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October 25th, 2003
12:13 am
Ahh yes, another fun day.
Did almost nothing today, except drive back from Iowa. Fun and long. My ass went numb again. Yay.
Picked up a new CD today, it's a collection of great songs by Pete Seeger. Talkin' Union is one of the best songs ever, and the best lines from it are at the bottom of this update.
Also, met up with the kids tonight to plan more for the Rock Against Rape concert. This shit is gonna rock. Against rape, even. Proceeds are going to various local womens groups.
And, I made a great organizing lead at the restaurant tonight. More on that later.
Sunday, I'm spending the day in Chi going through IWW Organizer Training. For the One Big Union!
And now, the aforementioned quote:
And the boss will think he's pretty slick,
He'll think he's got your Union licked,
Till he looks out his window, and what does he see?
A thousand pickets, and they all agree:
HE'S A BASTARD!
Off to sleep.
I feel lonely.
Current Mood: M'eh
Current Music: Pete Seeger - Solidarity Forever!
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October 23rd, 2003
11:22 pm
I'm in Iowa, watching porn and drinking with three girls and a guy named Rob.
This is funny, since we're pretty much MST3King this whole flick. Good times, good times.
Back to drinking.
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09:05 pm - Iowa Sucks!
I'm in Iowa right now.
I know, you all envy me sooooo much.
But yeah, I'm drinking. This is fun. It's almost time for a smoke.
Fun, right?
Anyways, Allison and I decided to take a break for awhile today, kinda give me sometime to think about what I want, and want to do with myself.
Fun.
Time to smoke. Lemme alone.
Snoogans,. I'm going soap boxing tomorrow for Take Back Your Time Day (timeday.org. Everyonme should, dammit. Let's change this shit, and get ourselves some fewer hours!!!
Bye bye!
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October 20th, 2003
12:24 am
Man, my finger hurts.
And I'm an asshole.
And everyone should check these out:
Read things here - No. 1
Buy things here - No. 2
And add links here - No. 3
So yeah. Do it, Doug.
Ow. It's hard to type.
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October 19th, 2003
04:18 pm
Wow... I just had my first smoke of the day... I woke up at 1pm.
I got a buzz. I haven't gotten a buzz of smoking since I started 6 or 7 years ago.
It felt wierd.
Now I have to finish websites.
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October 14th, 2003
11:04 pm
Went to Take Back the Night. That was fun.
Hung out with local activisty types tonight. Even more fun (finally, people to talk to!!!).
Now, I'm here. And I have to work tomorrow. I hate my job.
I hope I get this apartment.
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October 13th, 2003
01:18 am
Man, this was the quickest I've ever reinstalled windows, and done it without any problems.
I rock so hard it ain't even funny.
Off to bed.
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October 12th, 2003
11:05 pm
Why am I such an asshole? I really am, for those of you who don't know me.
Blah blah blah.
I've been making alot of stuff lately. Lotsa bumper stickers. If anyone wants one, comment and I'll tell ya all about them. They're groovy, and political!
I want this apartment. It'd be so rad.
And I need to pee again (I always have to pee after I update. Wow).
Then, I begin trying to reinstall Windoze 98. Stupid crappy OS's.
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October 10th, 2003
11:28 pm
It's about time I update this thing again.
I'll soon have a new apartment again. Boy and Danny roxor my soxors. More details soon.
I've not had much of a personal life lately, as I've mostly been sitting around spewing out fliers, pamphlets, websites and the like. I need to get out more. Me bored.
I need a new job, but what else is new?
Life's pretty boring all in all. I really hope we get this one place we're looking at, it's so sweet and cheap.
I need to reformat this computer, and soon. It's so fucked right now. I really need AIM to keep in touch with some people.
Why is everyone moving to Pilsen? I did it first, dammit! You're all posers.
And yeah, I still want to travel. It's so fun. But if I get this place, then the friends I made on the road could come out here, as well as anyone else that really wants to for that matter. Mmmm... punkhouses.
I gotta pee and watch some Family Guy and Fututrama. Now. Snoogans.
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October 4th, 2003
12:06 am - blah blah blah
I totally need to update this more.
I'm bored lately. I've been writing zines and stuff to kill time.
I need more to do; my job no longer really holds interest for me, I want to move out of my house and get an apartment again, and I need more money.
I don't really have anything to update about, I just sort of feel like typing.
I wanna travel more. A good friend (I need more of those) brought up the idea of travelling town to town for a week doing some organizing... I really want to do that. God, do I want to do that.
I'm just realizing more and more that I haven't really accomplished anything... at all, really. It gets me somewhat depressed, but not too badly. I guess that's why I'm getting into the IWW so hardcore, union organizing is a way to bring about immediate change and improvement to our lives. But I digress...
