Urine or You're Out

THE JOB - URINE TEST
(Whoever wrote this one deserves a HUGE pat on the back!)


Like most folks in this country, I have a job. I work, they pay me. I pay my taxes and the government distributes my taxes as it sees fit. In order to get that paycheck in my case, I am required to pass a random urine test (with which I have no problem). What I do have a problem with is the distribution of my taxes to people who don't have to pass a urine test.

So, here is my Question: Shouldn't one have to pass a urine test to get a welfare check because I have to pass one to earn it for them?
Please understand, I have no problem with helping people get back on their feet. I do, on the other hand, have a problem with helping someone sitting on their ass - doing drugs, while I work. . . Can you imagine how much money each state would save if people had to pass a urine test to get a public assistance check?
I guess we could title that program, 'Urine or You're Out'. Pass this along if you agree or simply delete if you don't. Hope you all will pass it along, though. Something has to change in this country -- and soon!!!!!!!

SXSW RSVPs

Last updated on March 11th 2010

Don't worry about what you are RSVP'ing for, worry about that later.

RVSP:

http://burlesquedesign.com/doittoit/

http://thebayareatakeover.com/wp/

http://iodasxsw.com/2010/rsvp/

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=296043629868 (i don't think this is an official rsvp, but try it anyway)

http://www.pastemagazine.com/app/rsvp/new/20

http://www.standardrecording.com/sxsw/

http://www.britishmusic.biz/SXSW

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGtzaGZnTXhoNTV5UmR5VWpXbjlZcXc6MA

http://do512.com/c/sx2010/event/2010/03/20/do512-presents-the-big-one-2010

http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/4895

http://banyanbranch.com/sxsw/

http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/rsvp/sxsw/

http://i808.photobucket.com/albums/zz1/dancepartyblog/DT_SxSW_BIGupdated.jpg

http://www.iamhighvoltage.com/rsvp.html

http://do512.com/c/sx2010/event/2010/03/16/sxsw-from-the-mind-of-adi-and-couch-professor-entertainment-present

$3, free food and drinks, all ages, RSVP with full name to austin@pegstar.nethttp://www.gigacrate.com/rsvp/

http://fullmetaltexas.com/

http://www.allyourfriendstx.com/

http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/rsvp/dickies/

http://www.britishguestlist.info/

e-mail for rsvp: avclubRSVP@theonion.com

http://stereogum.com/rangelife/ (RSVPs open March 8th)

http://austintownhall.com/rsvp

http://www.purevolume.com/thehouse

http://dancerobotsdance.com/sxsw/

http://knucklerumbler.com/2010/03/nah-right-and-the-smoking-section-present-the-grand-ole-party/

http://caltweet.com/72z

RSVP to: SDSxSW@San.rr.Com

http://knucklerumbler.com/2010/03/my-old-kentucky-blog-presents-pumps-and-a-bump/

RSVP to: megaisagang@gmail.com

http://www.francerocksaustin.com/rsvp.php

http://knucklerumbler.com/2010/03/knuckle-rumbler-with-rhapsody-com-presents/

RSVP email: SXSW@RELIX.COM

http://hypem.com/events/losecontrol2010

http://secure.onlinerock.com/cgi-bin/forms/forms.cgi?form=13

http://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/the-austin-imposition-2010

http://this.bigstereo.net/rsvp/

http://www.midwastelandtakeover.com/rsvp.php

RSVP to RSVP@poptartssucktoasted.com

rsvp to rsvp@austinmonthly.com

http://www.fontanadistribution.com/SXSW/sxsw2010.html

RSVP to sxsw2010@smallstone.com

http://www.sanctuaryprintshop.com/coasttocoast/

http://www.dyfo.blogspot.com/p/sxsw.html

http://app.mobilestorm.com/cp/viewRsvpForm.php?q=Njk3OQ==

RSVP to escapesbooking@gmail.com

http://knucklerumbler.com/category/therumblerlounge/

http://do512.com/c/sx2010/event/2010/03/20/theglitoris-hosts-moshi-moshi-records-wichita-records-mixtape-music

http://do512.com/c/sx2010/event/2010/03/20/obscure-magpie-musics-2010-sxsw-two-headed-party

RSVP to RSVP@mpressrecords.com

http://mwtxparty.com/

http://mailer.cornerstonepromotion.com/pages/rsvp/converse-presents-the-get-out-of-the-garage-showcase

http://www.vita.mn/event_detail.php?event_id=90035

http://apps.thefader.com/pages/rsvp/levi-s-fader-fort-2010

http://thesmallbusinessweb.com/sxsbw/

http://gowalla.com/sxsw

http://www.rareaustin.com/fleadh.html

last added:

http://levis-fader-fort-zynga.eventbrite.com/

http://www.smallstone.com/RSVP.php

rsvp to rsvp@hearya.com

http://perezhilton.com/austintome2010/






P.S. This is getting crazy. I keep being told that I am missing some!!! Where are so MANY parties coming from!?!?!

There you go, better RSVP and hang out with me.

Thank you David Burns for the RSVPs.

