Alec Holland sends me word of this must-see house show:
Thursday, May 3rd 122 E. Dalzell 8:00 PM $5.00 BYOB THE CLOROX GIRLS (Portland, Oregon) www.myspace.com/cloroxgirls
Here’s The Clorox Girls website, and here’s plenty of YouTube action.
Monday, April 30, 2007
The Clorox Girls at Cooper Manor
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Saturday, April 28, 2007
New Mount
And I didn’t even have to prostitute myself ....
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Anchovy is my dwarven hunter in the Muradin realm riding her new white ram. Her pet is a tiger from Stanglethorn Vale named ShereKhan. It took me a week of farming to raise the gold to buy the mount.
Friday, April 27, 2007
ROCK FIGHT! KSCL 91.3 FM Friday, April 27, 2007, 6 to 8
Hello again, chronic connoisseurs!
Friday is here with another ROCK FIGHT! on KSCL 91.3 fm.
It’s another fine week for exploring some old underground tunes. Check out The Dead Milkmen, Gary Numan, Talking Heads and other 80s germs. Move on to the 90s with Beck and Radiohead. Then settle into this century with Bloc Party, The Bird and The Bee and Modest Mouse. Plenty of great tunes.
The after party is at Cooper Manor, 122 E. Dalzell here in Shreveport. God Stewart, Kenny and The Flesh and Elevado are gonna blow your eardrums out. Doors open at 8:00. Cover is $5.00. Be there!
And tune in ROCK FIGHT! from 6 to 8. The podcast will be up tomorrow.
Here’s the poop:
Song Artist ----------------------------------------------------- Hotwax Beck My Fair Lady The Bird And The Bee Little Thoughts Bloc Party Plans Bloc Party Punk Rock Girl The Dead Milkmen Smart Patrol / Mr. DNA Devo M62 Song (Four Tet Remix) Doves Bingo Master The Fall Earthworm Flipper Are Friends Electric? Gary Numan & Tubeway Army New Genious (Brother) Gorillaz War Anthem Hammers Of Misfortune Elena Juana Molina The Insect Eater Lene Lovich New Church Lords Of The New Church New Gods Meat Puppets Float On Modest Mouse Everything Is On The One Parliament Attack Public Image Ltd Under The House Public Image Ltd. No Surprises Radiohead Blitzkrieg Bop Ramones Halloween Siouxsie & The Banshees Ugli Skinny Puppy Rain King Sonic Youth I'm Not In Love Talking Heads Pulled Up Talking Heads The Wrong Way TV On The Radio Back In Flesh Wall Of Voodoo Runaways XTC The Space Between Zero 7
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Milk and Mounts
A couple of things today ....
First, thanks to Erik Marcus at vegan.com for turning me on to this hilarious segment from The Colbert Report. I hope you remember it with your next glass of milk. Is there any reason to drink that stuff? Evidence shows it actually leeches calcium from your bones, and you can get plenty of calcium from green, leafy vegetables and enriched soy and rice milks. Rice milk, by the way, is wonderfully delicious and is even yummier on cereal.
Here’s the video:
Next, you might know that I play a lot of World of Warcraft. It occupies a major portion of my free time. In the game, when you reach a high enough level, you can buy a mount to ride to different areas. Riding is fast, and there’s a certain amount of prestige associated with your mount.
However, rides ain’t cheap. In fact, the most sought after rides, epic mounts, cost thousands of gold. So it’s no surprise that a real-world market has developed for in-game gold. You can buy gold with real dollars at certain websites, and it gets delivered to your WoW character’s account. I’ve done it before -- $15.00 for 100 gold.
One player, though, needed to raise 5,000 gold to purchase her epic mount. She came up with an interesting solution. Check out these Craig’s List personal ads.
That’s right -- supposedly a female player prostituted herself to raise the money for her epic mount. The 5,000 gold translates to about $700.00. Redonkulous! Still, I wonder if her quest for an epic mount indeed procured her an ... ahem ... epic mount.
I only need 140 gold for my ride. What can I do for you?
Friday, April 20, 2007
ROCK FIGHT! KSCL 91.3 FM Friday, April 20, 2007, 6 to 8
Hello, militant musicologists.
It’s Friday, so time for another ROCK FIGHT! on KSCL 91.3 FM.
