This is a trailer for the new Kevin Booth documentary. This time he focues specifcally on Marijuana (as the title clearly indicates) as opposed to his last film, American Drug War, which evaluated all or most drugs related to the drug war. I hope he include the reality of Obama’s (at least so far) abandoment of his campaign promises concerning law enforcement’s handling of drugs. Anyway, I’ll be seeing this soon.
Chris
Random title indeed. This is an extremely brief commentary or rant if you will on something that occurs quite often when I am discussing music with other music devotees. Here’s the setup:
Someone asks me if I like some Progressive Rock band like Dream Theater or King Krimson and then I respond that I’m not really into Prog Rock, yet every time this incident happens I am sporting a shirt with one of the few prog bands I listen to (i.e. Tool, Pink Floyd). Most of the music related shirts I wear would be appropos, like the Ramones or the Black Lips, but for some strange reason, I am never seen wearing such shirts when this question arises. I don’t know, I think it’s slightly amusing enough to make a post out of the situation…. and I’m also procrastinating my french homework.
Chris
In what seems like an eternity, two weeks, Glen and I will be rocking out and experiencing the Supreme Genuis of the King Khan & BBQ Show! Can’t Wait.
Chris
These are my favorites from my (modern) favorites.
Black Lips:
Black Lips (2003):
Throw It Away, Freakout, Ain’t No Deal, I’ve Got A Knife, Fad, Sweet Kin, Everybody Loves a Cocksucker
We Did Not Know the Forest Spirit Made the Flowers Grow (2004):
Nothing At All/100 New Fears, Notown Blues, Ghetto Cross, Jumpin Around
Let It Bloom (2005):
Sea of Blashemy, Feeling Gay, Empassant,
Los Valientes Del Mundo Nuevo (2007):
The entire album!
Good Bad Not Evil (2007):
I Saw A Ghost (Lean), O Katrina, Veni Vidi Vici, Navajo, Lock and Key How Do You Tell A Child That Someone Has Died, Bad Kids
200 Million Thousand (2009):
Take My Heart, Drugs, Starting Over, Let It Grow, Trapped In a Basement, Short Fuse, I’ll Be With You, Big Black Baby Jesus of Today, Old Man, The Drop I Hold
Jay Reatard:
Blood Visions (2006):
Blood Visions, It’s So Easy, My Shadow, My Family, Death Is Forming, Nightmares, Fading All Away, Turning Blue, Puppet Man, Waiting For Something
Singles ’06-’07 (2008):
Night of Broken Glass, Hammer I Miss You, I Know a Place
Matador Singles ’08 (2008):
See/Saw, Screaming Hand, Painted Shut, An Ugly Death, Always Wanting More, Trapped Here, DOA, No Time, You Were Sleeping, I’m Watching You
Watch Me Fall (2009):
It Ain’t Gonna Save Me, Rotten Mind, Faking It
King Khan & BBQ Show:
The King Khan & BBQ Show (2004):
Waddlin’ Around, Fish Fight, Get Down, Hold Me Tight, Love You So, Pig Pig, Shake Real Low
What’s For Dinner? (2006):
Treat Me Like a Dog, I’ll Never Belong, Dock It #8, Into the Snow, Why Don’t You Lie?, Too Much In Love, What’s For Dinner?, Zombies
Invisible Girl (2009):
Invisible Girl
No Age:
Weirdo Rippers (2007):
Neck Escaper, Everybody’s Down
Nouns (2008):
Brain Burner, Eraser, Here Should Be My Home, Ripped Knees, Sleeper Hold, Teen Creeps
Losing Feeling EP (2009):
You’re A Target, Genie
King Khan & The Shrines:
Spread Your Love… Like Peanut Butter! (2001):
Took My Lady to Dinner
Three Hairs and You’re Mine (2002):
Fool Like Me, Live Fast Die Strong, Tell Me, Crackin Up, Shivers Down My Spine,
Mr. Supernatural (2004):
Destroyer
What Is? (2007):
(How Can I Keep You) Outta Harm’s Way, I Wanna Be a Girl, Welfare Bread, Land of the Freak, No Regrets
and “Torture” and “Sweet Tooth” whihc are on the Supreme Genius compilation, but I don’t know where they originate
Animmal Collective:
Here Comes the Indian (2003):
Hey Light
Sung Tongs (2004):
Who Could Win a Rabbit
Grass (single) (2005):
Grass, Fickle Cycle
Feels (2005):
Did You See the Words, Grass, The Purple Bottle, Flesh Canoe, Banshee Beat
Strawberry Jam (2007):
Peacebone, Unsolved Mysteries, Chores, For Reverend Green, Fireworks, Derek
Merriweather Post Pavillion (2009):
My Girls, Summertime Clothes, Lion In a Coma, Brothersport
Arcade Fire:
Funeral (2005):
Rebellion (Lies)
Neon Bible (2007):
Black Mirror, Keep the Car Running, Neon Bible, Intervention, Black Wave/Bad Vibrations, Ocean of Noise, The Well and the Lighthouse, No Cars Go, My Body Is a Cage
The Almighty Defenders:
The Almighty Defenders (2009):
All My Loving, The Ghost With the Most, Bow Down and Die, Cone of Light, Over the Horizon, She Came Before Me
The Nightwatchman:
One Man Revolution (2007):
California’s Dark, One Man Revolution, Let Freedom Ring, The Road I Must Travel, Battle Hymns, Maximum Firepower, Union Song, No One Left, Dark Clouds Above
