Tierra Viva punks team up with Aztecs and work on creating a sustainability eco aware scene. Positive peace punk and cultural outreach that some might argue has been lost in the U.S. scene as the DIY ethic has been blurred and co-opted.
Eco Anarcho, susty, gardenin', green thumbin' home brewin', Dharma punkin' Punx,
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Thursday, November 25, 2010
This Is England 86 - BBC series
A 4 part mini series based upon the film This Is England has been created for the BBC. The show fasts forward 3 more years since the films original setting. Thus the exact time when I had my had drawn C-City Rockers t-shirt listening to Cut The Crap, My War and the first Suicidal Tendencies album. Ahh.. the joys of youth. Since it's unsure as to whether this will air in the states or be released for viewing, here are links for you to view the show.
Ep one - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PAFXW3XA
Ep two - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WM1ZRKV4
Ep three - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NGPVRXCG
Ep four - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EUSJT7MI
Long Island Food Not Bombs
Very Awesome - Hempstead "chapter" of LIFNB take action with very impressive results. The below article is from NEWSDAY.
Group shares vegetarian food with 800 in Hempstead
November 21, 2010 by JENNIFER BARRIOS
A spicy aroma of pumpkin filled the air in the Hempstead Long Island Rail Road parking lot Sunday, as volunteers from Long Island Food Not Bombs brought out boxes of homemade vegan entrees along with thousands of pounds of groceries to share with the men, women, and children who waited eagerly for the goods.
Hundreds of people clutched plastic shopping bags and waited patiently as about 100 volunteers from the group unloaded box after box of vegetables, bread, fruit, cereal and prepared items, and carried them to tables that lined Columbia Street.
Leo Hatcher, 48, of Hempstead, filled his wheeled cart with bread, rolls, organic canned tomatoes and cookies.
"I'm just here to put some food in the cabinets," said Hatcher, who added that his food stamps often run out before the end of the month. "This is pretty much what I really needed."
Long Island Food Not Bombs co-founder Jon Stepanian said the group brought about 30,000 pounds of vegetarian food - edible, but unable to be sold by the grocery stores and food distributors that donated it - to the parking lot for its Thanksgiving Food Share Bonanza. They estimated about 800 people showed up during the day.
The group doesn't distribute turkeys or other meats, but organizers aimed to provide everything else that goes along with a traditional Thanksgiving feast. Stepanian said the groceries provided Sunday will keep people from having to choose between buying food and paying utility bills.
"We take a little bit of that pressure off," he said.
Long Island Food Not Bombs is part of an international movement that helps to distribute edible food that would otherwise be discarded because it is slightly damaged or is close to its expiration date for freshness. Stepanian said the group doesn't consider itself as giving away food, but sharing it.
"We don't believe in charity - we believe food is a right," he said.
Volunteer Jessica Feldman spent her day off from work Sunday helping to move the crowds of people along the different tables.
Feldman, an employee of Whole Foods - one of the grocers that provides food for Food Not Bombs - said she started to volunteer with the group after she became curious about what they did with the vegetables her employer donated to them.
"As soon as I went to one share, I was hooked," said Feldman, 23. "Once you see a child who needs food and you give food to them, it's a beautiful thing."
Angie Houseworth, 42, of Hempstead, said she waited at the railroad parking lot for hours before the food distribution began, and came away with her wheeled cart filled to the brim with fresh organic produce and even a bouquet of flowers.
Houseworth said both she and her husband are out of work, and she was grateful for the overflowing cart.
"We were all trying to get everything together for the holidays," she said. "It makes a big difference."
Group shares vegetarian food with 800 in Hempstead
November 21, 2010 by JENNIFER BARRIOS
A spicy aroma of pumpkin filled the air in the Hempstead Long Island Rail Road parking lot Sunday, as volunteers from Long Island Food Not Bombs brought out boxes of homemade vegan entrees along with thousands of pounds of groceries to share with the men, women, and children who waited eagerly for the goods.
Hundreds of people clutched plastic shopping bags and waited patiently as about 100 volunteers from the group unloaded box after box of vegetables, bread, fruit, cereal and prepared items, and carried them to tables that lined Columbia Street.
Leo Hatcher, 48, of Hempstead, filled his wheeled cart with bread, rolls, organic canned tomatoes and cookies.
"I'm just here to put some food in the cabinets," said Hatcher, who added that his food stamps often run out before the end of the month. "This is pretty much what I really needed."
