Nanking

Nanking, the capital of China at the start of WWII was pillaged, it's citizens raped and it's buildings destroyed. I just watched a documentary on Nanking, heartbreaking, as all war footage is. When the Chinese Dragon decides to spread her wings of might....Japan will cease to exist. I don't support that, it's just gonna be. There are 100 Million Chinese Soldiers who have really no chance of ever getting married due to the selective survival rate of babies, due to gender. War should just stop or the next one will stop everything.

Tony

Shower Time

Latley I've heard it mentioned that men take to long in the shower, I've heard this from my wife for years. My shower this morning. Started thinking how at the turn of the century Morphine was the drug of choice among Dr's, pretty much prescribed to everyone including infants. Well that worked for a while, then it didn't. OK, new wonder drug, Herion, again worked well but again was way overused. Now comes Freud and his peers, feeling down, try this...COCAIN. Yep, that will make you happy...for a while, then, no good. Now comes WWII, gotta keep those troops awake, Methamphetamine to the rescue. Methamphetamine is still the most prescribed medication ever. Why did so much get done in the 50's,60's and 70's, thats right meth. So the 70's roll around and we as a nation are tweaked out of our skulls, answer for this is, Valium and Quaaludes. All of these are out of favor I believe for the simple fact that euphoria is a side effect. Onto now, Anti-Depressents...no euphoria, but a Stepford nation. Brave new world, my ass. We are drones, filling our brains with chemicals that remove emotion and make us better workers. Washed, lathered, got behind the ears and all the tight spots, rinsed then got out and dried off.

Tony

Really????

It's a little late but 1984 has arrived. I can't count the times recent crimes have been solved because the idiot was caught on some security camera or another. Often times many camers and many angles of different shots of the same general area. On the surface this is great, it just makes me wonder how many more cameras are out there and how many times each day every one of us is filmed. Thousands of tickets have been issued in Arizona based soley on traffic cams. We used to have a right to privacy, that went out with the Patriot act. We used to have freedom of speech, now if you virtually offend someone they can slander you with no reprecussions. Everything you say or especially write can bring the man to your door. It seems the only right I have is to work my ass off to pay banks that are just gonna fuck me in the end. It's like sex, once you have done it, you can't go back to holding hands. We have been forced by our leaders in the US to adopt policy out of fear created by them to give up our personel freedom. I believed my whole life that the US was the greatest nation because it granted it's citizens freedom....I would rather live in Thailand at this moment simply so I could see the enemy to fight. How do we fight the political, corporate and financial enemys here at home....civil disobediance, fuck that. You be civil to me and then I will be civil right back. Damn I want to be positive..

Got Nothing..

April 16, 2007 is the day I started dying, or at least stopped living. I've been doing a pretty good job of fooling those closest to me and those not close to me don't exist anymore. Living in this area there are Billboards I drive by everyday, cars with remembrance stickers, hell there are even people with "never forget" tattooed on their person. I bet none of those people were on campus that day, I was. The e-mails started early that day and showed no concern for what was about to happen, when it happened it was bad. Some say look for the good in people, I say watch yourself because every one of us is capable of horrondus acts that defy god. I lost so much that day, blind faith, beliefs, friends, sanity and my job to boot. So April 16th, Fuck You!

Like a Moth to a Flame

Today, like everyday had some extraordinay horrendous stories from around the world. In some country where it is common for men to marry girls as young as 10, a new bride of 12 years old was raped by her new husband to the point of death. Here in the US a little 7 year old girl was shot and killed when the car she was Riding
in was all shot up. The whole leadership of Poland was killed in a plane crash, I mean Political, Military, Civilian, business leaders...everyone. Yet I feel strangely positive, I actually see a glimmer of hope for my daughter who turns 9 today. Happy Birthday Angel. I think we are going to have change the way we do business with the world. It seems to me that as a nation we are going to have to start producing things again.

Had a good gig at Corned Beef this evening. Band was named Polychrome and they were entertaining as hell and very talented to boot. Now their system is a different story, or at least takes some leaps of faith in judgement to get functional. The system appeared to be very small, a single 15 sub and an old peavy box on top, you know what....it did and sounded great. Another odd thing about the set up is that they don't use a crossover, rather the signal goes through this EQ on steroids and voila, everything works.

Fucking Cockroaches

L.A. is contemplating going on 3 day work week for state, city, county employees because the city is BROKE. Since all policies seem to come from west to east, our future looks bleak to me. We don't need different people in office, we need to get rid of the office, all they do is miss manage funds and get fat paychecks to do it. It's time the people take over, non violence is not the answer, ask; Ghandi, MLK, Lennon, Bhuto...etc

You cant ask them because while they were spreading peace and love, they either got shot or blowed up sir! I fear I am becoming quite radical in my thinking of what needs to happen, I honestly want Anarchy and revolution. Thats crazy talk, isn't it?

Fly on the Wall

Mixed 5 bands this weekend, bars are great places to people watch. You can watch a relationship start, bloom & then die an often amusing death in a span of 3 hours, thank you alcohol....you do entertain. Rodney King said it best; "Can't we all just get along?" Short answer..NO! Short reason; Religion & Politics. We kill each other over faith and theories, these are constructs and beliefs, nothing tangible, no spoils to the victor. It's just my side wants to wipe out your side. Do we want one world where everyone thinks alike, worships alike and behaves alike....Sounds like one of those other worlds that the crew of the Starship Enterprise encounters, kind of a thick as paper utopia that shreads apart with the first hints of friction.

You know who gets along? A great band. It's almost like telepathy the way a band communicates non verbally on a really smoking night. Last night worked with Jazz Chronic who opened up for Snarky Puppy, simply put, AWSOME! You know what makes a mix sound good? A great band. Music seems to help people get along, brings smiles to peoples faces, helps to erase the tension and anxiety that we have created for ourselves. How do our leaders use music? They crank really obnoxious music non stop at stupid loud levels to make people move on. Using good for evil just sucks, and really shows the true heart of the American Politician...Fuck em all!!