Last night I saw 'Natural Born Killers'. It had a ton of music in it, but 3 good notable songs would be: RATM-Bombtrack, Specials-Ghost Town, and Lard-Forkboy. Early in the movie there is a scene in which (a lot of scenes in the movie have the windows being green screens and outside the windows are just different photographs or videos playing randomly) the outside of the window for one part is a picture of this black and white smiley face water tower thing that is shown on the back of the album "plastic surgery disasters" by the dead kennedys. Also, some of you may not know that Jello Biafra (who sung in DK) is now the singer of his newer band 'Lard' (if you remember, I mentioned there being a song by Lard in the movie). Coincidence? Prolly, and if so, I guess that's another coincidence... maybe.

A crazy coincidence would be that I woke up from a nap this afternoon and remembered that in a dream I had called Robyn whom of which I have not talked to in a month or so. I looked over at my phone and Robyn had called! On top of that, the time was 7:11, which is Robyn's favorite numberand her birthday.

My new year's resolution is to drink one or less sodas a week. It'l make me healthier and I will no longer have that sick feeling you get from having corporate semen stuck to your stomache lining.

OK, Merry post-x-mas to all! What I mainly got was a dvd/vhs player and an electronic dictionary (which is the shit). Today we came up to my grandma's nursing home to visit her and now we are in a hotel. We took our grandma to terrible, terrible Furr's. When I first got there I went into the bathroom to wash my hands (weird habit) and inside the WC I saw the most terrible brown splatter on one of the toilets. Somehow, the splatter was NOT limited to the toilet bowl. Then I came out to eat quality Furr's food. I was eating my jello when I decided to start poking at these weird specks in the jello. All of a sudden, one of the specks started moving across the jello! I picked it up onto my hand and it apparently some sort of Furr's creature. Never go to Furr's. Aside from the quality food, you might feel alienated there because the only people who eat there are old people and hispanic people, but NEVER old hispanic people. Don't ask me why, I didn't make the rules.
::[12_28_03-grayson's note from the future-Monet reminded me after reading this that the local Furr's recently was shut down because they had been cleaning the dishes with 'feces water']::

At first, I really didn't even want to play the show that we (Deadmary) had been booked to play. Why? Because our lead guitarist was gone, we had only practiced ONCE in the last month and we only worked on making new songs, and we had about 2 days notice for this show. I figured it was gonna be sketchy as hell... but we actually played well. We took out a song or two that we needed dave for and played two covers in our set instead. They yelled at us for playing covers! Which is fine, if they had told us ahead of time OR if all the other bands didnt play about 2 covers each (which they DID!). I guess the secret is not saying that it's a cover and playing it off as your own... but I knew their dirty secrets. One band played an Anal Cunt cover and even talked about the song before they played it, they simply forgot to mention the small little fact that it was NOT by them! Another band played 'infested' by choking victim, which totally sucks because my other band 'stereotypes' plays that song already! WE WERE HERE FIRST FOOLS! Aaaaanyways, I'm getting off subject. Deadmary played well tonight and even a few random people in the crowd told me that they liked the band. A good time was had by all... except Monet, because she didn't come. tsk, tsk

PS: I don't think I've said this in any posts, but it's worth noting that Monet is now my girlfriend... if ya know what I mean...

ANYBODY READING THIS MUST GO TO MY BAND'S SHOW (DEADMARY) ON TUESDAY:
Deadmary, Censored Youth, etc.
Tuesday, Dec. 23.
8pm
$5 (I think)

Well I went to the rancid/tigerarmy/f-minus show last night and it was pretty good, but not amazing or anything. There were so fewer preps there than I had imagined there would be, and the overall crowd was less than that of AFI, which surprised me. I had been talking to Erica from F-Minus, who said that surprisingly a lot of people leave after Tiger Army plays on this tour. She was right. When Tiger Army played, the crowd shrunk a bit and was nothing but preppy looking kids for the most part. I got there and F-Minus played like 2 songs before they were done with their set. That kinda sucked, but I've seen them before, and it was cool because I hung out in the merch area the whole concert, could see everything, and since Erica always does some of the merch work, I got talk to her a bit and got her to sign my other shoe! I don't know if I said this already, but last time F-Minus came, she signed one of my shoes. I had her sign the other one this time and when I showed her the first signed one, she said "thaaat's funny" (in a 'that's not funny' sort of tone). Oh yeah, Tiger Army said that the drummer's house was broken into and he was shot four times and once was in the head and he survived. Isn't that weird that they didn't say "tiger army never dies!" after that? They said it after pretty much everything else though, like "how do you all like F-Minus?? TIGER ARMY NEvER DIES!!"

I'm sure you all have noticed, but the 'look' of my blog has been going through some changes. Right now it has the corporate skull tank thing (I had the full picture on my harddrive. It is an MDC picture) and a star. If you read this after awhile, it might not look like that anymore...

Ooooh. What a weird coincidence. Yesterday I posted about how I was about to delete my answering machine message and today Franklin called me when I was in a doctors apointment so I let it go to the answering machine. He called again RIGHT AFTER he just called. Eventually I called him back and he told me "your answering machine is halarious, I called twice just to listen to it again.". The weird thing is that I don't think that he even knows this blog exists! Um..Frank, if you read my blog, tell me and I'll post that it wasn't a coincidence. But I don't think he knows about the blog.

Phone stuff: A good thing to do when somebody asks for somebody's number is to give them a number of somebody with the same name as the person they want to call. So 'jimmy' WILL answer, but not the RIGHT jimmy (this gets very confusing for both the people). Also, if anybody calls your house by accident and asks for somebody, just tell em "they're at Dave's house". They probably know a Dave.
PS: I'm thinking of changing my answering machine message (that I've kept for 2 years!) within a few days, so if you want to hear it in all its wonderful terribality, you only have a few days left... I've actually gotten a message left from a friend just to tell me to change my answering machine message cos it's the worst thing he's ever heard.

Has anyone else noticed this weird trend of communist related video games? Examples would be the following games released within the last few months: Red Faction 2, Freedom Fighters, Republic: The Revolution, and even Tony Hawk's Underground has the spraypainted red stars everywhere in the game's artwork and menus. Not to mention that one of the levels is Moscow and there is a huge statue of Lenin in the game. Maybe it's our subconcious reaction to our terrible president for us Americans to be so interested in these games lately. I will leave you with one of my favorite communist quotes of all time. 10 points to anyone who knows who said it.
"Fuck the G-Ride, I want the machines that are makin' em"

My band got its first hatemail about a month or so ago, I've decided to post it:
"you guys are the biggest set of homos ever!! how can you not like BLINK you faggots there the biggest influence to all the bands you like you fags!! buy the way you suck ass"

YOU KNOW YOU WANT ME BABY!
{ http://mst3kinfo.com/satnews/catalog/images/crowshirt.jpg }

