impressive

posted Thursday, July 26 2012

...well at least nature is trying to pick up after ourselves....even better, this bird recycles

where were you?

posted Wednesday, July 25 2012

SLAYER - MOTORHEAD - ANTHRAX played tonight at blossom music center. i like to call it the "where were you in the 80's?" tour. the guys are coming around and playin the hits on a huge stage miles away from the crowd. the "where were you..." where were you when motorhead cracked the ceiling at the variety theatre and plaster was falling on the crowd and the venue unplugged them. the show was so loud casey kasem talked about how it was the new record for loudest concert on his tv show. where were you when we pulled the bass player of anthrax off the stage and into the crowd when they were touring "fist full of metal" and opening for raven at the phantasy theater. where were you when slayer played the palomino touring "haunting the chapel" and they got unplugged by the venue too....and tommy araya stole our bottle of whisky that we stole from behind the bar as they stormed off the stage.
it's cool if you haven't seen any of these bands, but nostalgia tours or reunion tours just kind of suck compared to the real thing.

on my way to get alpha-bits

posted Wednesday, July 18 2012

so i'm driving on superior heading downtown over the bridge and onto detroit on my way to lakewood to get another box of alpha-bits today. it's all smooth sailing, i have the AC blasting, i have aerosmith "get your wings" blasting and things are good. i cross into lakewood and happen to glance in my rearview. i see this white car, american make, new, and fairly expensive looking right behind me. the driver is this obese kenny rogers looking guy with long hair and a hawaiian shirt or something like that on. next to him is this lady who just looks...tired, you know, not tired in exhausted, just tired. both are in their 50's i'm guessing. now what made me take such mental notes of these folks is that when they were right up on me, the woman pulled out some big camera and started taking pictures of the back of my car. i'm like "wtf?" so i speed up but come to a light and they come in behind me again, i look back into the mirror and she pulls her camera up and starts taking pictures again.  i wave this time, but they don't do anything back but talk among themselves and take pictures. i'm getting annoyed at this point so the light changes to green and i go. we're in lakewood so i can't do any really nice creative driving so i pull into a lane on my right, that wasn't really a lane, it was a line of parking meter spots without any cars parked at them. i then slow way down, catch him off guard and they get next to me, i then speed up and run side by side with them. i look over at them, she won't look up, he glances over at me but that's it. i'm like, well i'm in lakewood, those two know i'm aware of them now so i break it off, speed up and get back into the legal lane in front of them. we come to another light, she pulls her camera up again and starts shooting the back of my car, and he gets on the phone...i'm again like "WTF?". so i motion them to pull over off a side street with me, i turn, but they kept going..whatever.
now i have two bumper stickers on my car, a "saxon" sticker and a "dogs against romney" sticker (www.dogsagainstromney.com). if they were with me on either of those they would have waved back earlier. so they either hate saxon, which they should be shot for if that's the case, or they hate obama. now if they're teabaggers, what the hell were they doing? they defiantly have my license plate number now, not that i fear a teabagger....although they may run home like minute men and get their flint locks to shoot me. if they're saxon haters they obviously never heard the "denim and leather" record, which makes me sad for them....regardless i got my alpha-bits. no saxon hating teabagger is gonna keep me from getting my alpha-bits now that i know where they are.

brilliant

posted Tuesday, July 17 2012

i tell you what, trent is brilliant. everything from the fragile up, totally inspires a lot of my work. the songs content and the way it's presented live is just on another level. a lot of the earlier stuff is pretty great, downward spiral broke crazy ground, but after that the best work came out.....this one from the record "with teeth". i wish i had gone to the recent nin shows. nin is from here and the first time i saw them was their first time touring "pretty hate machine" over at the phantasy night club.....i'm guessing maybe 150 people. then he took right off, and every venue was bigger and sold out after that.

nice hat

posted Tuesday, July 17 2012

She's wearing the Bell Star Hess Limited Edition Star Helmet.




