ROCKET TO RENO BY THE WORLD FAMOUS MISTER RATBOY
Mr. Ratboy – “Rocket to Reno” – YouTube
“Hey Americans
Have you figured out what we’ve let our country become yet, or are you still running around here talking about democracy, sovereignty and Human Rights like the people that run this place really give a damn about that? The truth is out there for everybody to watch, research and read.
Most people just don’t have time, don’t really care or just don’t want to know or believe.
When the damage is done it usually comes out, but by that time they’ve moved on to feeding us the next set of lies.
The crazy thing about what’s happening is that many think we are just making up things that people in our Gov’t have literally planned, have written down in strategy and policy papers and are executing
Our citizens have no idea how evil the people running this place really are.” (-Black In The Empire)
LISTEN: Nord Stream Attack an ‘Act of War’ (consortiumnews.com)
Kelley Lane on Twitter: “Damn! Thank you @RepLuna @CISA @DHS @NASSorg @Twitter” / Twitter
The Pathology of the Rich – Chris Hedges on RAI (1/2) – theAnalysis.news
Censorship Operations: Covid, War, and More – Activist Post
“Half the country lives in poverty or a category called near poverty. The working class and the working poor are priced out of the health care system. The schools do not educate their children, who live without adequate food and often clean water, are repeatedly evicted from their homes, have their utilities shut off, cannot find jobs, are crippled by punishing debt peonage and with the pandemic are dying at disproportionally higher rates. They get the message the oligarchs are sending. They, and their children, are expendable. They don’t count. Their lives are of no consequence, unless they are locked in a cage where their bodies can generate as much as $60,000 a year for the multitude of corporations, including the for-profit medical services, food services, money transfer services, commissary services, phone services, private prisons and prison contractors, not to mention the large corporations and state governments that exploit the cheap and bonded labor of 1 million of our 2.3 million prisoners.
The prison system is a multi-billion dollar a year industry with lobbyists in state capitals and Washington making sure these bodies remain in cages or are put back into cages soon after they are released. The neo-slavery in our prisons is the corporate model envisioned for all of America.
The two ruling parties are equally complicit in this assault. The Democratic Party, in the midst of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, is trying to sell us a presidential nominee, Joe Biden, who was one of the principal architects of de-industrialization and responsible for the loss of hundreds of thousands of good, union jobs. Biden and Bill Clinton also destroyed our welfare program, where 70 percent of the recipients were children, and orchestrated the doubling of our prison population and the tripling and quadrupling of sentences.” (-Chris Hedges)
GHOSTS OF LOVERS
It’s still bitterly cold here in the dead end desert ghost town in the morning but even a little sunlight seems to offer some kinda promise. I did not used to be a sunshine dude, I preferred the night time, growing up, mainly cause like Hunter S. Thompson said, no one tells the truth between nine and five. I never got along with the daytime people, the bureaucrats and shysters, scam merchants, and liars, and coffee breathed compliance officers and Nurse Ratcheds, ya know? The night time world we used to know, soundtracked by Peter Murphy and Lords Of The New Church keeps disappearing, the people, the places, all the cool bands, people keep dyin’ all around me man. Real glam’s been dead for a long time, ya know when Guns N Roses first came on the scene, I didn’t just love ’em cause they dressed up like Hanoi Rocks, but I really vibed with the reblliousness of their early tunes like “Reckless Life” and “Move To The City” and especially, “Out To Get Me”, they had an authenticity I could relate to having grown up not far from where Izzy and Axl did and experienced a lot of the same repression those guys did. Of course, in the early days, no one in “Hit Parader” or “Circus” was really emphasizing how Slash’s mom had dated David Bowie or how he had known David Geffen all his life, so I really fell hard for the guttersnipe myth about hardscrabbble punks from nowhere farmtowns, takin’ the bus out to L.A. and living in the alley behind Tower Video, and meeting other streetwise desperados and fighting their way to the top with nothing but some Marshall stacks and a can of Aqua Net and a leather trench coat. When Axl started beating up fans for taking his picture at a concert, and writing songs about wanting to beat up all the music critics and supermodels who did not respect his authority, he kinda revealed his true colors, he had an undeniable Midwestern programmed cop or jock authoritarian streak, he was more like our common oppressors than he was like me or Stiv Bators or Joe Strummer. Then, his first big imitator, Sebastian Bach, started wearing that “Aids Kills Fags Dead” t shirt and threw a bottle at some girl and fucked up her eye, there was like this invasion of jocks into our rocknroll underground-then it was all those fake fuckin’ assemblyline Winger and Warrant bands for a couple of years-they all had one hard rawk anthem and one sappy power ballad. Then, the man did the whole grunge/alternative bullshit hoax while they were consolidating the media, and killin’ off all the smaller magazines and radio stations, and buying up all the venues and merging into this crazy fuckedup monopoly they got now. If Cobain killed himself, and I realize Courtney’s probably a manipulative monster and Grohl was a big wannabe mook, and he had a drug habit and childhood trauma, and all that, but I can’t help but think, if he really did kill himself, that it was at least partly because of that fanbase of homophobes and warpigs and dumb jocks and bullies that had become his main audience after they played “Teen Spirit” 1000 times a day for five years. I think the powers that be were still experimenting back then with what they could sell through repetition. So, after Cobain’s five minutes, they gave us all his lousy imitators like Bush and Creed and Stone Temple Pilots and Foo Fighters. I was never into any of that shit. I missed the poetry and heart and hypnotic basslines of Sisters Of Mercy and Lords Of The New Church and Iggy and Bowie, ya know? i was never into the jock rock, the fake grunge, or the douchey manufactured boy bands that came after that. i’m still pretty goth at heart. One of the most underrated bands I know of was like part Thunders/Hanoi gutterpunk but they also had an ominous, foreboding, Lords influenced edge to some of their nocturnal ballads and barbed fairytales and sullen lullabyes for the doomed was Ghosts Of Lovers. I liked ’em better than 69 Eyes, probably. They were cooler and smarter than your average metal years glam band, more like Gunfire Dance than Tuff…I think one of these dudes also already passed away, sadly. It’s all so here and gone, ya know just like a precious flashing minute then, poof, it’s over. Like lightning. That’s all we get. Go flick the lightswitch on and off a couple times-that’s all we get in this lifetime. That’s why I say life should be more sacred to people and not just thrown away for some fatcat weapon maker, or lithium stealing chip manufacturer of fracker or phramaceutical billionaire profits. I hope all the last remaining punks and goths and civilians who oppose fascism, tyranny, authoritarianiam, Orwell endles wars, and boots stomping on a human face forever will get out there and organize and demonstrate agianst all these fascist murderers and lies for wars. Meanwhile, my gothic glam and cowpunk hermit antisocial glamarachist band, THE LONELINESS TORCH & TWANG is seeking collaborators who share a passion for old bands like Lords Of The New Church, Gunfire Dance, Ghosts Of Lovers, Gun Club, Cramps, that kinda thing.
Angels in Exile Record Label – Artists – The Ghosts of Lovers
The Ghosts of Lovers – ‘Don’t Be Afraid…’ – Live – YouTube
The Ghosts of Lovers – ‘Iona’ – YouTube
The Ghosts of Lovers – ‘Tonight’ – YouTube
The Ghosts of Lovers – ‘Who’s To Blame’ – Live – YouTube
The Ghosts of Lovers – ‘So Lonely’ – YouTube
The Ghosts of Lovers – ‘Soldier of The Heart’ – Live – YouTube
The Ghosts of Lovers – ‘(Requiem For) Candy’ – YouTube
The Ghosts of Lovers – ‘Who’s To Blame’ – Live – YouTube
The Ghosts of Lovers – ‘Souls on Fire’ – YouTube
The Ghosts of Lovers (facebook.com)
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GLAM PINKOS FOR PEACE
“Remember, before any war began, Russia tried to fix things diplomatically with the US in Dec. 2021. All they asked was for NATO troops to back off from their border. Common sense.