Long Island Food Not Bombs co-founder Jon Stepanian said the group brought about 30,000 pounds of vegetarian food - edible, but unable to be sold by the grocery stores and food distributors that donated it - to the parking lot for its Thanksgiving Food Share Bonanza. They estimated about 800 people showed up during the day.
The group doesn't distribute turkeys or other meats, but organizers aimed to provide everything else that goes along with a traditional Thanksgiving feast. Stepanian said the groceries provided Sunday will keep people from having to choose between buying food and paying utility bills.
"We take a little bit of that pressure off," he said.
Long Island Food Not Bombs is part of an international movement that helps to distribute edible food that would otherwise be discarded because it is slightly damaged or is close to its expiration date for freshness. Stepanian said the group doesn't consider itself as giving away food, but sharing it.
"We don't believe in charity - we believe food is a right," he said.
Volunteer Jessica Feldman spent her day off from work Sunday helping to move the crowds of people along the different tables.
Feldman, an employee of Whole Foods - one of the grocers that provides food for Food Not Bombs - said she started to volunteer with the group after she became curious about what they did with the vegetables her employer donated to them.
"As soon as I went to one share, I was hooked," said Feldman, 23. "Once you see a child who needs food and you give food to them, it's a beautiful thing."
Angie Houseworth, 42, of Hempstead, said she waited at the railroad parking lot for hours before the food distribution began, and came away with her wheeled cart filled to the brim with fresh organic produce and even a bouquet of flowers.
Houseworth said both she and her husband are out of work, and she was grateful for the overflowing cart.
"We were all trying to get everything together for the holidays," she said. "It makes a big difference."
Sunday, October 17, 2010
microsoft trashes open office - come on!
From Yahoo NEWS: A recent Microsoft video suggests the company considers OpenOffice.org a significant threat to its own Office suite.
Titled "A Few Perspectives on OpenOffice.org," the video features a series of horror stories from customers who tried the open-source productivity suite and suffered from excess costs as well as IT resources, performance and compatibility issues.
A series of customer quotes flashes across the screen in the slickly animated video, read aloud by a series of unseen narrators. "If an open-source freeware solution breaks, who's going to fix it?" according to a statement ascribed to a school district official in the U.S.
"When we returned to Microsoft Office after our experience with OpenOffice, you could practically hear a collective sigh of relief across the entire district," states another comment attributed to a U.S. school system official.
Comments are not enabled on the video's YouTube page.
Microsoft is facing competition from OpenOffice.org on multiple fronts, from the commercial version sold by project owner Oracle, as well as offshoots like the recently announced LibreOffice.
Oracle this week sought to dispel any doubts about its commitment to OpenOffice.org, saying it would participate in an ODF (Open Document Format) Plugfest event in Brussels and pledging continued development support on the OpenOffice.org codebase.
An Oracle spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Microsoft's ad.
Chris Kanaracus covers enterprise software and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Chris's e-mail address is Chris_Kanaracus@idg.com
Growing Your Greens
Maximizing the use of his front lawn, this guy John has redefined his suburban landscape by utilizing the entire area to grow vegetables. What will the neighbors think?
The Garden - now on dvd.
Just picked up this dvd the other day. Great film, makes you angry and inspired to get out there and do it. Fight the power and garden.
Crass-ical collection
The CRASS-ical collection - direct from the Southern Records crew: The Crassical Collection is finally here, and the first release is the newly remastered The Feeding of the Five Thousand. After several years of being out of print, this legendary album has been been restored from the original analogue studio tapes, repackaged and bolstered by rare and unreleased tracks, and stunning new artwork from Gee Vaucher, who has lovingly created what could only be considered a real artefact. Included in this package is a 64-page booklet featuring all lyrics along with extensive liner notes from band members Penny Rimbaud and Steve Ignorant, which shed light on the making of the record. Also included is CD-sized recreation of the iconic original fold-out poster sleeve.
“We were setting out as purists: hard, uncompromising and utterly bemused.”
The Feeding of the 5000 is the first album by Crass, released in 1978. The record came to be made when Pete Stennett, owner of Small Wonder Records, heard a demo that the band had recorded. Impressed by all of the material, he decided that rather than release a conventional single by the band, he would put all of their set onto an 18 track 12 inch EP.
“Easy listening? You ain't heard nothing yet.”
