I've got nothing. The writers block is creepin'…AGAIN! Beware of the blob
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Friday, April 11, 2008
BE BUSY
this is my horoscope for today. It's somewhat appropriate, starting yesterday and following up til next week. things ARE going to be busy. (details later)...I've got to run.
Why be so modest when the whole world is singing your praises? Okay, maybe not the whole world -- but a significant enough group of people for you to feel like it's the world that's responding. This is a wonderful time for you, when people are finally paying attention to all the good stuff you're doing and recognizing what a good person you are. So accept their applause and take another bow -- you deserve it. Things are going to start happening now. Get ready to make some tough decisions and be busy!
Why be so modest when the whole world is singing your praises? Okay, maybe not the whole world -- but a significant enough group of people for you to feel like it's the world that's responding. This is a wonderful time for you, when people are finally paying attention to all the good stuff you're doing and recognizing what a good person you are. So accept their applause and take another bow -- you deserve it. Things are going to start happening now. Get ready to make some tough decisions and be busy!
Monday, April 7, 2008
Steve and Barrys Lake Grove
So I finally had the opportunity to check out Steve And Barry's
THIS WAS NOT THE CASE AT STEVE AND BARRY'S LAKE GROVE. Lake Grove , was organized. The staff didn't appear as if they were being enslaved and tortured to work there. As I approached the Starbury sneakers, an employee was organizing all the shoes and reporting back to a manager and accounting for his work. Overall appearance of the store was sharp and clean. I wasn't left with the impression that a bomb had gone off. I'll be back for the super cheap gear. It was a real nice surprise.
A nice surprise.. especially after being tortured by the bossa nova casio 80s keyboard sounds that were pumping out over the sound system next door at DSW. Ugh. I don't know, I have to read if there's a study somewhere that suggestions that certain sounds can cause a violently ill reaction. I felt like I was going to puke the entire time i was in there.
Saturday, April 5, 2008
New rants and raves
To differentiate the media aspects of what I tend to write about from my own personal on goings I started a hip new locale. It's located at:
LEWD PUNK RIOT!!!
LEWD PUNK RIOT!!!
Saturday, March 29, 2008
EARTH HOUR 2008
EARTH HOUR 2008 -- I get bombarded everyday with all sorts of e bowel movements and virtual socio-political causes. Bands beg me to cast a vote so they can be the latest corporate peanut butter sponsored "best band" in some forgettable in 72 hours contest. My mail box is cluttered with spam from new aggro you tube producers looking to market their mundane and unfunny CKY / Jackass rip off as some brand new concept. Basically it all boils down to bullshit on the left of me, bullshit on the right of me.
Then today on the news I received word about an internet marketing campaign, who hadn't sent me a friend request. what, what's this? I did not see any bulletins posted on facebook or myspace. So I did some probing to see what all the fuss was.
It's called EARTH HOUR 2008. What's at stake here? Where's the get rich quick scheme? Essentially, I'm being encouraged to dedicate a whole hour to nothing. I don't have to buy anything, order a new compilation cd of artists that I hadn't paid any attention to since they urged me not to play Sun City. No nifty rubber bracelets? I'm baffled.
The concept is simple. You turn off the electric during some shitty sitcom that was probably penned by some douche bags who are upset that they didn't have the DIY insight as the aforementioned CKY jackasses. So now, they are stuck basking in the shadows of sitcommie Norman Lear. Nothing they write is as edgy, challenging, funny or remotely interesting.
First let me express my position that I was not bawling with tears during the writer's strike. I was more infuriated by the scab patriots who crossed picket lines in order to get a little more dough. Whatever happened to suffering to maintain some sort of integrity for your craft?
I know, I know a lot of the Malibu homes that didn't burn in wild fires or fall into the ocean were under the threat of foreclosure. So, sometimes you have to suck it up (n down over and over) in order to get by.
Never mind the fact that this action deals another blow to labor unions and furthers the nation's downward spiral. Everyone who took the dirty route used this opportunity to yuck it up and sweeten the taste of the immediate tragedy. We're a third word labor force of back stabbing, line crossing, pseudo patriotic dirty fucks. (INSERT CANNED LAUGHTER HERE. ) It really is all so adorably cute.
In other work movements, this would have been the basis for a beat down, but you can't expect much from an industry where the toughest guy punch for punch on the studio lot is Geraldo (good boxing skills).
What should I expect? These are also the same yapping traps that champion the latest Billy Blanks clone, they depict this brand of butchered boxing as poetry in motion. Following in the next segment is a nice broad stroke on MMA that often uses the term "barbaric" when summarizing the sport.
Whewf, before I get completely off topic; lets get back to Earth Hour 2008. What is nice to see is that I don't have to buy anything to participate. I don't have to acquire a Red Credit Card or go shopping at some stores. I don't have to spend to encourage corporate structures to do the right thing and contribute to quell some of the problems that one would argue they in part created.
I do have some suspicions that the word got out on EARTH HOUR 2008 because a soft drink company is participating and they're trying to tidy up their image, especially since the landscape seems to be littered with their little tins that didn't quite make it to the trash bin. All the flag waving, ribbon magnets on your SUV may portray the image of a great patriot. Good for you, you champion a cause. So why shit where you eat?
Like most evenings, I won't be watching the latest tv crap during earth hour. I'll be out walking through the town admiring the latest shitty graffiti sprayed up onto the walls by some lousy taggers who don't seem all that enthusiastic about their craft. Three of 4 letters with no style. Unoriginal names biting from the far more prolific 80s and 90s crews/writers . The young locals demonstrate their "style" that possesses no concept of history and strife. Oh well.. that's the basis for another rant.
