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Every Few Years JJJ Playlists Something I Like
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Groan Box In The Meat Show
Here is a fellow who is not insane (although he is an idiot) who believes that Monsignor Manson is genuinely monstrously evil – a possibility with which I am very enamoured.
He proposes that Manson sought/seeks to aggressively & systematically demoralize his own audience, without them noticing, in order to create dependency. He suggests, for example, that MM’s objective in drilling his listeners over and over and over again with the phrase:
We’re disposable teens
We’re disposable teens
We’re disposable teens
We’re disposable
was not the stated one of providing an empowering outlet for the sense of frustration and alienation experienced by many young people in contemporary society – but rather to, on a very direct and visceral level, remind and reinforce to teens that they are indeed disposable to him and worthless in general – keeping them down and in their place, and inspiring them to perversely greater heights of devotion at the same time.
I do not find this theory entirely implausible.
Cometh The Punk Rock Librarian (Part One)
Things Ben bought whilst visiting Melbourne:
- Diskonto – “We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us About” LP (“Raging dis-core; possibly Swedish, maybe Japanese people singing in Swedish”)
- The Curse of Shank – self-titled LP (“Scottish power-violence”)
- Combat Wounded Veteran – “Duck Down For The Torso” 10″ EP (“Awesome screaming artcore”)
- Dead Silence – “Hell, How Could We Make Any More Money Than This?” 7″ (“Colorado guys making fun of Bad Religion“)
- Spazm 151 – self-titled LP (“Raging Texan hardcore”)
- A-Ha – “Take On Me” 7″ (“I can’t believe I paid $5 for this”)
- Blondie – “Parallel Lines” LP (“Did you know Hanging On The Telephone was a cover?”) (NB I didn’t.)
- Joe Satriani – “Surfing With The Alien” vinyl LP (“Fuck yeah!”)
- Brian The Dog from Family Guy (“He might be based on Snoopy“)
- Video of John Woo‘s Bullet In The Head (“John Woo! Fuck yeah!”)
Lyric of the Day
“Stop The Violence” by Wesley Willis
Stop killing innocent people
Stop killing police officers
Stop shooting at policemen
Stop shooting bystanders with handguns
Stop the violence
Stop the violence
Stop the violence
Stop the violence
Stop shooting old ladies
Stop beating up FBI agents
Stop killing the postal workers
Stop shooting at cops
Keep your ass out of jail
Stop the violence
Stop the violence
Stop the violence
Stop the violence
Stop raping women for crying out loud
Stop killing little kids
Keep yourself out of prison
Stay the hell out of trouble
Stop the violence
Stop the violence
Stop the violence
Stop the violence
Rock over London
Rock on Chicago
Pioneer, it’s the art of entertainment.
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Just Call Me Huggy Bear
Look what my childhood best friend Ben did.
When not making webpages, he is also a trained librarian and plays in punk bands, which is an interesting combination. His current band is called Draft Dodger (old site, predating his joinage – new one coming soon, so I’m told), and their album may or may not be entitled, topically, ‘Holy Shit, Batman’. And he’s a thoroughly nice bloke.
I highly recommend him for all your website, librarianship, punk rock and nice bloke needs.
Now I Will Tell You
A certain someone – who is not human either – has made me a mix CD. It is called “dogwHistlinG in the dArk” and it is too perfect. (Very naff in parts, but perfectly so.)
I have taught you well, he said, with characteristically insufferable arrogance, arching his fingers in a villainous fashion.
Thank you so much.
It’s obviously been compiled with your correspondent in mind, but because it’s very accomplished so great and because I’m so proud, I can’t resist sharing.
Anyone who fancies a copy: don’t ask why, just ask.
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City of the Damned
Here (4MB mp3) is a cover version of a song by The Gothic Archies called “City of the Damned” which I recorded last year and have just now gotten around to mixing properly. Well… to mixing, anyway.
Dedicated to Li – despite anticipating that, as someone who’s actually studied sound recording, his only reaction is likely to be one of abject horror.
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Bleary-Eyed Ramblings, or I Dream Of Constance
I dreamt last night that I was a girl, specifically Constance. I’ve mused about being Constance before. I don’t know why, other than that I think she’s cool. And I’ve often fantasized about being a girl. I don’t think I’m a repressed transsexual or anything. I just reckon it would be awesome. Girls are much nicer than boys. Or at least much more appealing.
Tangent: In my early teens I was completely obsessed with periods. I only found out mentruation existed when I was, like, twelve. This was possibly the origin of my interest in the occult. I was just astounded that this bizarre and horrendous phenomenon had been going on all around me all my life, completely sheilded from my view.
This unhealthy preoccupation was only entirely cured when, at the age of 22, I fulfilled my long term ambition of actually having sex with a menstruating woman, something I will never, ever do again.
I ran out of cigarettes last night. I thought not having any would motivate me to bounce out of bed bright and early this morning and go to the gym. But instead I just lingered in bed for a really, really long time. Then I went out in my pyjamas to buy some and came back home to drink coffee and blog. I’m a disgrace.
In other news, Jojo & Xade report excitably that Tori Amos is coming to town.
I saw her last time she toured ‘Straya which was, I believe, in, like, 1994. Sort of tempted. (But upon glancing at the latest incarnation of her website: she really badly needs to fire her current stylist. Admittedly, though, so do I. Or at least I would, if I had one.) I haven’t heard her current album, but I grew to love Scarlet’s Walk, despite an iffy relationship between us at first.
I can’t really afford it, though, especially since.. well, I’m so shat off about this actually I think a separate post may be in order.