FMJ Coincidence

Just a few seconds ago my mp3 player started playing a song by 2 Live Crew called "So Horny" and at the begining it has a sound clip from Full Metal Jacket that says "what do we get for $10?", "everyting you want". I didn't really feel like listening to this song any longer after the clip so I had it randomly shuffle to one of the other thousands of songs I have on mp3. The song it went to was "these boots are made for walking" which is the song that is played during that scene of Full Metal Jacket I mentioned earlier. My mp3 it went to wasn't the original Nacy Sinatra version, KMFDM instead, but still, I thought it was pretty weird.

New Invention

I was at the grocery store yesterday when I came up with the greatest idea for an invention. Get this: the shopping cart that doesn't randomly vear in one direction! A great idea right? I need to quickly patent that one and run it by the shopping cart industry.

Democratic Tips For Becoming President

Thinking of all the people I must have inspired with my last guide to politics, I decided to make another. I will now give you a list of tips that will come in handy if you want to run for president.

1. Try to be born into a presidential family to start with.
2. Have lots of money.
3. It always looks good if you are in the military in some way or another before you run for election. Don't worry, if an actual war comes, you can always run away and pretend you didn't. Nobody will mind (besides, as Bill Maher said, actually staying in the military when war comes is just showing off).
3. Make sure you have relatives that govern a swing state or two, just in case.
4. DON'T have kids! When you are in power, they will do crazy things like drink alcohol or come out of the closet (when you have already proclaimed you are against gay rights). Doh! You will regret having them. This is where Bush/Cheny went wrong.
5. Relax! Hey, who ever said you have to know anything to become president? Why study and learn about the world you will soon control when drinking and driving and snorting cocaine is so much more fun??

Movie Review: Day of the Dead

The sci-fi channel rarely has any good movies on it aside from the Planet of the Apes series. This explains why I don't usually watch the movies they play, but a couple of nights ago I watched "Day of the Dead". The 1985 film that completed the 'Dead' trilogy. I have seen the original "Night of the Living Dead", but I never saw the second one, 'Dawn of the Dead' (although I borrowed it from my friend so I will see it soon). I tend to do this; I see the first and last parts of a trilogy, but it takes awhile for me to see the middle one, for reasons out of my control. I did that with the El Mariachi trilogy as well; I still haven't seen Desperado.
Day of the Dead was kind of a disappointment. I really liked the Night of the Living Dead, but this third one just wasn't that great. It was about a group of scientists and soldiers that had limited supplies and food while they lived on an island trying to figure out how to stop the zombie army just outside of their gates (kind of like 28 days later). The only cool part of this movie was when the main scientist trained one of the zombies to behave (that particular zombie is the one on the cover) and even taught him tricks and stuff. But, this didn't quite make up for the movie's lack of... anything good. It wasn't horrible, but it was mediocre, which is in a way it's own form of being horrible. I give it 3 stars.

Jets to Brail!

I just noticed recently that our school has put up these new little plastic signs on the walls for the room numbers of the classes and the health room and all that. I didn't notice until today that they even had brail (you know, the little bumps that let you read with your fingers... although, nobody has ever met a single human capable of doing that). Anyways, I was thinking how ridiculous brail is in a lot of cases. For instance, if you are blind, how the hell are you going to know where the plastic brail sign is anyways? How would you even know if there was one in the first place? Unless you asked somebody... in which case it would make more sense to just ask them what room number it was. The only way that brail signs would possibly work is if blind people just went around poking the fuck out of everything trying to find some brail to read. I think having the brail on signs in public places just encourages this type of behavior. Who needs a bunch of blind people blindly poking everything in sight?... well, everything in our sight. I certainly don't need it. In fact, I'd be glad to tell any blind person where they are or where they need to go to get where they are going--and I think most people wouldn't mind telling them either. Which is just how it is today. If there actually were a blind person in our school people wouldn't just ignore him and watch him stumble around the halls. NO! They would direct him to exactly where he needed to go! I can guarentee this. So why is there a need for brail? There are always going to be people around in public places like our school hallways... unless the school isn't open, in which case the blind man must have broken in. I don't think we need to help burglers figure out where they are, even if they are blind! Therefor, I have come to the conclusion that brail is just there to remind us people that can see that there are blind people in this world and we should be thankful to have our sight. Brail is really just another form of those cheezy cartoons we watched in elementary school that tell us not to run with sissors and the like; they are really there to simple tell us "take care of your eyes fool! Oh, and this is room 138".

How To Get A Law Passed In America

It is my impression that a lot of people think that they personally can't do anything to change the system or the way things are ran in America. They think that just because they are the "little people" they can't get laws passed and the like. This thinking is foolish and just plain un-democratic. I have taken the liberty upon myself to write a simple step by step guide to getting a law passed the democratic way:

1. Obtain a large amount of money (this can be done very effectively by taking money from the working class).
2. Start or join a special interest group devoted to your cause.
3. Use a portion of your legally acquired tender (see step 1) to hire someone who will lobby for your cause.
4. Pick a politician that you think will win a seat in office in the near future (it is not unlike betting on horses). If you have enough money, pick a couple, why not?
5. Instruct your lobbyist to take out the target politician to a nice dinner, or perhaps a boxing match.
6. The lobbyist should then explain to him your law and why it should be passed.
7. This is followed by said lobbyist sliping the politician a "donation" of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
8. If your politician earns his seat in office, with your help of course, just sit back and watch your law in action!

