irony versus hypocracy

zine post part dos

2009-12-07T04:47:24Z

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.

rock star energy drink = micheal savage

2009-05-30T19:07:19Z

http://www.drlaniac.com/Articles/view.asp?file=fascismcola.htm

i just found this out and am suprised that so many people don't know this! spread the word!

ironic_vs_hip @ 2008-12-20T09:10:00

2008-12-20T17:15:59Z

i have two weeks off of work... recommend a good book!

ironic_vs_hip @ 2008-09-08T20:37:00

2008-09-09T03:37:05Z

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!

TOP TEN WORLD MUSIC ALBUMS

2008-07-15T20:09:42Z

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!

one project i'm working on, please spread the word...

2007-06-13T00:55:07Z

has anyone seen this movie?

2007-03-25T02:07:00Z

ironic_vs_hip @ 2006-12-09T14:46:00

2006-12-08T22:46:53Z

https://www.lighttounite.org/

light an e-candle for aids, for every candle lit one dollar is donated. only for today.

farms and central american sights

2006-10-12T17:47:19Z

pictures

ironic_vs_hip @ 2006-08-01T18:08:00

2006-08-02T01:10:02Z

i am really happy about lance bass coming out of the closet. i'm dorky, but i think it's so awesome.

haha!

2006-07-26T00:02:08Z

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.

no comment yet

2005-12-09T00:09:15Z

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-plane8dec08,0,5618047.story?coll=la-story-footer

i can't know the future so i'm studying the past.

2005-11-10T04:47:48Z

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.

halloween

2005-10-27T22:12:38Z

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!"

f-u-c-k

2005-09-06T07:20:11Z

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.

actual event desciption

2005-08-22T14:52:18Z

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."

ironic_vs_hip @ 2005-08-11T20:29:00

2005-08-12T03:30:55Z

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

my favorite songs, listen to them, really.

2005-07-20T20:10:56Z

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"

book recommendation

2005-06-28T08:52:13Z

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.

ironic_vs_hip @ 2005-06-12T15:50:00

2005-06-12T22:51:24Z

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

ironic_vs_hip @ 2005-05-21T10:58:00

2005-05-21T18:03:01Z

i have officially (officially to myself, not to portland state) declared community devolopement my second major, which means i will not be graduating next year, i will have to wait until 2007. this is good in a way because i only have three classes left after this term for my english major and i was starting to feel like "what the fuck, i am about to have a degree in literature? theres still so much i don't know! i still feel like a literary novice." also if i decide to go to grad school, it will probably be for fiction writing, and do i want to spend 50,000 bucks becoming excellent in something that won't get me a high paying career? yes, but i might as well get a bacholers degree in something a bit more useful.
boring boring school talk. school was looking so close to being done, but i realized had i only graduated with english as a major and community devolopement as a minor i would feel unsatisfied. heres to driving myself crazy.

ironic_vs_hip @ 2005-05-19T09:13:00

2005-05-19T16:14:14Z

yesterday, during class i overheard a girl telling a boy with tattoos, "i really want a tattoo on my hip or on my back, but then i'll ruin everything on my wedding night."

yeah, did i mention i live in one of the most liberal cities in the u.s.?

hey, mother fuckin portlanders

2005-05-09T17:45:14Z

BLACK PLAGUE DANCE PARTY, this friday, my house.
4805 N ALBINA, 10pm-ish
party like it's 1399 and you're dying of the plague!
there will be captured by porches, some $1 drinks (anecdote for the plague!!!!!) and a shit ton of dancing.
it.
will.
be.
amazing.

ironic_vs_hip @ 2005-04-25T14:38:00

2005-04-25T21:35:14Z

Ok! so what are your favorite dance songs?

story

2005-03-14T22:51:28Z

i just finished the first draft of a new short story. do you want to read it? let me know your email if you do.