Childproof - Wax Matrix - 10 Yeah Unniversary
Current mood: curious
Category: Music
.. Ten years ago in July I recorded what is, I guess, my first pop record, where you can hear the musical flasherdom of Miami's kindof infamous & clumsily mysterious homosexual. My first record "Wax Matrix" is where he truly dwells, but I won't go on! Listen!
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It's a 10 year-old; why not let it out? Like a cheap bottle of scotch. Nostalgia is still "in," I think? I recorded my last record "Original Copy" with Steve Albini, did the fancy studio with equipment I get a aural hard-on thinking about, & played in a great live band that didn't play joke songs (well, not completely anyway). So! here's my first pop record (got a'lotta noise recorded before this dippy record jaja). Here it is, just for fun, enjoy! Or, if you're one more inclined to criticize, do that, I get plenty of it, anyway! And naturally, I'll sell it to ya, too :-D $7 for handmade, 10 song CD (& y'all know i don't screw 'round w my homemade product, you'll get somethin' super-neat. . . actually, knowin' me i'll lose $ on it, like i do everything errrrr) + FREE collage poster & free shipping! Send cash, paypal never works for me! I tracked the songs at a friend's house, where I lived because at 18 all boys hate their dad. Actually, he's still kinda annoying. I play guitar and bass and sing of course &, ironically, my dad's client Joey Denoia (who was in Buddy Rich's band) plays drums.
A car broke Joey's back by hitting it, very hard. The accident ended his career as a professional drummer; he was walking back to his gig at The Tonight Show from getting a cheese steak. Maybe the broke-backed drummer makes sense of the amateur guitar playing? No, he's still better, broken body & all! I just had to walk the dotted line of a spine up his back to realign the bones after every track. And even handicapped he's still a one take drummer!
Joey said the tunes were retardedly simple to the point of being sickening, but the sickness is, apparently, in the perverse simplicity. Nothing tricky, just pervie. Joey got the one-liner music joke, and I will not give away the punch line! (You should be able to get it within three songs.) On the other hand maybe he just likes bad music?
As is obvious by now I didn't release these tracks because my guitar playing is not up to par. For radio, real distribution, it ain't. But, over the years, the people who've heard it say it's gotta creepy, kinda pervy vibe, like a poison sugar cube. We've all heard arsenic tastes like almonds, but wouldya wanna taste some? Eat an almond. Maybe you will after you hear it! Believe it or not! "Wax Matrix" one of Howard Bloom's favorite albums. (Question: how does anyone know arsenic tastes like almonds? Wouldn't s/he be dead?)
10 songs play here, & I might add more, change the track list or personalize each copy, which I think is more fun! (There are about 20 tracks in totality).
..Art..
I'm not sure what the cover should be (if anyone even wants a copy jaja), but gotta be contemporary with the tunes (i.e. I made the picture when I recorded the tunes).
What do you like? The cat upstairs? These? None?
Thanks for paying attention to my pervie musings as a teenage boy :-) TV
..Lyrics..
"Moneyshot"
& the writing on my table i'm happier, you see ?????? nothing, but it's good enough for me & though i speak of hate to murder & create it's what i know of truth or what i told you
i'll take ya down w the smile my face when i see you there ya know ya steal my taste can i be on top for one last time? check jimmy carter's smile & jason reiner's cum-stained bed
& you dream a lie & smoking all the time ya said yr father was dead but i been seein' him in bed & you say it's me when i have to pee when last time for weakness i'd do anything to get him on me
i'll do anything to be her, anything to touch you anything you want me it if ya tell me i'm a monster when i see yr right we've got all nite cos life is free yeah life is free, death is free, i wanna dream it/be it to the end you got me wrong when ya sing my song i'll get you off cos life is free death is the the hype is free hype is free
"Everyone Loves Me"
speak to me strangely with yr voice if ya stay tonite the monkeys fly high all right & we float tonite on wings of wax ice cream covered in peanut butter, scales & mud i'm the glitter in yr gruel setting a fire pyre to our giraffes we'll eat fiberglass ice-cream
cos everyone loves me we can stay all nite, we can stay up late, getta hot date, cos everyone loves me
the aliens take me to see andy & we go down to red lobster oh stephen hawking, jason reiner can't you see me in this helmut lang sweater? the jellyfish stings & it tickles cos i don't have any skin the idiots tease me & i smile, oh it's fun cos the fun cannot begin
& you dream without the ocean, forget without the sea lie without the truth, forget about me oh everyone loves me
"Happy Unbirthday"
i gotta right to see to take it in the eye to name it it's not too fast ya know so ya fake it to the show like 1,2,3 i gotta soul that ya know's a hole
i got the silly string oh oh oh hot dick on the radio i got the x,y,z & jay leno cos it's my birthday i got a million channels on the tube hot dick with 2 big boobs i got the TV channel jay leno, happy unbirthday
when ya get to me i said another line borrowed from a movie star & open up the fridge gotta keep it cool it's my little remote control
"How We Die"
sailboat pissin' out a gold mine, take me down down thru lilly sunshine take me down into the waste land, oscar wilde andy warhol take me down it's such a sad song, groovy lilly with the nail gun jimmy carter make ya feel right oh i say i getta'round
'round yeah yeah yeah i getta'round i getta'round
lilly please redeem me from yr sick-bed, i wanna smash guitars like kurt cobain the cute pop star with the cool name, jack vatican with the switchblade porcelain skin under the band-aide, is blood enough for a vampire dolly haze & albert fish, this is how we die
lilly up into the sunshine, the clouds piss rains into my face a cool clear day for stalking LGs, oh i coulda got to you, this is how we die
how do you jump over yr shadow when you no longer have one?
Current mood: weird
dear TV,
do you ever talk about about someone from the past and then realize yr friend doesn't know them because so many years passed? it's a weird feeling & i wonder if i meet the same people again & again, year after year. like "objects in the rearview mirror may be closer than they appear" & you see yr yrself! if that makes sense! then i wonder how many "me's" my friends already met!
i wonder if we're more like functions or place holders than "individuals" the way we usually think. usually, i have no idea what people think, or who watches television at night, going to sleep, for company! oldest friend! jaja :-)
maybe the solution is when ya tell someone the story of "ya know the guy who. . ." & yr friend says, "yeah, i know that guy. this is how it works! how weird especially when you know that guy well! who IS that guy? i know what he does? but where the hell does he COME FROM?!
well i wish this guy had written some too, not just 1 kinda crappy picture. but it's neat someone cares enough to round me into the highschool gossip server. guess it's finally time for me to release some of my actual "noises" for everyone!
funny the blog says "the first and only noise tabloid". underscores my impulse to "not play" at certain times, play "noise karaoke", i.e. not give them the noise they want . on what basis can you judge noise? ya gotta be a pretty good musician, i say, & in my douchey opinion, there isn't a lotta critical content thrown around. if you want musicological analysis your first and last stop is probably nondor nevai, who that blog reports on, too! WOW! i share a page with nondor in the highschool paper! i've finally arrived! jajaja ;-D anyway, with either no basis or no ability to Criticize, is gossip is the only judge left over. . . ?
noisebloid really flippin' funny though, everyone who knows them "noise" heads should check it out. "rat quits TLASILA b/c tom smith smells like pee". . . "thurston moore loves his uggs" great stuff! :-D
prophylactics against takin' yrself too seriously meng!
i just read the article about me in the paper & thought i'd slipped into the twilight zone! everywhere it should say TV it says "jason reiner" (who as we all know is a mysterious peripheral figure to childproof. he summers in denmark, & leaves our dimension in winter to join nondor). a lot of you thought i was playin' the name game, but sorry, it was really just a weird mistake, not that i'm not flattered :-D i won't do details, but it's not jake's fault. he always calls people by their real name. jason reiner & i are drinking margaritas right now & reminiscing about The Future!
i just saw axl rose at red lobster--dining with the stars!
