PUNK!!!!!

As I’ve made quite apparent, I’m freakishly obsessed with music. Classical and Metal, mostly.

However, a wonderful thing has happened as of late. I have rediscovered Punk Rock. And how

I was into punk in high school and my interest waned somewhat as I got more into thrash and death metal.

Punk has a certain working class sensibility that appeals to me, as well as a streetwise attitude tempered with social consciousness.

Try this on for size:

Or this:

Fucking great stuff. Metalheads don’t give punk the credit it deserves. The very first thrash bands like Slayer, DRI and Cryptic Slaughter were heavily inspired by punk.

Moar Bad Religion:

And some Discharge:

Along with the Lower Class Brats, whom I saw open for Circle Jerks:

And this blog would be incomplete without a nod to the Jerks:

Keith Morris is a fucking god of punk. He took some time to lecture the crowd about not using Punk as an excuse to be a moron.

That’s enough vids for now.

Some random thoughts…

One:

Bad Religion. Glad to get deeper into their history.

Fun stuff, that. But seriously, even if i didn’t write some crazy book about my crazy-ass life I could do some wacky fiction. Or just a few poems. I’m at least in the brainstorming stage. Plus I have Mr. Netbook, now so I’m running out of excuses to not be writing.

Aside from the new puter, not much is happening. Just chompin’ at the bit waiting to return to Florida. Maryland sucks.

More musik videos for the soul….

And a good evening to all. More Metal Study is in order. Starting now.

Starting with Satyricon….

Moving on to Deicide, with a funny news intro.

Morbid Angel

Some Nuclear Assault. Very Quality thrash.

Followed by good ol’ Impaled Nazarene YES WE WANT TOTAL WAR!!!

My favorite Emperor song.

We close with a great clip from Carcass in Rome ’92.  Hope these are enjoyed.

Ron Paul…..

Won the CPAC poll. Woo-hoo

I’m essentially a centrist in most matters, but I have touches of the more sensible aspects of conservatism. Limited government, fiscal responsibility, and non-interventionism. It pleases me to no end that the man is getting some mass appeal.

Naturally, Justin Raimondo is practically bouncing off the walls with glee:

“Earl Ofari Hutchinson, as a supporter of the present admnistration – which is waging an immoral and unsustainable war in Iraq, Afghanistan,
and Pakistan – has every reason to find Ron Paul and his supporters “scary.”So do the neocons, the vultures of the American politics, who hover over every battlefield cheering on the slaughter. I revel in their fear: it gladdens my heart and sustains me. Because it means, not that we’re winning, necessarily, but that we can win. And in a battle of this kind, so hard and unforgiving, that makes all the difference.”
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/02/23/ron-pauls-victory/

Now if we can just get Sarah Palin’s jaws wired shut

Some Metal Video favorites…

The smartest of the Nationalist Metal Band Circuit, methinks.
Interview here: http://www.anus.com/metal/about/interviews/spear_of_longinus/

Proscriptor is a fucking percussive deity.

Only video Mr. Varg ever made. His fearless genius shines through.

Abbath and his brother must have been freezing as they filmed this.

Sweet dissonance, thy name is Immolation.

Transformations

It’s always fun to realize how much one’s own self changes over the years. The core being is eternal, but the shell has so much variable potential.

Good and Evil may exist, but they are rarely clearly defined.

For some time I have found myself likening the concept of nihilism to a coin. Two fairly likely outcomes with a less likely third side to pose the element of a variable.

Dualistic thinking seems very easy to a lot of people I know. Personally I have a hard time wrapping my brain around it.

The more I observe the life cycles of living organisms on every level, the more reinforcement I gain on belief in a transitory state of existence. A person asked me once what I had determined after several years of obsessive existential searching.

“Systems of systems” was the reply she got. It wasn’t meant to sound curt. It was merely an assertion of what I saw as a gigantic overlapping of code. A subtle logical language of spatial organization, or something.

I can’t really fully articulate my reasoning for believing in some sort of divine presence. As Weev put it, “it’s either truth to you or isn’t”.

I fully acknowledge that what I think are my insights could be the result of my brain chemistry.

I spent many years searching for the perfect faith or spiritual filter. Ultimately, I fully realize I am in a sea of confusion, vice and spiritual erasure. This used to consistently overwhelm me.

Here’s a fucked up part. A guy I was once in a looney bin with said “You’re sick, man. Think of it, you can get away with anything but murder!”. It was at that point I resolved to rethink my “inflict myself upon the world” ethos.

I guess I could blame it on too much reading and not enough social interaction, but that sounds too easy. I try to not be one of those people who use mental illness as an excuse to do whatever they hell they want.

I used to be firmly anti-religion, but now I see it as just another tool of wisdom seeking. Perhaps I was just looking for an excuse to be a bigger asshole to more people, but I digress.

My main problem with dualistic thinking is the lack of middle ground. The universe is not binary. It’s ternary.

Base vinaigrette? Oil, Acid, Base.
Atom? Proton, neutron, electron.
Electricity? Volts, Amps, Watts.

I could go on, but I think you get the idea. The third element completes many processes.

I like mysticism, I just despise the money aspect of religion. Abrahamic Religions are way too paranoid and apocalyptic for me.

I don’t care for titles. My own beliefs at this point are a hybrid between nihilistic luciferian europaganism and the cult of Shakti.

Yeah. That makes sense Until I get swayed a fortiori.

Drugs in the water!

http://health.yahoo.com/news/ap/us_pharmawater_drinking.html

“In the first move toward possible drinking-water standards, the EPA has put 13 pharmaceuticals on what it calls the Contaminant Candidate List. They are mostly sex hormones, but include the antibiotic erythromycin and three chemicals used as drugs but better known for other uses.

