New Entry: 12/16/00
Notice #2
This is a cool place. Yeah. sable
Saturday, Boring Saturday
*sigh* Why do weekends have to suck so bad?
Abraham Lincoln was a radical. sable
Shake Appeal
12/15/00
Well, I didn't go to school today. We weren't going to be doing anything anyway. Though, I am not sure about my math class. But oh well. Winter break has officially begun. I am so happy! Finally, some relaxation time. Ahh...
I talked with Tamara on AIM for a while. We always have the most interesting, odd, conversations. Same with Jade. And a majority of those I talk to on AIM. I am thankful for this. To read today's AIM conversation with Tamara, click here
You know who I spoke with on AIM for the first time in what seems eons? Ophelia! I was so happy to hear from her. It's been so long...
Great news! Jesus Loves The Stooges finally got a decent message board! Check out the Fun House and sign up!! (Especially if you're a fan of The Stooges.) Mucho thanks goes out to dimeboy for putting it together for me, and putting up with my constant e-mails until I figured it out. (I practically spammed him!) *hugs dimeboy*
It's been all good. sable
Stints With the IRS, No Money, & How to Throw-up Professionally
12/14/00
Bill Cheatam: Ronnie [Ron Asheton - former member of The Stooges] got this call from a guy at the IRS who said that the band owed a lot of money in back taxes. Ronnie said, "I don't know anything about it."
The IRS guy said, "Well you better find out."
So Ronnie said, "Hey look, man, we're all drug addicts, we don't know where the fuck the money is."
The guy went, "Oh," and hung up. The Stooges never heard another word from the IRS.
Danny Fields: It was hell managing Iggy. We were all in New York, and they were out in Detroit [Ann Arbor, to be geographically correct] and no one understood anything about money. Actually, there was no money. The record company didn't support them, and they didn't sell any records.
And Iggy had a drug problem. The Alice Cooper band and The Stooges would play the same show and they'd get paid $1,500 a night. It would come showtime and there would be the guys in Alice's band looking for the mirror to put on eye make-up - you know, being real professional - and then we'd have to go look for Iggy.
And I'd find him laying there, down around the toilet bowl with a spike in his arm, and I'd have to pull it out, with blood spurting all over the place, and I'd be slapping his face, saying, "It's showtime!"
Was that fun? Yeah, right.
Dee Dee Ramone: The first time I saw Iggy was at The Stooges' show at the Electric Circus on St. Marks Place in June of 1971. They went on real late because Iggy couldn't find any veins to shoot dope into anymore because his arms were so fucked-up. He was pissed off and wouldn't come out of the bathroom, so we had to wait.
Iggy Pop: I was backstage looking for a vein and screaming, "Get out! Get out!" to everybody, even my friends - and they were all thinking, God, he's going to die, blah blah blah.
Finally, I'm up there on the stage, and as soon as I walked on that stage, I could feel it. I knew I just had to puke. I wasn't going to leave the stage, though, because I felt that would have been considered abandoning one's audience.
Dee Dee Ramone: The band finally came out, and Iggy seemed very upset. He was all painted in silver paint and all he had on was a pair of underwear. The silver paint was smeared all over him, even in his hair. But his hair and fingernails were gold. And someone had also sparkled him up with glitter. They went on and played the same song over and over. It only had three chords. And the only words to it were, "I want your name, I want your number."
Then Iggy just looked at everybody and said, "You people make me sick!" Then he threw up.
Leee Childers: Geri Miller was down front again. She had this horrible little voice and she was right down front screaming, "Throw up! Throw up! When are you gonna throw up?" And he did! He threw up. Iggy always satisfied his audience.
Iggy Pop: It was very professional. I don't think I hit anyone.
Russell Wolensky: I was up front. I did get thrown up on. Iggy got me on the shoulder.
You can't say Iggy isn't a good performer! sable
Mid-day Airing of The Panties
12/12/00
We got a snow day today. We got a shitload of snow yesterday. It snowed from the wee hours of the morning and didn't stop until about 10:30/11 pm last night. That aside...
There's this girl in my TA group, Amber, who is a really nice girl. She just switched from Mr. Slater's TA to Scott's. She's really nice, but kinda...annoying. Not REALLY, bad annoying, just KIND OF. She's really nice, but there are some things that bothered me.
#1 - She brought music in - which is ok. Even though Dope is not my type of band. (*hurl*) That's only my opinion. Well, she put them on, and it was BLASTING. I mean, there is stereo etiquette in Scott's room, though, very unwritten.
I asked her countless numbers of times to turn it down, because it was so loud. I could barely think, and you could also hear the music - and words - clearly all the way to the soda machines. Which is a good distance away from Scott's room.
Whenever I asked her to turn it down, she would, but two minutes later, she'd be over there turning it back up. I would have to ask her again, and she would, but then she'd turn it back up. It was getting OLD and FAST. A few times I had to turn the music down myself - which is against my personal policy, cause I don't think turning other people's music down is right. But this was getting out of hand.
