Fuck YOUR Life vol. 18

Marilyn Manson - Born Villain Official Video by Flixgr

this is the Shia LeBouf (guwhaa??) directed video for Marilyn Manson's new single "Bor(i)n(g) Villain". apparently it's causing a bit of a stir due to the extreme nature of the visual subject matter.

any controversy this generates really should be derived from the fact that NOT ONE SINGLE IMAGE OR IDEA presented in this video is even remotely unique to the "auter's' vision.. Shia LaBeuf is not some in-the-closet goremeister surrealist, he's a thief. i lost count of how many things he was ripping off here, but i know that right off the bat he copied the opening scene from Alejandro Jodorowsky's the Holy Mountain (a film and a director who actually have an original thought from time to time), as well as several David Lynch tropes and other things that i've seen done so many times that the original source of the visual has been lost.

the whole really plays like mid 80s-early/mid 90s Apocalypse Culture having a mid-life crisis, straining to recapture what made it so visceral and arresting, but not having the will or the interest to come up with something fresh out of its influences. instead it just becomes overwhelmed by them, confusing larceny with homage and laziness with nostalgia.

plus the song is lame.

9/18 PS;

whaat... the fuuuck?

U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 60

"It would have been hard to find an uneducated farmer during the depression of the 1890s who did not have a very accurate idea about exactly which economic interests were shafting him. An unemployed worker in a breadline in 1932 would have felt little gratitude to the Rockefellers or the Mellons. But that is not the case in the present economic crisis. After a riot of unbridled greed such as the world has not seen since the conquistadors' looting expeditions and after an unprecedented broad and rapid transfer of wealth upward by Wall Street and its corporate satellites, where is the popular anger directed, at least as depicted in the media? At "Washington spending" - which has increased primarily to provide unemployment compensation, food stamps and Medicaid to those economically damaged by the previous decade's corporate saturnalia. Or the popular rage is harmlessly diverted against pseudo-issues: death panels, birtherism, gay marriage, abortion, and so on, none of which stands to dent the corporate bottom line in the slightest."

click if you like.

U.S.A.! U.S.A.! Omniubus

so yeah, it's September 11th. i hear the sales are going to be AMAZING.

i mulled over what exactly to post here today, so i decided to just do a near-complete omnibus of all the USA!USA! posts from over the years. take a look at what exactly we believe;

pffff... homelessness is sooooooooo 4 years ago
as if you needed further evidence that Morgan Spurlock's need for attention is suicidal
remember Krispy Kreme?
falsifying the loss of your father? perrty kewl!
anything to make the world more resemble a John Waters film
what we're fighting for
i'm not your buddaye, gui
why so $eriou$?
throwing my votes away on Mayor McCheese
we love failure when its pretty and pretends it'll fuck us if we give it what it wants
you heard it here, gang... hamburgers are good for you
still waiting for my two dollars
if you want women, you must prepare for porn
i wahnt tuh hear ya screem
kind of a big deal
pretty sure i was fighting with my girlfriend when i wrote this
Keep the "Trampled to Death over toys" in "Christmas"
kick a young republican for your country
"MISS ME YET?" ..... Nope.
you're putting balls on your face
still better than Mayo
cause "making a statement" is less strenuous than looking for work
and setting rich people on fire is illegal WHY?
it's only anti-feminist if you're making fun of a cute republican
hope those Evanescence mp3 were worth it
like that part in Hostel, only about a milkshake.... and not sexy
so many Rights, you'll be begging for a Left
United States of Naughty America
you heard it here first....
how dare you try and make me not die!?
a song so shmaltzily patriotic it makes "Where Were You When the World Stop Turning" sound like a pro-abortion slam poem from a bisexual transgendered Muslim communist
cause when you say "messianic" they think Chuck Norris being sensually tortured by oily yellow people
someone owes Alejandro Jodorwsky 2 dollars for this one
hope those Crossfade MP3s were worth it
Barack Obama IV: The Quest for Peace
from the Mengle Buffet
pre-defecated
needs more needsmore
just keeping it real, Tatum O'Neil!
teach your children not watch people who tell you not to watch porn
Eew World Order
i declare this meeting of the midnight society crazy
KKK took my party away
you've already handicapped the sales in your desired demographic by calling it a "book"
belief we can change in
how that ""hopey changy"hopey changy" thing werkin owt?
life begins at the preservative-filled mayonnaise jar
opera box at the end of the world
don't retreat; RETARD!
real 'mericans go for the cheese (figuratively and literally)
what Black Sabbath is to metalheads, this is to tea-baggers
get a free sub with any purchase of 1 dead terrorist. chips and drink extra 2.50.
the redundancy of the phrase "honor rape"
we are we are the youth of the something something

bring on the coats

so yeah... hasn't been a very productive summer 'round these parts. a long, miserable season that just doesn't seem to want to let the fuck go.



