when rockstars are idiots, everyone suffers. . .

Read this first. . .




so, basically, Sully was saying that it's alright to make decisions and not think about the consequences.  not only to not think about the consequences, but to not even consider them. . .  and there you have, distilled to one fine kernel of truth the essence of mainstream middle american idiocy. . . it always comes out as, "So i made a decision, so what?  Like I have time to sit around all day and think about what that means."  How come people get away with shit like that?. . . I mean, obviously they decided not to eat a plate full of cyanide for breakfast because there's a real consequence to that.  I guess, unless it effects them directly, they just can't be bothered.  It's kinda like asking a consumer why they consume and they respond by saying it's because they buy stuff.   Well no shit!  Why are so many people unwilling to deal with the larger more abstract ideals that come up daily in our lives? 

thee fucking champ

It's the Big Green Egg. . . in all it's glory

song number one is not a fuck you song
i'll save that thought for later on. . .

some crap song i'm workin' on. . . tentatively titled, No Taxes


(part I)

floating upon
excoriated seas
a day labour's dream

(is followed by part II)


a bifurcated sneeze
her freckle painted knees
a suitcase with no release {alfresco}

(which is followed by part III)

the tax collectors
in their broken shirts
writhe around on the floor
lickin' up the dirt

(and back to part I)

fatal red shoes
the skateboard rides again
the broken grass scrapes and itches

(II)

the inside of my brain (has)
showers of tawdry rain (where)
bullets are a strain {time for the lowdown}

(III)

(same)

(I)

unleash yr own personal alphabet!! etc. . .

after that there's some weird bridge thing and a strange transition i'm workin' on, but anyway. . . enough for now. . .

well it looked good when i wrote it out, but for some reason google, ie blogger doesn't pay attention to my spacing. . .

for B.F. and his good friend G.S.

dad (r. bradley) and eve

The visitors are. . .

lurking for a thousand compliments
but they won't get any from me.
not today.
i can't run out of reasons not to
try your strawberry/rhubarb jam
but i'm trying to
cause i know how much you like
strawberry/rhubarb jam
and so do i

MLK

well, better late than never i suppose. . . here's MLK's speech regarding Vietnam

The war in Vietnam is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit, and if we ignore this sobering reality [applause], and if we ignore this sobering reality, we will find ourselves organizing "clergy and laymen concerned" committees for the next generation. They will be concerned about Guatemala and Peru. They will be concerned about Thailand and Cambodia. They will be concerned about Mozambique and South Africa. We will be marching for these and a dozen other names and attending rallies without end unless there is a significant and profound change in American life and policy. [sustained applause] So such thoughts take us beyond Vietnam, but not beyond our calling as sons of the living God. In 1957 a sensitive American official overseas said that it seemed to him that our nation was on the wrong side of a world revolution. During the past ten years we have seen emerge a pattern of suppression which has now justified the presence of U.S. military advisors in Venezuela. This need to maintain social stability for our investments accounts for the counterrevolutionary action of American forces in Guatemala. It tells why American helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Cambodia and why American napalm and Green Beret forces have already been active against rebels in Peru. It is with such activity in mind that the words of the late John F. Kennedy come back to haunt us. Five years ago he said, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." [applause] Increasingly, by choice or by accident, this is the role our nation has taken, the role of those who make peaceful revolution impossible by refusing to give up the privileges and the pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investments. I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin [applause], we must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered. A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life's roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho Road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life's highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. [applause]A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say, "This is not just." It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of South America and say, "This is not just." The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.A true revolution of values will lay hand on the world order and say of war, "This way of settling differences is not just." This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. [sustained applause]

you can go here and read another speech entitled "Beyond Vietnam" below is a quote i've excerpted:

This is the message of the great Buddhist leaders of Vietnam. Recently one of them wrote these words, and I quote:

Each day the war goes on the hatred increases in the hearts of the Vietnamese and in the hearts of those of humanitarian instinct. The Americans are forcing even their friends into becoming their enemies. It is curious that the Americans, who calculate so carefully on the possibilities of military victory, do not realize that in the process they are incurring deep psychological and political defeat. The image of America will never again be the image of revolution, freedom, and democracy, but the image ofviolence and militarism.

