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11/10/2016 · 12:46 pm

Bless This Mess

No need to thank me. I won’t say “I told you so”. I won’t rub it in, or be a “sore winner”. I’m good like that.

I’m sorry you’re having trouble. (BONK) I’m sorry you’re having trouble.

Appreciate that the desire to gloat is strong, however. The Left made their bed; now they can die in it. They were so terrified of Bernie Sanders’ predicted landslide victory that they lied, cheated and stole to sabotage it. I’ll never, ever forget or forgive their cowardice and manipulation. But this is a “comedy site”, so let’s put all that aside for the time being. Continue reading →

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Filed under Bad Influences, Don't Know Don't Care, Idiot's Delight, Late To The Party, Uncategorized, Worst Of All

Tagged as 2001, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2016 election, 9/11/01, America, corporate crap, depression, despair, political correctness, politics, sellouts, whores

11/04/2016 · 12:35 am

Mad Season

Threading the needle. That was Seattle music in 1994. A desperate, futile gambit to save what few musicians remained from Lady Heroin’s clutches. Cobain was dead. A hideous monster was uncovered, in that bands came to realize that their labels would capitalize upon their deaths just as they would their lives. It’s one of the sickest, most repugnant eras in recording history.

Pearl Jam, Seattle, 1991.

Mike McCready, guitarist for none other than Pearl Jam, entered rehab for drugs and alcohol during the production of Vitalogy, in Minneapolis. Just imagine the options for debauchery that McCready was presented with; you can’t. I can’t. Pearl Jam has sold around 60 million albums worldwide. When that happens, secret people offer you more of something you like than you’ve ever seen, or knew existed. Anyone would give anything (or say anything) to be with you. Continue reading →

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Tagged as 1990s, 1995, Alice In Chains, alternative music, Barrett Martin, depression, despair, drugs, grunge, heroin, John Baker Saunders, Layne Staley, Mad Season, Mike McCready, music, Pearl Jam, rehab, Screaming Trees, Seattle, Skin Yard

07/21/2016 · 5:33 pm

R. Buddy

From BIUL #2.

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Filed under Bad Influences, Comix Classic & Current, Faint Signals, Magazine Rack, Nostalgic Obsessions, Worst Of All

Tagged as Bands I Useta Like, Cabbage Patch Kids, Child's Play, Chris Ware, comix, depression, Ivan Brunetti, Jimmy Corrigan, laughter, Mike Diana, My Buddy, National Lampoon, R. Budd Dwyer, Rory Hayes, suicide, Trans Am (band), underground

07/09/2016 · 6:20 pm

When Broken Broke

From 1989 to 1992, all anyone knew of Nine Inch Nails was prettyhatemachine. Your opinion of that one album was your opinion of Nine Inch Nails.

Before Broken, NIN’s sophomore EP, you could be forgiven for thinking Trent Reznor was the heir apparent of electronic Goth, following the dark path of Joy Division and Depeche Mode. Reznor was the scion of a venerable HVAC company (founded 1888!), and probably spent much of his young life in the presence of gigantic, droning machines. “Industrial” was already wired into his veins.

For all your heating, cooling, and electro-goth needs!

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Tagged as 120 Minutes, 1989, 1990, 1990s, 1992, 1994, Adam Ant, alternative music, Bands I Useta Like, Charles Manson, Coil, depression, despair, DEVO, electro-industrial, electronica, Gaspar Noe, goth, Henry Rollins, hidden tracks, Irreversible, John Balance, metal, MTV, music, New Jersey, Nothing Records, parental advisory labels, Pennsylvania, Pigface, pre 9/11, Sharon Tate, suicide, synthpop, Trent Reznor, TVT

06/16/2016 · 11:40 am

Eagles

From my understanding, it’s just “Eagles”, not “The Eagles”. Remember how in the 80s, the woman in charge of the LEGO Company put little messages in every box, asking consumers to say “LEGO bricks and toys” instead of “LEGOs”? Yeah. Good luck.