The other day in photo class, I pointed out to Ian that the Dead Kennedys logo he drew on his backpack was upsidedown because of the lighting. I notice weird musical things like that because things related to music seem to be the only things I ever retain. { http://images.art.com/images/PRODUCTS/large/10034000/10034700.jpg } Anyways, our photo teacher overheard us and told us that his cousin's band had played with the Dead kennedys in Germany. I asked what band and he said multi-death corporations! { http://www.southern.com/southern/label/CRC/pics/09431L.jpg } It was the coolest thing ever. To think, one of my teachers was the cousin of a band I listen to! That was cooler than the time my math teacher asked if anybody had heard of the Dead Kennedys. It was also cool because I had asked for an MDC patch for christmas just a week or so before! I sent an email to a friend about the 'musical coincidences' I had been having lately, I will post it:

1.Yesterday I was wondering (out of nowhere at all) if there was a band called 'the sickos', just because it seemed like there would be one called that SOMEWHERE. Anyways, only a few hours later I turned on my internet punk radio and there was a band called 'sicko'.
2.About a year ago I was listening to a song by the Germs with my friend and I thought the lyrics sounded like 'I came into this world a puzzled panther' (the actual lyrics were 'I came into this world puzzled and alone'). Now recently I bought a Germs tribute cd with a bunch of different bands playing Germs covers. Get this: one of the bands was the 'Puzzled Panthers'.
3.Yesterday me and Travis from my work somehow got on the subject of Iggy Pop and the Stooges. Now today I had to scan some pictures from this Japanese art book and one of the pictures in it was a flyer for an Iggy Pop and the Stooges concert. If that's not a calling from god to listen to the Stooges, I don't know what is. (note: I capitalize the Stooges, but not god).

PS: Any readers might remember one of my posts from awhile ago that linked to a picture of a woman with her face burnt off by acid from US soldiers... I found that on an MDC site.

PPS: I think I would orgasm if I went to this concert (unfortunately it was prolly before I was born) {http://www.punkbands.com/lyrics/images/flyers/dk-mdc.jpg}

Nope, we didn't get the camera. :( Oh well though... In other news, read this article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3286721.stm
Germans always get the worst publicity. The whole nazi thing, now this.

My dad informed me this morning that he is bidding on a professional digital video camera on ebay. Not just any camera either, this one was, in all probability, used in making the movie FIGHT CLUB!! It's even signed by Chuck Pahlaniuk (writer of Fight Club). It also says it's signed by 'director John Carpenter', which is weird because I don't know what John Carpenter has to do with that movie, he didn't direct it that's for sure. Maybe he meant to type David Fincher. But anyways, it looks like it was used in making the movie since it talks about the movie in the description and is signed by some people. I'll write whether we won it or not in my next post. Long live Chuck Pahlaniuk!
http://i9.ebayimg.com/01/i/01/00/8e/07_1.JPG

I havn't had a huge musical rant for awhile. I think it's time again.
Apparently Aesop Rock is coming here on the 17th along with Mr. Lif, Akrobatic, and Fakts One. Just a second ago I was trying to decide if I would go, but I'm opting for no. Aesop Rock is ok, but he's not amazing or anything. If I went, it would be for Mr. Lif anyways, there arn't enough political MCs. But no, the TIGER ARMY, and F-MINUS combo is the following night and I don't usually like two concerts in two nights. Oh yeah, and rancid is going to be there, which dissappoints me. I know there are about 2 million people that used to like rancid a few months ago, but now that rancid is on magazine covers and their last cd came out it's "rancid sucks dude, they always sucked" or "those sellouts". As if they didn't sellout years ago with songs like "ruby soho" on MTV and the radio constantly. Anyways, if you want to listen to rancid, you should already realize that NO, they ARNT an underground band. Everybody should have come to terms with that years ago. My beef with rancid is that I KNOW they are going to bring really shitty huge ass preppy crowds to our TIGER ARMY and F-MINUS concert. Oh and of course I gave their new cd the ol' once over and it didn't really appeal to me. Not to mention the fact that ol' timmy is also in the 'shampoo commercial rockers', more popularly known as the "transplants" (as in big time record companies TRANSPLANTED one member from a handful of bands that were 'on the rage' to make one super shitty band, and more importantly, lots of money). But actually I don't have a problem with Travis Barker (drummer from the transplants). Yes, yes, I know he is drumming for that amazingly shitty band called blink182, but he is an amazing drummer (and he's soooo cute! jk), besides, any former Aquabat is OK in my book. Aaaaaannyyways, yeah, rancid should come seperately from TIGER ARMY and F-MINUS. Anybody who reads my blog religiously knows that the F-MINUS concert awhile back was my favorite concert I can think of. And anyone who knows me personally might know that TIGER ARMY is very high in my list of great new bands that are still playing. They appeal to me, not only cos they are so great, but they are the only band out of the 3 that I havn't seen play yet. Right now I'm filled with ambivilance about this concert. On one hand I hate fucking huge sweaty ass shitty preppy fuck crowds, but on the other hand....
TIGER ARMY NEVER DIES!!!!!!

It's obvious why Kuwait is so mad at Iraq, after all Hussien DID try to 'Saddam-ize' them. But seriously, you should check out this Salam Pax fellow. He lives in Bahgdad and constantly writes in his blog about all kinds of clever/sarcastic rants. Raed it at:
http://dear_raed.blogspot.com/
(YES, it is supposed to be spelled 'Raed'. Origionally the blog was so Salam could type to his friend Raed. And YES, I'm aware of the fact that 'dear_raed' is the same thing backwards and it might seem like a joke, but Raed and Salam are actually real people)
PS: I made up the Saddam-ize joke all by myself! I'm clever too!

Have You//Do You//Are You?
[smoke]: Yes, I AM smoke, actually.
[obsessive]: no, you're stupid.
[could u live without the computer?]: if i got in a motorcycle accident and was on life support operated by a computer, then no, i couldn't. stupid.
[how many peeps are on ur buddylist?]: 50. unless you mean those little marshmellow things you eat on easter... in that case it would be 6.
[what's your favorite food?]: i dunno, i want to say it's something cool, but it might be something stupid like pizza.
[whats ur favorite fruit?]: tangerines! i forgot about those till just now.
[drink alcohol?]: not really
[like watching sunrises or sunset]: it depends i guess
[what hurts the most? physical pain or emotional pain?]: what a vague question. its almost like what weighs more 'an amount of feathers, or an amount of bricks'. well 1 pound of feathers weighs as much as 1 pound of bricks. what i'm saying is that it depends on the situation, stupid.
[trust others way too easily?]: no, i'd say i give others the optimum amount of trust.

Who Was The Last Person...
[u talked to on the phone]: Stacy, I think
[hugged]: Monet
[u instant messaged]: also Monet
[u laughed with]: Ian, prolly
[color ur hair]: "who was the last person color ur hair?" I can't even understand what the hell is being asked.
[ever get off the damn computer]: you mean, people do that?
[habla espanol]: el gato gordo

DIRECTIONS: Pick a band and answer the
questions with their song titles.

