Happy pup here, got my ticket for this years Warped Tour show. Lot’s of big names this year; Bad Religion, NOFX, Anti-Flag, Flogging Molly, Less Than Jake (of course!) and the young lads from Jersey (the new one) in the clip above, Streetlight Manifesto. That Moshcam site has a couple hundred live shows of various indie/punk/metal bands. Dig through the gig list and I’m sure you’ll find something fun to watch.
The other Jersey band that I dig,The Gaslight Anthem , but isn’t out with Warped has been playing big festivals lately including the Pinkpop Festival in the Netherlands. Check this link for a full set. I would have embedded the vid but the site is all in Dutch, oh well. Check out more full sets from Pinkpop 2009 including Franz Ferdinand, Snow Patrol, Madness, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes etc. Super high quality video too, probably not for the bandwidth impaired.
09/09/2003 Entry: “carpet of gold, carpet of bombs, carpet of gray wool"
I’ve been thinking for the last week or so about what I might have to say about the second anniversary of what has now become known simply as 9/11.
I think I really knew something was wrong even before that Tuesday. I wrote about the protests and near riot only blocks from my house when the Republican convention was here in Philadelphia in the summer of 2000. Bush got the nomination and in November was “elected” in one of the most polarized elections in our history.
I could go on a long vehement screed against the Bush administration but that would paint things black and white and nothing else. I won’t play to that ploy to keep people divided. As is often the case the murky gray is much more telling than the bright shiny periphery. Plus I’m not at all convinced Bush is the pinnacle of stupid and evil, he is only just bright enough to cope. He could never ever have gotten where he is on his own. Know your enemies.
I read this interesting op/ed at Truthout.org. The gist is the writer is in line at an office supply and sees a woman buying lots of what seems to be school supplies. She is buying materials for her Los Angeles school district first grade class knowing full well she will not be reimbursed. The writer’s response was “You mean we can spend $4 billion a month to keep the military in Iraq, but we can’t afford crayons for first-graders?” and he’s right. I would be willing to bet that you could easily pick any city or town in this country and find a carbon copy of this story. This isn’t Bill O’Reilly versus Al Franken, right versus left, conservative versus liberal, this is about the middle. This is about the small things and how they add up. There’s nothing glamorous about a first grader not getting some crayons. The money they spent landing the President on that aircraft carrier for a photo op could have bought the school district all the crayons they needed.
On Setptember 12 2001 I wrote “There have been a lot of September 11th’s in history. Things happened on those days too. Small things, insignificant things. Yesterday will always be remembered as the day things changed and things, no matter how insignificant, will never be the same.”
On Thursday this week around 10,000 babies will be born in this country. In eighteen years what kind of world will we have to offer them? Will we still be so glued to our tv’s that we will simply forget to fix anything? I think they will simply come and kill us while we sleep. Think about that one, what if 100,000 kids decided their parents had failed to give them a proper world in which to live their adult lives imposing a simultaneous death sentence on all. 200,000 dead parents. Now that’s the kind of righteous mindfuck that makes a bunch of Saudis with box cutters crashing a couple of planes look like a sunny day in the park.
Anybody else think we’ve got some serious work to do? Good, because those kids are going to want their crayons.
I accidentally caught the video for the title song from MCR’s new album on Gootube the other day. I’d seen MCR a couple of times opening shows for their fellow Jerseyites Bouncing Souls and thought they were okay screamo but I wasn’t all that impressed. My initial reaction was that the song sounded like Queen put through a Green Day filter. Well after a bit of digging the album was produced by none other than Rob Cavallo who also produced Green Day’s American Idiot. He also produced Less Than Jake’s Anthem. No wonder I have been listening to this on permanent loop for the last couple of days. Throw in the fact that they borrow heavily from Pink Floyd’s The Wall (yes this is a concept album) and I’m just hooked. It’s not too surprising that this album has generated about as much venom as it has praise. You know the jaded rock press, I think it was RS that called it “the best mid seventies album of 2006”. Kind of a back handed compliment but not so bad.
Of course if this is way too uncool for you then go back to listening to The Lawrence Arms‘ completely brilliant Oh Calcutta! This is probably the best punk album of 2006 and I get to finally see these guys this week. Look at me I’m cool and uncool at the same time.
Does anyone else think Mike Chertoff looks like warmed over death? As dead as Habeus Corpus no doubt. You can almost see the little horns sprouting on his forehead. Geez this guy makes my teeth itch. Eh, he’s not going places cuz he went to Hahvahd and not Yale. Gotta be S&B to be anyone these days.
My goodness, someone might actually get a fucking clue using teh intarweb. Who’d a thunk it. Oh wait, if they do get a clue we can just have them disappeared. That’ll be awesome dude! Just ask Jose Padilla. (Alright, JP may not be the most upstanding citizen of the U S of A, but he should deserve all the rights the rest of us have. Not only that, he just might walk because the government have a case about as thin as the Olsen Twin’s cumulative waistlines.)
