KYEO SPEAKS zine/distro

22. CHANGES

2010-09-27T02:17:00.000-07:00

i don't think i will be using this anymore. i was always weary of this blog format.

I RARELY USE THIS PAGE ANYMORE. I REALIZE NOW THAT I NEED TO CREATE MY OWN AVENUES OF COMMUNICATION INSTEAD OF RELYING ON CORPORATE CHANNELS FOR THE SAKE OF CONVENIENCE . MORE COMMUNICATION IS NOT BETTER COMMUNICATION!

you can find updates on the KYEO SPEAKS project at the site listed above or email me at KYEOSPEAKS@GMAIL.COM // BLACKJAZZE@GMAIL.COM

this page will exist for the purposes of archiving my stay here on Myspace and to forward you to my website, which i say again, is listed above.

see ya.

21. summer vacation sucks

2010-03-16T03:37:00.000-07:00

sorry but i have not finished the 5th issue of kyeo speaks. the last one came out in november. everything i've written so far, i've thrown out. it's deleted, erased, gone forever in virtual memory. eventually, i'll finish. summer vacation has taken over my life. i better keep this short otherwise i'll decide to stop working on this post altogether.

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SUMMER VACATION HAS A NEW EP! i guess since my last post, summer vacation has put out 3 releases already.

ANGRY AT THE WORLD EP - 6 songs recorded in 1 day at The Earth Capital in March 2010. stoner pop, post-you. released on cassette tape and cd-r format. BRAND NEW!!!

WINTER BREAK demo - cd-r/in lyric zine. the next batch of songs we wrote plus some re-recorded songs. recorded on an 8th track in January 2010. limited to 100. our good friend Ralph will be putting this out on cassette tape format on his LOS DUKES label.

DO ME A FAVOR demo - on cassette tape. this is our first demo with the first 6 songs we ever wrote. recorded on a 4 track in November 2009. limited to 35. i have 3 left.

another good friend of ours, Cameron, will be making some sweet patches for us. we have a lot of shows this month, so cum see us. www.myspace.com/summervacationca

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Many of you friends know that Andrew MLDR now plays 3rd guitar in Matsuri. it's kind of funny and cute right? Now Matsuri is the most powerful band in the world. they just recorded some demo roughs of songs that will be on their upcoming full length that will be released by another good friend, Erick, who runs AFFINITY INDEX RECORDS//DISTRO (http://www.myspace.com/affinityindexrec39s) BUY RECORDS FROM HIM!!! if you live in the bay area, GO SEE MATSURI PLAY!!! holy shit, they are good now.

Bryan MLDR plays drums with Agostio Espias. it's made up of members of now defunt bands Restrained and Time For Change. it's a mix of post-rock and screamo with a strong hardcore drive and aggressive, chaotic sound. they will be playing the Set It Straight reunion in Redding this weekend so NorCal, you better hit that shit up. a 7" of their demo should be out in April on another good friend of ours, Andy's, label, GLORY KID RECORDS (http://www.glorykid.com/). check that shit out, they got MLDR cds/records in the distro.

which also reminds me! the MLDR/SURI split 12" is out!!!! put out by both band's labels, TexasToast and DeathbedYouthCollective(ZZ..). buy one from TexasToast, Andy Glory Kid, Ramy's label OLHAR DE VIDRO, or from KS. i hate typing. i wish i had something to say about DIY too but i'm just high and i don't want to go to bed.

20. print isn't dead

2009-11-11T01:48:00.000-08:00

i'm sure you've noticed the lack of updates on this blog.

i had a realization, a revelation if you will, after an afternoon of laying on my bed reading all the zines i had in my little zine box a few months back before i left for tour. during my summer travels, i traded and collected as many zines as i could from people. we visited some of the coolest zine libraries that i thought i would never see. i had the opportunity to read and relive old issues of Panic Button, Hearttack, MRR, and other classic zines that so many of the "older generation" talked about. My favorite zines were the little per-zines that were filled with stories of life, friendship, memories, and nature. i read those zines over and over and studied every detail on every xeroxed page. i held in my hand a captured moment of someone's heart. diaries and art forgotten by the rest of the world, worn away with time. this newfound connection sparked inspiration in me. i still cannot find words to express what i want to share with you all.

we live in a day of high end technology and instant gratification. often the convenience of it all deceives us into giving in. our meter of life has determined that in order for efficiency and convenience, substance has to be sacrificed. we may not see it's hollow emptiness at first glance, but there's a reason why we keep buying and filling our lives with more empty shit. i don't want my world to be made from a factory. i'm sorry, i didn't realize this turned into a rant. i have many things to say on this subject and even more on the relation to this and diy as direct action politics. we'll save that for another time.

a zine will always be greater than any messageboard or website. what you hold in your hand is hardwork and a piece of it's creator. when you read that old, tattered, worn out zine, whoever made that zine is speaking to you through time and space. that one single thought has survived and jumped into someone else's mind. there is no official index or corporation that can ever touch this underground. sometimes you come across a zine so good that you swear it wasn't chance, but fate who was to blame. there's nothing i can get from a computer that can come close to this feeling. i don't believe it's the tools used but the attitude and heart you put in that makes something diy. i am not anti-messageboard or against advancements in our ways of communication and expression. i admit that from time to time i go on a few popular ones just to see what people are talking about. but in those threads and replies, i don't find anything worth my time or interest. it's all a playground. there's gossip and rumors and fights and cliques even in this imaginary plane we call "the internet".

sometimes i find blogs even worse. in my opinion, the easy accessibility to quickly post your thoughts to the world wide web has been plagued with such a fast food kind of mentality. i'm also not anti-blog. that is just ridiculous. there are some really awesome blogs that i enjoy reading, but it's not often that i do that. i still get some people asking me "why do you do a zine? why don't you do an online zine or a blog instead? more people can read it. why do you still do a paper zine?". yes, an e-zine or blog could expose me to so many more people (as this blog does?) but i don't see how that would even matter. that does not motivate me one bit. i want to write for myself.

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my zine is available at many of the shows i go to and i also mail them out. i have copies in my bag wherever i go in case i meet someone that i think would be interested. i've met alot of kids through my zine and that personal network is something i cherish. that's all that matters. it's our underground, so i want to keep it that way. i know that if kids really want to read my zine and my writing, they'll ask or search it out on their own ("diy chooses you." some kids will never get it). i'm not saying that i'm trying to limit my audience. i'm not trying to be an elitest prick. no. just ask and you shall receive Kyeo Speaks. i believe that through effort and decent content, Kyeo Speaks will grow on it's own and hopefully become something more. i'm just letting you know that i'm going to further continue to limit my online content and keep most of my thoughts in print, in the real world.

i hope i made points that made sense. i welcome your opinions. you can email me and i'll find a way to get my zine to you. blackjazze@gmail.com // kyeospeaks@gmail.com
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okay, now here are some real updates since i was last here.