Band: the Dead Milkmen

1. are you male or female?: Bleach Boys

2. describe yourself?: I Am The Walrus (and NO it's not a
Beatles cover... you smart alec fucks)

3. how would other people describe you?: Lesbian Eskimo,
Gorrila Girl, The Woman Who Was Also a Mongoose

4. describe your main interest: Takin Retards to the Zoo

5. how do you feel about yourself?: I Hate Myself

6. where would you rather be?: Beach Party Vietnam, Sri
Lanka Sex Hotel, Jellyfish Heaven

7. describe how you live: I Walk the Thinnest Line

8. describe how you love: I Hate You, I Love You

9. share a few words of wisdom: If You Love Somebody, Set
Them On Fire

PS: sorry for calling anybody a 'smart alec fuck'

What kind of world do we live in!? You can't make any new screennames anymore these days because they have all been taken. I tried to make 'badger pants' and it was taken! BADGER PANTS! jeez

My movie store will be called "One Movies"... like 'one people'.... since it's all gonna be in one section, unsegregated.

I wonder what they call the vietnam war in vietnam... it can't be the vietnam war; that's like saying "the HERE war".

if i ever start a video rental store, i will have all the movies in alphebetical order and no sections for 'drama' or 'action' or that bullshit. putting movies in random catagories makes no sense. people will come to my store because they will actually be able to find their fuckin movie!

Those hardcore ICP "juggalo" kids annoy me. We need to form the ACP, the ANTI Clown Posse. Frown on the Clown... fo real.
::[12_9_03-grayson's note from the future-'Frown on the Clown' is a quote from fellow ACP member Luis]::

You know what name kids might pick on you for having?...
'Dorkus Malorkus'... I'm sure never gonna name my kid that.

I saw "Reefer Madness" today. A terrible 1930's movie about the dangers of "marihuana". Everything bad that happens to the main character is a result of the laws restricting 'marihuana', not the drug itself. But there is one side character that ends up going 'uncurably criminally insane'... but that's expected, I mean he WAS smoking 'marihuana' afterall.

I just saw the movie "Thirteen". I didn't think it was that great... it was a little too much of a "say no to drugs... and black people" type of movie. It's like if that stupid "Go Ask Alice" book was a movie.

Have You Ever...
[fallen for ur best friend]: Yes I have. SOME FRIEND, psh
[been rejected]: Mos Def (not the rap guy)
[rejected someone]: EJECTED you mean? No... what a random question!
[used someone]: No, what do you take me for
[been cheated on]: I've answered this along time ago, I'm not doin it again! Fool!
[done something u regret]: All the time!

What's up with mirrors!? Why do they look silver!?!? They reflect everything around them without adding any type of tint, so why do they look silver??? That's dag yo.

It's easy to get free plane flights if you want to get into skyjacking.
::[12_9_03-grayson's note from the future-This is an actual quote from the popular how-to book "Steal this Book" by Abbie Hoffman]::

FREE VIDEO RENTALS: You can go and rent a DVD from a rental store (Blockbuster for me) and a lot of the time there is some small scratch, or many small scratches on the DVD. It's more likely to have some scratches if its an older DVD (not in "new releases"). The scratches usually don't effect the DVD much, if at all and you can watch it still. When you are done with the video you can come back and say that "it had scratches on it" they will either assume you couldn't watch it, or ask you more about it, in which case say that it didn't play properly all the time. The customer is always right and you can exchange it for another DVD to rent for free. No Blockbuster (in my case) ID is required in the exchange of the movies, so you can come back and if a different person is there, do it again with the DVD you just got from the last time.

This girl named Robyn, well, what she did was told me to see "House of the Dead" when we were at the movie theatre. Well that movie fucking sucked major ass, we left about halfway through it. Some people say "It was so stupid that it was funny", fuck that, it was way more stupid than that. At some point, things can be so stupid they are beyond sarcastic humor. Man, fuck that movie.

This site is ridiculous! It's a quiz telling you 'what chuck palahniuk novel are you?', but the answers to the questions are so obvious to which book they are. If you read Palahniuk you can see what I mean.
http://quizilla.com/users/pattondome/quizzes/What%20Chuck%20Palahniuk%20novel%20are%20you%3F/

What more is a mythology but a dead religion?

That last one sucked, here's another:

Do You Ever...
[sit on the internet all day waiting for someone special to I.M. you?]: Not since I found out Santa Claus isn't real.
[save aol/aim conversations]: No, but my computer does!
[wish you were a member of the opposite sex]: What? That's fuckin insane. Of course I do.
[cried because of someone saying something to you]: Yeah, this one time Jimmy was like "dude, I'll give you five bucks if you cry right now" and I was all like "dude, ok sweet deal yeah baby" and then I cried. It was a very emotional time for all of us.

It's that time again!...

Who...
[makes u laugh the most?]: Funny people.
[makes you smile]: Jerry Sienfeld, Chris Rock.
[gives u a funny feeling when u see them]: My drug dealer.
[has a crush on u?]: Nobody... Isn't that crazy?!?
[easier to talk to: boys or girls?]: Girls, I'd say.

Fun Fact!
Everthing you love will either reject you or die.

My manta ray is alright. Thanks for asking.

Overheard in class today: "Is that NSYNC?" "No, it's Good Charolette"

If the human brain was simple enough for us to undestand, we would still be so stupid that we couldn't understand it.
::[12_9_03-grayson's note from the future-'If the human brain was simple enough for us to understand, we would make more mistakes like typing 'undestand']::

In a timeline of inifinity, the human race takes up a very small portion of years. Don't you think god would be bored out his mind during the billions of years before and after us!?!?

"EW! I'll have the crab juice!"

Which One?
[coke or pepsi]: Coke, just because it's a rare commodity. My school has been bought by pepsi.
[flowers or candy]: Flowers, because candy makes my teeth feel all weird usually... Well, not that flowers wouldn't...
[scruff or clean shaven]: Are you talking about womens' gentitals? Maybe cats?
[tall or short]: Are you talking about mens' genitals? Maybe top hats?
[what do u notice first?]: Cats with short shaven genitals wearing top hats. Definately.
[last person u slow danced with]: I've never done that before.
[best question to ask]: "Can I have a dollar?", because unlike most questions, the end result can be getting a dollar.

What would one do if they found an unexplained brand new tube of toothpaste on their porch? I was faced with just such a problem today, maybe someday I'll tell you what I did...

Word History: The obscenity fuck is a very old word and has been considered shocking from the first, though it is seen in print much more often now than in the past. Its first known occurrence, in code because of its unacceptability, is in a poem composed in a mixture of Latin and English sometime before 1500. The poem, which satirizes the Carmelite friars of Cambridge, England, takes its title, “Flen flyys,” from the first words of its opening line, “Flen, flyys, and freris,” that is, “fleas, flies, and friars.” The line that contains fuck reads “Non sunt in coeli, quia gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk.” The Latin words “Non sunt in coeli, quia,” mean “they [the friars] are not in heaven, since.” The code “gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk” is easily broken by simply substituting the preceding letter in the alphabet, keeping in mind differences in the alphabet and in spelling between then and now: i was then used for both i and j; v was used for both u and v; and vv was used for w. This yields “fvccant [a fake Latin form] vvivys of heli.” The whole thus reads in translation: “They are not in heaven because they fuck wives of Ely [a town near Cambridge].”

