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| Sunday, December 6th, 2009 | | 8:43 pm |
zine post part dos
I joined the we make zines forum! it made me excited because i haven't posted on a message board in a long time. Apparently you can be friends with people on there, so want to be my friend? Reading about all the zines people make nowadays is interesting. I am truly out of a loop which once was a big part of my life. But I am also completely shocked and flattered that people still remember my zines and get excited about me making a new one. It is really an honor to have so many people being like "hey I love you're writing! heres a dollar for it!" That is a giant privilege. It is crazy that four different distros are picking up my zine without even seeing a consideration copy! that is amazing. I am a little worried they will think it sucks and then have to deal with a bunch of copies of it... Anyways, I'm going to be doing the last mailing on Thursday. So if you want one, please let me know ASAP. You can email me your address rock star with words at yahoo dot com (no spaces of course) or if you want to paypal me a buck or two that would be nice of you. I also want to apologize that everytime I make zines I am flakey about mailing them out and trades and stuff. I am just not good at that stuff, but that is also why I have deadlines like this. Like, let me know NOW or you may never read it! It isn't to hold over anyone's head, but really just because I don't want to flake out on anyone in the future when my energy is elsewhere. This makes me a bad zinester. Well, I kind of have a good excuse right now, cuz I'm leaving the country and stuff. Anyways, heres a picture i took about 2 minutes ago of myself holding my zine and wearing a cosby sweater i found at the local thrift store and love:  If I keep making zines for two more years, I'll be a thirty year old zine maker. And I will have been making zines for half my life. Whoa. oh yeah and a lot of people posted pictures of their cats lately. my cat is rad. here is a picture i took of her and i late last night. i was kind of tipsy.  | | Saturday, May 30th, 2009 | | 12:01 pm |
| | Saturday, December 20th, 2008 | | 9:10 am |
i have two weeks off of work... recommend a good book! | | Monday, September 8th, 2008 | | 8:37 pm |
the best thing about there being an election is that people are making really funny youtube videos. i mean really, this is the first election with youtube! | | Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 | | 12:55 pm |
TOP TEN WORLD MUSIC ALBUMS
alright, so yall know i've gotten really into weird world music. I hate saying world music because it makes me sound like i'm really lame and i've lost complete touch with reality. But I'm really into music from other countries and other times, especially if it has a historical context. Over the last year or so I've downloaded a lot of albums, and listened to a lot and I've decided to compile a rough top ten list.  So I've downloaded a lot of afrobeat albums from nigeria, and a lot of them are really hit or miss. I wouldn't say this one is completely hit, theres a few misses, but I think generally it's got the highest concentration of good tracks. And it's also the most varied. But Nigeria has some good fucking music. Too bad Lagos is the most dangerous city to travel in the world. Too bad the US is in there destroying their beautiful land for our oil consumption. oh wait, this is a music oriented blog.  Ok, Love Peace and Poetry put out about 8 different albums from different parts of the world featuring rare psychedelic hits from the 1970s. I'd have to say this is my favorite. But I love all of them and listen to them all the time. Close behind is the African one. And then the Asian and Japanese ones. But I like them all.  So, as I got really into the Love Peace and Poetry: Turkey album, I started getting into a lot of the bands on the comp. Such as Hardal, 3 Hurel, and Mogollar. But especially Selda Bagcan. She has a bunch of albums and I don't really know what my favorite is. Shes amazing, was singing about free speech and women's rights during a time when the turkish government was really oppressive and they ended up putting her in jail. And her music is really damn good, it's like a cross between non-crappy folk music and psychedelic music, and her singing is really intense.  Ok, so I think this might be the only album that is modern. I didn't think I'd like anything modern but this is good. It's like a mixture between extremly cheesy 80s pop and traditional sounding islamic music. It gets really depressing listening to it sometimes, even though it's so good, just because, ya know, we're at war with them and shit.  Ok, I don't think this album is really the best of ethiopiques. There are over 20 albums now, and there are a lot of gems that are not on this album. I've downloaded about 5 or 6 of them and hope to come across them in the hidden web of the internet (no pun intended). For those of you that don't know ethiopia had a really hoppin' jazz scene in the 1970s and it's just been "rediscovered" (or discovered by white people) and a bunch of albums have been rereleased. I love them.  I just realized this is the image of vol.1, and I actually have volumes 2, 3 and 4. They are all good, and all really short. But they are all really good. A lot of it is soundtracks from bollywood action movies from the 1970s. That said, I have downloaded a lot of bollywood compilations with soundtracks on them, and they have been kind of mediocre. However, this is the shit. The beats are harder and darker which I like.  I was kind of apprehensive about this album, afraid it would be something cheesy and mainstream sounding that my mom or some new age ceramnics college instructor with long hair would like (no offense mom). But it's good, it's in the same vein as the love peace and poetry stuff, it's a little rougher and psychedelic/funky. In a review it's described as communist cuban funk from the height of the Castro years. But regardless of how you feel politically, this is a good album.  