STARRY EYES
“You and me
We’re going to escape tonight
On the run
Under the moonlight
Don’t think about nothing
Don’t think about nothing”
My main bands are still Generation X, Hanoi Rocks, Duran Duran, Pretenders, and Jesus & Mary Chain. I was never that metal, at all, really. Like most kids in my generation, from my part of the country, I’d heard of Motley way before I found my first Hanoi Rocks cassette. I became a dedicated lifelong Hanoi Rocks fan and kinda fell off the Motley train after the car accident and the second album, but I still remember the middle school dickhead industrial arts teacher casually strutting down the hallway with his big bushy mustache and two inches thick old fashioned glasses, casually ripping my Circus magazine pinup of Mick Mars spitting blook in all his Alice Cooper kabuki makeup down from my open locker-this was the kinda needless shit the hick adults did for no reason to assert their dominance in the tank plant town I grew up in. They’d fuck with your shit for no reason, and brainless mooks of the wrestling team and jackass golfshirt preppies would copy their behavior. It’s still real, real Planet Of The Apes, back there. Dumbfucks rule with their big trucks and numbskull apeman, flatulent dumbfuckery. I’m kinda sad for old Cryptkeeper Mick Mars, I remember seeing pix of Bob Deal in the seventies in his Bad Company coverbands with the disco mustache and hair parted in the middle and flares and silk shirt, right? He was old when they did “Too Fast”. I never lie about liking “Too Fast” and “Shout”, even among my glam hag Hanoi bretheren. I remember when Detroit’s Trash Brats were covering “Public Enemy #1” and they’d found a Nikkki Sixx lookalike bassplayer, and really being wowed by their live version of it. I still like “Starry Eyes”, “Come On & Dance”, “Take Me To The Top”, “Live Wire”, “On With The Show”, “Stick To Your Guns”, all that. Also love some of the songs John 5 did with David Lee Roth, so I’m kinda happy for 5, ya know he sorta graduated leaving Zombie/Manson for Motley Crue, the bigtime. I naturally didn’t like hearing the gossip that those other guys pushed him outta the band. They’re just a big money machine obviously, we’ve all known those guys were douchey hammerheads since forever, this is not new news, the drummer is like eighty now and still wants you to watch him wag his dingdong around, Vince never stopped drunk driving or punching hookers and Nikki is the worst kinda recovery loudmouth, quoting twelve steps scripture all day while still sensationalizing every fucked up thing his crue ever did that harmed people. So yeah, not a fan of gloating millionaire got away with it bully dickheads as people, but really, really like their original sound, a crass hybrid of punk, metal, glam, and the Runaways. They fucking looked phenomenol for their first fifteen or twentY minutes, too. They stayed Red Hot longer than Guns N Roses did. I saw that “Dirt” movie on Netflix and actually enjoyed it thoroughly in spite of not really caring for that Machine Gun Kelly Pink 182 Kardashian rapper kid at all, it was still very enjoyable to watch. I don’t like fat capitalist, sleazy businessman can’t sing Vince that much, for many reasons, but I always say a prayer when I think about him losing his child, ya know, he is still a human being with a heart and has to live with his burden like you and I have to live with ours. That’s too much to fucking shoulder, too much for anyone to bear, on top of his own errors and misbehaviors and unforgivable fuckups.. I kinda can’t help but feel for the guy sometimes. My dead friend Paul K the drunk poet outlaw singer used to say their book, “The Dirt”, was his favorite book of all time, which is pretty funny if you knew Paul. So I have some mixed feelings about seeing John 5 joining the Crue for still another already rich stadium tour victory laps. Happy for John 5 who I like, sad for old Mick who was probably the least douchey of the Raunchy 4. I still like “Danger” alot, too, always related deeply to that one when I was a mulleted bespectacled dork twelve year old dreaming about escaping the farmlands with all the fucked up hick kids and juvenile authorities and making a break for L.A.,cause Jim Morrison said, “get here and we’ll do the rest”, and years later, when I finally got out of Baptist reform school and white suburbanite jock school, released from detention hall, and rode out to Hollywood with a crazy redheaded stripper blasting “L.A. Woman” in her sports car and walking the boulevard at night whenever I was kickedout of my apartment in the middle of the night by a Cisco sodden chick, negotiating my makeup wearing way past all the street gangs and pimps and hookers and scary army like police thugs all lookin’ for their next meal, “This Is Hollywood” in my skull, especially that Mich Mars guitar solo. Talk about Mean Streets. I lived on Cherokee and Sunset, it was fuckedup. The cops were more dangerous than the drug gangs. That city was no joke and I never got lucky at all, never met the right people, it was all just fear, struggle, starvation, and deadend telemarketing jobs. Gettin’ kicked out at night. Recordstore owner not paying me. Seizures and wakin’ up in the county hospital.
