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We flipped the finger to the King of England
Then stole our country from the Indians
With God on our side and guns in our hands
We took it for our own
Built a nation dedicated to liberty,
Justice, and equality
Does it look that way to you? It doesn’t look that way to me
It’s the sickest joke I know
Listen up, man, I'll tell you who I am
I'm just another stupid American
But you don’t want to listen, you don’t want to understand
Just finish up your drink and go home.
I come from the land of Ben Franklin,
Twain and Poe and Walt Whitman.
Otis Redding, Ellington,
The country that I love…
But it’s the land of the slaves, and the Klu Klux Klan,
The Haymarket Riot, and the Great Depression
Joe McCarthy, Viet Nam
It’s the sickest joke I know
Listen up, man, I'll tell you who I am
I'm just another stupid American
But you don’t want to listen, you don’t want to understand
Just finish up your drink and go home
I'm proud and ashamed, every 4th of July
You’ve got to know the truth before you say that you’ve got pride
Now the cops got tanks ‘cause the kids got guns
Shrinks pushing pills on everyone
Cancer from the ocean, cancer from the sun
Straight to Hell we go
Listen up, man, I'll tell you who I am
I'm just another stupid American
But you don’t want to listen, you don’t want to understand
Just finish up your drink and go home
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[30 Jun 2009|08:56pm] |
( been too disoriented to keep up )
Next punk night is this Wednesday July 1 @ Inferno. This is also the start of the Inferno's self-imposed smoking ban a year ahead of the state ban, so all the people who say they don't go to bars because of the smoke but still don't go there after they go smoke free will have to think up another excuse.
Saw this when I opened Facebook tonight:
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) jessickoffee and I won't be milking any bovines Wednesday night but her and fauxedup and I plan on milking some metal.
Work and school are slowly sucking my will to live. Crashing early tonite.
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[20 Jun 2009|10:15pm] |
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My faux garden isn't particularly exciting this year, I was too stressed out this spring to put much time into it so I'm growing mostly the same crap I was last year. Two of the hybrid Bunny Peppers survived the winter but one of them looks like it be illin' (it grew back leaves after losing nearly all of them, but they're all near the bottom of the stem, looks like a freaky mutant). They have flowers now so that's something, the new Bunny Peppers I'm growing from seeds are dinky still and taking their goddamn sweet time. The greek oregano plant survived as well and is coming back nicely after half a year of photon deprivation. Back to debugging Java and cussing like a sailor on PCP at my monitor.....
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I go to CNN.com lately and get pissed. All I see is this hubububub about Iran and how this is supposed to be a fight for "democracy". This election is for the second-in-command of Iran. The Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is the true supreme leader of a dictatorship that can rig the election, the president is the Ayatollah's bitch puppet. Nothing will change, it will still be more or less a religious oligarchy. Its not like in the US where for the past 8 years the 2nd in command was running the country. Democracy my shiny white fanny.
The other day I had parked my bike near the bike path and was surfing the web on my fake iPhone because I needed a break from biking and a girl on a bike sees me all hunched over and slows down and says "are you alright"? Guess she didn't see me playing with my phone or maybe I looked like I was about to hurl. Then again, if I was sitting next to the bike path on a warm summer evening twittering, maybe I'm not alright.
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Local Sounds Magazine went live a couple of days ago, a de facto web version of Rick's Cafe risen from the ashes as it's run by and contributed to by many of the same humans. Some of the recent writing I've done for other sources has been transfused there, and some of the older stuff we did for the Cafe is there with perhaps more on the way. There's also a wiki so that anyone from the community can post a CD or show review for consideration to be added.
I attended an Aristocrats joke-telling contest at the High Noon Saloon a couple of weeks ago, almost didn't as I was still coughing up a typhoon I but this was a rare opportunity to see a lot of filth in a short amount of time so I sat in the balcony so as to not spread the disease. I learned the phrase "shiitake shit-taco" and saw a joke told in Dr. Seuss rhyme-style. Blunt Rapture told the best one in my opinion, which should surprise nobody who knows him (check out his columns in Local Sounds).
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Last week I had my first physical in I don't care how many years. After the doctor felt my balls she talked me into getting a cholesterol test. Since I'm not a spring chicken anymore I figured I should get one finally.
I got the results back, my level is 158 which is right in the middle between high and low. But she scolded me for having very low levels of good cholesterol (HDL) in my body, my level is 32 but 40 is considered the low end. She stated in the letter that to get my HDL levels up I should get more exercise and eat more dead fish oil. There was a pamphlet in the envelope with other tips, like eating more beans so I'll fart on everyone and eating more oatmeal.
I did some more research on the web and I found out that drinking 1 or 2 alcoholic drinks per day also increases HDL levels in the body. I almost cried tears of joy reading that. I can now come home from work and pour some sake or pop open a bottle of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson's Gonzo Imperial Porter and say "doctors orders" in a literal sense.
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the forevertron
Originally uploaded by bunnythrax
Last weekend was more relaxing and de-stressing than when I had a 7 day weekend, probably because I really needed to get away from everything, including myself, for a couple of days.