This is a weird album but I've gotten pretty into it, it's really fuzzy and jam bandy and a lot of the songs are covers of american songs and they sing in english, however, its really good with fuzzy guitars and organs, kind of poppy but also psychedelic. I think this album is from Korea, which gets my vote for the best psychedelic rock in asia so far, just judging from what I've heard. For some reason Korean psychedelic music is more jammy and prog, and Thai/Cambodian music is more poppy. If you want to check out the Thai Beat a go-go albums or the Cambodian Rocks albums, those are alright, but they are very hit and miss to me. This is the only one I've been able to get really into.  Alright, another turkish psych rock compilation. This one isn't as good as Love Peace and Poetry one, but it's still far better than a lot of the albums I've downloaded. What can I say, I really like turkish psychedelic music. There are some surf rock songs on here, which is weird, because, can they even surf in turkey?  last but not least, Ofege. I discovered them from the Love Peace and Poetry Africa album. They were a bunch of stoner teenage boys from a private christian school in lagos and they started this band. I think this shit is so good, but I've played it for other people and they are like "what this just sounds like generic 60s rock." I don't think so. I think it sounds very western influenced in the guitars but theres still an afrobeat style drumming which makes it really interesting. Although they do sing in english which isn't as cool. Although, perhaps English is the offical language of Nigeria? I don't know, it would be fucked up since we are destroying their land for oil. Oh wait I won't get into that again. So there it is, my current recommendations for world music that is awesome. I should know since I've spent countless hours of free time downloading albums and listening to them over the last year. You can download most of these from the internet by searching for them on google blog search, or we could make an arrangement and I could burn them for you. Or you could be a good capitalist/supporter of the music industry and just buy them! | | Tuesday, June 12th, 2007 | | 5:54 pm |
| | Saturday, March 24th, 2007 | | 7:10 pm |
| | Saturday, December 9th, 2006 | | 2:46 pm |
| | Thursday, October 12th, 2006 | | 5:46 pm |
| | Tuesday, August 1st, 2006 | | 6:08 pm |
i am really happy about lance bass coming out of the closet. i'm dorky, but i think it's so awesome. | | Wednesday, July 26th, 2006 | | 4:47 am |
haha!
Every year, English teachers from across the country submit their collections of actual analogies and metaphors found in high school essays. These excerpts are published each year to the amusement of teachers across the country. Here are last year's winners..... 1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master. 2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free. 3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse, without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it. 4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli, and he was room temperature Canadian beef. 5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up. 6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever. 7. He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree. 8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM machine. 9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't. 10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup. 11. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30. 12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze. 13. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease. 14. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph. 15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth. 16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met. 17. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she was the East River. 18. Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut. 19. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do. 20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work. 21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while. 22. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from stepping on a land mine or something. 23. The ballerina rose gracefully en Pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant. 24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools. | | Thursday, December 8th, 2005 | | 4:10 pm |
| | Wednesday, November 9th, 2005 | | 8:47 pm |
i can't know the future so i'm studying the past.
history is like secrets, gossip, and i'm always trying to find out more, but nothing has to be kept secret, i can tell everyone about what happened, help them understand why things are the way they are now. i like holding that knowledge to back up my constant theorerizing. i like knowing stuff that fits together with other stuff i know like a puzzle, that fits with things i have experienced. sometimes reading about the history about american cities and social movements is like a choose your own adventure book, kind of. but you don't get eaten by a monster and die in the end. it's just that when i'm done with something, when i want to know "what happens next", i realize that what will happen next hasn't happened yet, and it will start with me and others like me. so it's my beginning. | | Thursday, October 27th, 2005 | | 3:13 pm |
halloween
me and chris are going as harold and maude for halloween. i feel its really approperiate, not only because he looks a lot like harold, but because when we first lived together, years ago, he went on a huge harold and maude kick, watched it constantly, and blasted cat stevens while laying on the ground, drunk, saying "listen to him sing! he has so much feeling!" | | Tuesday, September 6th, 2005 | | 12:11 am |
f-u-c-k