I guess I'm gonna go check my email again, and hope someone anyone wants to talk to me...
I really need to stop spending time alone... it makes me think, then I get down again. Ugh. Stupid brain.
And it's cold out, which means the CD player in my vehicle quits working... so I get stuck choosing between any number of really crappy radio stations. But I'm becoming addicted to NPR. Damn you, Public Radio and your engaging and intelligent content!!!!
I can't stress it enough, I really want to travel, just this time with closer friends than before.
And stream of consciousness typing is not my strong point, oddly enough. :-P
Man, life is boring. I'm gonna go pee.
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September 26th, 2003
04:15 pm
So today on his show, Ruch Limbaugh blamed the creation of the Segway Scooter on his favorite boogeyman, 'liberalism'.
I think it's great, because it really shows how desperate he is, as well as his conservative cohorts who use him as a mouthpiece.
I just had to share this one.
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September 9th, 2003
10:14 pm
Here we go:
Friday and saturday - flyering. Much fun.
Saturday - Punked out the PYF table at the show I flyered at. Fucking thieves. I wanted to make fun of Tad.
Sunday - Don't remember.
Monday - worked. Really sucked. Got out early, went for a walk with Burnes, built fun shit at Gregs, got coffee, slept.
Today - Got my copies of Bowling for Columbine from Snic, who had previously tried to steal them. Fucking little asshole. Went to show at Christian Youth Center... convinced God is trying to kill me. I must stop him at all costs... fucking christians.
Off to watch BfC.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/pengies/blank.gif) complacent
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September 1st, 2003
02:13 am - Punk is still cool!
Wanna know why I think there is still potential for change in punk rock? Because of this song by Leftover Crack:
Gay Rude Boys Unite
Unity! HA! yer such a saint today
you may be anti racist but then you're anti gay
you may be ignorant from a lack of education
but if it's sympathy you see you seek
you better turn to another station
* Intolerant society rears it's ugly face
you're turning your native music into a homophobic disgrace
the gay ones, the straight ones, the white tan yellow and black
gay rude boys and girls, we're gonna take that dancehall back
we'll take it back!
because without respect there's gonna be nothing left
This double standard just won't sit that well with me
i come to say this and it's just the way it has to be
you know i'm not PC i'll shoot your kid at school
'cuz he's gonna grow up to be a fucking asshole just like you
you can celebrate your unity till every gay is dead
but why don't you stop your fronting with real unity instead
and on a better dime on this shitty little globe
we would crucify the racists and be bashing all the homophobes
* Intolerant society rears it's ugly face
you're turning your hardcore music into a homophobic disgrace
the gay ones, the straight ones, the white tan yellow and black
gay rude boys and girls, we're gonna take that dancehall back
we'll take it back, we'll take it back
because without respect there's gonna be nothing left
2000 triple zero stand up and take a look around
this ignorant fucking shit shouldn't happen in any town
so come on leave the closet and on your way out grab a bat
cuz there's a battle to be fought and the prize is fucking phat
autonomy from ignorance there's got to be a better way
but the racist, sexist homophobes and piggies gotta pay
but right now you got to get out of your fucking seat
and jam down to the faggot rythm's of that crack rock steady beat
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/pengies/sob.gif) lonely
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02:05 am
Another boring weekend.
It's times like these... I wish I had some friends around here. Everyone I like lives somewhere else.
Ugh.
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August 30th, 2003
05:41 pm
Well, step one is complete. On to step two.
What I mean is: I went back to my old work place, Challenge Park Extreme in Joliet. I was a paintball ref; it was the most fun one could have at a job.
I left when we first tried to unionize, since three kids took over, declared themselves in charge, and sold us out to management.
So... here I go. I have vowed to make that place a union shop, step by step.
Next step is to go reapply. That's for next week, after I get in touch with a few other local Wobblys.
Click here: 
Current Mood: Revolutionary
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01:08 pm
Great...
I ordered Bowling for Columbine back when I lived with Snic.
After he pulled his shit, I changed the ship-to address on my buy.com account.
I believe Buy.com shipped my movie to Snic.
I swear to god, if that fucker has my movie, I'm gonna be pissed. Not only a liar, but now a thief.
Little asshole.
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August 27th, 2003
10:43 pm
You know what? Alot of me is lost in my writing.
I mean, the way I talk, the sarcasm, the dramatic pauses, the tonal changes, the accentuation, the emphasis... it's lost when I type. My writing simply does not reflect the way I speak properly.
Anyways... I picked up the Mediocre Generica CD by Leftover Crack today; actually, Allison did and I owe her $.She'll get it within a day or two. Thanks bnabe.