My Top 25 Albums of 2009

1. Doves- Kingdom Of Rust







2. Kasabian- West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum









3. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart- The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart








4. The Cribs- Ignore The Ignorant








5. Julian Casablancas- Phrazes For The Young







6. The Horrors- Primary Colours







7. Girls- Album







8. White Lies- To Lose My Life...







9. Eels- Hombre Lobo







10. Dark Night Of The Soul- Dark Night Of The Soul







11. The Rifles- Great Escape







12. Phoenix- Wolfgang Amadeus







13. The Dears- Missiles








14. Pete Doherty- Grace/ Wastelands








15. Morrissey- Years Of Refusal









16. Jarvis Cocker- Further Complications








17. Brakes- Touchdown







18. Arctic Monkeys- Humbug








19. The Enemy- Music For The People








20. Boston Spaceships- The Planets Are Blasted




0 to 99







21. Yeah Yeah Yeahs- It's Blitz








22. Regina Spektor- Far







23. Camera Obscura- My Maudlin Career








24. Steve Cradock- The Kundalini Target








25. Daniel Johnston- Is And Always Was

My Top 5 Animated Films

Now that we welcomed lil' Ava to this world I thought I made a list of my favorite top 5 animated films. No Briana, do not show her Coraline.


1. Lion King

2. Toy Story

3. Wall-E

4. Coraline

5. Finding Nemo

Twilight Breaking Dawn: They need to make it into a movie!!!

So I read this article about the fourth book and OMG!!! They better make it into a movie!!!

********************************Spoiler alert!!***************************************

"With New Moon likely to make yet another metric fuckk of money this weekend we need to find the bright side to the entire Twilight mania. There must be something good that comes from this awful Mormon fantasy that seems to have invaded our culture on every front. That something is the eventual movie version of Breaking Dawn.

Even though New Moon has made a bazillion dollars and even though the third Twilight book, Eclipse, is already filming, Summit has declined to announce the fourth and final Twilight book as a movie. There's a good reason for this: Breaking Dawn is completely f**k insane, and it is probably totally unfilmable. But if they do film it... man, we are in for a treat.

Breaking Dawn opens with Bella Swan, the lacteal heroine of the series, finally getting married to Edward Cullen, the mopey vampire hero. They go off to honeymoon on Isle Esme, a Brazilian island the Cullen clan owns (this is already ridiculous beyond belief. Imagine a vampire going snorkeling; it basically happens in this book), and Edward is afraid to f**k his new bride. The reason: he's super strong and she's just a human - Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex type of situation here. But Bella wears him down and Edward throws it in her - and knocks her the f**k out, leaving her badly bruised.

Let's go over that again: Edward f**k Bella into unconsciousness. This alone should have you running to Fandango to pre-order your tickets, but it only gets better.

Despite being knocked out cold by his sexual style (and having the headboard destroyed), Bella goes back to Edward for seconds. This time he knocks her up. Yes, an undead vampire apparently has enough viable sperm to impregnate a human woman while f**k her off the coast of Rio de Janero. Stephenie Meyer, you fabulous idiot!

The baby in Bella's belly starts growing incredibly fast. And it starts hurting Bella, as each kick it gives has the super strength of a vampire behind it. As it grows, Bella gets sicker, and then the good stuff starts. The baby kicks so hard it breaks Bella's ribs and then severs her spine. Are you imagining Kristen Stewart wearing a fake pregnancy belly and pretending to have been suddenly crippled by her own fetus? Because I am and it's making me laugh and laugh and laugh.

Oh wait, I missed something. Edward is completely freaked out about the baby, fearing it will kill Bella. He tries to convince her to get an abortion (but seriously, how could she? Vampires are tough to kill even in this shitty series), and goes so far as asking Native American wolfboy Jacob to impregnate his wife so that she can have the baby she desperately wants. I'm dizzy with how ridiculous this is, and we're just getting started.

Eventually the baby starts to get born and Bella is dying. The baby has telepathy, by the way, so everybody can read its thoughts while it's in the womb, and it turns out to have an essentially adult mind. Like Alia in Dune; I would accuse Stephenie Meyer of ripping this off, but anyone who thinks that Meyer might have read Frank Herbert has never been within spitting distance of Twilight. The woman is a moron.

In a moment that demands to be shown on the silver screen, Edward gives Bella an emergency C-section with his f**k teeth. It's like something out of XTro, for the love of God. It's so horrible it's brilliant, and this scene alone is why I remain firm in declaring that David Cronenberg must direct Breaking Dawn. This is surely his movie.

Once the baby is out, Bella gets vamped by Edward, as she's about to die at any moment. Then comes the most astonishing turn of events in 21st century literature, and possibly in the entire history of awful fiction aimed at tweens: Jacob the werewolf, who has been madly in love with Bella, sees the new baby girl and immediately imprints on her. What this means, in layman's terms, is that he falls in love with the baby.

I want to pull this out on its own: Jacob falls in love with a baby.

The book makes no bones about this; while Jacob doesn't want to f**k the baby right off the bat, he can't stand to be away from it and visits everyday. His love has been transferred from Bella to the baby (who has the tongue shattering name Renesmee), and because of the science behind imprinting he'll love her forever. So one day he's going to stick his wolf d**k in this girl that he see as a bloody newborn. Romance is not dead, it's just being abused by insane Mormon writers.

