It's amazing to think of all the jobs I have had over the years but don't think ever with the enthusiasm of this gentleman here. Not sure what you would call his job (advertiser?) but I may have him beat as far as having a job that at the very least was not glorious. When I first moved to Kansas I got a job at a factory farm for pigs, Husky Hogs. These guys were anything but organic from their genetic altering to the masses of chemicals, hormones and antibiotics. All for a pig with almost no fat, buff fuckers is what they were. I guess most of the meat was shipped to Japan. A big operation by Northwest Kansas standards they had 6 farms, with 10 barns each and almost a 1000 pigs per barn. This does not include the nursery or the farrowing barns. A sad existence indeed life in those barns, artificial light and slats in the floor to drain the shit and piss. Heated and air conditioned so if that's what's important then maybe it wasn't so bad. About two barns were emptied a week with the pigs being hauled off to the slaughter. My job title was Powerwasher, which means that I was responsible for cleaning the barns once they were empty. These pigs were very susceptible to illness so the barns had to be cleaned thoroughly and disinfected. With my job, I was considered unclean so I wasn't allowed to be around live pigs, the only ones I saw were the dead ones who had been shot because they would not load onto the trucks. For humanitarian reasons (hahaha) and I suppose maybe health concerns an animal must be able to walk itself into the slaughterhouse. It took about 2 1/2 days to clean a barn so basically all my time was spent in shit and piss. With these high pressure hoses/nozzles back and forth from one end to the other. Sometimes if you hit a nook or cranie just right it would spit the shit and maggots back in you face. Let me tell you, you haven't lived till your mouth/nose/ear has been invaded by a clump of shitty maggots. 12 hours a day, 12 days on two days off, $7 an hour. It was no wonder I was having issues with my self esteem and didn't see the point of quitting the bottle. Hell I brought the bottle to work in my lunchbox.
Just virtually met Sean who runs Damaging Noise. Unfortunately you can not comment there but fortunately I was able to pick his brain a little bit. Busier than most but not so much so that he can't share his passion for music or his incredible original art. At some point one of his extremely prolific bands will (hopefully) be releasing a double discography thing and figured I would serve up the first song from that hypothetical beast...piping hot,
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsu4oRuosfo&w=560&h=315]
Jefe stopped by after a long hiatus and made some of his crucial suggestions as far as some music that needs listened to. Someone called them math rock, a genre I had heard of but never heard an example of (are they really?). Another one of those two piecers, not unlike Jefe's own two piece Fire Demons...a bit heavy on the heavy. One of my favorites off their self titled thing,[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjrRxpd1slw&w=560&h=315]
Coffee IS GOOD for you (in moderation of course, not the gluttonous guzzling that I do).
Another one from my gramps who at 82 has seen a lot of shit in his day. This one had the caption, "When top level people look down, they see only shit heads; When bottom level people look up, they see only assholes..." Perfect! Had a big company meeting the other day, you know a management type meeting with the catered lunch, in other words a waste of money in my opinion. I'm considered "middle management" but I don't have anyone under me, I just manage the lives of my clients. I guess I do get to call the other managers on their shit if they aren't towing the line on what the agency calls "persons served". I was talking to the president of the agency because I was kind of impressed how he talked politics, no left or right, rational. What do we need to do to ensure that the needs of the mentally retarded/developmentally disabled (MR/DD) are met in terms of the state and federal budget? With budget cuts going on everywhere both on the state and national level, nobody want's their piece of the pie cut. Priorities right. Smaller government is what some are saying...funny because for me it used to be about no government. I can't wrap my head around the fact that there are all these government funded things that really "we" can't do without (socialism?). Kansas just banned this teacher's union from the capital building for protesting. Funny how there's protesting going on in the world that seems to be applauded by the US, but the homegrown stuff is frowned upon. If I was a prophet I'd say that we are going to see some shit here around the corner (but I guess every generation says that). Anyway...what was I talking about?
Was kinda feeling heavy and like something from the Slap a Ham label, and these guys from long about 1995 fit the bill perfectly. Haven't had this 7" very long, but once I ripped it, it has been virtually spinning off and on since then. Went to do a little research on the band and it turns out my "old" buddy Batguano had it posted. Go figure though because I think he's the one that suggested I track down my own copy. Expect this to happen again though because he posted a band called Dearborn SS and I subsequently tracked down a hard copy of that...also well worth posting here. As Mr. Guano said these guys morphed into Cattlepress and I think they may have coexisted for a short time. He also mentions that the members of this band are some serious heavy hitters including one of my favorite drummers, Dave Witte. This stuff is not for the faint of heart and I'm sure there's a name for this genre but I'm going to call it "post-grindcore" (you heard it here first). I haven't been in the mood for fire breathing vocals lately but this fits. There isn't a favorite of the two so listen to them both if you dare,
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOg52V2V6ow&w=560&h=315]
With just two tunes, figured I'd take it a couple of steps further and see if I couldn't make it a (known) discography of sorts and find the comp tracks (after a short siesta...does anyone else take naps in the middle of the day?). The discography used is from that Cattlepress Myspace up there so I figure it's complete, but you gotta think that the band came up with more than four songs. It would be a treat to discover more, but we'll consider ourselves lucky to have these. Luckily we were generously supplied with the seemingly rare Vols. 1 & 2 Cry Now, Cry Later later double 7" comps (on CD). Those are well worth checking into folks there are all kinds of GOOD bands on them, but for our purposes[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9dRlcaLVa8&w=560&h=315]
The other comp appearance off the apparently even more rare "Step on a Crack" comp (I could not find it) was interestingly supplied by another generous donor (victim) in the form of his incredible "Dave Witte Special" podcast. That podcast is also well worth you time to be in amazement of, but unfortunately it is provided as most podcasts are, as one giant mp3. So...I took out my virtual exacto-knife, did some surgery, applied the leeches, dispensed medicinal Coca Cola and plucked that tune right out of the host (I almost feel like I created the music myself...haha). Enjoy, or do whatever you do with this kind of music.[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WHbEI-uhaw&w=560&h=315]