It's a great CD. I've been on this CD buying spree lately.
Except that I've been getting more into labor rights (anti-racist work led into a critique of capitalism and racism [racism as a tool to control the workers], which led to anarchist ideas, which led to labor organizing [which fits nicely with anti-racist/anti-fascist work] and on it goes) and the music that goes with it, like Billy Bragg, Woody Guthrie, etc. I really like folk music. It's raw and powerful.
But some good gutter punk always rocks as well.
Now I need to smoke and blast some LOC real loud. And Smoke. Mostly smoke.
Snoogans.
Quote of the Day:
The cities of Europe have burned before,
and they may yet burn again,
and if they do I hope you understand
That Washington will burn with them!
That Omaha will burn with them!
Los Alamos will burn with them!!!
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August 26th, 2003
02:56 pm
I just got off work and I'm really tired.
I went to sleep at like 10 last night, which is nearly 5 hours earlier than I usually pass out. I felt good today, but now I'm tired as fuck.
I smoke too much. I really need to quit.
Caybe's been telling me to call Snic lately. Why? Why the fuck should I call someone who stabbed me in the back, ruined our friendship with his lies and bullshit, and threw me out of the house (which, if it wasn't for me he wouldn't have and his little fuck-I mean-girlfriend would still be in New Orleans) we shared, then apparently got our friends to take sides (something I tried to prevent, god help me) and ditch me.
Why should I call him? He has my number if he wants to grovel and apologize.
And that's the other thing; I was over all this shit till Caybe brought it up. I had my life in order, had a new place to live, started really doing what I want (living in Chicago, going on tour with the band, working my ass off on ARA and other projects) and Caybe has to go bringing this shit up again.
Sure I miss Snic, the kid was (I emphasize WAS) my closest friend; we were inseperable. Does that mean a friendship cannot end? I think not. Things end, everything ends at some time. It simply cannot be avoided; it is a fact of nature.
Do I want to see him? Somewhat, if only to spit in his face and tell him I wish he'd have offed his own lying two-faced ass by now.
Am I bitter? Damn right! Much as I try, I hold grudges against damn near everyone who fucks me over. Tell my landlord I'm going to burn down the apartment and I'll probably be pretty fucking pissed.
There's alot of shit I know about that little liar that I could use to fuck him over with, shit I know would make him lose alot of his 'friends', as well as that fucking apartment. Would I ever use it against him? No. A simple and succinct No. I'm above all that shit.
I have a decent job, a decent life, friends I can really count on, and a life to live now (not just sitting in some shithole garbage second-floor paying rent to a drug dealing abusive redneck). I have alot better existence right now, and if it weren't for him screwing me over like he did, I wouldn't be doing this shit right now.
In closing, I'm better off. I'm over it. I'm bitter, yet happy. He can go fuck himself. I wish him the same sense of humiliation and defeat I felt at the end of April, and all the worst of luck in whatever he may attempt. Karma be damned, I already was shat upon by it.
I'm off to work on websites. Snoogans.
Current Mood: wistful
Current Music: Leftover Crack - So You Wanna Be A Cop?
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August 23rd, 2003
12:39 pm - I'm Bored
Do you like your body?: Serves its purpose
Ethnicity: Human, long removed from Africa
Hair style: used to be a mohawk, now it's shaggy
Tattoos: one on my leg
Piercings: not now, not ever
Fave lipstick color: Fuck that
Fave nailpolish color: I had htis dark green I used to put on my toenails... funny, huh?
Fave eyeliner: Fuck that
Fave makeup brand: Fuck that
Are you a good student?: If it's something I want to learn
Nickname: Don't really have one
Best friend: Dave, Caybe, Annie, Allison
Do you believe in reincarnation? Nope.
What your sign and does it fit you?: Leo, I've been told it does. Check THIS out for my Chinese sign.
Wheels: Ain't saying here.
Do you have a deep dark secret no one knows except you?: Who Doesn't?
Fave pair of underwear: Haven't worn any in a year.
Movie you saw last: The Time Machine
Book you read last: Monkeywrench Gang, Ed Abbey
Three bands that you wish could have a private concert for you: Billy Bragg, Propaghandi, Against Me!
fave songs: There is Power in a Union and Save the Youth of America - Billy Bragg, Y'all don't want to Step to this and Impact - Against Me!
Fave beverage: sweet, sweet coffee
Fave alcoholic drink: Skyy Blue
Fave food: Subway or pizza
Fave candy: Don't have one
Fave colors: black and red
Fave director: michael moore
Fave season: Spring (rebirth and all that jazz)
Fave cartoon: Family Guy or Futurama
Fave t-shirt: Against Me! - Hey George W., Fuck you and your daddy
Fave pair of jeans: Don't wear jeans
Fave jacket/coat: Hoody
fave article of clothing: Definately not pants!