KS4 is finished! this is sort of part 1 of 3 of the tour edition. it's mostly the telling of the MOLDAR/Matsuri US tour last summer. other contributions by members of ColorChromatic, John Cota, Touche Amore, Ordstro, and more.

i told everyone that the next Kyeo Speaks was going to be part 2 of our journey but i really miss writing about other things besides my summer. KS5 will probably go back to the old format and re-touch on some of the topics that are normally discussed in Kyeo Speaks. we'll see how it goes.

okay, let's get into the real updates. last month i put together Calculator's "spring/summer 09" cassette tape. it was released and sold for $3 at the last Calculator/Comadre/Dangers show at HydeParkHalf in October. i made 25 and sold half of them at the show and the other half in mailorder within a week. another run may be happening by the end of this month for the next Calcualtor show. we'll see.

my stupid solo project, cdxx (www.myspace.com/thecdxxgospel), has a new cassette demo out. there are 6 songs on there that i recorded on my four track. i made it for the ColorChromatic/cdxx fuck the man weekend tour in October. we played San Francsico, San Jose, and Sacramento. thank you to all our friends for being our friends. that's probably the only reason we left LA in the first place.
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i have a new band called Summer Vacation. i play guitar in it. Sean(homemade) plays bass. Aaron from Baby's Breath plays drums. we're still brand new and of course, suck. we played our first show last week at HydeParkHalf with Punch, Sheeep, and ColorChromatic. thank you ramy for asking us. check out the track we have up at www.myspace.com/summervacationca. we recorded them on my four track so the quality isn't so great but you get the idea.

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i made the flyer for this show. i am so, so excited to see Drowning With Our Anchors play in LA again. HydeParkHalf is a new spot that has been having shows in the summer. The last MOLDAR show was there in August. we sort of collective has started up and we are all working together to make the space into a legit community youth center. first, a tutoring service is being set up and from there, we will branch out to other services and classes such as art, music, and dance. i am very excited about volunteering with this group and would like you to be involved as well! you can read more about HydeParkHalf ("The Half" as some of us call it) at http://www.hydeparkhalf.org/. our next meeting is on Sunday, November 11 at 11am. see you there!

also if you like good skrimz and more, buy records from ramy (www.myspace.com/olhardevidro) or erick (www.myspace.com/affinityindex).

18. big, big, big news!

2009-09-14T00:02:00.000-07:00

hey everyone. our U.S. summer tour with Matsuri this year was fucking great! there is an endless amount of people to thank for making this happen and for helping us while we were on the road. in 40 days we traveled across the south, down to Florida, all the way up the east coast to Maine, straight to Chicago, through the rest of the midwest and great plains, and down the pacific northwest. All the California shows were amazing.

MOLDAR also played our last show on August 21st, 2009 in Inglewood. thank you Ramy for setting it up and for always being the most supportive in everything we did. thank you for being there with us in our final moments.

after the last show, we rested at our homes for a week before we headed up to Hausuri in San Jose to record the 12" split we are going to press this fall. so far there are big plans for it and we're all very excited on this project. it should be available this winter and will be the last release from the MLDR label, deathbed, and the first release for Matsuri's label, TexasToast.

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ColorChromatic will be embarking on a NorCal weekend tour during the days of Oct2nd-4th. I will be joining them on the road playing acoustic sets as cdxx (www.myspace.com/thecdxxgospel). it's something i haven't done for a while and i'm excited to be seeing my friends again for a weekend. i'll be preparing to make some more runs of New Age, Walk To My House, and a cassette demo that i've been working on this past month. if all goes according to plan, i'll even have Kyeo Speaks 4 available. it's going to be the "tour edition" with stories from Conrad of John Cota, Clayton of Touche Amore, Carlos of Ordstro, Loki of ColorChromatic, and of course entries by varios members of MOLDAR and Matsuri.

October 2nd @ Garfield House - Merced Heights/Ingleside, San Francisco
October 3rd @ TexasToast Hausuri - San Jose
October 4th @ Java Lounge - Sacramento

more details at www.myspace.com/colorchromatic and www.myspace.com/thecdxxgospel

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since coming home, i've started a distro box of local and out of town demos, cassettes, zines, and quite a few of my personal records i'm hoping to sell (alot of straight edge, youth crew stuff too that i just don't like anymore). many of the demos are actually my own bootleg runs that the bands have given me permission to make. in some cases, i'll be the only person on planet earth to have their cds. most 7"s are $5 and most 12"s are $8. here's a initial list of what i have so far :

records :
Allegiance - Out Of My Blood 7
Ambitions - Exile 7
ANS - Heinous 7
At The Drive In - Live in Tokyo, 1/18/2001 LP
AxRxMx/Final Draft - split 7
Banana Erectors - s/t 7
Bikini Kill - Pussy Whipped
Black Dice - Miles Of Smiles LP
Bones Brigade - I Hate Myself When I'm Not Skating LP
Bouncing Souls - How I Spent My Summer Vacation LP
The Brotherhood Of Electricity - s/t 7
Brutal Knights - Life Ain't Cool 7
Canadian Rifle - s/t 7
Cardiac Arrest - Life's A Dead End 7
Career Suicide - Attempted LP
The Child Molesters - Surfing With... 7
Circle Jerks - Group Sex LP
Citizens Arrest - Colossus LP
Descendents - Somery collection LP
Dishwasher Comp - vol. 1 (the queers, ten-four,...) 7
The Distance - Your Closet Enemies 7
Force Of Change - The Bond We Share 7
Get The Most - Moment In Time EP 7
Go! - What We Build Together 7
Go! - Your Power Means Nothing 7
Go It Alone - Histories LP
H2O - Thicker Than Water LP
Hit The Lights - s/t 7
Internal Affairs - Last Nerve 7
Internal Affairs - Deadly Visions 7
In Your Face - The Time For Talk Is Over 7
Karate - In The Fishtank 12 LP
Me First & The Gimme Gimmes - In Your Barcalounger 7
Mr. Highway - s/t LP
The Mystery Band - s/t 7
The Nervous Return - Bad Girl/Snow In Berlin 7
Never Conform - s/t 7
No Use For A Name - Hard Rock Bottom LP
Olive Lawn - s/t 7
Pansy Division - Homosapien 7
Pansy Division - Nine Inch Nails EP 7
Pansy Division - James Bondage 7
Pink Reason - s/t 7
The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower - Love In The Fascist Brothel LP
The Queers - Munki Brain LP
Reagan Youth - vol.1 LP
Ringers/Ampere - split 5
The Rock Stars Of Love - s/t 7
Rosenbombs - s/t 7
Shelter - Perfection Of Desire LP
Sleater Kinney - Dig Me Out LP
Sleez Sisters - s/t 7
Smegma/Carlos/Giffon/Metalux - collab LP
Strike Anywhere - DeadFM LP
Unbiased (jp) - s/t 7
Uzi Suicide - Comin' At Cha 7
Youth Riot - Burn Glendora To The Ground 7

