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The world is overrun by animals, great and small, fanged and feathered, all eating each other in perfect harmony. Man is the party pooper. He'll eat pig and pretend it's pork. He'll devour a chicken but not a kitten, a turkey but not a Turk... it's sneaky, symbolic, unappetizing, ego-supportive, duty to God and country- never with a good pot roast in mind. No cheerful, honest cannibalism. Alas, alas. --TR
Nov. 25th, 2009 @ 10:00 pm Five Years with No Exit Strategy
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First off, read this. It's moderately humorous, but eventually one is struck with the realization that someone put in an enormous amount of time to list off all their adversaries in the world. I'm impressed. Ex:
Flavor Flav, a.k.a. William Jonathan Drayton, Jr. (born March 16, 1959) is an American rapper, classically trained pianist, reality television star, hype man, member of the seminal hip-hop group Public Enemy, and a dick.

And it goes on like this. One must also note the precise omission of any former or current commander-in-chief, or any certain hairy-faced archvillian.

I'm compiling my best of 2009 music list. There's a lot of bad music out there. But there are gems.

I saw Saul Williams a couple weeks ago. He performed in front of crowd that should have been a thousand people, but was only a hundred. He dressed up, and came in fancy as Hell, using all his badassed theater presence to rock us. Then, two songs in, he stopped and irrately said, "Jesus! I thought this was Seattle!" And it breaks your heart. No one told Saul Williams that Capitol Hill is filled with lifeless, apathetic hipster rejects. No one told Saul that Seattle is officially fucking dead as of November 30, 1999, give or take five years. Not much life left here. And no one told the Seattlites going to his show that he was about magical, musical, confrontational theater- poetry that demands individuality and expression. "Side effects may include simply being who you are." So we were both guilty parties-- although I would imagine that if you paid money to see Saul Williams, you'd be at least marginally partial to acting enthused at his show. Instead, it was a group of people with crossed arms, pretending to watch television, while me and my buddy were jumping up and down, screaming every word of his poetry. Which was certainly made more intense by the mushrooms.

And finally, five years ago today, this little blog was born. It has served as my artistic outlet when I would've otherwise exploded. I hope you can all make it to the party.
Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 08:52 pm Every Good Boy Deserves Tyranny
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I saw Mudhoney on Friday with a best friend from high school. We'd met as freshmen in math class, but realized we were great friends once we both found our selves in the mosh pit together, beating the tar out of each other. Male bonding ritual. God, that was 11 years ago. So it was epic and wonderful and significant and still rocking to see Mudhoney yet again. Everyone should have hometown heroes that stay with them through their formative years. Who else would I blame all my problems on?

Highlights included almost slamming into Bruce Pavitt-- former CEO of Subpop. "Dude, he's not the Chief any more, but can probably still have you killed." Also seeing Kim Thayil-- "Dude oh my God! It's Kim Thayil! Soundgarden reunion!" I asked if anyone else from Soundgarden was seen there. "No, of course not, but it only takes one Soundgarden member to have a reunion."

11/13/09 Neumo's. Seattle, WA (100 min)
Attendance: 500
Supported By: Brothers of the Sonic Cloth, Unnatural Helpers
Set: The Money Will Roll..., I'm Now, The Lucky Ones, Next Time, Inside Out, You Got it, Suck You Dry, Oblivion, Blinding Sun, Inside Job, What Moves the Heart?, Sweet Young Thing, Let it Slide, Judgment Rage..., Good Enough, Touch Me I'm Sick, F.D.K., This Gift, Hard-on for War, When Tomorrow Hits/In 'N' Out of Grace, Hate the Police
Encore: Into the Drink, Who You Drivin' Now?, Here Comes Sickness, The Open Mind, Tales of Terror, Fix Me
Notes: This was a book release party for Michael Lavine's Grunge. Levine shot the cover photo for the Mudhoney record, among others. When they come out, Guy needs a second, so Mark promotes Lavine's book, adding that it's strange to have a book full of people he knows. They then nail the "no Mark guitar" songs to start the show off on a high note. At the end of the main set, Mark again promotes "Mike's book of great photos...funny and sad photos...the sad ones are mostly band photos. Bands are sad...but not tonight! We had the Unnatural Helpers (Steve: Not sad.), we had Brothers of the Sonic Cloth (Not sad!), and we had Mudhoney (Not Sad!!)." Then someone from the crowd shouts for them to "Play some Dicks!" Mark and Steve quickly confirm that "Dicks are great!" and Steve talks about how he saw "a Youtube of the Dicks doing this song recently," leading the two to decide that they "don't own the song anymore." This is the longest show that Mudhoney has played, both in terms of length and number of songs.
Nov. 15th, 2009 @ 09:41 pm A Well Spent Weekend
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As it turns out, this has been the most valuable waste of time I have ever, ever made. The blogger here is probably one of the funniest fuckers out on the vasty nets. I had a terrible time keeping my laughter down while my girlfriend tried to study. One day I'll be on this site.

Nov. 14th, 2009 @ 01:48 am Water found on moon
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Shortly after NASA reported their findings to journalists, the Obama administration released a statement that the US would be officially resuming it’s space program in ultimate hopes of founding colonies on the moon. This statement was not made without protest, however. The President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, stated that it would not tolerate such imperialistic tyranny, and would develop a competing space program—one with “considerably better taste in shoes and sunglasses than their infidel counterparts.” Shortly thereafter, Israeli settlements in the West Bank declared their next expansion would be into space, citing numerous biblical passages claiming that the moon also qualifies as “the holy land.” Jordan, Egypt, Libya, Syria and Saudi Arabia balked at such claims. Amongst the many dialects of Arabic, it was difficult to discern whether these nationals were raising their index fingers to make a point, or were trying to point out the satellite moon in question. India made a statement that it was planning to send the most poverty striken of its country as a test colony, approximately 1 billion people. Pakistan would have issued the press release to threaten to bomb the billion-person Indian colony, but there was a bloody coup before the message could be issued. Many African nations conjectured whether there could be any diamonds to be found. Germany claimed research already underway to create a better, more affordable moon. The Spanish couldn’t be bothered for commentary because they were fast asleep in the middle of the day. France was skeptical of the moon water’s cooking ability, but agreed to set a colony up if someone would do all the work for them. The Vatican, reticent as usual, feared impending sacrilege. North Korea made quite a racket, but we didn’t care what they had to say. China was unavailable for comment, although when contacted on the phone, several clanking and whirring sounds were audible. The Mexican government stalled on the phone with a number of excuses, before it became generally known that they were creating cover for millions of their citizens to immigrate en masse to the newly coveted territory to set up space-bodegas, sell space-burritos and play space-mariachi at all hours of the space-morning.
Nov. 9th, 2009 @ 07:44 pm Tear down the wall
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Nov. 8th, 2009 @ 10:31 pm When life gives you lemons, make lemon pie
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I just heard the greatest LJ question-- What is the name of your Autobiography?

Mine would be some thing obnoxious like Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo
OR
How I stopped worrying and learned to love the Tyrant.
Nov. 3rd, 2009 @ 10:18 pm SILENCE! Tyrants are speaking!
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I've been reading Richard Rodriguez' Days of Obligation. And, once I get home, set that down and read the much less educated Automatic Millionaire, written by an bagel toaster. It is nice to be able to cut the heady, scathing cultural observations with something moderately useful and a lot lighter. Of course, the chief advantage to this two-book approach is that I look much smarter at work for reading Rodriguez than Limited-use Household Appliance. And reading gay Latino-American literature is infinitely more to my advantage than reading a motivational finance book designed to make me save, buy more of his shit, and not go to Starbucks.

I finished Death With Interuptions. Saramago. There were definitely some things missing in the translation. Like, say, my comprehension. Fun little read-- I'll add it to the list of books that I would have gained a whole lot more out of if I'd read it in class, with a professor to hold my hand. Who knows, I may still have an Ah-Ha moment about it. They rarely give the Nobel Prize in Literature to those authors who are prized on their artless readability.

Next up is some Eco, maybe some Alexie... I probably should actually sit down and read Jared Diamond's Collapse before I continue talking about it in social occasions as if I have.
Oct. 31st, 2009 @ 07:05 pm So far from God, so close to the US
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Oct. 29th, 2009 @ 08:18 pm Snoutbreak
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I opted to take the day off from work. I’ve never had sick time before, so I decided to try it out. So far, so good. I’m not really all that sick, but definitely not totally well. There’s a brewer at work who’s on immunosuppressants, so we’ve been encouraged to stay home if we’re even feeling slightly off. And when it comes to taking time off, I’m a quick study.

Did you know that more than 1,000 people have died in the US from swine flu already? I asked my scientist girlfriend that last night, and quickly she asked how many people in the US normally die of the flu each year. I asked wiki, and wiki asked CDC, and CDC told wiki to tell me that more than 200,000 ‘mericans are annually hospitalized for flu or flu-like symptoms, and 36,000 die. Source. I know we’re not in flu season yet, but I’m wondering if swine flu is any more deadly than normal annual strains of the flu, or is merely more pervasive? During the original Mexican outbreak, an LJ friend had posted a link to a very informative site on the swine flu, and how concerned people should be. Source. If you haven’t yet contracted or died of swine flu, I’d like to hear your opinions. If you have, please don’t talk to me because I don’t want your germs.

Oct. 27th, 2009 @ 09:33 pm First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win
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I just got done doing some phone calling for the Approve Referendum 71 campaign. I'd had this strange Ah-Ha moment, listening to Man in the Mirror at work, suddenly realizing that if I really supported the campaign, I probably should get off my ass and do something about it. And it was completely invigorating.

Some brief background for those Washington registered voters not familiar-- Ref 71 is to expand domestic partnership laws for lesbian and gays in committed relationships, as well as senior citizen domestic partners.  It provides for extended sick leave if your partner is sick or in the hospital, grants pension rights to partners of teachers and public employees, death benefits for partners and non-biological children of firefighters or police officers-- in short, approving Ref 71 grants the rights of marriage to registered domestic partners in Washington, without the title of Married.

This is an enormous civil rights issue for our state, and the progress of the last 20 years is at stake. Polls show us leading at 54% Approve. That's a slim win, if everyone votes. And tons of people aren't voting. They don't know about Ref 71, are pooped for the 2008 elections, or just don't care.

If you are a registered Washington voter, please do not let this slip by. Tell your family and friends that ballots need to be in the mailbox by Nov. 3rd-- that's next Tuesday. Encourage everyone you can to vote on this issue. Thank you.
 
Yes, I listen to Michael Jackson at work.