| The Illustrated: Alphabaggage |
[Jun. 28th, 2007|02:44 pm] |
The Illustrated: Alphabaggage CD (Livid records 002) came in today.
We'll be selling these beasts at the show tonight at Pastimes Pub with Mt. Awesome. $10.00, usually, but we're selling some for $5.00 tonight as a release special. Come get some.
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| reposted from Kenny's journal - Tim Kinsella being awesome |
[Oct. 2nd, 2006|11:19 am] |
"Beirut. The Patriot Act. Palestine. Africa. Wal-Mart. Clear Channel. Peak oil. Global devastation. The backward talk of those in power that dominates and suffocates our cultural discourse. Overpopulation. The dawning of neo-feudalist Theocracy in America. It's a busy, interesting place we've got here. Lots of information aimed at us. The hidden hand of power.
But beyond our control, dark energy, string theory, conceptions of an infinite mutiverse render any issues of free obsolete. We are really only allowed questions. WE can't understand anything. How could we? We live at the lip of the bubble of understanding of our own designs - never not curious, and never able to poke through.
So my point - I do have one - is that in our world, the most basic requirement we share is kept in balance only if it's shaken in many directions at the same time. And what can any of us do to help rectify the situation? We must integrate our politics into our lifestyle, acknowledge that every bridge, hook, melody and sales strategy has political demensions.
In short, I am asking that every band that appeared in the August 2006 issue of Alternative Press break up.
Sorry.
Desperate times require desperate measures. There's no good reason why "ex-rockstar" shouldn't be the most common job in the future. It's obvious from flipping through an issue of this magazine that there are too many bands, all trying in different ways to look and sound like each other. It's unsustainable. Why don't you guys all save yourself the inevitable worry and humiliation the future holds, break up now, and be the first mass movement in cutural history to self-consciously commit suicide?
There are pictures of maybe half a dozen people in that issue that I know, trust, respect and consider my friends. And I'm sorry to ask this of you guys, some of you have helped us in the past, and I appreciate it, but our country needs you. Your bands have to break up. You guys on the cover (one of you was 13 in 2001, so you're now at draft age), we need you to quit.
Even you guys that just had a thumbnail band photo in an ad, sorry. Collateral damage, I guess. However you each choose to understand it, let's all agree we need to draw the line clearly. Every band whose name is even mentioned in the August 2006 issue of AP must break up immediately. So, Cute Is What We Aim For, consider your new aim ansering the call of our country. Underoath, pledge allegiance to the freedom of your fellow citizens. Circa Survive, you ran an add, and I'm sorry, that's enough. You must not survive.
I know this seems like a bummer to you guys, but think about it. Throughout history, music has been at the center of every culture. Music is what people have always had between them to help each other understand how to live. The values of a culture are hiddin within its music. And I dont mean that in a Christian-rock or straight-edge way. I mean our culture is not only sick, but its taking the whole world down with it, and its symptoms are in song structures and rituals of performance.
The simplistic, sensational, emotionalistim of soaring crescendos - whose success or failure relate only to how familiar they seem on first listen - must become tired and redundant by design. When you reach your saturation point and can no longer react to these octave chords' urgent demands, then what? Will all displays of emotion seem silly? Mustn't it be true, like the boy who cried wolf, that every feigned-spontaneous emotional signifier thrust upon you by some band will just deaden your sense of empathy in the future? Perhaps even in a real-world situation, with real-world consequences? If TV and reality can be so interwined, past signifiers of rebellion is rebellion, and this is punk rock, why not?
Don't the sensationalist requirements of vicarious catharsis ask so much, that our empathy will be spent before it ever has a chance to blossom? I mean, I might not be able to understand when someone is hurting - and in turn know how to help them - if my formative experiences with understanding emotions is via these fashionable men and women.
But it's not too late. If the bands break up, maybe we can have music again in the future, and we will be able to hear it for what it is - not what it's being sold as.
I know this is a lot to ask of bands. And no one 22-year-old New Jersey kid is to blame - it's the design that is flawed. But one can't stay quiet. One has a responsibility to stand up for what one sees as god and right in the world, and if my plea can make a difference in even one young band's life - if just one band breaks up - my work here will have been worth it."
