More from the killing my mpace blog ever so softly Interesting fact about tumblr v. mspace (which I loathe and stayed on to keep in touch w old west coast buds who four years ago used to say, “facebook?!?. whats facebook, man?”  Too much car exhaust I guess…) dhk today:  Google analytics and Mspace view page # were the exact fucking same, 1636. Mpsace since years (and spam, oh the fucking whores trying to befriend me.  One said she liked Starwars. I emailed her a few cool digi-pics:  one of me and David Prowse, one with me at Dragon Con in 1996 shaking the hand of Mark Hamill before he burst a red main from his nostril, and picture of me as JarJar (episode III garb) from Halloween last year to break the ice and all she did is tell me about her cam, which she lied and told me was about a Starwars scene, and it wasn’t.  I paid 30 dollars to find out her interpretive dance about the battle of Yavin was [which I always thought was strange because for claiming ROTJ as her favorite, I had to tell her the name of the battle, and who played Luke in real life, and Spock was from a different show…] her lying on a large, wood futon with a native American Indian blanket for a throw over the back, jamming a dildo in her behind and her baby parts, somehow had to the with getting the generator shield down with amazing Wookie wisdom, so Luke could bullseye-womprat the fucking deathstar.  I asked for my money back and I am still in dispute witht the site and my credit card company.  I’m fighting her lies on principle.) tumblr since March 08. Mspace blog views: 1399 toto, 5 this week and 2 day - last breaths as it dies a benign digi-death… Saturday, June 24, 2006  Why Ugly Kid Joe represents the pinnacle of all that can be. Art is a broad term that encompasses a great many things.  Music is a clear form of art, as well as most prose, a painting on a canvas and even a movie or a play falls under the one syllable, three letter word’s broad umbrella of activities. Tom Robbins, in his book “Ducks Flying Backward”, claims that “art is perfectly useless” meaning that art will not keep you from going hungary or thirsty, put a roof over your head to keep the golf ball sized hail from making a dent in your dome, or put clothes on your back to keep you from running around all day in your birthday suit.  But after a trip to the grocery, the mall and an Archstone leasing office, the basics have been covered, now ennui sets in so we sit around and art enters in to our life from all sensory receptors from the ear buds of the ipod to the half naked chicks and dudes running around Mtv Spring Break, to the graphic design on the box of Raman we cook up after a bad day at the track.  Basically Robbins makes the point, which I agree with, that art is what happens when our basic needs are taken care of.   Humans a little bit, but really more Americans, are a people of ranking.  Look at our national past time, baseball, they play 160 some-odd regular season games so at the end we can rank them by their total wins in a division and then put those teams in a play-off to determine who will be ranked as the true number one at the end of the summer.  In business ranking is ubquitous where most employees of businesses large and small know how they perform against thier co-workers on a broad range of tasks from the account executives keeping tabs on new accounts opened for the month, car salesmen being motivated by “first place is a new car, second place is a new set of steak knives and third prize is your fired” to barristas at CC’s or starbucks being rewarded for upselling bagels and pastrys when all you want is an iced coffee.  Evaluations are endless and people, whether they choose to or not, will know “where they stand” amongst thier contemporaries. With all this being said, I have decided to in the American/human of bestowing rank, giving my highest honors to the group ”Ugly Kid Joe” as the ranking of best band, ever, because of two songs and primarily because of the love ballad “I hate everything about you”.  On the surface this would seem like an anti-love song because of it’s title, but one must bear in mind the social context of the early 1990’s of when the song was released.  This was a time when the disaffected attitudes of grunge had permiated thier way in to the main-stream and suddenly being anti-cool was avant garde and sought after.  Flannel shirts were being made by couture Italian designers and were being sold in high-end boutiques when the bands like Nirvana that made them popular were experiencing a success they never bargained for, especially considering they really just wanted to get fucked up on drugs in thier garage and waste time on guitars impressing thier equally withdrawn lady friends, but were now front and center as the media icons du jour with out their explicit consent.  And then the greatest band of all time took over the frequency modulated air waves like Ghaghis Kahn with a wild hair up his ass with “I hate everything about you”, a seemingly anti-love song that when one takes in to account the deliberately contradictory attitude of the genX/grungers, is really love song written with reverse psychology.  Also, UKJ, covered ”Cat’s in the cradle” and may have improved on the original with they’re superior musical and lyrical talent.  They made a good song great.  The last reason why UKJ is the greatest band ever is they made two albums, thier first one followed by their greatest hits album.  Bands with the audacity to follow thier first EP with a greatest hits album are either cocky or truly great and in the case of UKJ it is most certainly the latter. 3:31 AM - 0 Comments - 0 Kudos - Add Comment - Edit - Remove