Current mood: accomplished
Category: Food and Restaurants
not really. but play & pass it on!
WHERE ARE ALL THE CRAPPY AGING ROCKSTARS EATING?
add yours to the list, re-post, comment, pass it on. when we run out of rockers, switch to whoever, but i think they should be alive.
1. axl rose - red lobster -TV 2. trent reznor - kalifornia pizza kitchen (since he's a giant cheese infused meatball & even more ripped than danzig) - TV 3. danzig - flannigan's - TV 4. michael jackson - cruising the middleschool parking lot with a six pack o' capris sun - stivan 4. robert smith - hardy's - TV 5. siouxie sioux - waffle house - TV 6. ozzy - where ever sharon tells him! & it happens to be gerber baby food in the SUV - Stivan 7. eddie vedder - sampling every mom 'n' pop donut shop in the northwest every morning - ariana! 8. hall & oats - camping in a state park in anotherwise populace town, eating tiny bowls of cereal! yes! 9. boy george - eating human in a shanty restaurant in thailand 10. kenny g - he's what for dinner! (boy george eats him :-P) 11. genesis p-orridge - (what is it stivan?! :-D) ??????? 12. don johnson (not rock, but whatever) - the hotel bar at la quinta 13. ronnie dio - continental breakfast at best western 12. ol' dirty bastard - freakin' eatin' sushi in heaven with JC bitchez! - TV 14. debbie harry? 15. billy corgan? 16. rush?! 17. 18. 19.
ONGO at d-lounge worked & was to whatever extent a total disaster. dealing with practical issues like no 2 drumsets to do time changes against each other wasn't possible, so my plan jumped out the window. at a point the show Started, by itself. whether it was the 2001 space odyssey drone my guitar played by itself or Stivan, privately using the kangling, to ask mischievous spirits to stop by (which i did not know until later), i do not know. the show was an unfocused droaning mess that meandered more or less in & out of chaos, until we got shut down because someone set off the fire extinguisher in the men's room. (as it turns out, the kangling got everything off for a few days (now even, too) & i went down the rabbit hole for a while.)
later on i talked to giselle about the show. she said it was a failure because it did not consistently follow any rules set down by the john cage(s), musique concrete, fluxus (i.e. "avant garde") music proper & that we ought to expel the trouble makers. (i try to express her criticism accurately, but ofcourse i may get it wrong). i tried to express, that though my plan required two drummers, so, yes, technically it all went to hell, the Interrupters (you know who you are) interest me as a process of production, to form/disarticulate sound, in michel serres' sense of the parasite (most simply, interruptions structure information systems by becoming part of the their content, which of course recalls deleuze's concept of smooth space.
steve bristol expressed literally what we're all doing, as i take it anyway, perfectly with the term NOBROW. neither highbrow nor lowbrow (perhaps a dialectic of the two) or neither; not an either/or but and/either, or "noise is no longer set in binary opposition to a notion of information transmission. Rather, noise becomes part the collective assemblage, or even, the collective assemblage is a complete and indivisible noise." (on deleuze.
these are my impressions of NOBROW, something in the air now i participate in, play & hear at shows, most recently at jeff's Night Of Weirds, of course International Noise Conference, goes back Rat Bastard's thursdays at Churchill's (from before i ever lurked in the miami noise scene). now, who knows why, something seems to be happening, & together everyone involved is figuring out what it is, or just doing it. i want it to be clear that i am not trying to define it & i refer nobrow because it's a word starting to be used. these are only my impressions. it's something in the air & i'm just feeling around in the dark grasping at particles.
TO HEAR NOBROW (or whatever it is, i am against strict naming, though conventionally names are useful!) a dumbo/doersam collective plays at
THE DISTRICT at ART BASEL on 4 December (Wednesday, 6-10pm) & 8 December (Saturday, 6-10)
& doersam plays alligator alley on 6 December (Thursday) & I play Churchill's Night Of Weirds on 3 December as The C.G.B. Spender Hard Times Bluegrass Ensemble (hopefully!) with audioid.
TELETUBBIES REAL HOLLYWOOD STORY | CHILDPROOF "TERRY BRADSHAW"
Current mood: accomplished
Category: Games
CHILDPROOF - TELETUBBIES: REAL HOLLYWOOD STORY
For all information, love and quips about and for TELETUBBIES: REAL HOLLYWOOD STORY and CHILDPROOF talk to TV at myspace.com/tviolence OR tv_says@yahoo.com
Childproof's song "terry bradshaw" is on iTunes, Snocap, as is the record Original Copy, which is also for sale as a CD from TV.
After 10 years the Teletubbies real hollywood story is revealed, proving Rev. Jerry Falwell 100% right about the mysterious, genderless, alien creatures! Genderless? Not so! (as the shocking video reveals in lurid detail!) This raw, behind the camera view on the Tubbies' depraved lives unveils what the world always suspected, though "proof" was beyond our grasp. With the truth out it is painfully obvious we always knew and are thus complicit in the Tubbies' immoral indulgences. Like an absentee parent, we turned a blind eye, perversely reveling in our covert suspicion that the Teletubbies were secretly all about sex, drugs & rock 'n' roll.
Sad but not surprising, their soul-sucking ways caught up. This video is dedicated to the memory of Tinky-Winky, who hung himself with a guitar string after Dipsy dumped him & immediately started dating a hockey player. R.I.P. Tinky-Winky ?-2007
"We all knew Dipsy was bad news. I cautioned Tinky-Winky about getting deeply involved," says Childproof singer TV, "I will miss Tinky-Winky. He had his problems, especially drugs, but he was sweet to the bottom of his heart, until it broke & the drugs no longer worked. Dipsy continuing to contact Tinky, professing his love while seeing someone else, finally pushed him over the edge."
Where are the Teletubbies today? Po got her act together & recently married a long-time earthling companion in a civil partnership ceremony. After Tinky-Winky's death Dipsy quit the hard-life & went back to school to become a nutritionist. Lala returned to The Teletubbie home planet and has not been seen in our dimension since. Today, billions of intergalactic fans still enjoy the Teletubbies show, & moreover, this exposé will no doubt signal a Tubby revival.
