Friday, November 26, 2004
Indeed, yesterday was Evil Brian Day, and I am now 23 years young (HA HA!!! IT NEVER GETS OLD!!!) That being said, I got some cool stuff for my birthday that I had been asking for,
such as this:
this:
and this:
Along with the usual clothes and money. A rewarding holiday season was had by all. Turkey was ingested, digested, and defecated, along with various vegetables and breads. Plus, we had PIE!!! But enough gallant pleasantries, on to the maaaaaaaaaaiiiiin event.
Needless war is still present. I know the Friday Night Lyrics have been almost exclusively reflecting the anti-war remonstrations of my warped McNoggin, but that's MY prerogative (fuck you, Britney Spears) and not yours, so kindly peace the fuck out. Ramble Ramble Ramble, something about honeybees, here are the lyrics I present to you this week, a very clear representation of the current administration and the way it is handled in the media. Enjoy!
Go back to sleep
Lay your head down child
I won't let the boogeyman come
Counting bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drums
Pay no mind to the rabble
Pay no mind to the rabble
Head down, go to sleep
To the rhythm of the war drums
Pay no mind what other voices say
They don't care about you, like I do (like I do)
Safe from pain and truth and choice and other poison devils,
See, they don't give a fuck about you, like I do.
Just stay with me, safe and ignorant,
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep
Lay your head down child
I won't let the boogeyman come
Count the bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drums
Pay no mind to the rabble
Pay no mind to the rabble
Head down, go to sleep
To the rhythm of the war drums
I'll be the one to protect you from
Your enemies and all your demons
I'll be the one to protect you from
A will to survive and a voice of reason
I'll be the one to protect you from
Your enemies and your choices son
They're one in the same
I must isolate you
Isolate and save you from yourself
Swayin' to the rhythm of the new world order and
Count the bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drums
The boogeymen are coming
The boogeymen are coming
Keep your head down, go to sleep
To the rhythm of the war drums
Stay with me
Safe and ignorant
Just stay with me
Hold you and protect you from the other ones
The evil ones
Don't love you son,
Go back to sleep
"Pet"
A Perfect Circle
Thirteenth Step
2003
Tuesday, November 23, 2004
Katamari Damacy: GUARANTEED to be the weirdest game you will ever play.
I've been addicted to this for over a week now, and it just doesn't get old. This is a video game that reminds you just why you started playing video games in the first place: it's just plain fun to play. You want an insane plot? Here's one for you:
You are the Prince of All the Cosmos. You're Dad, the King, got drunk one night and accidentally destroyed all the stars in the sky. He sends you to Earth to make replacement stars. You do this by rolling a ball around; objects stick to the ball, and in each level you have a certain goal as to how big it has to be. You start off rolling over candies, paper clips and crabs (??) and eventually work your way up to rolling over people, cars, trees, and eventually entire buildings.
Now add to that N64-style graphics, some absolutely deranged cutscenes ("I can feel it. I can feel the cosmos."), bizarre ramblings from the abusive drunken King of All the Cosmos ("DELICIOUS CRABS!!") and a crazy, catchy Japanese rock/pop soundtrack and you have the most insane gaming experience you could ever hope to play.
All that for 20 bucks. Not a bad deal, I'd say. It's hard as hell to find, though, since as soon as stores get any copies in, they're quickly snatched up. If you find it, grab it quick before someone else takes it. I promise you won't regret it.
HIGHLY Recommended.
Monday, November 22, 2004
I work at FedEx. My job consists of loading trucks with boxes at 3:00 AM and, especially at this time of year, we've been busy as hell. My job is a huge boring bland 5 or so hours every night and, at 3 in the morning, people can go a little nutty. So, it should come as no surprise that yours truly ends up thinking of some of the most retarded bizarre shit imaginable while holding conversations with myself. But even I was surprised at what came out of my head this morning. Here's a rough transcript:
*picking up a box bound for Roxbury, CT*
"Well, hey there little fella! How're you doing today?"
*listens to the box*
"Oh, going out Roxbury way, are we? A fine little burg, that is. Off you go then!"
*throws the box at the truck and misses*
"Oh come now, little box. You know, I have some nice candy for good little boxes in the back of my truck. You look like a good little box, why don't you hop on back there and get yourself a nice lollipop? I don't know what to do with all this candy. I bet I got some nice Snickers bars back there too! How about you just go back there and see, and then I can take you back home to Roxbury. You don't wanna walk all the way back home, do you? Why don't you just get in the back there and have some nice candy?"
