Liam and I got a kick out of this one.
People around me are jealous because the voices only talk to me. But have no fear I will pass along everything I hear. There's this new lady here at work that maybe someone can relate to. A know it all, that even though she's only been around for a couple of weeks, doesn't need any training. As I've said before, I work with people who have developmental or are dual diagnosed and have severe mental illness as well. Like anywhere though, when you're dealing with people, you have to get to know them and it takes time. This lady is classic though, on day four she's already turning people in and telling them how they should deal individuals. I haven't really had anything to do with her yet, I'm a little higher on the ladder, but I'm kind of looking forward to my first run in. Down the hall though, the other day I heard her talking to someone about her "area of expertise". Made me laugh hard enough that I'm sure I was heard. A fucking "area of expertise"? Classic! I realize that SOME people actually have an area of expertise, but to hear someone spout that made me want to puke. How fucking cocky and egotistical. "Know it all", is what we called it when we were kids. Ahh, maybe it's jealousy. I know a lot of shit (90% useless) and dabble in a lot of things, a poor excuse for a renaissance man really, but an "area of expertise"? Well I guess I do...in drug and alcohol use/abuse. In other words, I am an expert in how to get fucked up. Better yet, I KNOW how to be a loser. At the same time thare are lots of people who were better losers than I was, not sure if I spent enough time in that state to qualify as an expert, a masters as opposed to a PHd. Even though it's been almost five years, I don't know if I would say I was an expert on staying clean, still got a ways to go before I get my doctorate in that. So, I'm a pretty busy guy at work but I think that just to feel better about myself, I'm going to take some time to harrass this lady.
"I smile because I don't know what's going on".
My old friend Alex (shit, about 25 years now) hit me up with some interesting tidbits the other day that are worth sharing here. If you claim to be a TRUE ladies man, you might be interested in the X-Ray Pin-Up Calendar. At the very least, a trip and a half. He also shared with me this clip of John Trudell from a much bigger documentary that was done on him (what do you know) called "Trudell". I got into what he had to say and now will need to see if I can't pick up the whole thing.
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Theres also another vid someone did with some of his intense poetry, called "Look At Us" that you can follow that up with here. Thanx Alex!
Well now if you follow along here, post to post, in my chaotic jumble of words, thoughts and musings, which everyone should as this place is far superior to anything that has been or will be on the interenet, you already have heard of Unbiased. Even though I've had this one for almost 20 years, it was released in '93, when I gave it a spin a couple of weeks back, I couldn't tell if it was supposed to be played at 33 or 45 rpm. Sounded good both ways really, but what the fuck do I know. Elliott said that at 33 the vocals sound a bit more human, which left me thinking it sure would be cool if someone did sing that way, just kinda unusually cool. See what I mean, Unbaised - Greedy Human @ 45rpm. So Shawn and Jay, did a little research on it, found their Myspace and BAM, there it was plain as day. The last tune they have for your consumption there is the last tune on this 7", played at 33 rpm. Mystery solved, and as I am sometimes easily amused, I feel satisfied and somehow the record is now complete. These guys, outta Japan, didn't have a whole lot of output, this one that I have, a split with Unholy Grave and a couple tracks on the Thrash Ahoy comp, according to Discogs (which is where I stole these killer scans from, I hope to have a running scanner before too long). I guess they're kinda of a grindcore outfit and kinda early on in that genre's history, but they are one of the more interesting ones. Not that balls to the wall, non-stop screaming type of thing, they slow it up, just a tiny bit to give you some heaviness and maybe a little more digable to people that might not be down with straight up, generic, grindcore. Try it out, Greedy Human was my favorite,
EDIT: In the interest of being a completest (something I used to take a lot of pride in), here is some more Unbiased stolen directly from Terminal Escape blog...
Well we're back in the saddle at my house with Liam here to make sure things are BUSY. At 13, with 14 around the corner, fucking energy just oozes from his pores. A four day football camp over at K-State as soon as he got here only amounted to one day of tired. In the four days since he's had fishing, BBQing, shooting the BB gun (the side window in my truck was already a casualty), mowing with the riding lawn mower, hanging out with his Kansas friend and practicing his driving on the 20 or so miles of dirt road between our farm and town. DAMN! A blast really and just an honor to have him around, the fruit of my loins, ha, ha. On top of everything else he brought a microphone and as he has been doing in North Carolina he records beats off the internet and does raps over them using Audacity. As I've said I'm very selective about what hip hop music I like, but this is my boy using his creativity, incredible. Him and his buddies have this thing going called Ice Men and they seem to be cranking out the tunes. They're actually starting to experiment with their own beats too. Doin' his papa proud. Needless to say I'm busy, maybe too much so to do this, but fuck, I've got a few of you guys that are coming here regularly and I don't want to lose that. We' ll keep the ball rolling in what little bit of free time I have, a'ite?
For a short period of time between when I told my boss to fuck off at my city job and when I became a 24 hour a day drunk druggie, I had my own business. On the edge really as I was still passing out every night but managed to get a few jobs done. I called it Hrabe & Son Landscape after Sanford & Son (of course). They have that show still playing all the time on the TV Land channel but does anybody remember the theme song. Funky jazzy stuff that's pretty wild, dig the whole thing,
You know it's wild what pops up when you do a random image search for a word like "leftovers". Stole this fine image from a very interesting site called, 
Recorded @ vinyl taco in Arcata in Nov 88. We played so many shows/parties it was ridiculous. The hardest workin band in show biz…we used to say. Opened for Screaming Trees when they were on SST. NoMeansNo. Lawndale. Pop O Pies. Tusk(a Gwar type show, pre-Gwar, with members of Redd Kross, Painted Willie, etc, an SST thing). Verbal Abuse. The last 3 were in Garberville!" Vinyl Taco was pretty much the only "real" recording studio around other than KHSU and a few guys around who had 8 and 4 track things. The last place I lived in Humboldt was the house in front as the studio was located in a shed out back. It was run by my landlord, this character named Jeff, and to be honest with you I don't think he was that good as an engineer. I believe he did the sound on the Garden Weasel 7". The mix on this one has the vocals up a bit too loud and the bass a bit too low for my taste, but when you have a band as good as the Leftovers, they easily overcome that. My favorite here is "#1 With a Bullet", check it,
One thing that reminds me of Humboldt around here and when I do see it I realize that if I wanted to I could be making some serious cash on the side. I've said it before, this shit grows wild here, in this picture it's just too close to the old chicken coops to mow. This is not smokable, I tried when I was about 14, this is straight up hemp, for making rope, leftover from the days when that was a crop. Instant headache as far as smoking, may as well inhale the smoke from a house fire. You can thank chemical companies that manufacture nylon (Union Carbide, PPG, et. al.) for it not being a useful crop anymore. Anybody ever read or heard of 