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Monday, October 31, 2011
Sunday, October 30, 2011
LAIR MATIC
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LAIR MATIC'S ASSEMBLY
It started as an idea of mine back on July 17, 2011. I well knew what the Docs had told me, yeah cancer, blah, blah, you're gonna die soon. Six months in fact, give or take a few. They said. So I thought to myself, what the hell? What if I tried to record some songs that I had written and was writing at the time? I thought it would be cool to record with the my musician and friends from the past. I don't know of anyone who has had that attitude about the whole thing. I'm sure there are many, but I was just thinking. But like so many thoughts and ideas that I've planted in my head over the years, I didn't think much more about it. I mentioned to a few people. And then it all connected.
I proudly introduce you to LAIR MATIC'S ASSEMBLY. This will be band number twenty-one for me and I am fucking done with it. This is it. LMA is planned to be a collaboration of musicians and this is the current lineup that I love. It clicks, despite all the travel and time constrants involved. Besides myself on vocals and guitars, there's Nick Summa (lead guitars, vocals) from the Floyd Band, Cheese Borger (bass) from the Pink Holes and 2Bobs, and Steve-O, (drums) from Death Of Samantha. All Cleveland punk legends. An honored priviledge for myself to be working with these guys. And they're are fucking dear loved friends.
We are recording four songs at Electrobeast Studio, engineered by Malcolm Ryder and Jasmine Mace. The songs are coming along great, done by the end of the month. We're working with a record label for release.
A documentary is being filmed to capture it all as it happens. I'm working with wonderful people.
It's quite a trip, as I say often, it's still soaking in for me. It's real and I'm living it and to hell with this dying crap and cancer itself. We're working on a couple of live shows in mid-November.
And so it is. All info will be updated on this website (ha! Just trying to get ya back!)
Please stay in touch. LMA will show ya a good time.
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Will be streaming live this Monday, September 26 at 10 p.m (EDT). Still working on the production end of it, hell, it's just me yakking away. Tune in! And getting the archives in order for those who can't watch at the time. Turn onto ustream, let me know if you're gonna be "attending" Look forward to talking with ya!
This is the cover artwork of the upcoming release by Mydyscs/ My Mind's Eyes Records. It's a fifteen song CD, which includes recorded songs dating from 1981- 2010. The tracks includes cuts by Faith Academy, The Offbeats, Hangover Falls, and five solo recordings. The cover art was done by Greg Bailey, from a photograph by Steve Wainstead. It seems like it took forever to get this together. It includes a cool booklet with essays, song documention and lyrics. Only touching the iceburg of music that exists. But a great compilation from over the years, which was the actual intent to begin with! Available early this Autumn, of course ya wll be able to buy here!
THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS, 1980
To be released on the Matic Exclusive Records Label, this CD contains 15 tracks recorded in 1980 by the Broncs. Pagan bassist/songwriter Tim Allee debuts as a guitar player in this pop punk experience. Lair sings and lead guitar, while AK'47's guitarist Rand Primos switches to bass for this! Bart Hildebrant on drums rounds up the lineup. Most histrionic of cuts is the six-minute version of "Love March From From The Broncs" where Tim plays guitar with unsettled emotion and heart. Available at select distributors, local CLE record shops, and here at the store.
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Saturday, October 29, 2011
POWERFUL
| The night before the burial of her husband 2nd Lt. James Cathey of the United States Marine Corps, killed in Iraq, Katherine Cathey refused to leave the casket, asking to sleep next to his body for the last time. The Marines made a bed for her, tucking in the sheets below the flag. Before she fell asleep, she opened her laptop computer and played songs that reminded her of "Cat", and one of the Marines asked if she wanted them to continue standing watch as she slept. "I think it would be kind of nice if you kept doing it" she said. "I think that's what he would have wanted". |
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Nine of Clubs Reunion
It has been nearly 25 years, and two of the original DJs from the Nine of Clubs, Rob Sherwood and Allyssa Allison are reuniting to bring you an epic evening of the music that made the "Nine" legendary. The music will be ALL NINE, ALL NIGHT so please come prepared to dance to the sounds of the 80's underground.
The party will be held at 78th Street Studios, one of the most thriving arts communities in Cleveland, with plenty of lighted, dedicated parking directly outside the entrance to the venue.
The party is a benefit for the Be The Match Foundation® , an organization that raises funds to help patients in need of a bone marrow or umbilical cord blood transplant receive the treatment they need. Please click here: Nine of Clubs Team Page to learn more about our motivation to raise funds for this organization.