things i am really fucking afraid of: - activist burnout - losing motivation to write - entering into a fatally suicidal or completely debilitating depression - loosing people who love me because of this - my dad dying - being mis-fucking-understood and simplified by fakers who don't care - abortion becoming illegal - my constant concerns and fights going unnoticed by all - becoming uninspired - social anxiety holding me down from public speaking and outreach - being ready to have a long term partner and realizing i've set my standards so high that no one will fit them - never learning better communication skills w/ partners and friends - being abusive to a partner or friend because of this - getting into another abusive relationship - seperation of church and state ceasing to exist - watching our fights and rights become silent and meaningless - meaing nothing to no one, not mattering. sometimes i just wish i could silence my aching brain, so full of discontent, so eager to search for hope. i sometimes want to be dumb and unaware instead of so focused for the future and social change. ug, its so draining. i feel so belittled by punk boys who don't care. i'm so unrealistically terrified of failure and it holds me down from doing so much, makes me panic. sometimes i'd like to resign this scheming dreaming brain and take in one that thinks more simplistic thoughts and doesn't possess so many dreams. the disappointment and discontent is sometimes so great. | | Monday, August 22nd, 2005 | | 7:49 am |
actual event desciption
setting: grocery store line. a middle aged white woman is at one register paying for groceries, wearing a red hawaiian print shirt. a 20 something black dude is standing at the other register wearing a red shirt with hawaiian-ish print shorts. black dude walks out. cashier smiles. "you guys kind of match." middle aged woman says: "oh no, i should go change." cashier: "no it looks cute" middle aged woman: "i just don't want anyone to think i'm involved in the bloods and the crips or something!" me: "uh, i think the hawaiian print would throw them off." | | Thursday, August 11th, 2005 | | 8:29 pm |
there is still a chance for us: punk rock stories is the zine i just made. it's a text heavy zine. i feel like if you're reading this, no explanation is needed, you already know what i write about. so you can paypal me $2 at rockstarwithwords at yahoo or send money to 4805 n albina, portland, oregon, 97217 | | Wednesday, July 20th, 2005 | | 1:09 pm |
my favorite songs, listen to them, really.
1. themselves "good people check" 2. the murder city devils "dancin' shoes", "ready for more", "18 wheels" 3. deep puddle dynamics "june 26, 1998" 4. jean grae "my crew" 5. the blood brothers "shame" 6. the nation of ulysses "perpetual motion machine" 7. at the drive in "rolodex propaganda" 8. dj danger mouse "threat" 9. milemarker "ant architect" 10. buck 65 "trees", "pants on fire", "the centaur", "cries a girl" 11. the four tops "bernadette" 12. atmosphere "love life" 13. the gossip "don't make waves" 14. cLOUDDEAD "bike" 15. the devil makes three "sweeping", "black irish" 16. q and not u "collect the diamonds" 17. weird war "ak-47" 18. dead moon "i'm wise to you" 19. huggy bear "tshirt untucked" 20. kanye west/mos def "two words" | | Tuesday, June 28th, 2005 | | 1:47 am |
book recommendation
i've been reading a lot lately now that i can, i just finished this book i thought was really amazing and excellent, project girl by janet mcdonald; have any of you read it before? what were your thoughts, if so? if you haven't, you should, although it's really, really intense- it's a biography about a girl growing up in the projects who later becomes a lawyer and her struggles with rape and mental illness, "the system" type stuff, and her clashes with her identity from the projects vs being "sucessful" and college educated, etc. it's really intense, but she's pretty fucking amazing. read it. | | Sunday, June 12th, 2005 | | 3:50 pm |
i am selling my entire cd collection. i already sold most of the good ones, but this is whats left. im saying postage paid $3 each or 2 for $5, but i'm willing to make a deal. look over the list and let me know. [Unknown LJ tag]CDS IM TRYING TO GET RID OF! ($3 for one, 2 for $5, postage paid) the doors, l.a. woman bob marley, rebel soul nirvana, in utero weird war, self titled beastie boys, hello nasty patti smith, gone again iqu, chotto matte a moment no alternative comp soft cell, memorabilita buzzcocks, best of missy elliott, under construction peechees, games people play green day, 1039 smoothed out slappy hours the gossip, thats not what i heard the gossip, arkansas heat the donnas, self titled. the doors, strange days the spells, the age of backwards jon spencer meets dub narchaotic sound system in a dancehall style kaito, you’ve seen us.. you must have seen us digable planets, blowout comb dressy bessy, sound go round cadallaca, out west alicia keys, songs in A minor bright eyes, fevers and mirrors bratmobile, the real janelle scene creamers, suck on that emotion nine inch nails, pretty hate machine destroy miranda, a step in natural selection miranda july, 10 million hours a mile the nation of ulysses, the embassy tapes the gossip, self titled the ramones, all the stuff (and more) holly golightly, singles round up soft cell, the last night in sodom elvis costello, trust the cure, greatest hits sleater kinney, dig me out gorillaz, self titled eminem, encore the frumpies, one piece amy blaschke. red letter oasis, whats the story, morning bikini kill, the singles the peechees, life fugazi, in on the kill taker sonic youth, evol the blood brothers, rumors laid waste the make up, i want some bikini kill, reject all american radiohead, amnesiac nirvana, nevermind handsome boy modeling school, so hows your girl? this bike is a pipe bomb neutral milk hotel, the aeroplane over the sea portishead, dummy elvis costello, this yeras model this bike is a pipe bomb, front seat solidarity introducing cadallaca |
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