This method works great for getting a variety of things done, such as: keeping car companies from working on electric cars, preventing gun control, lowering restrictions on safety in factories, lowering restrictions on pollution, criminalizing marijuana, and many other great ideas. Use your imagination!

Germ-ania

Those two cds I mentioned/reviewed in an earlier post (DK + Descendents) have something in common I forgot to mention--the Germs! That's right, they both can get you sick if you lick the cd case! Actually, I mean the band, the Germs. The Germs are the band that played after the Dead Kennedys at that show they recorded. As for the Descendents, there is a song about Milo being a nerd and in one part the song goes into the "we must bleed, we must bleeed..." bridge from the Germs song (the song called "We must bleed"). Only, since it is a humorous song about being a nerd, it says "we must read, we must read...".
Footnote: My band, Deadmary, recently came up with a new song they were showing me and in one part of the song it plays the exact same chords and are played exactly the same way as they go in "We must bleed" by the germs. I told them "hey, you guys do realize that that whole riff is from a Germs song, don't you?". I don't remember what demurred, but I think they denied it... although it's painfully obvious.

New Cds

The other day I had the idea that I could review not only movies that I see, but cds that I get also. Then I realized how ridiculous that would be because of how nobody who reads this would gain anything from that or even know what the hell I was talking about. Also, I get way too many cds to do that. For example, I went to LA for spring break (I will post about that when I have time) and I got the following 14 cds:

Dead Kennedys - Live at the Deaf Club
Agent Orange - Living in Darkness
Bad Brains - I Against I
Atmostphere - Seven's Travels
Electric Frankenstein - Don't Touch Me--I'm Electric!
Various Artists - Big Monster Bash Vol.1
Satan's Pilgrims - At Home With...
Satan's Pilgrims - Soul Pilgrim
Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet - Dim the Lights, Chill the Ham
Descendents - Cool To Be You
Los Straightjackets - Supersonic Guitars In 3D
Jello Biafra - I Blow Minds for a Living
Goober Patrol - Unbearable Lightness of Being Drunk
Captured! By Robots - S/T

You may notice that in the list there is a cd by the Descendents. Yes, this is the new cd I was talking about in a previous post. Well, apparently it just came out and, being a Descendent in some form, I got it. I havn't really listened to it too much yet, I just gave it the ol' once over, but it seemed like it had it's moments... but unfortunately it wasn't the quality Descendents music that I've grown to love over the years. Then again, this is to be expected when a band breaks up and gets together years later and makes a cd; for example when TSOL did that.
The other cd I mentioned was the Dead Kennedys one. It is a live album. A live album was released not too long ago (I say 'was released' rather than 'they released' because they didn't release it, rather the record company, Manifesto, did. Jello Biafra, who wrote much of the music had no say in it's release and didn't make a cent from it. That goes for this one as well) that was titled 'Mutany on the Bay'. I like this new one more though. One reason is that it is a single show, as opposed to a collection of live tracks from different shows. It's also worth noting that the two live tracks, 'Straight As' and the 'short songs' song that were on the older record "Give Me Convienience or Give Me Death" were both taken directly from this live show on the newly released album. The other reason I like the new live album better is because it has a never before released song, "Gaslight", and some covers I've never heard them play before. Also, I like their older style that is displayed on this cd more than that of 'Mutany..'.

Current Music: Dickies - Curb Job
My Rating: 4

SHIIIITTTTTT

I just wrote the longest blog and it was completely erased cos I accidently quit my browser. Fuck. I feel like hurting some small animals.

Movie Review: The Game

I heard from a few people that 'The Game' was a good movie that I should see, so I watched it last night. At first it was intriging; it's the type of movie that makes you pay attention to it. It starred Micheal Douglass and Sean Penn. Also, it had this one weird sophisticated foreign guy who also played the sophisticated sounding foreign guy in '12 Angry Men' (the newest version with that annoying guy...name?... Tony Danson? yes Tony Danson. I think). Well 12 Angry Men is a lot better of a movie no matter which version, so you should watch that instead of 'the Game'. I perticulary dislike movies that don't really add up and have a bunch of things that would never happen and are just stupid... which is how the plot for "The Game" is. It had a bunch of ridiculous twists. At the first twist I was thinking "alright, I can see that". The second: "um.... ok, well fine". And then AGAIN there was a final twist of terrible ridiculousness! "MOVIE!?? NO! BAD MOVIE!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!". Unless you like saying that phrase, I suggest you avoid this one and watch 12 angry men, which has the sophisticated foriegn guy but WITHOUT a ridiculous plot. The best of both worlds! I give the game a measely 2 1/2 stars out of 5.

Movie Review: Igby Goes Down

I saw Igby Goes Down yesterday. It is about this alienated youth named Igby. Personally, I think that this alienation stems from the name, but they didn't really talk about that in the movie. I thought this movie would be different from other movies, but it ended up having the same cliche happening of a random herion user lady jumping onto a small boy and having her way with him right after he gets out of the shower. And that pretty much sums up the movie. I'd give it 3 1/2 stars. Although, most people would probably give it more.