A representative from Be The Match will be there to register anyone who may be interested in getting onto the marrow donation registry
If you do plan to attend, a donation of $30 will gain you entry into the event, light hors d'oeuvres, open bar, and plenty of surprises. If you intend to join us at this party, please get your ticket with your donation through one of the below options.
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or at any of the following local merchants:
Brigade Cleveland at Beachwood Place Mall
City Buddha at 1807 Coventry in Cleveland Heights
Cleveland Auction Company at 2418 Professor Avenue in Tremont
The Dean Rufus House of Fun at 1422 West 29th Street in Ohio City
Deering Vintage at 1836 W. 25th Street near the West Side Market
Turnstyle Boutique at 6505 Detroit Rd. in the Gordon Square Arts District
(note: clicking on the name of any of the above retailers will take you to their website, we encourage you to browse and shop your local independent merchants)
TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT ARE LIMITED, SO YOU ARE STRONGLY URGED TO MAKE YOUR DONATION AND GET YOUR TICKET SOON.
THIS IS GOING TO BE AN EPIC EVENT TO SUPPORT A GREAT CAUSE !
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If you will not be attending, please go back to our Nine Of Clubs Team Page and make any donation possible.
Please check back to this webpage often, we will be updating it regularly. The next update will feature pages from DJ Allyssa Allison's Nine of Clubs Scrapbook.
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
Adventures in Depression * RT * @CherylHarrison
Adventures in Depression
Some people have a legitimate reason to feel depressed, but not me. I just woke up one day feeling sad and helpless for absolutely no reason.
It's disappointing to feel sad for no reason. Sadness can be almost pleasantly indulgent when you have a way to justify it - you can listen to sad music and imagine yourself as the protagonist in a dramatic movie. You can gaze out the window while you're crying and think "This is so sad. I can't even believe how sad this whole situation is. I bet even a reenactment of my sadness could bring an entire theater audience to tears."
But my sadness didn't have a purpose. Listening to sad music and imagining that my life was a movie just made me feel kind of weird because I couldn't really get behind the idea of a movie where the character is sad for no reason.
Essentially, I was being robbed of my right to feel self pity, which is the only redeeming part of sadness.
And for a little bit, that was a good enough reason to pity myself.
Standing around feeling sorry for myself was momentarily exhilarating, but I grew tired of it quickly. "That will do," I thought. "I've had my fun, let's move on to something else now." But the sadness didn't go away.
I tried to force myself to not be sad.
But trying to use willpower to overcome the apathetic sort of sadness that accompanies depression is like a person with no arms trying to punch themselves until their hands grow back. A fundamental component of the plan is missing and it isn't going to work.
When I couldn't will myself to not be sad, I became frustrated and angry. In a final, desperate attempt to regain power over myself, I turned to shame as a sort of motivational tool.
But, since I was depressed, this tactic was less inspirational and more just a way to oppress myself with hatred.
Which made me more sad.
Which then made me more frustrated and abusive.
And that made me even more sad, and so on and so forth until the only way to adequately express my sadness was to crawl very slowly across the floor.
The self-loathing and shame had ceased to be even slightly productive, but it was too late to go back at that point, so I just kept going. I followed myself around like a bully, narrating my thoughts and actions with a constant stream of abuse.
I spent months shut in my house, surfing the internet on top of a pile of my own dirty laundry which I set on the couch for "just a second" because I experienced a sudden moment of apathy on my way to the washer and couldn't continue. And then, two weeks later, I still hadn't completed that journey. But who cares - it wasn't like I had been showering regularly and sitting on a pile of clothes isn't necessarily uncomfortable. But even if it was, I couldn't feel anything through the self hatred anyway, so it didn't matter. JUST LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE.
Slowly, my feelings started to shrivel up. The few that managed to survive the constant beatings staggered around like wounded baby deer, just biding their time until they could die and join all the other carcasses strewn across the wasteland of my soul.
I couldn't even muster up the enthusiasm to hate myself anymore.
I just drifted around, completely unsure of what I was feeling or whether I could actually feel anything at all.
If my life was a movie, the turning point of my depression would have been inspirational and meaningful. It would have involved wisdom-filled epiphanies about discovering my true self and I would conquer my demons and go on to live out the rest of my life in happiness.
Instead, my turning point mostly hinged upon the fact that I had rented some movies and then I didn't return them for too long.