.....and here's another quisp commercial(the black and white ones i may have watched, but was too little to remember). me and my sister put away a lot of quisp growing up..there were actually two made by the same company, quisp and quake, they were rivals. there came a day when the company decided they only wanted to carry one of the two so with some brilliant marketing they had kids vote for the favorite. my sister voted for quisp and i liked quake best. quisp won and quake was fazed out.
these commercials ran on saturday mornings. saturday morning was the day and time all the cartoons ran on all the networks...we only had three of those back in the day. the kids would wake up early and watch their favorite ones like space ghost, the banana splits, scooby doo (the original thank you), whacky races, johnny quest, and so on. the cereal companies found this to be the perfect time to push their products. they used cartoon characters like captain crunch, the silly rabbit, toucan sam, franken berry, and so on. the best were of course quisp and quake...and what is funny is how the sugar ingredient of the cereal and how it gave you energy was the top selling point....but the obesity rate wasn't nearly as high as it is today...funny how that works.

mission accomplished, returning to ship.

posted Saturday, July 14 2012

GOOD LOOKIN' OUT KRISTEN! she tipped me off that marc's had the alpha-bits...so me and jose went to the one in lakewood (do you think they know what a mop is in that place?) and not only did i get alpha-bits, but i got a box of quisp too! cereal party at my place! (i always liked quake better than quisp, there is no way i'd find a box of that)

more on yesterday's post....

posted Saturday, July 14 2012

i forgot to mention in my post yesterday something more regarding my quest to steelyard commons for alpha-bits...i get home all crunchy from my experience and take jose out front of my building to pee. this guy, probably one of the guys who camps out in front of the building next to mine, approaches me with his smooth opener..."you stay up here?" nodding up to the building next to us...i tell him yes. he then starts his wined up for his pitch...he shifts his body language from a casual passing by me to a turn full body facing me like we're gonna have a talk. he says "let me ask you a question...." i say "ok" keeping an eye on him and the other on jose. he then starts to smile as to thinking he's breaking ice, and with hand gestures repeats himself "let me ask you a question"...i'm over peoples bs at this point from the commons, i already said yes because i heard him the first time, and know his question is a request for money for bus fair, gas for his car broken down the street, or something else non-inventive. i raise my voice and say "yes" real short like....he then changes his demeanor, he steps back, throws his chest out tucks his head in with a huge scowl on his face as if to say how dare i disrespect him, how dare i take that tone with his majesty. he starts to turn without saying anything staring at me, i look at him and say "alright then" and totally turn my back to him...there's your disrespect punk.

the great alpha-bits shortage of 2012

posted Friday, July 13 2012

so, i've had a taste for alpha-bits cereal as of late and been trying to find some. i've been to the dave's grocery store on payne ave. around the corner from me looking and found they don't carry it. so the next day i go to the giant eagle on the other side of town on w.117th and they don't stock it as well. i wrote the company, they sent me some bs letter to ask managers to stock their product...isn't that post's job? to get their cereal on the shelves? anyway i suck it up, brace myself and head down to the wal-mart in steelyard commons to see if the alpha-bits are available there. if you're not from here those words "steelyard commons" really mean nothing to you. if you are from cleveland, and you combine the words "wal-mart" with "steelyard commons" you know i must really be on a mission to go that far into country for some damn cereal. well.....i could write volumes on the folks down there, just imagine your standard wal-mart shopper times ten, then and add ten more....as you may have guessed it, they didn't have the alpha-bits. at this point i'm really kind of bent, i decide fuck it, i'm gonna get a tub of ice cream and go home and eat it in front of the tv, like a good wal-mart shopper. i get to the ice cream isle and it's jammed up with people in the motorized carts because walking has become difficult for them. this is due to the more than one too many trips to the ice cream isle apparently...and they're all...yes everyone of them, all have the glass doors open reading out loud what kinds of ice cream is on what shelf. the doors are open because the glass is all fogged up and you can't see through it because they keep the doors open....ok, i could do without ice cream. i leave.
across the plaza is a petco. there's a sleeve i need for a filter for one of my fish tanks so i suck it up and go in there. i used to go there a lot to get my frozen fish food, but that stopped. every time i would go in to pick some up they would be out of it. one day i asked my buddy the manager why they never had what i needed. he told me it was because people kept shop lifting it.....they shop lift frozen fish food, they put it down their pants and leave the store with it...amazing. he then tells me that steelyard commons petco is the most shoplifted petco, not in cleveland, not in ohio, but in the entire country. well  i go to the filter isle and surprise surprise, it wasn't there, they all have been stolen. i leave.
i'm thinking as i drive by the recently vacant best buy in the strip, how some people wonder why more shopping plazas aren't built in the city.....well, the reason is, if you build it, they will come.

words of wisdom

posted Thursday, July 12 2012

why do people ask him anything that remotely matters? he's justin bieber, he's an idiot, like my cat.

new music

posted Thursday, July 12 2012

i'm really liking this cd...