Now that we have passed the Bad Music For Bad People phase, and rounded out with some pop country, it is time for heavy metal. And by that I mean the combination of Cu and Zn, Copper and Zinc, respectively. And that combination is BRASS. Yes, we now need a big horn section.
Ladies and Glibermen, I present BLACK VENOM
The Budos Band came out of Staten Island a little under two decades ago, and have been described as “doom rock Afro-soul big band with a ’70s touch.” Oh, yeah. Can’t get much more metal than that! But with a big, funky horn section, movable rhythms, and a back beat that wont stop, they are ready to go.
Let’s get deeper into that groove, with a little Old Engine Oil:
Mmm, taste that funk! And now some doom laden guitar, with a nice ’70’s metal feel, blending us in to the cross cultural vibe. I present Magus Mountain:
And, kids and kidettes, that is the face of modern metal.
**************And that is it for tonight’s presentation of ZWAK musical theater. Tune in next time, same ZWAK time, same ZWAK channel.
Somewhere around here I have a Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass album that I got as a kid.
My first college roommate was a fan of Maynard Ferguson.
We had the whipped cream one when I was kid – like every family in America, it seemed.
That’s the one!
Yup. We had it.
Burge is still the best follow on Twitter. Not that it’s a competition. Or a high bar to clear.
He has a point.
These shitstain commie ratfucker assholes have never had to defend themselves intellectually, ever.
Not even now, in most places.
He is well worth following.
Well, there’s another few albums for my backlog. Love me some brass. It all began with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band featured tracks on Modest Mouse’s Good News For People Who Love Bad News.
Babylon Bee not pulling any punches.
Now I sort of understand why there’s been no trick or treaters here for 30 years. I do get a few beer cans and used diapers but that doesn’t count.
Dayum. That is dark and humorous.
I played https://squaredle.com/?puzzle=spooky2:
47/47 words (+3 bonus words)
🎯 In the top 6% by accuracy
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Good music Zwak. Thanks for turning me on to these guys.
KEXP is a youtube treasure. I’ve “found” some great bands watching their live performances, with really good production.
I’m having a bad day. 😞
Hang in there, you’ve only got three hours until a new day.
Related
(Hopefully a little gallows humor/levity isn’t too inappropriate to the circumstances)
With gallows humor I expected the ‘Hang in there’ to include a noose.
Hope things get better.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cE4lpSFNFUE&pp=ygUMVGhpcyBpcyBzaGl0
At least it’s Wednesday.
Sorry 🙁
I just dumped a bunch of pumpkin imperial stout down the drain. I blame the Biden administration.
You did the right thing.
This.
Wassamatter? 😟
You Had a Bad Day – Daniel Powter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN_SVw-yyhA&ab_channel=DanielPowter
Also had a bad day.
Hope you have one of these ASAP.
Thanks all.
Woot! I got some trick-or-treaters! Age appropriate little girls.
Now I feel like buying candy wasn’t a waste.
Yay.
I didn’t buy candy, and no one has bothered me. But then again, my exterior lights are off and there’s no decorations, so…
Oh sure, you say it and nobody bats an eye, but OMWC says it…
I bought some candy just on the off chance, but there’s not a lot of kids around here, and what few there are would probably be smart enough to realize the getting isn’t going to be very good in this particular part of town. I guess someone will just have to eat a bag of Reese’s peanut butter cups…
If you need help….
At least someone recognizes the king of candy.
Yeah, that’s some top shelf shit.
I’m sorry, GS, Snickers is the “King of Candy”.
Reeses’s is a strong second.
I used to impose a “Snickers tax” on my kids trick-or-treat haul to prepare them for adult life.
Age appropriate little girls.
18-22?Since it’s Halloween,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/7eLnhinXUU8GRqjJ7
Cheers!
Appropriately spooky 👍🏻
Boo!
Nice. I need to learn how to share photos someday.
Lychee and LibrePhotos are good if you’re self-hosting from a NAS or VPS, or if you want something more like a social media gallery like Tumblr, there’s Pixelfed.
Death To All But Metal!
https://youtu.be/yfB7vF7nCdA?si=vyD1eBpzR3ZyJ5Oe
Entry of the Gladiators, heavy metal version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y8Of6FNuLQ
Eleanor Rigby, thrash metal version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9XNoU3tHqU
Nice 🤘🏻
Have some Major Tom.
It’s no 99 luft balloons but it’s pretty good.
My motorcycle gang (just the 3 of us, but fierce and brutal) was named “The Red Balloons”.
I don’t know where I would have heard that but I would swear I have.
