We're going through an enormously difficult,complicated financial crisis. The politics are understandably difficult. People across the country are angry and frustrated, as they should be, that this economy, the United States of America, got itself in the position where enormous damage has been done as a consequence of a long period of risk-taking without meaningful adult supervision. And the consequences of that are tragic because they're basically fundamentally unfair; because people who were careful and responsible, conservative in their decisions, are suffering a lot from the consequences of mistakes they were not part of....We're going to have to bring a stronger form of basic oversight with better-designed constraints on leverage applied to those institutions whose stability is really critical to the functioning of the system. We need to make this system less pro-cyclical so that it is dampening, not amplifying, future booms and busts. We're going to have to take a comprehensive look at consolidating and streamlining the basic oversight framework.
Arthur Lee and Love, Beatles, John Prine, Belleville, Backorders, Aztec Camera, Cracker, the Bonkeenies, El Sob, Sun Kil Moon, Van Dyke Parks, Ian Tyson, Warren Zevon, Bob Dylan, Beatcombers, Sparky Grinstead, Zappa and the Mothers
A Hard Day's Night, Help!, Yellow Submarine, Let It Be, 200 Motels, White City, This Is Elvis, all of the Turtle movies except Secret of the Ooze, Magical Mystery Tour, Japanese horror
Television
Teletubbies, TMNT, Project Runway, The Wire, INVADER ZIM, Sopranos, VH1 Classic, Real Housewives, Cathouse, Twin Peaks
Books
Stephen King and Greil Marcus (as in anything by)
Heroes
Instead of being the richest, most powerful country in the world that can bomb anything we want, we're going to be the strongest, richest, most powerful country in the world that's a little bit more friendly, and we're gonna use a different form of coercion to get what we want, spposedly. But we're not the richest, most powerful country in the world. The whole world is humoring us because we're so dangerous. Everybody's like:"There you go, US, sure you're still the most powerful in the world, sure; China owns you and you're getting your ass kicked in these two guerilla wars and you're flat broke, but you're still the best!" Elvis and Elvis, TMNT, Dipsy, Neil, Bill Clinton, Stewart and Colbert, Invader Zim, Bill Maher, Al, Ringo
Oakland Senior High
Oakland, CA
Graduated: 1971
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Major: Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll
Minor: Academics
Clubs: The Bonkeenies of America
NOTHING IS REAL. We all define the stuffs and stages of our worlds with terse tags and populist generalities. We know a rose is sometimes a rose, but what fucking color is it? What fucking color is it? Everybody fibs. Myths are entertained, delusions are encouraged and/or covertly engrained. Faith is the lies we tell and tell ourselves. Life is the lies we tell everybody else. Common knowledge is a daisy chain of lies. Humans love distortion. Civilization is costume revery, culture by coercion.....
I am a husband (and ex-husband heh heh), father, brother, uncle, cousin, friend, homeowner, musician, song writer, toll collector and music lover...I have the best job on earth (GGB!!!)and I play drums like Ringo. I live in the city of dreams and drive on the highway of fire. If I believe in anything, it is serendipity. I also believe in little green men...in fact, a little green man lives at my house. His name is Al and he's my pal...
"I only want to be the man you want."
Find your truth and live it. Be honest with yourself and everyone around you. If you love, admit it. There is no shame in love. Act like you know what you're doing and you'll get it done. Act like you know where you're going and you'll get there. There is precious little truth in religion - it's just a bunch of hand-me-down folk tales designed to keep us docile. Find your own truth and live it. I know that pretty much contradicts everything I said above - or does it? - but life is a contradiction. Enjoy it while you got it. We're here for a moment and then gone forever.
NOTHING IS REAL.
Who I'd like to meet: Ringo Starr, Bill Clinton, Invader Zim (or Dib...maybe Gaz, too), Courtney Love and the guy the who said "Go fuck yourself" to Dick Cheney.
You have a great website here… There’s lots of room to spread out and put your feet up. The music is great and the mood that you create is just right. It’s a perfect place!
And did we mention that the The ROBOTS FROM MARS have a new song, “Spaceship Earth”
“Better plug your ears so that your brains don’t leak out…” Johnny Air Guitar.
Visit their My Space page to experience the #1 song from the Red Planet. The reviews have begun to come in:
“Spaceship Earth is destined to become the worst song of all time!” The Psychic News Network
“Spaceship Earth sounds like it was played by a bunch of drunken robots…” The Snob Blog & Party Hearty Militia
“Can’t wait to jam with the Robots From Mars!” Bill Clinton
“Yuck Yuck…The Robots From Mars sound like Devo on uppers…” George W.