Biden’s response? “Nonstarter”, as he schemed on how to blow up Nord Stream 2, per Hersh’s source.If Russia had blown up an American pipeline, Washington would call it an act of war and nuke them, or respond with some variation of World War 3. This has been a consistent Russian position long before anyone ever heard of Putin. There‘s nothing controversial about asking an adversarial military alliance to stop encircling you— as Western diplomats promised. The only ones who can’t grasp this are the aggressors. What makes these reckless warmongers, who act like they are God on earth, think they can get away with this behavior? While they distract you with this balloon story, China is building a new multipolar order with Russia, Iran, India, KSA— the list goes on.
BRICS+ is the future. The West is in decline and Ukraine is DC’s desperate attempt to cling to power. Ironically it’s achieved the opposite.” (-Richard Medhurst)
“The US has invaded & destroyed countless countries while the international community was opposed to it — Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Vietnam, Korea, etc. etc.” (-Lee Camp)
“The silence in the US mainstream media on Seymour Hersh’s bombshell Nordstream revelations that the US did it is deafening.
Given that the US media is an extension of the military state, one could see the silence as an admission of guilt. Real leaders don’t sell out their country and people to war profiteers and Wall Street.
When Washington is accused of blowing up Nord Stream, the U.S. mainstream media is silent. When an earthquake kills over a thousand Syrians, the U.S. mainstream media conjures up several articles on why the U.S. shouldn’t lift sanctions crippling Syria’s economy. Ghoul sh*t.” (-Danny Haiphong)
“So while RUS proposed a treaty to resolve the Cuban-missile-crisis-level threat on its border, the US planned Nordstream sabotage – rupturing German-RU relations, destabilizing the EU w surging energy costs, & shredding prospects for peace.” (-Dr. Jill Stein)
“On the UN vote declaring food a human right, the vote was 180 to 2. Only the US and Israel believe people do not have a right to avoid starving to death. We throw out 40% of all food in the US but we deny food should be a right.” (-Lee Camp)
“You should start paying attention to the people in this country that the Establishment wants to shut up.
Aren’t you tired of being lied to by the people they give us to listen to? Your Gov’t cares more about their proxy war in Ukraine than you. We were told Russia blew up their own pipeline, bridge and were shelling their nuclear power plant
Not surprised that after the US tried to stop the building of the pipeline, then tried to stop its use and now celebrated its destruction we believe the US had nothing to do with it. Is your Gov’t who has never told you truth about a war in your lifetime telling you the truth now or are the people telling you something different telling the truth like it has always turned out in the past when the smoke cleared? How about we demand our Gov’t spend their time demanding a negotiation instead of working to block one like they did last March? We let our Gov’t divide us and steal trillions of dollars as we fought each other.
They are now desperately fighting to maintain their world hegemony as the rest of the world starts to fight back and countries emerge strong enough to defy them
We have to face reality. The US used this war to demilitarize Europe, force them into buying more expensive energy and drive their inflation through the roof.