Motley Crue – Public Enemy No.1 – YouTube
Watch Motley Crue Play Their First Show With New Guitarist John 5 (ultimateclassicrock.com)
Mick Mars guests on this commercial country song. Look at the artist though-always with the Industry ownership Illunimati Eye Property Patch, ya know?
CRAMPS FOREVER
Maybe it’s cause I live in the dead end desert graveyard town where there’s just old broken down trailers and all the tourist trap, hot tub hotels are for sale even since it all dried up during the covid clampdowns, aint no bars, aint no record stores, only one real old school music oriented, eccentric avant garde dude I know of besides me in a three hour radius, but I think it’s fuckin’ weird as fuck how nobody talks about the Cramps and Gun Club anymore. Maybe my oldster punk pals are kinda just past it, already played the livin’ daylights outta those records in the eighties, but me, man, that’s my CULTURE, that’s my jam, my sound and way of life. I aint gonna change into some kinda Foo Fightin’ Billie Eyelish and Miley Cyrus I-phone streamer just cause Big Media pounds us with all that bullshit everyday. Like today, it’s fucking twnty degrees outside and my night owl family are still asleep, but I’ll probably end up out there in the garage at some point, cause I moved all my Day Of The Dead skeletons and figurines offa my grandmothers’ stsero so I can play some old Cramps and fucking Depeche Mode vinyl. I am what I am. I split the whole scene back in 95 with the first real big noticable influx of normies and preppies and shitlibs and douchebags into the skanky bars that used to be for punks. The middle class gentrifiers and obedience signalers always wanna clean it up, which means hassle people like me until we go away. I like that new Depeche Mode song okay. I’m glad those two are still doing it. Some of us are signed on for life.
The Way I Walk (The Cramps music video) – YouTube
The Cramps – What’s Inside a Girl? LIVE – YouTube
The Cramps – Can Your Pussy Do the Dog? LIVE – YouTube
THE CRAMPS – “I Was a Teenage Werewolf” – YouTube
The Cramps – Surfin’ Dead (Fan Video by Atomic) – YouTube
The Cramps – “Ultra Twist” – YouTube
The Cramps – Heartbreak Hotel – YouTube
The Cramps – Psychotic Reaction – YouTube
“The white left in the U.S. is deeply delusional. Elements of the left actually believe a radical movement leading to revolutionary change will be led by white activists with Black & colonized people as backdrops. #AntiWarSoWhite” (-Ajamu Baraka)
Censorship Operations: Covid, War, and More – Activist Post
“There are speakers at @RageAgainstWar_
whose politics I disagree with. There might be one or two whose entire personalities I can’t stand. But it would never in a million years occur to me to start attacking that event and killing its energy and support over something so petty. If you’re looking at all this insane nuclear brinkmanship and the complete absence of public resistance to it and then deciding that the REAL problem is Tulsi Gabbard or whoever speaking at a demonstration against it, then your priorities are fucked. You’re not seeing clearly. The correct response to a large and energized protest against US militarism, warmongering and nuclear brinkmanship that has speakers you dislike is to start organizing more such protests with speakers you like, not to spend your energy shitting on that protest. I mean, like, duh. We’re closer to nuclear war than at any point since the Cuban Missile Crisis, and nobody has a foot anywhere near the brake pedal. This alone should have people protesting in the streets by the millions, but it doesn’t. These are serious problems that need to be addressed. “Oh no that event is bad because it’s got a speaker I don’t like in it!”