it's been one of a lot of stuff, though. reading a ton, watching a bunch, and listening to a lot. some stellar DVD releases (mostly from IFC) that i didn't feel like writing up, because it seems like every asshole with an internet connection and a Netflix account is a needlessly opinionated cinephilic jerk-off who can't help themselves but to tear apart every little thing they see as if it were a cotton candy autopsy. i don't have much of a desire anymore to lurk among those ranks. make up your own minds.



that doesn't mean i won't share my favorites of the summer, though;

MOVIES: Hobo with a Shotgun, Super, We Are What We Are, Coldfish, American: the Bill Hicks Story, Red White and Blue, Dream Home, the Image, Tetsuo: the Bullet Man

MUSIC: AOSOTH - III, AUTOPSY - Macabre Eternal, PRURIENT - Bermuda Drain, THE JOY FORMIDABLE - the Big Roar, NICOLE 12 - Black Line, SEWER GODDESS - Disciples of Shit, DRAINLAND - And So Our Troubles Began, THE MEN - Leave Home, EXHUMED - All Guts N Glory, WORMROT - Dirge

BOOKS: The Art of Cruelty by Maggie Nelson, Sky Burial by Dana Levin, Hogg by Samuel R. Delaney, the Eyes by Jesus Aldapuerta, Altman's Tongue by Brian Everson

i realize some of these weren't released this year (3/5 of the books), but these are what made my summer bearable.

as far as "dating", well i've mostly been ignored, promising-start-followed-by-being-ignored, and outright rejected. business as usual i suppose. still the big ball of confusion and insecurity that it always was.

didn't play out as much this summer, but the shows we did play were pretty awesome, getting to play with fucking monsters like THE KILL, CASTEVET, SETE STAR SEPT, NOISEAR. would've liked to get more done (mostly the recording), but with vacations, bad weather, dying automobiles, and so forth, it's been a hard piss trying to get it together, but it's not a huge deal... we all stay in touch, practice on our own, etc... and knowing that it's always on our minds is something to be satisfied with. so no real complaints there.

but yeah... bring on the coats.

We are the Sprocket Holes vol. 194

Tsukamoto, Lanthimos, Toyoda And More In TIFF 2011 Visions Program

ALPS Yorgos Lanthimos, Greece/France (North American Premiere)
A nurse, a paramedic, a gymnast, and her coach have formed a secret, illegal company. The service they provide is to act as stand-ins for the recently deceased, for the benefit of grieving relatives and friends. The company is called "ALPS" and the ALPS members, taking inspiration from the life of the deceased, adopt their behaviours and habits, memorizing favourite songs, actors, foods, familiar expressions. Although the members of ALPS operate under a disciplined regime demanded by the paramedic, their leader, the nurse doesn't.

KOTOKO Shinya Tsukamoto, Japan (North American Premiere)
The story of a single mother who suffers from double vision; caring for her baby is a nerve-wrecking task that eventually leads her to a nervous breakdown. She is suspected of being a child abuser when things get out of control and her baby is taken away.

Not That I'm Bitter or Anything vol. 14

feel like i'm bleeding inside my chest. like my lungs are melting or something. haven't written much here. haven't written much in general. hate summer. beyond sick of it. it's a rotting corpse at this point.

was told by a slightly overweight 19 year old girl that i wasn't attractive. that pretty much sums up all the rejections I've been experiencing lately. not because it matters or because it's the most destructive, but it is sort of the most blackly comical and humiliatingly debasing. that'll teach me to look past your shortcomings.

plus side of sexual frustration and female indifference; been reading a ton. Jean Genet, Jesus Aldapuerta, Samuel R. Delaney, Arthur Rimbaud, Maggie Nelson's Art of Cruelty is fascinating, as is Gates of Janus by Ian Brady. The Ultimate Dead Baby Joke Book is mostly retarded, but there was one joke i really liked, and plan to use at the next convenient uncomfortable silence;

Q: What's the difference between a peach and a dead baby?

A: I don't cum on a peach before i eat it.

done for mao.

U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 59

sorry i haven't been around. computer's been like ass on toast, worrying about potential job prospects, trying to find a woman who isn't a flighty headcase, and working on new ways of writing. music stuff too... a lot of reading, watching movies, listening to music... trying to maintain some sanity as the world melts like the street trash of the film which bears their name.

found this one, though;

8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance