Michael Kindt's Blog, page 46
June 23, 2016
LEAVE pulling ahead (51.4%), with more than half the constituencies reporting.
Scotland wants to remain the EU it looks like, but Wales doesn’t. As an American, I’m not sure what that means. All I know is that Dylan Thomas is from Wales and Sean Connery is from Scotland, and I like Dylan Thomas way more.
June 22, 2016
The Alarm Clocks - No Reason To ComplainA tocsin ringing in my...
The Alarm Clocks - No Reason To Complain
A tocsin ringing in my brain for decades now. Love this song, band, and album.
Despite everyone thinking the 1960s were cool, the decade wasn’t all bad.
June 21, 2016
Which local act should be the Deli Portland's next Artist of the Month?
p.s. If you click the headphones icon, you can listen to some of their music.
June 20, 2016
SAD POP TARTS
Do you want me to write you a poem?
Ok, I’ll write you a poem, a goddamn fucking one at that. You know what I hate about poems? How they’re all the same, how they snake down the page or in this age the screen in a little line. Poems are skinny and prose is fat and that’s fucking discrimination. I’m going to seek out a social justice warrior to be an online dick about it (as if you gotta seek those losers out).
I’m going to write fat poems that smell like prose and there isn’t even one godddamn thing you can do about it because I’m free white and 21 or a strong black woman who don’t need no man. Either or.
You people and your outrage. You people and your rules.
Fuck you.
EE CUMMINGS once said “next to of course god america i love you” but he can’t have been serious amid all the sweet brutal galore and opinion markets and links shared but never read. The toilet trailer trash. The jealousy of the poor and unsuccessful. The failure that ain’t supposed to be, that isn’t FAIR, that happens anyway, to all of us.
You saw the best minds of your generation destroyed by madness starving hysterical naked? Bullshit. They blah blahed all the way home with nary a motherfucking howl. I see no minds of any generation doing anything, except the same shit as the generation before them.
Sad pop tarts all of them, fucked by the universe, nothing they’re fault.
And you read this and you feel my rage and you think something is wrong with ME?
Good luck with all that as you slowly saunter into the slaughter without even the slightest stampede.
Happy Solstice everybody!
You know, this is the first time in 7 years that the solstice and full moon have converged on the same day?
I know this because my Wiccan liquor store cashier told me as I was buying gin and vermouth.
So, what the hell, cheers!
June 19, 2016
I am a study atheist, meaning I don't believe in studies. Not one, not anymore.
You hear about studies all the time. “A recent study shows…” Insert some bullshit that isn’t true.
I have read studies that show cholesterol causes heart attacks, and I have read studies that show cholesterol doesn’t cause heart attacks, and both are fucking wrong.
Studies are essentially propaganda designed to create fear and loathing and behavior modification. I read a study once (conducted by the plastic bag industry, funnily enough) that showed those reusable fabric grocery bags were hotbeds of bacteria. YOU’RE PUTTING YOUR GROCERIES IN A SEWER. AHHH!
Driving along in the truck the other night, I was listening to the John Tesch show. He’s always got little factoids and tidbits from studies (all of which are bullshit), and he was saying that a recent study showed that people who consume hot drinks like tea or coffee have a higher incidence of cancer.
Whatever.
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics. Statistical truth isn’t really truth because it isn’t always true. Cigarettes cause cancer in a lot of people, but they don’t cause cancer in a lot of other people. How is the phrase ‘cigarettes cause cancer’ true then?
Truth to me is immutable, irrevocable, certain, and always, but not to anyone else, it seems. Modern truth is merely likely or possible.
Whenever there is something in the news presented in scientific tones, people will tend to believe it, even in 2016 when the jig is up with the media. We know it is completely biased and full of shit. Journalism is dead, if it ever even lived before. But if it sounds like science, it MUST be true.
Human beings still operate entirely on faith, without any real proof of anything, even in this so-called secular, scientific age.
*plays Losing My Religion by REM*
June 18, 2016
Better than the original.I myself used to wear suspenders with...
Better than the original.
I myself used to wear suspenders with no shirt, but the constant rubbing made my nipples red and raw, which is not a good look for court.
June 16, 2016
I can see 4 years into the future.
I guess you could say I got 2020 vision.