This guy’s got two disasters under his belt in a few short years. The utterly charming “War on Terra” and the breathtaking “FEMA response to Hurricane Katrina”. We’re supposed to actually think he’s got a shred of credibility? We should listen to what he says?
Am I finally on someones list? Is this radical enough? Good.
Tonight here at Hotmud.net we offer another installment in the seemingly neverending series of pointless jabs at net culture we like to call Faux Porn Links™. Like a shockingly bad Mexican soap opera dubbed into Mandarin the FPL finds your proverbial “last nerve” and sinks in it’s fangs in an effort to hopefully enlighten your netburned minds. At the very least it may elicit a chuckle or two and dump you ususpecting in a place you’ve never been before. That’s never all bad now is it? Smoke and mirrors baby, use thier tools and words against them and they may eventually fall. So what if we’re trying to slay Mega-Mecha-Goliath with with a slingfull of atoms, is it any better to be complacent and/or complicit?
Our festivities tonight are brought to you by our newest sponsor, Jay’s Used Auto Parts and Bait Shack out on State Highway 57 in West Pensyltucky, Ohiovania. Are you having trouble finding hubcaps for your ‘78 Le Baron? Jay will probably have a set or he can get you one “real soon” if you know what I mean. Too many junkers up on blocks in front of the trailer? Jay’ll haul ‘em away and crush them down in the big machine out back and even throw in a complimentary box of nightcralwers with every purchase. Just don’t let him accidentally haul away your cousin Joey who’s been sleeping in the backseat for the last few months after his wife left him for the door to door sex toy salesman. That would be a tragedy of epic proportions without a doubt.
For all of the new folks out there I’ll quickly explain that the FPL is a deconstruction of the net’s culture of pornography that takes a link phrase from a real porn site and through the power of Google sends the surfer not a member’s login and 47 pop up advertisments but somewhere altogether “different”.
And as an added bonus tonight we have a Disturbing Search Request of such specificity that it astounds me. This was in the referals this past week and it has got to be the lengthiest search string I think has ever “hit” this site.
The string was:
“(insane or disturbing or shocking or absurd) and (remove or removed or removal or “cut off” or “sliced off” or “slice off") and (genitalia or genitals or penis or penises ) and (gallery or photos or images or pictures)”
Um, yeah. We’ve got lots of that.
I have some stuff planned for the site this week so stay tuned true believers.
Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas --
Posted by— hotmud @ 09:58 PM EST
The front door slams on a suburban Detroit home.... From the kitchen we hear...
June: Ward honey, I think the Beaver’s home......
It’s The New New “Leave it to Beaver"
Starrring Hugh Beaumont, Barbara Billingsley, Tony Dow, and Marshall Mathers as The Beaver…
The Beav:Yo, what the fuck, why is everything in black and white?
Ward:Theodore! I’ve never heard such foul language out of so small a mouth. Color telvision is way too expensive ($1000 in 1954!) for my accountant’s salary.
The Beav:Yo pops, you best not be frontin’ or I’ll cap yo bitch ass. This can’t be the 1950’s, I wasn’t even born yet. But since this is my show...
The Beav pulls a Nine from his waistband and with a devilish grin proceeds to pistol whip Ward into unconsciousness.
Hearing the commotion June enters from the kitchen...
June:Theodore! What’s going on here?
The Beav:Shut it bitch, and quit calling me Theodore. Everyone knows my name is Slim. And while you’re at it come over here and give me some muthafuckin h*#!&d.
June:My god, I don’t even do that for your father!
The Beav pulls his Nine.
The Beav:It ain’t like freaky shit like this never happens yo. On your knees now!
Not wanting to get shot June reluctantly complies.
Wally enters from upstairs and is conspicously wearing an Insane Clown Posse t-shirt.
Wally:Hey, what’s all the fuss?
The Beav:ICP!, hey fuck you ya dumbass biatch. You better take off that shirt or it’ll be the one you wear in your casket!
Wally:Hey screw you mutherfuckin Slim Weenie, I’m a Juggalo to the core!
Crack! Crack! Wally slumps to the floor in a growing pool of blood.
The Beav:Not anymore.
June starts to gag on The Beav and stops to say…
June:Theodore, now you’ve shot your brother to death. I’m sorry but I’m not sure your father and I can get you out of this kind of trouble. We might have to call the pol....
The Beav:Shut up ho!
The Beav pistol whips June so hard her jaw is fractured and she falls into a bleeding heap next to the now semi conscious Ward. A swift kick to Ward’s kidneys is so painfull he returns to the relative bliss that is unconsciousness.
The Beav:Hey I kinda like this show, even if it is in black and white. I’d watch this show.
A siren is heard in the street outside. The Beav: Uh oh, looks like it’s time for a commercial!