Drestalgia

I am listening to Dr. Dre right now. I haven't heard him in so long. There once was a time, in mid school, when all I used to do is play 'Chronic 2001' and play SimCity 3000. Oh, that brings me back...

2 New Essays

I am leaving Albuquerque tomorrow morning for LA for spring break. I will return late on Saturday night. I don't know if I will post anything while I am gone or not, but I have finished 2 new essays for you to read. I had them revised and spelling mistakes and such were fixed--then it got deleted, so you get to read the rough versions. Read:
War On Terrorism, In General
Bigotry, Plain and Simple

Coincidence: Franco American

Yesterday morning I woke up with the NOFX song "Franco Un-American" in my head. I was wondering where the hell the "Franco" part came from and I didn't understand. I had never even wondered why the "Franco" part was even in the song before this, but now I was thinking it was random and I wanted to know why it was there. Was "Franco" some nickname for George Bush that I was unfamiliar with?? Eventually I forgot about this delima and got up and watched a movie or something. Then I went to the grocery store (I didn't go to school on this day) and bought some cans of Speghetios. I glanced at the top of the can and what brand name did I see? "Franco American". Wow! Apparently it's the name of a food brand of some kind.
It's funny how you always learn the important stuff when you aren't at school.

Coincidence: Big Stuff

Today I was telling Monet how it would be cool to have a bunch of slightly oversized things. Like a whole room, with the table and chairs and stuff slightly oversized. That way you would feel slightly smaller and it would be the coolest. Little did I know that a room exactly as I described it would be in the movie "Eternal Sunshine..." that we ended up seeing later in the evening.

Movie Review: Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas

As with all books turned into movies, "Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas" the movie wasn't nearly as good as the book. I think the movie was pretty good, but there is no comparing it to how good the book was and all the book stood for... theres just no easy way to turn that into a film. The main critisizem I had with the movie was that Johnny Dep was acting kinda goofy throughout the movie. In the book, you get the impression that the main character was completely serious throughout the whole adventure. That's mainly the element of greatness that the book contained. It's a shame they couldn't replicate that into movie form.
Also, Monet said that her friend had watched the movie lots of times and said that it didn't make sense, but it seemed to make sense to me. Maybe, it's just that I finished reading the book and things were more explained in it, or maybe her friend is just weird.
Aside from the aspects that it lacked when turned into a movie, it was well made and it is great that they even made it into a movie in the first place. It also had a lot of big stars in it: Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Toby Maguire, Christina Ricci, Cameron Diaz, and even Penn--from Penn and Teller. Overall, I would give this film a 4 and if you liked it yourself, I suggest you read the book.

Movie Review: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

I just got back home from watching "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" with Jim Carrey. I thought it was a good movie and would recomend watching it. It's about two people who have parts of their minds erased because they don't want to remember certain things that happen in their lives, but you prolly already knew that if you saw the trailer. I would give this movie 4 stars, out of 5 of course. Because 5 is the best number scale for rating things. I only have two problems with this movie, that could cancel eachother out...

WARNING! Do not read past this unless you want to potentially have the plot of this movie ruined for you! It's only recomended to read if you have already seen it, or don't really care if I tell you how it ends.....

Well, first of all, the whole Kirstin Dunst liking the old man part is not necesary to the movie... in fact, it's kinda annoying. It is like this random thing that has nothing to do with anything and is just stupid. The only reason one might say it is useful to the movie is because that sub-plot eventually leads to Dunst getting mad and sending everybody back their tapes. When that happens it paves the way for the ending, which is that Carry and his girlfriend get the tapes and figure that they aren't meant for eachother, because they've tried being together before and apparently it didn't work. Now, I think that was a bad ending and they should have just let the characters go on and be together without knowing that they were ever together before! So to sum it all up, the stupid Dunst/old man sub-plot was stupid and was only there so it could lead to them getting their tapes and finding out that they were once together. Both of those things should have been stripped from the plot and the movie would have made just as much sense, only it would have been way better.

Book Review: Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas

While I was sick in the last two days, I read 'Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas'. It is an excellant book. It is the story of Hunter S. Thompson as he and his attorney travel to Las Vegas for the American dream... with a fantastic amount of various illegal narcotics. I've never seen the movie, but I recorded it and will watch it soon... maybe tonight. Between the two drugged up fools, they have many ridiculous conversations and get into strange situations. The best thing is that despite the extreme lack of sense they make when they talk to eachother, they both seem to understand eachother perfectly. Thompson also has other books, such as the 'Great Shark Hunt', which I was reading some of the other day in Mr. Ledeux's class. As for Fear and Loathing, I give it the whole 5 out of 5 stars. Hooray!

Movie Review: Tape

I just watched 'Tape'. I can truthfully say it is one of Uma Thurman's best movies that takes place entirely in a single room. 'Tape' is like the opposite of 'Triplets of Belleville', in that 'Triplets of Belleville' has NO dialog and all 'Tape' is is an ongoing conversation/arguement between 3 people in a hotel room. All the acting was top-notch, as was the plot. There are twists and turns and it's crazy because it's like a roller-coaster IN a hotel room! Just like the rollar coaster for the 'New York, New York' hotel in Las Vegas. I definately recomend seeing this movie. In fact, I think I'll burn it to dvd in case anybody wants to borrow it. I give it an astonishing 4 and 1/2 stars.

