Well....

Scratch all that........

The List of Good

Alright,

Things being what they still are, I've decided to be as proactive as I can be in the opposite direction. So, in attempt to make that a bit of reality, I give you the list of good. All items random, and off the top of my head, which also means that the list is by no means complete.


1.The Cars
2.Joy Division
3.The Con
4.New Order
5.Peek-a-boo
6.Just Like Heaven
7.How Soon is Now?
8.Time Zone
9.Laid
10.Transilvanian Hunger
11.Nattens Madrigal
12.Der Halbtoten Dichters Schein-Existenz
13.Deathspell Omega
14.Bone Awl
15.War Goat Radio
16.Iron Maiden
17.Judas Priest
18.Motorhead
19.Parker and Lily
20.The Low Lows
21.Lemuria
22.De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
23.Coven
24.Merciful Fate
25.Baltimore House
26.Dave Nada
27.Kid Sister
28.Yelle
29.Fixies
30."The Punx"
31.Circle pits
32.Wall of death
33.Municipal Waste
34.At the Gates
35.Zapatista Coffee
36.French Presses
37. Moka pots
38.Phantom of the Paradise
39.Kill City Jeans
40.David Lynch
41. Arrested Development
42.Entourage
43.Metalocalypse
44.Home Movies
45.Cowboy Bebop
46.Halloween
47.Thunder storms
48.Spazz
49.Man is the Bastard
50.Rhino Charge
51.Magrudergrind
52.Toxic Narcotic
53.His Hero is Gone
54.Cock E.S.P.
55.Ovo
56.Christ Send Light
57.Martin Denny
58.Exotic Moog
59.Les Baxter
60.Yma Sumac
61.Violet Blue
62.Gawker
63.Jezebel
64.Coat to Coast AM
65.Vegan Freak Radio
66.Marketplace
67.Fair Game
68.BBC
69.Writing Excuses
70.Cats
71.Rats
72.Clipse
73.M.O.P.
74.Trillville
75.Kryptonite
76.The Black Cat
77.Kicks!
78.Straight Edge Kegger
79.Kylesa
80.Weakling
81.I Ran
82.Dance nights
83.Brunch!
84.Vegan Rubens
85.Avocados
86.Angel hair pasta
87.Saturdays at 4 AM
88.Sleeping in
89.Savage Love
90.Roland Barthes
91.Suicide s/t
92.Vinyl
93.Magnificent Glorification of Lucifer
94.Dropdead
95.House shows
96.Hellboy
97.Rum and Whiskey
98.Wikipedia
99.Autumn
100.Macbeth Shoes

I suppose I should stop at that. If you have more to add, please do. In the meantime.........

Drop out of life with bong in hand.....

So, I finally paid off my medical bills when they got turned over to a collection agency. I have to move in DC by the end of this month. My roommate left, and took my dear Zachary with her. I'm supposed to move to SF in Oct. I have no money. I still have to take care of my taxes somehow...and on .....and on.....and on......There is however one thing that can help me keep my sanity. *Caution: only play with the volume at eleven. Only play with the bass all the way up. Only play with the intent of listening to the entire song in one sitting.* Now.....drop out of life with bong in hand; follow pot smoke toward the rift filled land.............



!@#$%! dammit! It's only a preview! CLICK THE ARTIST AND SONG TITLE LINK TO GO TO THE SITE WHERE YOU CAN HEAR THE WHOLE THING!! SAME RULES APPLY!!!!!!!!!!

(yes, I'm still sXe....)

Some days.....not as bad....

So,

Tonight, I did a very cathartic thing. I went to a crust/metal house show. Sadly, due to the "holiday" and the weather, it was not nearly as well attended as it should have been. It was the send off show for John's band Aghast, before they go on a west coast tour, and as usual, they had it set up right. I, sadly, don't remember the name of the first band, but they were heavy, retro hxc. They were young, and did a good job, but there was almost no one there at that time. Next Aghast played, and their new lineup (they lost their singer, and just decided to go with it) is really, really tight. Shravan does a great job taking on the responsibilities of vocals and guitar, and with one less band member to deal with, they just killed it. I always think they put on a great show, but this was the best one yet. They are going to destroy this tour. Anywho, when I came down for the next band, I thought maybe I was going to get a portal tribute show, as three guys donned with hoods prepared to let fly. As it turns out, this was Midnight, a band I literally knew nothing about (though Nuclear War Now put out their album, so it must be good). As it turned out this was some killer souther rock infused thrash hate metal, and damn was it good. Before I knew it, my hat was off and my hair was bangin'. Lucifer, did I need to let loose some.....Midnight played for a while, but it was consistently an amazing set. Finally, Atakke, who I must admit, I have heard a lot about, but never actually listened to or seen, took the stage (or basement floor I suppose). I knew it was going to be good when one of the guys had a Possessed shirt on. And fuck christ it was. It was a relentless onslaught of D-beat-ish, blazing, pissed as hell metal. They were very tight, and had great chops all around (and apparently their real drummer had to deal with a family emergency so one of their guitar players took up that duty for this show). At this point I was loosing so much hate and frustration that when they hit the cover of Police Bastard I accidentally found myself punching holes in their low setting ceiling (I stopped doing that as soon as I realized, by the way....). I don't know about the guys from Deathammer (who just showed up), but I will be sporting a bang over tomorrow). I must have looked like someone being electrocuted while having a seizure. And, of course, afterward I hung out with drunk punx so wasted you couldn't pay for that kind of funny....It was a great effing night all-in-all, and I absolutely needed it (as I write this in fact, I am listening to the Portal Outra album, and the Drowned LP re-release........hail fucking metal)


Midnight:

(Literally the only photo I could find online....)