because MySpace sucks. ’nuff said.
It had gotten to the point where I spent more time on there deleteing spam, blocking whores and dodging phishing links than talking to anyone.
No one noticed or contacted me after I deleted it, none of my 400+ “friends”. See how important it is to have a MySpace account?
This book is ostensibly sex advice, and has a lot of that, and it’s good. But it also goes off on some interesting rants.
Here’s a rant I particularly like:
The Pope blames pornography for the disintegration of the family unit. I blame the Roman Catholic Church for the disintegration of the family unit.
Since the Church opposes all forms of artificial birth control, the Church is directly responsible for overpopulation, which is the root of all major maladies the world over, as well as being responsible for the coming total collapse of the infrastructure of the world (some time around 2040, I’ll venture). And since the Church is to blame for unchecked multiple births by people not ready to have kids, this leads to boys being raised without fathers, or without competent fathers, which is the main cause for the generation of remorseless super criminals who will try to make your life hell in the coming technological apocalypse. These doods come in all colors, but you can easily spot them by their backwards baseball caps, cheap showy bling and very loud voices. They demand to be heard, even though they have nothing to say. (Except, “LOOK AT ME, FUCKERS!”) They have low I.Q.s, fueled with steroids, crack and malt liquor. They drop out of school at 15, the only education they receive is from “Grand Theft Auto” and Maxim. (Picture Mike from Marketing with a Glock instead of an MBA.)
These fuckers will rape your women for a laugh and slit your throat for a cigarette on Saturday night, and be absolved by a kiddie-touching priest on Sunday morning.
Defend yourself. Don’t spend your next paycheck on bling. Don’t spend it on the latest fashion. Don’t spend it on spinners. Go to WalMart, buy a shotgun, and buy a ton (literally) of ammo, now, while you still can.
Michael W. Dean and Joseph Matheny chat on the phone and there’s no way these two talkers could interview one or the other. So they rap together, in a concentric hypertextual parenthetical way, TCP over IP, about how to make money by releasing things for free, the coming apocalypse, a secret underground lair, and much more.
Indie media mavericks Michael W. Dean and Joseph Matheny interview each other. (Part two of two. from alterati.com)
Get the podcast here.
I’ve actually been looking for something like this for a long time.
A good program for word count of all files in a folder (not just of a single file like most programs) is Total Assistant. It’s $24.95 for the basic version, with a 14-day working free trial, here: http://www.surefiresoftware.com/totalassistant/
In this episode, Joseph Matheny concludes his conversation with Michael Dean (part 1 here), and discuss how to make money by releasing things for free, the coming apocalypse, a secret underground lair, and much more.
Joseph adds: “We’re hoping to make the G-spot better with your input, we’d dig it if you’d fill out the Standard Audience Survey to help us do that. As always, if you have questions, comments, rants or suggestions, call (213) 784-1035″
The G-Spot 31: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
You all know how much I hate TV, but it redemed itself for a minute the other day.
White Gold and the Calcium Twins
(milk ad…but pretty much the best thing that’s ever been on the shit box called Television):
White gold is pretty much Spinal Tap meets Lenny Kravitz, T-Rex, Tarzan, Jimi Hendrix, Ted Nugent, Isaac Hayes, the obsessed, Parliament Funkadelic, with a good measure of Love American Style, The Incredible Hulk, Josie and the Pussy Cats, and more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVXHRC0DG70 (the story of how White Gold came to be)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj1-ZZRajDU (this is the best one, his song “One-Gallon Ax”….it even has a llama AND a Viking helmet!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwIgAFwzXLA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM5_r786kUQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gaHLA_O274
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2PZuPRghIk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iRutdX4XV8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkdSh6acZJo
The guy is the singer in a real band in LA called The Ringers.
They’re great:
Clone The Homeless - get episode 0066
Indie media mavericks Michael W. Dean and Joseph Matheny interview each other. (Part one of two. Part two will be up on Greylodge in two weeks.) Fri, 11 April 2008
22 min. from CloneTheHomeless.com
Michael W. Dean and Joseph Matheny chat on the phone and there’s no way these two talkers could interview one or the other. So they rap together, in a concentric hypertextual parenthetical way, TCP over IP, about how to make money by giving away art, where the Internet is headed, changing views on changing protection of intellectual “property”, Joseph Campbell, suing Disney for intellectual property violation, how to self-publish your brilliant books, Tom Jennings, why control of your art is more important than lots of money, how to assemble your own vigilant army of the damned, The Pirate Bay, cease-and-desist letters, the Church of the Subgenius, BoingBoing, the WELL, Creative Commons, sex, cats, art and an incredible amount of more nifty stuff.
Part two will cover the coming collapse of the infrastructure of the world, why Catholics are killing the world with overpopulation, and why both of these guys just wanna do the judo master thing and step out of the world’s way, while still running it all from their rural bunkers.
Becky is a designer writer actor crafter monologist and maker. She resides in Southern California.
1:30pm - 2:20pm Thursday, 04/24/2008
Web 2.0: Fabulously Useful and Confusing
Design and User Experience 2003
Leanne Waldal (OTIVO, INC), Megan Koroshetz, Victor Tom, Becky Haycox (UCSB), Susan Harris, JP Singson (E-Loan, Inc)
What happens when average consumers use Web 2.0 sites to share and find and communicate? This will be a presentation of Web 2.0 user research and live consumer interviews demonstrating good, bad, and ugly. Read more.
