Sleep Show: They Cameth and So Did I!

Sleep-Brooklyn Masonic Temple 9/8/10

This is the last half of the show. I will warn you I made some Wooos during the recording but I think they add to the dramatic effect of the evening. If the link runs out leave a comment and I will repost it.

Apparently Labyrinth Starred 2 Rockers.

The part of Hoggle was played by AC/DC's Brian Johnson.

This Radiant Boy.

Feelin' It: On the Motorcycle

So here is a link to the last This Radiant Boy album that never really saw the light of day. It is my favorite of them all because everyone was playing so well together. We did it with Steve Poponi in 2005 at Gradwell House Studios in Colingswood, NJ.

Ann Rice Quits Christianity.....

Anne Rice quits Christianity which kind of blows my mind because I have always secretly thought that Jesus was/is a vampire. If you think about it he did drink blood and he rose from the dead. I mean he is supposed to have eternal life. It's amazing his followers were so willing to follow him and not deathly afraid of him. After all this was back in the day when they burned witches and asked questions of animal entrails. I am also amazed that people today aren't afraid of Jesus. His followers seem to be afraid of everything else like Mexicans, Muslims, Free Healthcare, Barack Obama, Gay Marriage, Science, NPR, Taxes, dirty words and so on and so forth.

Rice said the reason was because of Christ's followers. "It's simply impossible for me to ‘belong’ to this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious, and deservedly infamous group. For ten years, I've tried. I've failed. I'm an outsider. My conscience will allow nothing else.” And who can blame her. There is that old Woody Allen quote form Hanna and her Sisters "If Jesus came back and saw what people were doing in his name he would never stop throwing up." I am very partial to that belief. I can't wait for thousands of years from now when people look at Christianity like we look at polytheism, backward superstition that caused people to act irrationally.

Modern religions are marketed to us like a cool pair of jeans and this is especially true of Christianity. People are making huge sums of money off damnation and getting Saved! All these christians are made to believe that it's them vs the world like they are the 2pac of religions. They are the socs vs the liberal greasers in some eternal rumble that will end in the judging of souls. I just hope that one day they can see that they are manipulated just like the rest of us jerks to buy tons of crap we don't need including lottery tickets with the hope of becoming rich and maybe having our fair say for once. Until then we will just go on bitching about some made up culture war that keeps us buying all that crap that we don't need.

Public Service Announcement!!!!! The Common Cold

I have been suffering through a cold this week and i gotta say it has really been fucking up my flow. I should say that it has been improving my flow of snots and tears and fucking up my flow of doing anything else. I youtubed "colds" and found this nerd who gabbed about it for a little while. He has some good stuff to say. Also there is a face hidden on the wall behind which could be Jesus or the cool Dr. Who.


I wonder if he ever sends these videos to impress chicks on facebook. He's like "Check me out babes, I am debunking the crap outta these myths, LOL, wanna come over and i can debunk some more myths for you over dinner. Bunk beds that are not on top of eachother are debunked. You can't get the common cold from 2nd base. TTYL"

Advice for all you people with colds: Nyquil is for the night time and Dayquil is for the day time. Sometimes they overlap at dawn and at dusk. This is known as a Dyquil trip. During these magic moments you may think that your cat is your spirit animal. i recommend you just sleep it off, pal.

Blowing a Hole in the Moon!

Ok so Brian Williams gets all self righteous at the end of this report like "it's costing taxpayers $79 million dollars, boo hoo sob sob cough sniffle" (over exaggerated to help my point) All i gotta say is the Iraq war cost way more and all we bought was a middle eastern country that we don't know what to do with. At least this could lead to an amazing discovery that could help humanity in the future. This is really cool and i will be looking at the moon on Friday morning for this explosion.

On a side note. I can't stand all the NASA haters. It is really amazing that we are able to travel through space and make incredible discoveries. I can't wait till the day before the planet is about to be destroyed and all the haters are like "hey my tax dollars paid for that rocket off this dead planet. Let me on!" and NASA is like "What about all that hatin' you did 'bout we're no good and a waste of money?" and they'll be like "uhhhhhh?" and NASA will be like "See you bitches later! PEACE!"

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Mount Olympus the Band.

Ok. I play in this band called Mt. Olympus. You might ask "in this day and age of digital music why are you playing in a band with no computers?" Well the answer is really in the name of the band. Zeus was so powerful that he never needed e mail or even an iphone. Poseidon was in charge of all the oceans of the known world yet he never used auto tune or bought a midi keyboard. This could only be because analog is much more powerful than digital. All of the ancient Gods used magic and the power of the elements to communicate.
I thought for a second they may have joined the digital age when i saw some gods were on facebook and myspace. Turns out their profiles are fakes and they were actually created by mortals. I can only deduce that the ancient gods shun social networks because they are too powerful for them. If computers were analog they could absorb the power of the gods like a marshall amp. But they are digital which means the power of the gods would blow any computer up. I play in a band with all analog instruments because that is the most powerful way of rocking. Pure and Simple.