The late fees had reached the point where the injustice of paying any more than I already owed outweighed my apathy. I considered just keeping the movies and never going to the video store again, but then I remembered that I still wanted to re-watch Jumanji.
I put on some clothes, put the movies in my backpack and biked to the video store. It was the slowest, most resentful bike ride ever.
And when I arrived, I found out that they didn't even have Jumanji in.
Just as I was debating whether I should settle on a movie that wasn't Jumanji or go home and stare in abject silence, I noticed a woman looking at me weirdly from a couple rows over.
She was probably looking at me that way because I looked really, really depressed and I was dressed like an eskimo vagrant.
Normally, I would have felt an instant, crushing sense of self-consciousness, but instead, I felt nothing.
I've always wanted to not give a fuck. While crying helplessly into my pillow for no good reason, I would often fantasize that maybe someday I could be one of those stoic badasses whose emotions are mostly comprised of rock music and not being afraid of things. And finally - finally - after a lifetime of feelings and anxiety and more feelings, I didn't have any feelings left. I had spent my last feeling being disappointed that I couldn't rent Jumanji.
I felt invincible.
And thus began a tiny rebellion.
Then I swooped out of there like the Batman and biked home in a blaze of defiant glory.
And that's how my depression got so horrible that it actually broke through to the other side and became a sort of fear-proof exoskeleton.
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Friday, October 21, 2011
'Funkhadafi'(Front 242) / remix(animated)
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Sunday, October 16, 2011
3019 Tampa Ave. Cleveland, OH 44109
White-trash neighbor gets home at the same time as me and says, "Late night, neighbor." Looked at her & said nothing. She says, "Hey, be nice." In my head, I think to myself, "The way you speak to & around your children is unforgivable. You beat your dog with a belt, leaving it outdoors 24-7. Your 13 year old son says the word "nigger" as if its natural & your 7 year old daughter communicates with barks & noises because she's left to play alone all day on the porch with no coat on & no meaningful interaction with you. And you want me to "be nice" ..."mom"?
p.s. No. I don't know where I can get any powder ...you piece of shit.
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@ForgingIndustry FIERF will be exhibiting at the MS & T Conference in Columbus, OH October 17-19 ...hope to see you there!
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Friday, October 14, 2011
Thursday, October 13, 2011
"Banking institutions are a bigger threat to Liberty, than invading armies." -Thomas Jefferson
"Banking institutions are a bigger threat to Liberty, than invading armies." -Thomas Jefferson
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011
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War On The EPA: Republicans Erase Decades Of Protection | When walking outside, the skin of our great-grandchildren will blister while they choke on caustic air.
WASHINGTON -- America's environmental protections are under a sweeping, concerted assault in Congress that could effectively roll back the federal government's ability to safeguard air and water more than 100 years, Democrats and advocates say.
The headlines have not been dramatic, and the individual attacks on relatively obscure rules seldom generate much attention beyond those who are most intently focused on environmental regulation.
But taken together, the separate moves -- led by House Republicans -- add up to a stunning campaign against governmental regulatory authority that is now surprisingly close to succeeding.
In just the year since the GOP took control of the House, there have been at least 159 votes held against environmental protections -- including 83 targeting the Environmental Protection Agency -- on the House floor alone, according to a list compiled by Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
"It single-handedly amends probably more laws of the United States than any law ever introduced in Congress," said John Walke, a lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Taken together, the measures would so hamstring regulators that they would effectively return the nation to the 1880s era of the nation's first modern-style regulator, the Interstate Commerce Commission, advocates say.
"This is a departure not just from recent political thinking but literally would be a reversal," said NRDC's David Goldston. "The last time this was a situation that prevailed was the 1890s."
"It shows just a profound disgust and disdain for the regulatory state that is unhinged from any facts or concerns for the benefits from those rules," said Walke.
The ongoing anti-regulation crusade was on display in the House this week -- and will be again next week -- with some smaller bore bills. On Thursday, the House passed a measure that will delay regulations of cement factories that were aimed at implementing court-mandated controls on mercury and other pollutants.
Next week, the House is expected to pass a similar measure to halt rules on boilers and incinerators. While Republicans argue that both measures are merely "time-outs" to allow for deeper study on the impacts on jobs, environmental advocates note that in the case of the boiler bill there is a repeal of restrictions on burning hazardous wastes.
