More Arturo Toscanini

This guy was full of awesomeness.

"God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way."

"I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since."


He also was one of the great stick wavers.






Man, that guy could really flail his arms.

Quotes with the cons

A friend sent me some quotes with the word "con" in them. A lot of them are crappy and uninteresting. Here are the ones that aren't.

“Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh, that is to say over fear: fear of poverty, of suffering, of calumny, of illness, of loneliness and of death. There is no real piety without heroism. Heroism is the dazzling and glorious con.” ----- Henri Frederic Amiel

“No one can understand my Mystery. The best you can do is to get immersed in it. It is no use your arguing about pros and cons; dive and know the depth; eat and know the taste.” ---- Sri Sathya Sai Baba

"To some it is Napoleon, to some it is a philosophical struggle, to me it is allegro con brio." ----- Arturo Toscanini, in reference to the first movement of Beethoven's Eroica

Shit. That last one is the one I keep thinking about. We're all guilty of injecting our own thoughts, beliefs, and interpretations into the music we're into. More often than not, the composer had something completely different in mind. Even when we have the song's meaning correct, we over-think and pontificate to the point where the music gets lost. To completely dumb it down for all y'all, I could be talking about Little Richard's "Tutti Frutti" and say, "To some it is racial barriers being broken, to some it is gay butt sex*, to me it is rock n' roll."

I wanna know more about this Toscanini fella...











* The original lyrics for "Tutti Frutti" were:
"A wop bop a loo mop, a good goddamn!
Tutti frutti, loose booty
If it don’t fit, don’t force it
You can grease it, make it easy."

Be Thankful, Fatsos!

Here's Burroughs being Burroughs, as fried turkey sits destined to be shit out through my wholesome American guts.



For John Dillinger
In hope he is still alive
Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1986

Thanks for the wild turkey and the Passenger Pigeons, destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts

thanks for a Continent to despoil and poison —

thanks for Indians to provide a modicum of challenge and danger —

thanks for vast herds of bison to kill and skin, leaving the carcass to rot —

thanks for bounties on wolves and coyotes —

thanks for the AMERICAN DREAM to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through —

thanks for the KKK, for nigger-killing lawmen feeling their notches, for decent church-going women with their mean, pinched, bitter, evil faces —

thanks for "Kill a Queer for Christ" stickers —

thanks for laboratory AIDS —

thanks for Prohibition and the War Against Drugs —

thanks for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business —

thanks for a nation of finks — yes, thanks for all the memories... all right, let's see your arms... you always were a headache and you always were a bore —

thanks for the last and greatest betrayal of the last and greatest of human dreams.

"Vote For Me, The God-Fearing, Child-Molesting Creepazoid."

Here's Georgian incumbent Senator Saxby Chambliss's Thanksgiving commercial. Of course, he insisted on making his granddaughter(?) sit on his lap, and when the kids awkwardly call him "Big Daddy", he gives her an old-fashioned, interfamilial Georgian tit smoosh. This guy don't give a fuck.

Purty, Purty Pictures

I like this 3D imaging shit I found on some guy's blog. Awesome. Off to learn how to do this shit...

Punk Job

What do you get when you mix blowjobs and feedback? Something I can't stop watching, that's what. I nod when my girlfriend calls it "lame" and "an attention-getting device", and I agree whole-heartedly when she says, "she's not even good at it". But she's not around right now, and I am totally watching this shit. Watch the progression from video to video (most recent is first). She's honing her skills, yo.

Farrallon show this weekend

Do you like rock? Well, here you go:

You made me love you, Hoveround.

"Sarah, Sarah, Sarah" (shakes head disapprovingly)

In the Bizarro United States, this half-wit is Vice President. Buildings are randomly exploding, Obama has been executed for using his "pink, elitist, Jesus-doubting, thought mush" (or "brain" to you and I) without a license, and John McCain has declared his first act as president will be to criminalize all forms of transportation, save for Hoveround:







I hope this 'tard runs in 2012 (in the non-Bizarro world, of course). Only she could think getting interviewed in front of a guy slaughtering turkeys is a good idea. Way to tap into Joe Six Pack's experience, Mrs. Bizarro-Vice President. If you truly were a salt-of-the-earth Washington outsider, you'd know Joe Six Packs like me believe all meat (including turkey) is delivered to Piggly Wiggly via The Meat Fairy.

The Andrew Gomestown Massacre

"Almost three decades ago an unusual series of events led to the deaths of more than 900 people in the middle of a South American jungle. Though dubbed a "massacre," what transpired at Jonestown on November 18, 1978, was to some extent done willingly, making the mass suicide all the more disturbing." The day after, I was born. It's here. The dirty thirty. I can't tell which is worse, the death of 900 wide-eyed religious nuts or my 30th birthday. My self-centeredness knows no bounds, and it ain't gonna change just because of some grey pubes.