There's more in Breaking Dawn - the Volturi come back, for one thing - but these are the main amazing events that demand this book to be turned into a film. I will not rest until I have seen a movie in which a werewolf falls in love with a baby. Hell, once I've seen a werewolf fall in love with a baby I may quit movie watching - I will have seen the ultimate culmination of a century of cinema. The entire film of Breaking Dawn would play like the weirdest exploitation film since Doris Wishman died - brutal sex, bizarre body horror, unbelievable pedophilia.

A werewolf falling in love with a baby. This is why Thomas Edison invented this shit in the first place. So we could see a werewolf fall in love with a baby."

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club- Beat The Devil's Tatoo

Will be released in March!!!! With a tour coming up. No dates have been set for Austin but if you see their tour they will be playing in Dallas and Houston around SXSW. It is very likely that they will be in town for the festival.

ALBUM RELEASE AND TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED

Nov 29, 2009

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club is set to release their fifth studio album, Beat The Devil’s Tattoo, on March 8th (UK/Europe/Japan/Australia et al), March 9th (US/Canada) and March 16th (Germay). This release signifies the band’s first full-length on their own Abstract Dragon label, in partnership with Vagrant Records and Co-Op Music Group. The band wrote and recorded most of the album at The Basement Studio in Philadelphia, PA – the same room where they wrote and recorded “Howl” as well as some work in their hometown Los Angeles. Beat The Devil’s Tattoo also marks the first album with drummer Leah Shapiro.

The trio is primed to embark on a North American headline tour upon release, kicking off February 26 in Sacramento and culminating at New York City’s Webster Hall on April 8. Pre-sale for all shows will start Wednesday, December 2 including a show at Slim’s in their original hometown of San Francisco, CA on release day.

BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB NORTH AMERICAN HEADLINE TOUR

February 26 Sacramento, CA Harlow’s
February 27 Reno, NV Knitting Factory
February 28 Las Vegas, NV Wasted Space @ Hard Rock Hotel
March 2 Denver, CO Gothic Theatre
March 4 Boise, ID Knitting Factory
March 5 Seattle, WA Showbox Market
March 6 Vancouver, B.C. Commodore
March 7 Portland, OR Wonder Ballroom
March 9 San Francisco, CA Slim’s
March 13 San Diego, CA House of Blues
March 14 Los Angeles, CA Echoplex
March 18 Dallas, TX House of Blues
March 20 Houston, TX House of Blues
March 21 Tulsa, OK Cain’s Ballroom
March 23 St. Louis, MO Pageant
March 24 Madison, WA High Noon
March 25 Chicago, IL Metro
March 26 Milwaukee, WI Turner Hall Ballroom
March 27 Minneapolis, MN First Ave.
March 30 Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall
March 31 Cleveland, OH House Of Blues
April 1 Toronto, ONT Phoenix
April 2 Montreal, QC La Tulipe
April 3 Boston, MA House of Blues
April 5 Washington, D.C. 9:30 Club
April 6 Philadelphia, PA Theatre of Living Arts
April 7 Pittsburgh, PA Mr. Small's Theatre
April 8 New York, NY Webster Hall

Immediately following the end of the US dates, the band will head across the pond for a string of shows in the UK and Europe. Most shows go on sale 4.12.09 unless otherwise noted below.

BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB UK & EUROPEAN HEADLINE TOUR

April 16 Glasgow, UK ABC
April 17 Whitehaven, UK Civic Hall
April 19 Newcastle, UK University
April 20 Manchester, UK Ritz
April 21 Leamington, UK Spa Assembly
April 22 Southampton, UK Uni
April 23 London, UK Forum
April 24 Nottingham, UK Rock City
April 26 Leeds, UK Academy
April 27 Liverpool, UK Academy
April 28 WolveS, UK Wulfun Hall
April 29 Brighton, UK Concorde 2
May 1 Copenhagen, DK Vega (on sale 8.12.09)
May 2 Hamburg, DE Markthalle (on sale 30.11.09)
May 3 Cologne, DE Essigfabrik (on sale 30.11.09)
May 4 Berlin, DE Postbahnoff (on sale 30.11.09)
May 5 Munich, DE Backstage Werk (on sale 30.11.09)
May 7 Milan, IT Magazzini Generali (on sale TBA)
May 8 Bologna, IT Estragon (on sale TBA)
May 9 Rome, IT Piper (on sale TBA)
May 11 Clermont, FR Ferrand Coop De Mai (on sale 2.12.09)
May 12 Paris, FR Bataclan (on sale 2.12.09)
May 13 Amsterdam, NL Paradiso (on sale 5.12.09)
May 14 Belgium Les Nuits Festival, Marquee (on sale TBA)
May 15 Switzerland Longirock (on sale TBA)
May 17 Vienna, AT Arena

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http://www.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/news/album-release-and-tour-dates-announced/?p=1

Best Coast

Totally obsessed with their songs. They only have a few and no LP or EP just a couple of singles but God oh God are they good.

I love lo-fi music.