The Fabled City (2008):
Whatever It Takes
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart (2009):
Contender, Come Saturday, Everything With You, Young Adult Friction, This Love Is Fucking Right!, Stay Alive, A Teenage In Love, Hey Paul
Arctic Monkeys:
Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not (2006)
The View From the Afternoon, I Bet That You Look Good On the Dancefloor, Fake Tales of San Francisco, Dancing Shoes, Riot Van, Mardy Bum
Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007):
Fluorescent Adolescent
Head Automatica:
Decadence (2004):
At the Speed of a Yellow Bullet, Brooklyn Is Burning, Beating Heart Baby, Please, Please, Please (Young Hollywood), King Caesar, The Razor, Dance Party Plus, I Shot William H. Macy
Popaganda (2006):
Graduation Day, Laughing At You
Editors:
The Back Room (2005):
Munich, All Sparks, Bullets, Distance
An End Has a Start (2007):
Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors, An End Has a Start, The Racing Rats
And “Dust In the Sunlight,” not sure where this appears
Deerhunter:
Rainwater Cassette Exchange (2009):
Entire EP
MewithoutYou:
Brother, Sister (2006):
Messes of Men, The Drynes and the Rain, Yellow Spider, A Glass Can Only Spill What It Contains, Orange Spider, In a Sweater Poorly Knit
Stange Boys:
The Strange Boys and Girls Club (2009):
Woe Is You and Me, Should’ve Shot Paul, MLKs, No Way For a Slave to Behave, Most Things, Then
Wavves:
Wavves (2008):
Lover
Wavvves (2009):
So Bored, No Hope Kids, California Goths, Summer Goth
Immortal Technique:
Revolutionary Volume 1 (2001):
Dance With the Devil
Revolutionary Volume 2 (2003):
The Cause of Death, Freedom of Speech
and “Bin Laden” (Remix)
Chris
This is a new segment for KLYAM and like others of its kind (e.g. Songs of the week) I will attempt to post as often as I can, but I am not actually guaranteeing that it will appear as frequently as the title implies. Anyway, here’s the question:
Is violence ever an effective means to achieve social/political goals? When is it justified? When is it not justified? Where does one draw the lines? Are there any lines? Examples for/against?
The Weathermen or Weather Underground as they became were proponents of using violence to end the aggressive war in Vietnam.
David Dellinger, a committed pacifist, peacefully protested the war in Vietnam using active non-violence: civil disobedience, demonstrations, etc. This is a mugshot of him; he was imprisoned for refusing to serve in World War II.
Pleaseee Comment!
Chris
Artist: The King Khan & BBQ Show
Title: The King Khan & BBQ Show aka The Supreme Genius of Mark Sultan*
Label: In the Red (2007 Re-release), Goner (U.S), Hazelwood (Europe)
Year: 2004
1) Waddlin’ Around- 9.8- Classic King Khan! Perfect opener and terrific love song. Truly amazing, soulful vocals from Mark Sultan, just a harbinger of what is to come.
2) Fish Fight- 10- Instant classic! This one is a highly catchy rocker. Great for pogoing and moshing (I can imagine and will get back to you after I see them live!). Great, simple, guitar work
3) Get Down- 9.6- Catchy lyrics, nice, fast paced guitar and drums. Gets me in the mood to “get down.”
4) Hold Me Tight- 9.7- Wow! One word to describe this song: Cool. You could roll down the street picking up some fine looking ladies to this guitar riff…. probably not though, but it gives us hope haha. My favorite part is the “Holdddd Me Tight.” Brings me back to Montrose Elementary School Halloween dances when they played those old ‘Graveyard Smash’ songs. The vocals in that part are extremely reminescent of said tunes. Brought back some great memories.
5) Love You So- 9.9- One of the top tracks on this record and in their entire discography for that matter. It’s another love ballad from the BBQ, Mark Sultan. Incredibly simple lyrics, yet ultimately endearing in both sound and passion. Doo Wop influence is most prevalent here.
6) Got It Made- 9.5- Poppy, BBQ Ballad. Catchy lyrics, innocent song.
7) Am I the One- 8.8- Decent, but didn’t really hit me like the others. Cool King song about his gee tar.
8) Take Me Back- 8.5- It’s a good song, but does not bring as much new to the table. Sultan’s vocals and the overall song really, sound too much like previous tracks. Fine song, but nothing new.
9) Pig Pig- 9.9- Love this one. Balls out rock, screeching vocals, fast guitars, loud drums. In this track, King’s gal is a little, diryt, piggy, “covered in shit” haha. No lovey dovey innocence here, which makes this number really stick out. Perhaps the punk rock influence clawing it’s way into the recording.