Movie Review: The Gods Must Be Crazy

Two days ago, I saw 'The Gods Must Be Crazy'. To know what it is like, just imagine how the plot would change if coke bottle was dropped from a plane in the sky in the movie 'Walkabout'. If you haven't seen 'Walkabout', then you should just rent 'The Gods Must Be Crazy'. In 'The Gods..' an aborigional tribe finds a glass bottle, which results in fighting over it in the tribe. Being a peaceful tribe, the leader sees this bottle as being an 'evil thing' for causing the fighting, so he decides to go on a journey to throw it off the edge of the world. At the same time in another area of the continent, there is a white guy that has trouble getting girls. I'm not going to tell you how the plot goes from there, but I will tell you that the way the movie was made was really weird. It randomly had all of the dialog dubbed over the voices for no reason, instead of just using the origional voices. For example, it had a white old man do the voice for this black guy. It even had the bushman's (the aborigional guy) clicking sounds dubbed over, which means that the dubbing wasn't for translation purposes. Also, the film is always sped up for no reason and it jumps a split second forward in time everyonce in awhile. The plot was so interesting and the movie was so random that I have to give it a 4 out of 5 rating.

Movie Review: Roger & Me

'Roger & Me' is Micheal Moore's first movie. It is a documentary about Flint, Michigan and how thosands of people were laid off due to General Motors moving their factories to Mexico where labor is cheaper. For the whole movie, Moore trys to speak to Roger Smith, head of GM, and convince him to spend a day with him in flint. There is also a guest appearence by this lady that kills a bunny rabbit by repeatedly striking it's head with a steel pole of some sort. I think it was one of her best roles. My favorite scene was Roger Smith's speech about the magic of Christmas when Moore dubbs the speech over footage of an ex-GM worker and her kids being evicted on Christmas eve. The movie was pretty good, but not much really happened and it was kind of drawn out. I'd give it a 3 1/2 out of 5 stars.

Movie Review: Another Day In Paradise

Holly shit, this is gettin crazy. I'm watchin a movie like everyday now. Anyways, 'Another Day In Paradise' is Larry Clark's next movie after 'Kids'. I actually haven't seen 'Kids' yet, but I heard it was bad. Luis used to say he liked 'Kids', until he saw 'Thirteen'. He says after seeing 'Thirteen', he realizes that 'Kids' actually isn't a good movie. Although, Larry Clark's photography porfolio inspired a movie that Luis does like, 'Drugstore Cowboy'. Anyways, I am getting off subject. 'Another Day In Paradise is a movie that reminded me of Edward Furlong. At first I thought the girl in the movie looked like him, then I later thought that the boy looked like him. The weird thing is that Edward Furlong isn't in, nor has anything to do with, the movie. Instead, it's a movie about Hades from the movie Hercules. Actually, it's not really about Hades at all, but it's played by the same guy. The movie is about a criminal that recruits a boy and his girlfriend to work for him. All you really need to know about it is summed up in these two words: Hades and Furlong. I'd give it 4 stars... out of 5.

Movie Review: Dark City

You know that movie where there is this one guy who starts to realize what's going on around him isn't right... He eventually discovers that what he thought was the real world wasn't really even real. Instead, there are a group of people that dress in black suit type things that program what all the buildings look like, where the doors are and can change it whenever they like. These men can even put new information into your mind and give you certain abilities if they want. The main character starts learning that he is special, in that he can can control some things with his mind, which is a trait that only the suited men are supposed to have. He meets a certain man who explains everything to him (about the black suited men and the world they created which isn't real) and helps him learn how to use his powers. Together they embark on a mission to fight these people who control everything so they can eventually 'wake' everybody up in a sense and have people live their real lives and not the lives that they were programed to live. Anyways, have you seen that movie? Oh yeah, it's called "Dark City" and I just saw it today. One might say it's like the matrix... or even go so far to say that it's exactly like the matrix. The similarities between the two movies can't be a complete coincidence. But I don't know who copied who. Dark City came out in 98, a year before the Matrix did. But the Matrix had a much bigger budget and surely took longer to make, so there is a big possibility that the Matrix was starting to be made before Dark City was... But I don't really know. Comment about it if you know.

Another thing I noticed is that in the end of Dark City there is a scene where the Jennifer Connely goes out on this dock type platform above the water in a black dress and was followed by the protagonist of the film. That reminded me of the other movie in which Jennifer Connely walked out on a dock type platform above the water in a red dress and was followed by the protagonist of the film. I have to admit that I was kinda bored during this whole movie... and the plot really wasn't that good. The matrix and Dark City's plots were really similar, but I'd definately say that the Matrix had a much better plot. It was more interesting, made more sense and was moe believable. I will give this movie a 3/5 star rating.

Honey

Colin was at my house last night and he asked if we had any eye drops for his allergies, but we didn't. Angelo's girlfriend, Jenny, said "what's good for allergies is new mexican honey". I then made an impersonation of how that would play out: drop drop, "Ah honey in my eyes! My eyes are stuck together foreverrr!". It wasn't until later that I realized that she meant to eat the honey. I'm not usually very gullable, but I do misinterrpet things a lot.