More from the killing my mpace blog ever so softly

  • Interesting fact about tumblr v. mspace (which I loathe and stayed on to keep in touch w old west coast buds who four years ago used to say, “facebook?!?. whats facebook, man?”  Too much car exhaust I guess…) dhk today:  Google analytics and Mspace view page # were the exact fucking same, 1636.
  • Mpsace since years (and spam, oh the fucking whores trying to befriend me.  One said she liked Starwars. I emailed her a few cool digi-pics:  one of me and David Prowse, one with me at Dragon Con in 1996 shaking the hand of Mark Hamill before he burst a red main from his nostril, and picture of me as JarJar (episode III garb) from Halloween last year to break the ice and all she did is tell me about her cam, which she lied and told me was about a Starwars scene, and it wasn’t.  I paid 30 dollars to find out her interpretive dance about the battle of Yavin was [which I always thought was strange because for claiming ROTJ as her favorite, I had to tell her the name of the battle, and who played Luke in real life, and Spock was from a different show…] her lying on a large, wood futon with a native American Indian blanket for a throw over the back, jamming a dildo in her behind and her baby parts, somehow had to the with getting the generator shield down with amazing Wookie wisdom, so Luke could bullseye-womprat the fucking deathstar.  I asked for my money back and I am still in dispute witht the site and my credit card company.  I’m fighting her lies on principle.)
  • tumblr since March 08.
  • Mspace blog views: 1399 toto, 5 this week and 2 day - last breaths as it dies a benign digi-death…

Saturday, June 24, 2006 

Why Ugly Kid Joe represents the pinnacle of all that can be.

Art is a broad term that encompasses a great many things.  Music is a clear form of art, as well as most prose, a painting on a canvas and even a movie or a play falls under the one syllable, three letter word’s broad umbrella of activities.

Tom Robbins, in his book “Ducks Flying Backward”, claims that “art is perfectly useless” meaning that art will not keep you from going hungary or thirsty, put a roof over your head to keep the golf ball sized hail from making a dent in your dome, or put clothes on your back to keep you from running around all day in your birthday suit.  But after a trip to the grocery, the mall and an Archstone leasing office, the basics have been covered, now ennui sets in so we sit around and art enters in to our life from all sensory receptors from the ear buds of the ipod to the half naked chicks and dudes running around Mtv Spring Break, to the graphic design on the box of Raman we cook up after a bad day at the track.  Basically Robbins makes the point, which I agree with, that art is what happens when our basic needs are taken care of.  

Humans a little bit, but really more Americans, are a people of ranking.  Look at our national past time, baseball, they play 160 some-odd regular season games so at the end we can rank them by their total wins in a division and then put those teams in a play-off to determine who will be ranked as the true number one at the end of the summer.  In business ranking is ubquitous where most employees of businesses large and small know how they perform against thier co-workers on a broad range of tasks from the account executives keeping tabs on new accounts opened for the month, car salesmen being motivated by “first place is a new car, second place is a new set of steak knives and third prize is your fired” to barristas at CC’s or starbucks being rewarded for upselling bagels and pastrys when all you want is an iced coffee.  Evaluations are endless and people, whether they choose to or not, will know “where they stand” amongst thier contemporaries.

With all this being said, I have decided to in the American/human of bestowing rank, giving my highest honors to the group ”Ugly Kid Joe” as the ranking of best band, ever, because of two songs and primarily because of the love ballad “I hate everything about you”.  On the surface this would seem like an anti-love song because of it’s title, but one must bear in mind the social context of the early 1990’s of when the song was released.  This was a time when the disaffected attitudes of grunge had permiated thier way in to the main-stream and suddenly being anti-cool was avant garde and sought after.  Flannel shirts were being made by couture Italian designers and were being sold in high-end boutiques when the bands like Nirvana that made them popular were experiencing a success they never bargained for, especially considering they really just wanted to get fucked up on drugs in thier garage and waste time on guitars impressing thier equally withdrawn lady friends, but were now front and center as the media icons du jour with out their explicit consent.  And then the greatest band of all time took over the frequency modulated air waves like Ghaghis Kahn with a wild hair up his ass with “I hate everything about you”, a seemingly anti-love song that when one takes in to account the deliberately contradictory attitude of the genX/grungers, is really love song written with reverse psychology. 

Also, UKJ, covered ”Cat’s in the cradle” and may have improved on the original with they’re superior musical and lyrical talent.  They made a good song great.  The last reason why UKJ is the greatest band ever is they made two albums, thier first one followed by their greatest hits album.  Bands with the audacity to follow thier first EP with a greatest hits album are either cocky or truly great and in the case of UKJ it is most certainly the latter.

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