The truth is out there, Jason Reiner Copenhagen, Denmark
*+*+*+*+* ======== CREDITS ======== *+*+*+*+*
CHILDPROOF "Terry Bradshaw" written by TV & Jay The band is TV - singing, guitar Jay - guitar Dave - bass Nondor - drums (in the video) Billy - drums (on the song)
THE VIDEO written by TV
DIRECTED and edited by Deyson http://www.deysonortiz.com/
Additional direction, editing & VFX by Stivan
CAST Tinky-Winky - TV Dipsy - Julia Lala - India Po - Nick The Director - Stivan The Cut Girl - TV's mom Arab Gas Station Clerk - Jay Hookers - Nicole, AJ, Michelle, Rachel Smiling Homeless Kid - Mike
Efter 10 år den sand hollywood handling er løfte sløret for , prøvekørsel Rev. Jerry Falwell 100% lige omkring den hemmelighedsfuld udenfor køn, fremmed skabninger , Den Teletubbies! Udenfor køn? Ikke altså! ( nemlig den oprørende video løfte sløret for i lurid detalje! ) Indeværende hudløs , hale den kamera se på oven på den Tubbie's lastefuld lever afsløre hvad Amerika altid ane , selv om " påvisning " var over vor opfatte. Men hos den sandhed ud den er slette vi altid, vi er meddelagtighed i den Tubbie's immoral overbærenhed. Vi løfte sløret for i den skjult anelse at den Teletubbies var i det skjulte al omkring køn , narkotiske midler & gynge 'n' gynge. Bedrøvelig men ikke overraskende , deres sjæl - amme veje fanget oppe. Indeværende video er tilegnet hen til den hukommelse i Tinky - Afviserblink , hvem ophængt sig hos en guitar følge hvor Dipsy skilte sig & straks begyndte tidsbestemmelse en hockey spilleren. R.I.P. Tinky - Afviserblink? 2007 " vi al kendte Dipsy var skadelig nyheder. JEG advarsel! Tinky - Afviserblink omkring fik inderligt involveret " siger Childproof afsynge TV, "ja føle savnet af Tinky-Afviserblink. Han fik problematik , navnlig narkotiske midler, men var yndig hen til den det nederste af hans hjerte, indtil sig ruineret & den narkotiske midler ikke længere arbejdede." Der hvor er den Teletubbies idag? Po fik sig opføre sammen & i den senere tid gift for længe siden earthling ledsager i en høflig samarbejde handling. Efter Tinky - Afviserblink endeligt Dipsy forlade den skrap - liv & blev igen hen til skole hen til blive en naturvidenskabelig i nærende. Lala hjemkommen hen til Den Teletubbie hjem klode og har ikke blevet set i vor dimentional siden.
Den sandhed er ude efter der! Jason Reiner København , Danmark
new video for my song "life with a pussy made of gold. my new song" (tribute to anna nicole smith!) i copied anna nicole's clown video, getting a cold shower. my girlfriend julia shot & directed it, & jay & my mom played the hands washing my clown-hair. turn on quicktime to see the video. i wrote the song an hour after she died, the "sad clown" line is a bizarre coincidence.
the song is in honour of anna nicole's memory. some people thought i was making fun. i am not. they don't get it. anna nicole brought us both controversy & humor. she was proud of who she is & was a very real person. even if you don't agree with her lifestyle (which i personally do not, though it's beside the point) more people could aspire to the kind of honesty she performed.
lyrics "life with a pussy made of gold" (by me)
sad clown life in a limousine & we go all nite since you was 13 you get so tired that's life with a pussy made of gold
anna nicole don't take that trimspa baby watched you all nite thinking "this bitch must be crazy" & it's real sad our happy clown is dead
grumbling billionaires clumsy gigolos you watch them from the other side of the screen that's life, that's life with a pussy made of gold
anna nicole smith is what america has become. it's not that we should or should not embrace this america, it's impossible to not because it always with us. i predict many people will speak kindly about anna nicole smith, what a sad figure she was, which is of course true. geraldo will call her tragic & speak about her with seriousness, he says, "i always adored her." other people will jeer (like jay, who said, "i'm glad she's dead.") but we watched her like rubber-neckers at a mustard gas model car-pool. she was absolutely bizzare, completely incoherent, & i'm sure no one is surprised shes dead. what i wonder about is why these qualities attract us, or at least we can't get rid of the person filling that slot. today we don't get a marilyn monroe. people are nice because of a queasy feeling of complicity. maybe we should throw a party, or at least spill out a little o' that 40oz. in front of our gated community. writing about anna nicole seems stupid, but i believe she is quintessentially american. she shows what's going on, but she is still a sad. dead. lady, an actual person, but she is at the same time so much more than just a lady in clown make-up.
HOW TO NAME YR BAND
Current mood: amused
Category: Games
HOW TO NAME YR BAND
today's teen has a lot think about. every day life presents you with a litany of options. "what birth control is right for me?" "should i sit in class or go hang out with my friends?" "should i learn to play guitar or get a good job at the restaurant?" but the most important question of all is "what do i name the band?" now, this should be snap, but of course, a lot of the good names are already taken & most kids fall into the pitfalls of prepositions, naming with entire phrases, & play in genres of music that dictate you have a crappy name.
i am going to help you name yr band. my band is childproof, an excellent name! all you bands using prepositions & acronyms listen up! here's a list of do's & don'ts. if i forgot anything, leave a note downstairs.
1) a band name has to be catchy. the most famous dictators, politicians & religious icons in human history all have great names. like jesus christ, adolf hitler, bill clinton, john wayne, john wayne gacy, condi rice, james dean, marlon brando, liz taylor, mic jagger, kurt cobain, sex pistols, flaming lips, thurston moore, sonic youth, johnny depp, greatful dead, ledd zeppelin, pearl jam, david bowie. hitler's real last name was "Schicklgruber." would anyone follow a guy called Schicklgruber? let alone see his band?
RULE NUMERO UNO: the best band names have 3 syllables in 2 words with the accent on the last syllable, or the accent on the 1-syllable word (wherever it appears). the words in the band name are concrete nouns and/or abstract adjectives. the second word modifies the first. for example: sonic youth & sex pistols, talking heads (3 of the best band names ever).
RULE NUMERO DOS: how to get around these rules: if you break 2 of the "don'ts" that follow but obey the syllable rule, which is essential, the don'ts sometimes cancel each other out.
2) people's names don't mean shit. but a band name uses actual words, so what will your band name mean?
A) contradictions are popular - grateful dead, ledd zeppelin. when naming yr band with a contradiction, don't pick anything too obvious (for example "innocent criminals" which is also too wordy). some criminals are innocent. use a contradiction that is universal. a lead zeppelin will never fly! are any dead grateful? these are thought-compelling names.
B) puns are OK only if they're also contradictions or absurd. for example, marilyn manson is contradictory, flaming lips is absurd. the name "pearl jam" is good & bad for so many reasons. the syllables are right, but if you haven't figured out what pearl jam most likely means. . . well i don't feel comfortable saying. yuck!