Cut to Eminem…
Any of the old shoolers around here will remember my rogue personality shard “Skippy the Evil Twin”. He makes his appearance every so often and he generally flings his poo around like an orangutan with ADD, stinks up the place for a bit, and then disappears for months at a time. I’m pretty sure that some of his away time has been in prison. Bad home made tattoos and a funny hitch in the way he walks. Anyway so my buds at work have a little group going over at Rupert Murdoch’s little slice of indie street cred so I thought that maybe I’d join the fray but as I sat down to make an account Skippy snuck up behind me and hit me in the back of the head with a thirty pound sturgeon. Thank goodnes it wasn’t frozen. While I was out cold Skippy decided that it would be “funny” to try and make the ugliest Myspace page ever.
Of course I have no clue what password he chose so I hope the AIA crewe don’t care that their friend’s Myspace is hyper vomit inducing. Skippy’s a pretty elite white hat so he may be able to crack the secuity around here, believe me you’ll know it when he shows up.
I have a bunch of stuff to post this week including a whole mess of fun links so stay tuned.
Their first US tour was documented in the indie film “The Crushing Blow" which can be seen for all I can tell in it’s entirety at that link because it’s all a fake. It’s pretty damn funny but in the end it’s only viral marketing for FORD, well at least according to the wiki, but from the looks of their homepage and their Myspace they are very much for real and touring America again this summer.
Who to believe? Or does it really matter.
On an unrrelated note the INCOMPARABLE Ze Frank has started a little news commentary video blog called Ze Frank: The Show that is totally hilarious. Go watch. Now. Really, do as you’re told ‘fore I whup yo punk ass.
I remember every little thing as if it happened only yesterday.
I was barely 17 and I once killed a boy with a fender guitar.
I don’t remember if it was a Telecaster or a Stratocaster,but i do remember
that it had a heart of chrome and a voice like a horny angel.
I don’t remember if it was a Telecaster or a Stratocaster, but I do remember
that it wasn’t at all easy.
It required the perfect combination of the right powerchords and the precise angle
from which to strike.
- "Love and death and an American guitar", Jim Steinman
So I was browsing my favorite BitTorrent site yesterday and instead of looking for movies or games I decided to check the music section. As I’m noticing that there are at least ten torrents for Tool’s new album "10,000 Days" which doesn’t come out officially for another week (May 2) is see a link for “Meatloaf: Live at The Bottom Line 1977”.
Ho-lee-shit, 1977! I was a sophmore in high school. I have a very distinct memory associated with BOOH. It involves a very very long van ride that summer from Ontario back to the Poconos after a 10 day canoe trip. "Two out of Three Ain’t Bad" was probably the theme song for that trip as we heard it about twice an hour on the radio. I went and bought the album as soon as I got home. Of course within that year I heard ““Never Mind The Bollocks..." and that would change my musical perspective forever.
Some tidbits from the WIKI , BOOH is in the top five selling albums of all time is the second longest running album in the British charts behind Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumors”. Pretty impressive, and so is the Bottom Line live set. Particulary the piano work of Jim Steinman, the strong backups of Karla DeVito and a juicy encore of the Ike and Tina classic "River Deep , Mountain High". I downloaded the mp3’s with BT but when I did some searching on the net I found that these tracks are available on Jim Steinman’s personal website. I highly recommmend a thorough perusal of Jim’s informative site. It has lots of great stuff about all aspects of his long career in both music and theater.
Of course I came across some awesome other bits as I entered that near fugue state I sometimes get when I crawl into the web and find myself somewhere unexpected. Evidently “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” is a favorite song at weddings, and that’s a very BAD thing. Also it can be quite embarassing when you are holding out for a heroand all you get is silly stop motion dancing instead.
This one goes out to the one and only Vagabondage, the Cruel Mistress of E/N (former poster extraordinaire at this very site) who not only loves the Japanese language but smut as well. This video of a Japanese woman teaching us how to say some mildly dirty phrases in english is one of the funniest things I seen swimming in the meme pool for quite a while. Heh, “cockpit”. Need I mention this is NSFW?
Or alternately the spoonerific “Stole away the Roan”
It’s all that clean suburban air that’s got deep down in my lungs. It’s making me lightheaded.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. He’s all out of love and intelligence and courage.
I forgot to mention I saw a really cool movie the other night with Sagesse called “Memento” Their website is good but make sure you’ve got Flash. The movie is about a guy who is trying to find the guy who raped and murdered his wife. His only problem is that he has no short term memory. Anything over about fifteen minutes is lost. He has all of his old memories but is unable to make new ones. This movie is all about structure and might be confusing at first but after you get the concept that you are working your way through the story back to front and inside out then it still makes you think some more. If you don’t have a local “Art” movie house you may miss this one. But I certainly recommend it if you like thrillers or mysteries.
The Loved Ones - Keep Your Heart Philly three piece The Loved Ones play a supremely catchy mix of Lookout style pop punk cut with a healthy dose Eastcoast hardcore (ECFU!) and some obvious shoutouts to Jawbreaker. Check the videos for “Jane” and “100k” for a taste. These guys could be huge but I’m not sure if I really want to see that for purely selfish reasons.