This week it’s an extravagant double-play fiesta! You get two from the Butthole Surfers, The Dead Milkmen, Sonic Youth and Franz Ferdinand, and sort of two by Radiohead -- one song from them and a very cool jazz cover of “Paranoid Android” by Brad Mehldau. Plenty of other great stuff, too.
So, tune in KSCL from 6 to 8 tonight while you kill Shadowmaw Panthers for those blokes in Stranglethorn Vale!
Sorry, no podcast this week, but you can listen to some older ones.
Here’s the playlist:
Song Artist ------------------------------------------------- 52 Girls The B-52's Manipulation The Black Angels Paranoid Android Brad Mehldau Human Cannonball Butthole Surfers In The Cellar Butthole Surfers I Love You, You Big Dummy Captain Beefheart Lay Low The Church Coup D'Etat Circle Jerks Capital Radio One The Clash Everything's Goin’ On The Dead Meadow Big Deal The Dead Milkmen My White Devil Echo & The Bunnymen Lipstick Vogue Elvis Costello Take Me Out Franz Ferdinand Cheating On You Franz Ferdinand Meantime The Futureheads Cinderella The Fuzztones Tiptoe Goldfrapp Antenna Kraftwerk High Rise Ladytron Narcisist The Libertines Ride The Sky Lightning Bolt Eurochild Massive Attack We Will Rock You Melt Banana Mental Hopscotch Missing Persons What People Are Made Of Modest Mouse The Village New Order Take California Propellerheads The National Anthem Radiohead Kill Yr. Idols Sonic Youth Shadow Of A Doubt Sonic Youth Promise Violent Femmes Always After You The Walkmen Suffice To Say The Yachts
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Two dissidents, Zinn and Chomsky, on Democracy Now!
This week Democracy Now! has been featuring both Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky. The two noted humanitarian dissidents commented on a variety of matters, especially, as you might guess, the Iraq War. Here are some of their more piquant observations from the transcripts.
Zinn urges soldiers to practice civil disobedience from Thoreau's example:
And so, that (Thoreau's essay on civil disobedience) stands as a classic statement for Americans, that it's honorable and right to not to pay your taxes or to refuse military service or to disobey your government when you believe that your government is wrong. And so, the hope is that today more soldiers who are asked to go to Iraq, more young people who are asked to enlist in the war against Iraq, will read Thoreau's essay on civil disobedience, will take its advice to heart, realize that the government is not holy, that what's holy is human life and human freedom and the right of people to resist authority. And so, Thoreau has great lessons for us today.
Zinn on patriotism:
So today, for instance, the highest act of patriotism I suggest, would be opposing the war in Iraq and calling for a withdrawal of troops from Iraq. Simply because everything about the war violates the fundamental principles of equality, life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, not just for Americans, but for people in another part of the world. So, yes, patriotism today requires citizens to be active on many, many different fronts to oppose government policies on the war, government policies which have taken trillions of dollars from this country's treasury and used it for war and militarism. That's what patriotism would require today.
Chomsky on the Iraq war:
This is one of the worst catastrophes in military history and also in political history. The most recent studies of the Red Cross show that Iraq has suffered the worst decline in child mortality, infant mortality, an increase in infant mortality known. But it’s since 1990. That is, it's a combination of the affect of the murderers' and brutal sanctions regime, which we don’t talk much about, which devastated society through the 1990's and strengthened Saddam Hussein, compelled the population to rely on him for survival, which probably saved him from the fate of a whole long series of other tyrants who were overthrown by their own people supported by the U.S.
And then came the war on top of it which has simply increased the horrors. The decline is unprecedented. The increase in infant mortality is unprecedented; it's now below the level of, worse than some of the countries in sub-Saharan Africa. It's one index of what's happened. The most probable measure of deaths in a study sponsored by M.I.T. incidentally carried out by leading specialists in Iraq and here last October was about 650,000 killed, soon to be pushing a million. There are several million people fled including the large part of the professional classes, people who could in principal help rebuild the country. And without going on, it's a hideous catastrophe and getting worse.