“The Robots From Mars are incredibly boring in a heavy handed low brow sort of way.” Dick Cheney
“Spaceship Earth will take you to a place that you don’t want to go!” Barak Obama
“Just like some Democrats we know,” John McCain
“If you are really really BUZZED and you squint really really hard, the Robots From Mars don’t SOUND half bad,” Bender, “And it shouldn’t matter that they paid me to say that… I still get to keep the money, right?”
INTERGALLACTIC PROTEST LAUNCHED BY THE ROBOTS FROM MARS!
The Robots From Mars have launched a protest with the Beetlejuice Gaming Commission. The major issue focuses on the disadvantage that metallic robots have when playing Pong since most robots tend to light up when struck by the game ball. “But that all depends on the size of the game ball verses the size of the robot,” the Great Butbot advised, “there’s a proper ratio with these things.” Johnny Air-Guitar, “Getting struck by a ball of light is a real and constant danger…if I light up I’ll give my position away.” Rob “Rainbow” Marley, “I light up if I’m within six feet of a Pong match. I think it is a radiation thing.” “You’d light up anyway,” Johnny Air-Guitar added. “You’re always smoking.” This reporter noted that most of the beings attending the protest in the office of the Beetlejuice Gaming Commission took some of these comments by the Robots From Mars as a joke. But I’m not convinced. I never met a synthetic that had a sense of humor.
ZZ Van Hendrix, “Bowling is even worse than Pong. What robotic ten pin wants to stand around with 9 of his buddies just to get knocked down so that he has to continually pick himself back up again? It’s a senseless stupid ritual! And who gains…some fat old hippie in a tie-dyed T-shirt? Bowling and Pong are both barbaric. They should be outlawed!”
Reported by Texas Rose & the Lone Stranger For the Martian Blog and Neitherworld News Service
Hey Norman How are you doing? Are you ready to get on Stage....? Is Draggin Suzy going to join you at all this year? You must of felt me thinking of you and your band I was just talking to friends the other night about your band and Draggin Suzy and all the places you have played. Thank you for the Add. Keep in touch and I hope to see you soon?
Are you ready to rumble? It’s going to be a hot time at the old solar system’s largest volcano! Come on down to the Red Planet and visit with us at Olympus Mons. We’ll link hands and form a huge circle as we float up to the summit of the giant volcano. We’ll then sit around the rim and toast marshmallows until the Red Winged Sand Monster comes home to roost.
THIS WILL BE A HAPPENING TO END ALL HAPPENINGS!
There will be Heavenly cloud rides and Hellacious tornado surfing along with an OM chanting contest that’s bound to attract the right kind of energy. Mars will also host the junior god school magic vs. science championships. Last year’s winner for fashioning the best living breathing ice sculpture babe will MC the Mr. Virgin Snow competition. You’ll then be asked to cast your vote for the coldest girl in the world, which will help us determine the next Icicle Princess.
You are welcome to bring a friend or two and add to the merriment of the moment. Updates to follow…
Welcome friend and break a circuit breaker! May fireworks light up your sky! Sometimes music bounces from inside your head to the next dimension and sometimes it's right in front of you. Just grab the magic and go for broke!
I've always prided myself on having a low IQ since I was made with cheap re-processed American parts and a third class synthetic brain. Did you ever hear a robot spouting philosophy in his underwear?
Mickey Microphone the Robots From Mars
Checkout our Robomusic and tall tale.
NO JOKE NOW...I've been within a foot of a gray and have been abducted many times but I can laugh. I can finally laugh.
PS You're invited to a cookout at the summit of Olympus Mons, the largest volcano on Mars and within our solar system. Bring your own marshmallows.
PPS ZZ Van Hendrix says that he remembers you from a past lifetime... I think he was a pretzel.
PPPS We're building a giant TV-Radio Internet Link on Mars so that we can pick-up you’re My Space Page. Don't want to miss anything. We’LL be watching you… .
How is it possible that you can make a sunny day, sunnier? It was wonderful to see you today. February will be here before you know it. My love to you and your family.....
Awww, I love you too pops. I was just sharing your awesome music with a couple of my friends today. I'm getting better at the guitar. F & Fm are almost clear :)