cd demos ($1) :
Bad Lovers - sitting in a tree...
Black Sparrow Press - is embarked on a tremendous season
Burn Idols - demo
Calculator - Arguments EP
Caravels - Hunt Things
cdxx - New Age
cdxx - Walk To My House
Civilian - City Lights
ColorChromatic - Spirals EP
Deliquensce - 1st show : 6/25/09
Deers - Summer 2009John Cota - discography
Dohrn - Conquest (?)
John Cota - 2009 Summer Tour demo
Matsuri/Deers! - split
Matsuri/MOLDAR - Poo Haus live split
Matsuri - Whales EP
MOLDAR - Last Five
MOLDAR - Five Songs
More Than Heroes - Head North, Turn Left
Ordstro - s/t
Ordstro - Reconstruction Brainspoiler
Pandas - Maximum Fucking Tenderness
Teenage Angst (de) - 2006 demo
Twice As Hard - The Rough Draft
Wunami -demo

cassettes ($2) :
cdxx- New Age
cdxx- Fuck The Man
Cremation 186 - s/t
Ordstro - II
Steeples - s/t

if you'd like to email me about trading, buying, or distroing any of your music, the best way is to email me at blackjazze@gmail.com

17. colorchromatic interview

2009-06-11T00:56:00.000-07:00

ColorChromatic is from Westchester/Inglewood, CA.
ColorChromatic - http://www.myspace.com/colorchromatic

this interview took place last night at "the acid-house" after a mldr/calc/my heart to joy show. my video camera "broke" and we spent 30 mins trying to figure it out how to do this and loki found his old tape recorder. here is our conversation transcribed just for you.

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Mark: hello. Hello…. Where’s the fucken thing where you speak into it…? Where’s it… hello, hello. Ay. Hello. Oh no shit. . . hey you, what’s your name? and you, what’s your name?
Ramy: I’m ramy and I play the drums.
Loki : I’m loki and I do the strings.
Tony: I’m tony and I play drums.

Mark: how did you guys all meet, and start a band, and stuff?
Ramy: should I say the story . . . ? tony and I used to play in this ska band called LENIN’S LANDLORDS – *booing in the background* - and our lead singer sucked. I mean, he left. *laughs*. I mean he left. I seriously just said “sucked” on accident. It’s because everyone was booing so “sucked” came into my head. Just like that he
Loki cuts in: let me tell you the story. Okay so these fools, tony, ramy, and the former guitarist, leo, were in this band REVIVAL SOUND and that lasted like a month. They were in a band before that together called LENIN’S LANDLORDS with ben (the singer) and he left. Ben was sick of it. So them I joined the band. I was like “ramy, let me sing in your band.” And he was like (in a stupid ramy voice) “no, I don’t know blah blah blah” and this went on for fucking weeks until ramy said “okay, you can play with us and we’ll see how it goes”. Obviously, it went amazing and uh, REVIVAL SOUND went [broke up]. and then COLORCHROMATIC started.

Mark: so when was your first show? was it the vopo’s last show? (nov.2008)
Ramy: no our first show was actually at autumn’s house in her garage with broadway calls and the flatliners. That show was also LENIN’S LANDLORDS last show.
Loki: yeah we were meant for stardom. Our second show was the crank mob show that we played for like 300 or 400 people.

Mark: I’ve heard someone talk about this show. is this the show that happened late at night in a parking lot?
Ramy: yeah we played in a parking lot at Costco. . .
Tony and Loki: on Washington.
Tony: we played the set twice.

Mark: what was it? What’s crank mob?
Ramy: it’s when a bunch of people get together and . . . not crank anywhere.
Loki: where everybody gets really intoxicated and thinks they’re doing something healthy.
*we all laugh*
*stupid banter and the sound of someone using a lighter*
Loki: he’s in work mode, dude.

Mark: what are some of your influences musically because. . . you guys are fucking weird.
- *we all laugh* - you guys are fucking weird, dude.

a few minutes of “oh my god, this is so hard…” and “I don’t know what to say” and other bullshit occurs.

Tony: everyone pick one or three.
Ramy: greenday
Loki: blink 182
Mark: simple plan

We all laugh

Ramy: dashboard. Um. . .
Mark: common man.
Ramy: um. . . I don’t know! There . . . are like . . . certain bands that influence me . . .
Mark: just sound-wise.
Ramy: soundwise? Um . . *shakes his head* dude, I can’t do . . . like

Another minute of waiting on ramy’s answer.

Loki: are you high?
Ramy looking serious: no
Junie on the couch: just say you like rush, bono (???), and . . .
Kelvin: Charles Murphy!
Junie: yeah, there you go.
Loki: who’s your, haha I’m gonna take control of this interview. As far as your influences go, who’s the biggest?
Ramy: . . . it’s hard for me to say.
Mark: okay, you can choose a few. . . or one. I don’t care.
Loki: this is a long tape, man.
Tony: this tape is gonna run out

*inaudible*

Mark: popcorn?
Ramy: no, no haha
We all laugh
Tony: popcorn is his biggest influence. Haha. My biggest bass influence is . . . bootsie Collins.
Loki: bootsie Collins, yeah?
Tony: yeah well, I can say Flea but it’ll be just like saying bootsie Collins
loki: haha except white.
Ramy finally decides: my biggest influence is actually loki.
Loki: I’m really glad you said that. I was going to say that you(to ramy) were my biggest influence. no honestly, for guitar my biggest influence is jimmy Hendrix because we’re both left handed guitarists. I would say tim Armstrong but I don’t feel like being *inaudible* anymore. . . who else? I love horn players like *inaudible* coleman. Structurally and how songs go, I like material like Sun-Ra.
Mark: have you listened to his piano record, volume 1?

Sun-Ra talk happens

Loki: if you can make sense of something like Sun-Ra while you’re sober, then you are amazing.
Mark: it’s too much when I’m sober. i’m constantly going “what the fuck???? It’s like a bunch of nonsense. Have you seen that video of him playing solo electronic keys? And he’s spinning around?
Tony: yeahh we were watching that the other day!
Mark: that’s a tight video! That shit’s beautiful dude.
Loki and tony agree enthusiastically

Tony: mark never stops packing bowls *inaudible*
Mark: hold that for me, man.