Sunday, September 5, 2010
AmeriKKK@ Off Line!
Photocopy and destroy. The mission. shake shit up, tell it like it is, don't kiss the bosses ass, rage against the machine... that is if that's your choice for a zine. Or keep up with the Kardashians, the latest powder puff pop punk tart rock radio tedium. Your choice. In the world of xerox zinedom you're putting your money where you mouth is.
The biggest obstacles I faced in the years of publishing (besides being horrible with deadlines, a self depricating, over-analytical humdrum) was having enough money to maintain my computer system to keep everything up and running.
Before the whole world went to the web, i had a h/p printer, corel draw, some bad pagemaker knock off, an electric typewritter, glue, paste and access to a xerox machine that was able to enlarge and/or reduce [very revolutionary function] in it's day. I added a scsi xerox machine which caused all sorts of hardware headaches which I'm not going to get into. Since they could've been resolved knowing the right people, but most of my peers were all about gaming systems rather than computers.
Other things that made my primitive system complete was the fact that i had a fairly large font library. I was able to do some layout for cassette demos that took a million years to print out. Then I'd head over to the new Kinkos and run off the cards on decent stock paper.
BUT wait, I was writing about not having enough money to keep my system up to date. Nowadays there are awesome alternatives to the expensive software that I was using. The biggest reason I would say why you should publish a zine these days is probably more narcissitic in the sense that it documents YOUR existence. Plus it's semi permanent. Most of the shit that I posted online in "blogs" and or geocities no longer exists. Dead files and they don't even show up on archive.org's wayback machine.
So where do I start? A great program for word processing and a sweet alternative to MS Office is Open Office. It's free and beats having to use a commodore 64 and an old electric typewriter. I can't say enough good things about this program, it's compatible with your major file types.
To set up/layout your zine I recommend scribnus . If you've ever heard people talk about pagemaker or quark this is certainly up to par with those programs if you're using it to make a zine.
If you have photos that you're going to use in your zine, GIMP will be useful to manipulate them in the same manner that photoshop would help you out. If you're looking for a nifty program that will also help you with tweaking photos and incorporating graphics into your zine, you can use Inkscape which is right up there with corel draw and illustrator. If you need fonts to jazz up your lay out check out dafont.com .
Free Software for Free Systems!!!
article here You say you want a revolution? While it's safe to be cynical about the present and be nostalgic about the past, there are genuine movements of movers and shakers that may unknowingly have embraced the philosophies of the old guard. Which in turn have helped past ideals and concepts to remain relevant.
Free software foundation is a great place to start if you're looking for the untelevised revolution. Rather than reiterate their mission statements and ideas. I'm going to be a lazy bastard and include a link which you'll find up above. Having a limited amount of funds and really can't afford to buy all these updates for the latest top of the pops software, it's great to see programmers and developers who are genuinely not "doing evil" or trying to candy coatin' their strange new (oppressive regime) bedfellows as just consulting adults behaving naughty. Stand up for our future, support FSF and the endeavors they are presenting.
Sunday, August 8, 2010
ABC NO RIO - ZINE LIBRARY
Perusing the youtube for something other than the latest poptard video and the accompanying commentary I stumbled on this year old clip featuring the zine library at ABC NO RIO.
If you're unfamiliar with ABC and don't live in the nearby NYC tri-state area I suggest finding a copy of 156 Rivington. It's a nifty documentary. Neil from Tribal War also had a vhs featuring the bands that played at ABC. Worth seeing if you can get it.
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Ace Spade and the Whores Of Babylon
Post Loiterers Ian Nihilate reemerges in an Arkansas meth lab as Ace Spade. A bizarre twist on the Swamp Thing tale I suppose. Anyway... here is the new band with a catchy ditty - ICE CRYSTALS.
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Cluster Bomb Treaty
Cluster Bomb Treaty to Go into Effect; US Refuses to Sign
An international treaty banning cluster bombs goes into effect on Sunday, but the United States as well as Russia and Israel have refused to sign the treaty. All three countries have used cluster bombs in recent years. Other key countries who have refused to sign the treaty include Brazil, China, India, Pakistan and South Korea.
Monday, July 12, 2010
Cuntsparrer
I stumbled into the Cunts from a slighty awkward angle. I heard BLACK FAG had some gigs in July 2010. Unfortunately none of which were nearby. Anyway, also on the bill were CUNTSPARRER a tribute of sorts to Cocksparrer - which I suppose you were able to figure out. here's a video, which I'm not exactly sure how I feel about.