Current Music: Wipers - Youth of America
My Rating: 4

Movie Review: Triplets of Belleville

FINALLY, I saw Triplets of Belleville and it was everything I thought it would be. This is the 3rd time that they've started showing it before the theaters randomly stop playing it. Maybe that's because of how anti-American it is... and it ruled. I thought the anti-Americanness of it all was pretty obvious, but Luis thought it was more subtle. Anyways, things to look for are: 1. all americans are HUGE fatasses in the movie 2. the statue of liberty is fat and holding a hamburger 3. in the toilet is a giant shit that forms the sillhoiette of mickey mouse 4. the picture of the mechanic at disney land has him holding a lollypop that loudly proclaims 'SUCKER' (a play on words) 5. the americans don't speak real english, but instead just yell things that sound like english (a perspective on how loud american english seem to the french). The animation was so great and so was the weird plot complete with little subtle things (aside from the anti-American stuff) and forshadowing. Also, there was NO dialog in the movie! Characters say 'no no no', mumble things, and there is a radio and a TV, but aside from that there are no voices at all. The funny thing is that you don't notice it until awhile into the movie when it strikes you 'has anybody said anything yet? I can't remember...'. I give the movie 5 out of 5 stars. Go see it before they stop showing it again!

Movie Review: Stand By Me

I just watched 'Stand By Me', which is another one of those Stephen King books made into a movie. It was pretty good, but I would have probably had more respect for it if half of the movie wasn't exactly the same as IT, the last Stephen King book made into a movie I watched. In both movies, the main character was a 13 year old kid that makes up stories and tells them to his friends. You see the kid grow up to be a writer as an adult... in BOTH movies! If that's not enough, most of the plots of IT and Stand by Me are just a bunch of elementry school kids hanging out and exploring stuff together all the time while the narrator says "they were some of the best times of my life, and the best friends I've ever had". Seriously, they could have saved a lot of money by just using the same footage in both of them. For some reason, I get the feeling that Stephen King had a bunch of friends in elementry school that he always told stories to and then he eventually grew up to be a writer. It's just a wild guess. Anyways, I'd give Stand By Me 3 1/2 stars out of 5. It looses points for being the same as half of the movie IT and for constantly playing the song 'Stand By Me'.

How My Band Got Banned From 'the Attic'

If anybody reading this went to the chaotic happenings on Mar. 13th, you already know about the fights that broke out and were, for some reason, blamed on my band. If you weren't there, well read on, all will be explained...
I dunno why, but a few of the bands on this local line-up were heavy metal type bands, they were good musicians, but I can't say I like the music too much. Anyways, one of these bands is playing and nobody is really diggin it, especially this one hippy. Remember those hippies I was telling you about? Well they all came to the show cos they had nothing else to do I guess, and for some reason they know one of the members of our band apparently. One of them was really drunk (or at least on something) and was acting crazy the whole night. Well, when that heavy metal band ('Necronemisis' I think they were called) was almost done playing, that hippy (Shane was his name) desided it would be a good idea to piss them off. Shane started flipping them off and even going so far as to rub his middle finger against the guitarist's face. The band finished their song and a couple members jumped off stage and attacked the hippy. Out of nowhere, about 5 other guys surrounded Shane and started beating the shit out of him. One was punching him in the head, a few were kicking him, everyone was all around beating him right against the pool table. I was right there watching the whole thing and I thought he was gonna get his fucking head cracked in. The fight (or massive beat down was eventually broken up, but not before Shane's shirt was sportin' hippy blood. Shane was thrown out and a lot of people suddenly started cheering. At this time, I was supposed to be setting up my drum set because we were playing next, but instead I went over to talk to Andrew about the beat down we just witnessed. Suddenly I saw some more commotion on the other side of the barroom. I looked over and saw Dave, our guitarist, was getting yelled at, punched in the face and thrown outside. Before I could understand what happened, I was told that we were kicked out and we had to leave. 'What the hell is going on?' I was thinking, so I went outside to see Dave and the other people who went outside and find out what happened. Apparently, when the first fight had started (when Shane was being beaten), Dave tried to pull people away and get people off of Shane. In the act of doing so, Dave accidently grabbed the shirt of some macho man type guy named Josh. It seems that what happened was that a few minutes after that had calmed down, Josh recognized Dave as the guy who grabbed his shirt, so he punched him in the face and kept yelling "let's take this outside!". The whole time a bloody nosed Dave was saying no and resisting to fight. This is Dave's mistake. Apparently, trying to break up a fight and getting punched in the face by a skin head can get you kicked out of a bar these days. It ended with all of us band members and friends outside being told by the owner of the bar, the 'Necronemisis' band member, and the Josh guy all telling us "get your shit and get the fuck out of here". The owner had to be friends with Josh, because we certainly didn't do anything wrong on our part. What was even worse was that not one of the heavy metal band's members were kicked out. Maybe the worst part of the whole thing was that Dave's little sister was crying and told Josh "all I wanted to see was my brother's band play and you had to punch him in the face!". Josh's response was "Shut the fuck up", making her cry even harder. I don't know how some people can be such assholes to other people sometimes. Even Katie, our booking lady, said "Bye bye" in a 'get out of here' sort of way. I'd like to thank the members of Censored Youth. I might not like their lyrics that much, but when it comes down to it, they are all nice people and realized the injustice done that night. They supported us and couldn't believe we were banned either. That whole night still doesn't make sense to me. I also don't understand why the Attic has absolutely NO security or bouncers at all. Even Chuck E. Cheese has a bouncer! The only people that work there are the owner and the bartender. Now I dunno about the bartender, but I'm not to fond of putting money in the pocket of the owner, and neither should you. So tell your mom, tell your dad, tell your friends: "Boycot the Attic!"

