal landmark debut record, they seem to generate a relentless surplus of only so-so, ho-hum formulaic stuff after their Steve Jones produced first record, ya know? I mean I understand it gets ’em on the radio, the sniveling, syrupy autopilot ballads, but like, that “Sorry” song was awful in my opinion, “Ridin” sounded like nu metal, Korn or Limp Bizkit, almost. I don’t mind even the second string Buck Cherry tunes in small does, but I always want them to be better than they are, they’re just kindof like generic Waxl knockoffs and if they applied themselves, they might have turned into a timelessly good rock band, but they seem lazy in the songwriting department, like they don’t really make much of an effort to say anything that really means much or has any real heart invested in it, cause it’s seemingly enough to jump up an down and sound like poorman’s “Appetite” imitations, I mean I get that there is an audience for that, probably the same demigraphic who Brett Michaels appeals to, but just really not satisfying my desire to have a really good rocknroll band to listen to, they are like 1/4 of what a rocknroll band should be in my book, cause you know, I am a lyrics guy, I felt that way about a popular English band, too. And oh man, Steel Panther are THE WORST. I can not stand joke rock with dumb goofy fucking idiotic horndog fratboy lyrics, although I think Ralph is a formidable frontman like when he sings Roth’s lyrics. Just way too stupid for me to even try to sit through. Like I WANNA like these groups, but I should not have to make such an effort. Like that “Crazy Bitch” song, I know exactly what’s he’s sayin’, I been there, but the unimaginative power ballads and jump up and down scuzzmetal anthems just fall short, like Skid Row without Sebastian is even better than summa Buck Cherry’s lesser material, you know the “Gang’s All Here” version with that new guy who sings real high, but aint Sebastian who the fans all prefer. Or those terrible songs Nikki Sixx knocks out nowadays, like that shit with Machine Gun Whatsisname on the Dirt soundtrack that Tommy seems to think was good. Last thing I kinda even begrudgingly liked by Motley Crue was “Saints Of Los Angeles” and I don’t even know if Nikki wrote it, really, I think his friend might have. I guess in the hair metal world, nobody cares about writing really good songs, but like, to me, if you had all that access, and big studios and all that, why wouldn’t you want your songs to be great? Cause like Nikki Sixx is capable of writing really good songs, but he’s just become too content cashing checks for playing big stadium shows and just trading on his first four albums, I guess that’s what happens when you make all that big money. You end up not having anything real to say. I liked “Angel Down” by Sebastian Bach. That Brett Michaels retro road anthem, you know, it was okay on a commercial country kinda way, but yeah, man where are all the good rocknroll bands at? Been 25 years of like at best, rich kids throwing their money around, showing off their expensive clothes and playing covers, basically-I’m not really into it, at all. Like, yes, I see you wearing nice clothes but so what, most of these modern bands that kids all like and even old farts who should no better, and be more discerning, by now, it’s pitiful the way they all line up to applaud the clothes and money posers-“Money and Threads” was the title of a song I wrote about the Strokes like 25 years ago, I was sayin’ that’s all they got goin’, no real effort ever goes into being real at all, it’s just primping around with fancy hats and people seem to love all that-all that’s required is fucking having money ya know what I’m sayin’? People just throwin cash in the air like late nineties douchebag rappers. Showing off their $500 hats and bragging non stop about how they have sugar daddies, obviously, pumping money into them non stop for like only average to boring genre hag rehash. Sugar daddy rawk, gentrification bands with showbiz uncles, don’t do much for me besides getting on my nerves, really. Zero danger, zero heart, minimal commitment, and no originality or intimate expression, ya know? Capitalism Brats. Fuckin A man, just not my thing at all, but I was watching some John Varvatos produced show about women in rock and it was really good actually-Mavis Staples, Wanda Jackson, Patti Smith, Ricky Lee Jones, Romeo Void, Pat Benatar and Heart, X Ray Spex, Macey Gray, not enough Sinead or Chrissie Hynde in my opinion, but it was pretty rad at first but then they jump the shark by trying to impose these corporate narratives about how Beyonce is so great because she sells a lotta records. Her best song I ever heard was “Put A Ring On It” which is supposed to pass for some kinda feminist empowerment statement, and she did not even write it, some dude did. “Ring on it”, ya know? Cause diamonds. I dunno why people go along with the story about how Diddy, Kany, Beyonce and Jay Z are supposedly artistic geniuses rather than just admitting the corporations have chosen to thrust all those people on us, they are rich, that is true, but I don’t see the art part. Biggie writing about the black music magazines in his room was endearing, Kanye sampling Ray Charles was a good choice I guess, but overall, I’m not into any of the Capitalist Rappers anymore than the gentrification brunch Nephew Rockers. Faster Pussycat and the Hangmen and Junkyard and Circus Of Power still kickass, but Buck Cherry are like Guns N Roses understudies. One record and that was really it. I still begrudgingly liked a smattering of tunes from their dozen studio lps since that smash hit debut. At least they know how to rock. “Lit Up” never gets old. L.A. Guns are still okay but man it’s sad they can’t keep a lineup together-I know how that is. It’s even harder if you can’t command some Headbanger’s Ball fame headliner nightclub guarantees. I will say Carrie Underwood who I’m basically unfamilar with really seems to be killin’ it here with her Axl appearance. Carmine Appice sez his friend Mick Mars is happier now going back to playing guitar rather than being part of the pre programmed stadium ticket selling machine. I always kinda root for Mick Mars.
Thrill seekers, fun lovers, and rebellious spirited appreciators of Bowie, Clash, and Beatlesque power pop are all ginned up about the new CD “Public Works” by underground power pop and glam icon, Joe Hutchinson, who you might know as the pop songbird behind the Anytown’rs and Hutch, or style maverick guitar hero of such stalwart punkroll bands as Cold Blue Rebels, Slow Motorcade, and the legendary purple haired Zeroes who once had the Coconut Teaszer painted in their honor while lining all the glam brats up around the block to see their memorable shows, back in the last gasps of the glam daze. He is one of the more talented musicians in the American scene and it is a mystery to most everybody who knows anything about real rocknroll, how he has managed to successfully avoid becoming assimilated into the big mainstream star making machinery. He’s so talented at everything, a stellar guiatrist, solid lyricist, sings great, knows about how to be a team player and how to put high quality lineups together and promote himself. I’ve been a fan of his for a long time and continue to be impressed by his prolific songwriting abilities. His band the Anytown’rs played Cheap Trick level rocknroll, just listen to their fabulous tune, “Into The City Tonight”!
Into The City Tonight – Joe Normal & The Anytown’rs (lyrics) – YouTube
…was the name of my first Elvis Costello lp when I was 13 or 14 and also a big new wave and goth festival in California that will feature Siouxsie, Iggy, Billy, Adam, Echo, League, Numan, Modern English, Vapors, ABC, Motels, Animotion, and many more I am just too old to know about along with a Love & Rockets reunion, they will be playing four more shows together after Cruel World, and although Daniel Ash has said he’s bored by performing the Love & Rockets back catalog, his legions of fans remain very excited and devoted. Did I tell you how much I love that insanely genius David J solo Record?
“”The international bourgeoisie, under the leadership of U.S.-based capital has declared war on collective humanity — and it does not hide its intent.” (-Ajamu Baraka)
“They’re gonna bail out banks while you starve to make ends meet. What a country.” (-Thia Ballerina)
“Over 10 million children live in poverty in the US, so send $100 billion to Ukraine. Biden keeps telling us how great the economy is doing, but everytime I go to the Supermarket all I do is here people complaining about how hard it is to afford their groceries now. The Establishment has got to find a way to stop Trump from running again, because he might win by too big a margin to stop him. Many countries in the Global South see a better future for themselves partnering with China and no longer want to bullied, threatened, robbed and told how they have to live by the United States. Zelensky could have honored the Minsk Agreement instead of letting the US use his country in a Proxy war they’d been trying to start for decades
What has he got for his decision? Is Ukraine in NATO, a part of the EU?
No, they are being destroyed like every country the US uses.
If we stop letting our Gov’t lie us into wearing blindfolds, and take them off we won’t see the rosy picture they’re painting, we will see reality.
The reality is that the once powerful Empire called America is crumbling and desperately trying to maintain their grip on power.” (-Black In The Empire)
JOHN DISSED I’ve been reading that Michael Goldberg book about how the sixties Beat Poets really influenced Bob Dylan and that got me thinking about how Steve Earle was kinda our last real significant musical social commentator in this country…until the arrival of Kennedy investigating podcasting songwriting hero and all around, righton power to the people activist, Mister John Dissed, who was sortof discovered, or brought to my attention, by the leftist power pop champion Anthony Castillo, the songwriting guiding force behind that nineties Los Angeles supergroup, SLOW MOTORCADE. John Dissed is sortof like a modernday equivalent to Billy Bragg or TV Smith or even Roger Waters, he is really just so smart and talented and a true freedom fighter. I follow John Dissed on Twitter and listen to all his podcasts and you should, too. He is a very well informed, serious researcher, sortof like Jimmy Dore or Whitney Webb….WITH GUITARS! I can’t say enough good things about the guy, he is absolutely dynomite! Check out his Only Rebels Left Alive music podcast!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMVmkYcxrPQ
“What about the importance of giving everyone Healthcare in this country? Our government has no problem rescuing banks…but they won’t rescue the people.” (-Sabby Sabs)
“”In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.” (-Kwame Ture)
“Liberals hate leftists because they are a constant reminder that liberals are not the thing they appear to be.” (-Caitlin Johnstone who has way more patience for fauxwoke empty virtue signaling than I do.)
“Reminder The people that have you cheering on trying to get us into nuclear war with China and Russia will survive in their bunkers.
Where are you gonna go? Do people realize how ridiculous they sound when they argue that their Party is the honest one and the news networks they watch are the ones telling the truth?
Wake up both Parties are corrupt and all that corporate owned news you’re all watching is propaganda. We need to come together as a society and put an end to Nuland’s war. How many people do you think are struggling like hell still believing Biden telling them how great the economy is, simply because he’s a Democrat? No matter where the virus started, keep in mind that the US is now willing to say it started in Wuhan because they want to add it to the list for us to hate China, and they won’t mention that our Gov’t funded that research. You notice how the people that were calling everybody even skeptical of Big Pharma and our Gov’t that refused to take the vaccine, “anti-science and antivaxxers”, have conveniently ignored the science ever since it told a different story. I understand the job of Corporate “News” is to get views, push their Party narratives, spread State propaganda and to keep us divided. When both the Dems and GOP, and Fox and MSNBC are all telling us the same thing it isn’t a good thing, it means that there is something of extreme importance to the Owners that requires all their workers to brainwash the public.
The reason why I despise stations like MSNBC and CNN more is the way their TV personalities present themselves as morally superior.
So many questions now that the Saudis and Iranians have reestablished ties Will it bring an end to the war in Yemen? Will they both join BRICS? What does this mean for Syria? What happens to the dollar? While the US has been fueling their proxy war, the world is moving on.” (-Black In The Empire)
NONE OF THESE PRO CENSORSHIP DEM CLOWNS ARE PROGRESSIVE IN ANY WAY OR WILLING TO DEFEND ANY LIBERAL VALUE BESIDES SELLING OUT & EMPTY VIRTUE SIGNALING! DISGRACEFUL AUTHORITARIAN WHORES FOR BIG PHARMA AND WEAPON MAKERS!
“553K+ are homeless. 37M+ live in poverty. Millions are unable to afford health care and will go untreated. 42M+ are food insecure, 12M+ being children.
Things are getting worse and they aren’t even arguing anymore over how little to give you anymore.” (-Thia Ballerina)
FREE SPEECH DOES NOT MEAN SPEECH THAT MAKES YOU FEEL GOOD OR SPEECH THAT YOU AGREE WITH!
I understand if people protesting the construction of an enormous IDF style urban military training facility funded by like 25 private corporations in the Atlanta forest is not everybody’s cause, but when a citizen is shot to death while sitting cross legged with his hands up, witnesses say he had no gun, that cops were returning friendly fire, and presented zero bodycam evidence that they had any legit reason to “fear for their lives” and all those people demonstrating against assassination of a treesitter kid are imprisoned without bail and charged with domestic terrorism, we are not free, which is why I stood with the Capital Hill Maga people’s right to protest, even though defending Donald J. Trump is certainly not my personal preferred cause. I’ve seen footage of Qshaman being ushered around by cops in the capital. Big media coverup of the cop city killing and dozens of protestors being charged with “terrorism” by the extrajudicial state executioners, sheesh, just like in east Palestine purposeful chemical burn making people sick and killing pets and wildlife and destroying all those farms on the Ohio/Pennsylvania border where they wanna get rid of the Amish and strip mine for cobalt. Cops there are branding Erin Brockovich a terrorist for organizing sick people against Blackrock.
“If those on the left continue to put their faith and energy into the Democratic Party, they are not simply willfully naive but complicit in their own enslavement.”
(– Chris Hedges, “Class: the Little Word the Elites Want you to Forget”)
“Did a single banker go to prison after the 2008 crash?
After legions of bankers committed fraud and stoked an entire industry (real estate) to lie, cheat and steal? Of course they didn’t. We paid to bail them out and here we are again.” (-Will Carless)
HEY BROTHERS & SISTERS & FRIENDS OF THE REVOLUTION, LET’S HEAR IT FOR THOSE GLAMOROUS DARLINGS, HOLLYWOOD’S SHITELAND PONIES!
These cool cats are among my favorite underground bands since the Moonchasers and Dr. Boogie!
I feel really bad for that tree sitter kid the cops killed for protesting their urban warfare training center being funded by twenty big corporations in the Atlanta forrest. Shitlb media manufactured consent for superfunding the alphabet gangs and racist police with all their non stop hammer hoopla over the Maga people doubting the election results when both Bernie Sanders and Trump had big overflowing crowds of supporters and Biden barely even campaigned. So yeah, when the tv says the rightwing traumatized AOC, most suggestible Murkkkaans just go along with the idea that protestors should be hauled off to prison for daring question the word of known liars, or for assembling at the capital. The Real Left has been telling the centrist shitlibs since Obama that censorship is a bad idea, but they are too safespace triggered and hypnotized by the topdown fauxwoke gender narrative to notice when all the leftist media is being hidden online or disappeared from tech platforms because it challenges the weapon makers and big pharma mandate and pro war narratives. I know Democrats who are mad at Matt Taibbi from “Rolling Stone” for uncovering how the government and big tech colluded to hide the Hunter Biden corruption in the Ukraine story before the election. Now this new guy the deep state wants to install as an alternative to Trump, if not Lyn Cheney, Desatis is a known Gitmo torturer. All the people in Atlanta protesting the tree sitter forest defender being shot 13 times by cops while sitting crosslegged with his hands up according the the autopsy are being held without bail for demonstrating, and being charged with terrorism. We told you this was gonna keep happening during the Water Protectors being attacked with violence by mercenaries during Standing Rock when your fave corporation-prez said he was gonna “let it play out”, rather than intervene or protect original peoples over big oil company profits. It is a sad state of affairs when government thugs can assassinate wildlife nature preservers, AND charge their defenders with “terrorism” charges, and so many people who even think of themselves as progressive will standby and tollerate that shit, because of how it gets copaganda framed or hidden by big 5 corporate media monopolies. If you’re like me, you wake up terrorized and horrified by all the lies and hypocrisy and warpiggery and corporate funded Judge Dredd/Rambo military policing in this country. Everybody looks the other way when Gropey Joe and imperial Blinken send more billions to Ukraine for endless war and Nato expansionism everyday, while totally ignoring all the sick people poisoned by the Blackrock chemical burn in Palestine, Ohio-they even deploy those horribly partisan, no heart Karens of “The View” to say they have no pity for the sick people with dying animals because that county mostly voted for Trump. Everything on tv is still jsut single issue forever focused on Trump. What kindof person says shit like that? No sympathy? No pity for the sick and dying if they belong to a different political party sports team? It’s exactly the same as those righwing whackadoo hate preachers who say shit like fires and floods are caused because somebody is gay somewhere, and that’s the vengeful wrath of their rightwing assault weapons gawd. Madness all around us. In her series, “Pretend It’s A City”, Fran Lebowitz talks about existing in a near perpetual state of rage about the plastic plants and lawnchairs in the Disneyfied Times Square and how when the government declared the air safe after 9/11, she knew it wasn’t safe and it wasn’t dust and her documentarian Martin Scorsese mentioned all the people who got cancer after officials marked the air safe to breathe in NYC. She also recalls confronting billionaire Bloomberg about all of his nanny state gentrification policies and asked him what you call artists drinking and smoking and hanging out, and when he had no idea, she said, it is the history of art. I find it encouraging that Fran and Martin can see these problems with such clarity in spite of their fame. Even Spike Lee and Oliver Stone, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Jill Stein get big-tech and state censored in the Divided States Of Amnesia. Most people can’t even see the mushroom clouds past the preposterous footage of “Chinese Balloons”, Oscar propaganda, and constant din of culture wars and “Russiagate” new cold war McCarthyist hysteria.
“It’s quite an awakening when you have time to really look at the world and see that this GOP vs Dem game is a scam and stations like MSNBC and Fox are all propaganda and State TV, and all our wars are based on lies. I did everything the Establishment wanted
I joined the military, thought this was a democracy, voted Dem like a good Black person, thought my vote mattered, thought voting Obama would change things, even briefly thought Russiagate was real and thought GOP voters were all enemies. Over 2 years into Biden’s Presidency, Dems have still been able to find a way to blame everything going wrong on Trump. According to the West, what is happening to Ukraine is called “Winning”. (-Black In The Empire)
Dems screamed about corruption Dems got control for 2 years, corporate tax rate still 21% Biden’s budget now that they lost the House only raises it to 28% knowing it won’t pass I don’t think they were that upset Trump’s tax cut.” (-Black In The Empire)
“Progressives” also refused to support Workers Strike Back, a labor group ran by socialists. It’s seems to me like the boutique left just wants to organize with liberals. Ro Khanna wants to bail out the Silicon Valley Bank because he’s on the payroll.
With “progressives” like these who needs neoliberals?” (-Revolutionary Blackout Network)
“Hey, Democrats Stop using our healthcare money to bail out banks.” (-Gritty Is The Way)
“I keep trying to tell everybody
The way to Peace is taking billions from American taxpayers and giving it to companies like Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and General Dynamics. Germany is helping the US wage their war against Germany. All the things the Dems want to blame on Trump, they had 2 years of control of the Gov’t to overturn and didn’t.” (-Black In The Empire)
“US Foreign Policy is based solely around the US not letting any country come close to challenging their hegemony and their idea of diplomacy is to issue threats or sanction, coup or invade if you don’t do what they say. You can blame Trump for these bank crashes, but will you blame Biden for his role in the mass incarceration of Black people, a million people being killed in Iraq, the genocide in Yemen, the student debt crisis, the 2008 crash and more.” (-Black In The Empire) Why are people wondering why countries are turning to China?
“Progressives” are very used to acting as gatekeepers to who Leftists can work with. They get very upset when their determinations aren’t obeyed. There’s ego involved. Ultimately, the actual purpose of a “progressive” is to co-opt Leftists back under control of the Dem Party.” (-Jon Cutt) “
Liberalism is just right-wing capitalism with a smile. Always has been. “Progressives” are just liberals with a toe dipped into socialist waters. But they never venture in. They always just run back to their bourgeois pool chairs, sipping cocktails made from the people’s blood.” (-Nathan Shirley)
“I wish they held the dem party to the same standard they have for an antiwar rally.
Can’t go to an antiwar rally because they don’t like 1 persons views on a social issue but no problem voting for someone who is going to continue starving & bombing poor people around the world.” (-General Strike on Twitter about the asskiss shitlibs)
“What about the importance of giving everyone Healthcare in this country? Our government has no problem rescuing banks…but they won’t rescue the people.” (-Sabby Sabs)
“”In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.” (-Kwame Ture)
“Liberals hate leftists because they are a constant reminder that liberals are not the thing they appear to be.” (-Caitlin Johnstone who has way more patience for fauxwoke empty virtue signaling than I do.)
The people that have you cheering on trying to get us into nuclear war with China and Russia will survive in their bunkers.
Where are you gonna go? Do people realize how ridiculous they sound when they argue that their Party is the honest one and the news networks they watch are the ones telling the truth?
Wake up both Parties are corrupt and all that corporate owned news you’re all watching is propaganda. We need to come together as a society and put an end to Nuland’s war. How many people do you think are struggling like hell still believing Biden telling them how great the economy is, simply because he’s a Democrat?” (-Black In The Empire)
It aint the left versus the right anymore friends cause both parties represent the billionaires. The billionaires don’t care how you self identify really, they are waging a worldwide war on the poor. STAY WILD STAY FREE!
“Politics in the U.S. is so irrational & dangerous that I was meeting with a group of radical leaders from various parts of the global South where it was concluded that peoples in the global South would see a Trump administration as a welcome shift from warmongering democrats.” (-Ajamu Baraka)
All was well when I lived in Lexington, Kentucky, I was sorta the star of recess and the school plays, got good grades, loved to read “Cracked” and “Foom” and “Mad” and Narnia and the Hobbit, gnomes and “Heavy Metal” magazine, you know all the seventies fantasy illustrations by the Brothers Hildebrandt and Frazetta like you’d see on the covers of old Molly Hatchet records and 70’s vans. I had a local comicbook store where I was friend with the older stoners. lotsa little pals who were all into Star Wars and Grease. Beatles and Monkees, Elvis had just died. Shaun Cassidy and Andy Gibb were big as hell. Then, my mom met some creepy dude and married him and moved us to Ohio where all the white suburban rich kids were into golf shirts, designer jeans, football and did I mention golf? They straightup loved “The Preppie Handbook” and did not see it as satire, it was the white people bible. I thought all that shit was awful conformist excrement. They found out I needed glasses and bought me the ugliest pair you can imagine and a girl’s bicycle. I had a southern accent and could not catch a football, so I got harrassed non stop by older kids, bruised in the locker room and beat up at the roller rink. The history teacher in the seventh grade used to put me in the classroom closet as a warning to the others. I was talking about the class war and slavery and the genocide of the indigenous peoples and telling my friends about Fred Hampton and Abbie Hoffman, from a young age. The rich white suburban sports school loved Ronald Reagan and were all totally devoted to worshipping the rich, I was the opposite, and therefore became a very polarizing lightning rod among my peers. Man they made an example of me for years, everyday, some bigger fat Republikkan kid would push me into a locker or otherwise humiliate me. The kung fu sadist rich kid with the Trans Am and the big Bon Jovi perm really hated me. My mom had changed my last name to her creepy husband’s and it was all just a horribly traumatizing, punishing hell. I rebelled. Started wearing my own weird styles, kinda thrift store pink makeup B-52’s budget punk, pre Ducky from “Pretty In Pink”. I sat beside a beautiful coltish brunette horse riding rich chick who was way outta my league named Paulette B. and she loved Kajagoogoo, and told me to get contacts and change my hair to look more like Limahl. I was too much of a gawky yellow teethed scrany, awkard Ramone to ever be a pinup heart throb Limahl, but started spiking my hair up like Billy Idol or Robert Smith. I’d bleach it orange with not enough toner then dyed it blue/black and the school admin went berserk over it. In about three years, I’d gone from “Sit Down Waldo!” to full on Pete Burns. Looked like an uglier younger sister of Gene Loves Jezebel. Girls started liking me, I formed a band with some other outcast weirdos, but could not find a drummer-back then they all wanted to play Rush covers with that kung fu kid who had the Big Marshall. We started hiding out in my basement practicing bad metal covers, writing greasy kid protest songs like, “Victims Of The System”. My life changed. I was still getting mobbed by the Catholic school wrestlers and paddled by principals and put on curfew by the juvenile authorities for drawing new wave logos in my schoolbooks and “disrupting the learning process” by asking to many questions in history class and determinedly challenging their racist whitewash bullshit narratives. I started making comicbooks and xeroxing them at the library that got passed around in study hall, that were like underground social commentary. A kid named Steve Blythe started copying my work and stole my character “Killer Teddy Bear”. Funny what you remember. Some guys named Craig and Brett and Mark and Aaron and John L a big football player antagnized me constantly so I quit dressing for gym. My friend Dan L. from the Catholic school, a talented guitar player from a strict military family got sick of seeing me and his brother Dustin getting tthe business from the football team so he beat up the big fat footballer John L, but that did not stop the harrassment for long. I made friends with an older illusionist/escape artsit in a nearby town named, Theo Mandrake. He was teaching me about showbiz and performance, met another magician named Al Houdin. My homemade comicbooks became more about music gradually and my first fanzine was about what little Devo ad Police and Go Gos punk and new wave was available to smalltown kids who did not yet have cable. The stepdad tried to do some real ugly abusive shit so I went out the window and took refuge at my rich friend Sean’s, but he was becoming an ongoing issue. I ranway to NYC for a little over a year, year and a a half maybe, had big adventures, met people, got a foxy girlfriend., moved in with her. Dump apartment in the dangerous Bowery. Started going to nightclubs and fter hours with her saw shows that really changed me, gave me a lot of new energy and inspiration. Antoinettes, Fleshtones, Wendy Wild, Jickets, Butthole Surfers. Went back to the midwest to foolishly pursue another girl who was outta my league, emboldened by my having lived with a beautiful woman almost ten years older than myself. That was a big mistake, of course, cause the abusive local authorities really wanted to use me as an example of what happens when you skip school, talk back, refuse to kiss up to popular jock bullying assholes, and wear alot of badly applied makeup. When I finally got out of detention hall, which was a grueling, unspeakable, damaging three months of torture, I met some older punk from a nearby town who helped me get a job at a stained glass studio. I started dreaming I had a chance with that girl again, the beatiful new wave chick, but she had moved on to some more conventional blue eyed soccer hero in Merry Go Round clothes from the big city, who had a mom who taught at my rich school, and he even had a car. I was totally in love with her for years, but also more importantly, with the music the older punk was teaching me about-I was particularly obsessed with that Public Image Ltd. song, “Rise”: “they put a hotwire to my head cause of the things I did and said, they make these feelings go away a model citizen in everyway”.
Sometimes, the hicks and preps would catch me walking somewhere and break my glasses, or two hicks would hold my arms behind my back while some jealous boyfriend would bloody my nose. Growing up in the midwest sucked. It got even worse during Grunge/Alternative, when all these same kinda fratboy private school fuckers decided they were ALSO Grunge/Alternative. Summa my bands played out at these boy’s clubs and richkid keggers and backyard barbq’s and we started having a real cool time tonight. Almost every night. One of my girlfriend’s got pregnant we moved into a big bandhouse on the edge of town where it was said other hippie undesirables had previously thrown concerts in the yard all the way back in the sxties. Some other girlfriend’s parents got whipped into a frenzy by the daytime talk show Tipper Gore antirock hysteria, they brought in these fanatical behavior modification grifters from out of state, and the local 700 Club Christian Broadcast Network started airing these anti punk talk shows where righwing evangelicals would warn the already uptight sports parents who worked for the General Dynamics tankplant about the pinko commie threat of “120 Minutes” and teenagers who were getting into the Smiths and the Replacements. Some of my various bandmates just wanted to be in Regular Joe bands that could be accpeted by the normies and the squares, they stayed in their hometown high school zipcodes and got like, generic say nothing, non threatening Kendoll singers from the usual predator class honky suburbs and assimilated into straight society sports bar popularity. I was too far gone Tex & The Horseheads and Lords Of The New Church for anything like that. Most of my former sidemen got into music to be popular or fit in, or get girls, I wanted to lead a youth revolt. Big difference. So yeah when I escaped to Boston when I turned twenty, the metalheads and heavily tattooed rockers I started meeting all thought my synthpop heroes and goth influences like Gene Loves Jezebel and Duran Duran were absolutely ridiculous, but all those bands have always stayed in my heart. I met some people who kinda begrudingly liked Generation X and Hanoi Rocks and Dogs D’Amour and Mother Love Bone. I continued writing songs and developing as a frontman, but could never afford highpriced studio costs, or highpriced rehearsal spaces, so the drummers would always split for people with moms or girlfriends willing to pay for them to record. It was so, so fucking heartbreaking but we kept on trying until one by one they all died or fuckedoff and Here I Am. Lone Wolf still howling at the moon. The world has changed as the techbillionaires consolidated more and more power, until they became capable of censoring every little corner of the public airwaves and the evil forces of gentrification purged all us guttersnipes and rabble rousers from their hipster dominions. I still don’t fit in with any of the mainstream narrative bullshittery. Kajagoogoo were okay but I always thought Duran Duran should have helped produce me, I rock like fuck. I’m the original neurotic boy outsider. It’s the never ending story.
People my age, and there seems like there’s less and less of us around now, esp. since everybody started dropping dead just suddenly and nobody in the highbrow academic world or corporate big 5 monopoly media can figure out why, they say it might have something to do with plane turbulence, or exercising too much, or stress caused by conspiracy theorists, but most of us have fond memories of Billy Squire and songs like “My Kinda Lover” were what were playin’ while we were makin’ eyes at Crystal or or Missy or Geena or Sheri or Raina or Heather, right? So I dunno what evil industry titan he pissed off, what temperance league scold committee spinster frowned on “The Stroke”, or what kinda jiveass garbage that was where popular media insisted for years on end that supposedly, Billy Squire sucked now cause some Beavis & Buttheads, or overpaid “Rolling Stone” boyband apologist like Rob Sheffield, somewhere, decided his Miami Vice influenced video for “Rock Me Tonight” was not butch macho enough for cornfed Midwestern audiences of patriotic heavy metal and professional wrestling fans. I don’t know about all those cavemen, or what they like besides Hooters, Home Depot, oversized vehicles and Pamela Anderson in the eighties, but I always personally thought Billy Squire was awesome, a heavy metal meets power pop hard rocker in the Cheap Trick/Van Halen/Pop Rocks sorta genre. I’m happy to see he’s makin’ a comeback. The popular vote is always the dummy vote-who cares what those people think? I like rocknroll, Billy’s made of it. Motherfuckers just jealous he rocks so hard.
“Somebody’s gotta teach the kids about Bo Diddley” (-Dr. Johnn Fever)
I always tried to carry on the tradition of my dear old pal Dave. A., my first record store guru who got me into stuff like the Doors, Stooges and MC5 when I was a young Beatles/Monkees/Elvis enthusiast. He’s gone now, but I got little buttons of him on all my leather jackets and leather vests, and he is never that far from my thoughts, he’s like my own Jimminy Cricket. He had a band called Billy Ray Bogart & The Hot Rod Gang who used to open up for my own sorta amateur hour glammish grebo goth gang, the Neons, way back in the dark ages. Let’s do a little “Black Gladiator ” together this morning, whaddya say?
Me and my Gary Numan obsessed best friend Jaysin B wanted to create a band like this 100 years ago when he was still alive and my self esteem had not been so battered but of course we were just minimum wage earners and there was just no way for either of us or both of us to buy a proper synthesizer back then and all those cheap thrift store Casios with the pre programmed drum machines can only take you so far. The ridiculous part is how I’m still at it, fuckin’ around with the pre programmed drum machine program on my kid’s old Casios in the garage, I wish sometimes I was a better piano player, my old lady is very good at all of it, but we never really have private time together to work on anything, if our teenager aint into it, it aint happenin’ so everything is all about firearms, fireworks, Guuci hype beat clothing and extotic wildlife ownership like on “The Tiger King”, that’s how it is. Jaysin and I kept fucking around with tape recorders and crap keyboards until he drifted over into this downtown trendy haircut crowd and I stayed with our stoner skateboard pal who I shoplifted Van Halen tablature for and we finally had some garage bands goin’ . When Jaysin B and my record store co worker Dave A and my rapper friend Cory L and the great songwriter Paul K all shuffled off the planet it put me in a deep and ongoing kinda gloom, ya know? Then my other ace best pal Bobby who used to drive me to Duran Duran concerts in faraway cities and get us backstage with his National Record Mart credentials having portrayed Andy taylor in a fucking lipsynch Duran Duran tribute act, he died suddenly, too. Just found out another guy I was close to years ago RKH has died. My first guitar player’s mom, also. Good Grief, have mercy. Ya know?
So ya know I wanted that Andy Taylor book for Christmas but accidentally received two copies of some other rock bio instead-now, since he’s fallen ill, Ebay prices for it shot through the roof and now hover somewhere around the eighty dollar zone. Who’s got eighty bucks for a fooking book? Not me, man, and the satin 80’s Duran Jackets are all marked at ripoff Etsy prices everywhere too. Most of my limited access to anything rocknroll nowadays is beamed out to me via youtube. Remember that catchy pop song from the “Some Kinda Wonderful” soundtrack, “She Loves Me”? That was by Steven Duffy, Duran Duran’s first singer, pre Simon LeBon. So yeah a couple years ago, or longer, times flies now for us decrepit “Smash Hits” Durannies, Nick got back together with his old collaborator from Birmingham and co created a atmospheric new band called The Devils based on old song ideas that they’d commenced as kids but never quite finished. Of course where I live, so far out in the deepest desrt outback, nobody cares about Duran Duran or Aracadia or even David Bowie, let alone some little known spinoff side project band, but of course, I’m totally into it. I think it’s so beautiful-just the kinda old new romantic new wave music I love. They even do “Big Store”.
HACKED POP’S BEEN HIJACKED BY SAME OLD SUSPECT MILLIONAIRE CANNIBALS OF PREDATOR CAPITALISM
Iggy says “Fuck The Regency”.
