Monday, August 24, 2009

the outer party

school is dead
on tomorrow morning.
we will see
who is who
and why we
are we and
just what it
means that the
strongest will survive.

brit. lit. for
the first time.
no sweat, i
got it... 1984
is the starting
point. the anti-
universe, the upside
down world where
nothing seems to
make sense... if
you believe the
society is insane
you must be
made insane to
understand it, to
love it. yup.
poor ol' winston
smith. for sure.
i've done my
reading i've made
my bed. i've
gotten up early
and eaten a
bowl of cereal
and drank coffee.
i drove here
without hitting anything
on the road.

these are good
things.

music: same ol'
same ol'... a bunch
of shows though...
testing the new
line up and
making sense of
new instrumentations, voices,
and energy. rehearsal
remains crucial... yup.

yup.

grimm

Saturday, August 22, 2009

district 9

one of the best films i have ever seen.
i held my breath the entire time
what a well developed and told story.
oh my god.

wow... like wow.

more later

grimm

Friday, August 21, 2009

in preparation

the new school
year shifts on
its haunches. curious
and frightened it
is awaiting a
signal, a gesture,
a reason to
move forward. the
hunter reads his
books and formulates
his gun, loaded
with words, assertions,
and goals. taking
thorough aim at
the year, he
pauses and concludes
that this will
be his year
to do something
new and good.

master newspeak double
plus good he
will say to
the students rapt
in oldspeak delirium.
in pouring through
the text a
third time, the
hunter becomes keenly
aware that this
forest is no
longer wild and
predictable but deliberate
and controlled. conspiracy!
some folks would
say and thusly
marked as whackos.

but sometimes there
is truth mixed
in that accusation.

orwell is right
and time to
prevent has already
passed, slipped into
the past while
we watched dancing
with the stars
or megan wants
a millionaire or
whatever reality we
wanted to believe
was real on
the HD portal.

the old guard
is dying and
the new guard
is airbrush and
glucose. here are
some words i
put together a
year ago...

when the choices are few
and there's one way to go
television telling you
everything you know

from the back of the line
on the tips of your toes
you're still guessing shit
you should already know



something to remember
i am just
as guilty of
passivity as anyone.

grimm

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Fall Cleaning Con't.






Fall Cleaning


this was at
el rancho last
year... it found
shelter in my
school computer but
now i must
make space for
more digital preparations.
ellen plays it
in a different
key and i
really screw it
up. but it
was fun to
play, anyway. exciting.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

items of newer interest

june star makes another shift in a line up. patrick hughes, drummer and nice guy, is moving to another state... westward ho! he goes. i'm sorry to see him go... in his place will be e.j. shaull-thompson from caleb stine and the brakemen. we're all looking forward to the new addition. rehearsals have been going well, smart and well thought out... the new songs from the double album are gellin' swell.

we're not sure about our september show it was supposed to be on the 18th at the metro gallery... but the date or the venue might change... but look for a great poster coming up soon...

so... the town meeting thing is getting weird... people are out of their minds... they're bringing guns to these things? really? nothing gets a party started like a group of angry/frightened/goaded people and a loaded handgun. not only that... but yesterday i read someone complaining about democrats saying that their voices were unamerican... to which the writer/blogger/protestor/triggerman said, "Since when is giving a dissenting opinion un-patriotic? I have the right to free speech!"

well, it's the same issue just five years ago when those same people told me that "a vote for john kerry was a vote for the terrorists. if you don't vote for Bush, the sitting president, you're unpatriotic." freaking whatever. that's what i'm reduced to thinking... this seems to be a dark summer... guns, misinformation, and katy perry is now the arbiter of talent? "shut up and put your money where your mouth is/that's what you get for waking up in vegas/shake shake the cradle." look out bob dylan.

tired, i should get back to my book

grimm