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Where do I start?

That's a great question frankly, and I don't have time to really even ponder it right now. Needless to say, I've had a very busy year, forgot about blogging and now just kind of remembered it.

Why so busy? This should sum it up...



I'll be back...

2 years?

Hmmm, it's been almost 2 years since I've updated this darned thing. Life has been busy I guess...

The Garden

Just a little something that I've been listening to lately from a band called The Creepshow, a psychobilly/horror punk band out of Canada. Good stuff...thanks eMusic.

At odds...

I'm not really sure why, but the older I get, the more at odds I seem to be with society's expectations. Politically, relationally, career...what I want and expect for myself just isn't what society-at-large tells me I should have or should aspire to be. Maybe some of that is due to the fact that I don't see myself ever being successful on society's terms, but I guess a man has to be honest with himself a bit before he can be honest with anyone else. One thing I'm coming to terms with is just how antagonistic others can be when you express an opinion frankly without sugar-coating it for them, despite the fact that they'd never do that "service" for you. I'm tired of trying to live up to a status-quo designed for the types of people I'd rather not associate with. There has to be a better way...

Punk is back.

Punk is back...not that it really went anywhere. Ever get sick of so-called "punk" bands singing about, oh, I don't know, prom and streets and every bit of random nonsense in-between? I am. Chock it up to being more about the image than the message or spirit of the music. Chock it up to the MTV phenomena. Chock it up to corporate greed. Chock it up to a lack of passion. Chock it up to whatever...

At any rate, here are some lyrics by a band called Juicehead (off of Misfits Records). This is the kind of railing against the status quo that got me into punk to begin with, a dissatisfaction with the way things are, a rebellion against the crap that most people just bend over and take, a realization that things can get better if you'll actually do something about it...

Open Sore by Juicehead

It seems to me there's new curriculum
Without a balanced equilibrium
What ever happened to the way things were
It's all a blur, no medium
Idiocy is the prerequisite
When MTV has got their hands in it
Abomination, a god awful shame
Mass media

Is that how it's gonna be
All I see is mental truancy
They're not as clever as they seem
It's all the same to me
No new philosophy is seen

You never question what they feed to you
Like asking blind people to see for you
You wear a barcode, but you wear it well
The likes they sell, you're buying them
The corporation's got it all worked out
Keep you sedated, keep you nailed down
Substance cannot defeat the dollar bill
A platform built on tedium

Is that how it's gonna be
All I see is mental truancy
They're not as clever as they seem
It's all the same to me
No new philosophy is seen

Salt on an open sore
It's hard to feel much more
What's easy
Standards receding
With sights set on the green
Can't call that music clean
It's sleazy
Heartless and greedy

You built it up to tear it down
You built it up to tear it down
You built it up to tear it down

Mike Ness - Don't Think Twice

This is a personal favorite of mine. Whenever I'm sad or drinking (or both), this one is going to get played.



I'm glad that the bartenders at Group Therapy are always ready to play this one.

Bohemian...apparently.

Hmmm... So I was just speaking to my mother about possibly applying for a job at IBM. She's not sure that's a good idea because I'm apparently quite "bohemian." I'd never really thought of myself that way, so I looked it up on Wikipedia and it summed the term up quite nicely this way:

"Outsiders apart from conventional society and untroubled by its disapproval."

You know, I kind of like that.

Yeah...I guess I am "bohemian." It beats the alternative...