the pain is pretty bad
the fear is even worse
and the consequences are dire

sometimes you might need to detox
it could help you with your rhyme-flow and your beatbox.

Madvillain

Fuck hip-hop.

Wear a belt!

- Banksy, U.K.

It was decided at a very young age that an artist I was to be. Clearly, that was the direction to head. Clearly, it was intuited that creating overshadowed consuming.

This so-called dabbling has taken me to many places and on many journeys that I probably never would have embarked, nor expected. Or survived. I’ve been to the bowels of middle spaces.

All the experimenting. The tests. Litmus. Educating. The building of infrastructure. Future gifting. All for what? For self or for humanity?

Through many slogans, logos and campaigns, I return to where it all started. Fate intervening, as usual, generally for the betterment. Will imposed by force or by subconscious processing. But, I have indeed returned to the beginning; full circle.

The mind as the finest art. The heart as the barometer. Souls bartered for returns to glory’s past. Fuck or be fucked. Naked, alone, and afraid.

Belief that whatever you’ve wanted, you could have. All of it. You just have to have the want enough. You just have to transform desire into necessity. Forced, by will of mind and psychological jiu-jitsu.

And, when it hits, it hits hard, man. Blocking taste, rest, and erotic desires. We are the junkies. We are the powerless. We are all so fully empty.

Hacky sack is just as queer as can be.

You don't pick up chicks kicking the 'ole footbag around.

What the fuck is wrong with people?

Rove = Over [move over Rover and let Jimi take over]

I'd have to move to Mopetown.

Okay, wouldn't it suck...

So, we know The Election will be a huge deal and very, very close, right?

But, some of us have the balls to sit around guessing that it won't be as close as polling predicts. We're all convinced that Kerry will really crush; resulting in a humiliating Bush tail-between-the-legs defeat. We: the so-called Liberal Intelligensia.

But, what if?

What if the reverse somehow happens? Bush in a Nixonian, Reaganian LANDSLIDE! A fucking mandate!

Wouldn't it suck?!

Once I got out of the psych ward, I'd have to move to Canada, or France...

today's Bethesda graffiti:

"Ku Klux Fag"

Funny

Six for six
feel the burn
reel the yearn
letting the addiction of insanity
take the mind and body to places
undesireable yet unavoidable

Time to make contingency plans
because the big brave facade
is starting to crumble
into heaps of fear and remorse
shit yeah I'm really, really scared

If I should survive myself
I would be the luckiest man alive
postponing death for at least another year
so I can really say
looking forward at forty

What do they take us for?
Fools?
drunk and high on the power of chickenshit

Save the Troops

...for a rainy day
...for target practice
...for political gain
...from themselves
...the pain and suffering
...from the humiliation
...from the president

1) I forgot what goes here.

2) Halloween is the next, new Christmas.

3) I forgot what goes here.

Shallow processing of complexities
Confidence in data-less facts
The WILL as dictated by mysterious higher powers
And the toppling of a keen experiment
After only 228 short years

Six for Seven
Wallowing in cornography
Momentum building upon momentum
Skulls & Bones of
The Idle progeny of the ruling class

A shock treatment imposed
Upon cities aflame

Pink-eyed self-abuser
of various nouns - indiscriminant

Nuns and homosexuals
sharing psychic spaces if not similar gods

Straw for hair
hammer-headed sharks
bobble-head upon racks of pointy bones

[and I don't like what you got me hangin' from]

RED power tie
WHITE crisp shirt
& BLUE pinstripe suit

Shit for phone hanging from your ear
you got a fucking hole in your shoe!
no one alerted you

Lying motherfuckers
It's time to shut 'em down
Symptom relief without surgery
Hit 'em hard ('cuz this is hard work)
Play the blues

So Partisan It's actually quite painful
Ideology entrenched into competing camps:
I Am Right & They Are Wrong
A universe divided
Split into halves and "haves"

Take me by the hand
Lead me to places where care
Doesn't exist anymore
To states united intelligently
Effectively and carefully

The achievement of balances
Across many multi-layered dimensions
Harmony the ultimate destination
A journey fraught with misery
Unimaginable pain and suffering

Lying motherfuckers all

It was Andy Griffith meets Barney Fife

Cycles.

Binge days have begun, in earnest.

Karl Rove.

Listen, children. And, if you had listened the first time, we wouldn't all be in the situation we're in now.

Listen. Follow. Obey. Serve.

I'm here to take the chill off. To soothe the needy.

Karl Rove, my main man.

Let's feast. Let's binge. Let's pillage.

Karl Rove.

On vinyl, "Voodoo Chile" is the end of a side, and "Little Miss Strange" is the beginning of the next side. This makes sense.

Anyhow, the sequence design was for one to take a break after "Voodoo Chile." Rest, roll another. Pee. Eat. Then settle in for the next leg of the tour.

But, after the massive journey of "Chile," even on CD, "Strange" serves a distinct purpose: juxtaposition. It's the cold splash of water that prevents one from becoming insane. It's a life saver. After you realize that you've set yourself on fire, "Strange" is a handy, helpful hose.

It works, think, "Tom's Three Minute Single."

Karl Rove

From 09.02.04 Washington Post

Hollywood, Calif.: The Republicans must be euphoric. Their leaders have been impressive, especially McCain, Schwarzenegger and Giuliani. The street demonstrations have just shown that the Democrats are not the kind of people you want to trust with important decisions. This convention looks like the turning point in the election. Are they taunting you yet?

Al Franken: Obviously I disagree. I thought Schwarzenegger made a huge mistake with the girly-man comment. I saw Giuliani disgrace himself by lying about Kerry and by exploiting 9/11 in a way that was shameful. For example talking about seeing a guy jump from the Trade Center and then making up this thing about thanking God George W. Bush is president. I don't think the demonstrators who misbehave were Democrats. And while I respect McCain I thought his comments about Michael Moore were unfortunate considering he had never seen the movie as he admitted later.

As far as taunting: you are going to lose, loser.