Diary of A Sane Man

Last night I forced my gimpy ass out of the house to see Leftover Crack. I really needed to get out or I was going to go apeshit, and Valentine’s (the club) is literally right around the corner. Sometimes it’s pretty sweet living right around the corner from the CBGBs of Albany. Leftover Crack was playing so I assumed I was in for a decent show. Meh, one should never assume anything. Assumptions can lead to let-downs.

Whatever happened to the Leftover Crack of old? Last night they SUCKED. And the time I saw them before this they also sucked. And the time before that. Three strikes and you can’t claim they’re in a rut, not when there’s YEARS in between each time. They used to be raging assholes that abused everything about society and made me crack up. They used to put on awesome sets with tons of energy. Now they just suck. I payed $12 ($12 for a fucking LoC show! What happened to the $4 shows!?!) to listen to them talk. They talked about stupid shit more than played songs, even going so far as to start talking in the middle of songs, thus killing the whole fucking vibe. Had you measured the talking against the music you’d have thought that it was LoC: the Spoken Word.

Also: the new shit blows.

I won’t be seeing LoC again. They’ve changed. It kills me too, because Choking Victim/Leftover Crack remind me of a great period in my life, romping around the Village with Greg, my brother, the two Toms and Crispin. Those were good times. LoC should have broken up when they decided to get a new guitarist, whatever the fuck his name is. If I had to come up with a watermark for when they went down hill, it’d be when he joined.

Meh.

Witch-Hunt was pretty good though. But barring that it was a pretty disappointing night. It sucks to see a band you once really liked start to suck. And yes, the new shit blows and totally caters to 16 year old upper-crust suburban kids. Y’know, the Anti-Flag crowd. At least i can say I saw them back when they had crowds made up of crusties and street punks and played real fuckin’ sets, for whatever that’s worth.

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I can see being pissed off that you wasted $9.50 on a ticket if you didn’t like it. I can see being pissed off that the popcorn in the theater was too expensive. But this… THIS… this is fucking retarded. I’d like to propose a letter, an open letter, to these protesting Iranians:

“Dear Iranians with nothing better to do,

300 was a work of friggin’ fiction. It isn’t historical. Persia didn’t have monsters, just in case you mistook the film to be historical. Perhaps Iran should start focusing on teaching history in schools as opposed to supporting sociopaths like your “presidente”. Fiction. It’s a work of fiction, you bumbling idiots.

And since when are you immune to criticisms anyway? Since when is Persia off-limits to parody? Fuck, since when is ISLAM off-limits? need I remind you of the bench-flipping riots your homeboys started over the CARTOONS a few years ago. You are not immune to criticism or parody, just like everyone else. The fact that you’re prone to crying over cartoons and fictional sword and sorcery movies is fucking lame.

“Wah.”

Maybe you should start focusing all that enery towards world hunger, poverty, corruption or suffering? No? Maybe? Or will you store it up to protest (read: riot) is various cities because none of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in their upcoming movie were Muslim, and therefore it’s Western propaganda?

With love,
Grim

P.S.: I think your “prophet” was full of shit and “allah” is a myth. Are ya gonna cry now? Riot again? Write letters? What?”

Now how can I get this put on pamphlets and dropped all over Iran? Maybe I should start with all those Iranian-American (hah, I bet they don’t even see themselves as American) bloggers’ sites!

Job 2:43 “And death shall spew from the Earth’s rectum.“

A key phrase triggered while reading this article, and I merely sighed and nodded in my awesomely sage-like fashion (I *do* know everything afterall). I’ll highlight that bitch:

“Though the Yellowstone system… is active and expected to eventually blow its top, scientists don’t think it will erupt any time soon. Supervolcanoes can sleep for centuries or millennia before producing incredibly massive eruptions that can drop ash across an entire continent…”

Scientists don’t *think* it will erupt anytime soon, yet reading the rest of the article does imply that something is going on down there. Scientists have been caught off guard before and have been wrong before. Actually nix that, science usually *is* being caught off guard and being proven wrong, thus the concept of the hypothesis and the emperiment. Scientific publications are also notorious for being influenced by public opinion, special interest groups and politicians, and it really wouldn’t do to have them telling MSNBC that we’re all going to suffer the effects of a thermonuclear winter or something approaching that in the region. Hell, these are the motherfuckers that bullshit the public on Global Motherfucking Warming.

Threats of nuclear war. The oceanic populations dead by 2025. The catastrophic effects of moving out of our little Ice Age. New diseases and infections modern medicine can’t defeat. American Idol. Contaminated food and water…

…shit sometimes I wonder if The Book of Revelations was on to something. Or maybe H.P. Lovecraft was right. I for one welcome my new Shoggoth overlords.

-=Grim=-

I have had an NPC named after me on some dude’s Warhammer RPG blog site. Just so you know, my “signature” on the Warhammer forums is: Professional 10-Pence Agitator; Altdorf Punk-Rock. That little tidbit was worked into the description. Why I got an NPC named after me is mentioned on his page. If you’re into WFRP you should check it out. The whole source of this madness was the very fact that I liked the site and commented as such. But here’s the thing the guy made, the mighty Grim Jesta as presented in the Old World:

Yes, we’re geeks, but I love being so. A heartfelt thanks to Magnus Seter for the props in his blog. I really thought this was awesome. For the record, he said “Narr” means “Jester” in Swedish.

For those who want to know, MagnusSeter’s blog can be found Here. He’s got a lot of good stuff going on.

-=Grim=-