Unquote.

gee, wonder if religious figures in Iraq and Afghanistan aren't already saying/feeling the same. . .
thanks to Leiter Reports: A Group Blog (Jan. 23-May 31 2006) for the link and the speech.

flagships waft through the
structure of an old house that's
comprised of bones
stacked
upon bones
stacked
upon bones:
the decayed, the decaying
awaiting metempsychosis in repose

current listening

Destroyer - "European Oils" from his forthcoming album "Rubies"
Destroyer - "Sick Priest Learns To Last Forever" Rubies track also
U2 - "If you wear that velvet dress (jazzed up)" a version recorded in 2002 jazzed up by Jools Holland and Guy Barker that was part of a CD Holland recorded with various guest artists singing vocals. . . here's a pic of the album cover. . .














if you are really geeking out for the new destroyer. . . you can download it here. . .

these times, in tenuous strains, rain down upon us like the purchases of youth; contrived and forgotten, yet we still ache. endearingly we lean forward on our elbows, balanced on the edge of some seemingly monumental precipice hands cupped to receive our chins awaiting the thoughts of others: friends, artists, lovers, anyone who could help us make sense of what has come before, or perhaps, of what is still to come.

not this time johnny

no Slay Tracks this time, maybe next time. . .

all i want for christmas. . .

Artist: Destroyer/Black Mountain
Title: Quiet Weather Singles Series
Format: 7
Label: Spirit of Orr

White vinyl split single between Vancouver's finest, Destroyer and Black Mountain (formerly Jerk With A Bomb, led by Pink Mountaintops Steve McBean). Features a fine pair of exclusive tracks: Jackie, Dressed In Cobras by Destroyer and the Stooges-quoting Bicycle Man by Black Mountain. Limited.


Artist: Destroyer
Title: Notorious Lightning & Other Works
Format: 12
Label: Soft Abuse

Incredible result of Daniel's collaboration with BC neighbors Frog Eyes. Orchestrated MIDI is vanquished in favor of a raw, amped up, almost chaotic approach. Limited vinyl version on 120gm virgin vinyl & sleeve in full-color glory. Kicks ass.


Artist: James Knight And The Butlers Label: Cat Orig. Released: Catalog No.: LPCAT711 Condition: Sealed-Reissue Format: LP

















*cough*(slay tracks)*cough* ----------- which i may or may not have won on a ebay auction, stay tuned. . .

seriously though since i've been out of the states for the past year this would actually be the easiest year to buy music for me, just pic your favourite record for '05 and chances are i haven't heard it yet. . . (this entry is really just for the bro cause i know he's gonna get me something for x-mas regardless of the fact that i won't be able to buy shit for anyone. . .)

there's always the New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Deerhoof - Green Cosmos EP or The Runners Four
The Fall - Fall Heads Roll

and whatever else rocked while i was away

What i listened to while i did my laundry

Dizzee Rascal - Stand Up
ESG - Six Pack
French Kicks - Call our hands
Fugazi - Guilford Fall
TV on the Radio - Staring at the Sun
YLT - Today is the Day
Stereolab - Farfisa
Spoon - Jonathon Fisk
The Fall - Sparta FC
The Beastie Boys - 3 The Hard Way
Beans - You're Dead Let's Disco
Dangermouse - Change Clothes
MF Doom - Vaudeville Villain
Ol' Dirty Bastard - Brooklyn Zoo
Biz Markie - Turn tha Party out
Funkadelic - Hit it and Quit it
All The People - Cramp Your Style
Frank Williams & The Rocketeers - The Spanish Flyer
James Knight & The Butlers - Save Me
James Knight & The Butlers - Fantasy World
Mickey and the Soul Generation - How Good is Good
George McCrea - I Get Lifted
Stereolab - Lo Boob Oscillator
ESG - Step Off
Beans - City Hawk
Belle and Sebastian - Electronic Renaissance
The Clean - Beatnik
Wire - Dot Dash
GBV - Teenage FBI
Stereolab - Tempter
Malkmus - Vanessa From Queens
Pavement - Circa 1762
Pavement - Nothing Ever Happens

ps. dan, you ever need a *good* ipod dj in memphis, let me know. . .

ssshhhhh. . . don't say a word, they can hear you

another link to an hilarious onion article. . .

smile on you crazy diamond

Human Atrocities

check out this from the Onion. . . make sure you go to yakov's website and look at the paintings. . . holy shit. . . i would've posted the 2 jesus pics here, but couldn't copy and paste them for some reason. . .

Donky Chicken anyone?

aahhh Korea, what's not to love. . .

flailing at the inevitable

The Industry of *my* Ordinary

a few pics from the hasukjip where i'm staying. . . . ordinary objects transcending the ordinary. . . .

RIP Charles Rocket

while the way he died is fairly disconcerting, i wasn't aware of the otherwise amazing life this former SNL'er had. . . check it. (thanks to CSTB for the scoop)