-Tim Kinsella |
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| From Taryn's Post: M(i)nge show! |
[Sep. 29th, 2006|11:50 am] |
Tonight is M(i)nge's first show. It is just a little taste. Just a little tease. An accoustic set, at BIG E's. I hope to see as many of you out there as possible. This is a battle of the bands. It is judged by crowd response so we need all of our friends support. No cover to get in. They serve food coffee and condoms.
Big E's is located in the same plaza as the FLY. It is right across the street from Ringling School of Art and Buger King.
Come out and bring your friends. Come get dirty with Me and the rest of Minge.
9pm @ Big E's
I want to see as many familar faces as possible...and twice as many new ones. bring it!
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I'm in M(i)nge too, by the way.
-Matt |
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[Sep. 22nd, 2006|07:17 am] |
I used to write in my journal nearly every day... I think I'm just learning and doing a lot right now.
It's incredibly important for to not lose touch with the journal habit. I have to make time to routinely reflect on everything. Whether I post it publically is irrelevant. I'll be doing myself an incredible disservice if I lose touch with the habit.
-Matt |
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[Sep. 8th, 2006|01:59 pm] |
checking my email a million times a day is no different than hanging around all day smoking pot or playing video games.
-Matt |
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[Sep. 4th, 2006|01:31 am] |
Chris Carrington: I'm doing fine, how about you?
Pheoblum: Got your call, will call back tomorrow!
LJ: You're alright, I guess. More journaling to come, if I'm lucky and you're bored.
Minge: Yer all badasses.
I'm pretty goddamn happy.
-Matt |
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[Aug. 25th, 2006|05:09 pm] |
Very few people will care what tragic things are keeping you from accomplishing your shit. In fact, often, people will capitalize on it. Therefore, mourn deeply and hard while you can. Then, cut right through the moment.
Happiness is an act of will. Fight hard, and do not stop. Do not fight to keep from losing - fight to win.
On a related note, I will tighten my game and say loud and proud, "fuck hesitation and awkwardness." All grief, unless expressed in art, is private hecceforth. It will not intrude on my day to day activities.
-Matt |
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[Aug. 25th, 2006|02:13 pm] |
Rachmaninov makes everything better, including rapid-fire work bullets whizzing by my head.
iPods and cellphones are incredibly powerful devices. I'm getting into them.
I privelege written communication over phone calls. Phone calls are for chatting, not laser-tight organization (which I am gaining ground on, but still uphill fighting as a result of my *current* environment and historical upbringing). Email, text messages - these things can be referenced. If people feel too free to use their mouths, they dump in all kinds of useless loads onto the information they should be transmitting. The meaningful signals are drowned out by noise - I eventually just see mouths moving, and my flight response is immediately triggered out of self-defense for my brain.
...its like mixing gatorade (meaningful data) with gallons of toilet water (bullshit talk candy-coating). I'm all for chit/chat and shit/shat, but it/that has a time and place and a place. On a related note, I frequently get a lot of my literature reading done on the can.
My analogies have been foul lately. I've been pretty fouled-out lately by a lot of things that needlessly waste energy. I'd like to shit these things out of my soul.
I'm happy, but frequently disgruntled by mechanical deficiencies in humans (including my own (human)).
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-Matt |
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[Aug. 24th, 2006|07:22 am] |
Facts go a long way.
I think maybe one of the reasons I've been avoiding LJ is because I'm recovering from a heavilly introspective turn.
I still have to remind myself that journaling is a powerful and useful thing for personal growth, I might just be a little dissatisfied with some of the results of my introspection hall of echoes - dissappointed enough to introduce as many external sources of challenge and stimulus as possible to provide new echoes.
Another part of my slight distaste is that progressively, I'm seeing the blog/web2.0 thing as a sort of discovery that "everyone has a voice now - with which they can be inane at lightspeed!" More aint always better, and I'm feeling the "aint always" a lot right now. There's great stuff out there, but lately, it seems like peeling an artichoke dipped in shit sauce.
