There are a few interesting artists with integrity popping up here and there, but you may agree that music is recently somewhat generic and unoriginal. I really enjoy hearing a band make an album that wasn't typecast, something they didn't purposely write as a hardcore, emo, metal, or trip hop album. I'd imagine there was a point in time when artists wrote music without boundaries, but bands today settle for doing what they are told. That is complete BULLSHIT! As an artist, you have an obligation to create what you feel and express yourself however you want. I find it hard to believe that all these new rock bands so conveniently enjoy the same bland, uninteresting, radio friendly garbage as your average 13 year old girl (although they share the same taste in clothing). When a bunch of overdressed guys get together to write something similar to what is already popular at that time, you know you'll end up with the same thing over and over. The utter lack of integrity, originality, and honesty in modern music out weighs any chance of hearing something written from the heart. Healthy influences are nonexistent, not many people have appreciation for rebellious musical revolutionists like Frank Zappa, John Lennon (remember theat album cover with him and Yoko Ono naked? People hated that), and even Marilyn Manson (in his day, Manson did something interesting, different, and culturally offensive). Bands are still heavily influenced, but its by specific genres, which grow stale from being overplayed and simply fade away. Few bands choose to truly express art freely, and I believe that is what is holding music back these days.
Same fucking scenario, these blacklights and a stereo
Waiting for a day when it wont hurt to breathe
A cough cant consume all that I've been through
The world was shallow and I don't have to believe
Ritualistic dreamscape where your words make no sense
Apart from reality, the faceless will know what you meant
Something mumbled out loud and distorted it seems
Your vision doubles and soon you'll forget how to pee
Time stands by whilst the religious drink wine
The patterns conflicting, I can only watch with one eye
Scarification to the rythym of my condition
My fondness for denial, no end to this addiction
They tell you their lies to control your choices and thoughts
If we thought of that sooner, we wouldn't line up to be shot
Now the fairy tale is ending and no longer can we pretend
Yet our pages only bleed when tragically, they're dead
-meh
Music
!!! (Chk Chk Chk), Mod Flanders Conspiracy, Brendan Benson, the Mars John Travolta, Handsome Boy Modeling School, the Beatles, Peeping Tom, the Matches, Elliott Smith, the Raconteurs, Honeycut, the White Stripes, Gonna Get Got, the Shins, Lovage, Cex, Gym Class Heroes, the Mars Volta, T.V. on the Radio, Bjork, Death From Above 1979, George Clinton and the Parliament, Modern Lovers, Dog Fashion Disco, At the Drive-In, Wired All Wrong, the Agony Scene, Beck, Tom Petty & the Heart Breakers, Acey Alone, dredg, Circus of Dead Squirrels, Team Sleep, White Zombie & older Rob Zombie, Steven Seagal, Scurvy, Mr. Bungle, Atmosphere, Luti-Kriss (before they were Norma Jean), Megadeth, Weezer, Fast Eddie, American Head Charge, Sammy Davis Jr., Lollipop Lust Kill, Two, the Blood Brothers, the Alter Boys, SicInside, Screaming Monkey Boner, Mindless Self Indulgence, Nuclear Rabbit, In Flames, Self, nailbomb, Khoura, the Osedax.
Movies
Army of Darkness, American Beauty, Idiocracy, Stranger Than Fiction, Naked Lunch, Art School Confidential, Thank You For Smoking, Boogie Nights, The Departed, Before the Music Dies, Calamari Wrestler, Brick, The Chumscrubber, The Big Lebowski, Talladega Nights, Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death, DogFashionDVD, In the Army Now, Running Scared, Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter, Dead Man on Campus, Six-String Samurai, American History X, Dusk til Dawn, Natural Born Killers, HeavyWeights, Class of Nuke Em High, Bongwater, London, Thumbsucker, Decline of The Western Civilization: The Metal Years, Stacey, Fight Club, My Big Fat Independent Movie, Orgazmo, Bringing Out the Dead, The Big White, Puff Puff Pass, Scarface, The Big Hit, Evil Dead 1 & 2, Spun, They Live, Old Boy, Jim Rose Circus Show, Faces of Death, Audition, Lady's Man, The Devil's Rejects, People Under the Stairs, the Steve-O dvds, Suburban Commando, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Pulp Fiction, Idle Hands, Blow,...
Television
Sifl & Olly, Wonder Showzen, Arrested Development, Eerie Indiana, Beavis & Butt-Head, Inked, That 70's Show, Rescue Me, Sopranos, Titus, Invader Zim, Mr. Show, Daily Show, Scrubs, The Head, South Park, Al-Jazeera, Prison Break, Greg the Bunny, Reno 911, Dog Bites Man, The Upright Citizens Brigade, Robot Chicken, Ren & Stimpy... anything funny. I especially enjoy cable specials about tattoos, piercings, body suspension, and other body modification.
Totally Crescent Fresh
Books
Dear God, It's Me Margaret
Lately, I only have time to read articles and menus, but I did manage to "accidentally" read a few books. Bruce Campbell's autobiography - If Chins Could Kill, Lord of the Flies, Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three, and I really liked Danger.com & Goosebumps books as a kid.