POTTY THYME!!!

Big party tonight! My pal Rebecca Watkins is helping throw this shindig. Details below!!! How many exclamation points do I have to type before you get the message, get off your ass and go?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Another pic from The Red Devil Lounge

Meat, My Hero.

Written by the stupidest or most brilliant ten-year-old ever.

Bush giving The Shocker.

Will this guy go away already? He is the biggest rube ever. You could shove a giant Genoa salami up his ass and tell him that is how the Italians say "Hello", and he'd just chuckle like the half-wit he is. What's that? That IS how the Italians say "Hello"? Awkward...

Finger licking good!

Racist!

This here is some sort of anti-racism ad from an Australian magazine. Is it effective? I don't think so. Is this a problem in Australia? Fat slobs making slanty-eye faces at beautiful women? I find it hard to believe any guy is that racist. This dude no doubt is going to smell her seat as soon as she gets up to go to the bathroom.

In fact, I think the ad is guilty of stereotyping itself by having this porcelain goddess pictured eating ramen with chopsticks. Why not a salad? Why not a vegemite sandwich? That's cuz these motherfuckers are racist themselves. Regardless, don't you just want to kick that blonde bitch in the face? You can really feel the Aryan pride and kill-any-girl-prettier-than-me alpha-female dripping off of her.

Fuck yeah! Sharks!

Anyone who knows The Cons knows we love sharks. I am speaking for 4 other guys here, but how can you not love sharks? If I find out any of them don't love sharks, that's it, they're out. I feel this strongly about it. Click the title for the website, but here's a sweet one:



And this is not shark-related, and I don't mean to pile on a loser, but I found this on my desktop:



Awesome.

I can play some motherfucking leads.

This is old, but great.


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I'm giving up guitar for the iOcarina. You had me at Zelda.

A Black President? Big Deal. Meet Silverton, Oregon’s Gender-Fluid, Trans-Identified Mayor-Elect, Stu Rasmussen

Unbelievable! From '88 to '92, the mayor of Silverton, Oregon looked like this:



And now the mayor-elect looks like this:




Click the title for the full story, but a little town in Oregon just elected the first openly gender fluid, transgender-identified mayor of any American city. Suck it, San Francisco. You just lost The Award For Open-Mindedness to a little suburb. This guy is great. My favorite is when asked whether he considers Silverton to be conservative, his reply was, "It’s a 50/50 split between exceedingly conservative and artsy-fartsy." I can only guess as to which group he identifies with.

More importantly, how does defeated eight-term incumbent Ken Hector feel right now? Considering he's Republican, it's probably a mix of frustration, shame and the sense Satan is in control these days. Ride the snake, Ken.

Pics From Red Devil Lounge Show 11/8/08

So, we had a pretty great show last night, playing with As A People and Vin Rouge. The place was packed by 9:00pm, and the room was buzzing by the time we got on the stage at 9:45. So much so, one reveler bum-rushed the stage and insisted, "Auction me off". Yes, of course. We're not going to use our allotted 30 minutes to play the material we rehearsed for weeks prior. How self-centered of us to think people came to watch us perform. No, what we should do is stop playing and auction off a married mother of two (I found out later) until we find a bidder. What is an acceptable price to start at when selling off a human? According to an article I just googled, in 1859, it was $695 (equivalent to approximately $15,300 today), and that's for a slave with a lame foot. Nobody carries that kind of money to a bar, so she can't be serious. Or was it a way to get more attention from her husband who was in attendance? Either way, she was hammered as she proceeded to step on my feet, freak me, and then lay down on all of my pedals. The band, being consummate professionals, didn't miss a beat and played on. After what seemed like weeks, our pal Jaimie dragged her off the stage. The following does not paint the brutal, awkward reality of those three minutes, but they'll have to do:









Everything's so greeeeeen.




Jeff & Izzy



Brasel & Gomez



Insert interesting comment here:



Afterward, Bevin, Dave, Dave's pal, and I went to Kenny's pad across the street, and we drank some more. This is only a fraction of what we saw:





Thanks to Dave

for the pics.

What's better?

What is better? Finally having the guy you voted for win or winning a Pac Man championship by handily beating an orthopedic surgeon? I'll say, right now, it's the former, but I still feel like this:

This dude is gonna be president.

Forget about him being black. We finally have a human being in the White House.

Drugs

Do you like this song? Go to the second post down. It's all there.

What About Us?

Click On Me For Music

This here is a link to our music. Click on it and download away. If I've done this right, you can also click the title. Just learning this HTML Blogger bullshit.

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=736dbb505d8ab146ab1eab3e9fa335ca38b9a26d638f3477

November 8th, 2008

Holy shit! A band is playing a show! When does that ever happen?

McCain eats children

McCain is hungry and he wants to eat your children's souls.