You Won't Find Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown At Wal-Mart

One of the unfortunate things in this day and age is that Wal Mart has become the largest physical music shop in the U.S.. Though their commitment to the media is half assed due to sloppy shelves with no real rhyme or reason to how they're stocked. The product never matches the label cards. Which my account for why sales are down in music. You can't find what you're looking for when you're looking for it. This description also applies to KMART. Their spaces are just a total mess.
Then you have to factor in the dud practices that corporations delve into. WAL MART won't carry any cd with the Parental Advisory label that Jello Biafra refers to as the Tipper Sticker (which back in the day Al Gore was concerned more about young peoples' long term exposure to Ozzy Osbourne and Dead Kennedys lyrics than toxic atmospheric conditions). So artists need to keep their songs and artwork free of controversial imagery otherwise they can't be carried in the nation's largest music store.
Enter: GREEN DAY. A huge advertising budget (I suppose due to all the commercials and promotion it has been receiving) In a vast sea of shit being released available for download at I-tunes, virtually no proper print media or music entertainment channels a question comes into place, how do we make this new release an event. How do we keep "punk credibility" when our songs sound more and more like 38 Special ballads with a hint of more distortion? Take a jab at Wal Mart. Sam's homogeneous states of ineptitude.
Now don't get me wrong, if this helps get all the tweeny boppers to take their heads out of their asses and out of the MTV Reality delusion so many of these suckers are stuck in, great. This might be a slight at all the candy coating green washing, fair trade branded labour camps aren't going to stop the true nature of these oppressive regimes. So bravo to Green Day for finding something real to address. As for all my compadres who are upset that green day aren't punk as fuck anymore, who cares. You're not either.

MAKE ZINE on TV

If you're a lucky bastard your PBS channel carries MAKE TV. I have to watch the podcasts which just isn't as much fun. Luddite perception i suppose. If you have some shop skills or are looking to branch out from spikes/studs jacket bedazalin'. The kind folks at MAKE come up with some clever things. Sorry for the potty mouth in all the posts as of late. I've been working in the Jerk Store warehouse and all my companeros are fowl mouthed, illiterate morons, which have been a terrible influence on me. BUT before I get side tracked, here is the stimulation that keeps my head from drowning in the intellectual sewer. MAKE TV

Rage Against The Machine

or at least get the damn machines to work the way you want them to. I used to be a retail sales jerk and spent thousands of dollars on obsolete technology and other over hyped duds. I guess I'm part of a demographic that is supposed to keep replacing the old shit with the new shit in the latest high tech formats. I thumb my nose at that notion. I like to make back ups of my highly disposable goods, which there is apparently a trial under way to make this illegal and all those fine techno producing companies are saying "Fuck You Lewd, the old shit IS shit so replace it. Or go to jail." But before that happens, I'll archive them one more time before the police send out their killdozers.
Here's a fucking useful piece of link. DVD43 bravo!

Oh that darn Vatican

BBC NEWS I've been meaning to post about this. "A senior Vatican cleric has defended the excommunication in Brazil of the mother and doctors of a young girl who had an abortion with their help.The nine-year-old had conceived twins after alleged abuse by her stepfather."
I'll keep this really simple - Horrific and revolting. The dinosaur is clueless that it is extinct.

F-Jackie!

here's a hilarious piece from a hilariously bad actor Jackie Chan. The main idea is this guy believes too much freedom could be dangerous for China. Which is an interesting concept but you figure the guy must be sun drunk and the rays in Malibu must be stir frying his noggin. Come on Jackie, use your egg noodle man. If anyone gives a shit, I blame Hal Needham for introducing this oppression loving dingbat to the American public via CANNONBALL RUN - which is also the last good movie JC made.


Jackie Chan's China comments prompt backlash (AP)
Source: AP Sun Apr 19, 2009, 4:20 am EDT

FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2009 file photo, action star speaks to media during an event to promote the International Film Festival in . Legislators in Chinese-speaking regions that enjoy free elections on Sunday, April 19, 2009, lashed out at after the 'Rush Hour' star questioned if freedom was a good thing for China, accusing him of insulting his own race. The 55-year-old action star said at a business forum in the southern Chinese island province Hainan on Saturday that a free society may not be beneficial for authoritarian mainland China. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

HONG KONG - Action star Jackie Chan 's comments wondering whether Chinese people "need to be controlled" have drawn sharp rebuke in his native Hong Kong and in Taiwan .

Chan told a business forum in the southern Chinese province of Hainan that a free society may not be beneficial for China 's authoritarian mainland.

"I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not," Chan said Saturday. "I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want."

He went on to say that freedoms in Hong Kong and Taiwan made those societies "chaotic."

Chan's comments drew applause from a predominantly Chinese audience of business leaders, but did not sit well with lawmakers in Taiwan and Hong Kong.

"He's insulted the Chinese people. Chinese people aren't pets," Hong Kong pro-democracy legislator Leung Kwok-hung told The Associated Press. "Chinese society needs a democratic system to protect human rights and rule of law."

Another lawmaker, Albert Ho, called the comments "racist," adding: "People around the world are running their own countries. Why can't Chinese do the same?"

Former British colony Hong Kong enjoys Western-style civil liberties and some democratic elections under Chinese rule. Half of its 60-member legislature is elected, with the other half picked by special interest groups. But Hong Kong's leader is chosen by a panel stacked with Beijing loyalists.

In democratically self-ruled Taiwan, which split from mainland China during a civil war in 1949, legislator Huang Wei-che said Chan himself "has enjoyed freedom and democracy and has reaped the economic benefits of capitalism. But he has yet to grasp the true meaning of freedom and democracy."

Chan's comments were reported by news outlets in Hong Kong and Taiwan, but were ignored by the mainland Chinese press.

Although Chan was a fierce critic of the brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in June 1989, which killed at least hundreds, he has not publicly criticized China's government in recent years and is immensely popular on the mainland.

He performed during the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics and took part in the Olympic torch relay .

Chan also is vice chairman of the China Film Association, a key industry group.


Associated Press writer Annie Huang in Taipei contributed to this report.

Sing along with Lewd and the gang!

As the dinosaurs grumble over the state of their cash floe, you circumvent all the bullshit, the facades and just about all the other fucking nonsense by not participating and consuming their dino dung. Check out this niftyfolder and rediscover some classics or get back in touch with your inner rebel that bit it once you settled for a measly cubicle existence. Thank you Ungovernable77!

You will pay tomorrow!

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