Fist In The Air In The Land Of Hypocricy

"Tony Blair and George Bush have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for waging war on Saddam Hussein."

Deadmary Show This Weekend

Concerts I'm Not Going To

The Guttermouth concert was a couple of nights ago and you might guess that I was there... unless you read this post's title. Well, I wasn't there. This is on account of me being bored of Guttermouth. Sure, they have their moments and Mark Adkins is halarious to see on stage, but I don't think it's worth the time and effort of going, especially if you've already seen em'. Here are a few other upcoming concerts that many people might expect me to go to, but in reality, I am really not interested at all:
*Casualties/Global Threat
I've seen this ticket before and it really wasn't anything special in my opinion. The Casualties are way overrated and if they are what punk stands for, than punk is -how do I put it- oh yeah, fucking retarded.
*the Code
This band sounds just like all the other new punk type bands.
*the Unseen/the Virus
This line-up has never interested me. These two bands sound exactly like all the other bands as well.

Movie Review: People vs. Larry Flynt

Ironicly, this afternoon I watched the USA freedom of speech themed movie "the People vs. Larry Flynt" on the USA channel. Now, the ironic thing is that it was HEAVILY censored. Middle fingers had the little black bars over them to where it just looked like they had a black fingers and such. I hate movie censorship (those damn puritan ideals still haunt our society), but none the less this was a good movie. The movie reminded me a lot of the book "Reefer Madness" by Eric Schlosser, because (despite the title) the largest part of the book was about the history of obsenity laws in the US and how Rubin Streuman (sp?) and Larry Flynt were two of the main champions of freedom of speech. Strueman was possibly more intersting than Flynt, and although not as famous, was an even earlier and more powerfull porn king.
I will give the movie 4/5 stars.

Since this is the first formal movie review on my blog, I will now give my rating system:
5/5 stars - You must see this
4/5 stars - You probably should see this
3/5 stars - Close call, it could go either way
2/5 stars - You probably don't want to see this
1/5 stars - Don't even waste your time on this crap

Hippy Commune

It was so weird on thursday. I went to deadmary band practice in rio rancho at their house and there was this one extra guy there who had dreadlocks. I didn't think much of it, but then later in the practice, David's hippy ex-girlfriend and a couple of friends came over because they had just hitchhiked there way to rio rancho. After awhile they went outside and Ian says "since when did our house become a hippy commune??". It was so true. They were kinda annoying actually, daves ex girlfriend, cassy, kept on saying "yeah, it was totally rainbow"; rainbow meaning cool. Everytime she said that, I couldn't help but cringe. Also, she always talked about her friends in different stories and such and they all had ridiculous 'names'. She was talking about her friend 'Cash' and her friend 'Ubu' and I think another one that I can't remember. I was LITERALLY just thinking about how ridiculous it is for a group of people to ALL have weird nicknames. I can understand having one friend or so that has a weird nickname, but when ALL of them do, that's just out of hand and stupid. Anyways, like I said, I was JUST thinking about that when she started talking about her friend 'Pst'. She actually said his name was 'Pst', like the sound. I don't even remember what the story was about, I just know it was ridiculous because she kept saying and then Pst did this and Pst said whatever. Oh man, hippies are annoying... or at least the ones I encountered. All being a hippy is is a trend, that's really all it is. And a trend is pretty much fashion that has managed to not only take control of how you dress, but how you talk and even live to some extent. Being hippy is trendy just as goth is trendy just as punk is trendy just as prep is trendy. I, myself, don't want to limit myself to just one thing like that. Personally, I like to have my fingers in all kinds of pies. For instance, right now on my dresser is this hippy type pyrex bong thing that luis gave me for my birthday that I use for lighting insence. Next to that is this rock carved Buddha statue thing, but behind that is a painting of the Misfits' crimson ghost and a Dead Kennedys' "In God We Trust, Inc." sticker - Oh and also a tiny tiny bottle with a tiny tiny baby coming out of it... but I don't know exactly what trend that one stemmed from.