I hate that stupid ass "Go Ask Alice" book. You know that one that is supposed to be the dairy of some anonnymos 15yr old drug user? It's just written by some right wing propagandist who writes a whole bunch of books that are "annoymus diarys". Such as "Nancy's Child" on teen pregnancy, or "Jay's Journal" on santanic worship of all things. The cover of that book freaks me out though. I'll give it that. And that it's name is cool, which was taken from the Jefferson Airplane song "White Rabbit" (or for all you punks, you might be more familiar with the Damned's version which appears as the last track on Machine Gun Etiquette).
http://lookinside-images.amazon.com/Qffs+v35leqdeuofrMpJ38IAJp4C0URUGvsgM5fYLUPvkmXn52Z/CBjBsdPN+sI2yGtV+DNXXMU=
::[12_9_03-grayson's note from the future-The book being a fraud was brought to my attention by Kevin]::

You know how words in other languages sometimes sound funny or weird to us? It's weird to think that that is only because of all the feelings OUR language gives us subconciously. That is to say, the weird sounding French word (for example) would be weird sounding to English speakers, but not Spanish speakers.

Davey Havok (of AFI) is starring in his own movie!
http://www.moviegoods.com/Assets/product_images/1020/174506.1020.A.jpg

I know where my next $5 are goin...
http://mglory.org/images/snot.jpg
http://mglory.org/images/condom.jpg

Coincidences?:
Is it a coincidence that every super-natural being (God) worshipped by a culture reflects the ideals and ethics of that culture?
Is it a coincidence that every super-natural being worshipped in a time period reflects the ideals and ethics of that time?
Is it a coincidence that the vast majority of theists inherit the beliefs of their parents?

As you can clearly see, I'm pretty damn lazy lately and havn't posted much. So now I'll do what I did with the 7 sins and put some Q+A on here. It will come in segments.
[my name is]: Grayson Kilmer
[in the morning i am]: A super hero. Or is that at night? Shit, my schedules all screwed up.
[all i need is]: the essentials.
[love is]: good?
[if i could see one person right now]: I'd consider seeing them.
[i'm afraid of]: God's all powerful wrath.
[i dream about]: The other night I had a dream that the Misfits' Crimson Ghost was painted by Cat Stevens!
[pictured your crush naked?]: Well, NOW I have.
[actually seen ur crush naked]: Well, NOW I have... wait, no, no I havn't.
[been in love]: Not yet.
[cried when someone died]: No. And I don't care if they DO rhyme, I still havn't.
[drank alcohol]: Well, yeah... but only cos I know that if it COULD, alcohol would probably drink ME. Hey, survival of the fittest.
[lied]: Yes... (or maybe I havn't and I'm just tricking you... you can't even trust me anymore...)

"Damned Damned Damned" by the Damned, is a Damn good cd.

So, I'm damn sick. It just hit me today, it's like some ill cold shit or somethin. Ugh. Sick.

Oh! I just remembered, there were even more good things about the F-MINUS show I forgot to mention. I walked in and my friend's band was playing and I got all freaked out and was thinking to myself about how stupid I'd be if I had payed to get in, but I was ALREADY on the guest list (I've done that before, Doh!)... but luckly, he said that he wasn't allowed to have guests at this show... whew. Anyways, it was cool to see him since I havn't in like a month or something. Plus, he gave me 40 bucks! He's owed that to me for about a year, but it was still exciting to suddenly get $40!

Today I was sewing on this Misfits patch (the crimson ghost) and it was kinda tough because it was embroidered and thick. I never use a thimbal when I sew (I'm just that tough) and I couldn't even get the needle through the patch without the other end impaling my finger, so I had to improvise. I pushed it in with the flat of my finger nail and that got it through. I thought to myself about how it was just like ancient people must have done to sew on their Misfits patches.

Crack is supposed to be some super addictive, widespread problem, but less than 33% of people that try crack get addicted. Not to mention it's one of the less popular abused drugs anyways. There is also the term "crack baby", and the common thought that children of crack addicts are handicaped. Actually, most "crack babies" aren't effected by the drug itself. Children of crack users usually develop fine with proper education, living standards, etc. Now (the legal drugs) ciggarettes and alcohol on the other hand, that's a different story. 80% of ciggarette users end up getting addicted! Not to mention these legal drugs fuck up the children of the users' like some shit. How many people have died from the legal drugs vs. the illegal ones? How many people die from prescription drug abuse (while less than 1% of the 'war on drugs' budget is spent to help)? And how many people have died from marijuana!?!?!?!? Christ, that drug doesn't do shit to harm people and yet we have the 5-0 breaking down peoples' doors for a marijuana bust at 4 in the morning, assuming the suspect is dangerous and filling the room with bullet holes, blood, and terrorized children and family members... "Oops, wrong house"

Wow, that show was amazing. One of the best I have been to. F-MINUS played a great show, but unfortunately there wern't all too many people there. I was so excited though... A Global Threat played before them, and it kinda let me down because I only recognized ONE song of theirs! I can't usually get into songs I havn't heard before. I don't really listen to them though either, but I wanted them to play "Religious Scam", since that is my favorite of their songs... but they didnt, and therefore they were worthless to me. So after this let down, I saw F- setting up and I had so much energy and couldn't wait for them to start. They finally did and I took off like a madman into the "mosh pit"... which was pretty much me just running around completely by myself in a big circle for the first 3 songs! I didn't care though, my patented F-MINUS primal instincts had taken control. I was surprised though, I mean, c'mon, it's F-MINUS! Run around and get with the program, jeez. Finally people started to get more rowdy though, and for the first time in my whole life, I ran around for EVERY SINGLE SONG in the whole set. I just about threw up or passed out... or both. I barely even figured out how to get home I was so worn out and confused at the end... I seriously drove for 3 miles not even knowing where I was, I'm sure. When I got home I was pretty tired and decided not to take a shower because of it... despite the fact that I smelled like cigs, booze, Phil and a million other kids' sweat. My dad said "do you use deoderant??", and that made me realize I needed a shower pretty bad. The coolest part about this show was the people, for sure. I saw so many people that I don't see too often at shows... and the usual kids were NOT at this one! It was weird. I saw Jimmy, the origional Stereotypes bassist who I rarely see anymore. I also saw John Hey, who was the second Stereotypes bassist that I see even less than Jimmy. I also saw Subhuman Andrew, who I've only seen at like 2 shows before. DK Ian and Misfits Andrew were there too, I've seen Andrew at a handfull of shows, but the only show I've seen Ian at was the last Stereotypes show. This was also the first show I've seen Phil at, and the first show in a long time I've seen his cousin Ryan at. I could go on forever talking about the random people I saw there that I don't often see. Anyways, the last one I'll mention is Colin. I havn't seen him since the Bad Religion show last year. For those of you who don't know who Colin is, he is the bassist of my favorite local band, "None of the Above"... or you might know him as the guy that calls that girl a poser from that annoying commercial that says "Talk trash all you want, but don't throw it". So he was asking about the Stereotypes, I guess I never told him we broke up before. I told him about how John Hey got way too into drugs and quit going to practice so we gave up on that band. Colin was dissappointed (the standard reaction of one who finds out the Stereotypes are no more, of course) and said the last show was a lot of fun... Which it was, it really really was. He offered his bass-like services to re-start the band, and of course I was for it too. Me and Angelo have been talking about how it would be hella-tyte to find a new bassist and start again. So that's that. We will probably try and have some practice this weekend or something. All in all, you can tell it was a good show to be sure.