Blowing up the pipeline was a bonus. It wasn’t just the Global South our rulers wanted subjugate. Sorry European white power, they got you too. There are still Ukrainians willing to die and the US still has weapons to sell. I didn’t pay much attention to Trump’s or Biden’s classified document ‘scandals’ because after what they let Queen Hillary get away with, I know they don’t really give a shit about it. I don’t care how morally superior voting Biden made you feel, it doesn’t change him working with Segregationists to stop busing, writing bills to mass incarcerate Blacks, overseeing the committee to humiliate Anita Hill saying more racist things than Trump could dream of. Our Gov’t is run by the donor class, it doesn’t matter who you put in that office This is not a democracy so if you listen to the Democrats who got caught rigging their primary telling you they are fighting for it, you got played.” (-Black In The Empire)
The CIA and the Media — Listen To the Mockingbirds – Activist Post
Revealed: Documents Show Bill Gates Has Given $319 Million to Media Outlets (mintpressnews.com)
Global Economic Forecast Reveals the Perils of U.S. Addiction to War | Black Agenda Report
China Balloon is Pretext for US Provocation | Black Agenda Report
ESSAY: Black Studies in the Age of Obama: John H. Bracey, Jr. 2011 | Black Agenda Report
Nestlé’s Blatant Misconduct Shows Us the Darkness of Capitalism | CovertAction Magazine
AOC Is STILL Lying About Hunter Biden Laptop! – YouTube
Fauci CASHING IN On His Covid Celebrity – YouTube
FBI “Designed To Spy On Americans” Says Ron Paul – YouTube
Wall Street Caught Boasting War Is Good For Biz – YouTube
“MLK warned us about the White moderates, Malcolm X warned us about the Black Bourgeoisie and White liberals and here we are today still running around blindly pushing the ‘D’ in the voting booth in spite of getting nothing for it, all these years later. When you see the GOP and Dems, and stations like MSNBC and Fox News all agree on something, you know they are working together to push us into supporting a war. The US blew up the pipeline, every Gov’t in the World knows it including weak ass Germany
The only place where a large amount of people don’t believe it is the US and parts of the West, the real most propagandized places in the World. For those taking abuse for telling the truth about this war Don’t get discouraged Remember that during the Iraq War they fired almost everybody in MSM that challenged the WMD lie and smeared everybody else as traitors and protectors of terrorists. Let’s not beat around the bush No matter who you want to win, whether you agree with Russia going into Ukraine or not. The fact is that the US wanted this war, is using Ukraine, took away their sovereignty in 2014 to use them to weaken Russia and is the one lying non stop.”
NOT TO MENTION KUSHNER AND TRUMP’S BEING IN BED WITH ZIONIST ISRAEL AND THE ADDELSON CASINO BILLIONAIRE SUPER DONORS
Trump, Kushner Profiting from White House Connection to Saudi Prince – Rolling Stone
https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/whatever-they-decide-these-ufos-are
SWEET DREAMS THE STORY OF THE NEW ROMANTICS BY DYLAN JONES
Just like with goth, none of the main New Romantic bands wanted anything to do with the label. My idea of New Romantic kinda includes all the new wave and 80’s Batcave goth bands like Flesh For Lulu and Specimen to Duran Duran and Marilyn and Visage and Sputnik. It was a loose media hook, really, encompassing everybody from the innovative orignator Blitz Club to everybody who copied them soonafter. Wow, friends, it’s just so good, this heavy thick book is like the new wave bible of all us Smash Hits 80’s kids. I got it for Christmas the year before last and it remains a real escapist treat if you wanna revisit the fun filled days when there were still cool nightclubs filled with glittery stars and people still got together to do drugs and dance, exchange ideas and reinvent themselves, show off their creativity and ever evolving latest look, or write songs and make cool music. I was into like Prince and Human League and Psychedelic Furs type stuff from like when I was ten or eleven I think but I had to remove myself from an extremely abusive situation when I was about 14 and when I ranaway to NYC, I discovered ya know, everything. “Liquid Sky” and Basquiat, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, the Cult and Billy Idol, I-D magazine, CBGB’S, the Pyramid, King Tut’s, all that lot. I was a gawky Ramone but already working on my look, experimenting with spiky hair and Alice Cooper and David Bowie informed, gloomy androgyny. My best friend back then had beautiful Sputnik hair and always dressed cool, so he really stood out in a