Are you kidding me? Wind power brings prosperity, anger

Wind power brings prosperity, anger

What kind of a moron is this guy? This whole 'not in my backyard' act is wearing pretty thin at this point. Don't these people realize that things must, and will change. The question is a matter of when and how. Will people like this prevent us from progressing our way of life, leading to mass power outages and deaths, or will those that care enough for each other prevail in their sacrifice? How ugly and annoying a highway is. It's loud, smells, and polluting of the air around you. A wind turbine is loud, visible and free (in a sense. While it does cost a huge amount of money to set it up, I'd be interested to see how much money it costs to mine coal and then burn it. At what point does the cost efficiency of a wind turbine surpass that of carbon based fuel. It most definitely does as the wind itself costs nothing)

Blah, a little hung over and bitter maybe, but seriously people, accept some sacrifice for the sake of maintaining your way of life.

Badbadbadbadbadbadbad

Seriously, I'm here to kill you.
I can't imagine why else I could've been graced by your presence.
To me, you are everything
Everything evil and wrong
Everything beautiful and perfect
You are a statue, decorated by the artist
Your leggings and your sneakers are made of skin of children
And your thoughts are recycled dreams, of dead leaders and failures
We won't recall your name, you'll be a statistic
And like any pawn, if you make it all the way, I'll crown you myself
But you won't because I can't let that happen
I need your space, and your air
Seriously, I'm here to kill you
I take apathy like sugar pills
Looking for meaning inside it's empty walls
I can find what isn't there, but I can't afford to look.

I'm here to bring you back to life
Cut the umbilical cord that binds you
like a tether, a noose with two loops
Now you can be free
With wide eyes and caring

Shit's all fucked up these days.
Method to cope?
Modern Life is War.




In other news, I think I'll name my new band Hipster Death March. Ironic considering I'm writing in a blog and like to dress pretty, but seriously, read the newest Adbusters article on Hipsters. It's pretty spot on and depressing.

Well, HIV, it's been fun. Asshole.

So it looks like maybe there's been a turning point in HIV research. Good, cause I wanted to volunteer for that huge nationwide field test in july.
I could have made $750 and felt like a really responsible, forward thinking citizen. Oh well, all hope is not lost. The world could really use a vaccine, pronto.
Let's look at some statistics.

Ok they're really depressing so I'm going to post a few links so you can see for yourself.

AVERT, a UK based HIV/AIDS charity. It has a good breakdown of statistics, both globally and regionally.

The CDC is another kind of sketchy, but still pretty important American Center for Disease Control. Lot's of information, but stats are only dated up to 2006. I know it's only two years, but for a disease that has only been identified for less than 30 years, 2 years is a long time.

The UN has the official UNAIDS/WHO numbers. Same stuff AVERT uses, but it seems more official.

I might hate CNN...

So I read a lot of CNN online. Its on my bookmarks bar next to my email, wikipedia and facebook. I am starting to really hate it. There is so much exposure of injustice and wrongdoing but rarely a solution offered. If CNN spent half as much time and money promoting feasible solutions to the problems they illustrate, this world could be a vastly better place.
I suppose I didn't think this entry through well enough to have a good example (or at least one that wouldn't make me come across as a bigoted, insensitive, pretentious prick)

Still, when you read the news, spend as much time as it took to read the article reflecting on what you can do to fix a given situation. If you read an article on the horrors of racism, make a point of forgetting about race. If you just heard about the latest natural disaster, discourage people you know from moving to naturally dangerous areas, or at least educate yourself as to where the dangerous areas are. There just seems to be so much whining in the news about how bad things are. I understand that in journalism there is a desire to present the facts as they are, but journalism has changed throughout it's existence. There were times when opinion was considered taboo, and other times when it was commonplace to make serious judgments.
One thing that has remained constant, at least in our society though is the notion that there are only two sides to any argument. This is ridiculous.
If there are 100 people in a room, there will be 100 different opinions on any given subject. Polls serve to stupify the american public. If the choices are yes, no and somewhat, how is anyone supposed to figure out how things will actually be. If polls were to ask "how would you handle the current economic crisis in regards to the energy industry?" we might get some really bright and exciting ideas. Of course, there would be plenty of morons and plenty of ideas that seem totally unacceptable by todays standards, but today's standards are currently not doing anyone any longterm favors.

I'm not having kids if the world looks this glum later.

Blahhhhh download this album (click the lyrics). the opening line really captures how I'm feeling right now.