I hand the tape recorder to Thomas.

Thomas in a deep serious voice in the mic: Okay.

Mark: how’s the writing process happen?
Loki: shit, how does that happen . . . ?
Ramy: loki will bring something sometimes and we’ll just jam on it and it’s kinda like loki will kinda tell what he wants in certain parts. If I can actually do them. It’s weird. It’s like a weird jamming process.
Tony: and then ramy will say “let’s have a really spacey part”.
Loki: and then ramy will say “let’s have a fast part after this and go into a heavy part.”

Everyone laughs
Tony: he says that a lot.
Ramy: I say that at least twice every practice.

Everyone laughs

Loki: also we listen to a lot of letlive and we try to steal everything from them.

Mark: influences outside of music, in terms of politics and uh . . . how you carry you band, you know what I mean?
Loki: what we’re doing, without trying to sound “punk” at all, we’re not letting people tell us how to sound or what to say. Anything like, we were talking about this earlier, about what words I can and can’t use because they’re thought of as “hateful” or some shit like that. Is it wrong to feel hate as a reaction? My reason for making music is about not giving a fuck.

Mark: so that’s the main attitude?
Loki: that’s part of it. On the flipside, being completely contradictory is wanting to make everyone feel happy. I like being friends with most people except ---------- cause they suck.
Tony: put that in there, dude. FUCK ----------!
Loki: no, I really don’t care. They can go fuck themselves. and that’s me, loki, saying that. Me and tony both say (tony and loki say together) FUCK ----------.
Skrimps laying on the couch: FUCK ----------!
Junie laying on the couch: FUCK ----------!

Sensitive, interal, confidential discussion starts about ----------.

Mark: loki, how do you write your lyrics? What are some of them about?
Loki: all impulse. the way I came up with the lyrics is fucking screaming them out while we were jamming. You know, just like the way we come up with the music. I don’t really have a set message until it materializes on it’s own. A lot of our songs have “fuck” in it, because “fuck” is very original word. Honestly, I hope this interview shows that COLORCHROMATIC is not trying to. . . come across as anything really. We’re not trying to be like, “oh, we’re like this” or “we’re like that”. But since we’re doing an interview we have to say something about it.
I can smoke all day

Ramy: pretty much, when someone asks me what kind of music we play I uhhhh uhhh I can’t answer it. It’s like, you know what I mean?
Loki: it’s like psychedelic 60s Italian pop meets *inaudible*.
Mark: if someone was to ask me, I’d say like . . . like. . .
Loki: didn’t you say like a psychedelic fugazi or something?
Tony: it’s like punk, psychedelic, and jazzing on a converge record.

We all laugh

Mark: it’s like melodic, angular, punk funk.

Silence

Tony: but then you don’t cover the jazz aspects.
Mark: alright dude. It’s like, you guys need a new genre then.

Stupid banter

We all laugh

Loki: haha this is like the worst interview he’s ever had. We can’t even agree what we sound like.
Tony: it’s gonna be such a bitch to write all this down.
Mark: so ramy, how’d you break your hand?
Loki: it’s his knuckle.
Ramy. I broke my knuckle. It’s a boxer’s fracture *starts to lift his left hand to show us* and there’s *inaudible* carpal *inaudible* on my left hand *shows us left hand*
Loki: your right hand?
Ramy: oh, my right hand *switches hands to his right hand which is the one that has the cast*

A few minutes of laughter

Mark: are you right handed?
Ramy: yeah, I am.
Mark: is it hard to jack off with your left hand?
Ramy: um, it’s getting easier as the days go by.
Loki: he doesn’t need to jack off. He has groupies for that

Mark: so you guys are planning to go on tour this summer? How is that going?
Ramy: we only have 5 more shows to book, not even maybe 3 or 4. So actually, booking is going really well.
Loki: we almost didn’t go on tour.
Ramy: yeah because I broke my hand
Loki: and because Jason tried to steal me.
Ramy: yeah I heard rumors of Jason butler (LETLIVE) tried to steal our guitar player.

Tony to me and Thomas: you guys have matching shoes, that’s cute.
Thomas: yay.
Mark: ay, let’s touch them together.

We touch shoes as tony laughs.

Mark: yeahhhhh! YEAHHHHH!!!!!!

We all laugh.

Ramy: yeah so we almost didn’t go on tour, we re-booked the whole tour.
Tony: we broke up for a day.
Loki: yeah, I cried. Put that down. Put that down right next to fuck ----------.
Mark: you guys had like an intense fight?
Tony: it was an intense discussion of emotions. It was just emotional.
Loki: it was really. . . it was
Ramy: it was a weekday.

We all laugh

Loki: cut, print. *inaudible*
Tony: loki’s sober, by the way.
Loki: yeah I don’t do anything anymore.
Mark: what happened?
Loki: I woke up and I realized I don’t remember anything that happened the last 5 years of my laugh haha. I thought about it and I seriously said “what happened yesterday?” and I was thinking about it for a cool 30 minutes and I was like “FUCK! I needa stop doing so many drugs.”

Mark: what did you give up? list everything.
Loki: what did I give up? list everything?
Mark: yeah, what are you staying away from?
Loki: well on the top of the list, it would have to be alcohol. I’m trying not to get drunk anymore, hopefully never again. Fucking weed, unfortunately. *inaudible* I’m probably going to be sleeping a lot on tour. I’m probably going to be really sick. But hey, at least I’m going to have a lot of money on tour because I didn’t buy any weed or alcohol or anything. Not even food. I spent 3 dollars on food today because I haven’t been smoking. I don’t need to eat.

Mark: so that was your revelation.
Loki: yeah. I don’t have a problem with, I mean, I love weed. I love weed, I love getting drunk
Mark: nah . . .
Loki: no wait, I don’t. sorry mark.

We all laugh

Ramy: all the little kids at Westchester high school are going to read this. we’re going to be bad influences.
Tony: all of calculator?
Loki: I’m going to be a bad influence because I quit doing drugs hahaha. That’s some convaluded logic right there, buddy.
Ramy: no wait. The whole thing is that you’re saying “I love weed” and that kind of stuff.
Loki: if you go to Westchester high school and you’re reading this, do lots of drugs. Honestly, do ‘em cause you’re not going to learn anything from not doing drugs.
Mark: you should do your homework first though.
Loki: yeah, do your homework first.
Tony: do your homework on drugs.
Loki: but if you’re taking your final, get high. Because it really does help, trust me.
Kelvin: and you go to sleep right after you’re done.
Loki: yes, exactly.
Mark: I used to sneak food into class. Like beef jerky or something.
Loki: our whole interview should just be you talking, everything you say.

