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so first my mind is blown!
Posted by Chris Stein at 9/10/2005 02:10:00 PM

so first my mind is blown! Michael B from boston wrote informing that Nick Tosches did the Creem magazine story interview with DH... as soon as Akira wakes up we will go dig through the old files and get it out... really this fucking guy is my new hero!, now maybe i can get hold of him, he keeps saying he's dropping dead in all his books hopefully he'll hang on long enough John Jacovina our very close friend called from N.O. where hes with some other NYC firefighters helping out... he said it is just like being in 'some other world, like mad max' but he's doing ok in spite of three hours sleep per night, said he's making a lot of friends... thnx Johnathan for the letter, most everyone is on the same page with whats going on, of course the white house turned down funding for fixing the levees two years ago now its gonna cost a shitload more to correct... do we all know that three days into the storm condaleeza rice was in NYC shopping for shoes? that she went to see spamalot and when the lights came up after the show the audience hissed and booed at her? so Amy, again someone well meaning sent me a brief critique and long article which includes this staement :"What Hurricane Katrina exposed was the psychological consequences of the welfare state." Amy, this is propaganda, what the fuck is the 'welfare state'? in my opinion it doesnt exist, so now its ok to collect billions of dollars to send to people in need provided they have had their homes and lives destroyed, but distributing funds to under paid poverty stricken people without the context of disaster is somehow an evil liberal plot... again Chomsky says 'no black man can be guilty of a crime in America.' its just still so sad to me how the lines here are drawn separating people by ideology, that people are so fucking cranky about labels, about viewpoints etc etc... America could fix itself in a couple of months without any disasters as motivations if people would just do the right thing and help each other... pretty fucking naive huh?

on a non topical note
Posted by Chris Stein at 9/07/2005 02:15:00 PM

on a non topical note i am pleased to see more great asian films getting released here notably 2046 and especially "sympathy for mr. vengeance" which i thought was fantastic in a way almost superior to "old boy" both directed by Chan Wook Park... baby Vali keeps asking for someone named 'Al Gold', i guess its her agent or something but what? i have some free time... need to take a nap, the baby thing is really tiring, how do single women do it? men are bogus, women should run the show... thanks for all the messages from poland, i dont think the polish gig is up on the net any more... we are going to start figuring out the show for nov. open to suggestions

a bit more
Posted by Chris Stein at 9/06/2005 02:15:00 PM

a bit more, this is like bringing back all the emotion that went on during the election that i tried to let go of and hope for the best... today a couple of bits; i saw some fucking asshole on CNN, i'm not gonna bother to say what his name was, this fuck had the audacity to blame "the looters" for the delay in rescue and support operations, and the punchline is he was a black man... i hope he enjoys being a lacky stooge... but people are of course seeing it this way without encouragment... nikki writes: "That's just like a democrat always pointing fingers away from their own corrupt 'selves. The thing is, New Orleans management has been corrupt since the earliest days. Lawlessness thrives in that chaotic city." democrat?!!?? moi? you must be fucking kidding, when it comes to politics i am a strict bipartisan deathmetal voodoo adherent with leaning towards gnostic paganism, witchcraft etc etc... somehow i think nikki probably lives in like Anaheim? hmmm? give me those lawless chaotic cities anyday, i always had a great time in N.O... then i saw rumsfeld at the big press conference... just amazing, some guy asked if he thought the relief efforts had indeed been late and his answer was just a textbook non-answer, i couldnt find it verbatim (i looked and looked but no one seems to have found it worthy of printing the text) it was to say the least, evasive, cluttered with catch phrases and just plain gobble de gook... then he just stopped in mid sentence to let general whatsis take over with a longer more convoluted version... and you know what? none of the suckers in the press core had the balls to say "oh, hmm thats really clear!"... they're all so fucking scared they wont be let back in next time, bunch of cowering bugs... no, bugs are braver... meanwhile Akiras godfather John Jacovina who is a NYC firefighter volunteered and went down to help out, he left sunday at three a.m. on a military aircraft, we are all hoping he is ok and salute his courage...

