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We still got a war going on, baby....

posted by jeremy on October 08, 2008

Its still there, chewing, grinding, burning and punching holes thru the young men and women who volunteered to defend this nation. Our shit-sorry excuse for a president betrayed them and thus and thus they've died by the thousands.....

And the dead are the lucky.

Tens of thousands have been maimed, walked straight-on into the world of double, triple and quadruple amputee-ism.....

And no-one mentions them.....

No-one speaks for them.

All these kids are dying, disfigured, blown into wheelchairs or insanity....

And no-one gets it....

You dont get it.

None of us, soft and simple, we simply just dont get it.

Baby, yr silence speaks kilotons.

Yr silence kills me.... It kills them....

As does mine.... As it does and as it is.

Oh babygirl, it kills and kills and kills.

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As ever, this song sums it up....

posted by jeremy on July 26, 2008

A beautiful fucking album......

posted by jeremy on June 26, 2008

and i dont even like this kind of shit.

its done by the 'the national'..... album title? 'boxer'.

Also,

posted by jeremy on April 03, 2008

the lesson of my life, if anything, is this: Never....

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So I was talking shit....

posted by jeremy on April 03, 2008

on Rodney Mullen, the skater of great fame from days of old for just being flippy-flippy with his skating style..... And then a skater who stillllll skates and actually knows the current state of skating directed me to this....

I watched and learned and came back humbled and muttering and wheezing.....

"Motherfucker, Mullen is a god-fucking god."

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sometimes, i swear to fucking no-god i feel like saying, ok, fine, cool, nuke the middle fucking ass-fucked east.....

posted by jeremy on February 28, 2008

and thats horrible.

but yet.....

fuck israel, fuck palestine,

fuck iran, iraq, saudi arabia..... fuck syria, oman,

turkey and fuck yemen.... fuck em all. squabbling

treacherous evil ignorant goat-fuckers....

and then i remember... most of them are just innocent

civilians trying to make due while caught in a

shit-storm of historical cusp.... most of them mean well...

still, fuck their gods....

and fuck ours.

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I think about Dayton, Ohio....

posted by jeremy on February 25, 2008

& I think about this video... Memory Screen by Alien Workshop. It came out nearly 20 years ago now... I remember skating a couple of the demos where chunks of this were filmed... and I remember being there for the premiere.... & I remember being amazed....

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I spent ten years....

posted by jeremy on February 13, 2008

one-third of my goddam life... skateboarding.

& I still miss it. You never quite get over that freedom of movement once possessed.

This video... 'Fully Flared' by Girl Films reminds me of how so fuckin cutting-edge skating can be....

Like razors & whiskey, baby.

Just like that.

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There Will Be....

posted by jeremy on February 08, 2008

Blood.

A movie so measured and slow and yet utterly unpredictably violent. Punctuated by a score so abrupt and strange and sinister. Filmed, almost entirely, in shit-nothing scrubland and bleak-ass desert. Devoid of females. Devoid of Brotherly Love. Unceasing in its foward momentum, its premonitory hints at total pointless tragedy....

But so stylized, yes.

Grandiose, yes....

A love-labor so absent of love, of cinematic meaning and morals...

and that final cheap uplifting message so prominent in our modern American cinema....

That oft-told lie that it is, indeed, all going to be alright.

Verily, it lacked the proverb... Forgot the message.

A beautifully presented possibly-Korean dish of tender puppy meat, ultra spicy with a side of broken glass....

and no fucking fortune cookie to play it straight.

No wonder the critics are confused.

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