Tuesday, January 31, 2017
february is shaping up to have a lot of shows, actually. i just hope the weather co-operates.
i may sneak a show in on sunday....
i've pointed out repeatedly that i'm not a fan of metal, and particularly have a real hate on for metal culture, but this isn't really metal. unfortunately, we appear to be in a metal moment. when we go through these phases, i'm going to exist on the fringes rather than dive into the middle. so, i'm going to seek out what could be referred to as alternative metal.
i went over this once before: i usually identify as punk, but what i'm trying to articulate is a certain kind of alternative counter-cultural vision. punk is really probably actually dead this time. but, that alternative counter-culture is older than punk is - it is the same alternative counter-culture that the hippies and the beatniks articulated, and the same alternative counter-culture that ravers and cyberpunks have articulated since. don't misunderstand me: rock culture is dying. but, if the mainstream rock counter-culture of the era is metal, it will necessarily produce an alternative counter-culture in a concept of alternative metal and this is what i'm going to be attracted to, if i'm going to be attracted to anything from the period at all.
see, i might not like metal, but i like hardcore punk and i like shoegaze and i like dream pop and i like jazz and i like grunge and i like post rock and i like math rock. metal is really the exception; i like most rock period genres. and, the actual reason that metal is the exception is that it's so fucking cock driven. what you could say is that i can't fucking stand cock rock, and therefore can't fucking stand most metal, because it defines itself that way. but, what that means is that i can get into these alt-metal hybrids if they get outside of the cock rock...
i haven't decided yet. this is a vocal style that i can turn sour on very quickly after repeated listens. but i think that the wall of guitars and reverberated vocals will be a good head cave, so it's leaning this way.
i may sneak a show in on sunday....
i've pointed out repeatedly that i'm not a fan of metal, and particularly have a real hate on for metal culture, but this isn't really metal. unfortunately, we appear to be in a metal moment. when we go through these phases, i'm going to exist on the fringes rather than dive into the middle. so, i'm going to seek out what could be referred to as alternative metal.
i went over this once before: i usually identify as punk, but what i'm trying to articulate is a certain kind of alternative counter-cultural vision. punk is really probably actually dead this time. but, that alternative counter-culture is older than punk is - it is the same alternative counter-culture that the hippies and the beatniks articulated, and the same alternative counter-culture that ravers and cyberpunks have articulated since. don't misunderstand me: rock culture is dying. but, if the mainstream rock counter-culture of the era is metal, it will necessarily produce an alternative counter-culture in a concept of alternative metal and this is what i'm going to be attracted to, if i'm going to be attracted to anything from the period at all.
see, i might not like metal, but i like hardcore punk and i like shoegaze and i like dream pop and i like jazz and i like grunge and i like post rock and i like math rock. metal is really the exception; i like most rock period genres. and, the actual reason that metal is the exception is that it's so fucking cock driven. what you could say is that i can't fucking stand cock rock, and therefore can't fucking stand most metal, because it defines itself that way. but, what that means is that i can get into these alt-metal hybrids if they get outside of the cock rock...
i haven't decided yet. this is a vocal style that i can turn sour on very quickly after repeated listens. but i think that the wall of guitars and reverberated vocals will be a good head cave, so it's leaning this way.
i actually don't oppose this - so long as the funds are reinvested into services for natural born citizens. i mean, i don't want to see the money disappear from public funds as tax cuts. i suspect that it will...
now, that said, i think that the numbers may, in the end, determine that the problem is not so large as some people might suspect. my understanding is that the united states has a functioning immigration system, and you're looking at a fraction of immigrants that just end up on welfare. but, so long as we live in a capitalist system that pushes down artificial scarcity, there are economic realities around immigration that need to be dealt with - and one of them is that we shouldn't want to bring in people and then park them on welfare. that is a net drain of common resources.
again: we need to know our left from our right, here. leftists are concerned about the efficient management of collective resources, whereas conservatives feel the obligation to help the needy for whatever religious or chivalric reason. it follows that leftists should seek to minimize entry to parasitic migrants, whereas conservatives are going to want to show off how righteous they are as a badge of honour.
where i disagree with trump is on the scope of the problem and on where to redirect the public resources.
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/31/14457678/trump-order-immigrants-welfare
now, that said, i think that the numbers may, in the end, determine that the problem is not so large as some people might suspect. my understanding is that the united states has a functioning immigration system, and you're looking at a fraction of immigrants that just end up on welfare. but, so long as we live in a capitalist system that pushes down artificial scarcity, there are economic realities around immigration that need to be dealt with - and one of them is that we shouldn't want to bring in people and then park them on welfare. that is a net drain of common resources.
again: we need to know our left from our right, here. leftists are concerned about the efficient management of collective resources, whereas conservatives feel the obligation to help the needy for whatever religious or chivalric reason. it follows that leftists should seek to minimize entry to parasitic migrants, whereas conservatives are going to want to show off how righteous they are as a badge of honour.
where i disagree with trump is on the scope of the problem and on where to redirect the public resources.
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/31/14457678/trump-order-immigrants-welfare
it's been no secret from day one that justin trudeau's role is to place a friendly face upon fascism. he's a salesperson for global capitalism, and all of the rights abuses and enforced social hierarchies that come with it. what he does is present a marketing facade over these rights abuses that washes them away in a sea of platitudes. and, it's always been blatantly transparent...
the thing is that the other options are at least no better. the 2015 election offered the worst choices in my lifetime, anyways. there wasn't even really a lesser evil.
what trudeau provided was a handful of positive policies to go along with the list of terrible policies that they all shared. for example - they were all in favour of pipelines, but the liberal platform had a green infrastructure bank in it. given that there wasn't an option to stop the pipelines, the infrastructure bank was at least something. but, we may be waiting forever for this....
i'm actually going to do what is probably the worst thing i can do: i'm going to drop the mic. i'm not even analyzing this anymore. i'm just going to let him drown. it's clear at this point that the upside was a mirage, and all we're going to get is a continued spokesperson for the worst rights abusers on the planet.
ignore the media, they're clueless.
the thing is that the other options are at least no better. the 2015 election offered the worst choices in my lifetime, anyways. there wasn't even really a lesser evil.
what trudeau provided was a handful of positive policies to go along with the list of terrible policies that they all shared. for example - they were all in favour of pipelines, but the liberal platform had a green infrastructure bank in it. given that there wasn't an option to stop the pipelines, the infrastructure bank was at least something. but, we may be waiting forever for this....
i'm actually going to do what is probably the worst thing i can do: i'm going to drop the mic. i'm not even analyzing this anymore. i'm just going to let him drown. it's clear at this point that the upside was a mirage, and all we're going to get is a continued spokesperson for the worst rights abusers on the planet.
ignore the media, they're clueless.
so, apparently, nafta is now about embracing diversity; i suppose that the next step is accusing opponents of being racists.
i grasp that there's a certain level of political theatre here, and i'm not really opposed to this in principle, but this is not a smart strategy and it's going to badly backfire.
but, i mean, i think it's kind of too late. justin trudeau has aligned himself with the crumbling neo-liberal order, and appears to be too stupid to figure out what's happening around him. his government is going to fall as a consequence of his stubbornness.
the only solution at this point is a caucus revolt.
i grasp that there's a certain level of political theatre here, and i'm not really opposed to this in principle, but this is not a smart strategy and it's going to badly backfire.
but, i mean, i think it's kind of too late. justin trudeau has aligned himself with the crumbling neo-liberal order, and appears to be too stupid to figure out what's happening around him. his government is going to fall as a consequence of his stubbornness.
the only solution at this point is a caucus revolt.
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