C) misspellings are usually not a good idea. "ledd" in ledd zeppelin? why? probably only b/c "zeppelin" has 2 p's so you get this ddpp thing. & of course. . . The Beatles, who happen to be the best of bands, so far as i'm concerned they call themselves whatever they want, but though they break the pun rule, they got syllables just right.
3) it's better to not use non-sensical names, even though some great & successful bands have. stone temple pilots, smashing pumpkins. if you can think of a really memorable one, great. but what is yr band name really saying? which brings me acronyms.
4) never under any circumstances name your band an acronym. they are lame! & besides people will say "now what letters is it?" of course, "STP" a/k/a stone temple pilots (formerly "pirates") are biting on STP motor oil additive. what are they car enthusiasts? sure it worked, everyone who had the STP patch from their oil change got asked if they like the band. ingenious but still lame. could only be done once. err, maybe twice, ha ha ;-D
5) the problem with "the." every freakin' band has "the" in it, so just cut it out. i might slit my wrists with a plastic spork if another "the" band adds me on myspace. the "the" trend is as old as rock music (& a lot of great bands with great names use "the"), but it's over-done now. it got out of control after the strokes & reached its point of exhaustion with the killers (who i'll add totally suck eggs). "the killers" must have thought "what's the most obvious band name, with "the", that isn't taken?" wait 10 years. "the" will be acceptable again.
6) never use a girl's name in the band, worse, a guy's name. marilyn manson is only OK b/c a dude is calling himself "marilyn," which is also contradictory. sometimes it works to break 2 rules.
7) never use prepositional phrases to name yr band. words such as "of" "through" "to" & "at." prepositional phrases with an object are only good for album titles.
8) never use present participles, any word ending in "-ing" to designate action. only "smashing pumpkins" for some reason works. participles modify nouns like adjectives but express action. which brings me to adjectives.
9) only use adjectives in your band name to express an absurdity. for example "curious hair." how can hair be curious? is the hair inquisitive? or does it look funny or appear inappropriately?
9) avoid long phrases because they're hard to remember. like "panic at the disco" (which also violates the preposition rule). i only mention p.a.d. (acronym) because the name comes from the song st. vitus' dance by the band xex. how sad for xex (which is incidentally a silly, stupid band name). a long name is OK if you can easily shorten it. like "the fabulous shuttle lounge" (which follows the syllable rule).
10) a good strategy for naming your band is using a common figure of speech people don't realize the say all the time. like "the freakin' hott" (a memorable name that breaks 2 rules & therefore works!
11) don't name yr band anything that sounds like a housing complex or gated community. for example, eagle trace, broken sound, turtle run. i won't call anyone out, but you know who you are!
12)now for the best band name i've heard all year. it breaks nearly every rule! the name is too long, has a celebrity man's name, is rascist, offenstive, doesn't follow the syllable rule, but it does use the contradiction rule! the band is michael j. fox & the nig**rs of woe. hmm, maybe i should listen to their music. . . i dunno! that n-word thing is offensive, but hey! i remember the name.
that's all i can think of now. leave yr additions/subtractions downstairs. & listen to my band childproof--a band that follows all the rules of naming!
¡THE TV IS ON!
Current mood: dirty
Category: Sports
did anyone else notice entertainment is the most important thing in our life? at best by the amount of time it occupies. but usually because it defines us (our favorite bands, shows, the small talk of everyday life). or we are subjected to it by media & wherever we go, driving to work, waiting in line at the market, entertainment is with us. everyone knows what's going on in "brad" & "angelina's" life, but if you ask someone, "do you really care about brad & angelina?" are they gonna say "oh i really care!" no, obviously not. yet everyone knows. people act as if entertainment isn't important, yet it takes so much time & is of such concern. it's really weird if you think about it. but in our actual lives what happens? you go to local shows & what happens? people stay for the their friends' band whether they're good or not, & ignore every one else. there's something to this. we have an encyclopedic knowledge of the crap media hurls at us like belligerent monkeys, & we aren't attuned to what's actually going on. i don't know anyone who gives a shit about what's on rock radio, on television, on magazine covers. who buys this crap? i feel like everyone knows culture is at an all time low. nothing says "this sucks eggs!" louder than 60 thousand people boo-ing ashley simpson lip-syncing. (that ruined milli vanilli! the guy, disgraced, even killed himself). yet the burning passenger train of culture plunges-on! i am happy to say i have not seen britney spears's pussy, but hey maybe you'll spot it in the collage!
this is my poster "jason reiner in heaven." i can tell you who everyone is! if you want 1 it's cheap, only $7. my cd by my band childproof is out, too (also $7).
steve albini recorded us, so we must be good, right? ha ha. the tunes play right here. i'm also making 8track tapes with original hand-made collages (of actual cut paper) with recordings of whatever we happen to be working on that only you will have if you get one. there are a lot of poeple hocking their music on the internet, so it's really already annoying. but look at it this way: my music is a soundtrack to my collages, so if you like the collages you'll dig the songs. we're a pretty straight cross between the beatles & nirvana. . . which i guess means we sound like the pixies?
the smaller font following is more of what i've been thinking about, in detail & it's kinda compainy. to everyone who hates standing around nervously smoking cigarettes uncertain about talking to anyone. to everyone who secretly don't give a shit what yr wearing or if yr eye make-up is smudged just right. to everyone who hates listening to fruity "indie" bands no one should like (& yr only 1/2 convinced the friend who brought you even likes).
i hear a lot of people complaining about how things are. the usual chorus of suburban malcontent is about george bush. but i say you're all agreeing with other people you know already agree with you. saying "I don't like it" is not a position, & by now it's totally clich... the point is people don't say what they think at all & maybe you don't even know what you think, are too lazy to do research or too scared to admit americans aren't in a position to know anything because of media & eduction, or maybe because "the truth" is too complicated for 1 person to understand. i dunno. i see is a bunch of foney diplomats. the old, "i will listen just so i can talk." it's like people holding a door open for each other & everyone says, "No, no, no after you!"
nothing gets done. but then a complete bastard comes along & breaks the door. maybe people said i'm that bastard. i've had my share of people hating me for doing a good job. but the difference is breaking the door down in a positive way.
why are we socializing the way we do? why are you going out? why is it important to organize that show? i think it's something about wasting time. we love it. you go out & it's the same story. everyone standing around smoking cigarettes, timid, talking to only their own friends. i noticed the trick to talking to people is just accepting that everyone is checking themself out, saying "am i OK?" so no no one's actually looking at each other except for the cheeseballs & rovers. then again, why should you talk to everyone? it almost betrays some personal weakness. ha ha, i find that funny because i always thought meeting people was a good thing for itself.
what do we have to look forward to? the new guns 'n' roses album 20 years in the making? or "rock star supernova"? god, gag me with a freakin' spork. there are better wastes of time than others.
