Sunday, May 21, 2006

Whoops! What a "Jerk" I am!


Yesterday it was brought to my attention that in my post from May 08, 2006, I wrote about taking cell phone pictures of guys who jerk off on the subway and then showed a blurry picture of Cormac from my cell phone . I really didn't mean to imply that Cormac was one of those guys and I actually have never taken a picture of or even seen someone jerking off on the subway (but I did once overhear a conversation on the subway where one guy was telling another guy he jerks off on the subway - this is true). But at least one person connected the two things falsely. So to make up for it I drew this picture of Cormac bringing fresh-baked homemade cookies to some lepers, which makes them very happy. This picture is much closer to the truth and should be interpreted thusly.

OH! I did once see a guy jerking off in the food court at the Galleria in White Plains. He was watching a table of teenage girls. I was with friends and he saw that we saw him. But he didn't stop! He put a jacket over his lap and continued. Yes, you needed to hear this story.

Friday, May 19, 2006

"I Hate You and Your Fat-shit SUV" - Me

New photos on http://www.flickr.com/photos/sardonic/. This is an exiting week coming up - not just because I'm taking a small vacation (Woohoo!) but there are some good shows happpening. Let's talk about it!

First Unsane is playing at the Knitting Factory, Wednesday, May 24. This is the first night of my vacation! My favorite thing about this band is that they are extremely hard and from NYC. The New York scene has been soft for years, but Unsane almost makes up for it all by themselves. The most suprising thing that I learned about this band is that they formed nearly 20 years ago at SARAH LAWRENCE College! If you've ever met people from Sarah Lawrence, you know how IN-sane this is. These guys are no namby-pambies like those art school snobs. Just look at the cover of their first album! Blood is cool!

People ask me, "Don, you're old." Whatever. To answer your question - NO! I'll never stop acting like I'm fourteen years old. That's why I took the whole day off from my very adult and boring job to go see X-men III on opening day! Comic books turned movies are my favorite kind of movies. People also ask me, "This is why you don't have a girlfriend." Well, to answer your question, I don't have a girlfriend because I'm dull. (or so I've been told - this is true!)

The X-men are mutants; the result of an exponential leap in evolution in the near future of human kind. They have amazing and often destructive superpowers and, as a result, are feared, rejected, and persecuted by regular humans. Humans persecuting people for being different? What a crazy story!

On Tuesday, May 30th, Sunn 0))) is playing with Oren Ambarchi and Boris at Avalon. Like most things from Japan, Boris kicks ASS. They're raw like sushi and make me scream like too much wasabi! And when they play, giant robots will appear and fight each other and knock over buildings. Afterward, nothing will be left except happy little kittens. It's about time!!

Of course, next week is also Memorial Day weekend. And this year there's A LOT more dead soldiers to remember. So let's do that. Let's also think about how we can stop our soldiers from dying so I don't have to keep remembering, since my memory was never so good. Here's an idea from Jeffery D. Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University...

"Americans have a perfect retort to Osama Bin Laden's call for expanding the terrorism war to Sudan. We should respond by showing our abiding concern for the plight of Africans by helping to save the millions of children who are at risk of death from disease. In honoring the sanctity of the lives of the least among us, we have the best chance to defeat the ideologies of hate." (NYT op-ed, 29 April '06)

Monday, May 08, 2006

My SECRET camera is finally meaningful!


Check out my
Flickr site for pictures from my phone. After over a year of owning this phone and not being able to send picture messages from it, I finally started using time that normally slack off at work to start bitching to the people at T-Mobile. And now like 2 weeks after I bitched, magically it's possible! The best thing about it is that now I'll be able to take pictures of people who jerk-off at me in the subway and post them directly to Flickr.

You very well could be in one or some of these pictures and it also may not be your finest moment. So let me know if you don't approve of it's posting - I'll take it down. And then I'll laugh at you.