Oscar Grant
Despicable shit is one way that you can describe the above video. I heard the argument that the Officer involved with the shooting had mistaken his handgun for his tazer, and was reacting under intense pressure. Umm... if you can't distinguish your firearm from a tazer in the midst of "intense pressure"(and you can see how much resistance was going on in that video). [A guy with his hands in the air, and a guy laying on his stomach with his hands behind his back.] If this scenario was above and beyond "business as usual" and considered too intense, maybe you chose the wrong profession. Maybe instead of police response to such a harsh scenario they should allow Oakland fire department to handle this. They can at least stand the heat of a blazing inferno.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
dumb and dumber
Two teens were charged with animal cruelty after they doused a 12-pound snapping turtle with gasoline, set it on fire and stabbed and killed it with a metal pole, police said.Roark Xanthos and Thomas Gorman, both 18, later went to a party in Yaphank and bragged about what they'd done, Suffolk police said.
Object, Refuse, Reject, Abuse.
When people see no value in the lives of their fellow human beings , we shouldn't be surprised by the disregard they show for the lives of animals.
Now on with the jaded commentary and recycling of news sources. Another despicable act of depravity performed by the brilliant minds of our future. It is sad what people do for kicks these days, stab and maim. Never do these bored individuals ever stumble onto the notion of working in a food bank or trying to clean up all the trash lying around on their block. They don't contact FEMA and see if they can get involved with rounding up the oil that's washing ashore down south. NO. They get bored and welp this is what one cop believes lead to the following.
Teens charged with burning, stabbing turtle in Bellport
Xanthos and Gorman found the turtle on the side of the road in Bellport early May 22, said Sgt. Bryan McMenemy of the Suffolk Police Fifth Squad.
They put it in a plastic milk crate and went to the home of a friend, knocking on his window and asking him if he wanted it, McMenemy said. "It was a very large turtle," McMenemy said.
The friend said no and to go away, McMenemy said.
When the friend and his family left their house, Xanthos and Gorman returned with the turtle around
The teens placed the turtle in a makeshift fire pit they made with rocks from the yard, doused it with gasoline and set it on fire, police said in a release.
After burning the turtle, the teens killed it by stabbing it through its shell with a long metal pole, police said.
The family came home and called police when they found the turtle's carcass.
"It was probably two kids bored, don't have anything better to do," McMenemy said. "It's horrible."
Detectives charged Xanthos, of
Xanthos was arrested Friday and Gorman on Saturday. The two were arraigned in First District Court in Central Islip.
A necropsy performed on the turtle by a veterinarian showed it was a female but could not determine its age.
The necropsy also showed that plastic was melted over its body. "I'm thinking they left it in the milk crate," McMenemy said.
"It's just so cruel," he said. "There's no reason for this."
Dad of teen accused of turtle torture: We're animal lovers
Originally published:
Updated:
The father of an East Patchogue teen charged with animal cruelty after allegedly setting fire to and stabbing a 12-pound snapping turtle said his son comes from a family of animal lovers.
"He's a great kid," said the father of Thomas Gorman, 18. "We don't know what happened. (It’s easy to figure out, you’re kid is an schmuck – and that’s putting it politely . Some people just turn out that way when left to their own devices. Ie: fellow east Patchogue-er Chris Overton)
"We love animals," said the father, who declined to identify himself. "Thomas just helped deliver our chihuahua's puppies. He was up with her all night." This means what? Joran van der Sloot was probably real nice to his mom and respectful to the ladies in his family.
Gorman and Roark Xanthos, also 18, of Bellport, doused the turtle with gasoline, set it on fire, and stabbed and killed it with a metal pole, police said.
Snapping turtles are the largest freshwater turtle found throughout the Long Island area. They can weigh more than 50 pounds, though 35 is about average, with the shell measuring 8 to 20 inches.
The teens found the turtle on the side of the road in Bellport early May 22, said Sgt. Bryan McMenemy of the Suffolk Police Fifth Squad.
They put it in a plastic milk crate and went to the home of a friend, knocking on his window and asking him if he wanted it, McMenemy said. "It was a very large turtle," McMenemy said.
The friend said no and to go away, McMenemy said.