Mark: do you want to ask me something?
Loki: yeah. why are you fucking sexy?
Mark: you’re just born that way.

Laughter

Loki: why are you so desired in punk rock?
Mark: it’s destiny, dude. You’re born that way.
Tony: why do you play bass so weird? It’s not a guitar.
Mark: I hate guitar, dude. Guitars are for pussies.

We all laugh

Loki: I’m a big softie. *inaudible*

We all laugh

Mark: who’d you say that to again?
Loki: I said it to some girl that *inaudible* she’s a really nice girl. She’s really cute. I wanna *inaudible*. *pause* yeah, she’s a girl. Yeah I have crushes on girls.
Mark: why didn’t you give up girls?
Loki: um because that’s like, I already have 3 X’s, get it? “straight edge”? you only need 3 X’s.

We all laugh.

Loki: you like that?
Mark: yeah.

We all laugh

Mark: so um….what’s the best show you’ve ever played? Doesn’t have to be your favorite. Your best show. your best show and your favorite show. wait no, nevermind. What was the best/favorite show?
Tony: I liked san jose a lot.
Ramy: yeah at the Works.
Loki: that show was really cool. We played really good that night.
Tony: probably revival sound crank mob. It was a trip to do.

*inaudible chatter*

Mark: what was the worst show?
Ramy: um it was in Westchester. my worst show was at the emerson church with the crystal engineer (loki’s other band). You busted your head (to loki) and *inaudible* kicked in my drum set. I think that was our worst show. the way we sounded that day, was just off.
Loki: the first show was cool too because it was our first show.

Mark: what was your first show?
Tony: it was a week after REVIVAL SOUND died.
Ramy: it was at jeff’s(CALCULATOR)house where you guys (MLDR) played too. We played “rather be dead”, “dying”, “swell”, and “mar y sol”.
Loki: yeahhh skrimp from family matterz *inaudible*
Skrimps says something inaudible from the couch.

Mark: alright, dude. I have nothing else. I just have thomas’s questions left.
Thomas: oh, let me ask them.
I hand Thomas the notes and the tape recorder.

Thomas: is chrome considered a color?

We all laugh

Loki: okay so you’re implying that our name has something to do with chrome?
Thomas: I never said that.

Laughter

Loki: but you implied it with your question.
Thomas: just answer the question.
Loki: is there another question on that thing? . . . no, okay. No. haha. No.
Tony: chrome is not a color.
Ramy: I think it can be though. like the color of chrome.
Tony: it’s silver.
Ramy: it’s also chrome.
Tony: it’s silver. Chrome is like a material. Chrome rims are silver haha.

*inaudible* someone shouts “HEY!”

Thomas: so people tell us that tomatoes are actually fruits. Some believe this is a conspiracy. What do you have to say about that?
Loki: no comment.
Tony: tomatoes are vegetables.
Ramy: wait, some people say that tomatoes are fruits?
Loki: no comment. I find it best to stay out of other’s affairs.
Tony: v8’s a vegetable juice. That’s like the main ingredient.
Ramy: it’s a fruit because it has seeds.
Tony: it’s in v8.
Mark: what about a cucumber? That’s a fruit.
Loki: okay guys what about building 7??? That’s what we should be fucking talking about.
Ramy: it’s a fruit, a fruit.
Loki: building 7! 9/11! Building 7! 9/11! It rhymes, it means something. Haha
Mark: you can keep going. I won’t silence you.

We all laugh.

Loki: I don’t believe anything except for punk rock. You don’t know punk rock. *laughter* you don’t know punk rock like the guy from “A Walk To Remember”. I said it.
Ramy: shane west.
Mark to Thomas: anything else?
Thomas: nah man. I got nothing else.
Loki: colorchromatic, the worst fucking band ever.
Tony: was this really your worst interview?
Mark: no.
Tony: just cause you’re high.
Ramy turns to me: what have been some of your best interviews?
Loki: yeah, let’s the fucking tables on this one.

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part 2: mark's interview

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Ramy: how old are you?
*inaudible talk and laughter*
Loki: how old are you???? how high are you??
Tony: what was your best interview?
Mark: I don’t know, dude.
Tony: what was your best interview??
Mark: I think my first interview was the coolest. It wasn’t my best but it was cool.
Tony: who?
Mark: the singer of Heads Up!, this hardcore band from San Fran. And uh, my second interview was with DeathArt from Pasadena 2 years ago. . . but I lost that one.

We all laugh
Thomas: I read that.
Mark: dude, I lost it. It was good.
Tony: what are you main influences in interviewing?
Mark: . . . what the hell? I’m not a journalist.
We all laugh
Loki: if you had a chance, would you interview pantera.
Mark: hell yeah.
Ramy: if you could interview one dead person, who would it be?
Mark: oh shit. . .
Kelvin: George Washington!

Someones says “god”.

Loki: haha god isn’t a person.
Tony: haha god is dead.
Loki: he is according to Nietzsche.
Mark: wait, what was the question?
Ramy: if you could interview any dead person, who would it be?
Mark: I think like. . . the first man, dude. The first man.
Loki: you mean Adam?
Mark: adam, yeah. tight. . .
Loki: why not the first woman? Are you some kind of woman-hater?
Ramy: are you some kind of sexist?
Mark: wha? No, I just. . want to talk to a dude.
Ramy and tony: so you’re gay?
Mark: so what?
We all laugh.

Loki: you know we have problems with gays right? That’s why we use hateful speech.
Ramy: if you had to save bryan and Andrew from a
Mark: what the fuck???

We all laugh

Ramy: from a house on fire. Who would you save? Bryan or Andrew?
Mark: I would save myself.
Loki: so you’d save neither.
Mark: you guys are fucked up.
Laughter

Loki: no man, you’re fuck up. you wouldn’t save anybody but yourself.
Ramy: and your dog’s in there too. Your little dog, fluffy, is in there.
Tony: fluffy, bryan, and Andrew in the building. Who would you save?
Thomas: and right next to fluffy is a big pile of bud.
Ramy: if you save fluffy, you get a bunch of marijuana.
Thomas: fluffy’s dead and stuffed with marijuana.

Laughter

Mark: so if I choose the dog, I won’t have to choose between bryan and Andrew.
Tony: no, they die.
Ramy: no, they’re dead.
Mark: no, but I, uh that means I don’t have choose between them.
Tony: so you’d rather kill . . .?
Mark: no, I’m saying I’d rather get the weed.