Is it really worse than having ZERO large demonstrations dedicated to opposing US warmongering and nuclear brinkmanship? Because that’s what you’ve got right now. That’s what you’re pushing to maintain. Like what is it people think they’re protecting by doing this? The “anti-war movement”? There is no anti-war movement. The “left”? There is no meaningful left in the US. What are you protecting if you can’t even have one big antiwar rally without everyone trying to shut it down? Of all the countless horrors in this world that one could spend one’s energy attacking, I simply cannot imagine choosing a large demonstration dedicated to opposing US warmongering and nuclear brinkmanship. For the life of me I cannot fathom any sensible reason to do that.” (-Caitlin Johnstone)
Aaron Maté on Twitter: “Me and @MaxBlumenthal discuss the establishment media meltdown over the Columbia Journalism Review calling out their Russiagate fraud: Mainstream media finally calls BS on Russiagate https://t.co/lqGaufSzNu via @TheGrayzoneNews” / Twitter
Chris Hedges: Hamilton 68 and the Russiagate Hoax – Dandelion Salad (wordpress.com)
Roger Waters Calls for Peace in Ukraine at UN Security Council – Dandelion Salad (wordpress.com)
Craig Murray: Profiteering from Death (consortiumnews.com)
David Swanson and Lee Camp: Can The March To WW3 Be Stopped? – Dandelion Salad (wordpress.com)
Biden to Syrian Earthquake Victims: DROP DEAD | CovertAction Magazine
TOM FROM MOONCHASERS & WINTER KILLS SENT ME THIS, HOPE TO HAVE A BIG WINTER KILLS FEATURE SHOWCASED HERE THIS YEAR!
Eric Lea – Never Never Never – YouTube
WHITNEY WEBB
New Podcast and Interviews (unlimitedhangout.com)
GENERATION X
“You and me are about to escape in the days of cold fire
Drugs and desire
Gas and ice are a syncopated sound that sends us back along
Where the skins hung out
But it was OK
Yeah, it was all right
We were, we were
The untouchables at night
You and me, well, we’re waitin’ on a corner share drag and a joke
With only fools to save us
We laughed and cried, split our sides at what they told us
That it’ll be OK
That it’ll be all right
We were, we were
The untouchables at night..”
So I met a kid, cool dude, has chickens and roosters and puppies that play together, knows a lot about politics, he’s a decorated combat veteran and definitely more towards the right than me, highly literate and knowledgable about all kinda shit, but he’s into the real detailed esoterica, the legalese, the lengthy bills and all that, so much of his conversation goes over most people’s heads including mine, but he’s in his thirties, like, my oldest kid’s age, so when I kept telling him how I’m really into Generation X, he thought I meant like, video games and watching sit-coms and Beck’s “Loser” the slacker anthem and role playing games and sarcasm and “Guitar Hero” and gaming and beiing Grunge/Alternative. But, no. I’m obviously talking about GENERATION X the band. Best everything, all at once. Best rhythm section, best guitar player, best frontman, Mott The Hoople influenced lyrics. The best threads-part punk, but all glam. Man I felt so fucked around and unwelcome in the big city gentrification scenes since all the normals invaded by ’95 and transformed our righteous and longstanding art ghetto bohemian enclaves into rich kid hipster country clubs that I left those places with some overall sense of bitter acrimony and went to the desert to get away from me, first trustfunded, landlordly V.I.P. dickhead culture, right? I often say the only shit I miss is Chipotle, indian food, and “Vive Le Rock” magazine. Also I was sad I missed GENERATION SEX, when Idol and Jamees played with Cook and Jones! I don’t even talk to the people I used to make music with in my teens and twenties for many reasons, but I carried a torch for them for a couple decades at least mainly cause I felt so certain we had unfinished business, we had co written and demo-taped a shit ton of songs in the tradition of all our heroe’s bands that still had not been properly recorded. Songs with weight and depth and messages and melody and cool breaks, the whole shebang-torchy love songs and rousing go geddem, storm the barricades, streetpunk anthems. I listen to the bands those other guys went on to join in later years and remain just baffled that there is seemingly little to no awareness that the stuff they did with me was super impactful in ways that are uncommon nowadays. Maybe cause I was never tight with my parents, never even met my one half sister who’s like middle