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".