Sunday, January 12, 2014
Friday, January 10, 2014
Thursday, January 09, 2014
STRIFE "One Truth" A Classic Hardcore Record!!
Here we have for your listening pleasure, "One Truth" the instantly classic record put out by STRIFE in 1993 or '94. Man, I can totally remember ordering this via snail-mail (c'mon, there was no online shopping, Ebay, Amazon, etc back then. I put about $10 cash in an envelope, sent it to Victory Records in Chicago, and waited patiently for the record to arrive. Back then, mail order was 'hit-or-miss.' Not that there was a good chance of getting ripped off (but that DID happen fat too often, unfortunately), but more like having your records, 'zines, books, sweat shirts, etc, taking weeks or even months or more to arrive on your door step. Victory was a pretty big & busy company by this point. With the releases of STRIFE, SNAPCASE, & EARTH CRISIS records, Tony Victory was on top of the metallic, straightedge, vegan, scene. Anyways, about "One Truth." I came home from work one night around 1:00a.m. and saw a package from Victory, and I knew it the new STRIFE record and maybe the WORLD'S COLLIDE 7" and some other gems. Ran up three flights of stairs post haste, and carefully laid the record on the turntable. The record itself was on an awesome looking swirly colored vinyl, really thick with a great smell. (I always smell my new records and their sleeves! Does this make me a weirdo? Nah, I just wanna use all my senses when buying new shit. The sleeve itself was a gatefold, with sweet looking, hi-quality artwork, and most certainly very glossy & professional looking. But the music: WOW! I was fuckin' blown away & instantly in love with these kids. I think up to this point I owned the "My Fire Burns On" 7" from them, as well as a rare, limited run of the "Mandel Can Suck It" record. Nice. I still love me some STRIFE!! The new record is the tits, plain & simple. Finally, in 1994 I got to see them (twice) at the "A New Hope Hardcore Fest" in Madison Wisconsin. It was a great show and a great fest all around. I have so many comparable stories...
Saturday, December 28, 2013
Monday, December 23, 2013
Friday, December 20, 2013
Monday, December 16, 2013
Learning new words--
I'm a passionate & avid reader. Not a day goes by that I don't run into a word I am unfamiliar with. Not just a word I don't really know, but a word I SWEAR I've never seen before. I love it! Look it up, put it into a sentence or two, memorize its spelling, and thoroughly become FAMILIAR with it.
Here's a word I ran into in a blog I subscribe to: per•sev•er•ate (pÉ™rˈsÉ›v əˌreɪt)
v.i. -at•ed, -at•ing.
to repeat a word, gesture, or act insistently or redundantly.
Monday, December 09, 2013
Tuesday, November 05, 2013
So Many Books, So Little Time.....
I've received a huge booty of books over the past month or so.
I'd love to list them all here for ya'll, but I never seem to find
the time to do it. So here it is, 4a.m. ("it's 4a.m. in Texas..." Who
sings that?? 7 SECONDS, I believe?!)
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"Let Fury Have the Hour: Joe Strummer, Punk & the Movement That Shook the World"
-by A. D'Ambrosio
"Grey Wolf: The Escape of Adolf Hitler"
-by S. Dunstan & Gerrard Williams
"A Terrible Revenge: The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans"
-by A. Maurice de Zayas
"A New History of Early Christianity"
-by C. Freeman
"An Infinity of Little Hours: Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World's Most Austere Monastic Order"
-by N.K. Maguire
"Occult America: White House Seances, Ouija Circles, Masons, & the Secret Mystic History of Our Nation"
-by M. Horowitz
"Called Out of Darkness, a Spiritual Confession"
-by Anne Rice
"Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw"
-by Mark Bowden
"No Longer a Slumdog"
-by K.P. Yohannan
"Beyond Doubt & Illusion"
-by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
"A History of Catholic Antisemitism: The Dark Side of the Church"
by R. Michael
"Food Genes & Culture: Eating Right for Your Origins"
-by G.P. Nabhan
"Supreme Decisions: Great Constitutional Cases & Their Impact"
-by Melvin I. Urofsky
"Secret Lives of the Dalai Lama: The Untold Story of the Holy Men Who Shaped Tibet, from Pre-History to the Present Day"
-by A. Norman
"White Hand Society: The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allan Ginsberg"
-by P. Conners
"A Burning Desire: Dharma God & the Path to Recovery"
-by K. Griffin
"Evolution - The Disguised Friend of Faith?"
-by Arthur Peacocke
"Sacred Desire: Growing in Compassionate Living"
-by N.K. Morrison, M.D. & S.K. Severino
"Ancient Christian Martyrdom: Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions"
-by C.R. Moss
"The Synchronicity Key: The Hidden Intelligence Guiding the Universe & You"
-by David Wilcock
"The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism"
-by D.A. Carson
"Religion and Spirituality in Psychotherapy: An Individual Psychology Perspective"
-by Thor Johansen
"Shapers of Early Christianity: 52 Biographies. A.D. 100 - 400"
-by R.H. Worth, Jr.
"Babylon's Banksters: The Alchemy of Deep Physics, High Finance and Ancient Religion"
-by J.P. Farrell
"Genes, Giants, Monsters & Men: The Surviving Elites of the Cosmic War & Their Hidden Agenda"
-by J.P. Farrell
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
"Secrets of the Mushroom, Psychic Abilities, DMT, and Religious Origins" Video
Great video here, if you can get through all the segments of it. ♥ m//r
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