‘Same way Ellen, Fallon, Kimmel, Maher and Colbert were all deployed to help Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone rehabilitate the public images of Obama, Condoleeza Rice, W Bush and the Cheneys, now a grizzly bearded Letterman is being trotted out post retirement to be a Dr. Phil pitchman to the aging Late Night watchers fro his 80’s heydays, throwing softball bootlicking simp questions to empire narrative managers, Bono, Obama, and Zelensky. Kindof gross and sickening once you recognize how they do it. Sean Penn sold out to the bankers and weapon manufacturers, too, it’s sad as hell, really. I loved U2 as a kid so much, used to sing their songs so loud in my purple apartment, the grumpty guitarist from down the hall would come bangin’ at my door, but fell off hard once they drifted into whitewashing Nato warpig agendas, unscrupulous Libya and Iraq and Afghanistan overthrowing central bankers, and CFR/WEF/NWO agendas. I think the last songs I really remember liking by them were from the “Summer Rain” and “Stuck In A Moment” era. I’d never say they weren’t good performers or songwriters, only that it’s an obscenity to help sell globalist mass murder agendas under cover of being Martin Luther King Jr. poetry Christians. They know Obama aint nothing like King, he was never MLK’s dream come true-only Cheney and Kissinger’s-they U2 millionaires know Bush/Cheney and the Clintons are criminals, gangsters of capitalism, but still they got in bed with ’em and Gates and Kissinger and Bezos and Klaus. No thanks. As Bowie said, “this aint rocknroll, this is genocide”, so I won’t be part of the pig-media U2 revival, no matter how many smirking rich Howard Stern types insist it’s just wholesome and okeydokey to support the monsters of war, or that it’s cool to be a sellout fraud for money, money, money, money. I am heartened to see the Cure is coming back though, I still can’t believe Reeves Gabbrels from The Atom Said and Tin Machine is the band now. Good choice, actually, as he is a very good guitar player. I met him many times with his tiny Boston indie band in my early 20’s. A more experienced gardener has said I planted my seeds in the ground too early, but you know it’s my first time really trying to grow flowers in the desert, as the song goes. I’m a dreamer. KISS, Motley Crue, Guns N Roses and all the fake bullshit that Rolling Stone and Spin pimp for the monopolies hold little interest to me, I’m still wishing somebody new would come along who can write real songs with real heart and not just more assemblyline muppet with producers and song doctors pulling ther strings from behind the scenes. I still care about real rocknroll although as damaged as I’ve become from being browbeaten these past 25 years by the same bullshit n lies for power media juggernauts you have, I find it harder to write my own songs from a fresh perspective and not that many people I know are even into muisc at all anymore, not like they are into Amazon products or pro war media propaganda brainwashing, it’s kinda been wiped out by the unboxers and influencers and youtubers and gotime selfie takers and virtue signaling, safespace conditioned, identity politricks, shitlib Kopmala worshippers. My sincere endeavor is to jump off the internet column social commentary habit and dive deeper into the collaborating on music with people eye to eye sooner than later, but it is hard in the antisocial age they’ve manufactured to really get the timing right so I can convene with collaborators in real time without triggering any homeschooled family members. Bono is probably the worst sellout ever, you can’t call Obama a sellout cause he was never a real community orgnizer or constitutional scholar to begin with, he was always a marketing tool, a frontman with no real love for freedom or human rights, a Cheney rebrand Nike Swoosh Kissinger product.
“How much of a clearer admission could he provide that he is part of the security establishment?” (Gordon Cook on George Monbiot but it could just as easily describe Bono, Maddow, Letterman, Ellen, etc.)
HEY YOU IN THE UNICORN MASK WITH THE MERMAID TAIL! YOU COULD BE NEXT! THAT’S WHY FREEDOM’S FOR EVERYBODY, NOT JUST THE NERD TABLE!
“This is your daily reminder that the US foreign policy establishment would gladly burn the world to the ground to maintain hegemony and pad the profits of Wall Street at your expense.
Man you know me and my new wave pal Jaysin just loved Suicide so much, we thought for sure between my lyrics and his good looks, there had to be away for us to make it big in show business playing electrotrash, for years he eschewed ANYTHING with guitars, but then he could not resist Depeche Mode and New Order’s guitar based stuff. He’s dead, I love him, always have, always will, one of the many dearly beloveds who’ve gone on to the afterhours new wave bar in the sky, ya know when New Model Army sings about the dark bars and how we’d gather in the corners like a coven of witches, it makes me smile cause in my damaged old head, that’s me and the lost boys over there on a Sunday night in Indiana, smoking cigarettes and scowling at our rivals and wearing all the things that nobody wears. I met some older goths my senior year and they already had a little 4 track drum machine death rock three piece band, already had a singer, too-so I had to wait like a year for the keyboardist in the long coat to go away to state college to learn about etiquette from imperialist narrative managers, and their gloomy singer briefly agreed to play drums for me and the guitarist and one of his other friends in a new group, but he soon realized he would not be the only koal eyed leather jacketed super starlet in his age group anymore if I was elevated to any visibility, so he got real glum and whenever he would leave the nightly malt liquor party where we toyed with their archaic drum machine on the cement floor of the guitarists absolute shithole basement apartment, he’d say good night with some kinda morbid sendoff like, “See ya tomorrow….if I’m alive!” So we kinda knew we better continue the search for another drummer and that just seemingly goes on forever if you are an underground punknroll motherfucker like me, there’s never enough drummers, so ya know they only wanna play for like big name established headliners, get the dough. So now I am in a lonesome freezing graveyard town and there aint no real drummers to be found, I spend my warmer days out in the glam cave toying with the tape recorder and the prerecorded drum machine patterns of the thrift store keyboard we got a few years ago. Suicide were so cool, so inventive, fearless, and heartfelt and aggressively theatrical influencing everybody from Basquiat and Billy Idol to Sparks and Pet Shop Boys and Sputnik and me and you.They are one of those real special bands that never got enough recognition or money in their time, but not everybody is just motivated by the dangly carrot of fame and fortune, thankfully. You know that Morrissey lyric about, “the days when you were hoplessly poor, I just liked you more…” ? That’s how I feel about the people I used to know, they were cooler before the rich people found out they were cool, and told them they were cool, so now they are kinda hung up on always hearing that same shit crackling outta the loudspeaker at the gentrification camp about how cool they are and how wonderfully prestiegious it is to be elitists of cool. A taste o tinsel has killed or ruined many good people. All the Frankies time forgot. I’m definitely as corruptible as the rest-there were five or six years in my late teens and early twenties when I went struttin’ around the Lower East Side, feeling just imminent, in my patchwork leather jacket, thinking I was Rob Tyner, 5000! I have to go meet with a bureaucrat today and you know the clipboards with the office jobs have always, always, always hated my guts cause they just have that sneaking suspicion that somehow I’m the ringleader of some kinda forbidden shenanigans that should somehow be thwarted or severely frowned upon, it’s like that old quote about puritanism, that fanatical fear that somebody somewhere got away with some fun once, even though in my case, all that was a long long time ago. Fuckers I aint seen for thirty years still mad cause they imagine I’m somewhere in a hot tub drinking with girls. I got a song about it-it’s called “Drinking With Girls”!
Okay so I found a couple of eccentric hermit desert rats and now I gotta find a time when it won’t bum anybody out for me to convene with them to commence our special bonfire jam, edge of town torch and twang cowpunk get-down. I got new songs simmering so I’m happy I found a local who seems to possess some know how when it comes to heavy reggae dub echo and recording shit on these newfangled handheld gadget surveillance grid devices. One encouraging bit is that the wildhaired guitar player has already heard of Peter Laughner and the MC5 and Townes Van Zandt and the Deviants so I don’t really gotta make him tapes or send him home with any rare old vinyl to study, he already knows where it’s at. Mick Farren was a sixties action shaker and novelist and vovalist who wrote songs for Motorhead and wayne Kramer and shit. All my old hippie record collector acidhead pals were really ginned up about Pink Fairies, Deviants, Rationals, MC5 and of course, Hawkwind back in the day when I finally got my first record store job, my old garagre punk guru Dave A, he got us new wave kids wise to Captain Beefheart and the Standells, shit like that. Seeds. Blue Cheer. He loved to drop acid, I’d have to put a blanket on him sometimes when he’d go streaking around in the bank parking lot behind the Roxy, where we lived upstairs in my first purple apartment. They burned that place to the ground, my guitarist’s old apartment, too, my bandhouse in between the Christian bookstore and car dealership, and the goth chick from California who used to sneak me into her parent’s basement when it snowed, they tore that one down too. Just like Chrissie Hynde laments, all my favorite places are gone now. That record store became a guitar shop like twenty years ago and all my friends from back there have died. Mick Farren was a member of the UK chapter of the White Panthers and never stopped rockin’ or fighting against The Man, he died onstage of a heart attack at a Deviants performance at the age of 69. He collaborated with everybody-member’s of John’s Children, Dr. Feelgood, the Pretenders, on and on. Mick Farren’s one of the underground trailblazers I try to teach my kids about, but you know how it is, they are more interested in their own generation’s swing. A couple guys I had my bands with like old revolution rock, but others got married and became tv watchers and shit. What can ya do? Light a bonfire, write a poem, grow a garden, boycott the masters of the universe warpig propaganda. Look up. Oh yeah, Mick Farren wrote a book called “Scerets Of The CIA”, you should look for it if you are part of the truth and freedom community.
