Almost all things in life deal with love, the lack of love, and the desire to be loved.

Paul Julian Banks

We Are Pork Products

- Kraftwurst

This is classic.

Now this is what I should do....

Sivamani, Banks and Niladri

Watch this clip.

These are some of the best musicians in India right now. I saw the opening show to their tour which they played at a temple owned by my uncle's family in India (Sivamani, the percussionist, is my uncle's first cousin).

Let me tell you who they are; Anandan Sivamani is the dude on drums, he is considered one of the greatest percussionists in india right now; We have Louiz Banks on keys (a well known jazz pianist and composer) and Niladri Kumar on (electric) sitar.

Look at them go!

Come Closer Together

Ziggy Stardust

- Bauhaus

"Ars non habet inimicum nisi ignorantem."

"Art has no enemy except the ignorant."

Some days, I wake up wishing that I was Gary Oldman.

It's true.

Phenomenal Woman

by Maya Angelou

This is one of my favorite pieces by Maya Angelou.

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please,
And to a man,
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees.
Then they swarm around me,
A hive of honey bees.
I say,
It's the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me.
They try so much
But they can't touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them
They say they still can't see.
I say,
It's in the arch of my back,
The sun of my smile,
The ride of my breasts,
The grace of my style.
I'm a woman

Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Now you understand
Just why my head's not bowed.
I don't shout or jump about
Or have to talk real loud.
When you see me passing
It ought to make you proud.
I say,
It's in the click of my heels,
The bend of my hair,
the palm of my hand,
The need of my care,
'Cause I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Shhh... You gonn' wake up the rest of the bitches!"

Finally, a movie I'm willing to shell out some actual dough to see.

BLACK DYNAMITE!



"I THREW THAT BEFORE I WALKED INTO THE ROOM!"

Why does my heart feel so bad?

Why does my soul feel so bad?

For more, click on the pic...

This girl is a goddess!...

Props!

"The World is divided into armed camps ready to commit genocide just because we can't agree on whose fairy tales to believe."

-Ed Krebs

Notes on Anarchism

Noam Chomsky

Excerpted from For Reasons of State, 1973

A French writer, sympathetic to anarchism, wrote in the 1890s that "anarchism has a broad back, like paper it endures anything''---including, he noted those whose acts are such that "a mortal enemy of anarchism could not have done better.''[1] There have been many styles of thought and action that have been referred to as "anarchist.'' It would be hopeless to try to encompass all of these conflicting tendencies in some general theory or ideology. And even if we proceed to extract from the history of libertarian thought a living, evolving tradition, as Daniel Guerin does in Anarchism, it remains difficult to formulate its doctrines as a specific and determinate theory of society and social change. The anarchist historian Rudolph Rocker, who presents a systematic conception of the development of anarchist thought towards anarchosyndicalism, along lines that bear comparison to Guerins work, puts the matter well when he writes that anarchism is not

a fixed, self-enclosed social system but rather a definite trend in the historic development of mankind, which, in contrast with the intellectual guardianship of all clerical and governmental institutions, strives for the free unhindered unfolding of all the individual and social forces in life. Even freedom is only a relative, not an absolute concept, since it tends constantly to become broader and to affect wider circles in more manifold ways. For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility for every human being to bring to full development all the powers, capacities, and talents with which nature has endowed him, and turn them to social account. The less this natural development of man is influenced by ecclesiastical or political guardianship, the more efficient and harmonious will human personality become, the more will it become the measure of the intellectual culture of the society in which it has grown.[2]

One might ask what value there is in studying a "definite trend in the historic development of mankind'' that does not articulate a specific and detailed social theory. Indeed, many commentators dismiss anarchism as utopian, formless, primitive, or otherwise incompatible with the realities of a complex society. One might, however, argue rather differently: that at every stage of history our concern must be to dismantle those forms of authority and oppression that survive from an era when they might have been justified in terms of the need for security or survival or economic development, but that now contribute to---rather than alleviate---material and cultural deficit. If so, there will be no doctrine of social change fixed for the present and future, nor even, necessarily, a specific and unchanging concept of the goals towards which social change should tend. Surely our understanding of the nature of man or of the range of viable social forms is so rudimentary that any far-reaching doctrine must be treated with great skepticism, just as skepticism is in order when we hear that "human nature'' or "the demands of efficiency'' or "the complexity of modern life'' requires this or that form of oppression and autocratic rule.

READ THE REST HERE.

"So it goes."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"She's lost control again!"

Live footage of Joy Division from the BBC2 show "Something Else". The two songs they play are "Transmission" and "She's Lost Control".

Originally aired on September 15, 1979.

"Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)

- Peter Sarstedt

"There She Goes" by Babyshambles

Taken from Babyshambles' 2008 release "Oh What A Lovely Tour: Live At The S.E.C.C"

Buy it here.


There She Goes (Live at The S.E.C.C.) - Babyshambles

Marilyn reading "Ulysses" by James Joyce

This was one of the hardest books I've ever read in my life. You could say it was en par, if not higher than, "A Clockwork Orange" and "Trainspotting". The photograph does not look posed (which I love), it actually looks rather candid- which is beautiful because most people think of Marilyn Monroe as being the quintessential "dumb blonde".

Ha!

Proves them wrong doesn't she?...

Femme Fatale - The Velvet Underground

“A man should look as if he had bought his clothes with intelligence, put them on with care, and then forgotten all about them.”

- Hardy Amies

George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead"

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Scion Rock Fest, ATL 02.28.09

Fancy a roadtrip anyone?





Plus, it is rumored that this is where SHRINEBUILDER shall debut....

Now that, my brothers and sisters, is legendary!

"Grim Reefer"

- Bongzilla

Fuckin' legendary, man...

This is Hank III playing Mike Pike's (ex Sleep/current High on Fire) Green Cab through a bunch of electric amps (replicas or old-school MAT amps)....

that cab was used in the studio while recording all of "Jerusalem" and for a ton of Sleep and High on Fire live shows...

Hank III playing super stoner riffs...

i dig....

i dig....

Apparently I'm Avinash Shatner-Depp-Perry-Zellweger-Brando!

Hit The Road Jack!

Imagine driving down the long and winded road pulling this masterpiece behind you...

Yes... That my friends, is the American dream.


Here's a description from Uncrate:

Perfect for towing behind your Cayenne, H2, Escalade, or other luxury SUV, the Tabbert Paganini ($55,000) is a 28-foot wonder of RV opulence. The roughly 4,500 lb. beauty features a streamlined, grey and black exterior, with interior features like mahogany wood, ambient lighting, LED spotlights, integrated A/C channels, leather upholstery, and more. It's the luxury yacht of the road.

Check it out here.