Heroes
Hail to the King, baby. I still have memories of being bored at my grandma's house as a little kid, and watching Army of Darkness over and over because that was the only VHS tape she had. It could of been worse, I could have been stuck with a copy of Sleepless in Seattle, or some other watered down bullshit like that.
I'm an open minded artist. I am more than capable of designing any tattoo concept. I'm available to design albums, websites, tattoos, murals,...etc. I'm willing to work on any artistic project.
I made a New Years resolution to take pictures of my daily rituals, so that I can remember everything and everyone I encounter. So far it's been interesting, and I'm happy I took this idea seriously.
My small deviant art page - The Mars John Travolta. You can check that out by clicking this sketch of mine:
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is based on a true story: Chuck Norris once swallowed a turtle whole, and when he crapped it out, the turtle was six feet tall and had learned karate." This isn't me, you sick fuck. Thats right.
"In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it."
- Ernst Fischer
"If music is dying, musicians are killing it. Composers are the ones decomposing it. We are as responsible as anyone--although we'd love not to admit it. We lash out at "The Industry", blaming things like corporate structure for our shitty music--but we are the ones making it. We open the box they've given us and jump in, wrap ourselves up, and even lick the stamp. Why? Insecurity--the need for acceptance--maybe even money. We're not thinking about our music, just how it looks. One would rather have the warm tongue of a critic licking his asshole than the tongue of his spouse. It gives him a sense of validity and power. He seems to defy gravity. Maybe it is because he doesn't know what the hell else to do. He sees it coming--but freezes with panic like a deer in the headlights."
- Mike Patton
Who I'd like to meet:
Bob Barker is a Pimp
I'm as fascinated as I am disgusted by the majority of people today. The lack of integrity and honesty in art, music, politics, and other functions of society continues to cripple free speech and our freedom of choice. People are afraid to question authority, a concept responsible for centuries of underrated leaders, heroes, and revolutionaries. These great minds were all once seen as outsiders and shit disturbers at one time or another, so why has there been such a decline in integrity lately?
As much as I disagree with the views and choices of my peers, I'm just as fascinated and annoyed by their reasons. Some of the most ridiculous shit I've ever heard of happened because of the influence of a small minority of hypocrites. Make up your own mind, be yourself, think for yourself, and don't conform to what society says is acceptional. What the fuck do they know? If you let people like George W. Bush and Oprah tell you how to raise your kids (she has no fucking kids, by the way), how to lose weight, how to fuck, and how to eat, you'll only contribute to the machine, a group of tyrants and shady, overpaid corporate reapers sucking away your rights and opportunities. The over glorified pod people/robots we put in charge of America literally piss all over our constitutional rights, breaking the backs of a working class generation just trying to have a good time, only so that they can wipe their asses with the money leeched from our cold, dead fingers. These same assholes are responsible for decades of watered down entertainment and the censorship of tv, radio, literature, and anything else you're exposed to. The social mainstream has done nothing to help those who need help the most, while the counterculture that fueled the 60's grows smaller by the minute. So many people these days give into that consulation prize called fame, and why wouldn't they? That is, since record company executives ultimately decide whether the world hears you or not, and being original and avante garde seems to get you no where, fast.
A few people are chilled out and laid back, so things arent all bad. I'd like to meet the dead lady that used to say "Where's the Beef?" in an old burger commercial. You know, shit like that. Alive or dead, I wouldn't mind meeting Dane Cook, Sacha Baron Cohen, Bob Barker, Edward Norton, Joel Peter Witkin, Aleister Crowley, anyone as crescent fresh as Kevin Spacey's character in the Usual Suspects, George Carlin, Hunter S. Thompson, Cheech Marin, Christopher Walken, Tony Iommi, Tim Burton, Captain Kangaroo, Liam Lynch, Tom Petty, Frank Zappa, Mr. T, Mike Patton, Rahzel, Mitch Hedburg, David Cross....
I get out of school on the 12th, and I'm going back home for a few days. Then I'm moving at the end of the month. So tell me when you can come up and we will make it work, plus I would love to have ya.
yup i still play as much as i can. i just finished recording for bassnectar, but i never really do the band thing kuz i dont have alot of time because i work alot, and this summer ill be takin off to travel the country. ive got my mars volta ticket... ive actually never seen them live. and i got tickets to radiohead as well.
my tax return just came in and now i'm rich so i'm considering putting a downpayment on a new car. exciting, eh!?
oh, and i'm turning twenty one back home. apparently it's been years since i've seen my family.. so mark you calender for the end of june. we're gonna get wasted. :)
no she didnt tell me i owe you a sub... but its only fair if we trade sandwhiches... and extra mayo please. thats funny you listen to !!!(chk chk chk) their definately interesting ill be seeing them in march im curious to see what kinda stage presence they present.
wuddup G?. Hey so Sunshine was pretty good if you've heard of it.. same director as 28 Days Later and these astronauts are on a mission to reignite the sun. It *sounds* like the plot to Armageddon but believe me its not =) It kicked ass, but then again I'm biased because I love outer space type shit. Also Juno was really good too !
And you sir? its been a hot minute since we talked got anything up your sleeve for me?
I would definately enjoy your trip to Chicago. You Should actually come up though. If you put it off to long i'll become depondent and most likely cut myself.
