Friday, June 30, 2017
THE NRA WILL PROTECT THEIR FREEDOM. BY SHOOTING YOU.
A good article here about the NRA bullying people with veiled threats of violence to get them to stop exercising their Constitutional right to peaceful protest and dissent. It's good to see they're fully embracing the neo-Nazi lifestyle.....
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nra-video-calls-clenched-fist-response-protests-171252401.html
but I thought I'd post the highlights separately. Good shit to remember:
Jason Stanley, a philosophy professor at Yale University and the author of “How Propaganda Works,” called the video “utterly terrifying” and took particular issue with its allusions to tamping down protests.
“Dissent against the president is represented as an attack on freedom—when in a democratic society, dissent and protest are the essence of freedom,” Stanley said in an email to Yahoo News.
“’Law abiding’ is used as a contrast with ‘democratic,’” he added. “So political protest—for example at airports—is not ‘law abiding,’ even though it is clearly consistent with the constitution. ‘Law abiding’ here means ‘following whatever the leader says.’ This is an authoritarian notion of law, not a democratic one.”
Thursday, June 29, 2017
LET OVERDOSED JUNKIES DIE? DUDE IS ACES IN MY BOOK
Seriously. Cancer patients, heart attack victims, the families of terminally ill children - they all have to pay for medical care, but taxpayers foot the bill to save the worthless lives of assholes who want to shoot up? Fuck no. Let the pieces of shit die.
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
RED LORRY YELLOW LORRY
I’m never going to bitch about Red Lorry Yellow Lorry box sets
(even the sourcing from vinyl doesn’t really bug me - you gotta do what you
gotta do), but it seems odd that the same company has put out 2 of them in 3
years.
2014’s SEE THE FIRE collects the first 2 albums, most of the
non-album singles and EPs from that period, plus some BBC sessions. All good, essential stuff.
The new one, cleverly titled ALBUMS AND SINGLES 1982-1989,
repeats a vast majority of the non-BBC stuff from SEE THE FIRE, then adds the 2
major album releases, NOTHING WRONG and BLOW (plus a few bonus cuts for each
album). You can pick it up pretty cheap
on Amazon, so why wouldn’t you?
1991’s BLASTING OFF is the only album that hasn’t been
anthologized, but from what I’ve read that was mainly Chris Reed and a bunch of
studio musicians. It’s a good album in
its own unique way, but really not part of the “official” bands oeuvre. It’s sort of like leaving CUT THE CRAP off
the Clash’s box set, if you know what I mean…..
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Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Monday, June 26, 2017
GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR
THESE GUYS AND GALS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN PRETTY COOL.
HAD TO RECENTLY REASSESS MY VIEWS ON "ASUNDER, SWEET AND OTHER DISTRESS", THOUGH, WHICH TOTALLY FAILED TO IMPRESS ME UPON ITS INITIAL RELEASE.
I THINK IT'S THOSE DRONE-Y INTERLUDES, THEY JUST REALLY DO NOTHING FOR ME. THE TWO "SONGS", THO, ONCE I SAT DOWN AND REALLY LISTENED, KICK RIGHTEOUS MOTHERFUCKING ASS. STILL, WHEN YOU WASTE THE MIDDLE 16 MINUTES OF A 40 MINUTE ALBUM FINGER-FUCKING YOURSELF, IT GETS A LITTLE TEDIOUS FOR THE LISTENER.......
Sunday, June 25, 2017
Almighty
This is your sister holding herself on
the bathroom floor, and this is the
toilet filled with blood. This is pale
grey light spilling from the same sun that
shines down on all of us. The roads that
run alongside the railroad tracks. The
railroad tracks that run alongside the
river. It’s a long fucking way in any
direction to find a god who will
even pretend to care.
Saturday, June 24, 2017
START SPREADING THE NEWS
New Landing material out next week, but I'm sure you were already aware of that.
Grab the digital download at
and be the coolest weirdo on your block.
Friday, June 23, 2017
WHINING ABOUT OBSCURE MUSIC FOR FUN AND PROFIT
I read somewhere the Catherine Wheels’ FERMENT was reissued a
few years ago, w/ bonus tracks, but then
I read somewhere else that it was sourced from crackly vinyl, which sort of
sucks. Of the major 90s guitar bands (shoegaze,
if you have to call it that), these guys seem to have consistently gotten the
shit end of the reissue stick.
Slowdive had all three of their original albums reissued, bonus
discs, all that happy crap, plus I think they’ve had TWO 2CD
compilations. They’re worthy of it all,
of course……
Swervedriver had their first 3 albums reissued with some bonus
tracks tossed in, plus a 2CD retrospective that encompassed some of their
singles and the 4th album, so that’s not bad. Still, they had so much killer non-album
tuneage, that a more extensive overview would be quite nice.
Ride was way too spotty to be a first tier band, but even THEY
had a box set greatest hits/rarities/live thing, plus the admittedly excellent
reissue of their gonzo first album.
Hell, even their so-so second album got the re-issue treatment…..
Lush just never really did it for me, but their box set is
pretty nifty-looking.
Chapterhouse, another decent 2nd tier band (only 2
albums), I think has also been extensively repackage.
So what the fuck is the deal with Catherine Wheel? First album was awesome, as was the 2nd. HAPPY
DAYS 90% sucked ass, sure, and WISHVILLE is best left unspoken about, but all
of the early singles and the ADAM AND EVE album are amazing. LIKE CATS AND DOGS was a pretty nice
gathering of b-sides, but there are still plenty more out there.
I assume someone is jumping all over this egregious oversight,
now that I’ve spoken.
Thursday, June 22, 2017
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
all ghosts sighing
it’s the punchline where you
can’t stop bleeding and he says heforgets the joke but offers you $50 for
a night with your sister
gets you a tank of gas maybe or
enough beer for the weekend and you justgotta finally feel these chromium days
deep down in your veins,
you know?
you gotta run to the edge of the highway
before the crows find the body
listen
i have yet to find a god i would
get down on my knees for
i keep talking the pills
but the pain won’t go away
and i am not the man offering money
and i am not the man receiving itbut i’ve met the sister
was driving to work when I
heard about cobain’s suicide
was sitting in my apartment thinking
about getting high when my mother calledto tell me about my father and i kept
waiting for the punchline
kept hearing small stones hit the
window next to my head
this fifteen year old kid down in the
drive who said he’d seen the face of god
said his sister was on her way over and
this is how we end up lost
this is the year of election in a land
where the starvingare devoured by the obese
where your children spend slow afternoons
torturing and killing dogs in themuddy stand of trees down by the river,
and someone asks how it ever came
to this, of course,
because willful blindness is a gift
because we have always been fond of
the taste of someone else’s blood
and the superheroes are dead in this
age of inevitable despair andthe politicians all just want
to fuck you hard
they don’t get the joke but they
know that you’re the punchline
they know how deep
the knife has gone in
easiest thing in the world,
laughing at someone else’s pain
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Monday, June 19, 2017
Sunday, June 18, 2017
small poem to fill an empty page
summer of ’92, before the
flood, before the
abortion, before she tells me whose baby it is
a rusting trailer at
the edge of a cornfield
buzz of cicadas,
neverending rumble of
trains passing in the
distance and she says her husband ignores her or
he yells at her
says he hasn’t fucked her
in
almost three yearsdoesn’t even hit her anymore and
what we’re waiting for is winter
the possibility of escape
that
never becomes a reality
the inevitable future
which is only ever a less
hopefulversion of the defeated past
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