anti-[everything]

I wonder if this will work.

I think we're on Episode #18 by the old count, but then where do I count all of those episodes of St. Lou's PROFESSIONAL Happy Fun Parade?

I guess this should be Volume 2 Episode 1. Fuck it.

Why the hell am I doing this anyway? And, why am I announcing it here? No one even knows this place exists?

Listen¹ or Die:

Wednesday 8 MST.

Lame-ass band Pearl Jam is whining that AT&T censored their dramatic protest of the Bush administration's policies...and I use "protest" in the loosest sense possible. Being the rebels they are, they ingeniously played a cover song and inserted a couple devastating new lines:

During the performance of "Daughter" the following lyrics were sung to the tune of Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall" but were cut from the webcast:

- "George Bush, leave this world alone." (the second time it was sung); and

- "George Bush find yourself another home."

Oh! Take that George Bush! I bet that'll topple his regime! I bet he cried himself to sleep over that.

Pearl Jerks also said:

This, of course, troubles us as artists but also as citizens concerned with the issue of censorship and the increasingly consolidated control of the media.

What should also trouble them is that they're so unoriginal as artists that they have to recycle a decades old song and tack on those two boring lines as protest.

What I find most ironic about the whole outrage over this is that Pearl Jam is 100% corporate rock. Here's big label band that is playing a huge corporate-sponsored affair that is streamed over a corporate sponsor's network and they're crying about consolidated corporate media? They are corporate media! Even worse, they're the fucking product and being a willing participant in that media world has put them right where they are! If they were really concerned about corporate media, maybe they'd start their own label, quit cooperating with the major label hype machines that fill those consolidated corporate networks, and actually take a stand. I doubt that will happen because what really matters is getting paid and you can't play big venues and get big record sells without MTV and the rest of the corporate music industry convincing half-wits your music is worth buying.

Let's face it. I doubt Pearl Jam and the millions of "artists" like them would be nearly as popular if it wasn't for the massive amounts of corporate dollars spent to make them #1. Yeah, I know it's been a long time since they were considered good.

They were never good.

Here's a shot of their record releases, note the labels (Source: AllMusic.com):

Here's a shot of the corporate sponsors of Lollapalooza:

Sponsors Bring Joy?

I guess the message is that it isn't really music, art, etc., that bring people together. It's the benevolence of our corporate sponsors and their profit motive. Let's all bask in their generosity of giving music to suckers.

What the fuck do people expect when music and concerts are just vehicles for transmitting advertising messages and product loyalty?

Music in general would be better off if bands actually worked to kill corporate music and the leeches that run it. Of course, they won't. Instead they'll collect their checks and act surprised that the big corporate machine doesn't give two shits about music, especially when it threatens sales and profits.

Pearl Jam is as full of shit as AT&T.

Technorati Tags: AT&T, corporate rock, music, Pearl Jam

Here we go again:

Charleston, SC Latest Local News: District 2 board adopts Bible course:
SUMMERVILLE — Sunday school classes at church aren't the only place the Bible will be taught this year.

The Dorchester District 2 school board approved an elective course Monday night called History and Literature of the Old Testament and New Testament.

The course will be taught as an English elective and is open to sophomores, juniors and seniors at Fort Dorchester High School.

When I was in college in South Carolina, I took a Bible study course taught by a Methodist minister. He taught the class as Literature and History class. He didn't teach a Sunday school class. His teaching method put him at odds with some of the students in the class. Some wanted to have a weekday version of Sunday School, but he wasn't having it. School was for learning and church was for worship. He claimed that was how he learned it in seminary and said: (paraphrasing) nobody ever lost their faith by studying the Bible and its books as historical and literary document(s). They just learned they had less than they originally thought.

Apparently some of the faithful weren't up to his challenge. Many of the Christians dropped the class during the first few weeks. I guess understanding the historical place of their religion and its textual presentation was just too much for them for them. It's a shame. The class was well taught and I learned a good deal.

I don't think this is how the Fort Dorchester HS class will be taught. If it is, in fact, taught as a real literature and history course, the Christians will be offended that their precious tome is being taught in a non-Christian, secularist manner no matter how gently and scholarly the course proceeds. In my class, some couldn't make it past the two creation stories in Genesis without their heads nearly exploding.

Conversely, if it is taught as the Christians undoubtedly want -- as a faith-filled Sunday School class -- it will violate the First Amendment. A state institution will be promoting and enforcing a single religious doctrine in an overt manner.

