In Canada, you can smoke pot in public because the cops don't care ( Read more... )

Sometimes I have to stop and convince myself that the past 8 months or so have actually been real.  I'm coming out of a slump, I suppose.  But I'm still anti-social as hell.  Here are some things I've been thinking about, reflecting upon depression, anti-socialness, loss, and all that.

Coming back to Beloit in late December, I remember seeing the ( Read more... )

(On YouTube:)

(23:27:21) nick: and how many people put their shitty homemade videos up and tag it as like "michael jordan macarena toy story pokemon tamigotchi spice girls" so they'll get more hits
(23:27:36) Eddie: hah, pathetic werms
(23:27:39) nick: i wanted to write stuff that is currently popular, but for some reason i got stuck in 1997
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"Oh hello, America!  Y'know, this truck is like family to me...I can get all up inside it and just wiggle my pecker `round innit.  Oh yeah, and TEXAS!"
-David Cross on Wonder Showzen

Lee Perry- "Don't Blame the Baldhead"
Just about the catchiest reggae song EVER.

Revolucion X- "I'm Making My Future with the Border Patrol"
I found this Mexican hardcore ( Read more... )

"The reason to have a military is to be prepared to fight and win wars... it's not a jobs program."- Dick Cheney

My cousin Tim is getting shipped to Iraq.  Baghdad.  In the army for combat technology.

I don't even know how I'm supposed to feel.  On one hand, he's family, so I should be compassionate and hope for a safe return.  And of course I do.

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Everyone says they're not gonna sell out, but they always do.

Who knows? In 20 years I could be a Libertarian of the "Penn and Teller's Bullshit" variety -- into civil liberties, free-market capitalism, and thinking that global warming is a massive media hoax.

Or I could be one of those New Agey dudes who lives in...I dunno, Colorado? and studies ( Read more... )

I really think we should bomb the entire fucking Middle East....

....with James Brown!

a short clip of me throatsinging

poor quality, and i'm just kinda fucking around with my mouth and throat and tongue. but you can hear an overtone!

More on throat singing here!

Last spring, when Alina and I were mere penpals and budding friends (lovers in waiting?) I sent her a mix with a live version of "Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. She told me later that the first time she heard it she cried from its sheer beauty. A similar event occurred with me just a few ( Read more... )

WHY IS ALEX ALWAYS SO RIGHT ON ( Read more... )