the spectacle

replaced the Doctor Marten's
replaced the Pentel Graph 1000
new TAG Heuer 4000 series watch
new Montblanc Classic Hommage de Frederic Chopin fountain pen
new job...

replaced the commute, the colleagues, the clients...
an astounding difference.

things in motion:

GRE in preparation for graduate school applications. i'm not holding my breath - most M.Arch programs report a 7% acceptance rate and i'm not proud of 2/3rds of my GRE scores...

resume, portfolio in preparation for graduate school applications and... perhaps, after all, it's time i move on professionally. ten years tenure... too complacent with the contradictions; put up or shut up, right?

bands the Runs have played / are playing with (in order of appearance):

fracas, nappytime junction [330 ritch 06 05 02]
imaginary, prissy's prizm, smarty [rooster's roadhouse 07 19 02]

the Maids, count dante and the black dragon fighting society [thee Parkside 01 03 03]
the jipsters [curve bar 01 30 03]
with rescue breathing, sunset black, the Maids [kimo's 02 06 03]
the ordeal, hockey night, crosstide [stork club 02 25 03]
underclass, drugstore cowboys, pummel [ugly's (daddy O's) 03 01 03]
worm drive, kalmex and the riff merchants [curve bar 03 13 03]
street to nowhere [voodoo lounge 07 31 03]
destroy everything [blank club 08 07 03]
threewithin, the DT's [the portlite 08 22 03]
rasputin, jewdriver, the jack saints [red devil lounge 08 28 03]

gaviotas, armagetiton, ohm powah [cherry bar 09 19 04]
jack the bear, the FFF!, Armitage Shanks [51 buckingham 10 22 04]
dysfunctional, rebel society, the guilty hearts, Armitage Shanks [anarchy library 10 23 04]
Armitage Shanks [double down saloon 10 26 04]
reddmen, sperm merchants (the Nads), Armitage Shanks [thee Parkside 10 28 04]
los ojos diabolicos, Armitage Shanks [caravan lounge 10 30 04]
the worst, splitting seconds, 12 steps to nothing, monkey with a gun [campbell gaslighter 12 08 04]

auto select, threewithin, puppet farm [time out 03 05 05]
nightmare soldiers, the Fuzz, los ojos diabolicos [south first billiards 04 24 05]
12 steps to nothing [murphy's law 06 02 05]
the black angels, the lincolns, the twots [WC warehouse 07 02 05]
nagg, Clay Wheels [the blank club 08 26 05]
compton SF, ludovico's technique, zero mass [cherry bar 09 22 05]
the eyesores, dirty maxies, vacant churches, the twots [south first billiards 09 25 05]
the nads, Armitage Shanks [thee Parkside 10 21 05]
the twots, Armitage Shanks [elbo room 10 24 05]
wet heaves, Armitage Shanks [towne lounge 10 26 05]
the Fall-Outs, Armitage Shanks [the Funhouse 10 27 05]
tranzmitors, Armitage Shanks [malone's 10 28 05]
roger, Armitage Shanks, clorox girls [slabtown 10 29 05]
the Cliftons, the ignorant [caravan lounge 12 01 05]

the lincolns, cobra skulls, the twots [stork club 02 02 06]
los ojos diabolicos, the common you, 12 steps to nothing [johnny V's 02 11 06]
PUNK NIGHT [johnny V's 03 01 06]
live on KZSU radio [90.1 FM Stanford University 03 29 06]
the Cliftons, ironhead / candy snatchers, sadboy sinister [johnny V's 04 07 06]
tribute to Joey Ramone: 12 steps to nothing, sputterdoll [the Claran 04 14 06]
drunken starfighter, axe, los ojos diabolicos [johnny v's 05 13 06]
tell-tale heartbreakers [caravan lounge 06 14 06]
live in-store [rasputin records 06 30 06]
live on KSCU radio [103.3 FM Santa Clara University 07 19 06]
live in-store [streetlight records 09 02 06]
touch my rash, the obsessors, Armitage Shanks [johnny V's 09 16 06]
the guilty hearts, Armitage Shanks [the scene 09 22 06]
the obsessors, terezodu, the muckruckers [johnny V's 11 10 06]
fabulous disaster, kitten on the keys, teenage harlets, the twots [annie's social club 12 10 06]
vacant churches, the razorburns [caravan lounge 12 29 06]

the obsessors, jonny manak and the depressives [pizza party 02 10 07]
audiophiliacs, manchester school, the hysterians [johnny v's 03 23 07]
cliff greenwood and the monsters, hit by a semi, the muckruckers, jonny manak and the depressives [johnny v's 03 31 07]
oakland brown trout, johnny shitbird and the manak depressives, johnny and the pachecos, dun bin shat the bed [jury room 04 16 07]
the obsessors, the muckruckers [blank club 06 08 07]
the razorburns, jonny manak and the depressives, bite, terezodu [brittania arms 06 16 07]
psycho 78, the memphis murder men, 2nd class citiZens, trouble maker [john patrick's 08 18 07]
the jet black hair people, the stars misplaced, worker bee [redwood lanes 08 18 07]

the stitches, the forgotten [blank club 11 21 08]

the groggs, the struts, jonny manak and the depressives [johnny v's 08 19 11]
pony time [the knockout 10 02 11]

new acquisition to the home stereo system: a Faroudja DV1000.
impressive, so far. selling the Music Hall 25.2 and keeping the NAD T533.
the Faroudja really does sound better than vinyl... even with the new Rotel phono stage and Rega platter.

oh, well. so it goes.

there seems to be nothing "neighborhood" about any of my neighborhood banks. can't anyone trade paper for coins anymore? wtf?