“I know everyone’s different and maybe I’m a bit myopic — but especially with the claimed entrance of China into the war, it’s hard to imagine focusing on anything else right now. The people in power are essentially signaling that World War III is imminent. It’s sheer insanity.” (-Michael Tracey)
IT AINT ALL ABOUT YOUR VANITY BRAND OR NEW MERCHANDISE DROP, OR TUESDAY RETRO DJ NIGHT, OR AIRBNB, YO.
PEOPLE JUST KEEP DROPPIN’. Mysteriously, Suddenly, No One Can Imagine Why. Just How it is now. Birds fall from the sky, dead fish, but it’s all okeydokey and wokey wokey.
If you like Gun House Hill/Rev. Paul S. Cunningham, Rock City Angels, Lazy Cowgirls, Cranford Nix Jr., Supersuckers, or my torchier cowpunk stuff with the Original Suffering Bastards, you’re probably gonna love Tyler Keith. Phil Overeem and the Sleazegrinder have both been singing his praises for years. Just watch him get down.
Our Gov’t lied us into the Iraq War and killed a million people, they just lied to us for 20 years about what was really happening in Afghanistan.
If you let them make you believe Putin went into Ukraine for no reason and Ukraine is winning you’re just dumb. Zelensky talks to Americans like we borrowed money from him. I’m tired of this. Zelensky made a choice to listen to the West, ignore the Minsk agreement and to stall so Ukraine could prepare their military. Well you got the war you wanted, stop begging Americans for money, and to our politicians stop stealing our money for your proxy war. The non stop weapons commercial called the Ukraine War helped Lockheed Martin break records for HIMARS sales. If you pay attention it is our Gov’t constantly telling us that we support giving weapons to Ukraine, not the other way around…I’ve been telling everybody for years now The owners of the United States would rather destroy the World than lose their control of it. You see what I mean now? The U.S. is watching their control of the World slip away and the 2 countries they see as their main competitors are Russia and China Our rulers hatred of those 2 Powers has nothing to do with democracy, freedom, or human rights It’s about America remaining ruler of the Planet. Western White hegemony is coming to an end and the U.S. which is the leader is in a panic This won’t be the last proxy war they start so get ready for more unnecessary death and destruction. The Squad and Bernie had a choice and in spite of the millions we gave and faith we put in them, they chose the Dems. Get over it, face reality and move on. The reason why American citizens will always lose is that MSNBC and Fox viewers, and loyal Dem and GOP voters totally despise each other, while Pelosi and McConnell are really friends…Please stop with the Dem vs GOP world they’ve created for us Again They don’t hate each other, they’re job is to make us hate each other. The Biden Administration blew up their allies pipeline. The Black community needs to figure out that neither one of the Parties is trying to help us GOP can just come out and say they’re not doing it, Dems have the added step of having to find an excuse for why they can’t, because we vote for them. We have to learn to work together. Step 1 to unplug from the Matrix
Realize that the United States is not a democracy. The rulers ability to purchase our Gov’t and media have given them the ability to make us hate whoever is a threat to their wealth, power and control
To make sure it’s clear.
Not a threat to us, but a threat to them.” (-Black In The Empire)
“John Bolton, who’s apparently convinced himself that people want him to run for president, says the Ukraine war is a “global war” and China/Russia are the new “Axis” powers. Very reassuring, thanks. If you were one of the core figures in government agitating for the “unprovoked” US war in Libya, and then it turned out the way it did, you’d think the *bare minimum* you might do afterwards is not agitate for additional wars. But you’d need to have at least a bit of shame. The same people we were assured would responsibly calibrate their giant arms-funneling operation to avoid undue risk and/or expanding the conflict now turn around and warn it’s about to become an epochal confrontation between the US and China” (-Michael Tracey on the usual suspect ghouls of death the pig media trots out on behalf of the weapons maker shareholders, horrible shameless warpigs put us all at risk of annhilation, but yeah I know you got that backstage pass and Tibetan prayer flag)
In some other overcaffeinated column here I confess to ultimately chickening out way back when I wanted to get to know Aimee Mann and she seemed totally receptive, I think it was on Thursday nights when I used to see her at the crowded bar in the banking disctrict back in Boston, but I became shy around her, I think I was partly distrustful of the much older local music biz hustler who was repeatedly goading me to approach her, something in me just intuited he was having fun at my expense, insisting she was flirting with me, I’m ultimately glad and grateful I listened to my own little instincts and did not hassle her at her table like so many, many foolish fratboys, but always loved her songwriting so much. My fifteen year old kid’s been playing this song everyday lately and I slowly realized whose voice I’m being dreamily hypnotized by. It is so beautiful. Gorgeous. Love her!
Imagine if publishers had tried to piss test purity-check the Beats, make sure none of ’em ever drank or drugged or slept around, or did anything “problematic” or “offensive” or “objectionable” in the eyes of p.c. rich kids who insisted that everyone be microchipped and obediant and willing to vote for warpigs and torturers based on gender or tokenist hue before they were allowed any kind of popular platform or media access? Where would their gentrification saints all be? All those richkids in the Johnny Thunders coverbands do drugs. Reds, blues, rich or poor. Most of Murkkka is strungout on one substance or another, of course their preferences vary. Lot of ’em pray to Pig Pharma, or legal for white people in rich zipcodes corporate-reefer. Are you a winebox mom, or a double secret undercover pill gobbler? Most Murkkkans are more comfortable with lyin’ass liars than they are with objectonable truth tellers who maybe drink some, or otherwise self medicate, but don’t try to hide and lie about it like all the compliant, culty script reciters. They just stick with the winners, right? Congregate daily in the exclusive safespace VIP rooms. It’s all about staying with other haves in their eco-nomic chambers repeating reassuring optimism slogans about how Biden’s improving the echonomy, shit he said in the bullshit state of the union. Makes me wanna drink.
So it’s hard for a blind old bat like me to read in this dark place, esp. with the loud kid’s non stop youtube teenager media blare, so I wanna go outside and lounge in the sunny yard with my highly prized Bebe Buell book, but it’s still so windy that pieces of fence and debris come blowing at me everytime I step outside. Looks beautiful but the wind is like always so intense lately. Honestly I think it has something to do with the geoengineering. I might get to go to the only affordable second hand store in town later today but since we bought an electric blanket there yesterday, we might just have to hunker down in our rabbit hole while the beautiful wife does her weekly grocery trip that always leaves us both shookup in a state on high anxiety and mourning. Those fuckedup Walton billionaires and all their bipartisan governmental cronies are just upping the ante non stop in their tireless crusade the punish the poor. It’s rough out here with the crazy weather and superinflation, relentless war propaganda and rightwing ranchers always tellin’ us how “no one wants to work”, and how Biden is a socialist radical leftist double secret working for China, which is almost exactly what the mean ex liberals of the pinkhat Thank Obama left have spent the past ten years repeating about how Trump was double secret working for those tricky Russians! Of course, everybody on the Real Left easily recognizes both of these corrupt political parties are in the pockets of evil despot billionaires who were giving brazen Ted talks ten minutes ago about how they want to actively depopulate the planet, usher in a cashless society and chip people’s brains, but that sounds like nutty X Files shit to people who aint paying attention and just wanna Let You Know they are current with the Latest Thang.
I did manage to make it outdoors for about a half an hour and managed to read Beb’s chapter about Johnny Thunders and let me tell ya. it was absolutely a total heartbreaker! The Ric Ocasek chapter is even sadder! All my heroes are dead or incarcerated in Belmarsh. My kid got some hot sauces in the mail, so I hope he’ll let me sample some with my meal tonight! Sunset in the desert is supernatural. I take pictures of it most everynight. We call it the pink light. The Bebe book really BLASTS OFF, for me, at least, with the Stiv Bators and David Bowie chapters, she shares my appreciation for Prince and Tom Petty, I’m not gonna devulge anymore juicy details here, cause I love what Hozac Books and the descrptive Miss Buell have accomplished here with her new book. I urge you to get a copy if you love all the same kinda music and fashion and subversive underground rebels subcultures we antisocial glamarchists celebrate here among the Out Crowd.
WHILE THIS IS HAPPENING ELSEWHERE TO “THE OTHERS”, PEOPLE I USED TO KNOW ARE CONCENTRATING ALL THEIR FOCUS ON “FOX IS FAKE NEWS”. TEDIOUS. TOO TYPICAL. TRAGIC, REALLY. “BUT WHAT ABOUT BEYONCE”? CAUSE IF I KEEP TALKING ABOUT BEYONCE, IT SHOWS YOU HOW I’M “NOT RACIST”tm
“If you can’t admit you were wrong to trust the govt in a time of crisis, when they routinely milk crises for THEIR benefit not the public’s, then you deserve to lose credibility. We should be more distrustful of the powers that be during a crisis, not less.3 years after the covid crisis started, I’m still baffled at how many “anti-establishment” alt media ppl still act like the govt wasn’t lying about everything. This whole idea that the govt lies about everything BUT covid + the covid response was silly then and it’s pathetic now.” (-Whitney Webb)
IGNORING BAD NEWS CAUSE IT FEELS IKKY DON’T MAKE IT GO AWAY. NEVER, NEVER, NEVER LECTURE ME ABOUT YOUR SAFESPACE PRIVILEGE THEORY WHILE YOU IGNORE PALESTINE.OR PALESTINE. OR HAITI OR LIBYA OR YEMEN OR IRAQ.
“Next Reminder is that the war really started in 2014 after the US aided coup of Ukraine’s democratically elected Gov’t. Zelensky fired his Commander of Joint Forces and our media didn’t portray it as the end of world for the Ukrainian military like they did when Putin changed commanders
I wonder why? Just kidding. I know why. I grew up in the Projects in Queens, NY and there were only 2 white families there I didn’t know much about the world or history or racism at the time, but even then I knew it wasn’t a coincidence that we were all Black and that something happened to make that a reality. While your wondering about the Uyghurs our Gov’t want us to focus on in China, give a thought to how so many Black people wind up in prison in America. I don’t want Russians or Ukrainians to die because the US doesn’t want to lose control of the world, and I despise Zelensky for betraying his country because he didn’t have the courage to stand up to the US or the Nazis who forced him to abandon what he ran on. It wasn’t that hard for the people with all the capital to convince the rest of us that capitalism is the best system that ever existed. Our media shows us all kind of atrocities that they say are occuring around the world so much that we seem to forget that almost all that stuff is happening here. I try to be straight forward
I’ve been around for close to 60 years, spent a few of them in our military, and all of them Black. I know what my country has done to the rest of the world and even us here in America. We should be ashamed of what we let the owners get away with. McCarthyism was a chapter embarrassing to America.
Obama telling Romney “80’s called and want their foreign policy back” should have been the final nail in the coffin. But Dems lost to Trump and teamed up with neocons to bring it back as an excuse for their failure.
Here we are. America
Do you want to know the truth or get played like the Iraq War again? Biden is the same person who admitted during the Primary that he knew Iraq didn’t have WMD’s, but he was still the Dem pressuring the Party to support that war.
Our country invaded another based on a lie and killed a million people.
Stop the act, the world knows who we really are. ” (-Black In The Empire)
“The “Chinese whistleblower” in question is Dr. Li-Meng Yan, a person who’s work is promoted by the Rule of Law Society — a political org affiliated with Steve Bannon and Guo Wengui, an expatriate Chinese billionaire, who have actively arranged her media appearances in the U.S.” (-James Ray)
“The western left is absolute dogshit on war and empire. Pure fucking dogshit. Those who don’t outright cheer for imperial militarism ignore it altogether, or don’t place nearly enough emphasis on it. Those placing an appropriate amount of emphasis on it are a small minority. And of course that’s not their fault; they’re swimming in the same ocean of empire propaganda and psyops as everyone else. But as we’re accelerating toward a global conflict of unfathomable horror this dereliction of duty is getting less and less acceptable. This needs to change. Sure there are other problems we’ve got to worry about, but none of those other problems are going to matter when we’re all dying in a nuclear holocaust. There’s no excuse for anyone who thinks of themselves as anti-imperialist to fail to stand against the empire’s brinkmanship. The US empire is rapidly ramping up aggressions against Russia and China simultaneously and in many sectors of the American left this is getting less attention than the fucking presidential election that’s almost two years away. This isn’t healthy, and it isn’t acceptable.” (-Caitlin Johnstone)
WHEN GENDER IS ALL THEY GOT TO OFFER CAUSE THEY ARE OTHERWISE ALL REPUBLIKKKANS. CACKLING MURDERESS PANTS SUIT REPUBLIKKKANS STILL SUCK. PATHETIC LUNACY.
“You can devote your life to defending worldwide torture regimes, CIA black sites, the invasion and bombing of countless countries, due-process-free prisons, and malign DOJ lawyers as Al Qaeda lovers, but as long you say denounce Donald Trump, the world is yours.” (-Glenn Greenwald)
“US corporate media spent 18 months insisting COVID’s zoonotic origins had been proven and the lab leak theory had been “debunked” – to the point it was banned online.
Turns out some some of USG’s top science teams concluded “lab leak” is not just viable but most likely. Anyway.” (-Glenn Greenwald)
WHAT IS MORE GROTESQUE THAN FORMER PEACENIK ROCK BANDS BEING TROTTED OUT BY THE WARPIGS TO HELP PROMOTE WW3?
“Democracy Now literally had MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan on to give a tongue bath to Joe Biden. So much for “alternative media.” (-Danny Haiphong)
“Hassan Piker’s idea that whats needed to counter homelessness is more houses is the most bourgeois brainrot imagineable. Yeah, people really wind up on the street because they run out of house.” (-Revolutionary Defeatism)
Breaks my heart when my old lady is sick, she’s the best person I’ve ever known and it kills me when I can not comfort her or protect her. Up early with kid who is aiming Nerf guns at me and requiring my assistance making lists of future fireworks he hopes to buy from the big town. Can’t tell if it’s gonna rain or not, oftentimes the sky will turn dark gray but it’ll pass, we got more garden seeds in the mail but I’m waiting a bit to plant them. We need some potting soil, and really I need a wheel barrow at this point. Out here in the nowhere lands, I keep running into all these closet fucking racists, bootlick copsuckers, it’s a real drag, man. Everytime I fuck with people, I sorta regret it. I feel like I’m back in Kinticky, ya know what I mean? I got a song about it called “Southern Gentleman”. I got a lot of alone time nowadays which, ya know everybody needs some, I use it to write, but too many hours by yourself and you can start to wanna talk to somebody. I end up digging through my old storage containers looking for my former friend’s phone numbers, but mostly, they’re all dead, or too invested in tv, ratrace, holier than thou, got-mine, shitlib, pro war culture to wanna fraternize with outta style dirty poors. Made friends with the crows. Saw Sinead O’Connor in my dream. Almost noon, kid’s been up all night, still wide awake plotting excessive vacations.
Solid segment by @mehdirhasan on the absurdity of continuing unconditional military funding to an openly racist & violent Israeli government (citing @SenSanders to that end too). Truthfully, the point stood even before the fanaticism of this particular govpic.twitter.com/6CSz6VncCY
“Bernie Sanders said he supports NATO and Biden in Ukraine. Marianne Williamson said she opposed Biden getting out of Afghanistan because the US needs to *help women.* With “left” politicians like these, who needs the neocons?” (-Danny Haiphong) SHITLIBS THINK FREE SPEECH IS BAD CUZ LYN CHENEY SELF IDENTIFIES AS FEMALE & DISLIKES ORANGE MAN BAD & GENDER IS THEIR NU RELIGION
So my good friends know my first concert was Dr. Hook opening for Shaun Cassidy at the Rupp Arena in Lexington. Shaun was on a tv show called “The Hardy Boys” and I was really into his songs, “Hey Deanie” and “That’s Rocknroll”. I also liked Andy Gibb, Leif Garrett, Sha Na Na, the Grease soundtrack and everything Elvis related. My aunt’s stoner boyfriend Ben got me into the Pretenders.
My pot smoking 70’s feminist aunt gave me my first two or three records, ya know? Monkees, More of the Monkees and Lynyrd Skyyard (Pronounced ‘Lĕh-‘nérd ‘Skin-‘nérd). I used to stare at those Skynyrd dudes on the cover of their first album and think to myself, “someday I’ll have a gang of wild hippie rebels”. Sadly, it never quite came true, most of my hombres were “just visiting” cultural tourists and people who only had hippie values once a year at the bourgeoise cos-play drug festival in the woods. They only loved me in their dirty barefoot, unshaven, slumming phase.