We all laugh

Thomas: this is your last chance to kiss one of them. This is your only chance, you gotta kiss one of them. Who would you kiss?
Ramy: in colorchromatic? Mark if you pick tony or loki, I won’t be mad.
Mark: no but if I say something then . . . it’ll backfire on me and if I don’t say something . . . you guys will forget it and you’ll stop.
Tony: mark, you have to answer this.
Mark: I’ve already explained it. Let’s move on.
Loki: well you’re high, dude.
Thomas: mark, who would you kiss?
Mark: uh . . .
Loki: okay let’s make it easier on you. would you rather kiss . . . ramy, tony, or loki haha
Mark: nah
Loki: okay would you rather kiss loki from colorchromatic or loki from revival sound?
Ramy: believe it or not, loki from revival sound was dirtier. So I’d go with loki from colorchromatic.

*stupid banter*

ramy: okay, if someone gave you the opportunity to kill your dog fluffy for a bag of weed

We all laugh

Ramy: would you do it?
Mark: how big?
Ramy: an ounce.
Mark: my dog’s worth more than that.
Thomas: a pound. A pound of kush.
Loki: a pound of fucking stress or a pound of kush? You can sell the stress and you can make alo

The tape runs out.

16. know your rights

2009-06-01T23:20:00.000-07:00

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS
Guide to resist police oppression
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If the police stop you.
In a car: keep all “questionable” items out of plain view (the trunk). If an officer sees something suspicious they have probably cause to search you.
If a cop asks “do you know why I pulled you over?”, never admit to breaking the law. Simply reply, “no, officer, why am I being stopped?”
If a cop asks you to step out of your vehicle, close the door behind you. leaving it open is an invitation for the cop to enter.
On the street: YOU DO NOT HAVE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS (other than to identify yourself in some states). IT IS NOT ILLEGAL TO REFUSE TO ANSWER A QUESTION. You can say “I do not want to talk to you.” and walk away calmly. (if you’re not comfortable with that, ask “am I free to go?”)do not run.
If an officer illegally searches you, all “evidence” collected will be null and void.
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If they try to enter your home.
Never consent to a search.
Step outside to speak with them. Lock door behind you.
Ask to see a warrant. Make sure it has the correct info. They only do what the warrant allows them to do, if no DON’T LET THEM IN!
If they say they smell something, contest it. If they say they heard something, contest it.
Make sure your roommates/guests know not to let them in. in your absence, a police officer can get their consent to enter the house.
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Say this: “I DO NOT CONSENT TO ANY SEARCHES.” This is key. It will save you (personal experience).
Police officers do not have the right to search you, your bag, or your car unless they have “probably cause”.
If a cop asks to search you, NEVER CONSENT! If they have to ask, chances are they don’t have probable cause to search you. don’t let them manipulate you. bargaining with them doesn’t work. Do not physically resist them if they do do a search. An officer can only pat the outside of your clothing if they have “reasonable suspicion”. (anything solid felt could be accused a knife or gun. Be careful.) It’s true that anything you say can and WILL be used against you in court.
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“Am I being detained or am I free to go?”
If you’re stopped for no good reason, ask “am I being detained or am I free to go?” if you are not being detained, you are free to leave. In CA, you don’t even have to show them your I.D. unless you are being detained.
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If you are being detained
Show the officer your I.D. if not, they can hold you for 3 days.
Ask “why are you detaining me?” they must have concrete evidence for detaining you.
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If you are arrested.
Do not answer any questions without a lawyer. Remain silent until you can talk to an attorney.
The police may handcuff you, search, and fingerprint you.
They must also read you your Miranda rights.
Do not talk to anyone about your case, other than to your attorney. Within a reasonable amount of time after your arrest or booking. you have the right to a phone call. Law enforcement officers may not listen to a call you make to your lawyer, but they can listen to calls you make to other people. You must be taken before a judge as soon as possible—generally within 48 hours of your arrest at the latest.
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Always be a witness.
To your own case and anyone elses. Observe from a safe distance but do not interfere. Record details like badge numbers, names of witnesses, officers and anyone else involved., as well as time and location of incident.
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Know your rights. Make others aware of their rights. Remember, police officers will try to get you to waive your rights. Don’t let them. Practice them. Do not live in fear of the police. Do not trust the police. Do not encounter police more than you have to. It is important to know your rights if you value freedom. And remember, ALL COPS ARE BASTARDS.
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“know your rights” was originally a handwritten, mini-zine that was given to me about a year ago. it’s a very informative and empowering document and every citizen in the united states should be aware of these guidelines. I’ve transcribed it here and also added a few more details for clarification on certain issues. Please, please read this and pass it along.

More info at aclu.org/kyr, flexyourrights.org, copwatchLA.org, PD.co.LA.Ca.Us.

15. writings - 1

2009-05-27T23:28:00.000-07:00

sometimes i have this really weird thing where at any given time during the day, a certain thought will creep into my mind and start perversing any comprehension of reality. once it starts, i’m confused, disappointed, in awe, and inspired by humanity and her history. a peculiar tingle goes up and down my back and i point my finger to say “nothing’s changed!”. i really don’t know how to start. sometimes during any trivial moment of my day, i’ll compare and imagine my present surroundings to a certain period dramatization. most of the time i’ll close my eyes and time travel back to medieval france or the american wild west or ancient mesoamerica. a car is just like a horse! you would think that almost every man carried a sword in medieval france but my observations have taken me the conclusion that that’s probably very wrong. only a small percentage of our population carry concealed weapons. it was probably like that back then. only a few dudes had swords. they had plates, we have plates. i’ll go to the market and imagine my world transported into an open street market in the streets of early 1900s new york. i’ve noticed that most men have traded fedoras for baseball caps. sometimes backwards, crooked baseball caps. i imagine how roads use to be when they were built for mostly walking, horses, and carriages. we produce so much litter nowadays due to easy consumerism. instead of plastic water bottles, we ought to all start wearing canteens again. i wish it was cool to not wear shoes. i mean, i need fucking money and shoes to eat at mcdonald’s. one thing that really bothers me about today’s “modern” standards is our society’s attitudes towards hygiene and cleanliness. deoderant is a conspiracy. why is there such a stigma with body odor? natural body odor does not stink. people don’t naturally stink (unless you have a terribly shitty diet). maybe you stink without any chemical cover up but i assure you, i don’t stink. i’m so mad now!