"some say life is a struggle... it's a game. just gotta know the rules..." social distortion

a most inconvenient truth:

the rise in the measured global amount of carbon dioxide is directly related to the rise in global population. ["on average, it is found that a 1% increase in population is associated with a 1.28% increase in carbon dioxide emissions" Population Growth and Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions Anqing Shi]

this is a crisis of not only automobiles and industry but of our too many lips, too many lungs and too many tongues.

the road to hell is paved with good intentions

not having watched tv for four days, i return to find the same, regurgitated drivel masquerading as news (under its robes, it's masquerading as entertainment, and under that, folks, there's nothing).

the current exigency:

we're not going to make it by recycling used tires (michelin) or filling up with biodiesel; we're in a crisis of nearly incomprehensible proportion and the walls are closing in upon us.

the people in Congress are representatives of the people.

it's the people that oppose, argue, debate, enter into dialogue, not members of Congress.

get it straight.

milton friedman, in Capitalism and Freedom:

"Government is necessary to preserve our freedom, it is an instrument through which we can exercise our freedom; yet by concentrating power in political hands, it is also a threat to [our] freedom."

the yard Noam

corporate entities, with rights granted in the late 1800's by the supreme court (rights basically wrested from the newly freed slave population) of a 'person'...

in The Corporation, Noam Chomsky asks "What kind of 'person' is the corporation?"

i'd say, sort of an asshole.

doesn't it seem like G Dub is more interested in establishing democracy in Iraq then protecting democracy here in the good ol' US?

undemocratically bringing democracy to the world, whether y'all want it or not.

thank goodness we're spending billions and billions of good ol' USD rebuilding iraq.

thank goodness we're not spending billions and billions of good ol' USD rebuilding new orleans.

justice is a movin' on.

dumb internet personality tests...

the Runs debut record out on interpunk.com and cdbaby.com, soon available locally at streetlight, amoeba and rasputin's. already got some great reviews. buy one and see for yourself!

four more years.

oh, well. so it goes.

the ides of march. the album is coming along, vocals next then some backing tracks. the great Armitage Shanks will soon be out to sunny california and we're planning a tour together. they've got a new CD they're releasing and so do we... at least by the time they get out here to tour with us. more on that, soon. we're also on another compilation (Bottle Cap Comps Vol. 1), so call all of your local radio stations and ask for the Runs.

all for now.

oooh, been a long time.

add to the guitar collection a 2001 1960 reissue of the Les Paul Classic. wine red. Society labors to serve and better the Economy.

the Runs new album is progressing. 14 songs. lots of new gear to round out the studio.

more, soon.

what can BROWN do for me?

certainly not fucking deliver my packages on time.

UPS SUCKS.

mix 'travesty' and 'farce' together in the dictionary and i think you end up with 'schwarzenegger for governor'...

schwarzenegger? i don't even know her!

"Mimesis explains the enigmatically empty ecstasy of the fans in mass culture. Ectasy is the motor of imitation. It is this rather than self-expression and individuality which forcibly produces the behaviour of the victims which recalls St. Vitus's dance or the motor reflex spasms of the maimed animal."
adorno, the schema of mass culture

FUCK THE RIAA!

our music :the Runs: will be used in an upcoming independent film Suburban Youth. we'll let you know more about it when the film is released.

architecture license on the forefront.
that and a little gardening ought to round this year out.

a 1976 International Harvester Scout II has been my hobby as of late

lots of things wrong with it.

ain't life grand?

what the hell is wrong with me?
i'm not who i want to be

the war against iraq: freedom from tyranny or global consumer protection?

ashamed and saddened am i to be in any way a part of this american imperialist aggression against iraq.
i always learned that good people just don't do things like this.
i hope that i am proved wrong in my understanding of things and that in some way this is just...

TILT really is my new favorite band.

brevity is the essence of wit.

and double tracked guitars.

from an old notebook / 11.17.00::1300

if the system for the accumulation of Capital has not inherent morality - does government act to fill that void?
has "life" been reduced to the process of accumulating Capital?

I AIN'T NO GODDAMNED SON OF A BITCH, you'd better think about it, baby
(misfits, where eagles dare)

having trouble with posting. otherwise, i'd have a whole bunch of brilliant things written down here. really.

(d)evolution, indeed.

independence day: i know that it's been said before, but, independence from the tyranny of government in the 1770's hasn't freed us from the tyranny of the market:
price fixing and stock manipulation is every bit as evil as taxation without representation.

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