aged now, but I was always rootin’ for like Van Halen to reunite while they still had some hair left and could still do kicks and hit the high note and give us the Full Bug, original band, not three of’ ’em and the fat kid. That shit just stinks of nepotism and rich people family business privilege. Circus Of Power were one of my favorite bands, Ricky was super cool to me, Alex was super cool to me, Gary was super cool to me, but some personal shit went down and as a lifelong fan, a kid who used to cover their songs and follow ’em around from town to town like a Circus Head, right? I always wanted them to reunite, too, now Ryan and Zowie are gone and Ricky and Alex don’t get along for their own personal reasons, they had an irreparable rift at some point, I’m glad Big Al found other qualified applicants and is still treading the boards performing songs like “American Monster”, “Call Of The Wild”, “In The Wind”, “Junkie Girl” and “Letters Home” with his rejuvenated lineup and Gary Sunshine even guest starred on their last record, which was cool. He makes solo albums now in the spirit of Tom Waits and Paul Westerberg. He’s good at what he does, too.But yeah back to Generation X, I think Tony James and Billy kept all the moolah and that’s why Derwood and Mark Laff don’t really wanna be involved with it no more, which is a cryin’ shame because they were my personal faves, all 4 of ’em were absolute dynamos in their day and Billy is probably still the best frontman of his generation, I mean there’s Iggy, Mike, Jagger and Tyler, too, but are any of those guys specifically better than Idol, or just equal to ‘im? I mean him and Steve Stevens are still frequently generating modern songs as good as the old stuff, and that’s the rarest thing in the world of rocknroll, ya ever heard of. C’mon, what was the last Stones song you really cared about? Or Aerosmith? For me, it was “What It Takes” or “Chip Away”, or “F.I.N.E. Fine”, right and that was all a long, long time ago, even “Jaded” and that was just like so-so. I do like some tunes on the new Iggy Pop record. Tex Perkins can do no wrong in my eyes. The Mary Chain are still good. But when I talk about what I’m really into musically, what I aspired to co creating my own unique version of, the dizzy heights I was reaching for, it was Generation X I mostly had in mind. With a little Gun Club and Lords Of The New Church thrown in there, right? That new Lordsy song Mike’s band did was pretty stellar, I must say. When nobody’s around and I have a cocktail, which I do not currently, the band that makes me still wanna dance in front of the mirror or put on some makeup, you know, it’s still almost always Generation X. Billy and Steve had a song on that album Devil’s Playground with the rolling bassline that reminded me so much of Tony James, I really ended up loving that one too. the “Runaway” song. “Come home it’s a brand new day, some home my Cheri, Cheri runaway!” So fantastic. So yeah when I get down with the blues over all the modernday ripoffs, controlled pig media fake news and lies for war, the censorship and high rent and grocery gouging and adult have to pay the man to keep the lights on non stop worries bullshit, one resource that still soothes my weary mind and feels like medicine for my broken little new wave heart is still, of course, the immortal and untouchable GENERATION X. Would you believe at different times of my life I’ve even reached out to Derwood and Tony about forming a band with me because that’s just how I am? Unrealistic and sometimes just flatout fearless when it comes to the lost art of co creating the danceable motherfuckin’ heartfelt romantic, rebellious rocknroll! But right now, today I gotta go clean the catboxes and take out the trash and vacuum up all the popcorn my kid spilt all over the floor! Mark laff and Bob Andrews, if you ever google yourself and happen up on these words, just know that although you might not have gotten the moolah you deserved, you helped touch many people’s hearts and uplifted us and gave us hope when we were scroungey little nobodies from horrifyingly abusive backgrounds who really needed that little bit of light and coolness and inspiration the four of you provided. People tell Billy and Tony that shit everynight, probably, but I could never say it enough to any of ’em. Thank You, Generation X!!!! I also love the third album that nobody else likes-I think it’s a flawless masterpiece even with other musicians. All 3 records are perfect in my book, the peak!