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Yo, I saw that may 13th chase on t.v. the other day. The one where the el monte police was chasing this dude and his bros. it was pretty nuts. I think it was on channel 5. I was sitting on the couch getting higher and higher and wasting my day when it started (can you believe that 30 mins earlier, channel 5 was live following another chase???). I was pretty hyped up on the chase due to my impairment. This was nuts to me that it was happened only in the next town over, about 5 miles away. I called my mom and told her to turn on channel 5. She works in rosemead so I wanted to warn her in case she decided to go out for lunch or something. I hung up and continued to watch the chase. This guy’s on the wrong side of the road. He ran the red light at 60mph! My mom calls me back and says “oh my god! Did you see that? Did you see what he just did?! This guy is crazy! Oh my god, be careful!”. i agree and laugh and hang up. There’s a moment in the chase where the suspect is over a bridge, near the freeway entrance, but the road is backed up and there’s no way through. They stop and 3 squad cars block them in from behind and get out to draw their guns. The car stays put for a while . . . . . and then it starts to maneuver a way out, WHEN A FUCKING DUDE JUMPS OUT OF THE CAR FROM THE BACKSEAT AND TRIES TO MAKE A BREAK FOR IT! He is chased and tackled to the floor. The car is still pushing past between the traffic and eventually gets through onto the 10 freeway again. My mom calls me again and says “are you still watching?? This guy is so crazy! Did you see the man run out? That’s good that they caught them! Oh my god!”. Haha still high and laughing hysterically. Even they end up near santa anita in el monte and fuck, holy shit, the dude is zig-zagging between cars and pedestrians on streets that I drive on every day! It’s about 3pm and kids are getting out of school! The watch is suspenseful. He almost hits a dude. He’s driving on the sidewalk. He hits a minivan and his car stops. He bolts out of the car and runs behind some houses towards a backyard. He’s trying to scale up a wall when the police catch him and SERVE HIM. The suspect is on the floor and an officer kicks him in the head! I think I saw some rabbit punches thrown too but he definitely kicked him hard in the face. My mom calls me again and says “they finally caught him! They were so close [to me]. This guy is so dangerous. He could have easily killed someone in this chase! But he is a good driver.” Haha, still high.

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This week I challenge you to masturbate while driving. (I’m sure you already do this if you have tinted windows.)

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I am really excited! I left a three muskateers bar in my car last night and it was noon the next day by the time I remembered. It was a pretty hot and sunny morning. When I opened the passenger side door to pick up my chocolate, it was already melted soft and warm. That’s a shitty feeling, isn’t it? Really, one of the worst. It doesn’t happen often with all of us but it’s just one of those pet peeves. Anyway, I immediately took it and put it in the fridge that I have here in the garage. That was about . . . 13 hours ago!!!!!!!!!! It must be really cold now. I’ll go check. Hell yeah. It worked!

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The first time I did shrooms was about two years ago. I was with a group of friends but sorry, I don’t remember exactly who was all there. I remember we were at taco treat in arcadia and I ordered 3 of their tacos to eat. We sat down on the bench besides the building and added our special ingredients to our food. I had about an eighth of the stuff. 2 caps, 2 stems. Boy, it tasted like shit on it’s own but fuck, I really love tacos! I gobbled up my shroom tacos and it was a fantastic meal. We smoked some weed in the car and pondered what to do for the rest of the evening. Someone had a bright idea of idling at best buy so we decided to start the car and begin our trip. I could’ve been driving (I honestly don’t remember this detail) when the shrooms started to kick in. from my view, the corners of the windshield and whatever was out there in that open road was melting together into one beautiful swirly canvas. i ignored it. I couldn’t give into my hallucinations now, I’m driving. I’m known among my friends as “the responsible one”. We got to the best buy parking lot SAFELY and walked towards the front entrance. The trip was REALLY starting to kick in now. the sun was setting and the buildings, landscape, and scenery was colored a golden hue. I felt like I was in a vast desert. A black man with these extreme, angular, strong features hurriedly walked past us and I cringed in terror. He looked like a fucking goblin! This little toddler stood against the corner and looked at me. she looked like a fucking goblin too!!! The walls of best buy started to wave and flex and I felt vertigo consume my personal gravity. Rock band just came out and they had a demo with a guitar, bass, mic, and drums for customers to play. We all started playing. My friends were doing alright (they hadn’t taken as much as me). I was playing drums but no matter what I fucking did, I could not sync my hits with the hits in the goddamn game! I felt an elevation in my brain. I had to do something. I got up and said “I’m going for a walk” and without waiting on a word from my friends, I darted away and started to make rounds around the whole store. I sped walked up and down every aisle of best buy while my trip was getting more and more intense. I was trapped. Shrooms are no fucking joke, man. I was tripping hard. People were everywhere. Their faces were mangled into anguished expressions seeding with demonic auras. I closed my eyes and walked faster to ignore all the monsters and mutants surrounding me. i stop to read the boxes of some dvds for a few minutes. I don’t understand any of this. I start to walk and suddenly my vision is flooded a rich yellow and orange and red. The sunset has come into the store. A purple comes out of the corner and into the background. It recedes to a blue and I am standing on grass. I walk towards my friends. I say “it’s really kicking in.” I watch them play rock band some more. I can’t stand it. What the fuck is going on??? I bailed and walked some more around the store. Each time I came back around to my friends, I would stop and notice that the peak just would not let up. Some other stuff must’ve happened. Later on we drove to andrew’s house and hung out for a while. More weed was smoked, another day wasted on recreational substance experimentation, and all was well in my sleepy old town.

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things I would really like to do before I die: ride a hot air balloon, try pure acid, drive a tank, make friends with a wild bear, train to jump over a 100 feet high, play a show while skydiving, arm wrestle a dude hard enough so his arm breaks, learn to speak fluent Esperanto, catch a predator, grow a nice beard for a season.