the weirdest thing about our culture is entertainment is the center of our lives, yet for some reason we don't take it seriously. there just aren't bands like the beatles or nirvana or lucky pierre (who i'm sure you don't know, ha ha!) or frank zappa. bands emulate blink-183 or interpol or INXS, or if yr Of Montreal yr emulating INXS. indie music emulates music that never mattered. that's why it isn't popular. the people into it feel better about themselves because it isn't popular. & it's only semi-popular because it isn't any good! & on the other side popular/mainstream music is just well promoted. & then there are all the "myspace bands" annoying everyone.
i've been on vacation this year. last year was too sucessful. why do you actually do anything positive when you can get everyone else is just politicking with you? when you can get they'll turn on you when things are going your way? that once you've accomplished something you'll be alone? just to "get ahead"? to be the best version of every other asshole in yr group? i see most people out there for themselves. it doesn't matter if what you're doing is actually any good as long as you can convince some people it is or fuck up somebody else. running game on someone is considered to be better than doing the job right. emperor's new clothes! you get the "I don't like this person or that because my friend says i'm not supposed to." that is about keeping everyone on the same relatively mediocre level where a few people whispering & tattling control people thru innuendo. you say grass roots. gossip is grass roots.
everyone is buying everyone else's bullshit. it's like you lie to someone & they think yr telling them the truth. you tell the the truth, they think yr lying, all the while paying lip service to wanting things to get better. i am pretty sure everyone can relate to this situation, or at least suspects it. i bet this is because of public school. "don't criticize the kids, they'll get a complex. everyone should feel good about himself." that puts weak people in the position where feeling sorry for someone means what they have to say matters. well look at the world! if anyone actually wants anything to get better it has to happen here, by the decisions you make about entertainment because entertainment is clearly the most important thing in everyone's life! it's kinda weird if you think about it.
by the way, i'm only kidding about yr petty flirtations. HEADQUARTERS will be back in a few months in our own space in NYC which will be home to all my future projects.
today i hope my week doesn't beat yr year. i hope everyone does well in all their personal endeavors whether benevolent or malicious, no matter who you are, & even if i personally hate you. really. now that's a swell way to get it rolling!
CHILDPROOF vs. STEVE ALBINI
Current mood: accomplished
Category: Life
today childproof returned from chicago after recording tunes w/ steve albini. we got 2 reels of analog tape--a 2inch master & 1/2 master for replication. it weighs almost 20 pounds. i've recorded on protools, we get a DVD when yr done & doesn't feel like you have a REAL thing that means something, that stands-in for a performance that really happened. steve gave me the 2 inch tape & said, "that'll last for at least 100 years." we're really happy w/ how the songs came out, listen on my page & more at jason reiner & childproof.tv to listen w/ scenarios. billy & dave the most fun yet. after we finished the session we celebrated by drinking alcohol in 1 such establishment (i.e. bar). the kids yoinked someone's bass & drums, not then in use, & jammed w/ the jazz-diddling guitar guy. everyone loved it. jumping up on stage & playing--that wouldn't happen in FL or NYC. chicago pretty much totally kicks ass. most relaxed city i've been too. kinda reminds of a midwestern berlin.
billy discovered internet pornography during our recording session. EA has a public computer in the giant livingroom for bands & interns. so billy's viewing & downloading hardcore porn & calling people over to view it with him! he said, "hey steve check this out! "yeeah yeeeah thump that yeeeeah!" this is not too different from viewing pornography in the public library. steve smiled his half-cat smile & did not join billy in the action! i got billy a job doing porn waiting for him in NYC lined up!
then dave's asking another band about their tunes. the guy says, "fast, noisy. . ." as dave cuts him off to imitate pantera, morbid angel, et al. gesticulating wildly, air bass solo-ing & conforting his willem defoe crossed w/ quagmeyer-looking face into insane sexual contortion. i laughed boomingly & told him to stick around & watch.
steve's recorded about 1,500 bands. but i guarantee he's never met anyone like dave. this is because NO ONE has met anyone like dave. our last nite at EA dave asked me & jay if we wanted go out & drink beer. i said, "we can't dave, we gotta mix the album." he didn't really know what i was talking about. then, half hour later he hip-hop dances into the control booth while we're mixing "eat yr make-up," says, "that a good drummer, who that?" (only drums playing--we just started mixing). it's billy! what's he think we're listening to hip-hop?! what you think we're doin' in here, man?! we finished mixing a couple hours later & had about a 1/2 hour conversation w/ steve about different things (i'll report on later). steve suddenly stops talking & exclaims (the only timee i ever saw him break his poker face), "i just realized it right now. i've been recording bands for 25 years. 1981 this time of year i recorded my first album." that was pretty neat. steve is a sound mechanic. i'd say he mixed 80 percent of our album, jay & i said, "this a little higher/lower" & that's it. he even said he liked 3 things about our album (i think this is great)--they guy's heard it all. & even w/ what's said about the guy, after working w/ him it's hard to not respect him--1. steve likes the solo & drum breakdown & "terry bradshaw" (i wrote the solo, but only jay can play it), 2. the lead guitar at the end of "A,E,I,O,U"--steve said, "i'm of the school of 'feature it or fuck it' " 3. the ludwig phase II synthesizer (that's the You You You sound on the begining & end of "solo gigolos"--he said, "that ludwig phaser is Really cool." i honestly thought he'd hate it all, he apparantly doesn't like pop music.
steve wears a mechanic's blue jumpsuit w/ the EA logo on the back. the other engineers wear street clothes. it's like he's saying, "i'm a sound mechanic." that's how he thinks of himself & how he wants you to think of him. while jay was playing the "terry bradshaw" solo, steve was talking to him on the intercom. i said, "what do you think of the vibrato on that note?" steve said, "i have no opinion." i said, "sorry, i meant jay." i knew going into this that steve doesn't want his personality to come into recording yr album. but there are other ways it does, like being quick & efficient & making decisions. he introduces an impulse to honesty in recording. like "what the band really sounds like" cannot mean doing 10 takes of singing & assembling a vocals take. 2 takes is honest, 10 isn't. how something is played on a purely musical level is 100p to the band. steve introduces staying honest about it in his working method, all while saying, "you can do whatever you want, but at this point in the recording i think you're creating options for yourself when you should be making decisions." except for 1 instance where he didn't want to move the lead vocals mic so i moved it for him (which pissed him off), i followed his lead on efficiency & honesty in recording & am very happy i did.
now to listen to the album about 1,000 times & decide how i want to master it. i'm starting to work on the album cover collage. . . there'll be a CD (& possibly vinyl) for everyone soon!
HQ is still happening. but for the time-being, only me & my girlfriend are invited.
original diagram for HQ
note, "the "V.I.P." area is under the only 2 working air-conditioning vents.
ALL THANKS TO LIZA FOR WRITING!
//DJs// A:/RION-- best 4 on floor weird dance music to mid-90s indie rock from when we were fun! DJ I regret to inform you but you have 2 months to live--from Devo to James Brown, Aphex Twin to Afrika Bambaataa, Brendan plays the hits of yesterday & tomorrow &. . . weirdo-music. DJ TONY ROBBINS--listen to the songs downstairs to hear tunes ill play!