When the friend and his family left their house, Xanthos and Gorman returned with the turtle around
The teens placed the turtle in a makeshift fire pit they made with rocks from the yard, doused it with gasoline and set it on fire, police said in a release.
After burning the turtle, the teens killed it by stabbing it through its shell with a long metal pole, police said.
The family came home and called police when they found the turtle's carcass.
"It was probably two kids bored, don't have anything better to do," McMenemy said. "It's horrible." Or you could speculate that they are shit for brains sadists.
Detectives charged Xanthos, of
Roy Gross, chief of the
Xanthos was arrested Friday and Gorman on Saturday. The two were arraigned in First District Court in Central Islip.
A necropsy performed on the turtle showed it was a female but could not determine its age.
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Saturday, April 10, 2010
COMMERCIAL CRAP N COMMERCE
We've been dabbling with the shirt/print house ZAZZLE as well as SPREADSHIRT. The idea is to see which places generate any sort of sales as well as which ones ban any of our images and deem any of our stuff as inappropriate. Childish I know. I make minimal commissions from these sales, which in the DIY scheme of things is probably deemed as asinine and retarded because I could be making more $$$. right now i don't have the dough to put any upfront costs on something that might be a gamble, so this is how I'm going to play around with things. I like zazzle because their buttons are pretty simple to make though a bit pricey. spreadshirt has cheap tees and a multitude of materials.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Medford douche fingers Patchogue asshole!
Now that the shit is about to hit the fan. Jeffrey Conroy 19 accuses his plea bargaining pal Chris Overton of stabbing Marcelo Lucero to death. Which is a smart move since this isn't the first time that Mr. Overton has found himself involved in a crime scene where a dead body is the outcome. Here is a piece that I had started writing when this gang were first picked up by the cops, before the lawyers were hired and before all the tough guys started to roll on one another once the possibility of taking it in the pooper prison style was becoming more and more an imminent reality.
original post
Here's some Ap excerpts that are interesting:
March 23, 2010
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. - (AP) — Witnesses say a New York teenager accused of murder in the hate crime stabbing of an Ecuadorean immigrant had tattoos depicting a swastika and "white power."
Two friends of defendant Jeffrey Conroy testified Tuesday on Long Island.
--The defendant, Jeffrey Conroy, was watching the HBO prison drama "Oz" in April 2008 when he decided it would be cool to get tattoos, said Keith Brunjes, who described himself as Conroy's best friend. Over the course of several weeks, Brunjes applied a star tattoo to one of Conroy's arms, a lightning bolt on the other arm and the swastika on the outside of his upper right thigh.presented "white power."
Brunjes said when he tattooed Conroy with the lightning bolt he didn't know what it signified.
He said Conroy was like a brother to him. "He was always the kid I went to with anything," he said.
Outside court, Conroy's attorney William Keahon brushed off questions about the tattoos, saying: "It was two young kids, 16 and 17, that were acting like jerks."
Jerks is greatly understated. No idea what it signified, really Keith? Lemme guess D- in history, give or take a .5? I guess the remedial room think tank has become more and more acceptable in the area. Shitheads are dismissed as politically incorrect patriots, and the dipshit revisionists are the new fact spitters.
You can't blame PMHS. Teachers can't teach anything beyond the run of the mill status quo curriculum leading to the less than critically thinkin' fuktard characters that are making up this soon to be made for tv docudrama.
Malcom McLaren - RIP
STORY HERE Love 'em or hate 'em fact is Malcom Mclaren helped launch punk to a wider audience which lead to a bunch of other people starting bands, some good, some bad.. but that aspect isn't/wasn't the point now is/was it?
Sunday, March 14, 2010
shitty weather = scouring for online documentaries
I like documentaries, I don't like shitty weather. I like YOGA unfortunately there is a whole thick layer of cheese that surrounds the "yoga culture." I caught the end of YOGA INC on pbs. Fortunately we can watch the doc for free online. thanks Snag Films. The film deals with McYoga and some screwy characters that have all sorts of marketing strategies in order to make dough from the activity.
Moonshine - The Big Bang Gang
Just got the latest cd from Sweden's Moonshine. 12 tracks of irreverent dissident punk rawk. Loud and well executed it's fantastic to hear that it doesn't resemble any of that sugar coated pop punk shit that Disney radio is trying to shove down your throat. It's not Millencollin and i think we can all thank Beelzebub for that.
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