Click to download the Beef People song “Lots”
Click to download the Beef People song “Industrial Jelly”
Of all things, a UK record label (Damaged Records) is releasing VINYL of the Beef People EP, combined with the unreleased tracks, which are great.
The owner, a cool chap named Welly, asked us to do a short interview. His questions and my answers are here:
Beef People interview for Damaged Records – Michael W. Dean’s answers
1. Where and when band formed, and how it came about? Founding members? Reasons for the name?
Formed in 1984 the Blue Ridge School in Dyke, Virginia.
(I think it was 1984, I wasn’t there at the start. Jack? Is this correct?)
Founding members: Brian Childers – throat Willy MacLean – bass Rob Buckingham – guitar Jack Massey – drums
I joined the band replacing Rob Buckingham on guitar, so I’m not the guy to ask about the very inception. But the line up was always the same as above, except I took over on guitar shortly before the EP came out. I was in the band less than nine months, then they broke up. It was one of those hardcore bands that were great, short lived, did an EP and dissolved….As it probably should be, based on a lot of reunions I’ve witnessed lately with sad old men who used to be my heroes more than 20 years ago.
The band name “The Beef People” came from “We’re the Beef People” the motto of a now-defunct supermarket chain in the American south called Winn Dixie. Our EP “Music for Men” was named after a choral sheet music series that the guys had in their music class at their boarding school.
Rob left the band when he got kicked out of school for sneaking a girl into his room. I had been kicked out of my own boarding school for calling the headmaster a “fat, bald, overtly Christian old fart”, so I immediately felt an affinity to the guy I was replacing.
2. Details on early gigs and early demo recordings?
The band played less than a dozen gigs as I remember (not counting a few gigs they played at their boarding school before I joined). Most were under attended, maybe between 15 and 50 people. Remember, this was Virginia in the early 80s.
I remember one gig for about 30 people in a place that held 800. Everyone was in the back of the room, and it felt like we were playing to the Grand Canyon. After a couple songs, I said over the mic, “I’m not playing another note until everyone in this room joins us on stage.” They all did. The stage suddenly became the whole concert, people were only a few feet away, and it got really intimate and fun. Brian had some electric hair trimmers and gave 25 cent haircuts (“money back guarantee!”) to about a third of the audience between songs. He also shaved my head, while I was doing a guitar solo. I was getting a slight electric shock in my scalp as he did it. It felt really exciting, and I didn’t need to sleep much for a few weeks after.
Our biggest gig was for about 100 people, when we opened for Battalion of Saints.
3. First record release, with any interesting stories or nuggets of information connected to it?
The only release was the EP, “Music for Men”, recorded in 1986. We recorded and mixed the EP, and the additional songs that Welly is now putting out along with the songs from the EP, in one session, in about 8 hours total (including a few overdubs), at Inner Ear Studios in Arlington, Virginia, in Don Zientara’s basement. Don engineered the record. John Beers put the EP out on his label, “Catch Trout Records”.
4. Tours, with details of where and who with, with anything that you may remember from them? The Beef People never toured. They were seniors at the Blue Ridge School in Dyke, Virginia, and broke up when they graduated. I was three years older, and drove from Charlottesville, Virginia (about an hour away) to rehearse.
All of our gigs were in Charlottesville.
The singer, Brian Childers, later played bass some and sang some on one tour in my band Bomb (from San Francisco), in 1989.
5. Record labels you dealt with, how the deals came about, and how they treated you?
We only did that one record on Catch Trout, and John Beers treated us really well. He paid for the record, gave us lots of copies, pressed 1000 copies, sent out a lot of promo copies, got it into stores nationwide, and probably lost money doing so. John loves music, and that’s why he had a label. He was never in it for the money.
Someone else put one of the songs out on a compilation, I forget what it was called, don’t think they had permission, and it doesn’t bother me at all.
6. Subsequent record releases, with dates and details or any story of interest?
None, none and none. Until now. Thank you, Welly!
7. Dynamics of relationships of band members. Any personality clashes or great friendships? Good or bad situations?
We all got along great in the Beef People, as far as every time I was with them. Brian and I clashed in Bomb a few times because I was a junkie by then. That’s why he quit Bomb. I’m sober now, many years.
8. Reasons for band break-up with dates and details? Band graduated from school. Not much details past that.
9. Proudest moment or achievement connected to the band? What are your thoughts on it looking back?
It was all a blast. I’m really proud of the guys, my time in the band, and love how well the music has held up after 23 years.
10. Any kind of reformation happened or due to happen? If so, details please.
Nope. Singer died. I’d sooner dig up my dead grandfather, prop him up on the couch and watch a baseball game with him than play a Beef People gig without Brian.
(Brian’s obituary that I wrote is attached. It’s from the March 2008 issue of Maximum Rock ‘n’ Roll magazine. Feel free to reprint. I own it, and anyway, they reprint a lot of stuff without permission, say it’s “fair use under copyright law”, and they’re probably right.)
11. Any other bands or projects the members have worked on then or since?
I’m married, live in the suburbs, have lots of cats, make films and write books. I’m happier than I’ve ever been in my life. My current CV is here: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3220
– Michael W. Dean, Los Angeles
Watch my good friend Alan’s “50 things I’ve done in my life” video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjfL5WL4ZBQ
Then watch my response video with my own “50 things”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbZdcEoXeGQ
It’s a neat video of me “confessing my sins”. And remember, microphones and cameras are cheaper than therapists.
(Nice subtlety: there’s a photo of Brian Childers on the wall behind me, between the microphone and my head.)
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