Sorry, I can’t appreciate that one.
Just got back from dinner with the wife, and wow, there are a ton of tricker treaters out. Way more than live in the area…
Oh, yeah. I live in one of those areas, the ones were the bring the little beasts in by bus. Anyway, I am glad people like the music, they are a fun band.
In Dubuque, we stopped counting trick-or-treaters at 600.
Here, in the boonies of northern Duloot, not a single one (which is good because I don’t keep candy in the house).
In too local news…
Pittsford (tony suburb of Rochester) engineering student arrested for posting murderous threats to Jews online. Apparently not a false flag.
Not sure how the law works here. I don’t believe in “hate crimes” but when does such speech constitute a direct threat? I don’t know.
If I remember the posts correctly, they were probably specific enough to constitute a threat and not have 1st Amendment protection.
There were like slitting throats and rape fantasies against “any Jew”, among other things.
I just don’t know how to turn that into a crime, or if it even is one. But how many times does this shit turn into actual no-shit crimes?
That’s hideous
and it should be free speech.
there is no way for police, judges, or juries to draw lines or manage differences; there is no way for anyone to know that somewhere there isn’t a prosecutor who won’t turn some specious class of illegal speech against you
it’s all arbitrary and capricious, like “public disturbance”….the sort of kitchen sink item you throw at someone who really broke no simple and obvious law but we need a reason to hold him or at least give him the business by putting him through The Process
All true, for sure.
The only solution I see is restoring the right to self-defense, which is a non-starter in so many places.
Even then, if speech is just speech, and action is action, you would have to wait until the guy who’s been yelling “I’m gonna kill you, motherfucker!” actually makes a legitimate attempt on your life, and then there’s the open question of what level of force is appropriate to the situation. Let’s say “I’m gonna kill you, mothefucker!” guy is unarmed, but begins running towards you with his fist cocked. You draw a gun and shoot him while he’s, say, 10 feet away. We now have a situation where spEeCH iS SpeEcH and aCtIOn iS AcTioN isn’t as clearly binary as it initially appears. Of course, we can always throw out some equally glib bullshit like “Better judged by 12 than carried by 6,” as if staging a million dollar trial for your life were an equal triviality as a death threat.
You could equally well say that stalking can’t be a criminal offense on account of freedom of movement. When logical consistency demands that you tolerate psychopaths terrorizing the community until they eventually snap, and then you have to hope the proverbial good guy with a gun is on the scene at exactly the right moment, it’s worth considering whether logical consistency is ultimately the highest value.
yes, stalking is also a bullshit charge
of the sort we here should hate: capricious and likely to be abused
Pretty much everything short of murder, rape and battery falls into that category, including fraud, which is a pure speech crime. I get the autistic libertarian angle, I just don’t particularly give a shit about ideological purity anymore. I gave up on defending billionaire capitalists from the mob of anti-capitalist social activists they enabled for similar reasons. “You should have the right to make intimidate defenseless people and make death threats” is a hill not worth dying on.
I’m all alone:
* free speech absolutist
* who believes speech is speech
* and actions are actions
I find arguments that some speech is in and of itself a clear and present dangerous empty: there’s always some element of physical confrontation (usually closing quarter which is itself an invitation to get one’s birth certificate revoked) used to spice up the speech argument, but there’s no need to mix them up.
American law is strewn with adjudicating that is just nonsensical. There’s an urge to blend away clear responsibility and blend in the bystander, the partially liable party, and it’s all horseshit standing in the way where fact and action and proximate cause are as plain as the nose on your face. Speech-can-be-action grows from this same bastard seed as, oh, I-was-overserved and coffee-was-too-hot and a million other bullshit things we’ve substituted for simple sense.
You can put a principled distinction there re: actions by the state but when it comes to private action, I don’t think you can.
Otherwise, you’re back to either drawing an arbitrary line and/or requiring me to willfully disbelieve the person saying they’re going to kill me, and fuck you for trying that.
I’d be more accepting of criminalizing such things if the law was applied consistently, but it never is. If the judge, jury, and prosecutor have politics opposite from yours, expect to get railroaded.
In this case, posting anonymous threats shows that he was trying to conceal his identity, and so on some level he must have known that what he was doing was wrong/illegal.
Note that posting anonymously is not a crime by itself nor should it be.
I enjoyed this post. New band I was unaware of! They are very much the EVIL Herb Alpert Band.
Thumbs up pictograph.
Happy Halloween, you reprobates!
Got a lot of trick or treaters. Glad it’s over. On the road to Shreveport again this weekend.
Time to sleep.