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Tagged as 1970s, 1975, 1977, 1980s, 1990s, 1994, 2005, AOR, Bands I Useta Like, Billy Joel, comic, corporate crap, countrypolitan, depression, Don Felder, Don Henley, Eagles, Glenn Frey, Hell Freezes Over, Jeff Bridges, Joe Walsh, LEGO, Los Angeles, Miami, Mojo Nixon, music, Randy Meisner, soft-rock, The Big Lebowski

06/11/2016 · 1:07 pm

Yello

30 years ago, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off came out. If you build a time machine and go back to 1986, you might just enjoy that movie.

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Tagged as 1970s, 1980, 1980s, 1985, 1986, 1989, 1996, 2008, Alan Ruck, Bands I Useta Like, Ben Stein, Boris Blank, Charlie Sheen, Cheech & Chong, Cheech & Chong's Next Movie, Cherie Currie, Cindy Pickett, comedy, comic, death, depression, DEVO, Dieter Meier, Edie McClurg, electronica, George Lucas, Gwar, Illinois, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Jeffrey Jones, Jennifer Grey, Jodie Foster, John Hughes, Lindsey Buckingham, Lyman Ward, Matthew Broderick, Mike Myers, movies, music, National Lampoon, New Jersey, radio, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, simulcast, Square Pegs, Star Wars, suicide, Switzerland, The (English) Beat, The Simpsons, Tower Records, Vacation, Yello

06/07/2016 · 12:58 pm

XTC

You wanna lampoon Jehovah? It’s been done. Nobody can top Monty Python’s Life of Brian. Move on with your life.

You’re protected from nefarious religions in the present, mostly. Kids aren’t put through the parochial school ringer like sixty years ago. Nuns get in hot water for rapping the knuckles of students with a ruler. Child abuse is rightfully and openly abhorred. Continue reading →

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Tagged as 1980s, 1986, 2004, 45s, alternative music, Andy Partridge, Bands I Useta Like, British Invasion, comic, Dennis Miller, depression, despair, Duran Duran, England, Mike the Pod, mini-CD, mixtapes, Monty Python's Life Of Brian, music, New Jersey, religion, retards, Second British Invasion, strips, The Beatles, XTC

05/14/2016 · 2:15 pm

“Last Exit”

When was the last time the name “Pearl Jam” sounded weird to you? Can you even remember when it didn’t sound like a band?

Eddie Vedder

Vitalogy, Pearl Jam’s experimental third album, was finally released in November of 1994. By that time, the record store I had assistant-managed was consumed by Blockbuster. Originally, I worked at “Tracks”, which was where I experienced Pearl Jam’s debut disc Ten, around ten times a day for several months. This resulted in a loathing of that album that burns to the present day. Continue reading →

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Tagged as 1990s, 1994, alternative music, Blockbuster, corporate crap, Dave Abbruzzese, depression, Eddie Vedder, Frank Zappa, grunge, Janeane Garofalo, Jeff Ament, Mike McCready, music, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Stone Gossard, Vitalogy

04/06/2016 · 4:04 pm

I Don’t Like The Drugs (But The Drugs Like Me)

“The sedative for coughs”, until 1913.

Here in Atlanta’s Little Five Points neighborhood, we lost another local musician to heroin. I won’t write his name here, because I don’t want to inextricably link him with the drug that killed him. But there’s an anguished frustration every time this happens, when the needle takes yet one more.

Junk has been a cancer on music since before Charlie Parker played a note. It has taken too many casualties to list here. It seeps into cinema and art like toxic groundwater. No one does better work while on heroin. It improves no experience; it only makes one atrophy. What it does, is put your soul in terrible pain, and then dulls it. Nothing it does helps you or anyone else in any legitimate way. Continue reading →

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Tagged as 1990s, alcohol, Atlanta, behind the scenes, cocaine, death, depression, despair, DMT, drugs, ecstasy, heroin, jail, John's Arm:Armageddon, laughter, Little 5 Points, LSD, suicide

03/17/2016 · 12:00 am

Tool

Check it out, I wrote my very own Tool song:

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Tagged as #tbt, 1990s, 1993, 1996, Alex Grey, alternative music, Aperfectcircle, Bands I Useta Like, Bill Hicks, comic, depression, despair, industrial, Maynard James Keenan, metal, Mr. Show, music, parental advisory labels, posers, Puscifer, suicide, Throwback Thursday, Tool, Transformers

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