small town-his name was Jaysin B and he did time in juvie for running away even before I did, we both just wanted to escape our abusers and become big city Blitz Kids like all those fab faces we read about in new wave magazines. We used to record with two tape recorders as our way of overdubbing, singing through a bass amplifier and never worrying about the tape hiss cause ya know we just told ourselves that weird static made us sound more like Joy Division. When I got back from juvie detenton, my friend Jaysin B and I would pore over Smash Hits magazine together, he was really into New Order and Gary Numan while I was real ginned up about Charlie Sexton and Sigue Sigue Sputnik and Strawberry Switchblade and We’Ve Got A Fuzzbox and We’re Gonna Use It. Dead Or Alive was big. He was really into Animotion. Everybody loved Ministry’s “Everyday Is Halloween”. We had some real cheap Casios and plink plink plinky toy drum machines and over at his house we’d sit on the floor underneath all this fabric he had hanging everywhere and Christmas lights and we’d breakout the corny poetry notebooks and sing about the girls we loved nd how we never fit in, with our best fake Dave Gahan and fake Richard Butler voices. “Troubadours and transients know her name in noisy bars, but I’ll never win her heart with poetry, bloodshed, and guitars”, I’d moan ever so solemnly, morosely. We were two morose kids. It was like three more years before we met any other weirdos willing to express themselves visually in a town so intolerant and uptight they’d chase you across the football field, a whole mob of ’em, just for wearing a girl’s blouse or black lipstick. They really seemed so hate rage dumb aggressive, it was hard to not internalize their crazy bullshit. They wanted to kill me. I loved the NY Dolls and 70’s Stones and Prince and did not see what the fucking big problem was. Prince had even created a black rock band influenced by the New Romantics with Mazarati. The hysteria over some boys in makeup always seemed psychotic to me. It was a military town though, and back then, gender benders were seen as like, the worst thing ever. You know how crazy the tv propaganda loving Democrats got over typical sportsfan or Burning Man cultural appropriating idiot, QShaman yelling “freedom” and the hick who sat momentarily behind Wall Street crooked inside trader/traitor Nancy Pelosi’s desk? The way safespacers feel about black standup comedians who don’t want to wear dresses to appear in movies? That’s how rabid the gung-ho Rambos were, with their blind, seething, frothing at the mouth ballsout rabid hatred towards all us Cure kids in the makeup and long coats, back in the eighties. For a long time, like 1980-’86 or so? There were only like five of us who were openly “different” and flagrantly defied the local dress codes in that town and that’s if you count the two spiked bracelet wearing guitar playing metalheads and the Madonna wannabe chick who wouldn’t talk to us. Now you got white patriarchal Republican oppressor Caitlin Jenner stans insisting you praise her courage and beauty or they’ll get you cancelled and demonetized, and Harry Styles and all those Kardashian occultists being creepy and all those transkids programming Hulu/Netflix shows but it was very different when we were kids. I ranaway in search of freedom ya know, and met the girls at Patricia Fields and the Pyramid Club and made friends with everybody Downtown, and was in NYC when Wigstock was still a magical gathering in the park, but now, they have drag queens bringing sex toys around kids which is not cool, and that Xtiana Whatsername chick who used to be Britney’s main teen pop, monach rival wearing strapons on stage with kids in the audience and I don’t care what your self referencing preferred pro nouns or sexual preferences are, I don’t think it’s sane or healthy to have grownups pushing their adult sexuality, or adult toys on children. I don’t want no heteronormative cys born yada yada whatever whatever talking about sex to underage kids, neither. Not appropriate, really objectionable. Consenting grownups are free to freak freely in my revolution, but you don’t show kids pornograpy or adult toys, you don’t peer pressure kids to take hormones, and the overt sexualization of young people being pushed by big corporation is disturbing. When I was young, Frankie Goes To Hollywood was considered racey, shocking, scandalous. “Dirty Mind” by Prince was considered OUTRAGEOUS by my friend’s church parents. Even “1999”. Now McDonna never appears in public without taking a shit on the Last Supper or whatever. My old ruffian guitar player says he’s accepting of an imperfect world and hated the 80’s, me, I wish I could go back and stay there.