Chomsky on whether the U.S. can "win" the Iraq War:
It depends on what you mean by win. The United States certainly has the capacity to wipe the country out. If that's winning, yeah, you can win. It's -- in terms of the goals that the United States attempted to achieve, the U.S. Government, not the -- the United States, to install a client regime, which would be obedient to the United States, which would permit military bases, which would allow U.S. and British corporations to control the energy resources and so on, in terms of achieving that goal, I don't know if they can achieve that. But that they could destroy the country, that's beyond question.
Zinn on the same:
Noam said, yes, we could win in Iraq by destroying all of Iraq. The Russians could have won Afghanistan by destroying all of Afghanistan. We could have won in Vietnam by dropping nuclear bombs instead of killing two million people in Vietnam, killing 10 million people in Vietnam. And that would be considered victory, who would take satisfaction in that?
Zinn applies the Viet Nam lesson to Iraq:
Just as today when they say, oh, there will be civil war, there will be chaos if we withdraw from Iraq. There is civil war, there is chaos and no one is pointing out what we have done to Iraq. Two million people driven from their homes and children in dire straits, no water, no food. And so the remembrance of Vietnam is important if we are going to make it clear that we must withdraw from Iraq and find another way, not for the United States, for some international group, preferably a group composed mostly of representatives of Arab nations to come into Iraq and help mediate whatever strife there is among the various fractions in Iraq. But certainly the absolute necessary first step in Iraq now is what we should have done in Vietnam in 1967 and that is simply get out as fast as ships and planes can carry us out.
Chomsky on the current U.S political climate for progressive change:
There are periods of regression. We're now in a period of regression, but if you look at the cycle over time, it's upwards. And there's no limits that it can't reach.
Monday, April 16, 2007
Kenny and The Flesh at Cooper Manor 04/15/2007
There’s some new photos of Kenny and The Flesh performing at Cooper Manor Sunday, April 15, at my Flickr site.
Kenny and The Flash get better every time I see them. They were particularly good last night. A violent double drum and bass assault with cracked-out shens from singer Kevin. Moments reminded me of the best of Lightning Bolt, Death from Above 1979 and Melt Banana. My opinion is that these guys are the best band in town right now, and you should catch a show. I also think they are ready to take it on the road.
Also, there’s this recent message from Alec:
ATTENTION: No more punk shows at COOPER MANOR.
I tried to be kind to you guys and open my home up so that rad bands could come through and we could all have fun and thrash together, but I guess that my gift wasn't good enough for some of you.
As many of you know, I had a show here last night with ANS and Opposite Of God where me and the bands were selling records from our own personal collections. As a promoter, sound guy, and bassist in one of the bands playing last night, I don't exactly have a lot of time to be watching over the records I had set out. I thought, "Hey, let me enlist some trust into some of these possibly rad kids to actually let me know if they're interested in buying records," but no. Instead, I end up ripped off. It appears as though all the LPs I DIDN'T sell are now missing as well as most of the 7" I had out.
Due to the thievery of little punk shit heads that I allowed into my home, there will be no more thrash or hardcore shows to speak of at COOPER MANOR. I hope you guys have a lot of fun not being able to have any bands that you like come through Shreveport anymore.
I will continue to book what I think are radder shows with foreign bands and bands I already have booked, but you will not see another band with 1-2-1-2 drum beats come through again. You did it to yourselves. It was fun while it lasted.
Friday, April 6, 2007
Internet Vacation
I am taking an Internet vacation to concetrate on new writing and music. I'll be back sometime after April 13, 2007.
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
ROCK FIGHT! KSCL 91.3 FM Friday, April 6, 2007, 6 to 8
Hi again!
Friday is almost here, and so is another edition of ROCK FIGHT! on KSCL 91.3 fm.
It’s Good Friday, so this is an extra good show. It’s mostly oldies this time, with plenty of punk/new wave classics like “Rock Lobster”, “Praying To The Aliens,” “Jocko Homo” and “All Cats Are Grey.” But there’s also plenty of new stuff, too, from the likes of Beck, Bloc Party and Ted Leo & The Pharmacists. And there’s electronica from Colder, Goldfrapp and the chillicious Ulrich Schnauss.
So tune in! And call in: (318) 869-5297.