F-MINUS is gonna be here tonight... and I have a feeling they will show VGS up (anybody who has read all my blogs will understand). But seriously, this should be the rowdiest show ever!! I'm excited!!! And that's impressive, cos I usually don't get super excited for most shows... just 'regular excited'. F-MINUS is ridiculously fast, I just hope the crowd will be large enough for some intense F-MINUS action. I'll give a report tomorrow that says if the show lived up to my expectation on the rowdy scale.

It's funny that theme song for the movie "Charlie's Angels" (you know the one about that guy that sits in his chair and tells these three women what to do all the time) is "Independant Woman".

News Flash: A second New Mexican has died of the 'west nile virus'. The 'epidemic' is growing, according to the local news station, 'KRQE'. Over the period of several months, two people, out of almost two MILLION, have died of the virus. It's spreading at the speed of light! You know, I wouldn't be surprised if I woke up and there were only a handfull of people left on earth. This is like some '28 days later' shit!

Unfortunately, last night (ironicly the night I posted about 'mourning' for the dead) Wesley Willis died. In spite of this tragedy, I can hardly think of anyone better suited to write about him than Jello. Here's what he had to say on the matter:
WESLEY WILLIS 1963-2003

We lost Wesley Willis some time before 9PM Chicago time August 21,
2003. Word is he died peacefully. The likely cause may be heart
failure. Wesley had been battling leukemia for close to a year.

Wesley will go down as one of the most unique songwriters and
entertainment personalities in history. His music, lyrics, drawings,
insight and the way he put them together are like no one else. Ever.
There will never be another.

As I got to know Wesley, what really struck me was his sheer will
power, his unrelenting drive to succeed and over come a horrifically
poor background, child abuse, racism, chronic schizophrenia and
obesity among other things. He was the most courageous person I have
ever known.

Yet through it all he had such a deep, all-encompassing love of life.
Little things, big things. He loved bus rides. He loved watching
trains. He loved writing songs about how much he loved his friends. He
loved travelling to new towns so he could headbutt new friends. Is
there any band he saw that escaped being in their own song about how
much he loved their show? He was so warm, so sweet, so giving. He
could be a handful when he came to visit; but as soon as he left, we'd
miss him immediately.

As his long time friend Dennis Cooper said, "No More Demons." The
voices in Wesley's head can't yell at him and put him down any more.

Wes was deeply religious. He was afraid that if he died he would no
longer get to go see bands play. If there is a hereafter I hope he's
right up front as Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn, his beloved Otis
Redding and his dear friend Bradley from Sublime "storm the stage" as
the crowd "roars like a sea monster." All opening for Wesley, of
course.

It will be hard now that he's gone, but I'm not going to let myself
stop enjoying the funny stuff, or the look on people's faces when they
first hear "Rock n Roll McDonald's," or the memories of the good times
and Wesley's big adventures. He wouldn't want it any other way.

There are many down times when all I have to do is think of one of his
songs, something he said or simply marvel at his Wesley-isms, and the
clouds part and a smile comes to my face. I think he does that for a
lot of people. He always will.

Rock over London Rock on Chicago Sail on, Wes. I love you.

Jello Biafra 8-22-03

I was thinking about why people put flowers on the gravestones of their loved ones. I mean, the dead don't really care what the hell you do to their gravestone, you could piss on it and they wouldn't complain. What I'm saying is that the 'flower placing process' isn't really for the deceised person as much as it is for the person putting them there. One reason they might do this is obviously for mourning purposes, but I can't help thinking that a big part of it is because: putting flowers on another's grave is in a way, putting flowers on your own.

http://micro101.com/
This is the greatest website ever. The music, the pieces of the site missing, the terrible animation... not to mention that crazy, angry, exploding graduate catipillar thing. You also gotta love how their slogan is "...Making College a Little Easier". Maybe it was origionally "Not Making College a Little Easier", but they cut out the beggining for sales purposes or something. Just becareful, all these slick advertising techniques mentioned can suck you into buying something you don't really need. Don't say I didn't warn you.

My friend mike just told me this story about him in preschool... He said that when he was little he always made sand castles at preschool, but the bigger kids would ruin them when it was their turn for recess. For some reason he thought that when his boogers were mixed into the dirt, the dirt would become rock hard. The plan was to get really sick somehow and then blow a ton of boogers into a bucket of dirt and mix it together, then make a sand castle so the bigger kids couldn't ruin it. In the end, he couldn't get himself sick. It almost brings a tear to your eye.

Too bad I don't like Big Black too much, or else I coulda had my dad get me this cd instead!
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf500/f589/f58936eef61.jpg

Check out the cd I told my dad to bring me from the cd store: http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd400/d475/d475003802e.jpg
Speaking of cds, I'm fucking pissed we can't have cd players at school anymore. I'm just gonna have to resort to some type of reckless vandalism on the school or something to just get my anger out. Jeez.

It turns out that having dreadlocks does NOT feel like sleeping on snakes at night. You heard it here first.

Man, school is like POISON to my weblog. It's hangin in there though. I'm too tired to write something good. I'll just have to write something TWICE as good tomorrow!

PS: I know what you are thinking: 'how can he top this entry?'. Oh, prepare to be amazed!

Andrew, you have dreadlocks and I know you read this. Tell me, does it feel like sleeping on a bunch of snakes at night?? I know I'll forget to ask later, so I'm posting it while it's on my mind.

I don't like flags (as in flags for a country). They seem like boundaries to me, or a way of seperating people more than they already are, among other things. OBVIOUSLY there is the issue of nationalistic 'brainwashing', but that's old news so I won't get into it. I have had friends that have Canadian (they live in the US) flags because they say it's so much better than America (which it is). Even still, if they move there, they will just end up finding out that it's still another government that has many flaws in it, if they look closely. Flags are silly, we should burn them and make fire instead.

Yesterday, I saw this guy in the record store with his girlfriend. He had long hair and a million tattoos, even on his face. Peircings too. He had a worn out Misfits shirt on and I, wearing my Misfits shirt too, said 'nice shirt'. I didn't expect much from him, comment wise, but he was super friendly and started telling me about how somebody he grew up with does audio check for the misfits, or something. He looked 'tough' or whatever, but he was actually nice. I guess you can't beleive in stereotypes... Actually, I take that back, he was buying a Samhain cd... OK, you can't beleive in SOME stereotypes.

