Friday, July 22, 2005
Love Letters To Lazlo!
I had this exchange of emails today. Thought I would share!
>>> bds 7/22/2005 6:33:00 PM >>>
Fullname: bds
Email Address: bds9487@yahoo.com
City: kc
Comments: I can't believe how lame you were on KMBZ this morning. I
hope, for your sake, your boss(es) didn't hear that. Darla made you
sound like an imbecile. She kicked your ass, dude. You might want to
consider another line of work. I don't think you're bright enough to be
on the radio.
Bruce Sidener
bds9487@yahoo.com
www.camp-harlow.com
My response:
I wasn't on KMBZ this morning.
Lazlo
He responded:
Sorry. All you lame "JOQs" sound the same.
At this point I decided to check out his website. www.camp-harlow.com
My final response follows:
Hey Bruce!
It's o.k. I checked out your website. Great band. Is anybody in it under 100? I was amazed at your bands drawing potential. That gig at the local Chuckie Cheese really packed em in! How many people? 7? I sure hope you got a share of the door. A couple of bucks and all the cheese pizza you can eat! I admire guys like you! Rock and roll sure is dangerous!
I'm thinking of coming to one of your shows! I bet you guys do a mean cover Black Betty!
Ram Da Lam Da Dam,
Lazlo
Harry Potter is a fucking tool.
Look. I get it. I (suzi) ruined the book for some of you. Sure we told the ending. Sure you had waited years to find out what happened and we fucked it all up for you.
Sorry.
Think of me as a book. Your own little Harry Potter. I gave you a surprise ending the other day. You were listening to the radio. Expecting some Bush bashing and a rousing game of will slimfast scream and -POW- out of the blue your entire universe collapsed into a pool of 7th grade goo.
It wasn't mean. It was entertainment. Don't be so sensitive. Which leads me to this. Is it really any surprise that people are outraged that I gave away the ending? We have ruined 10's of movies. Never any real complaints. It is this Harry Potter thing that I had to try. It is my job. My lives work. My art. I am the antagonist. Nobody else would allow this on their airwaves. I encouraged it. Why? It's what I do. Boob jokes, fart jokes, having sex with strippers they are all old hat. You really want to push the envelope in today's culture??? Fuck up a Harry Potter book. See what happens to you. Put your nuts on the line like that. I dare you.
I looked the most powerful force in today's culture (Harry Potter) and said "fuck him".
So in rethinking this. Perhaps I'm more like snape. He did the same thing to dumbledore. He killed him.
Thursday, July 21, 2005
AMAZING!
http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=doughboy1110
Thursday, July 14, 2005
Do yourself a favor
Go here.
www.newams.net
Download the record ( I will still call them that no matter what the delivery system)and enjoy.
This guy is fucking brilliant.
Why he couldn't figure out an easier domain name I'll never know. Must be some uber cool indie thing I just don't get. Either way the music is great.
Friday, July 08, 2005
London Calling!
We are in a war. Welcome to it. We have heard over and over that we have to fight this war over there (Iraq?) so that we don't fight it here. We heard that from Tony Blair. We heard that from George Bush. Somebody else had other ideas. I think this may prove the ultimate point. If this is a war. What is our next move? What changes this morning after our enemy attacked our biggest supporter? What do we do different today? How do we step up the pressure to make sure it doesn't happen again and we make our enemy surrender? Where do we send our Generals when they do surrender?
The answer?
Nothing changes this morning. Nothing. Think about that. This is a war. Our leaders are fighting a new war with old tactics. If Iraq and Afghanistan were terror training camps....where did they plan for yesterdays attacks? Where are they training now? Where do we go next? Turkey? Syria? Kuwait? There is no homebase for terror. It is a mind set. In the battle of ideas we need better ideas not bigger bombs. Bombs won't win this war on either side. We will go on today like nothing happened. Londoners will go on today a little more jumpy but it will be business as usual. Terroists will go on today like nothing happened also.
There are soldiers marching on the common today
They were there again this evening
They paced up and down like sea birds on the ground
Before the storm clouds gathering
I must buy whatever tinned food is left on the shelves
They are testing the air raid sirens
They've filled up the blood banks and emptied the beds
At the hospital and the asylum
I saw a man build a shelter in his garden today
And we stood there idly chatting
He said: "No, no I don't think war will come"
Yet still he carried on digging
Everything in my life that I love
Could be swept away without warning
Yet the birds still sing and the church bells ring
And the sun came up this morning
Life goes on as it did before
As the country drifts slowly to war
-Billy Bragg
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