//ART// show yr works at HEADQUARTERS! talk to me, keegan or dani
( ((SOUND)) ) I could have dropped five large on meth, but instead I got HEADQUARTERS a new sound system! Our new home is a big room with wood walls which sounds great! We've got the sound of a big-budget club in a quirky, intimate space that feels like gran-ma's rec. room!
( ((DJ)) ) Shake yr ass after bands! DJs A:/RION, DJ I-regret-to-inform-you-but-you-have-2-months-to-live. . ., & DJ TONY ROBBINS (me :-) play danceable indie rock, classic pop rock (Beatles, Stones, Beach Boys), lesser known tunes by the best bands (if Weezer Dont Let Go instead of Buddy Holly) new & local music & great bands you might not know (Lucky Pierre) 80s (Madonna, Prince).
( ((ART)) ) Show yr works! Talk to me, keegan or dani! We WANT to talk to you so dont be shy! If you show up with work--thats fine too, but we like to meet people! Show n tell, yall !
Doors at 11pm! $4 as always! FREE before 12 --use the password Michael Jackson sent me! . . .seriously, use it!
And as always, be excellent to each other! Party-on Wayne & Party-on Garth! TV
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HEADQUARTERS is a do-it-yrself party designed to adpat thru who gets involved! Artists show & sell their works, bands play & DJs spin new & used tunes in genres including, but not limited to, Indie Rock, 80s, Electroclash, etc. NO OVERPLAYED TUNES! The DJ format is friendly, quirky, engaging, nostalgic, and high-energy. Genres: Indie Rock, some Electroclash, 80's, Nostalgia, and quirky Hip-Hop. Don't just play bands people haven't heard. Play amazing bands people haven't heard. But I'm not gonna sell you on the party here. . .
( ((¡ EQUIPOS PERSONALES!--"PERSONAL SPORTS")) )
!keegan va a pintarlo! CLICK CORAL! IF KEEGAN PAINTS YOU--PAY HER OR SOMETHIN FOR PETE-SAKE! i know it's way nicer for everyone to bake keegan a freakin birthday cake, but if yr drinking you ain't got no cake & dollahs make nice! so do the right thing, y'all! & i will see YOU at HEADQUARTERS! DJ TONY ROBBINS
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(( ( A B O U T ) )) I want to give you some assumptions & questions that I WANT YOU TO ANSWER! This party will do something a little different than others. This is not another nite. Its a party designed for YOU. Bands play, artists show and sell work (at 100 percent profit!) We need yr input! HEADQUARTERS will develop by who gets involved.
(( ( Q U E S T I O N S ) )) - - > I wanna know what you think! lemme know!
[1.] Why don't people dance to good unknown songs? DJ plays a known tune. People dance. DJ plays an unknown tune. People run away. WHY? Whos the crowd? assuming said tune is good (i.e. danceable beat, catchy tune) people who run away can't really dance, though they've developed "a dance" to the tune they know. SO when they hear a new song you get the OH NO HOW DO I LOOK?! reaction, or just can't catch the beat. they dont know how to react, so the tryin look cool & walk away. A simple conclusion: Play songs people know. But, how do known songs get known? Radio, media, major promotion. i.e. the DJ is the last stop. The radio, only live! I've noticed bored people standing around & people who say, I dont wanna hear The Killers & Gwen Stefani! We want to play some new & used tunes for you! Some you know, some you dont. Along with The Cure, Pixies, Smiths, Duran Duran, Depeche Mode as well as lesser known great bands like Self, Prick, Peter Schilling, Robots In Disguise, even comical tunes like Digital Underground's "The Humpty Dance" to the alarming-but-fun ODB. A better solution: Play different music, keeping in mind, we know yr gonna walk away if you don't know the song! SO play songs people know --OLD SONGS like 80s, retro, nostalgia! What retro songs do you want to hear!? Dont say Come On Eileen!
[2.] How long can a local band play (that you've never heard) before they get on yr nerves? (even if you like them).
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1) Brand new & retro tunes at 2 DJ areas. NO played-out tunes! Inside, only danceable tunes, including electroclash & indie rock. Music is not limited to these genres, though we exclude a few covered at other parties. Outside, DJs play any kind of music, but the vibe is hang-out, not dance. Ask an interesting person what theyre listening to, they will probably tell you about something you've never heard!
2) Artists will show their works, for sale or not at 100 profit. Solid installation, not throw-some-shit-up-on-the-wall.
3) Live bands in any genre will play short showcase style sets (about 20 minutes), every 1/2 hour or so.
4) Visually interesting movies on the overhead projector like, Alejandro Jodorowsky - The Holy Mountain, Fellini - Satyricon, Alfonso Cuaron - Y Tu Mama Tambien, Matthew Barney - The Cremaster Cycle: The Order, videos by Williamsburg artists (i.e. friends) like Lars Kremer.
HEADQUARTERS is geared to attract people who want to get involved & show their works, people actually interested in music, as well as people who just dance & hangout. We are cultivating a type of crowd. HEADQUARTERS is a project, not another nite designed to make money & inflate DJ/promoter ego. HEADQUARTERS is for & about everyone who gets involved!
-12. in the last 6 months, i see y'all girls grow up! i feel like i'm in the time capsule.
-11. BRING SHIRT FOR DE-FACEMENT, I'LL TAG IT TVMUSTGO!
-10. what is "scene"?
"Scene" is how adults socialize when they haven't mentally left highschool. obviously related to liberal public school education "No Child Left Behind" etc., don't hurt anyone's feelings, don't offend, extends to, "Look at so 'n' so's hair!" or "He booty dances like a woman!" etc. Taken to extreme you get "scene hair" or "emo hair." When you go to yr hairdresser, he looks at yr hair while he cuts it, right? Scene hair looks like yr hairdresser must have blowing you instead of looking at yr hair while he cuts it! (White) scene girls tryin to look Asian! Calgon take me away!
-9. there's only 1 line of questions that occur to me that i don't write about. guess what they are! you'd have to be ME to know!
-8. let's be honest. there really is nothing to say to anyone you don't already know. you only know the people you know b/c you happen to know them. it's not that yr shy. you just have nothing to say. b/c there IS nothing to say (or conversely, you could say anything, which is why it doesn't matter). this is why it is important to know who the people you NEED to be talking to are (oddly, they are usually talking to the wrong people).
-7. -hooray for when a puckish trick ends up nice for everyone, well except me, of course! i'm left holdin' the goose making surprised-face & reassured that i never know what anyone is thinking. you'd think we'd try to figure it out instead of just standing around like professionals!
-6. VOCABULARY piker (n.) - a person who adds negativity to the situation b/c that's all they've got. see also, the "i've seen better" attitude. see: "hedging yr bet" (& various inversions)
-5. some of y'all don't think i look 25. what age should i be? it's the "pick TV's age contest." (note: if you select 'under 18'. . . well, i'll stop right there!)
-4. we all know social institutions suchas church & family have broken down to the extent that we're all pretty much atomized. points floating in space, tapping on walls in adjacent rooms (for all you kids readin' duh-duh-derrida). we think forcing interactions makes them fake. our social institutions used to control us, but they also acted as a meeting place. on 1 hand we're more free now than ever. & on the other, there's no reason to talk to anyone b/c we're not free to disagree & we don't actually know how to exchange information.
what happened to kickball y'all? organized sports are best b/c they de-program socialization b/c regulating action (i.e. you cant' be a poser). someone i don't really know quoted, "i am trying so hard to be cool" to me the other day. teen girl retro for a fad when i was 14? everything makes a come-back at once. (even "spiral jetty.") BUT she's right. kids are so worried about cool, they won't watch or listen to anything unless someone else authorizes it first (corporation, record label, promoter). but what is "being cool"? seems like people want to make a connection to SOMETHING, ANYTHING. but 1) feel disempowered, so 2) hide behind an authorized chic. we call it "political correctness" y'all. add it up! best is EVERYONE IS A PROMOTER NOW!! kids, don king is a promoter & don king will shoot yr ass. should i become a promoter, too? i'll promote promotion!
IF YOU WORRY ABOUT BEING COOL, THAT MEANS YOU DON'T ACTUALLY LIKE ANYTHING! THE PEOPLE YR TRYING TO IMPRESS DON'T LIKE YOU. THEY TRYING TO 1-UP YOU. IF YOU LISTEN TO MUSIC TO DECORATE YR LIFESTYLE, COLLECT CD'S IN CASE SOMEONE COMES OVER WHO LIKES BAND X, IF YOU WANT TO APPEAR TO LIKE BAND X, BUY THE CURRENT POPULAR BAND'S ALBUM TO "GIVE IT A TRY", OR LEAVE A LIVE MUSIC PERFORMANCE JUST B/C IT'S LOUD & YOU WANNA LOOK CUTE IN PUBLIC & TALK TO YR ACQUAINTANCE, THEN YOU DO NOT ACTUALLY LIKE MUSIC! BAN ALL MUSIC THAT DOESN'T PRODUCE AN EFFECT IN THE LISTENER! BAN ALL MUSIC THAT'S POINT IS PROMOTING A LIFESTYLE (MORE OFTEN, BAN THE STYLIST & PRODUCER). THE POINT IS TO COMPROMISE YR LIFESTYLE, NOT DECORATE IT!
THAT SAID so many interesting folks out there i don't actually know! more so than everyday life. i know yr out there "doing stuff."
NOTE: i finally got an answer for bottom entry in "she wants to be involved in culture" entry.
-3. if you are in a band & use myspace to promote: the kids who WOULD come see yr band DO NOT have myspace. besides, everyone knows "genuine experience" is something you pay $40 for (yes, exactly forty dollars). except for the dorks who actually like music.
-2. G-Unit Theory:
That the universe is composed of spinning permeable spherical gravitational units, g-units, with a diameter on the order of a Planck length and a mass on the order of a Planck mass.
That the universe may be described in terms of a permeable spherical geometry.
G-Unit Theory is the quintissential definition of spacefoam defines the theoretical building blocks from which the universe is builtproposes new theories concerning light proposes new theories concerning atomic structure is absolutely a unified field theory which will stand the test of time.
-1. i worked out a system for posting the scenarios, so if you if weren't getting them before i didn't mean to include you out! everyone should get them. tell me if i forgot you in my rolodex. if you selected the "approve comment" option you might've gotten scenarios twice (or more). gimme a buzz & i'll fix my info! if you delete me, tell me. i want to silently judge you & gossip w/ myself!
1. response to, "you're a weirdo!" chastising me for paris hilton making-out w/ grandpa, in grace jones scenario. the picture w/ paris hilton making out w/ the old man IS REAL! i didn't squish them together! it amuses me, that some people are offended by THE TRUTH! paris hilton is "doing whatever it is she's doing" b/c she's an extreme character. NOT whatever you wanna think about her well-promoted sexual misadventures --i saw the video & it's boring. at some point the guy says, "turn around so they can see my dick" you gotta listen close! (cheers to tom for noticing!)-- if you think guys like her & you identify w/ "that" (not "her" or even "it"), SKIP AWAY from any guy who says paris hilton is anything but, "a dirty whore from the bottom of the sea!" in addition to however much she flashes her box on VH1, paris hilton is also MAKING OUT W/ AN OLD MAN! would you make-out w/ grandpa?!
2. "what's the band playing on your page?" the band playing on my page is childproof, my band. we DO NOT have myspace music! myspace music has a creepy door-to-door-salesman/telemarketer vibe. "come see my band!" bulletins are SPAM **here's the "because" pat--you won't likely remember to attend a show from a comment posting. myspace is all about the 30 second conversation. hrm, i can think of only 1 other thing just like that!
3. "what is your group "GRACE JONES IS THE MOST POWERFUL WOMAN IN THE UNIVERSE" for?" like the bhagavad gita & lou reed's album "metal machine music" 'if you have to ask, you'll never know!" <--grandpas of the 1960's unite!
ONLY HAVE SEX IF YOU REALLY WANT TO ENJOY IT
Current mood: contemplative
enough people asked, so i'm selling shirts ONLY HAVE SEX IF YOU REALLY WANT TO ENJOY IT--hand drawn! for $15! hollar at me if you want one! note: the shirts for sale are all new/preshrunk fruit o the loom or hanes, not off-white & dingy like mine (which actually has a big burn hole on the back too!) yes, all shirts new n clean! stay in school, TV p.s. use the "Add To Cart" button below!
ask any & all s-e-x questions downstairs in the comments! TV is the white, male sue johanson w/ a corn dog instead'a vibrator!
sex is like food. some food is great, some sucks, there are better --& more expensive (i mean spiritually, ha ha)-- restaurants. sex isn't a thing. it's just one more thing you do, & what-it-is depends on you & whoever else is doing it. you may ask yourself, "do i know this person?" "are they a stranger?" if yes, "what kind of stranger?" "what do i want out of this?" "does so & so care about me?" "have i been thinking 'food' is 'this restaurants' & there aren't other restaurants?"<-- perhaps impossible question when at that restaurant "who are you?" seems like people forget about this. & why is everyone so allegedly interested in s-e-x? i don't respect you if yr getting a lot of it, i think you have the wrong priority. people who flirt all the time & stage-an-alluring-appearance aren't getting laid. you don't want to. did you notice we're not socially equiped to have favorable interactions? we have neutral interactions, like that radiohead song "palo alto" (a 90s classic!)
i bet many times, you meet someone & then you say 1 thing wrong & you mess-it-up & you know you messed it up & you don't connect w/ that person. i see people not not connecting a lot when i go out, you're trying & it doesn't work or works for a minute & then you fuck it up. i'm happy w/ that minute! i like the people who aren't paying attention.
the short entry , DJ's & the girls who date/screw them, in my "everything i hate" section deserves its own post.
why the hell do girls go for DJ's?! all they do is play records & they're almost always douche-bags (drum 'n' bass DJ's are the notable exception). MTV tells you what to listen to. . . & wow, promotion works!
DJs have a jock attitude, only pussy. (note, elsewhere i said most jocks really just like sports). DJs are worse than jocks b/c they're queazy dorks who are too lazy to play instruments. or worse, they play instruments *&* DJ (thereby negating the impulse of the first).
but hey you lucky people, i know why ladies dig DJs! dudes in bands are shitheads/ screwed up in some way or other & may or may not be talented (actually, band dudes are usually either 1) the-most-annoying-cocks-of-all, or 2) perverts). either way, you're dealing w/ a shithead.
a DJ has a yuppie mentality, but is sort of like a band dude. girls like guys who only *seem* to be doing something (not unlike executives). these guys appear & are confident. when youre involved in a real activity (anything that requires more than 1) taste & 2) rudimentary skill), you immediately move into that area of life that ladies hate most: Concepts.
oh btw, DJ Chris is not a DJ. he's an "electronic musician." i only started calling him DJ b/c people seem to think e-musicians & DJs are the same thing. the difference: e-musicians actually make music, be it w/ a sound-menu. but hey i didn't invent The Scale, did i?
current popular fashions (usually called "hipster" or "scene") = color scheme, strategic rips, accessories & hair styles from the 80s executed w/ 90s precision --popularized by calvin klein. said individuals are usually young girls. in the 90s the girls *looked* young (no one knew kate moss actually was 14 & that's why she looked like that). now, girls are actually "that young." this extends to dinosaur chic & robot-chic. it's not that girls ironically or nostalgically perform an interest in robots & dinosaurs. yr young. you actually like them. i like robots & dinosaurs, but i'm a dork.
the person you like doesn't like you b/c they know you like them. they're already "winning" b/c they have something on you. why lose ground? you don't like the person who likes you b/c you don't wanna settle. afterall, you like *someone else* who doesn't like you! this way everyone neither wins nor loses. it's a romantic cold-war!
why do y'all girls dress like marilyn manson dressing like pat benatar?
why is everyone a promoter now? "in my time" every kid was in a band. didn't matter that we couldn't play b/c we did it w/ attitude, expertly not-actually-playing --amps turned up to 11 when electro-harmonix made in nyc was still out of business. kids today are smart. they realize if you say you're in band you gotta know how to play an instrument (though not necessarily competently). what better than to be a "promoter" b/c your skill is socializing, playing other people's music. it's either 1) top 40 rock or 2) such nonsense or rehashed ramones & sex pistols ripoff if you wanna seem edgy-before-you-inevitably-take-your-series-7-&-get-that-series-3-bmw-everyone-knows-you-want. & you're stuck-up. ATTN: art institute kids! do not say, "i'm a promoter for party x!" the one thing i know promoters do is get *paid* --not much-- to do a club/bar's job so they don't have to. saying you're a promoter when you're not is like smoking pall mall cigarettes & saying, "i'm a particular person. i congregate."
what is "emo"? who are these the people? where do they come from? what do they do? i assume the term applies to guys, since, emotional pretty much always applies to girls!
though i can't define "emo" i assume Emo acts the opposite way as alpha male bro. overtly sensitive, loves talking in full sentences, emo talks about himself constantly, maybe in less-than-obvious way. emo digs morrissey but doesnt know or care that he's a good musician. emo is not a good musician, though he probably plays or owns a guitar. emo likes a few seminal emo bands (though i'm not quite sure which ones, i bet connor ovaltine). emo doesn't rail against poser bands, but he probably says, "interpol is OK. but [emo band] is X" note: he doesnt say better though he means it. he says something irrelavant that sounds like technical music jargon w/ cool authority. emo flirts like a girl.
is emo just another way to get into teen girl panties? people throw the word thrown around. what is it? more than a musical convention, like the troubador?
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**content added: is conner ovaltine "emo"? he's got that lame scene hair-cut? i saw him for the first time today! now if only i'd never heard his music. . . the x-mas stuff is OK, though. my x-mas always creepy, creepy & spanish. . . w/ robots.
do venue owners control the DJ's playlist? take "world famous" CBGB's in NYC as your example. who knows what CBGB stands for? "country, bluegrass & blues!" that's right, kids! CBGBs isn't just a clever name, it's honky-tonk club! that changed format to accomodate a commercial need (for people to hear live, loud music by guys who can could only kinda play their instruments). the owner of CGBG's he seen it all, but he does not like punk rock. object lesson! let people tell you what they want to hear. don't assume you know better. owners: let your DJs do their job! DJs: promote deserving bands (even if they'll steal your thunder). "i like to teach the world to sing & bathe it in Diet-Coke(tm)"
why do people stay in relationships? counter-intuitive, fine. i don't think most relationships can possibly be that interesting. you're probably only doing domestic bullshit. so: no reason to stay or to get out since not much is happening anyway & you're 'comfortable' w so-&-so, or "this is the situation i'm in" (that's an actual quote by a real person!) --it's a nash equilibrium, game theory kids-- spin it 'hallmark' or 'lovesong of j. alfred prufrock' but basically you're bored. why stay? i date restaurants. eat at 1 or 2 places for months, then never eat there again. . .
THE ANSWER you settle for the person yr dating, you go back w/ them b/c "i want to make this work" not b/c they're "familiar" (the intuitive answer!). who yr dating is one of life's most basic arrangements. settling in yr relationships is a primer for settling in every other aspect of yr life. (unless you just don't care, & then i applaud you, you hero!) it's not "so & so is familiar." you're just familiar w/ settling, you sucker! ANOTHER ANSWER (a real live teen girl disagrees) Q: why do girls date douche-bags? my answer: b/c when a good guy leaves, her friends say, "oh he was good! how'd you let him get away!?" as they move in to strike! remember, not only sharks like shiney things! actual girl's answer: douche-bag guys trick us. or we feel bad for them.
dr. felix spector on my side.
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someone posted the question below on craigslist. i repost here for everyone w/ my detailed response.
"have you noticed that you can go to a cool bar, packed with tons of young people (20's and 30's) but no one is meeting each other? why do people stick to their own groups of 3 or 4 friends and not try to have a conversation with a cute stranger also at the bar? are we all afraid of that "pack mentality", that the girl wont respond around her friends? are you boys thinking just because we girls have male friends, that we are "with" them? is everyone in williamsburg, brooklyn heights, columbia heights and park slope in a relationship?
let me know if there are any bars in brooklyn with a friendlier mentality towards meeting people!"
.1 Ladies go out specifically to not talk to or meet people. I want to be crystal clear: their strategy is TO NOT MEET people. She might have a drink in public with a friend (i.e. "We're just chilling by ourselves tonight.") Or she may get some queasy self-aggrandizing satisfaction at withholding her company –total ego.
.2 Ladies are paranoid. You have reason to be. Dudes: what if ½ the folks in the world offered you –I like to call – "favorable interactions" whenever you leave the house, or they stare at you like you're blind & can't see them doing this? Even if I am not trying to "pick up" a girl –that strategy basically doesn't work anyway– she assumes I am & looks at me like I'm a date rapist or something. Then, when she realizes I am acting as any normal person would, making "appropriate for all ages" conversation, she takes offense to my
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