"What the bill does is codify a deregulatory Bush administration rule that was issued in 2001 and overturned in the courts," said Walke. "And it allows all of these nasty hazardous wastes -- oil residue, chemicals and plastics, to be burned in boilers and not subject to any control standard, monitoring or reporting."
In fact, while Republicans have argued that the Obama administration is running wild passing new regulations -- and therefore needs to be checked -- many of the measures coming up in the current Congress are aimed overturning laws first written in 1990. Many of the regulations required were delayed or rewritten by the George W. Bush White House, and then reinstated by courts, often with scathing verdicts.
The boiler rules are a prime example, where the Bush administration argued that "any" didn't mean "any," but "none" or "some."
With the wretched economy, Republicans have made the need to protect jobs their prime justification for delaying environmental and health protections. And they've made it a consistent part of their campaign push, as well.
After Democrats voted Thursday against delaying regulations of cement plants -- the third-largest source of mercury pollution, according to the EPA -- the National Republican Campaign Committee blasted out a release targeting dozens of Democrats for voting "to risk 23,000 jobs with more job-killing red tape from Washington."
"The people of America understand that the EPA is in fact killing jobs," said Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.), a Tea Party freshman who sponsored the boiler measure. He added that the bill would make sure "regulations are reasonable and effective" and "make sure that we protect the jobs of the United States of America while we go forward protecting the environment as well."
While Republicans estimate the cement rule could cost 23,000 jobs, EPA scientists say it would prevent 12,500 pollution-related deaths and 7,500 heart attacks. The agency estimates the boiler bill will kill 20,000 people prematurely.
Democrats are pushing back on the GOP by highlighting numbers like this, but they also take issue with the idea that regulations harm the economy.
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, released a report at a press event Thursday that she would "explode the myth that a clean environment is antithetical to a strong economy."
The report, citing Commerce Department data, says that in more than 40 years since the creation of the EPA, an estimated 1.7 million jobs and $300 billion in revenues have been generated by industries that support environmental protection. Further, it says, clean air protections will produce an estimated $2 trillion in annual health benefits by 2020, and for every $1 billion invested in infrastructure to reduce water pollution and treat drinking water, up to 26,669 jobs are created.
"The Environmental Protection Agency and the nation's landmark environmental safeguards were created with overwhelming bipartisan consensus in Congress and support from Republican and Democratic presidents," the report argues. "Forty years of achievements are now threatened by partisan attacks."
For the moment, it will be difficult for many of the House's bills to get through the Senate, where Boxer plans to stop them. The White House also has promised vetoes of the measures.
Still, once anti-EPA legislation is written, it can wind up attached must-pass bills, or at least used to try and embarrass Democrats. Thursday night, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) tried to attach a measure to a bill on Chinese currency manipulation that ostensibly aimed to stop the EPA from regulating farm dust. But the measure's language doesn't actually mention "farm dust" after its title. Instead, it targets soot regulation. Democrats successfully blocked it.
More troubling to environmental advocates is that they see the attempts to roll back regulations as a sustained effort that will not go away, and likely could pick up steam -- especially if Republicans take back the Senate in 2012.
"I think it certainly will continue through the 2012 election," said Goldston. "I think it's partly an attack on Obama but I think much is a broader part of a Tea Party effort to question the role of government in providing public health protections across the board and funding that."
And he predicted the range of attacks would only get broader.
"This can play out in spending; this can play out in the series of efforts to block any additional protections, not only in the clean air area, but more broadly, there are bills that have been pending in the house and the senate ... that would change the entire structure necessary to create protections," Goldston said.
The anti-EPA campaign has born some fruit already for the GOP, with President Obama delaying planned new regulations of ozone and citing economic reasons.
The political climate has left Democrats wary -- and concerned they could lose some battles -- but they also think the GOP could pay a price.
Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), chairman of the Water and Wildlife Subcommittee, expressed relief that so far lawmakers had successfully blocked EPA-targeted legislation in the Senate. But, he added, environmental protections remain vulnerable.
"It's an area where the current Republican leadership sees an opportunity to express frustration with government and regulation," Cardin said. "It’s consistent with their philosophy -- less government -- and that’s what they’re moving forward. I find it extremely disappointing because environmental issues have always been either nonpartisan or bipartisan. Some of our most amazing advancements on environment happened under Republican leadership. So I think this is very disappointing. But I think I understand their strategy, and I think it will backfire because Americans want clean water and clean air, and they think that clean water and clean air are important for our economy."
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