I was listening to Earth A.D. by the Misfits for the millionth time, wondering how they could possibly be so good. I really don't know. They somehow can grab a handfull of random chords and make an incredible song out of it. Plus, you have to love their lyrics. One thing I hate about the new, post-Danzig misfits (note: misfits was undercaps) is how you can easily tell that they don't really MEAN the lyrics they write. They just try to write as close as they can to real Misfits lyrics, and they end up sucking. You can really tell that Danzig was screaming those lyrics like he means em', I don't think he even realized how ridiculous they were (he still makes lyrics like these even to this day... well a little calmer, but just as dark, if you listen to his solo stuff in "Danzig"). OK, sure, he wasn't really gonna kill tons of people, but I still feel like he FELT the lyrics he was singing. "Hack off the heads of little girls and put em' on my wall". See, the new misfits can't come up with this type of stuff. They won't even touch it. Instead they'd write the stupidest songs refering to old Misfits related things that they never wrote a song about, for instance: "Crimson Ghost" (I garuentee a million Misfits fans were ready to kill when they read that song title). Or "Walk Among Us". How lame is that!? Yes, there is already a Misfits album called that you post-Danzig bastards, think of something original! I know what you are thinking "You are stupid, the Misfits wrote most of their songs based off horror movies so THEY wern't original either!" Well, I think making lyrics based on ideas from horror movies is an awesome and origional idea. Especially since I'm sure Danzig, being crazy Danzing and all, was thinking of how cool it would be to murder like in the movies! Therefor, I think the old Misfits lyrics (and music of course) ruled. The new misfits are just businessmen out to make money off of A. Kids that don't realize Danzig isn't on the tour or the new album, and B. Kids who want to be all goth or something, so they buy the shirts and the cds of the new misfits. I've found that most kids wearing Misfits shirts these days are in the "B" category. I've started asking these kids wearing "Fiend Club" shirts questions about the Misfits, and they really don't know anything... it's sad really. It used to make me mad, but I've grown to get used to it. Hot Topic is resonsible for so many posers, and yet my band members support it! I tell them that if they really need a Rancid T-Shirt so bad, to get it online or something... but let's not get into that right now. But geez, it's crazy how terrible the "misfits" are nowadays. But, I'm kinda glad Danzig left the band in a way. People always say how "Danzig should have never left!!", but if you think about it, do you really think that the Misfits would keep the awesome Misfits sound forever? I'm sure they would eventually change, most likely for the worst. What I'm saying is that they never had the chance to go down the drain. Danzig left and all of their albums they could finish, rule.

I went to Reverend Horton Heat last night and they were awesome. I've seen them before a few years ago. Every member in the band is so great you could just focus on one of them the entire show. Anyways, before they played, there was this S&M show (as best as I can describe it) of these guys insanely tattooed and peirced in ways I didn't know existed. They even had balls implanted under their skin, and horns even. One of them was a topless girl who had nothing but tiny peices of electrical tape to cover her nipples barely... otherwise she would be exposing herself, wouldn't she? Well they peirced some hooks into her sides and suspended her until she was bleeding a bunch. They did that with all the guys, each time hooking them from a different place, and would swing them across the stage. They were hooked to a cross at one point even. Needless to say they were all pretty bloody by the end of the night... I have to admit, it was pretty fun to watch! Here is a picture of the same type of stuff.
http://www.galaxy.swt.edu/98/10/29/hang2.gif

tips:
DRI doesn't mean dry. DI doesn't mean die. SXE doesn't mean sexy.

How insane is this photo? Looks like some horror movie or something, but it's real. An innocent woman raped by an entire platoon and left to die from a shit load of acid on her face. Just keep telling yourself that there is such a thing as a just war.
http://www.southern.com/southern/label/CRC/pics/09431a.jpg
I bet tic-tacs wouldn't cause something like this!
http://www.maddox.xmission.com/tictacs.html

Can anybody catch what's wrong with this picture?
http://www.interpunk.com/itemimages3/73322.jpg

Regarding my post from awhile ago, my friend just told me 'no, the egg came first because the egg was around way before the chicken evolved!'. But I told her that I think the question implies that it is a chicken egg. I don't think the question counts lizard eggs or things like that. But maybe it does? Well, just to get it straightened out, my answer was for "what came first, the chicken or the chicken egg".

I just found out Atmosphere is on Epitaph. That seems somewhat strange, but eh.

Could somebody please tell me what the 'Kottenmouth Kings' have to do with TSOL?! I just found out that these lyrics are in a 'kottonmouth kings' song called 'peace not greed':
"Abolish government means nothing to me,
Forget about god, he's not here to see,
We live by a system, a perfect mold,
People perfect people who are poor and old,
Lies were spent on a sad defense,
They said we're lookin for a method in this world,
Presidents are named,
Presidents are labeled highest man on the government table,
America, land of the free,
Free to the power of the people in uniform"
Recognize em? Oh, and these lyrics are later in the song:
"You're caught up in the headlights of my V-Dub bus,
TSOL and the Kings about to even things up"
I'm so confused. If anybody has an explanation for this strange, strange happening, email me.

I can't help letting the paranoid side of me think about things from time to time. You know those stupid commercials about 'being aware of your kids'? The ones that say "you invaded my privacy. i hated my life. i hated you.... thank you". I hate those, they actually got to my mom and she has been wanting to know every little detail of what i am doing during the week... I dont even know that! I can't help thinking that those type of commercials are just there to keep crime down and save some money on the police. If all the kids were kept at home, there would be less crime outside caused by kids, obviously. Most kids wouldn't commit crimes, but that doesn't matter. As long as SOME of them have the POTENTIAL to, it's best to try and keep all of them at home. Who cares if it weakens family relationships? Who cares if it stops people from living or doing what they want? As long as it saves the police system some cash. It seems like just about anything has some sort of economic interest behind it. Such as the 'buckle-up laws', I don't have anything against them, but I don't think they are there for our protection as much as another way to fine people and make some more cash. A good example of hidden economic interests is when somebody robs a bank and the police are called. Almost always, the cost of the police is higher than the money the robber took from the bank. The robber drives fast, the police drive faster, the robber drives faster; a high speed chase ensues. Civilian cars, police cars and things like street signs, these are often demolished in the process of the chase, adding to the overall cost for the tax payers. Oh, did I mention the extreme danger for any average person who happens to be around? There have been children killed in these chases that happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. Why is all this happeneing if it doesn't have to? Because if the police didn't come to the 'rescue', the banking buisness would be in jepordy, and that is something that can NOT happen in a capitalist society such as this, regardless of the chaos, money, and danger involved. - God Bless America

Around the late 1800s, farmers had to take a gamble to try and get by. The gamble was getting loans from banks for the farming supplies they would need for the year hoping that their crops would do good enough to repay the banks, farmers were always poor and didn't have enough cash to get the supplies straight up. It was their only choice and it was damn hard to repay those banks. The time being post-Civil war, there was a lot of expansion industry wise, which lead to expansion population wise, which lead to expansion money wise (pennywise). This made the worth of the dollar grow constantly. On top of the bank charging interest, there was the natural interest (if you could call it that) of having to pay the bank even more than they borrowed, since the dollar was worth so much more.

About that Atmosphere show... I was talking to my friend and I said "That's crazy about that Atmosphere concert huh" "What, that we missed it?" "No... about the girl getting raped and murdered there" "Oh yeah, that."

Atmosphere came to my town and I would have gone to it if I wasn't at warped tour that night. Well, the show was mentioned in the newspaper when I got back home. Apparently at the show, a girl was raped and murdered by a worker there. The killer hid her body in a room at the Sunshine Theater and pushed a vending machine in front of the door. The police didn't find her body until days later. It's weird that that happened at a place I attend shows often, and at a show that I almost went to. You can read about it (although it's a half-assed report) here: http://krqe.com/crime/expanded1.asp?RECORD_KEY%5BBigLocal%5D=ID&ID%5BBigLocal%5D=980

I feel naseous. I had too many sour cream and onion potatoe chips and animal crackers...