When I turned seventeenish, I finally met two mohawked hardcore guys who had a goth band with the useless drum machines like we did only they also had a four track and a guitar and an amp and knew what they were doing! Through them, I met a real cool death rock girl who was kindof a shut in back then but now she’s a famous radio personality, and man oh man, back then, she was a real witchy, full on Morticia, like those chicks in the Cult videos who were also in Dr. & The Medics! She was way cooler than me, but we still became close. She knew Skinny Puppy and had all these books and all the real underground goth records and a black bedroom. I still got the brunt of the smear the queer assaults in that town cause I had no wheels and they’d always catch me walking to work or with my legal aged pals to buy smokes at the corner gas stations, or whatever. All the adults fully supported the football team bloodying my nose regularly cause they agreed I had it comin’ for disobeying the dress codes and refusing to conform to their golf shirt and designer jeans and Michael Jordan tennis shoes fuckedup midwestern dress codes. A car load of jealous stoners even threatened my much older punk friend one day because they knew he had to be somehow associated with me by his black hair and combat boots and GBH t shirt and leather jacket, right? Those fuckers STILL hate my guts. A whole state of asshole fratboys just DESPISE anybody who don’t care about the Super Bowl or how rich their parents are. Thank God I got out. Some of my dead friends who stayed were not so lucky. I’m still a big whore for all the eighties genres-synth duos, early hiphop, post-punk, fake reggae, glam, sleaze metal, Madness, Dexy’s, Van Halen, I love all of it. The book focuses on the early evolution of what came to be known as the New Romantic Movement-mime faced after-disco divas like Steve Strange and Marilyn and Boy George and Adam Ant, how Spandau Ballet and Duran Duran were perceived as rivals by the UK tabloid press, though there was really no contest. How everybody was influenced by Kraftwerk back then-even and especially Afrika Bambatta and the Soul Sonic Force. There was a shy girl at my Catholic school who looked like Debbie Harry in her younger years and her parents owned a bookstore in the mall. She’d let me spend hours sprawled out on the floor in front of all the music mags, crouched down gawking at the full color pinups of Soft Cell, Ultravox, Visage and David Sylvian.
There were only two new wave kids in my town at first, then I met That Girl so there were three. Me n him kinda momentarily fought over Her but She moved past us and we resumed our search for The Others. Downtown in the tough school, there were rappers and breakdancers we befriended, some older white surfer wannabe guys were like the rich trendy Spandeaus of the hicktown scene, they all had moms who took them to Ft. Wayne or Toledo for bleachy Simon Le Bon and Limahl haircuts and they wore all the posh clothes from Chess King or Merry Go Round. I dunno if those guys were really even that into music as much as they were having all the latest Swatch watches and Flock Of Seagulls shirts with all the flaps and snaps. Eventually, some older chick whose name I don’t remember got the town’s four prettiest seniors to start performing some ridiculous lip synch to Duran Duran and that became the biggest excitment that tank plant town had ever seen. There was a preppie bar downtown with big tv screens on each side of the stage and a DJ up in the balcony who played Madonna and “Mony Mony” and they had a teen night with confetti cannons and a light show and all the preppies and normies were at last discovering MTV and I remember me and my lone other new wave friend looking at each other all wide eyed walking in while they blared “Sunglasses At Night” and “People Are People” and being surprised how all of a sudden every sporto and Camaro driver from the two rich kid schools in deepest suburbia were all here in their golf shirts or rising sun muscle t’s and parcahute pants kinda boppling along to Our Music, but it was nothing like the shock that was still to come about eight years later, when all the farmers and footballers went Grunge Overnight and that same town that persecuted and detention halled us so relentlessly for years on end, now, they all had the obligatory Nirvana t shirts, combat boots and shorts and flannel on, and those big black awful tribal Lollapalooza tattoos, and Pearl Jam became their Beatles until they got replaced by Korn and the Foo Fighters who’ve never gone away. “Sweet Dreams” takes you back to the late seventies and early eighties, when all the