*gets the box in the truck*
"BWA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!"
*slams the doors shut*
Sometimes I scare myself.
UPDATE: And something from this (11/23) morning:
*conveyor belt has piles of boxes coming down*
"What are men supposed to do against such reckless boxes?"
*long pause*
"Ride out and meet them!"
"For death and glory!!" (said far too loudly)
*people look at me incredulously*
* I turn around and go back to sorting boxes*
"It's not different at all, is it Steve?!"
I rock.
Saturday, November 20, 2004
I know, I know. Better late than fuck you all.
It's been a very tiring week, so I've not posted much, but at least I'm following up on my promise of Friday Night Lyrics Blogging! Right?
On to the main event:
So, the War For Nothing continues to mount deaths upon the shoulders of the Masters of War, war crimes abound, innocent civilians exploding everywhere. Quite depressing. So, I've decided to go with a nu-metal song (also the best song this band has ever released) to throw shit up a little. What, you expected me to even TRY to follow up last week's Bob Dylan? Yeah fucking right.
the king of lies is alive,
look around, look inside ... INFIDEL.
INFIDEL!!!
IT BEGINS HERE
IT ENDS NOW
THE PRINCE MUST PAY
HIS HEAD OR THE CROWN
ROB THE POOR
SLAUGHTER THE WEAK
DISTORT THE LAW
PERFECT DECEIT
DO I NEED A GAS MASK?
[should i get inoculated?]
WILL THIS WAR LAST?
[will we be incinerated?]
FALSE GODS, DEATH SQUADS
.....BLIND!
THIS IS A CATASTROPHE!
- WEAPON SYSTEMS ACTIVATED
PURITANS HAVE INVADED
THIS IS A CATASTROPHE!
TO PROTECT AGAINST THE THREAT ....
ORDER MUST BE KEPT.
ORDER MUST BE KEPT.
ORDER MUST BE KEPT.
DO I NEED A GAS MASK?
[should i get inoculated?]
WILL THIS WAR LAST?
[will we be incinerated?]
FALSE GODS, DEATH SQUADS
.....BLIND!
THE ELEPHANTS MARCH TO WAR!
CONCEDE!
CONFORM!!
CONCEDE!
CONFORM!!
DENY THE BIG LIE!
MY TRIBE!
...join me...
AN ALLIANCE OF DEFIANCE
IN THE WARHEAD
ALL ARE WELCOME HERE!
GIVE ME YOUR TIRED,
GIVE ME YOUR SICK,
GIVE ME INDULGENCE & DECADENCE.
GIVE ME YOUR TIRED,
GIVE ME YOUR SICK,
GIVE ME INDULGENCE & DECADENCE.
HE LIED! THEY DIED!
KEEP THE PEASANTS TERRIFIED!
HE LIED! THEY DIED!
KEEP THE PEASANTS TERRIFIED!
THIS IS A CATASTROPHE!
YOU MUST LEAD IF THEY GET ME!!
ON MY COMMAND!
BREAK FREE.
BREAK FREE.
BREAK FREE.
BREAK FREE.
"Warhead"
OTEP
House of Secrets
2004
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
Indeed, I regrettably have forgotten to remind all of the festivities earlier, but we are a mere EIGHT days away from Evil Brian Day! Which means we are a mere THIRTY-EIGHT days away from X-Mas (I use an X because I'm hip and edgy. Take THAT, Christian mythology!)
Should you and yours decide that you would also like to participate in all the joy and rapture of Evil Brian Day (or X-Mas), feel free to peruse this short but effective Wish List.
Sure, some of the items therein may be slightly pricey, but I assure you, I am indeed worth it.
Get a-clickin', you cheap bastards!
Friday, November 12, 2004
In the footsteps of certain basset-bloggings and cat-bloggings, I've decided to start my own little special weekly blog event, and post lyrics to songs that seem appropriate to whatever is going on in the world today. And, after a primarily conservative "morals and values based" election and with an unnecessary war going on, I can think of no better song to start Friday Night Lyrics with than this:
My age it means less
The country I come from
Is called the Midwest
I's taught and brought up there
The laws to abide
And that land that I live in
Has God on its side.