-Matt |
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| Here's to new friends, new music, and not toasting or aknowledging SHIT as a gentleman. |
[Aug. 21st, 2006|01:17 am] |
Doing cool things, feeling awesome about them, feeling a-ok with silly shit, not giving a shit about the standard fare.
I haven't been making a lot of posts lately. I'm not exactly sure why.
My dad tells me that he was always afraid he wasn't going to make it. I never seem to be afraid of that, really, and its not for lack of knowing about other people's standards. Not that I am a misunderstood artist/rebel, a beautiful and unique snowflake, or even anything else like that... I just like what I like, I guess. The rest is invisible either out of an act of will or lack of buy-in.
All the trappings are not completely necessary, but some seem to help.
Hm.
This is why I haven't been making posts lately.
Bryan is coming back to SRQ. I almost said coming "home," but I'm not sure how he would feel about that.
-Matt |
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[Aug. 14th, 2006|09:21 pm] |
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...and Krishna said, "resist what resists in you and become yourself." |
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[Aug. 14th, 2006|04:19 pm] |
No, I am not wearing lipstick in this userpic. I'm just not into lipstick.
-Matt |
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| b_ll l_ghtn_ng V_g_n_ AY EY IY EMPHASIOSIS |
[Aug. 14th, 2006|09:47 am] |
I'm committed to doing the correct things in the correct order, conserving energy, increasing stamina, sharpening my mind with attention to detail and thoroughness, staying organized, and a million other competencies important for a functioning human doing/being. I'm committed to being dangerous and vital.
My eyes are burning. Partly out of exhaustion, partly illumination.
I like being around humans that I like. Recently, the amplitude has increased on this. There are good people out there, and I occasionally find them (or they find me, or are found at me).
The fight continues. Make the exactly correct cuts.
I like my use of language best when I unthinkingly break in usage of correct english, and the result ends up being meaningful and useful.
-Matt |
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[Aug. 10th, 2006|07:22 pm] |
...clearing my mind.
I have good masters, all of whom I have chosen in recognition that they are my betters in very particular arenas.
I went through a very long vacation through the underworld, where certain things just sort of slowly disintegrated around me. Some things were good about it, but some things were not. Regeneration feels like a feeding frenzy, or like the corpse bits of Frankensteins Monster having electricity re-animate the disparate parts. This is what casting off dead skin is like.
Everyone should be throroughly manipulated by someone other than their parents at least once in their life, hopefully when things are going well for them, and hopefully just far enough to where it takes them to the threshhold of total disintegration and despair. It might help a lot of people out there to take a page out of Buddha's book and learn to nullify desire... so long as they subsequently reach the breaking point where they actively decide what desires to choose to cultivate. The immovable point? I've found a few. One of them is building upon a first principle of an instantaneously invokable willingness to die, so that you may constantly choose the terms by which you live.
-Matt |
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[Aug. 10th, 2006|02:12 pm] |
Business Philosophy Cliche? Go ahead, keep taking your cues from people paid to lampoon others. Quick question: are those critics sharing their checks with you?
Note to self: "Run with people who challenge you, not apologize for you." Truth is just as true when its not shrouded in poetic or comedic/ironic tar. Feathering the metaphor in its service is for the sake of others' understanding of it. I don't candy-coat my own medicine.
If I had to choose between being recruited by a business or a group of casual drug abusers, I would sure as shit choose the former. Make no mistake though, both parties actively recruit.
-Matt |
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[Aug. 8th, 2006|11:47 pm] |
Ball Lightning Vagina is go!!!
-Matt |
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[Aug. 8th, 2006|09:30 am] |
I have a zero tolerance policy for a lot of things these days. One or two civil warnings for tresspassers, then, I'm prepared to go to engage in a not-so-nice way.
I like being nice and goofy, but I also like being unrelenting and pissed off from time to time. Once I fixate on something, it's hard for me to let go. Regardless of whether or not these are good qualities, they are mine, and I plan to keep them.
-Matt |
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[Aug. 7th, 2006|05:23 pm] |
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Seriously...você quer treinar? |
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[Aug. 6th, 2006|04:09 pm] |
I knew this picture would be floating around somewhere.
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[Aug. 4th, 2006|10:13 am] |
Good call about that Huey Lewis and The News thing.
-Matt |
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