Finally, I had to get a little bitchy, and she finally turned the shit down and kept it down. I don't like to be the big bad bitch, but you don't fucking be that way.
#2 - She was online, at Hot Topic, and whenever she would see something she liked, she would squeal about it, and it was like every other thing she was squealing about. Every now and then, that's not annoying, but when someone says, "I feel like I'm in an orgy", it's bad.
She also kept pestering Val to come look at what she was squealing about, even though Val told her numerous times that she didn't want to see it.
#3 - When I got the chance to get online, I was posting at the NFC board. And she came up, and she was like, "Can I send a e-postcard real quick? Please?" And I was like, "No, I'm posting here." She begged a little more, and I resisted. It's like, you should have thought of that before. Not to mention, the internet block - "Bess" - doesn't allow you to send e-mail, and it won't allow you to send postcards, either.
Arrrg. sable
Rules For Radicals
12/11/00
Just some things I find interesting...
"Let them call me rebel and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul..."
-Thomas Paine
The 13 Tactics of Radicalism & Revolution
1) Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.
2) Never go outside the experience of your people.
3) Wherever possible, go outside of the experience of the enemy.
4) Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.
5) Ridicule is man's/woman's most potent weapon.
6) A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
7) A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
8) Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.
9) The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
10) The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.
11) If you push a negative hard and deep enough, it will break through into its counterside.
12) The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
13) Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
[These points/tactics aren't fully explained, but you should get the basic gist. I'm not here making a full-on political speech, just posting things I find interesting.]
"Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgement to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins - or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom - Lucifer."
-Saul Alinsky
[I believe in a higher power, one that I call God. But I am not overtly religious. It's just a belief for me. I am a baptized Catholic, but am currently non-practicing.]
May I be so bold to suggest that everyone read Rules For Radicals by Saul D. Alinsky. It seems to be a good book. That is where all the above information came from.
And I don't even want to get into my day. sable
Notice #1
12/10/00
I can't believe it! Emote.org went down again! This is the third week in a row. This is fucking bullshit. I wonder if Ana even knows that's going on? If she does, she should fucking explain it to people.
Under these circumstances, I changed my e-mail. It's now being provided by thatbitch.com. My new e-mail is: j.lo@thatbitch.com - so e-mail me there from now on, k? It's all been changed, anyway.
I changed my desktop wallpaper. Check it out, click here. Yeah, I like Jennifer Lopez. SO? She's a good actress, and I do like her music.
Why do Sundays always suck? One more week until winter break! sable
Mintycola.net
Take Arm, Take Aim...
12/9/00
I hate snow. I nearly slid off the road on my way to school on Tuesday. When I slid left, I steered right, and when I slid right, I steered left, until I got myself under control. I went around the corner at 5 or less miles an hour. Wisconsin is making up for the mildness of last winter.
Well, toxicpink.net's board, You Suck is finally up and running! Very happy about this. I am tv eye on that board, and I moderate the cinema and um tv? forum, and I co-moderate (with GeekGoddess - known as "kill barbie" on the board) the gimme my radio forum. Cool stuff, man.
I also did an interview with Jade on AIM. Go read it at her site. Click on the "Interviews" link.
I got the shirt GeekGoddess sent to me in the mail on Thursday. I am so happy! I love it. I wore it to school on Friday. It's a very cool shirt. Thank-you GeekGoddess!! *hugs* I also sent her package out on Friday. I can't wait till she gets it.
I dyed my hair black. It's so black, it has a blue hue to it. sable
Untitled
12/4/00
ARRG. emote.org is really pissing me off. Last Saturday/Sunday it went down, and didn't get back up until last Thursday. Well, it went down again this past Sunday! Ugh. That is so shitty. I swear, if it doesn't get its act together by tomorrow, I'm just going to switch to my other, alternate, e-mail address and use that one permanently, cause this is bullshit. I'm running this site, another site, and a clique. I can't have this, "the server is going to be down every week for 4 or 5 days" bullshit.
Fucking shit, they need to get their ass in gear. It's understandable to some extent, but it's not understandable when it's doing it all the fucking time. sable
Watch me Break And Watch me Burn
11/30/00
Why do people want to watch you fail? I mean, what's up with that? It's like, they're almost happy to hear you're doing bad (but of course, they don't show it). They're upset and unsettled when you're doing good (again, of course they don't show it).
At school, I went to go visit John - a teacher in the JROTC program at my school. I've had him as a teacher before, and we get along well. My dad has a friend who works there as a Special Ed. teacher, Jeanie. She's nice and all, don't get me wrong. She asked me what I was going to do after I graduated, and John jumped in and said, "She's moving to Ann Arbor, and she's not going to school." Which is true.
She was a bit unsettled by this, but who could blame her? But not everyone is fit for college, you know? She asked me how I planned on supporting myself. I answered, "I'm going to get a job..." And then she was like, "As what? A waitress?" I mean, why is it that if you don't go to college, you're automatically condemned to working "shit jobs" with "scab wages"? It may be like that for some people, but not everyone. I recognize and realize the fact that someone who goes to college will more likely than not make more money than I will. But, money is not an issue with me.