10) Shake Real Low- 9.7- Fun (as stated in the song) Rock and Roll you can shake your ass to. Kids and everyone else should flooding the dance floor, rocking to this music, instead of the bullshit they play at dances and clubs, which sucks the fun right outta of the music. I don’t understand how our world works. Ohh well, I’m still having fun.
11) Bimbo’s Theme- 8.8- It’s somewhat catchy, but I think it goes on for too long. I dig the dueling vocals of King and the BBQ at the end though. I also really like when King freaks out and wildly screams.
12) L’il Girl In the Woods- 8.9- Sounds pretty hot lol. Cool song, but nothing special compared to the other greats. I liked when the ‘L’il Girl’ chimed in too.
13) Outta My Mind- 9.0- Funny number, great vocals from both the King and the BBQ. Very catchy. One of my favorite lines from this album, ” Ohh baby, you just ripped my heart out and left it out to dry,” which are spoken. In fact, there’s a little section of King doing some funky spoken word. I can feel the pain of not being able to get some gal ‘outta your mind.’ The emotion is very effective on this track.
14) Mind, Body, and Soul- 8.5- Doesn’t do all that much for me per se, but certainly not a bad track. It is one of those album closers that is specifically longer than other tracks, just to have an epic closing. I typically am not a fan of those. I would have preferred some catchy tune as a closer, like “Outta My Mind.”
Overall Grade- A: Fun, romantic, raw, garagey doo woppy, punky, dirty, rock and roll. These guys have recustiated the early 60s doo wop/pop genre of rock better than anyone in the universe… and they do have some fierce competition.
* Not actual title lol.
Chris
I’d like to hang with this fine gentleman.
Chris
Don’t be surprised if you pick of the November issue of Playboy and see Marge Simpson in the buff. E! Online reporter Marc Malkin confirmed that the Simpson matriarch will appear naked. Wonder what Homer thinks? And if blue-haired cartoons aren’t your forte, Marge will not be replacing the usual Playmate in the issue.
Hugh Hefner teased a while back on Twitter about a possible Marge-Playboy collaboration. Marge will be featured in a three-page pictorial complete with an interview and a data sheet to mark ‘The Simpsons’ 20th anniversary.
Sexy! Ha, when I first heard about this I thought it was Jessica!
Chris
Key word here is “moments.” The following is not a list of my favorite concerts, but rather my favorite songs from the many concerts I have attended, in chronological order.Note: As with nearly all of my lists, I am only placing one song per artist per concert here with No Age having one more than everyone else because I have seen them multiple times and of course they never dissapoint. Also, there are other “favorite” concert moments of mine that are not musical moments, such as Glen and I racing to Radiohead and hitching a ride with the super cool Ray! But, this list only focues on the music. Here we go…
1) Morrissey- Shoplifters of the World Unite- 10/07
2) Radiohead- The Bends- 8/08
3) Meat Puppets- Lost- 9/08
4) Dinosaur Jr- Feel the Pain- 9/08
5) Built to Spill- Car 9/08
6) No Age- Everybody’s Down- 11/08
7) Black Lips- Dirty Hands- 3/09
8) No Age- Teen Creeps- 4/09
9) King Khan & The Shrines- Took My Lady to Dinner- 5/09
10) Animal Collective- Summertime Clothes- 5/09
11) TV Smith- Generation Y- 7/09
12) Head Automatica- I Shot William H. Macy- 7/09
13) Trevor Hall- Lime Tree- 7/09
14) The Warlocks- Shake The Dope Out- 8/09
15) The Pains of Being Pure At Heart- Everything With You- 9/09
16) The Walkmen- Louisiana- 9/09
17) Jay Reatard- It’s So Easy- 10/09
18) King Khan & BBQ Show- Too Much in Love- 10/29/09 HOPEFULLY!
19) Glassjaw- Lovebites and Razorlines- 11/18/09- HOPEFULLY!
20) Sonic Youth- Dirty Boots (opens with it!)- 11/22/09- HOPEFULLY!
21) Pixies- Wave of Mutilation- 11/27- CERTAINLY! since it is track 3 on Doolittle the album they are playing in its entirety, but since this is my favorite I hope they perform it the best.
Chris
Here are some favorites I did for my American Politics course:
Schenck v. United States (1919)
For: Defendant Charles Schenck, a socialist, had violated the Espionage Act of 1917 by mailing leaflets informing World War I draftees to eschew military service. The Espionage Act had specifically made it illegal to interfere with the military or their activities during wartime. Since, Schenck did so, his conviction should be upheld. According to the Supreme Court, he had created “clear and present danger” and therefore his speech was not protected.
Against: Congress’ Espionage Act was unconstitutional because it violated free speech rights protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution, which reads, “Congress shall make no law…. abridging the freedom of speech.” Since, the act Schenck violated is in itself a violation of the law his conviction should have been overturned.
My Opinion: Even though, the Supreme Court upheld his conviction, I believe he should not have faced any imprisonment. The Espionage Act was invalid because it was illegal from the start. Schenck’s free speech did not create a “clear and present danger” to me and therefore it should be legal. Ultimately, the act was merely a factor of the Red Scare that swept the first half of the 20th Century, with the intention of jailing socialists, communists, and anarchists.
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