666 years

I was reading the newspaper today and I happened to notice the following article. Apparently, a New Mexican man was charged with 222 counts of "possessing and distributing kiddie porn." The article later read, "If he is guilty, he will face up to 666 years in prison." Now, being on the front page of the newspaper for having 222 counts of illegal activity charged against one is enough to make somebody realize "yes, I did do something bad". Do they really have to go so far to rub it in his face with 666 years?? I'm thinking about a possible movie based on the subject: In the end of the court's verdict, the camera zooms in on the judge as the background lights similtaneously dim. The judge then looks angerly upon the defendant, "...I therefore DAMN you to prison for the following SIX-SIX-SIX years!". The camera suddenly zooms closer in on the judge every time he shouts the word 'six'. Yes, I can see that up for a few awards actually.
Another thing that came to me when I read the article. Nobody is gonna live for 666 years! Why can't they just say "he faces life in prison", instead they pretend like they actually mathmaticly figured out how many years he should spend there. I guess they wouldn't be able to throw in that satanic refference if it was only "...life in prison". Still I think it's ridiculous. I can see the defendant's lawyer telling him "Just plead guilty. With good behavior we might be able to get it down to only 566 years or so."
And another wondering: If he is actually jailed for the time of 666 years, will they actually physicallykeep him in jail for the full time? That's the only decent answer I can come up with for giving him hundreds of years in jail instead of just saying 'life'. With that type of wording, it seems like justice wouldn't be served unless his body actually remained in jail for the full sentance. New inmate: "Uh, I think my cellmate is... dead", Guardkeeper: "Yeah, that sick bastard still has another 521 years to go - And he deserved every single one of them!"

Deadmary Show This Saturday

Deadmary *All Ages*
Where: the Attic
When: 7pm
Price: $7
With: censored youth, rumfi-sailors, necronemisis, ephemeril existance, abandon all hope

We will be selling patches (1$), t-shirts (7$) and the new quality EP (4$)! all for cheap!

Deadmary Show This Saturday

Deadmary *All Ages*
Where: the Attic
When: 7pm
Price: $7
With: censored youth, rumfi-sailors, necronemisis, ephemeril existance, abandon all hope

Bong! (another coincidence)

For some reason, today I kept thinking about an episode of SNL. More specificly, one of the "Jarred's Room" skits with Jimmy Fallon and Horatio Sans as two stoners with a webcam. On this episode, Horatio's character was able to perform the amazing ability of turning any song into a song about bongs ("who let the bongs out!?"). Anyways, I was walking back toward the group of people I talk to at lunch (from just getting a hawaiian punch) and I was thinking about this episode. As I approached the group, the first thing I said was "bong!". As it turned out, they were for some reason talking about bongs. It was really weird, especially since nobody in that group smokes.

Current Music: Beat Farmers - King of the Hobos

Article #2: Killer Mosquitoes!

Killer Mosquitoes: Run for your lives!
It’s now 2004. Thank GOD I’m still alive. Last year was intense, I’m so glad it’s over. For one thing we had a large scale terrorist attack in our country. Well, OK, we didn’t, but I was still all shook up about the last one. The fact remains that we Americans were still in danger. Mosquitoes were carrying the deadly West Nile Virus (WNV) all over our country, including our very own state, New Mexico! My friend Jesses’ mother made the right decision when she forbade her daughter to go to Colorado with some friends. Colorado was swarming with West Nile harboring mosquitoes. Now it hasn’t been proven that these mosquitoes were sent here by terrorists, but who else would be responsible? Now for those of us who are lucky enough to survive the mosquito attacks, I think we can all agree it’s a story for the grandkids.
You may be thinking that we all have much reason for fear in this insect war zone we call America, and I couldn’t agree more, but it gets worse! That’s right, that’s not all we had to deal with last year. We also were hit hard with the possibility of obtaining the deadly Asian virus known as SARS. You may not live in Asia, or even remotely near Asia, but the fact remains, that you were in danger! Yet another tale for the kiddies.
Ok, so what if the West Nile Virus has killed only a few hundred people in the last two years (about half the amount of vehicle related deaths every week in the US). That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be afraid! Bugs are scary! Who cars if SARS has only killed less than 200 people globally? I for one don’t! We live in America, that means that we have the freedom to be scared whenever we damn well please! If I want to be scared of hamburgers, I’m gonna be scared of hamburgers! If I want to be scared of mosquitoes, damn it, I’m gonna stock up on bug spray and there ain’t nothing anybody can do about it!
We are constantly told by the media to be scared of new things that only kill a few hundred people annually for a good reason. CNN is not “entertainment”! It’s the news, and you can’t argue with the news! It’s not like they have some crazy incentive to scare people into watching their program so they can keep making money. NO! It’s all about our well being. And correct me if I’m wrong, but when we live in a country of TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY MILLION people and three hundred or so die from something over the course of a year, the logical thought to come to one’s mind should be: “I could be next!”.

It Never Gets Old

One joke that will never cease to be funny among the average person with low joke standards is an animal video with a human voice over, as if the animal was talking! It's even funnier if it's an ANGRY animal voice! Now I know some of you are too intellectual for such a childish gag, so fortunately for you with higher standards there is always the "animals wearing people clothes" bit! Oh man, those kooky animals.

Mysterious Phone Call

I just saw the starskey and hutch movie. It had it's moments, wasn't the best, but wasn't the worst. Anyways, I get home and start looking to see what movies will be on TV this week when allz a sudden I get this phone call from an unknown number. I say 'hello?' a few times before realizing that whoever this is didn't mean to actually call me. So, as one is inclined to do when being called by somebody who doesnt know they are calling one, I listen in and see what's going on. Now, I figured out who it was pretty fast. It was the dreaded ex-girlfriend whom I havn't spoke with since I left her ALMOST A YEAR AGO... and some reason she still keeps my number in the phone? Anyways, yes, it was Iris. It helped that they kept on saying her name for some reason, after that I was sure that it was her voice. I guess they were meeting some guy for the first time who said he was 26 and asked if they wanted beer, but I don't think they did. Then they left, got in a car and talked about hardcore and softcore porn. Well, now I know what my ex has been upto. I call her my 'ex' like I was with her for more than 3 months or something, but if your girlfriend is Iris Garcia, you have to multiply any time spent with her by at least 4. I can't even stand to think about her! She was/is so insanely weird. I've never met a more confusing/confused person in my life. It's not that she's a bad person, she just.... just stay away from that one-cos if you don't, you might throw up in retrospect of your relationship.

