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The Nomad's don't grok firearms. Nazz Junior wants an air gun for the holidays. I said "no". He asked why and I told him because he would shoot his eye out. Yep- really happened, just like the movie ! In other news... DON'T ASK DON'T TELL has been repealed !!!!! I support the right of anyone to volunteer to serve in the armed forces. Especially if it is not me! Gay soldier's can shoot just as straight as hetero's. Though I would prefer that there were no reasons to have [...]
When was the last time you really got knocked on your ass by a new album? Frank Turner's Rock & Roll did it for me. Five folk-punk songs all about the joys and pains of our lifeblood. Think Billy Bragg or Ted Leo. It's not busking, but Turner's voice is out in front of (mostly) acoustic guitar, piano and drums. Turner leads his band in sparsely instrumentalized odes to what keeps many of us alive. In the call to arms opener "I Still Believe" - he sings "Who would've thought [...]
I had to take a business trip last week, which included flying into Minnesota in sub zero weather on a small little "puddle-jumper" plane (while Otis Redding and Buddy Holly flashed through my mind) and then driving 150 miles in a snowstorm. At night. With no lights on the highway. And the snow flying right into our windshield, making the experience much like traveling into hyperspace. The driving experience for several hours was very much like this: as cars were crashed on the highway embankments. The trip [...]
"I'll be all around in the dark. I'll be ever'-where - wherever you can look. Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad - I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry an' they know supper's ready. An' when the people are eatin' the stuff they raise, and livin' in the houses they build - I'll be there, too."
30 years ago today, John Lennon was senselessly murdered. Murdered. Murdered! My stomach still churns when I think about it. The previous generation had John F. Kennedy's assassination. We had John Lennon being murdered. Senseless. Disgusting. Appalling. Nauseating. How can something like that have happened?
Here's your morning wake up call. Ugly, ugly people gonna drop the bomb! Play loud and watch the cattle die.
My mom in law is awesome. Everyone should have one just like her. She's the kind of person who leaves money in our house for us to find and takes a train for an hour just to bring us soup when we're not feeling well. She's also Brazilian and a bit wacky (in a good way!). Anyway- she was looking to buy some mambo and meringe music and I said I would hook her up. She especially wanted some Tito Puente stuff so I took care of it and now I have been listening to Tito Puente all week! [...]
Nazz-A-Palooza went great. We didn't finish up until after 4 am and even got interviewed for Public Access TV. I think I described my band BACON THONG (which was the 2nd band playing that nite) as sounding like the music that the Hawaiins played whilst they sacrificed lepers to the volcano gods. Or something. With the headlining and mighty CATERWAUL OF SOUND , we proceeded to end with a 20 minute jam that involved jumping off moving office chairs, "Sunshine Of Your Love", "Whole Lotta Love", "Blitzkrieg Bop", "Black To Comm", "Louie Louie", "Interstellar Overdrive" and some [...]
Great googly moogly!!!! I am playing with 2 bands tonite in Noo Yawk City !!!!! On Broadway! With the mighty Caterwaul Of Sound (and yes, it's mixing time for the album) and Bacon Thong!!! Punk rock!
Do those pills make you hallucinate that your wife is in front of you? Does this syringe make me look thin? Don't Go Looking For It, It's Not There Anymore This Was All A Dream
So sayeth my pal "C" about yerz truly. And she should know. Well, "C" is a true friend and the reality checks and back watching we have done for each other over most of this century have been both mutually beneficial and destructive. And... since this is my blog, I wanna wish her a happy freaking birthday. As befits her coolness, her party is at some whacked out Bulgarian Bar that's owned or something by one of the guys from Gogol Bordello . I'm not quite sure what to expect aside from crazy music and [...]
So, it's been almost a year since I was backstabbed/dumped/shitcanned from the job that I had given part of my heart and soul to over the previous 14 years. To commemorate the occasion, I am thinking of one of the following "tributes": mailing a dead rat to my ex-boss mailing something far more rank and fecal to my ex-boss signing my ex-boss up for every heinous mailing list available summoning up some demon to destroy his family sending [...]
If you haven't been watching THE WALKING DEAD ... you have been missing the best TV show of the year. Totally gory, totally violent and pretty faithful to the original source material . Below, you can see the first episode. And speaking of soul-less maggot infested pus-filled walking automatons with no regard for anything but their own base needs, has anyone read this "true crime" book yet?
Our rhythm guitar player is the guy that really brings the sick tunes to the band. He's got real long black hair and a real long dark beard. And he really likes evil death metal , He can quote chapter and verse on Norweigen bLACK mETAL. WELL MO, IN AN ATTEMPT GET CLEAN IN MIND AND SOUL AND BODY TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH Relief ORGS & TO ULTIMATELY JOIN THE PEACE CORPS, i\s on a 2 week relief trip to the jungle and deserts of Africa. To be exact ... Uganda. [...]
It's my birfdae dis weekend. I'm gonna shave my head. And get drunk. And feel sorry for myself. That's my presents to myself. My presents to YOU are below: Here's some music from bands that you should research, fall in love with and support. They play both kinds of music: Punk & Rawk. Action 45 - California based mofo's who can actually play play their instruments. Sorta like Social Distortion meets Cock Sparrer. There's alot going on in the music... all of it good. Anthemic and tight. Sorta like the [...]
Well kids, we had 2 years to fix the fuck-ups of Dubya. And despite great progress (national health, the end of old style lobbying, a President that actually CARES about people and not as much about corporations), our brilliantly impatient nation is about to shit through an entire gaggle of morons into office that will gum up the political works for the next two years. Then, in 2012, The Repugnikkkans will be able to point to the political clusterfuck they [...]
All dem bloggers and foot stompers are making their special mixes for this weekend. So, I made a special Halloween mix that may or may not be entirely relevant to the concept of All Hallows Eve. Life's a crapshoot, y'know? You can be assured that each of these carefully selected songs will be priceless additions to yer rekkid collection... or something. Hey, you can trust your old pal Nazz, cancha? And, I know you'll all be watching [...]
It can be for older, drunken douchebags too! Like me! The annual CMJ fest in NY brings 100's of wet behind the ear little scumbuckets; who think My Chemical Romance is an oldies act and have only heard of Social Distortion from Hot Topic. Into this maelstrom of ignorance and hipsetrism, your intrepid reporter ventured forth. No so much to see a billion bands that are weak and fey enuff to make Justin Bieber feel manly; but to sample the kinds of bands that I dig- YEAH, PUNK ROCK! This past Saturday I said fukkit and went [...]
Conversation on Bleeker Street NYC: Oct 22, 2010: N - So, you wanna smoke some weed? C - I only smoke homegrown. I am disgusted by the Mexican Cartels killing people over weed. N - Oh, so you only smoke free range weed? C - You're an asshole ------------------------------ -------------------- And I almost got into big big trouble with Los Federales the other day. Suffice to say that one should [...]
Bleedin Out
Sleigh Bells - Demons (Official Music Video)
The Rains of Castamere by The National
A-Trak & Dillon Francis - "Money Makin'" (Official Video)
DIIV "How Long Have You Known?" (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
Nas - Daughters
Bison - Quill
Neutral Milk Hotel- Aeroplane Over the Sea
Shinichi Osawa – Big Beach Mix 2012
Mr Fogg - Eleven