She continued to ask me what I was going to do when I wanted to travel? I just said, "I really don't want to travel, and when I do, I can drive." And she was like, "No, I mean, like, travel to Europe?" And I was like, "Not really." And she was so shocked! I mean, no disrespect to Europe or anything. I'm sure it's a gorgeous place.
I shared with her the fact that I considered becoming an author. She didn't have faith that I could make it as an author. Yeah, thanks for the vote of confidence.
But whatever. This isn't going to get me down. If I do, then I am certain to fail. sable
You Know I Just Gotta See That Band Play...
11/27/00
I know, I know. I've been making less and less entries as time goes on. I just don't think I have anything important to say. Feeling that if I don't have anything important to say, I might as well not say it at all. But I should be entering my feelings, I sometimes just don't know how to put them into words, or...blah. No feelings sometimes, you know?
I have been contemplating doing a new layout for December, even though this is supposed to be "the December layout". I'm not sure right now. I really like this layout, I just have this amazing Fred Smith layout idea... That probably won't work, cause my stupid scanner is on "copy mode" (cause my mother doesn't know how to put things back, hence fucking everything up - she will fix this, cause she did it - there, you had feeling), and it won't go back into "scan mode". It'll scan the picture, it just won't let me save it, only copy it. *gives a long, mean, nasty, glare at mom* So I don't know. We'll just have to see.
This layout probably will last throughout December... But that's not a bad thing. I think Courtney looks beautiful in that picture. She is a goddess. sable
No Retreat, Baby, No Surrender...
11/23/00
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
I survived Thanksgiving at dad's. Tommy and Phil were at their dad's, but Bobby was there. I gave him the CD I burned of The Stooges "Fun House". I really hope he likes it.
Sue (my stepmom) invited one of her co-workers and his wife to dinner (they're friends, both are teachers at a highschool in Illinois). They're very nice people.
The food was good. I especially liked the mashed patatoes. (Unlike the cold mashed patatoes they served at my school's Thanksgiving lunch. They were cold. But I am appreciative that my school has this little tradition. Not to mention it's free, and we all love free. *smiles*)
We didn't play games. This could be a good thing, though. My family + games = arguing. Not a good mix, but it's fun to play with them, anyway. Just sit back, and watch everything unfold, ha ha ha.
So, yeah, that was my Thanksgiving. Looking forward to Christmas... sable
P.S. - I am certainly enjoying my 2 day vacation, and will enjoy the vacation that follows. On Saturday, Sue (my friend) and I might go to Chicago. But that's only if the transmition on my mom's car is going to be ok. I don't know if I want to, though. I don't really feel like driving.
The American Ruse
11/21/00
They told you in school about FREEDOM,
but when you try to be FREE they never let ya
They said, "It's easy - nothing to it"
and now the ARMY's out to get ya
'69 American terminal stasis,
the air's so thick it's like drowning in molasses
I'm sick and tired of paying these dues
and I'm finally getting hip to the American ruse
I learned to say THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE,
before they beat me bloody down at the station
They haven't got a word out of me since
I got a billion years probation
'69 American terminal stasis,
the air's so thick it's like drowning in molasses
I'm sick and tired of paying these dues
and I'm sick to my guts of the American Ruse
Phoney Stars, (Oh No!), Crummy Cars, (Oh No!)
Cheap Guitars, (Oh No!), Joe's Primitive Bar - Nah!
W E L C O M E B A C K, S O N I C !
The way they pull you over it's suspicious,
Yeah, for something that just ain't your fault
If you complain they're gonna get vicious
Kick in your teeth and charge you with ASSAULT
Yeah, but I can see the chickens coming home to roost
Young People everywhere are gonna cook their goose
lots of kids are working to get rid of these Blues
cause everybody's sick of the American ruse
Well, well, well...TAKE A LOOK AROUND!
Well, well, well...TAKE A LOOK AROUND!
Well, well, well...TAKE A LOOK AROUND!
Well, well, well...TAKE A LOOK AROUND!
Well, well, well...TAKE A LOOK AROUND!
-MC5
I really like that song. sable
toxicpink.net
'69 American Terminal Stasis
11/21/00
Well, I finally got everything set up! *whew* It was quite an overhaul, let me tell you! But I think it's for the better. I am happy with how things are. I hope you will be, too. So, from now on, go to... toxicpink.net/ruse.
I'm in love with this layout. Courtney Love is just the coolest. I love her attitude, her songs, et. al. I think she is cool, and I like her. A lot of people give her shit, talk shit, and what have you, but I think she's cool. That's my opinion, don't bother e-mailing me with yours. I read enough of everyone's opinions of her around the net and other places.
I'm going to my dad's house for Thanksgiving. This will be the first time I will see Bobby, Tommy, and Phil in what seems ages. I am kinda excited to see them, I haven't seen them in so long. It's been so long since I last been to my dad's house, and Bobby lives in Minnesota and Tommy lives in Missouri.
So that's all, basically. sable