young Bowies like me n Boy George were first developing their looks and finding their Rum Runner managers. It’s really a beautifully written and well researched tome I urge everyone who liked that era to keep on a nearby coffee table or whatever-you can open it up and start reading on any page and it’s a silver rocket back to the Batcave and the Blitz Kids! The celebrity dj in my town who spun all the Inxs records, I met him when he was working at the record store in the mall-he was real gracious and friendly and outgoing but I wanted nothing to do with the guy who portrayed Andy Taylor in the Milli Vanilli lips synch tribute act, until he showed up at my purple apartment one night with a big bottle of Jack Daniels, the Mother Love Bone “Shine” promo cassette and the brand new Dogs D’Amour putrid green vinyl edition of “In The Dynamite Jet Saloon”, and we played “How Come It Never Rains” and “Debauchery” all night and toasted to Duran Duran and Prince and Inxs and knew we were going to be in a band together. He even brought me like a black Jim Morrison style cowboy hat as like a gift, that really did break the ice. He wanted to call the band Hello World. I think I still wanted to call it the Casualties or Undesirables-there was no interent so I did not know there were other bands with that name. He suggested Vain, I told him I think that was taken by some big city band already so we started going by Vain Damage. We brought in the Matthew Ashman from Bow Wow Wow lookalike older punk guitar player down the hall, my heavy metal skateboard stoner pal as soon as he finished his senior year outta state, and That Girl’s first cousin who played drums in the school band and loved the Smiths, and we started off playing covers and performing at backyard barbq’s and garage keggers cause we were banned by the local heavy metl hole for refusing to do Bon Jovi covers and cause they branded us as “fags”, and the rest is long forgotten history. I wanted to bring in my original new wave friend on keyboards, but he was always either in jail, the psych ward, hanging around some Thai kung fu fighter gangsters who terrorized the town, or going to church and doing the whole salvation Hallelujuh revival yeehaw again and again, but whenever the church folks or some meanspirited Judge fed him back into some factory job, he’d do the factory floor speed, work for insane hours, need some malt liquor to crash with at the end of his shift, get busted for DUI cause the cops all recognized his car, and all that bullshit would start all over again. I called it the torture circuit or behavior mod gauntlet-once you got the evil eye on ya, they just never stop fucking with you until you kill yourself or get murdered by the local drug dealers. That’s what it’s like back there and only a few of us ever got out, and we’re all still fuckedup from growing up there. Even the two guys you could say made good in the straight world, they’re as damaged as the rest of us really. You know what heals me though? It’s still the eighties new wave music we all loved. Maybe some Andre Cold Duck champagne. Every morning I wake up from dreaming-usually it’s the cats that wake me up, and as I make my coffee I remember how those kids I was talking about just now grew up and died already. The kids I wish I could call and summon to me and resume making music with are fucking dead and gone, still so hard to accept. Truth about me is I never got over any of it. If you are new wave or new romantic like me, please save a prayer for Andy Taylor, will ya? I love that cat.
Visage (Steve Strange) – Fade to Grey – Italian TV – YouTube
Berlin Blondes “Framework” 1980 – YouTube
David Bowie – Ashes To Ashes (Official Video) – YouTube
New Religion (2009 Remaster) – YouTube
Tubeway Army – Are ‘Friends’ Electric • TopPop – YouTube
Bryan Ferry – Slave To Love – YouTube
Philip Salon – BBC Interview – 1980’s With Boy George – YouTube
To Cut A Long Story Short: How The New Romantics Ruled The World (thisisdig.com)
The Smiths – The Smiths (1984) (FULL ALBUM) – YouTube
INXS – Spy Of Love (Official Music Video) – YouTube
Mazarati Players Ball (Official Music Video) – YouTube
The Blitz Club || Blitz Kids Gallery (stevestrange.org)
DON’T NEED YOUR VIOLENT WORLD