Disclaimer: This was blogged on a digital computer and all of our songs were recorded digitally. Also, in my experience, hip hop is a powerful aphrodisiac.

Intelligent Design and Ben Stein

So Ben Stein is supposed to be a real smart guy. He goes on TV talking about intelligent design like it has anything to do with anything besides religion. Now as a philosophy major I have a major beef with this. The intelligent designer guy wants this stuff to be taught in science class but it is clearly not science. I feel like I shouldn't have to say this to a smart guy like Stein because anyone who has ever taken a freshman year philosophy class knows that intelligent design is Metaphysics. He has every right to pursue this theory. He has every right to say that this should be taught in a theology class or a class on metaphysics. Science is concerned with phenomena in the physical world. It does not study that which takes place beyond the physical world. That is the job of Metaphysics which is Greek for beyond or after physics. If you talk about an event like the Big Bang you are in the realm of science because you are describing a physical event in the universe that involved a certain amount of matter that transformed into what we know as the universe now. If you ask "Who did that big bang?" then you are clearly entering into another discipline that is outside the realm of science.

Now i don't want to say that science is infallible, like-ah da pope-ah, but it does correct itself when new information comes to light. The scientific method is the built in bullshit meter that science has adopted to make sure we are all observing the same thing and some dude didn't just go into the desert on a spirit quest and observe talking kumquats that told him the blackness of space is the inside of a drug rug.

I may be crazy to think that religion and science can get along together but if you look at what they are concerned with they really don't over lap. For instance, evolutionary theory talks about the physical phenomena that took place on the planet by which life went from its single celled form to its current state as we know it. Never once has it ever asked who did the cambrian life explosion. That is up to religion. They can say that Jah or Jesus or Muhamed or Zeus or Buddah or Ben Stein ripped open the kool aid packet of multi-cellular life and stirred it around in the oceans of 450 million years ago with a giant crucifix and viola, life. That's fine because that is metaphysics and not science. Frankly science doesn't care.

There are plenty of scientists who are religious, like Einstein. They believe in God because they explore all the mysteries of the universe and are left with a sense of awe. It seems that religious people who don't know anything about science are the ones who are pissed off at science. To them, if they ever put down the Bible and read this blog, I say lighten up and rent the cosmos by Carl Sagan. It might just make you more religious and inspired by mysteries of universe. And hey, any question science hasn't answered yet you are free to say God did it. No one can really prove otherwise, until they do, then you can still say that God did it because, like i said before, no one can really prove otherwise. See how fun Metaphysics is?

BTW i just typed this whole thing completely messed up on cold medicine. There's one thing i wish science could cure, the common cold.

matthew mcconaughey jk livin'

http://www.jklivin.com/

Ok so i am currently obsessed with the Mcconaughey's philosophy of JK Livin'. This is short for Just Keep Livin'. No "G" cause that would be square. He took it a step further than the French who don't pronounce letters at the end of their words. So much more laid back than the French. In his movie "Surfer Dude" the main character, played by him, is always trying to "keep the stoke" going, which i can only assume refers to the fire in his soul that burns so hottly and laid backly for surfing. All he wants to do is smoke weed and go surfing. When the waves go away he is upset. When the waves come back all is right with the world. Perhaps my busy brain could stand to learn a lesson from the surfer dude. He loves the simpler things in life like weed and hacky sackin'. He doesn't worry about the healthcare debate or global warming or mass extinction. Weed and surfin'. Perhaps there is a lesson in this for us all.

Funny that i brought up mass extinction. McConaughey is also in the film "Reign of Fire". In this film he is not laid back. He plays an army guy who figures out how to defeat the dragons which have taken over the world. It turns out that these dragons are blind during the failing light of the evening time. "Magic Hour" as most film makers would put it. He plays opposite Christian Bale who seems like a really uptight guy. I wonder if Bale ever got annoyed by Matthew's JK Livin' philosophy. I guess that's why Christian is not in "Surfer Dude". Though i will say that "Surfer Dude" could have used some dragons.

Welcome to this Blog!!!!!

Ok , so i made a blog and here it is. I will be posting all of my mind gems that you can, in turn, share around the water cooler at work. Crack up your friends with the dumb jokes i tell or blow their minds like a mind dick prostitute with my philosophical ramblings. I did go through all the trouble of getting a philosophy degree and now i have finally found a use for it. Anyone who reads this can give me suggestions of stuff to think about. Then i will go and think about it and blog the utter crap out of it. God bless Al Gore's internet.

Example: Fast Food, it's bad for you but sometimes you love things that are bad for you. Wouldn't you love to have a baby tiger for a pet? They are so cute. But when they grow up they will trash your house and eat your kids. Fast food is just like that only when fast food grows up, or should i say out, it only trashes one room of the house that could kill your kids if they go in there 40 to 45 minutes after you flush.

Ok so that's all i can think about today. I gotta go recharge the ol' thinkin' computer with some food and vitamins now.

Some Advice: Remember to eat food or you'll die. Also make sure it's food. It could save your life.