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!
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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'