AHH, I havn't posted in forever. Well, I was at warped tour for awhile, and aparently I'm lazier now. OK, I'm pretty tired right now and I just woke up. I plan on posting later tonight, but I just wanted to at least get SOMETHING posted just in case. Right now I don't have anything important to say except for that I acquired this mysterious perfect rectangle sunburn on my back. That was kinda weird.

OK all the sins are over. Now it's time for me to go on about really deep theories and such. Such as this: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? ha, jk. But if you really want to know the answer, I can tell you. The gdamn egg of course. Where else would a chicken come from? It's obvious it came from an egg, hence the egg was first. Now before you go off and whine about how there had to be a chicken to lay this egg, remember that thing they taught you in school called evolution? (By the way, any hardcore conservitive christians out there should stop reading at this point). No chicken laid this egg, but the last animal of the chicken's ancestors did. The animal had DNA just a tiny little bit off from being considered a chicken, but its baby was. There you have it. But for serious, I will try to explain some theories I have soon. Go in peace.

LAST SIN!!!!

PRIDE
1. What one thing have you done that you're most proud of? Today Kevin through a pea pod seed thing at me and I caught it in between my fingers without even looking. I swear.
2. What one thing have you done that your parents are most proud of? Probably that thing I just told you about.
3. What thing would you like to accomplish in your life? I think I peaked at that pea pod thing, but if I were to do something else, maybe I'd finish reading the 'people's history of the united states'. Damn, I've been reading that for like a year.
4. Do you get annoyed by coming in second place? Socially, I do. Aside from that, I'm to lazy to enter anything like sports.
5. Have you ever entered a contest of skill, knowing you were of much higher skill than all the other competitors? Only once when I entered a being cool contest.
6. Have you ever cheated on something to get a higher score? Of course. This is America! Get with the program.
7. What did you do today that you're proud of? Damn it. How many times must I explain the pea pod story?

GREED
1. How many credit cards do you own? None, the bank told me that I need money first.
2. What's your guilty pleasure store? um... the Domanatrix Hut... wait, what kind of guilty pleasure are we talking about?
3. If you had one million dollars, what would you do with it? Lobby for George Bush to wear a clown nose at his next speech.
4. Would you rather be rich, or famous? you mean more famous that I already am? being the former drummer of 'Stereotypes', I usually have to wear shades and a wig just to go in public and keep the public off my back.
5. Would you accept a boring job if it meant you would make megabucks? Of course, I'm already accepting boring jobs to make the microbucks!
6. Have you ever stolen anything? yes, a tiny seashel (who buys seashells, really)
7. How many MP3s are on your hard drive? Almost 6,000. Although, I don't see how that has to do with greed, it's not like I'm hoarding them all to myself or anything (but that DOES give me an idea..)

ENVY
1. What item (or person) of your friends' would you most want to have for your own? It's too hard to say which 'person' of my friends i would like to have. Choosing a slave takes time you know.
2. Who would you want to go on "Trading Spaces" with? What, is that like a TV show?
3. If you could be anyone else in the world, who would you be? The Robot.
4. Have you ever been cheated on? Probably. I do know that I was 'with' this girl (she even said we were 'together'), though it wasn't "official", but she was also dating another guy at the same time. So, probably.
5. Have you ever wished you had a physical feature different from your own? Yeah, somtimes I wish I had a gadjet copter that came out of my head.
6. What inborn trait do you see in others that you wish you had for yourself? To see into the future when disasters are going to happen, like Fertility Hollis or some shit.
7. Do you wish you'd come up with this survey? Is that the best question you could think of? Not now I don't!

HOME. I am home now, here is another sin:

GLUTTONY
1. What is your overpriced yuppie beverage of choice? Some coconut thing at sonic. That's the best.
2. Meat eaters: white meat or dark meat? Dark, I guess.
3. What is the greatest amount of alcohol you've had in one sitting/outing/event? I'm not good at measuring liters and gallons and stuff like that, so can I just say "not much"?
4. Have you ever used a professional diet company? No, the unprofessional street diets are where it's at.
5. Do you have an issue with your weight? Hell yeah I do, my weight was talkin mad shit the other day.
6. Do you prefer sweets, salty foods, or spicy foods? Well, I've heard it's best to eat a little of each of those 3 food groups.
7. Have you ever looked at a small housepet or child and thought, "LUNCH"? Heh, I hope so, cos, you know, that would be kinda funny. You know, me just sitting looking at a small child or a cat or something, and it starts to look like a chicken leg or steak or something. In fact, I'm gonna imagine that in my head, cos, it's like, funny. Hehe, chicken leg.

LUST
1. How many people have you seen naked (not counting movies/family)? Oh man, I'm a playa, I've seen hundrends of women nak... wait, not counting movies? um... cough-none-cough
2. How many people have seen YOU naked (not counting physicians/family)? Remember that kid in the park running around mumbling something about weasels? Well that was m... I mean, no, nobody has seen me naked.
3. Have you ever caught yourself staring at the chest/crotch of a member of your gender of choice during a normal conversation? Are you not supposed to or something??
4. Have you "done it"? Sex.. No, but one time this girl was looking at me in a restuarant... at least I think she was... I was in front of the order number sign so I couldn't tell... so thats kiiinda close... right??... nevermind.
5. What is your favorite body part on a person of your gender of choice? Fat titties and Fat asses!! hahahaha, jk. Actually I think eyes are really nice.
6. Have you ever been propositioned by a prostitute? No, not everybody is so lucky!
7. Have you ever had to get tested for an STD or pregnancy? Not for STDs, as for pregnancy... no coment.

OK, sin week isn't working out as smoothe as I planned. I've already missed one day and I am going on vacation tomorrow and won't be back till the 8th. Eh, what can you do? Well cya for now, heres one more sin for you...

SLOTH
1. What is one thing you're supposed to do daily that you haven't done in a long time? Wait, are showers once a week, or once a day? I can never remember.
2. What is the latest you've ever woken up? 4 in the PM
3. Name a person you've been meaning to contact, but haven't: Santa, but I still have awhile before christmas.
4. What is the last lame excuse you made? "My girlfriend? Oh, she.... died"
5. Have you ever watched an infomercial all the way through (one of the long ones...)? Yes, for "Oxiclean". I was on the edge of my seat every second of it.
6. When was the last time you got a good workout in? I ran around the park yesterday.
7. How many times did you hit the snooze button on your alarm clock today? No need, I have my alarm clock set for 6:30AM every morning, and since school ended I think I've actually heard it twice.

ANGER
1. Who did you last get angry with? Probably my mom
2. What is your weapon of choice? If I had to choose one, I'd say baseball bat
3. Would you hit a member of the opposite sex? Hit... or HIT ON?
4. How about of the same sex? If they did something terrible, I just might
5. Who was the last person who got really angry at you? I have no idea
6. What is your pet peeve? People that have cats. (hahahaha, PET peeve, hahahah... ahem)
7. Do you keep grudges, or can you let them go easily? It all depends on the situation of course.

