Saturday Night

Saturday night over there. Could be worse than any other night, could be better. Maybe somebody'll get angry and break something, maybe not. Seems most of the raw brawlin' days are rare over there these days. Hope I'm not mistaken.

A thousand words.....

Stanislaw Lem

This past weekend I was fortunate enough to find one of those old Science Fiction Treasury books with heaps of short stories from various authors. Mr. Stanislaw Lem is included with a couple of intriguing short stories. I've been a big fan of Mr. Lems works since I first laid eyes upon them. So, a quick plug for Stansislaw Lem.

Ubuntu

This is a nice choice for the person looking to enhance their computer experience.

"Ubuntu" is an ancient African word, meaning "humanity to others". Ubuntu also means "I am what I am because of who we all are". The Ubuntu Linux distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the software world.

That's right friends, xp is not the only thing that can run a computer. Your computer is stupid unless it's told what to do by an 'operating system'. Many people believe that automagicly means windows. When you buy your new computer it comes loaded with all kinds of ploys to get you to buy something or other. How many times must I say 'no' to aol? It's a sham, you're getting the short end of the stick.

Ubuntu is a linux distro that promises to be easy. Linux has often caused conniption fits in the average comp user because it looks so daunting. Not so with Ubuntu.

There is a large community as well that is eager to help you out and walk you through it. It actually doesn't look much different than what you have right now. Point and click. Some things are different but with time you'll realize that these differences offer up more flexability. More control over your machine. You should be the master of your machine, not the other way around.

So hit up the site and dl or order some cds and give it a shot. That box sitting there humming will love you for it. Remember it's stupid until it's told what to do, treat it kindly.

While you're at it, check out edubuntu then remind your school district that they can quit wasting money on frivolous candy. Education should not be dictated by dollar signs.

Your Money Hungry Dominatrix

Rant: proceed.
Ok, that bitch is hogging up every viable measly excuse for 'search' that can greet any average web surfer. The bitch keeps trying to make you believe that what you really want is a new set of shoes not physics. The bitch wants to keep you absolutely stupid.

Welcome to 2005. Government is only a cherade for profit and research only means buy. You are nothing more than fodder. Get it, and get it through your thick stupid branded skull that you don't mean shit. In the big picture: the world, this earth is dying and waiting to be reborn. In the big picture that friendly face on the tv is saying 'fuck you, I want mine'. In the big picture, you are less than dirt. You are fodder for the cannon of rich boys with shiny new toys. Wake up.

Should I detail this so that the contingent of herrings,clouds, and sociopaths who ihhabit this 'search' can drive you mad with bullshit? Perhaps not.

Inhabit your spirit. Walk the walk. Or paint a billboard with your name in blood. (metaphoricly)

Might as well

I enjoy serendipitously ripping pics from other peoples collections and re-posting them here. Although I'm not one to think for a moment that monkeyboy is alone in his miscreant ways, these pics a are a hoot and he deserves it.

The muppets

What a great frog :)

and bytes of bluegrass is most awesome today :)

'Tis what 'tis

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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Vacation's All I Ever Wanted

Bike

Pink Floyd: Bike


I've got a bike
You can ride it if you like
It's got a basket
A bell that rings
And things to make it look good
I'd give it to you if I could
But I borrowed it

You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world
I'll give you anything
Everything if you want things

I've got a cloak
It's a bit of a joke
There's a tear up the front
It's red and black
I've had it for months
If you think it could look good
Then I guess it should

You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world
I'll give you anything
Everything if you want things

I know a mouse
And he hasn't got a house
I don't know why
I call him Gerald
He's getting rather old
But he's a good mouse

You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world
I'll give you anything
Everything if you want things

I've got a clan of gingerbread men
Here a man
There a man
Lots of gingerbread men
Take a couple if you wish
They're on the dish

You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world
I'll give you anything
Everything if you want things

I know a room full of musical tunes
Some rhyme
Some ching
Most of them are clockwork
Let's go into the other room and make them work

Just a couple of quotes

"Spending time outside of Washington always gives the president a fresh perspective of what's on the minds of the American people,""It's a time, really, for him to shed the coat and tie and meet with folks out in the heartland and hear what's on their minds." White House press secretary Scott McClellan


"..it's also important for me to go on with my life," GW Bush

Support Cindy Sheehan's efforts at:

Crawford Peace House
P.O. Box 710218
Dallas, Tx. 75371-0218

http://www.crawfordpeacehouse.org/

Raining Maggots

If you were there you know what I'm talkin' bout.
GWAR

There's a monkey man up there flippin us off, let's flip him off and lop off his damn head..There is a flippin of the man of the monkey in on here we outside, lascili launch it outside and lop outside of its cursed head. grazie

Now that's a big pit. "You with the red hair and you over here" Devil Driver what a trip.

The storm cometh, raining maggots

If you happen to be in these pics and want them removed send me a profoundly ugly and profane message and I'll take it down.

Unfortunately my pictures of CLUTCH all turned out very badly. There is an entry on this blog somewhere about me doing a pseudo indian wardance on my old cheap digital camera so all the pictures were taken with a cheap disposable camera and it's not very good. Regardless of the pics though, I'd reccomend to anyone who's into this music to definitely check out The Sounds of the Underground tour. It was a hella experience for sure.

bite me

Well I've been busy trying to cull the pics from the wayback machines archives of subvertise. Some real gems there. Too bad it had to go down.

Clutch

In less than a week I'm going to see one of my all-time favorite bands, CLUTCH.

American Sleep

Mistress of ices
Stygian Skater
Scribing devices
Dancing on sabres
So very relentless
Counting the sheep
Electrical fences
Americans leap
Paramorpheus
Somnambulating
Dream scarabaeus
In chorus refraining
So very relentless
Counting the sheep
Electrical fences
Americans leap
One, two, fisherman's stew
Boiled on timber and stirred with a broom
Three, four, pour it on the floor
Feed all the beasties and cook up some more
Five, six, mortar and brick
Weaker than iron but stronger than sticks
Seven, eight, lock up the gate
Nothing to do but to sit and to wait
Nine, ten, do it again
Bun in the oven, a wolf in the den
Companion chimera
Lethean grazer
Pausing to herald
Mistress of sabers
So very relentless
Counting the sheep
Electrical fences
Americans leap

I've been listening to these guys since

They blew my mind.

That was just on the cusp of the personalities and ideals commodities market takeover by the likes of the giants now slinging counter culture like candy from a parade. There are alot of bands that have dressed themselves in the guilty pleasures of corporate romance but CLUTCH has stayed the course and remains to this day a solid and soulful band of musicians of utmost talent. Plain and simple they

Corporate Watch at the G8

Corporatewatch UK has a blog about being at the G8
corporatewatchuk.blogspot.com

Another Observation

Fireworks have much greater effect at 4 in the morning than they do at 7 at night. There's just something special about setting off a 2000 roll of firecrackers to kick off the holiday just right. Eggs and Bacon anybody? Waffles? I'll wave a flag. Y'know, with my new cowboy hat and all I take things literally, like in the dawns early light. 'round here that means lets blow some shig up. .. and in honor of the holiday ... another regurgitation from my archives .....



That's just sumthin else huh? Well all I can say is if you don't like firecrackers on the 4th of july your'e just UN-AMERICAN! Downright unpatriotic, you are if you can't wake up to the sound of freedom and democracy, liberty even. Shock and awe right next door. HELL YEAH BUDDY.

A simple fool observation

When you run the rubber part of a window squeejie over clean glass it sounds like Chewbacca.

Conservative Watchdogs Say No to Just Say No

Drug Czar's Office A "Federal Wasteland" That Fails To Show Results:
Study Says ONDCP's Anti-Drug Ads, State Lobbying Efforts Cited As Grossly Inappropriate And Ineffective
Washington, DC:The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) has wasted more than $4 billion since fiscal year 1997 on ineffective media advertising, inappropriate efforts to influence state legislation, and deficient anti-drug trafficking programs, according to a report released this week by the non-partisan Washington, DC think-tank Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW).
"The White House [ONDCP] has morphed into a federal wasteland, throwing taxpayer money toward numerous high-priced drug control
programs that have failed to show results," the report concludes.
The report cites the office's $2 billion National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign as one of the agency's most egregious programs, calling it "an utter failure ... [that] violated federal propaganda laws, did not reduce drug use amongst America's youth, and produced no significant results." Other independent reviews of the Campaign, including those conducted by the Annenberg School for Communication at the University
of Pennsylvania, have issued similar criticisms, noting that it failed to achieve "its major objective of affecting youth marijuana use, and [it]
even showed some evidence of an unfavorable delayed effect ... on youth."
The CAGW study also criticizes the Drug Czar's office for spending taxpayers' dollars to campaign against proposed state legislation to
liberalize the medical use of cannabis. The report notes that ONDCP officials lobbied in person against several statewide legislative efforts and spent nearly $100 million to run anti-marijuana advertisements aimed at influencing voters to reject state ballot initiatives.
"[T]he office continues to waste federal resources to influence the outcome of state ballot initiatives, acting like Big Brother and infringing upon states' rights," it states. "The White House's drug office should use its resources to root out major drug operations in the US instead of creating propaganda-filled news videos and flying across the country on the taxpayers' dime."
NORML Executive Director Allen St. Pierre added, "With the White House Office of Management and Budget recently rating the Drug Enforcement Administration a 'zero' in the category of 'results/accountability,' and a conservative watchdog group now calling the ONDCP a 'federal wasteland' of inefficiency, isn't it about time for Congress to reevaluate the drug war and, specifically, the Administration's costly and ineffective war on cannabis?"

Full text of the Citizens Against Government Waste report, "Up In Smoke: ONDCP's Wasted Efforts In the War on Drugs,"
is available online in pdf at:
http://www.cagw.org/site/DocServer/Up_in_Smoke.pdf?docID=1081

Thing is .... most any stoner could have told them this a long time ago. Kind of like a "Welll, DUH!"

Old School Goa

Recently a budro of mine posted up a mix of old school goa that listens and reads like a who's who of the beginning, the roots. It's inspiring and reminds me that I am now in a position to say "I was there when it all started". I was awed the first time he whipped out those crazy records with the mindblowing sounds and psychadellic covers. No words, just pure unadulterated spirit and a deep connection to something unexplored and ultimately completely universal. A journey beyond this world every sunset and an epiphany every sunrise. Early Goa guided me through many trials and I always found solace in it's beats and harmonies. It was through goa that I learned the secrets of the voice of the universe and humanities role in it. It was in those early days that I learned the true nature of the 'ecstatic experience'. Simply, only experience can describe that connection to the other dancers and the fluidity of movement that takes place as one body. It is a trance experienced and multiplied through the body movement. Goa taught me my first lessons in mind/body/spirit connection that actually meant anything and weren't just words upon a page. It was and is now real. Though the music has progressed and exponentially become more technical and advanced it is through the roots by which the tree grows. A big hug and thank you to Mel B for taking me back. He's like an old goa shaman standing there with a twinkle in his eyes inviting you in and saying "hey, wanna try something that's gonna blow your mind" and the next thing you know you're in another world. All the while he's smiling happily, sharing what he has found like a secret treasure, and your life has now taken on a new meaning. One cool brotha. So here's the link. You have to sign up to Global Beatz to get it. It's free.(which btw, tons of other great mixes and talent). PLAY IT LOUD.

Mix URL: http://music2.globalbeatz.net/dj_mixes/dawn_of_goa.mp3