All in all, this is a profoundly bad idea for everyone involved.

I grew up in SC and there are plenty of things I love about that place. The reality is, however, that SC is not a tolerant environment for the most part. Godlessness is not broadly tolerated and is viewed as inherently un-American. SC, of course, does not have the monopoly on that bigoted view.

I have no doubt that the real goal behind this class, and the governmental maneuvering to create permit it, is to teach Christianity and instill its message into students. No one is really interested in learning anything that might challenge their faith. After all, we wouldn't want a school break out in the midst of our religious fervor.

Technorati Tags: Bible Study, church and state, Dorchester District 2, education, religion, South Carolina

anti-[Radio] is back. Listen LIVE tonight at 8 PM MST.

You have two listening options:

Live Stream

Podcast

Listen or Die!

If you're listening live, you can also join us in the chat room: Chat or Die!

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It leads to all sorts of deranged behavior. Like this:

Buddhist animal ritual does not bring peace to N.J. environment regulators:

PATERSON, N.J. — Members of a Buddhist sect bought hundreds of eels, frogs and turtles and set them free in the Passaic River, hoping they would survive in the once-polluted stream and realize their karmic potential.

or this:

Hamas TV star, 11, wants to be a doctor or a martyr:

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Saraa Barhoum picked at the buttons on her pink bell-bottom jeans as she twisted on a chair inside the bustling new Hamas television headquarters. The afternoon light bounced off the sparkly outlines of butterflies on her frilly top, and a colorful hijab framed her 11-year-old face.
Saraa wants to be a doctor. If she can't, the young star of Hamas television's best-known children's show said, she'd be proud to become a martyr. Saraa says little Jewish girls should be forced from their homes in Israel so that Palestinians can return to their land.

I'd like to live in a world without religion.

Technorati Tags: Buddhism, Islam, religion

So I tried to whore out the anti-[Radio] podcast at iTunes and they rejected it. Was the skipping audio during the talking part? Song choice? Was it trying to find someone to plunder Crash's ass?

Who knows.

I like how the email is from itunesabuse as if I've abused them somehow.

iFuckers.

Technorati Tags: anti-[Radio], iTunes Music Store

Tonight is anti-[Radio] #2 tonight at Midnight Mountain Standard Time.

Nobody was going to fucking listen at 8PM anyway.

Fuck you.

You have two listening options:

Live Stream

Podcast

Listen or Die!

If you're listening live and you want to join me in the chat room, you can just fuck off. Chatting is dumb.

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Attorney General Gonzales steps down:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales resigned on Monday under pressure after months of controversy and political turmoil that President George W. Bush angrily blamed on his administration's critics in Congress.

Bush, who doggedly supported Gonzales during repeated confrontations with the Democratic-controlled Congress, said Gonzales had endured "months of unfair treatment that has created a harmful distraction at the Justice Department."

"It's sad that we live in a time when a talented and honorable person like Alberto Gonzales is impeded from doing important work because his good name was dragged through the mud for political reasons," Bush said before leaving Texas for Republican fund-raisers in New Mexico and Washington.

...

"I have lived the American dream," said Gonzales, a son of migrant workers who began working for Bush when the president was still the governor of Texas.

"Even my worst days as attorney general have been better than my father's best days," he said.

Gonzales should be proud of his legacy. He worked his way up from migrant worker obscurity and into the halls of Federal power. From there he was able to argue against the right of habeas corpus, oversee warrantless surveillance of US citizens, advance a legal basis for circumventing the Geneva Conventions to allow torture, and, of course, participate in the prosecutor firing debacle.

Of all of this, it was at the absurd prosecutor firings that finished him. Not even arguing for torture could keep him out of the job!

God Bless America.

Technorati Tags: Alberto Gonzales, Bush Administration, politics

I almost forgot.

Tonight is anti-[Radio] #3 LIVE at 10 PM MST.

Changing broadcast time every week makes it harder to develop a stable audience.

You have two listening options:

Live Stream

Podcast¹

As always: Fuck you.

Listen or Die!

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1. Fence Post Jesus

See also: Lodi Woman Sees Face of Jesus on Fence

2. Garage Door Virgin Mary

See also: Mysterious image arises

Usually I just think this stuff is funny. The video, however, is just sad and pathetic. Notice that parts of the glowing image disappear when the pilgrims step between the garage door and the light source.

Fools.

Technorati Tags: Christianity, Jesus, losers, religion, Virgin Mary