If there wasn't a single person on earth that even had thought of the idea of "god", could there possibly be one? That is a good question, although personally I don't beleive in god anyways, but it's a good question for religious folk. Here is something even better for your mind to play around with, there are so many religions in the world and all of them (that I can think of) say they are the one and only right religion. So let's just say for the sake of my speech, that there are a hundred religions (though in reality there are waaaay more). This would mean that even if one of them WAS right, you still have a 99% of picking the WRONG one anyways. I have nothing against christians or people of any religion, but that's just stuff to think about. Speaking of religion, I have decided that I will post my sinning status, one sin a day, for the next 7 days. Starting tomorrow, it's sin week! You'll see...

"No sense, No God
Ain't it beautiful to be alive?
Yeah, right"
-Bad Religion

Today I bought T.S.O.L.'s "Weathered Statues" album. It is my favorite album of all time and I can't beleive it's taken me this long to get. I used to have a burnt copy, but I lost it after awhile. Oh yeah, I recently found out that Slayer covered one of the songs off this album and put it on their cover album. I'm very curious to hear it.

Is there any SOLID evidence that Hawaii actually exists?

I can barely stand 7 seconds of country music, but I would be curious to hear the country music of 7 Seconds (if they made country music). My saying may not be very clever... or make much sense... but I can assure you, it IS backwards!

So I heard that starting tomorrow people can have lawsuits filed against them for sharing music online... I really hope that's not true. Damn corporate execs. I havn't met one musician that didnt want their music to be exposed to more people... except Lars Ulrich... who's music is already widely known... and I havn't met him... but still. Stupid Lars, he takes some time out of his busy day of swimming in his olympic pool of gold goins just to complain about how his financial life is so unfair because kids can download Metallica songs on the internet, it's so sad huh Lars?

If any of my bands ever release a live album, I'll make it the first live album NOT to have some kind of pun about the word 'live'.... wait scratch that. How about "Live and Kickin'"? Damn it! I've fallen into the trend. Oh well.

I've decided to post some links to articles. I know they are from CNN, but they are worth reading.
This one makes me want to hurt people... seriously
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/06/25/explorers.abuse.ap/index.html
Abercrombie and whatever...
http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/06/24/abercrombie.suit.ap/index.html
Windsheild Death in TX
http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/06/19/windshield.death.ap/index.html

If somebody commited suicide by jumping off a building or something, broke their legs, and fell into a coma (heh.. fell). Would you wait for them to wake... or pull the plug? You'd say wait for them to wake of course, but thats the wrong answer! I mean, if somebody hated two-legged life enough to jump off a building, what the hell makes you think they would somehow love no-legged life! Think these things through! And oh yeah, drive carefully.

If you ever happen to go on a shooting rampage, here is a good tip. Take one bullet out of the cartrige, or clip, or barrel, whatever the hell it is. If somebody (the police most likely) counts the bullets fired, they know how many you have to shoot until you are empty and they can approach you. Now if there is one missing, you can never reach that ammount now can you? Damn I'm a genious.

People always tell me "bass is so much easier than guitar". I just say "you arn't playing a hard enough bass line".

Earlier today I had to paint this fence for my dad. It was pretty hot, so I borrowed his african safari hat and wore shades. Also, it was so hot that I decided to cut off the sleaves of my shirt. My arms are so white under the sleaves and it was ridiculous, I just painted away. People kept looking at me when they went by, I looked damn goofy.

I've thought about this, and I think that VGS takes the cake for having the most hardcore mosh-pits of the shows I've been to. Of course, it has to do with the venue, the people there, the amount of people there and all that, but still, it's surprising that they would be at the top of that list. I mean, I've seen Choking Victim, Bad Religion (older songs are FAST), and lots of other fast as hell bands, but somehow, VGS's pits were hardercorererer. The first time I saw em was the most I have gotten hurt at any show. I had my own arm thrown into my face and got a fat lip, I was thrown onto the floor and wrecked my knees, and somebody was thrown into me from across the room and wrecked my unit! Ouch, that one really sucked. I think that the energy and feeling from ska, mixed with the speed and roughness of punk, makes a ska-core band such as VGS have intense pits. "It's the formula for fun!" (I even made my theory have it's own slogan)

OK, I have crazy coincidences all the time, but here is one for today: Remember the post that I posted earlier today about how the "DK Kennedys" (aka unDead Kennedys) suck? Well I just got this email from the AT newsletter that has articles on the Jello vs. Ex-Dead Kennedys trials and also a letter from a DK fan that was (like many) appaled by the performance of the "DK Kennedys" because of their playing and their pro-War rants. You can read this at
http://www.alternativetentacles.com/page.php?page=atlegalfund
I thought it was kinda weird that I JUST mentioned that a few hours before getting an email on it. Oh yeah, and the person who wrote the first letter was named Greyson!

Damn it. I am one of the many people suckered into buying a "Misfits" cd after Danzig had left the band. I heard the "American Psycho" song and thought it wasn't bad, so I decided to get a post-Danzig Misfits cd (I knew it was post-Danzig, but thought I should try it anyways). BAAAD move. "American Psycho" is the only song I can even stand. That cd sucks so much and is nothing like the real Misfits at all. I hate when bands get to keep the old name (like TSOL, which was a much worse case because they eventually kept replacing not only the singer, but just about every member till the band had NO (or close to no) origional members and they released a cd under the TSOL name!). Or how the DKKenedys (as they were eventually forced to call themselves half way through the tour) lost Jello Biafra and tour under the same name as "Dead Kennedys". Technicly, they changed their band name, but under fliers and concert tickets it almost always still reads "Dead Kennedys". In some fliers it still even has a picture of Jello on it! Bastards!... Well, at least I wasn't suckered into seeing the UNdead Kennedys when they came here with their new scab singer Brandom Cruz, bastards. But I still am pissed about those damn Misfits. I feel so used!

Guess what I learned today: I found out there was a band called the "Origional Surfaris". Apparently they came BEFORE the now famous "Surfaris" of which we all know for their song "Wipeout"... but they had to change their name after the OTHER Surfaris got their big hit. It's sad really. Especially since they were a neat band and had an AWESOME name.

OK, I am back home now from my grandparent's house. Speaking of Australia (from my last post), I actually talked to some girl in a chat room (yes, I was THAT bored) the other day who lives in Australia. I gave her a test to make sure she was ACTUALLY from Australia, and she passed. You see, I used to have a best friend who lived in Australia, so I knew all kinds of stuff about it like the phrases and stuff. Anyways, I told her about how I saw a kangaroo the other day (which I really did!), but she eventually got mad and left when I kept trying to get her to tell me which way the water drains (here it is counter-clockwise). Oh well.

My new goal is to post something on this site everyday for at least the next 3 days. Oh yeah, I will be out of town tomorrow and the next day... so I don't have to do it for those two days. Uhh.... I'm tired. Gnight (or if you're in Australia, Gday!).

Debut albums are always so good. I think this has to do with the band deciding that they finally are ready to make an album (songs good enough, etc.). They wouldn't want to record an album until they have a lot of songs and experience in most cases, and with a lot of songs to choose from, it would only make sense to choose the best ones. Labels might play a part in this as well, as debut albums are usuall on indy, small, or self-owned labels. Obviously, this would enable the band to basicly do... whatever the shit they want! And we all know that's where the best music comes from.

Umm.... I just started the blogging thang. I have so much cool stuff to say all the time, you don't even know! Well, I guess you will... sometime... maybe.