Oh the history books tell it
They tell it so well
The cavalries charged
The Indians fell
The cavalries charged
The Indians died
Oh the country was young
With God on its side.
Oh the Spanish-American
War had its day
And the Civil War too
Was soon laid away
And the names of the heroes
I's made to memorize
With guns in their hands
And God on their side.
Oh the First World War, boys
It came and it went
The reason for fighting
I never did get
But I learned to accept it
Accept it with pride
For you don't count the dead
When God's on your side.
When the Second World War
Came to an end
We forgave the Germans
And we were friends
Though they murdered six million
In the ovens they fried
The Germans now too
Have God on their side.
I've learned to hate Russians
All through my whole life
If another war starts
It's them we must fight
To hate them and fear them
To run and to hide
And accept it all bravely
With God on my side.
But now we got weapons
Of the chemical dust
If fire them we're forced to
Then fire them we must
One push of the button
And a shot the world wide
And you never ask questions
When God's on your side.
In a many dark hour
I've been thinkin' about this
That Jesus Christ
Was betrayed by a kiss
But I can't think for you
You'll have to decide
Whether Judas Iscariot
Had God on his side.
So now as I'm leavin'
I'm weary as Hell
The confusion I'm feelin'
Ain't no tongue can tell
The words fill my head
And fall to the floor
If God's on our side
He'll stop the next war.
"With God On Our Side"
Bob Dylan
The Times They Are A-Changin'
1964
Sunday, November 07, 2004
Saturday, November 06, 2004
Exit polls are fun and useful! Sometimes, they prove that magic happened! Sometimes, they even prove votes were stolen! See for yourself!
See? MAGIC!
Oh Florida and Ohio, we knew you were Republican all along, so we're just gonna chalk up most of your votes for our side instead of having a fair election. You don't mind, right?
Wednesday, November 03, 2004
How?
I feel sick. I actually feel physically ill. I almost had to leave work early this morning because I had this strong acidic feeling in the pit of my stomach. I got home and I went to bed today without checking the news, without so much as going on the internet, because I just didn’t want to know. I fell asleep wishing that I would never again wake up in George W. Bush’s
Unfortunately, I woke up.
You know, there’s just a million and one thoughts running through my head right now, and none of them are really very good. How exactly does something like this happen? How does the most failure-laden Presidential administration in the history of the
I don’t get it. I really fucking don’t get it. America has lost more jobs, lost more money, lost more soldiers in an unnecessary war, lost international respect and is given a chance to fucking change all that, and we blow it. We fucking blow it. I just don’t understand. I really fucking don’t. We’re given a choice between an intelligent responsible guy and a retarded fucking monkey with guns, and we decided that it would be in the nation’s best interest to have the monkey throw his shit around for another four years and shoot anyone who tries to pick any of it up. I’m seriously waiting for Chris Farley to hold someone at gunpoint at a news conference and say “You heard it here first, folks. Voter fraud!”
My hands are fucking shaking.
I may not have been the most vocal proponent for Kerry, but goddammit I really fucking believed that we needed someone, ANY fucking ONE, to replace the bastards in power. I really fucking believed that
I was really fucking wrong.
How does one present a nation with a plate of silver and a plate of silver-gilded shit and have the nation pick the pile of shit? How do you present a nation with a proven failure and merely a potential failure and have the nation pick the proven failure?? “Oh, at least we KNOW we’re getting a failure! Hyuck!” It’s fucking insane.
Do you think if I tried to get the nation committed to a mental institution they’d be accepted?
Do you suppose everyone just felt really bad for Bush because he’s mentally challenged and he won out of pity? I just can’t fucking believe that people honestly think that, not only has Bush done a good job with America, but that he’s done SUCH a good job he deserves another fucking term.
I know I’ve already said it a bunch of times, but I honestly don’t fucking get it. Every single fucking thing that this administration has done, they’ve done wrong. Every single fucking thing. Find me one positive thing that the Bush Administration has done for
I haven’t been this pissed off in a long fucking time. It wasn’t supposed to be like this. This wasn’t supposed to fucking happen. In 2000, I thought that, at the very least, Bush’s cronies should have been arrested for voter fraud in
I’ve never been political in my entire fucking life. Hell, before
How can we elect someone so corrupt and evil? How can someone so un-American run
Bend over