Nothing is better than this, if you ask me. Generation X – Kiss Me Deadly – YouTube
Night of the Cadillacs (2002 Remaster) – YouTube
Paradise West (2002 Remaster) – YouTube
Generation X – Into The Valley Of The Dolls – YouTube
Valley of the Dolls (2002 Remaster) – YouTube
NEWS SPORTS & WEATHER DESK:
Craig Murray: Sy Hersh & The Way We Live Now (consortiumnews.com)
Assange vs the violence of imperial ‘humanitarianism’ | Julian Assange | Al Jazeera
Rant Against the War Machine, with Jimmy Dore – YouTube
Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) / Twitter
Caitlin Johnstone on Twitter: “Well that’s an interesting admission.” / Twitter
“Anyone who has worked a normal job at a normal-sized business has worked with people who have odious political beliefs, but if an antiwar demonstration has a speaker whose politics you dislike it needs to be shut down, lit on fire and buried. Have you just never had a job, or ? This is because these demonstrations against US warmongering are not actually targeted for having the wrong speakers or ticking the wrong boxes. They are targeted because they are demonstrations against US warmongering. If you do succeed in getting a large antiwar demonstration going and it’s drawing lots of interest and attention, you will quickly discover why that is when your own event gets targeted in the same way as they always are, despite your meticulously ticking all the right boxes. There will never, ever be a large antiwar rally that doesn’t get attacked for having the wrong speakers or the wrong message or the wrong whatever. ANY time an antiwar movement starts gaining momentum and turning heads, it WILL be attacked. And it WON’T be for the reasons given.” (-Caitlin Johnstone)
“Syria has received earthquake aid from Russia, Iran, Cuba and China.
These countries have lost *billions* in total from US sanctions.
Tell me which country is the real threat again?” (-Danny Haiphong)
“Not only do they team up with other countries to jointly prepare for war with China but they invite “journalists” over to boast about it. And everyone finds that perfectly normal… But a balloon, what a provocation!” (-Arnaud Betrand)
“Other questions at this press conference:
ITV: “How many fighter jets do you need, when do you need them?” BBC: “Don’t you think that decision about warplanes is taking too long?” Sky News: “Why not send more so they can finish off the job now? What is holding the West back?” Journalists at these press conferences almost always operate from the same working premise: that their job is to cajole the world leaders into escalating harder.” (-Michael Tracey)
“The empire pivoted away from the Bush-era Hulk-smash ground invasions in favor of proxy warfare, sanctions, drone wars and covert ops exactly because the protests against the Iraq war scared the crap out of them, and there’s been a major focus on narrative management ever since.The “right kind” of large antiwar rally will never, ever appear. There will never, ever be one that is not subjected to high-octane ridicule and derision by voices seemingly aligned with you politically. The last time the empire let that happen was 2003, and it never will again. For that reason, you can’t expect antiwar protests to have that kind of widespread acceptance anymore. People are far too indoctrinated, the warmongering has gotten far too subtle, and the infiltrations and manipulations to prevent the rise of an antiwar movement are too strong. We know this is true because that’s what’s been happening. Opposition to US warmongering and other crucial power agendas sees its momentum quashed before it gets off the ground, over and over and over again, without a single, solitary exception. This WILL continue. Again, I’m not asking you to believe me on blind faith. If you don’t see the patterns I’m pointing to right now, just wait, and keep watching. Pay close attention. You will see it for yourself before long. Or better yet, prove me wrong. Get a large demonstration against US warmongering going with all the right people and ticking all the right boxes, and get it lots of energy and attention. Don’t you think it’s a bit suspicious that this literally never happens? Why might that be?” (-Caitlin Johnstone)
Reality Almost an entire continent and the most powerful military alliance in the world have spent about $120 billion and imposed 9 rounds of what is described as the most devastating sanctions in History on 1 country Russia still has 20% of Ukraine a year later. If Russia is a weak country I hate to see what will happen when we face a strong one. Before the war when it wasn’t basically against the law in the US for our media to tell the truth about the Azov in Ukraine.
