Saturday, December 25, 2004

This is a Public Service Announcement With My Mac

Deciding to do your own blog is like deciding to marry your computer. You can mess around with her, go on the internet here and there, read about your favorite topics and so forth, but that is only 2nd base maybe even 3rd base. And for some of us there might even be some foreplay involved but that is a topic for another type of blog.

I am realizing now that by starting the CultureLess blog I am now making a major commitment to sitting on my ass, even more than before, and for those that know me my ass does not need to be any bigger.

The reason I am still going to go ahead and increase the size of my rear end is this, to make a blog that is not about pointless personal garbage. I will not tell you when I score with some chick (unless I see ya in a bar and you see me with the kool aid smile and a story to tell). Besides there wouldn't be many entries on that blog.

The main reason I want to embark on this adventure (I am such a yank. Only an american would consider sitting down fingering plastic buttons an adventure), is to free these insane thoughts from my head and share them with the world.

Most of these thoughts concern the slow death of culture in this country while we export this dying corpse of human relations we have developed here to others. "Wo"(-Kenau reeves, any number of movies), you must be thinking, "If I had all that crap filling up my head I would counter act that with some kind of numbing agent". Way ahead of you. Since giving up on religion a long time ago (the numbing thing wasn't a phsyical thing it was "spritiual"..pbbb..more on the meaning of pbbb later), my preferred agent of numbness is now alcohol.

Nembutol numbs it all but I prefer Alcohol-Joe Strummer

When I am not thinking about Hindus in India eating super size fries fried in animal fat , or the Muslim girls I constantly see wearing headscarves walking out of Mcdonalds (Is mickey d's really halal meat?), I am amazed to think about how, through all this madness, there are people out there carving out some kind of refuge of culture in our beautiful free and properous 4th reich. I want to dedicate this blog to those people.

The people who think for themselves, who want to create more than they consume. People who consider life a blessing and not their personal toliet.

A great way to tell alot about a person non sexually is to find out who their hero is. Unless your hero is a porno actor or actress.

Who is my hero? Those who keep Culture alive and fight to keep it living and breathing and are against everything that injures, poisions, or beheads it like Ignorance, War, and wrestling, yes wrestling. But not the wrestling from Mexico that shit is for real....

So if anyone out there has a hero or can point out some people helping to keep music, art and proper human interaction alive let me know. I rather you let me know along with a couple of pints at a pub so to make this blog less ironic but this is where we are in the "21st and a half century"-(duck dogers..cartoon fans anyone???)

My pick for keepers of the flame sort of speak are of course here in NYC (when I have more time to figure this blog thingy out I will start posting about people all over the world resisting in their own special way).

gogolbordello

This band is a NYC band in every way possible. They are imposing, argressive, multi-culti, perverse, obscene and fucking great. Gypsy drunk punk with some electro thrown in. They will be playing in my land of birth Brooklyn at northsix with the also outstanding Outernational. GB's new album J.U.F. (Jewish Urkranian Friendship) is an adrenaline pumping addictive musical collage of beats from all over our beautiful world. Get it!!

Outernational

Another amazing band from my beloved city. If Operation Ivy were from NYC instead of the land of strip mall hell of the west coast they would of wished to be as good as these guys are and will be. I know, I know hyperbole, blah blah, but trust me when you see them live you will think, hey these guys just got together? There are going places!!

I just saw them for the first time last saturday for a Joe Strummer book release party and, while I picked my jaw off from the floor and stopped dancing like a wildman, i asked myself, "Was it like this when the Clash got together in '76???"

New Years Eve show people, to all New New Yorkers...if you want to be entertained here in NYC on New Years Eve...it's gonna cost ya!!


Peace, love, lust and music be unto all of you

Oh and happy Pagan holiday to all

djshoghi



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