Sunday, September 07, 2008
VC Angel
Avenge Dec. 7
 3 months early....get those bastards!
Labels: American Propaganda, Propaganda
Saturday, September 06, 2008
VC Angel
An Interview with Gene Simmons
Great interview...
Business has never been easy, and the delusion that musicians and writers and artists and people like that, who aspire to this thing called show, actually never really paid much attention. In the spirit of full disclosure before the fact, and truth in advertising, it is actually called the music business and show business. It's not called music or show—it really isn't. And it isn't called film, it's called the film business. You know? And art, it really is the art business. They call it the art "world," they don't want to use the word business, and words like inspiration and all that stuff is nonsense. The classic musicians and artists of the past, during the Renaissance period, these were commercial artists. These were commercial writers. Chamber music was based on the premise that the lord of the manor walked up to the guy, and said, "I want a three-minute piano concerto, put it in my chamber, there's going to be just a few guests and royalty"—that's why it's called chamber music, by the way. And that's why Mozart sometimes had three-minute piano concertos. You know why? Because that's what he was paid to do. [What] they were all paid for, and that includes the Sistine Chapel. The pope shows up and says, "I don't like that." They're commercial artists. - Portfolio
Labels: Music
Last thing we need now is a great leader
John sent me this.....great read.
Everyone I talk to seems to think the president of the United States right now is stupid. The Bush presidency is stupid speeches, stupid high gas prices, stupid bad economy, stupid war on terrorism, stupid war on drugs, stupid hurricane fixing, stupid global warming, stupid war -- stupid, stupid, stupid. They all seem to think we need to get a smarter guy in the White House fast, and Bush is so stupid, that task shouldn't be too hard. Not me. I'd like to say that I believe every president in United States history, including the stupid one we have now, is smarter than me. My alma mater is Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth Clown College, so I'm damning with faint praise, but I'm stupider than this here stupid president. Maybe I'm less stupider than Bush than I'm stupider than Jefferson. But I'm stupider than all the stupid in both of them put together. The idea, especially from the Democrats that I know, is, we just get a smarter guy in the White House, and all the problems will go away. We'll have smart speeches, smart high gas prices, smart bad economy, smart war on terrorism, smart war on drugs, smart hurricanes, smart global warming, smart war in Georgia -- smart, smart, smart. - CNN
Labels: Politics
Thursday, September 04, 2008
Walter 'Killer' Kowalski
Walter "Killer" Kowalski, who died on Saturday aged 81, was a self-proclaimed bad boy of professional wrestling, enjoying a notoriety as synthetic as the grimaces, grunts and groans that riveted television audiences across America in the 1950s.
In the sweaty, heaving toils of the wrestling ring, Kowalski – at 6ft 7in and 19½ stone – loomed extremely large as one of its most hated stars, having made his name in 1952 during a bout in Montreal.
After accidentally tearing off the cauliflower ear of his opponent, known as Yukon Eric, Kowalski made a carefully-publicised visit to the vanquished fighter's hospital bed, where Kowalski took one look at his bandaged head and burst out laughing. "I swear, the first thing I thought of was Humpty Dumpty," Kowalski recalled. "Yukon Eric looked at me, shook his head and smiled. I started laughing and he laughed too." - Telegraph UKLabels: Wrestling
Careless Talk Costs Lives
 Labels: British Propaganda, Propaganda
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