Huh, looks like Tartakovsky’s Primal borrowed from a story written by the creator of Conan the Barbarian:
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In the week of Thanksgiving that year, and after years of rejection slips and near acceptances, he finally sold a short caveman tale titled “Spear and Fang”, which netted him the sum of $16 and introduced him to the readers of a struggling pulp called Weird Tales.
***
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNWs1n1IevQ
REH is one of the greats.
I hate your children.
Singular.
Ok. We hate your children.
If we’re talking brass, I need some Morphine
Morphine is top notch, but I burned out listening to them in the late nineties. In the CD years, due to finances, I tended to listen to bands non stop, and burned out on them after a while. Portishead is in the same boat. Great stuff, but I overindulged.
Obviously you need a cure for the pain.
Also a fan of the Budos Band, they take a lot from one of my all time favs, Fela Kuti. Here he is rocking the big ass brass on one of his best tracks,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snIV_-IECsM
Love Nola brass bands. Very happy got to see them play at Maple Leaf. Great food served outside.
https://youtu.be/fhwoGVbY9xU?si=ofkT3Q4J14n0pRiJ
Though it’s not geographic, but a state of mind
https://youtu.be/l3IM-To5GBs
Been here 20+ years and still no trick or treaters. According to my wife, there’s been only one before that.
Oh good, another curry cunte is running for Congress
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2023/11/susheela-jayapal-will-run-for-congress-resign-from-multnomah-county-commission-seat-sources-say.html
Save our democracy!!
Her sister is already in Congress.
Yeah that last name rings a bell. Another crackpot?
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/dickson/2023/10/30/joshua-garton-arrested-meme-of-dickson-police-officer-grave-settles-suit-with-da-tbi-city/71383914007/
Apology might be enough for the guy involved, but every public employees involved in that should be fired, stripped of any pension or benefits, charged and do hard time (false arrest, misuse of authority, kidnapping, etc, with deadly weapon enhancement). That would knock off that horseshit right quick.
Good morning all!
Some post-Halloween Hawkwind this morning.
Days of the Underground.
PXR5.
Share and enjoy!
Brrrr!
Wakey, wakey.
😱☕
Love song Wednesday again.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8inJtTG_DuU
🎶🎶
I think I’ll wrap this bit up. I can’t recall any feedback on it, and gonna end it with a lovely song.
I had to start the furnace for the first time this winter this morning.
Already changed the filter and the batteries in the thermostat. Now it’s trying to warm the house from the frosty overnight low.
The first freeze of the season is forecast for tonight. The Halloween temperature was not as bad as predicted. It wasn’t so cold kids were wearing coats over their costumes.
Good morning, Sean, U, Roat, and Beau! That IS a lovely song, Sean!
I have to go to the podiatrist this morning. It’s all of a block (and across a fairly major thoroughfare) away, but it’s too cold to walk, and I don’t know whether my toe would be up to walking home after the appointment.
I may have to brush snow off my windshield to drive one block. 😒
Mornin’, GT.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8PAYUVK_hGE
Morning all,
Been up long enough to drink a cuppa, get the fire going in the furnace.
Had some toenail work done a few weeks ago, GT, I can get a pedicure at half price now. Drove home, no Tylenol etc.
I like the tradition but I confess I rarely get a chance to do more than click through to see if I know it, as I’m a sleep-until-the-last -possible-moment guy and usually don’t have time in the morning.
Woohoo!
There’s a green sprout in my lavender planter that looks like it has the shell of a seed on top. There’s no sign of the fungus I’d been worried about. Lets see if I can keep this thing alive.
😧
From what I’ve managed to read up, there won’t be enough light for the plant to get very big because, well, it’s winter soon, so it’ll be living off the office flourescents most of the time due to lack of real sun.
Hope it survives the winter, lavender is a treasure.
Maybe?
I mean, it looks like all of the brands come from the same factory in China.
If I were looking for advice on grow lights, I’d ask my local cannabis entrepreneur, although those folks are more familiar with the industrial variety.
I’m trying to keep one plant in a container the size of a small soup bowl alive, not produce enough weed to supply the neighborhood.
I use regular fluorescent, hung very close to the pots to start. As the plant(s) grow I keep raising the lights. I’ll show you next year at HH.
I’m afraid I have to take into account the other people in the office, which means I have to be more subtle with things.
Mornin’, reprobates! Kudos to Budos, Zwak.
Snow!
And I think I need to say something:
Pumpkin ale != Pumpkin spice beer.
Ale made from fermented pumpkins/winter squash is really good. Newburg’s “Squahstober” is my favorite but Saranac’s pumpkin ale is also good.