Then today on the news I received word about an internet marketing campaign, who hadn't sent me a friend request. what, what's this? I did not see any bulletins posted on facebook or myspace. So I did some probing to see what all the fuss was.
It's called EARTH HOUR 2008. What's at stake here? Where's the get rich quick scheme? Essentially, I'm being encouraged to dedicate a whole hour to nothing. I don't have to buy anything, order a new compilation cd of artists that I hadn't paid any attention to since they urged me not to play Sun City. No nifty rubber bracelets? I'm baffled.
The concept is simple. You turn off the electric during some shitty sitcom that was probably penned by some douche bags who are upset that they didn't have the DIY insight as the aforementioned CKY jackasses. So now, they are stuck basking in the shadows of sitcommie Norman Lear. Nothing they write is as edgy, challenging, funny or remotely interesting.
First let me express my position that I was not bawling with tears during the writer's strike. I was more infuriated by the scab patriots who crossed picket lines in order to get a little more dough. Whatever happened to suffering to maintain some sort of integrity for your craft?
I know, I know a lot of the Malibu homes that didn't burn in wild fires or fall into the ocean were under the threat of foreclosure. So, sometimes you have to suck it up (n down over and over) in order to get by.
Never mind the fact that this action deals another blow to labor unions and furthers the nation's downward spiral. Everyone who took the dirty route used this opportunity to yuck it up and sweeten the taste of the immediate tragedy. We're a third word labor force of back stabbing, line crossing, pseudo patriotic dirty fucks. (INSERT CANNED LAUGHTER HERE. ) It really is all so adorably cute.
In other work movements, this would have been the basis for a beat down, but you can't expect much from an industry where the toughest guy punch for punch on the studio lot is Geraldo (good boxing skills).
What should I expect? These are also the same yapping traps that champion the latest Billy Blanks clone, they depict this brand of butchered boxing as poetry in motion. Following in the next segment is a nice broad stroke on MMA that often uses the term "barbaric" when summarizing the sport.
Whewf, before I get completely off topic; lets get back to Earth Hour 2008. What is nice to see is that I don't have to buy anything to participate. I don't have to acquire a Red Credit Card or go shopping at some stores. I don't have to spend to encourage corporate structures to do the right thing and contribute to quell some of the problems that one would argue they in part created.
I do have some suspicions that the word got out on EARTH HOUR 2008 because a soft drink company is participating and they're trying to tidy up their image, especially since the landscape seems to be littered with their little tins that didn't quite make it to the trash bin. All the flag waving, ribbon magnets on your SUV may portray the image of a great patriot. Good for you, you champion a cause. So why shit where you eat?
Like most evenings, I won't be watching the latest tv crap during earth hour. I'll be out walking through the town admiring the latest shitty graffiti sprayed up onto the walls by some lousy taggers who don't seem all that enthusiastic about their craft. Three of 4 letters with no style. Unoriginal names biting from the far more prolific 80s and 90s crews/writers . The young locals demonstrate their "style" that possesses no concept of history and strife. Oh well.. that's the basis for another rant.
Monday, March 17, 2008
At the beach
We took a stroll on the beach when the place is considered by the bronzers and hipsters as "out of season". It was a beautiful day and I'm with my soul mate enjoying the sounds of the waves crashing, short bursts of wind against my face and the sun warming our skin. her hand in mine we walk, getting passed up by some of the locals who brave the elements and take their 4x4 to the dirt. They sped past us at 50 miles an hour, "take in" all the view has to offer, make a u-ie then speed off in the opposite direction. They vanish past the horizon and then we again have the sands to ourselves.
It's moments like these that I cherish. Whether it's biking along the Platte "river", crossing the tundra in the Rockies, driving in the white mountains, playing footsie in a ice-y creek along the Appalachian trail, the fact is that I'm doing these things with my MiSo, the most special person in my life. My better half..and as I said already, she's my soul mate. Where would I be without her? Incomplete.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Free tunes man!!
Droog and the Vorgon Massive collective were feeling really generous this Valentines Day and sent out this communique for all our noise lovin' pals.
you're gonna have to cut and paste these -- there's free musick with no bullshit attached.
You can now get the wonderfully disharmonic DECOMPOSITIONS ep by that noisy bastard DROOG for free in it's entirity. This isn't a limited time offer. Just get your lazy asses over to:
www.archive.org/details/Decompositions
BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE. the vorgon massive instant dead unit that put the long island post rock noise on the map FUTURE SOUNDS OF LONG ISLAND is free for the lootin' as well. Now we no longer have to respond to all the emails begging us to repress that cd..and now all you newbie hipster college radio djs have no excuse why you can't spin Triangulator during your red eye shift.
www.archive.org/details/FutureSoundsOfLongIsland
like a dope i didnt upload the whole thing right. the rest of the album is here:
www.archive.org/details/FutureSoundsOfLongIsland_695
you're gonna have to cut and paste these -- there's free musick with no bullshit attached.
You can now get the wonderfully disharmonic DECOMPOSITIONS ep by that noisy bastard DROOG for free in it's entirity. This isn't a limited time offer. Just get your lazy asses over to:
www.archive.org/details/Decompositions
BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE. the vorgon massive instant dead unit that put the long island post rock noise on the map FUTURE SOUNDS OF LONG ISLAND is free for the lootin' as well. Now we no longer have to respond to all the emails begging us to repress that cd..and now all you newbie hipster college radio djs have no excuse why you can't spin Triangulator during your red eye shift.
www.archive.org/details/FutureSoundsOfLongIsland
like a dope i didnt upload the whole thing right. the rest of the album is here:
www.archive.org/details/FutureSoundsOfLongIsland_695
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