I paid a visit to the Forevertron by Baraboo and took a few pics. Whoever the asshole was who designed the looks of the Transformers in the 2007 movie must have been looking at Dr Evermore's artwork beforehand as there are a lot of similarities. Dr. Evermore himself was sitting under the shade by his workbench near the Forevertron and is always happy to start up conversations with his visitors. I told him I was from Waupun and he said they had tried to lock him up there in the past (the town's economy is based on the prison industrial complex). I mentioned that Ed Gein had spent the last 30 years of his life in my town and he mentioned that someone had tried to sell him a bunch of coffin handles that were found in Gein's home. Would have made interesting artwork...
A comparison between the 80s Transformers flick and Michael Bay's.
In the Isthmus's annual poll I said Madison's ringtone should be Weird Al Yankovic's "White And Nerdy".
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[02 Jun 2009|11:16pm] |
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( I are a month or 2 behind )
Next punk night is this Wednesday @ Inferno.
Left arm is mad sore from a tetanus booster shot. Hurts to move it. But I usually drink and cockpunch people with my right arm anyway.
Got a cholesterol test as well, waiting on the results to see if I'm still allowed to eat 5 pounds of cheese daily.
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In the middle of a 7 day weekend, odd as it sounds. I figured I might end up having too much of an online presence during this time but I've been under a cloak of major malaise for several months now that I still haven't shaken. The few times I find myself not kissing anyone's ass because of work / school / family stuff, I sometimes find myself just sitting and staring into space and being unmotivated to do much and not wanting to listen to music even. Maybe this minivacation will unfuck my head a bit or unburn me out. Maybe not.
I made it out to the theater for the one (rescheduled) showing in town of the documentary Iron Maiden: Flight 666. It's an awesome look at how they decided to stuff all their gear in one plane and have their singer fly it so they could go places they hadn't toured before (and some nasty places, like Columbia). There were about 100 other people there and we all got free popcorn because they fucked up the first attempted showing (that I missed, but I got it anyway). There were some diehard fans there as well, and one guy was holding up his iPhone while running the encore lighter app. During the end credits a woman exited while screaming/singing "HALLOWED BE THY NAAAAAAAAAME" extremely loud (and she missed the secret part of the flick that was after the credits).
I've had recurring dreams at night lately about my deceased bunny Chewie. Last night's dream was similar to one I had a week ago, in this dream world it was standard practice or something to set old rabbits free so they could eventually die in private under a bush or something, and after doing that and not seeing her for a long time I saw my bunny hopping around outside and I starting petting her and wondering why I had set her free. But her belly was a purpleish color and kind of dead looking (perhaps this was because I had watched Zombie Strippers the night before). I was happy to see her and started crying in my dream because I had missed her and realized it was a mistake to set her free and was going to put her back in her cage, and then I woke up crying in real life.
I spent much of Tuesday searching online and offline for a high visibility backpack for use when biking or cycling but it seems that these things are only available in Europe or Australia. Then I apparently got some kind of food poisoning. Then I went to the plant store to get some potting soil and to search in vain for a baby rosemary plant.
Speaking of high visibility sacks, the Kinetic festival looked like fun and I might have to take a trip to Canananadada next year for it.
Local Sounds Magazine has risen from the ashes of Rick's Cafe and I plan on submitting some stuff to it.
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I was going to post a picture of the big blooming dogwood tree in my front yard (I look out my patio window and see nothing but hot pink everywhere) but my cell phone has decided to take a shit, as of 2 days ago suddenly the battery won't keep a charge for more than 5 hours and the thing won't transfer any pictures to my flicker account. Luckily it became 2 years old as of last week so it's time to get a new one anyway. I was able to bluetooth all the pictures and videos to my laptop and will post the pic later. Probably gonna get a phony iPhone in the next day or 2.
I called into the The New World Odor podcast on April 19th to do a prank call but I screwed it up, I forgot to use the phrase "anal rape" in the correct place.
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[30 Apr 2009|11:01pm] |
Two of my most favorite holidays are being overshadowed by other holidays this year. No Pants Day is tomorrow as it is the first Friday in May, but it's also May Day where there is more hubububaloo about worker rights and baskets and other things. Towel Day is every May 25th, but that is also Memorial Day this year. Been kind of overwhelmed as of late so I won't throw a no pants party this year (or a Good Riddance party, as I was considering).
From what I've read about this new form of Spanish flu going around, the weird thing about it that it has in common with the 1918 strain that killed 50 million people is that, unlike normal flu which is usually only deadly in infants and old people, it apparently causes a cytokine storm (overreaction of the immune system) in people with strong immune systems and is thus most deadly in young adults. So it's only lethal in people like me (I think I'm sort of a young adult, kind of) and the kind of people who read this blog. So we shouldn't be closing schools like they're doing in Milwaukee, we should make the little shits go to school while we close all the work places and get a few days off from work.
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I has a bottle of Crystal Head vodka and it is quite the shit. So smooth it hardly has any sting to it. Thx Dan Aykroyd.
Been on a Swans / Fear Factory / Nuclear Assault listening binge. I almost forgot how good FF's Archetype CD was, it got buried amongst my other shit for years.