watching the news
Posted by Chris Stein at 9/04/2005 02:16:00 PM

watching the news we were pleased to see that this blondie fan got to say her short bit on CNN despite her being unnamed...she was in N.O. waiting to get into the stadium, just talked about the lines being long... when bush was elected to the second term i saw a lot of media people who were down on him saying that every pres who did a second term had some major fuck up happen... if the hurricane had hit the hamptons there would have been ten battleships off shore pulling rich white people off as soon as it was possible... none of those black people down there voted for him maybe thats why they were left to swim for it... finally seeing the lady carrying the pile of 'huggies' out of a swamped store while the gung ho fucking newscaster yells "LOOTER!!" is maddening good 'ol fox new tells you how to help...

overdue with this one
Posted by Chris Stein at 9/01/2005 03:26:00 PM

overdue with this one thnx for the messages... so first i have a new hero in one Nick Tosches, writer and philosopher etc. by chance i picked up one of his new books: "In The Hand Of Dante" and was immediately converted, not 'an easy read' but just amazing as nick does his own version of the "divine comedy" in three levels of prose style... his tirades about the publishing world are universal, could apply to any of the arts in america, just great stuff all around... we went to poland and did a big tv gig, i think it was the last episode of polish idol... theres something of it at http://www.itvp.pl/sopot/ there might even be the show itself, i checked it out but got bored waiting for it to load the clip... then yesterday we played in washington square park for the big CBGB rally... it was quite fun, the last time i played a guitar in the park there was 1965 so very amusing, lots of the old crowd of maniacs etc, many like myself wielding offspring; Akira wearing her little CB's shirt saying "ceegeebeegee" when she saw the logo all around... so fallout from the event should materialise here and there... not much else i'll write again soon... still struggling continued from yesterday... at the CB's thing i thought DH was very astute; when asked about the whole thing she said that it was more a matter of money than anything else "what do all those empty lots around the club tell you?" she queried, meaning that the whole deal about the homeless shelter is a crock and that the entire section of the block will likely be converted into expensive hi-rise apartments within a short time... but the new orleans situation is a fine example of american madness... what if there had been a weeks notice before 9-11? would the powers that be just left everyone there waiting for the event? maybe if they all were poor and mostly black... at least the NY Times addressed the cultural bias involved today on the front page... i have for years been saying that a recession would be good for the arts, maybe we're about to find out if i'm as big an idiot as some might think... will the gas prices drop back or being the good capitalist greedy system it is just stay the same as if it always had cost fifty bucks to fill up your car... those posed pictures of bush staring out of the plane window are intense, is he just thinking that this is the apocalypse and fuck it nothing matters anyway... on a newscast the first day the gas prices started going up i saw just an ordinary guy say "only an american can screw another american this good" have gone on to Nick Tosches "King Of The Jews" which compares Arnold Rothstein and Jesus... nicks jabs at organized religion and monotheism are so eloquent! bravo NICK! later, after watching more reports about the situation in Louisiana i'm even more amazed at what this implies... for ex how the fuck do we intend to make the whole of Iraq into a peaceful democracy when we cant get a crummy water supply to one part of our own country in less than 4-5 days... also i am continually astonished at well meaning individuals who express their shock and dismay at rioting and looting; Tiger Woods saying he "doesnt understand the concept..." and why "they are not all pulling together..." was one of several i just saw... we have people in the supposed richest most powerful nation in the world who are living in the shittiest of meager conditions, maybe not full on third world poverty level but close, daily they are bombarded by images of what they are missing: the full-on greed media spectacle, and then when what little they have is pulled out from under them and they explode in frustration people act surpised, yes its a big fucking mystery at least we are seeing a lot of rage and frustration directed at the establishment about what's going on... i'm sure many of you are having the same thoughts and observations