Fave place to buy clothes: Somewhere cheap
Fave designer: Burn the rich bastards
Fave model: none
Dream job: union organizer
Have you ever lost someone you loved?: Who hasn't?
Night or day?: night
Top or bottom? : either works for me
Coke or pepsi? : pepsi
Number of pillows: 4
What are you wearing right now?: gray cut off shorts and a red tank-top
When do you get up in the morning?: 7:30am (damn full time jobs)
Spell your first name back wards: Not in Here.
The story behind your LJ user name: It's the name of the bad ass dude in Snatch
How old?: 21
Where do you live?: Illinois
4 words that sum you up: anarcho-syndicalist, revolutionary union bastard
:::::Describe your:::::
Wallet: Blue nylon. Got it from Boi.
Hairbrush: Haven't combed my hair in a year or so (no dreads, just short)
Toothbrush: white3/blue
Jewelry worn daily: Two studded bracelets made by Dreg
Pillow cover: light blue
Blanket: two of them
Coffee cup: Whatever the restaurant gives me
Sunglasses: none
Underwear: none
Shoes: black 12" paratrooper boots, black chucks, or black adidas
Cologne/Perfume: none
CD in stereo right now: Billy Bragg
WHO or WHAT (was/is/are) -
In my mouth: a toungue
In my head: *sings* Viva la Revolution!!
Wishing: the world were just and peaceful... and I didn't need to own guns. Man, how I wish I had no need for guns.
After this: a baseball game
Talking to: noone
Eating: nothing
Fetishes: sexy hair
If you could get away with it and murder anyone, who and for what reason?: the fascists, self explanitory
Is next to you: I'm alone
Some of your favorite movies: The Time Machine, Undercover Brother, Pootie Tang, Office Space, Breaking the Spell
Something you're looking forward to in the upcoming months: Life.
Something that you are deathly afraid of?: Dying with nothing accomplished.
Do you like candles: Kinda
Do you like hot wax: not really
Do you like incense: sure
Do you like the taste of blood: kinda
you believe in love: yea
Do you believe in soul mates: yeah
Do you believe in love at first sight: yeah
Do you believe in Heaven: only on earth
Do you believe in forgiveness: of who? Because Snic can rot in hell for all I care!
Do you believe in God: no
What do you want done with your body when you die: Stuffed and mounted on the mantlepiece
Who is your worst enemy?: Myself, cops, Snic, fascists
Who is the last person you kissed: Allison
If you could have any animal for a pet: i like my puppy.
Ever been to Belgium?: yep
Can you eat with chopsticks: yeah
What's your favorite coin?: Quarter
What are 5 cities you wouldn't mind relocating to?: I love my home, left it once and won't do it again
What are some of your favorite pig out foods?: Pizza, chips
hat's something that you wish people would understand?: that anarchism HAS worked.
What's something you wish you could understand better?: Why i am who I am, and why I believe what I believe
Anyone you miss that you haven't seen in a long time?: Tiffany, Pens, Caybe, Liz
Whats one thing you want to make happen for tomorrow?: Smash the Fash in Indy!
Yeah, that was fun. Time to watch a movie.
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12:10 pm - Another Saturday
So I just watched The Time Machine, the new version of the old Orson Welles' classic. It's a damn fine movie. Everyone should see it.
I need a haircut. The mohawk is long gone, replaced by this shaggy batch of fur I call hair.
I'm really tired lately... and I need a new job. The current one sucks, and I've been complaining about it for 2 and a half years now. I'm thinking of going back to my old job as a paintball ref at Challenge Park, for a number of reasons:
It's a hearless corporation
When I still worked there, we tried to unionize and got sold out by the kids who put themselves in charge.
Since I left almost three years ago, the employees have tried to unionize a number of times, probably close to ten by now. Everytime they try, they end up getting fired or walking out in disgust.
Now that I'm a wobbly, and can get help from the IWW I think I could pull it off. I just need to find out when the next union organizer training is going to be near here so I can go. Dammit, I still miss that job; it was the most fun anyone could have and get paid for. So I want to unionize and get these kids what they deserve.
I'm going to Indy tomorrow... gotta smash the fash. Oughta be fun.
I'm gonna go watch Old School now, since I need a good fucked up movie right about now. Then it's off to the baseball stadium for my pops birthday.
See ya, kids. Have fun.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/pengies/annoyed.gif) discontent
Current Music: The Marching Song of the Covert Brigades - Billy Bragg
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