Also, new for this week, the entire show playlist is available as a podcast. Visit rockfight.podbean.com to listen, or use this miniplayer:
Here’s the poop:
Song Artist ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Rock Lobster The B-52's Motorcade Beck Hope For The Heartbeat (Remix) Bill Nelson The Tulips Bloc Party Tornadoes Butthole Surfers Crazy Love Colder All Cats Are Grey The Cure Moonage Daydream (Alternate Take) David Bowie Ashes To Ashes David Bowie Peter Bazooka The Dead Milkmen Jocko Homo Devo Airbag Easystar All Stars With Horace Andy Nocturnal Me Echo & The Bunnymen Thursday The Futureheads Praying To The Aliens Gary Numan & The Tubeway Army U.K. Girls (Physical) Goldfrapp Birds Fly (Whisper To A Scream) Icicle Works In A Hole The Jesus And Mary Chain The Twist Klaus Nomi The Model (London) Kraftwerk Weekend Ladytron Sinister In The State Of Hope Loney, Dear Computer Games Mi-Sex Gods Of Aquarius Nina Hagen Bunker Soldiers Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Christine Siouxsie & The Banshees Shake The Sheets Ted Leo & The Pharmacists Black And Blue Tilly & The Wall Playhouses TV On The Radio As If You've Never Been Away Ulrich Schnauss How We Livin' The USA Is A Monster
Monday, April 2, 2007
Let's Do Some Scovilles, Man!
I have been hearing recently from various sources that vegetarianism is “unmanly,” and that conversely, eating meat is macho. Of course you see ads plugging meat as a manly food, dismissing tofu as something sissy. These attitudes spread over into other media like opinion columns, blogs, conversations, etc.
I am not going to bother arguing the ridiculous notion that a man’s diet determines how macho he is. It’s just absurd on the face of it. Instead, I’ll just point out two things.
First, how macho is meat exactly? How much manliness does it take to go to the supermarket and buy some packaged meat from an animal that was cruelly tortured during its life and suffered an agonizing death? I’d say none. And I thought that people who torture animals are regarded more as psychopaths and bullies rather than exemplars of manly virtues. Does torturing animals to obtain meat somehow change that?
Second, I can easily think of one food more macho than meat. It’s a vegetable, and it’s so manly it even has it’s own measuring scale. I’m talking peppers and Scoville Heat Units. You’ll seldom see a man back down from the so-called challenge of eating steak, but offer him a few habanero peppers and see him squirm.
The hottest pepper in the world is from India, the primeval home of vegetarianism. Pictured here is the Indian pepper Naga Jolokia (naga morich, bhut jolokia), the chili tested hottest in the world at 1.04M SHU, enough to blister your mouth! How does that compare to other peppers? Here’s a handy scale courtesy of Wikipedia:
| Scoville rating | Type of pepper |
|---|---|
| 15,000,000 - 16,000,000 | Pure capsaicin |
| 9,100,000 | Nordihydrocapsaicin |
| 2,000,000 - 5,300,000 | Standard US Grade pepper spray |
| 855,000 - 1,041,427 | Naga Jolokia |
| 876,000 - 970,000 | Dorset Naga |
| 350,000 - 577,000 | Red Savina™ Habanero |
| 100,000 - 350,000 | Habanero Chile |
| 100,000 - 350,000 | Scotch Bonnet |
| 100,000 - 200,000 | Jamaican Hot Pepper |
| 50,000 - 100,000 | Thai Pepper, Malagueta Pepper, Chiltepin Pepper |
| 30,000 - 50,000 | Cayenne Pepper |
| 10,000 - 23,000 | Serrano Pepper |
| 7,000 - 8,000 | Tabasco Sauce (Habanero) |
| 5,000 - 10,000 | Wax Pepper |
| 2,500 - 8,000 | Jalapeño Pepper |
| 2,500 - 5,000 | Tabasco Sauce |
| 1,500 - 2,500 | Rocotillo Pepper |
| 1,000 - 1,500 | Poblano Pepper |
| 600 - 800 | Tabasco Sauce (Green Pepper) |
| 500 - 1000 | Anaheim pepper |
| 100 - 500 | Pimento, Pepperoncini |
| 0 | No heat, Bell Pepper |
What’s your manliness level? Personally, while I won’t dine on animal corpses, I’ll be happy to throw down a few Habaneros with you. That’s the hottest I’ve had, and I wouldn’t turn down a try at something hotter. Would you? C’mon, sissy!
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