Verse - Aggression

They’ve got themselves a new spin on the story,
twisted for one-sided glory.
Devastation soon becoming fuel for the masses new fury.
A greedy hand in the guise of a good man.
So threatening. So deafening.
So silencing, that familiar stance.
The burden now passed to us,
we lose our footing but still try to stand.
No control.
No more rules.
“Perpetual war for perpetual peace”,
turn a blind eye to poverty while manufacturing new enemies.
The new slave’s south of the border, murdered or overseas.
We still struggle with the fact that one percent has ninety-nine on their knees.
Washington’s drawing up war plans,
while there’s still no hope for the homeless man.
No one should have to live under these men, iron fists with gun in hand.
No more control.
No more rules.
They try to make you and me live life by their design:
No free thought. No free speech. No peace of mind.
They make a move to confine.
But they’ll never silence me as long as I can breathe.

The internet is a great place to find many useful pieces of information

What the hell am I doing here?
Waiting, for what? Why?
Like catching bullets in the wind
Watching answers fly
These are darkened times
An inner light still shines
This pool of wax is old and wide
a fox tail dances, slowly now
His body hides, underground

Only looking out
Or looking in

Surgery, mask up, dust ruffle tucked
Luxuries not luck,
Can't be counting chances
While we tickle out your guts
While I'm tugging for your secrets
and your sights unseen
I watch a mine collapsing
as these last coals are cut

I left that candle where it sat
What's more I left it's shell
I would have had my truth
And then boredom and horror

Feathers lacking capillaries
Found grounded where they fell
Drained of nothing special
Still, I'm apt towards burial.





I thought it would be fun to post some of my lyrics here. These are pretty much brand new. Describes a lot of how I've been feeling lately. I wish I had other ways to bide my time right now. Also, Achilles Just came on to my iTunes, so I think that means I should post their second album, Hospice. This album really kills. Heavy, melodic, aggressive, emotive and generally just great songs.
I often have trouble remaining loyal to bands because I'll love one release and not care at all about any of the others, Achilles managed to have me hooked from the first time I put this disc in my CD player. Despite my worries they wouldn't live up to The Dark Horse
I remember the show I got it at. It was at the Westcott Community Center in Syracuse, NY and Damiera, Lemuria, Showdown at the Pier and Pantera II. It was Damiera's first show with the new line-up as I remember it.
Anyway, the guy from Hex records was there (his band played too, but I can't remember their name for the life of me. I remember the crowd really dug the set. Hometown hero maybe, but he was honestly a great guy, we talked for a while outside the venue after. He had this disc in a bin, I bought it. My brother bought a Damiera shirt. It was a pretty cool day. Also, I happened to see Hart there, before I knew him. He was the drummer for showdown at the pier, now he is the guitarist and part-time mastermind behind The Environment, which I am in and go to our myspace.
Http://www.myspace.com/theenvironmenttheband

How wrong is it

To use violence not as a solution, but as an attention getting device? Would that be called terrorist? If you never actually hurt anybody (physically) that should be the most ideal form of terrorism. Isn't the whole point of terrorism to scare you straight? Isn't that how parents and teachers try to educate, through fear?
Maybe someday you'll see me with an unloaded machine gun in the oval office.

I know how to fix the music industry.

Become not-for-profit.
Lets look at why this is awesome.
Only the people that are in it for the music will be involved. Sure, you still get a salary when you work not-for-profit, but that salary could be huge, I just feel like it would be a very variable part of the budget. Who needs money anyway, there's a chance that soon, it won't be worth anything, so you had better invest in something that you love (because that's all that you'll have left).
Next - people can just download your music. They would still have to pay, (maybe not, but bands going places still need money, because gas is expensive)
blah blah blah, here's the goal
Live in a house, with a recording space and a rehearsal space as well as a venue space also gallery space. big haus. Create a company, not-for-profit as a space where bands/people can:
Practice for free (with limitations, "for the sake of fairness". Maybe multiple practice spaces?)
Performance space with low cost shows, as well as housing for bands and artists.
Gallery space, for gallery like things. You know, like a gallery?
Thinking now, money would need to come from somewhere, so it might have to be a little more costly to use, but I guess the point is to make everything work with whatever you have.

This is starting to sound like I'm confusing myself, so I will let this sit and revisit it later.

Here is where we start

I'm Pete.
Im here to give you my opinions, things I think are interesting, art and hopefully somewhere for you to stop and think for a minute. Hopefully you'll talk back to me.
Any music I post is not hosted here and only for sampling purposes. I'm against pieces of paper and numbers determining the worth of art, and most things but because I don't want to be fined money I don't have, delete anything you download after 24 hours or buy it.
If I am contacted by anyone asking me to remove a link to music or art that they themselves did not write or record, they can go fuck themselves, but I will remove the link in question.
After that bitter little rant, have a nice day and I'll see about sprucing this blog up.
Expect music tomorrow.