An example of how not to manufacture an arcade game. Perhaps my all time favorite arcade game of the 80s, Midway made 35,000 Omega Race machines but very few have survived because they apparently were sniffing glue and decided to install the battery above the motherboard, and batteries eventually leak. So now I'm collecting parts of the machines and perhaps after I'm done with my current degree and recovered from burnout I'll take some classes on how to repair electronics and solder circuit boards so I can someday assemble everything and shout "Its aliiiiiiive".....
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I did my first Amazon product review, probably my last as I rarely patronize that place.
The motorcycle only took 10 seconds to start this spring instead of the usual 10 minutes where I fill up the garage with stinky smoke and piss off the neighbors.
I scored a DVD copy of Buckystein when I paid my pledge to WORT the other day. Haven't watched it yet to see how bad in a good-or-bad way it is and if I recognize anyone.
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Went up north for Zombie Bunny day to see the relatives. My religious aunt didn't have any photocopied messages on her fridge this time of who to boycott (last time it was McDonalds because they support homosexual organizations or something, as if people needed another reason to boycott McDonalds). I wasn't expecting to get an Easter basket or gifts but my mom decided to give me a basket full of 2 flavors of girl scout cookies (not the kind made from real girl scouts) and various Dove and Hershey and M&M dark chocolates.
Then my mom asked me to come and get some of my old stuff from their house as they are in the process of moving out of the house they have had for 35 years or so. Found all kinds of toys and comic books and other junk I thought I had lost. Picked up the old Pong machine we got at a neighborhood garage sale for 5 bucks when I was 13, it stopped working after 2 years or so but maybe I can hack it into functioning someday.
And my brother called from California and bequeathed to me all of his old Star Wars toys. Not much as far as vehicles go but he insisted on getting every Star Wars figure they made in the early 80s for the first 3 movies. Perhaps I'll keep them or maybe I'll Ebay the figures that still have their heads on them. Luckily he, unlike other people I know, didn't blow up all his old Star Wars figures with m80s before they became collectors items.
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| night of the living douchebags |
[04 Apr 2009|01:10am] |
Went to the Doug Stanhope show tonight. My friend Jilla sees me and grabs my hoodie and pulls me to the front of the stage saying "I saved a place for you", being sarcastic as even after Doug came on stage there was still 8 feet of space between the stage and the crowd as nobody wanted to get near him for some reason.
Jilla's back was hurting so 20 minutes into the show she goes and sits in that space of 8 feet and other people start to move up a bit. Doug's comment on this was "see whenever a hot chick comes to the front of the stage there's always 5 fat guys who move up near her and ruin it for me".
Then some bearded douchebag and his girlfriend move right to the front of the stage in front of Jilla. She got a bit irritated and said something to him, and he makes some douchebag prick comment back to her. She gets pissed and stands up and they're arguing and she throws the remainder of her drink in his face. Doug says something funny to try and calm them down.
Then a few minutes later this douchebag starts arguing with some other guy who's behind him, then says something to Jilla about how he has a better girlfriend. Doug becomes chivalrous and asks Jilla and another girl who was sitting next to her before Douchebag showed up to come and sit on the stage off to the side so they can sit and still have a good view of the show. Later on he comments about Jilla's roller derby shirt during one of his bits about how ejaculations can get boring after a while (specifically about how if her roller derby team tied him up and electroshocked him it would still just be another ho-hum orgasm).
Douchebag keeps causing problems and people around him are threatening to kick his ass (and some of them looked like the kind of people who would have no qualms about starting a major barfight) and Doug tries in his own way to both mock him and diffuse the situation by asking his girlfriend "among all the guys threatening to kick your boyfriend's ass, if you had to pick one, who would you want to fuck the most?"
A few minutes later Doug kicked out Douchebag (Doug referred to him as a douchebag several times during the show) as he got tired of his douchebaggienss and ran out of ways to make fun of him. Thankfully Douchebag complied when Doug told him to get the fuck out.
Jilla told me after the show that she felt bad about losing her temper because she thought she caused trouble for Doug, but I disagreed, I call that sort of thing "enhancement" as it made the show more interesting, and its not like there weren't 9 other guys getting in that douchebag's face for being a douchebag.
I stopped at the Paradise on my way home and saw the bouncer kick a douchebag out of the bar and call him a "fucking crackhead".
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[31 Mar 2009|08:07pm] |
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Originally uploaded by bunnythrax
At the Midwest Gaming Classic a few weekends ago I scored an original PacMan marquee (the signs at the top of the arcade cabinets that tell you what game yer playing) that I'm going to frame on my wall. I'm always sad to see old arcade games in bits and pieces but entropy is a fact of life and it's not like I have room in my pad to have an arcade and preserve entire machines, so I've started to collect those bits and pieces.
Even I'm not old evolved enough to remember when video games had to be loaded and played from cassette recorders, I only go back as far as 5.25 inch floppys.
First time I've ever seen a Dig Dug cocktail cabinet. Gorf!
I blogged some Gothsicle stuff for Dane101.
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[29 Mar 2009|08:00pm] |
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