They join a list of 104 chemical and 12 microbial contaminants that the EPA is considering as candidates for regulation under the Safe Drinking Water Act. No pharmaceutical has ever reached the list in its 12-year history, but medicines now make up 13 percent of the target chemicals on the latest list “based on their potential adverse health effects and potential for occurrence in public water systems,” the EPA said.”.

Medications? In my water, you say? Oh really?

I’ve always quietly wondered about this, what with most major cities having fluoridated water, and 90-some % of Americans having traces of Bisphenol-A in their systems.
Brett Stevens has an interesting take on it here:
http://www.amerika.org/2009/organization/bisphenol-a-why-no-one-is-surprised/

As for flouridation, it’s a tricky subject. In the toothpaste, sure. No problem. In the water, some people are legitimately concerned about the long term effects of ingesting massive amounts of this stuff.

http://www.dailytexanonline.com/top-stories/environmental-board-calls-for-water-fluoridation-study-1.2111113
“Neil Carman from the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club handed out a list of 26 points that were not addressed by to the city’s report. The list claimed that hydrofluorosilicic is one of the deadliest chemicals used in Austin by the city, and that the fluoride chemical added to Austin water is not pharmaceutical grade.”.

This Press Release by the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology is even less encouraging:
http://iaomt.org/news/archive.asp?intReleaseID=299

Mind you, I’m not some couch-jumping fear monger conspiracy theorist who thinks it’s all a scam. I think it’s a useful chemical in certain applications. I find it more symptomatic of the over-drugging of America as a whole.

At this point the question may as well be, “What doesn’t
cause cancer?”.
People seem bent on continuing to put their faith in “the experts”. What they seem to forget is that being an expert can be quite profitable.

Anyone remember Eli Lilly’s “Viva Zyprexa” campaign?

Zyprexa is an atypical antipsychotic of the same generation as Geodon, Risperidal, and Seroquel. It is Lilly’s flagship drug, bringing them more profits than one could imagine.

For acute schizophrenia, there is nothing better. Really.

There is, however a dark side to this pharmaceutical giant’s marketing practices.

http://www.ahrp.org/cms/content/view/414/70/

“The Times reports: “Lilly faces federal and state investigations over its marketing of Zyprexa. In its annual report for 2005, Lilly said that it faced an investigation by federal prosecutors in Pennsylvania and that the Florida attorney general’s office had subpoenaed the company “seeking production of documents relating to sales of Zyprexa and our marketing and promotional practices with respect to Zyprexa.”

However, as the record shows, Big Pharma is not deterred by a few judgments involving even hundreds of millions of dollars–not when sales are in the billions–Zyprexa sales are $4.2 billion. Lilly’s marketing campaign, “Viva Zyprexa” succeeded in doubling prescriptions between 1999-2002.”.

Essentially, there was a wave of zyprexa prescriptions being written for rather dubious purposes. Several thousand people who never needed to be on it developed SEVERE health issues, got righteously pissed, and sued Eli Lilly.

Did they fess up and say sorry? Nah. They just launched a smear campaign against the journalist who broke the story.

Here’s one of the few remaining archives of the saga. Lilly has been very successful in getting most of the documents scrubbed from the web through nefarious litigation.

http://zyprexa.pbworks.com/

I still have faith in medical science and Psychiatry. I just wish there were higher standards of medical ethics, professional conduct and accountability.

Social Networking Sites causing brain damage?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/feb/24/social-networking-site-changing-childrens-brains/

No shit. Is anyone really surprised by this? Kids hardly go outside anymore unless it’s to record a skateboarding video that they then upload to youtube.

This is insanity. Perhaps the reason I dropped out of the whole social media thing is I never really wanted it in the first place. Some friends badgered me into it, I had some fun for a bit and finally became disgusted.

Take a look at your average page- it’s either full of vapid slogans about love, popular music, or worse yet, someone’s stupid political opinion.

My family is totally sucked into this crap. The black sheep I remain, Ad Infinitum.

The Gita Explained….

People today talk such a big game about diversity, inclusion and righteousness. The Hindus actually live up to it. Such a beautifully multifaceted tradition.

Thoughts for the day from wiser people than I…

“Thus, one of the many illusions that needs to be rejected is the one nourished by those who try to see a superordained logic behind the processes of dissolution, and who think that somehow the old world had to die in order to bring forth the new world toward which mankind is heading. And yet, the only world toward which we are heading is simply that which picks up and reassumes in an extreme way that which has acted during the phase of destruction. Such a world cannot be the basis for anything meaningful, nor can it provide the material from which traditional values may be revived again, precisely because it is the organized and embodied negation of these values. There is no future, in the positive sense of the word, for modern civilization as a whole. Thus, it is a mere fancy harbored by those who dream about a goal and a future that somehow may justify what man has destroyed both inside and outside himself.”
-Baron Julius Evola

I come from a family of Catholic Traditionalists. While I eschew the inherent Christianity, their values are sound. Some have tried to tell me “the good old days never existed, so why try to hang on to them?”.

I wasn’t alive during what my family considers the “good old days”, but I still have a distinct feeling that I have been born into a dying civilization. While I’m a strange and somewhat unconventional male, I get a lot more from Julius Evola than any so called “Progressive” author or politician.

I leave you with another favorite quote, this time from the feminine end of the spectrum:
“I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither “good” or “bad”, and who knows neither love nor hatred.”
-Savitri Devi

While I don’t agree with everything either of these folks say, I would love to be able to pick their brains. I find both of them utterly fascinating.