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*Noticia: My new place of employment wil be hereafter referred to as "Pog". The connotations should be self-evident ( Read more... )

Last February one of the last authentic ska/rocksteady/skinhead reggae bands in the US(and perhaps the best one that the States have ever produced...), the Slackers, played a double set show at Churchill's on Valentine's Day night- probably one of the best ska live shows I've ever seen, and that's saying a hell of a lot considering I had been ( Read more... )

...So my days watching over the cookie-cutter homes of moneyed suburban slime have come to an end- I'm now slinging headphones in that noble institution of the new economy, a call center...Let's just say that while I'm sure it's farrrr preferable to breaking rocks in a salt mine, I'd still rather be fucking, drinking, or drawing than spending my ( Read more... )

Q: So mate, how's the new year been treatin' ya??

A:
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Stupidity and divinity are so closely related when one is talking about passions.....Why do we hold back and think of utility?? A Nietszche-inspired focus on our creative natures would tell us to "squander ourselves", let our adoration and love of life overflow even if it destroys us by the time the credits roll..Desires must be armed, and to the ( Read more... )

I've been making the mistake(?) of reading Kafka lately....I hadn't read him since years back and forgot how feverish and claustrophobic some of his writing can be- when he's not setting up a dreamlike parable landscape but decides to burrow into some narrator's skull like Dostoevsky also loves to do........I was reading "The Burrow" and had to ( Read more... )

If my wee lil' roomate hadn't made off with the digital camera I could show you folks my fine booze bottle collection, courtesy of sloppy predrinking nights in my filthy lair with assorted punks, skins and scum.......But you'll just have to take my word for it- simply magnificent and a superb addition to any second-hand busted-up entertainment ( Read more... )

My inspiration comes in small waves that drown well before the shore- Hokusai would sneer and spit and I'd have nothing left to do but shrug and admit the fundamental lack....Just let me off the fucking hook, for now at least....so of course I was working up a intensely bitter Schopenhauerian diatribe with trite bullshit like "Woman is deception, ( Read more... )