I was probably more into Skynyrd’s look then their actual music, though later in life, I came to love summa the bands they influenced from Tom Petty to Lone Justice to 38 Special to Junkyard, and one of my life’s best friends was a very, very, very charismatic bar brawlin’, pot smokin’, whiskey sippin’, hoarse/horse laughin’ big beautiful hillbilly bon vivant named Tap who used to be the main solderer at the stained glass studio I worked at in my late teens. He was like all the Dukes Of Hazzard and Merry Pranksters rolled into one, “YEEEEHAW!” There was never question of whether he was on the bus or off the bus, he came to party. He lived in a trailer with his girlfriend, Judy Jo, and they would have me over to booze it up at their trailer bar while we listened to corny, overplayed classic rock radio and I’d do mean spirited Rich Little impersonations of our employers and friend’s parents and they would laugh their asses off. The other think that was exceptionally cool about that dude who was always being dragged off in handcuffs for failure to pay chuld support or fighting at the bar again, is how in spite of his own very conventional mustache, parted in the middle hair, wife beater and blue jeans uniform, he never fucking batted at an eye no matter how many needless extra layers of costume jewelry and feathers and sequins and way too much clown makeup I wore to work back then, it did not phase him one bit. I think our gay yuppie bosses would be more inclined to voice objections to summa my over the top Pete Burns inspired costumes back then. He was a longtime big brother figure of mine and I’m sorry as hell he’s gone, so he’s who I am really mourning upon reading the Gary Rossington obits, cause Tap loved Lynyrd Skynyrd and outlaw country and “Let It Bleed” and Keith Richards “Main Offender” and really any music really that was about, “sorry, darlin’ but I gots to be movin’ on down the highway…” (RIP)
“To all the delusional USA bots out there, let me remind you (or inform you) that there is no reason to believe that any potentially viable candidates in the next election will govern in a democratic fashion–i.e., in a way that benefits the majority of the population.” (-Aaron Good)
“Bernie Sanders, promoting his book in the UK, is asked by the BBC about Ukraine policy: “It’s not an issue that I’ve been heavily involved in, but I support what the president is doing” A year in, still no significant thoughts on the issue, other than Support For The President.” (-Michael Tracey)
“The two key reasons we know Sirhan didn’t kill RFK:
1. No bullet from RFK could be matched to Sirhan’s gun. 2. Witnesses put Sirhan in front of RFK when he was shot from behind. Would have had a chest wound from the front if Sirhan had been firing bullets.” (-Lisa Pease)
The thing about to keep in mind about boomer nostalgia for the reporting of Sy Hersh and Woodward and Bernstein is that Watergate and its aftershocks were episodes in a US Establishment/deep state civil war whose outcome was the “Reagan Revolution”…With the Rummy/Cheney “Halloween Massacre” coup, Nelson Rockefeller was dropped from the 76 ticket and other more right-wing figures were appointed (e.g. Bush replacing Colby at DCI). The corporate liberal Rockefeller Republicans basically took over the Democrat Party. The next Dem president was Carter, handpicked by David Rockefeller and Zbig Brzezinski. Later, Rockefeller soured on Carter and helped with the October Surprise plot to sink his reelection. Reagan won the next presidential election–and basically every election thereafter.” (-Aaron Good)
My old pal Jim Rinn of I-94 Recordings fame sez everybody needs some Detroit in their rocknroll and I can’t say he’s wrong. I wish they all could be Motor City Motherfuckers.
Man, I’m gonna give you an example of how slow life is in my dead end desert ghost town. I wake up about five with all the wildlife outside, you hear the coyotes, roosters, birds and cows start carrying on about that time. By nine, it’s Sunday, and my family have a cold and they did not go to bed til late, so I knew I had about ten hours of free time, so I emailed an hombre, like, what’s sup? He gets back and says hey ya wanna hang out for awhile, I can spin by and pick you up. I’m amenable to that idea cause I don’t get a lotta freetime or adult talk these days and where I live is like two and a half miles from the nearest gas station or grocery store and no one will properly fence or leash their animals out here, so it’s dangerous, there’s always internet chat about loose dogs or dog bites elderly woman. So I prefer to not attempt the long trek into town on foot. Even with a trail stick, it’s perilous and even the dogs that are behind fences are always frying your nerves with their ferocious snarling, one poor animal is tied by a rope to a tree, no collar, just twine, people are rough on animals out here, mostly they are seen as food or weapons which is the opposite of Oregon where they are seen as like objects or fowrship, nearly deified. Okay so I go outside and wait for dude. Half hour rolls by, I try to call him, but the phone is dead, I go back inside to email him, but the electricity is out. In the Gates- Reset Post Covid Normal, whatever they call it, the electricity’s just out all the time, cause The Man just gets to fuckw ith you, charges whatever they want but when it ain’t on, fuck you. So I sit outside and read my “Addicted To Noise” book by Michael godberg, another forty minutes goes by and I start fucking around in the yard, getting my garden beds ready. I got about five rows of vegetables planted and seeds coming in the mail tomorrow, so ya know, I kinda just fuss over the seedlings now. By the third hour I figures dude’s just blown me off and that’s a drag cause I mighta made a different plan had he not offered to fetch me in his vehicle. So when the computer comes back on, he emails me back finally, saying his dog wanted to go on a walk, then he needed a nap, then he wanted to be petted, and now it was almost time for another dogwalk. So yeah that is the culture here. I’m three hours in with this guy and he’s petting his dog. That particular friend is in his thirties. Most of the population here seem to be in their seventies, so they tend to move much slower than my dude. My fam did not wake up until three so I just sat by myself all day and that’s alrite, I got a lot of birds that keep me company, but yeah tomorrow is another day where everything will be closed cause everything stays closed here on Sunday and Monday, family’s too sick for school, I won’t be planting anymore seeds cause the mail don’t come til four usually, I have been working on several batches on new lyrics, but my standards have changed, like why bother if it’s not excellent? Or at least, Inspired-Dumb? So now I’m sitting here typing, cat’s in the window, birds are still chirping, owls are hooting, wind chimes in the tree, all very nice but it is like time stands still, 5:35, been up for like 12 hours. Probably would have liked say a forty ounce had I known I was gonna be by myself all day. I like to drink a forty ounce, listen to old music. I only eat once a day, at six, so at least that is something reachable I can look forward to. Everybody that Goldberg writes about interests me. I particulatly like Ramblin Jack Elliot, who kinda reminds me of my dead train hopping anarchist street musician friend and former drinking buddy and wouldbe/part time bandmate, Mark B. Been exploring Ramblin’ Jack songs on the youtubes. Kinda miss record stores.
Woke up next day resumed typing at 3:34, had dreams about floods, headlines say Kentucky, the place of my birth, is without electricity, the people who control the grid don’t want us having generators, or effective for self sufficiencey, age old agriculture know how, or real seeds, cause they want to be able to control us all with a fear program and a flip of the switch. They really do seem like deranged sociopathic warpig movie villains. Their do nothing fraud squad tv puppets do not even stand up for Julian Assange and freedom of the press, all they have ever done is moan some more about Trump. Where would any rightwing superpac corporate owned shitlib celebrity be without Trump? Guys like Biden and Bloomberg are every bit as racist, sexist, gropey, and police state booyah as Trump, but pinkhat shitlibs shrug, cause they/them put a Big D behind their names. Think about it. Was hangin’ out with a local pal and was appalled when he started kinda tellin’ me how the answer to everything is Vote Republikkan and how George Soros funds Antifa and blah blah blah. I tried to explain to him that every people’s movement is infiltrated by Conitelpro forces and funneled back into the left versus right old paradigm, but he thinks we need more law and order and I just can’t vibe with him at this point. Law and order just means they don’t like poor people. They never talk about the real criminals who are fucking shit up-Bezos, Gates, Vanguard, Blackrock, Lockheed Martin, Pfizer, Bayer/Monsanto, Raytheon. I know they’ll probably just kille Robert F. Kennedy Jr. if he runs for president, but he is the only one who can tell the truth and still get on tv, sometimes. I miss Mike Gravel. And Glen Ford. God bless Daniel Ellsberg, Ralph Nader, and Dennis Kucinich…that pro war, fake new age chick can fuck right off.
JIMMY DORE TALKIN’ ‘BOUT LYIN’ ASS SHEEPDOGS, CULTISH PHARMA GRIFTERS, EMPTY SUIT WORD SAYERS, NU PELOSI EMPTY GESTURE JUSTICE TWEETERS & GUNG HO PRO WAR, MASS INCARCERATING FRAUD SQUAD FAKES FOOLIN’ YOU AGAIN
“As part of the project to expand NATO, and partly as revenge for the beginning of Russia’s Syria counter-McJihad operations, the US launched the Maidan coup. But Russia recognized what was afoot and arranged for the secession of Crimea from the Maidan junta regime. The US provoked Russia and made sure that Ukraine would not stop threatening Russia’s security red lines, ultimately provoking a limited Russian invasion that seems to have been designed more to bring Kiev to the negotiating table than to topple the puppet government. The US seemed surprised that Russia did not go all out like the US in the Iraq War. And they seem to have believed that the sanctions would harm Russia. But it seems the most damage has been inflicted on US allies and on the stability of the US imperial capitalist system.”(-Aaron Good)
SHITLIBS HATE FREESPEECH & WANT TO OUTLAW PROTEST FOR THEIR DAVOS BOSSES! THEY ALSO HATE THE WORKING CLASS FRONTLINE! LIKE THE CHENEYS, DESANTIS IS A TORTURER!
“Remember anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in the Iraq war? Dems supported her while it was convenient to oppose the war. Once it becme obvious that Dems only opposed *Bush*, not the war, Sheehan became inconvenient, and they dropped her like a hot rock.” (-Ladies Jacket Club)
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