Our Gov’t funded them knowing this. Inside A White Supremacist Militia in Ukraine https://youtu.be/fy910FG46C4 via
@YouTubeThis doesn’t mean everybody in the Ukraine military is a Nazi, or there aren’t brave soldiers just fighting for their country It does mean that our Gov’t are liars, but you should already know that, especially when it comes to getting us into wars. If a Black person is lost enough to defend Massa Joe because he has a D next to his name on a ballot in spite of what he has done to and said about our people for the last half century, I don’t have time rnow to try to pull you out of the Matrix. Stick around and pay attention.” (-Black In The Empire)
BROKEN GLASSES
Roger Waters Smeared By Pink Floyd Bandmate Over Ukraine – YouTube
Ajamu Baraka on Twitter: “Where is the objective free press on this.” / Twitter
Study: 50% of All Vaccinated Young Athletes Have Myocarditis (substack.com)
Garland Hopkins on Twitter: “@medeabenjamin https://t.co/iCAyGiKnk2” / Twitter
The Pain of Listening To Twitter Censorship Testimony (substack.com)
AOC CONFRONTED: Watch Her Reaction – YouTube
Garland Nixon on Twitter: “https://t.co/ySPYRavBIH” / Twitter
New Push for ‘Oral Vaccines’ to Vaccinate People Using Food; 23 Percent Sales Tax May End Income Tax (theepochtimes.com)
“Our rulers hate Russia and China because they see them as a threat to their hegemony
Americans hate Russia and China because our rulers told us to. if Pelosi was a Republican, liberals might actually be curious about how she and her husband made a $100 million on the stock market while she was a public servant. While these politicians you love or hate attend their children’s weddings, sip cocktails together and collect money from the same wealthy people and corporations, we fight each other over which corrupt Party is our ally. Our rulers and their Western allies don’t want to lose their control of the world Almost all the world chaos you see is the result of them trying to maintain their hegemony. The biggest danger on the planet is not the countries they programmed us to fear, it is the people in DC. Our Congress voted for several years on whether or not we should fund neo-Nazis in Ukraine that they now tell us never existed. I guess that either makes them the real Russian propagandists or you a damn fool for belieiving these liars. Americans are still believing the same Gov’t and media that told us Iraq had WMD’s and that they were winning in Afghanistan for the last 20 years without even giving what they are being told a second thought. I don’t live in Russia, China or Iran so I can’t vouch for or denounce them with anything I can say is fact I’m an American and I can vouch for how evil, greedy, murderous and dishonest our Gov’t is and prove it by simply revealing our own words and deeds that are in the public. I won’t be bullied into supporting Nazis, pretend this isn’t a proxy war the US has been trying to start for years or believe the rulers of my country gives a shit about democracy here or anywhere else. I’m gonna tell the truth, and I have the facts and evidence to back it up. Americans, Our Gov’t took $100,000,000,000 from us, refused to let is track where it went, gave most of it to their donors, and the rest went to a country labeled the most corrupt in Europe that has Nazi Battalions in its military. Then got you to attack anybody against it. Dem and GOP leadership and their media allies have successfully transferred trillions of dollars to their donor class from us over the past few decades by getting us obsessed with fighting culture wars while they are fighting a class war. How much do you think weapons manufacturers made on this war?” (-Black In The Empire)
KOOL STUFF WE LIKE:
The Dubrovniks – She Got No Love – YouTube
Winners are grinners, even when we’re all losers | Reviews (i94bar.com)
Michael Monroe with Joey Ramone and Little Steven NYC 1993-08-10 – YouTube
THE FIGGS w/ Cheap Cassettes at Lucky Liquor Tickets, Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 8:00 PM | PromoTix
The Cheap Cassettes (bandcamp.com)
The Cure – A Forest (Live 1992) – YouTube
The Sound Of The Saints – YouTube
Depeche Mode – Ghosts Again (Official Video) – YouTube
Beyond the Doors: Conspiracy theories about the deaths of Jimi, Janis and Jim | Dangerous Minds
Distract, Divide and Conquer: The Painful Truth About the State of Our Union – Activist Post
#FluorideLawsuit: Cover Up Continues As Judge Delays Until April – Activist Post
Julian Assange: The Trial of The Century – Activist Post
Neil DeGrasse Tyson EMBARRASSED After Spreading Covid Misinformation – YouTube
Protest March 18-19: Peace in Ukraine – Say NO to Endless U.S. Wars – ANSWER Coalition If you aint responsible for any kids with disabilities, you should fucking call your best road buddy and make plans to attend the BIG ANTI WAR PROTEST! HELP STOP WW3! STAY WILD, STAY FREE, ALL MY BROTHERS & SISTERS & FRIENDS OF THE REVOLUTION! GOOD NIGHT! WE LOVE YA!
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