“The US has 800 military bases around the globe & we spend a trillion dollars a year on war & arms. The US spends as much as the bottom 144 countries COMBINED – yet we claim other countries are out of line with the global community?? The US is one of the only countries to refuse to sign on the International Criminal Court designed to prosecute war criminals. The US gov’t went even further by passing “The Hague Invasion Act” saying they would invade the Netherlands if the ICC ever prosecuted an American. Just recently the US was one of only 2 countries to vote against ending the many decade-long blockade of Cuba. Almost the entire world acknowledges there is no reason to continue harming Cubans. In 2018 the US was one of 2 countries to vote AGAINST the UN convention combating the glorification of Nazism & other practices that contribute to fueling contemporary forms of racism, xenophobia & related intolerance. (We don’t wanna vote against our favorite pastimes. The US was the only country to refuse to ratify the UN Convention on Rights of the Child. Every country – 196 at the time – except the US signed it. It outlawed things like child slavery & abuse. On the UN vote declaring food a human right, the vote was 180 to 2. Only the US and Israel believe people do not have a right to avoid starving to death. We throw out 40% of all food in the US but we deny food should be a right. The US was one of the very few countries that refused to ratify the UN Convention on Rights of the Disabled. We said it “eroded US sovereignty.” Apparently the US gov’t didn’t want anyone stopping them from abusing the disabled.While American officials keep touting the “rules-based international order,” the truth is the US is absolutely a rogue nation. We are out of line with the global community in just about every way that matters.” (-Lee Camp)
When was the last time you played that FRONT lp real loud? One of my fave bands of that whole hair band era who were so rockin’, a crazy cool cross between the Doors and Cult and Inxs! From Kansas City of all places! Man they were so freakin’ awesome! I still wanna make records like this. That producer really knew what a badass rocknroll record should sound like and the drummer who has sadly passed on, he could make you wanna dance no matter how tough you were in all your chains and spikes. The singer Michael was talented, the guitars were amazing, when my friends were deep in to GNR, I had already kinda moved on. For about a year, it was Warrior Soul, Gene Loves Jezebel, the ep and debut Jane’s Addiction records, that first Lenny Kravitz album and back to the Cult and the Front, for me. We had an acid connection. We had a band house. We had many pretty girlfriends. It was so much fun. Hey, Remember? Burntout Recluse remembers. Michael Franano went on to forge another band on a different record label called Baker’s Pink that had that same feel as the Front. A Front live lp is available from their website.
The Front – Violent World – YouTube
The Front – Sunshine Girl – YouTube
The Front – Le Motion – YouTube
Bakers Pink – Watercolours – YouTube
Michael Franano – Singer, Songwriter, Composer |
CHEETAH CHROME GHETTO DOGS
This is one of my favorite things ever.
Cheetah Chrome and the Ghetto Dogs – Here comes trouble – YouTube
Cheetah Chrome and the Ghetto Dogs – 1987 EP – YouTube
Stiv Benefit The Ghetto Dogs (ft Jeff Dahl) – YouTube
GHETTO DOGS – “Poison Lady (All the Way Down)” – YouTube
CHEETAH CHROME & SEÑOR NO – All The Way Down (Cheetah Chrome and the Ghetto Dogs) – YouTube
BETTER HOMES & GARDENS:
Barcelona Mayor Cuts City’s Ties with Israel (consortiumnews.com)
The WHO’s “Health Plan” Is All About SURVEILLANCE – Not Health! – YouTube
You’re Being Lied To About The Chinese “Spy” Balloon – YouTube
NEWS, SPORTS & WEATHER DESK:
Lee Camp [Redacted] (@LeeCamp) / Twitter
Fauci, CDC & FDA Conspired To Lie About Natural Immunity – YouTube
Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH™ (@P_McCulloughMD) / Twitter
New Podcast and Interviews (unlimitedhangout.com)
Mark Crispin Miller | Substack
FBI “Designed To Spy On Americans” Says Ron Paul – YouTube
Ruchell Magee Must Be Set Free! | Black Agenda Report
The NEW OLD Cold War w/Danny Haiphong and Aaron Good – YouTube
Opinion | The Treason of the Ruling Class | Common Dreams
KOOL STUFF WE LIKE:
The Gun Club – Bad America (Live at The Hacienda in Manchester, 1983) – YouTube
Chris Isaak ~~ Western Stars – YouTube
Mr Ratboy – “a gift from mr. ratboy” full album 1998 – YouTube
The Boys, BRICKFIELD NIGHTS (Steel/Dangerfield) – YouTube
The Records – Starry Eyes – YouTube
The Records-Teenarama – YouTube
‘A guitar hero when there were none’: the fragile life of Rowland S Howard | Music | The Guardian
Ramones – Pet Sematary (Official Music Video) – YouTube
Circus Of Power – Still Alive… (Full EP) – YouTube
The Quietus | Features | Strange World Of… | The Strange World Of… Rowland S Howard
The Ghosts of Lovers – ‘That Girl’ (Live) – YouTube
Roy Rogers – Happy trails – YouTube
STAY WILD! STAY FREE!
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