Current Music: Dickies - I'm Ok, You're Ok

Why I Think The Devil Is A Good Guy

Now, I'm not one to believe in Christianity, but for the sake of the arguement, let's pretend I do. OK, we have God, the good guy. If you are good, he will save you from the evil devil. He will bring you up through the clouds into the heavens. Eternal bliss is your reward. Now, if you AREN'T good, you will be DAMNED to hell. You will suffer in burning pits of fire and brimstone for all of eternity. At first glance, it would seem obvious that God is the protaganist and the Devil would be the antagonist in this story called "the Bible". After comtemplating this, I have arrived at the conclusion that both characters are "good". "The Devil?.. is good!? Are you mad!?" you might be thinking. Well, let's look at it like this: If we are to assume that the laws of the bible are just (as most Christians WOULD see them as, or else they wouldn't be Christians), then what more is the Devil than a 'policeman' who punishes those who break the laws [of the Bible]? If the biblical laws are just (justified) laws, which we are assuming most Christians would agree with, than the policeman wouldn't be evil, he would be a good person upholding the rightful law. Now, if this policeman was to enforce corrupt laws, that would be another story, but we are aggreeing that these laws of the Bible are justified. What do you want to look out for, being a Christian? Sinning of course! And why do you not want to sin? Because you will go to hell. Let's face it, the idea of a hell is a very scary idea. Nobody would want that in a million years. Given the two paths of retribution (heaven and hell), I think we came agree that this idea of a 'hell' and a 'devil' motivates the Christian masses not to 'sin', therefor enabling them to a 'heaven' in the afterlife. This is called retribution, the abstance of sin motivated by fear rather than the love of God. The puritan Johnathan Edwards mastered this style of preaching, "The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire; he is of purer eyes than to bear to have you in his sight; you are ten thousand times more abominable in his eyes, than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours."*. If there were no devil or hell and everybody could get into to heaven, regardless of what they've done, do you think many people would try their hardest to abstain from sin? Probably not. It would be a free for all, it would be anarchy! Well, maybe not as extreme as sheer anarchy, but you can bet that there would be a lot more sinning going on if it weren't for fear of hell. So who's wrath will make men think twice about getting drunk and breaking into your house? The Devil. Who makes them think twice about rape? The Devil. Who makes them think twice about commiting original sin? The Devil. In my eyes, it seems that Christians should view the Devil as a hero.

*Excerpt from "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards.

Asian Hookers Infiltrate The Bush Family

Pop Quiz! Which brother of our beloved president recently had DIRTY DIRTY SEX with strange asian hookers that mysteriously came into his hotel room?
Answer: Neil Bush
Never heard of him? Probably because he had DIRTY DIRTY SEX with strange asian hookers that mysteriously came into his hotel room.

Info-tainment!/Platoon

You gotzta love that Bill Maher. Or, for you readers out there: You gotzta love that Micheal Moore. The thing about Bill Maher is that I can watch it on the TV. But if I'm on the go, I turn to Moore for on-the-go book-form. Both of them make me feel ambitious for some reason, like I can make a difference. Perhaps by attempting to assinate a president 'Taxi Driver' style, maybe even Alexander Berkman* style.
Also today, I watched "Platoon" staring Charlie Sheen and Christopher Walking (I also saw Johnny Depp in the opening credits for some reason?). Luis has boasted 'Platoon' to be the best Vietnam war movie. I beg to differ. No contest, I'd say that 'Full Metal Jacket' is better. Another thing that rascal Luis said was in an arguement we had awhile ago. I was (for some unknown reason, possibly talking about 'Daria') acting out the infamous scene from 'Platoon' where Christopher Walking is left behind and he gets on his knees and throws his arms towards the air. Anyways, Luis then said "no, no that's not what it was. His arms weren't going upwards, they were going sideways, to represent Jesus". Not knowing much about Platoon, I yielded to Luis on this one. Now that I've seen the movie, I can consciously say that his arms WERE towards the air like I was saying, and NOT sideways like Luis was saying. Not even for part of it were they sideways (I rewinded it). So for you folks at home, don't let anybody try to talk you into thinking that Chrisopher Walking's arms were sideways in Platoon.
*Since many of you readers might not know who Alexander Berkman was, he was the husband of the infamous Emma Goldman who attemped to assassinate Henry Clay Frick (I had to cheat using Google for this part, I couldn't remember which president it was), but ended up getting arrested.

PS: You can now download some communism, I mean mp3s, by my band Deadmary at our NEW official website. These songs are BETTER quality and on a BETTER website than the last. (They are the same quality as the ones from the battle of the bands website, but now you can download them to your computer to treasure for years and years!)

A Reminder