Saturday, May 06, 2006

"No one ever got rich by being a pessimist" Louis Rukeyser (January 30, 1933 – May 2, 2006)



...not that I ever really care to be rich, I wouldn't mind, of course. But for whatever reason I always feel like getting rich requires doing something horrible or something that sucks up your entire life so that you don't get to do anything you want to; or know anything other than what will make you rich. But I heard this saying this week in regard to the late Mr. Rukeyser and I thought, "Yeeeeaaah! Optimism, bitch!!!"

I feel like I've personally been at war with pessimism my whole life and I certainly know "pessimists" and the pessimists know the traits within themselves. But I've also learned that some people live very short lives full of anger, resentment, and constraint and fear. And, generally just don't seem happy. And the only reason I can see for us to practice pessimism is to draw attention to oursleves and our situation. It's the primal alarm all of us are capable of ringing. It says the world is going to shit so that someone else is like "Wanna talk about it, baby?"And in the current world - Yikes!!

But what really happens is we spread the exact same feelings to others, making everyone feel crummy and not getting rich. And we ourselves lead miserable, lonely lives in an only minimally changing and isolated America. And the most interesting things we do is argue and fight, somtimes violently and for dumb reasons. And with all of the things going on in the world that we really should try harder to change, something tells me humanity will still forge on though the impoverished, overheated future wasteland like giant, fat cockroaches driving trucks the size of houses.

I've heard pessimists say "I'm not pessimisstic - I'm realistic." Great, but what the fuck is real? Conan the Barbarian is Governor of California. Does that sound "real" to you?

Anyway, I'm not the best person to hear it from, but I think optimism is a good idea. Pessimism is annoying. And it's also just defeating yourself before other people even get a chance to do it with cruel insults. And that's what wusses do. You're not a wuss, are you!

Monday, May 01, 2006

Louis Untermeyer's poem, Sunday, about the police action during the Lawrence Textile Strike, appeared in The Masses in April 1913.





Down the rapt and singing streets of little Lawrence

Came the stolid columns; and, behind the blue-coats,
Grinning and invisible, bearing unseen torches,
Rode red hordes of anger, sweeping all before them.
Lust and Evil joined them - Terror rode among them,
Fury fired its pistols, Madness stabbed and yelled
Down the wild and bleeding streets of shuddering Lawrence
Raged the heedless panic, hour-long and bitter;
Passion tore and trampled men more mild and peaceful,
Fought with savage hatred in the name of Law and Order.
And, below the outcry, like the sea beneath the breakers,
Mingling with the anguish rolled the solemn organ.
Eleven in the morning - people were in the church -
Prayers were in the making - God was near at hand -
It was Sunday!

Restart...


This is a new blog that I'm starting - same as the old one except I changed the name and hopefully I'll actually write on this one. The one I had before was nice, but annoying. They started posting ads with annoying sounds on the page. But worst of all, I stopped writing on it. Rather, I was writing posts that I thought were too depressing and I decided not to post them.

These are strange days and there's a lot on my mind, not much positive. The price of oil, a new nukes race with Iran, and the dozens of things wrong with Bush. I don't want to get critical or negative or bring anyone down today. Also, the weather is nice and I don't want to spend much time inside at the computer. But I like blogging and I will continue to do it.

Good things in recent weeks: I've seen 2 good shows...
High on Fire at Northsix
I've talked about this band before and my admiration for them is still growing. Other than that, I was way too drunk at this show to comment on it and genuinely claim that I know what I'm talking about.
Subhumans at Knitting Factory
Whoa. The Subhumans started 25 years ago when Reagan was in office and Thatcher had fascist tendencies. Guess what? NOTHING has changed and neither have the Subhumans. They played Religious Wars, Society ("our society what a fucking drag"), Big Brother and Subvert City. The Subhumans are right. Whatever Dick Lucas says is absolutely correct. You should listen to all their songs and follow.

Upcoming shows...
Boris and SunnO))))) at Avalon
Unsane at Knitting Factory

Let me know if you want to come.

ALSO I took a buttload of pictures this weekend - http://www.flickr.com/photos/sardonic/ if you want to see them!

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