14. fourteen defining characteristics of fascism

2009-05-27T20:05:00.000-07:00

Fourteen Defining Characteristics Of Fascism
1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism - Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights - Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.
3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause - The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.
4. Supremacy of the Military - Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.
5. Rampant Sexism - The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Divorce, abortion and homosexuality are suppressed and the state is represented as the ultimate guardian of the family institution.
6. Controlled Mass Media - Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.
7. Obsession with National Security - Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
8. Religion and Government are Intertwined - Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government's policies or actions.
9. Corporate Power is Protected - The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
10. Labor Power is Suppressed - Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts - Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts and letters is openly attacked.
12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment - Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.
13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption - Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.
14. Fraudulent Elections - Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.
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consider the information which has graced your brain, a frantic state with a certain face of disdain, disdain, disdain. Does a slight chance permit a past experience deep within your spiritual mind that matches the details within the static? notice the colors and banners tracing along in the blood vessels of “American normalcy”. Our “enemies” and “possible-enemies” tied up on rope and chain feeding THE MAN’s plan to squeeze our homes and cities of the only oxygen GOD THE CREATOR, OUR LORD YHWH has gifted us with. This tyrant of ivory and soot! our rights and humanity martyred in exchange for the security that we’ve all been so conditioned to DEMAND, WANT, ACHIEVE, GLORIFY for the sake of state and the company’s profits.
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200 years ago, the native people of greater north america (and almost anyplace around the world) were deemed animal, sub-human, savage by the newfound white, European, judeo-christian newcomers of “the new world”. it was allowed a history of abuse, rape, murder, theft, plague, destruction, genocide for the sake of manifest destiny, our fate to spread HIS DISEASE. GOD HAS GIVEN US THIS LAND AND WE TOOK IT BACK FROM THOSE NASTY “SAVAGES”. SAVAGE, BARBARIC HERETICS, BLASPHEMERS IN THE EYES OF THE LORD! WE MUST SAVE THEIR SOULS! Backwards and blind, our leaders grew to fanatics. Our dreams collided into light. slavery build this country from the ground up. A nation owes her debt to greed. You said “Our country”, meaning our people, meaning the ones who look like us, come from a similar background, have a similar financial state, etc, etc, etc. YOU FEAR. 60 years ago, Japanese Americans from all over the west coast (a large percentage of them second generation or older AND AMERICAN CITIZENS) were jailed and imprisoned in concentration camps (one of which is now the Santa Anita race track in Arcadia which is just 5 miles from here) newly built by the American government and American taxpayer money. Why??? 40 years ago, the black civil rights movement destroyed biased, unfair, racist, discriminatory legislation (but only on paper) and angels rejoiced! Songs were sung! Guns were shot! Graves were marked! Confetti was thrown! Things are fair now! I find it amazing how anyone could really be in such denial over race relationships in country BUT THAT IS BESIDES THE POINT!

We are sold fear, bought by our rights. “the enemy” is next door. “the enemy” is scheming. “the enemy” is about to strike! We are herded and hooked to swallow the shallow bits of disinformation we are allowed to believe. How would you know any better? How would live with yourself after you find out the truth?
I AM PLEADING WITH YOU: LIVE YOUR LIFE. DO NOT BE AFRAID. LOVE EACH OTHER WITH ALL YOUR HEART. YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS WORLD.
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9/11 happened for me on the first day of 7th grade. On the first day no one could tell me what was going on. On the second day, the television told me that muslim terrorists flew those planes into those towers. I thought about that for a few days. I thought about how deranged those men must’ve been to have been inspired by their religion to sacrifice themselves utterly and completely, UP IN FLAMES. Islam was a mystery to me then. About a month later, the clerk and owner of “international market”, just around the corner from my house, was shot dead. International Market was a small corner market that sold eastern, middle eastern, arab, Chinese, Vietnamese, Mexican groceries/products. The clerk was a Pakistani immigrant and a Sikh and wore a purple headturban and him and his family ran the store. He was murdered by a man who was angry over 9/11 and was out to start trouble with anyone who looked even remotely Muslim. His wife and daughter closed down the store and a community effort started to raise them a bit of money for the funeral and even had a candlelight vigil outside the store too. I was 13 then and I wish I still remember exactly how I felt about the whole thing while it was happening. When I think about it now, if it happened again somewhere in town this week . . . I wouldn’t be shocked. . . but I would be angry. People don’t surprise me anymore.
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We have more guns, more bombs, more missles, more tanks, more tanks, and more testosterone than any other nation on this fucking planet. We are self-proclaimed “saviors” and “protectors” of planet earth. We are warriors for Lady Democracy, jihadists under Uncle Sam. Except!............!!!!!!!!!!! OUR HEARTS LACK SUBSTANCE. OUR WILL IS WEAK. ARE YOU WILLING TO DIE FOR DEMOCRACY? WOULD YOU LAY DOWN YOUR LIFE IN THE NAME OF MAJORITY RULE? Which, in your heart, bears the most importance? God, family, or country? America fuckin’ needs you, man!!!

Here, take a yellow ribbon. Show your support for our troops! “I hate the war, but I support our troops.” It took me a few years to gain the courage to say “FUCK THE TROOPS!”. the thought of kids signing away their bodies and lives to submit to a big brother, sick fuck, murder/death industry just honestly just scares the shit out of me. Young men and women are primed and shipped off to die in defense of my rights and liberties. What are you fighting for? No one has given me a straight answer yet. There is no enemy. Millions of people all across our country are victims of homelessness, drug abuse, and poverty and our neo-conservative Christian right nationalist party have nothing better to do than to ban same-sex marriages, jail victimless crime offenders, and rally the mob to fight our “crusades”.

The motto still seems to be “U.S.A. is number one” but it doesn’t feel that way anymore. It doesn’t feel that way when you open up the day’s paper. When you turn on the morning news on the radio. When you start to notice more businesses closing down, more homes being foreclosed. We obviously have problems but we’re too blind and sold on the mantra at WE, THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES HAVE IN OUR HANDS, THE GREATEST COUNTRY ON THE FACE OF THE PLANET. No, that is not the case. Fuck cops, fuck bros, fuck religion, and fuck the system.
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I’m not exactly telling you to “fight the man”. I don’t just want you to go out and riot. I don’t want you to dismantle any governing body. Not just yet.

I want you to prepare.

Who in this country is truly ready for revolution when we get so up in arms over “outsiders”, “dissidents”, and “subversives”? “counter-culture” has been packaged and sold as a youth commodity. A movement has become nothing but a marketing campaign. you know in your hearts of which I speak. We all have felt it growing up. How many moments have you had were you stop and think “what is it all about?”. How many times have you questioned your existence, your purpose in all of divine creation?

I want you to go turn off your television. Turn off your top 40 radio. Close your People Magazine. close your eyes and open your mind to the possibilities of a true life of leisure. Life is so much more than what’s new at blockbuster. All the grand L.A. clubbing in the world, will never save your soul. Gluing your eyes to the tube, watching this week’s American Idol, will never fill your heart. The youth are fed fantasies of college frat parties, hip street fashion, and empty pop songs/really, really bad crunk but after the hangover, did it improve any aspect of your life? the kids have built idols of sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll. It’s momentum, greater than a rollercoaster, is coming close to it’s collision. that is not life. Be creative. Be productive. Be understanding. Be what your heart aspires to. Live the way you want to love.

We are the same animals we’ve been for millions of years. Our knowledge of the universe has grown and died with each passing civilization but our hearts have stayed the same with each additional generation birthed. Nothing has changed. I am not a perfect person but I try to be. If God really does exist, may he have mercy on all of us.
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Love your friends . . . die laughing . . .

13. touche amore interview

2009-05-17T18:24:00.000-07:00

Touche Amore. http://www.myspace.com/toucheamore

Touche Amore is one of the best bands in southern california right now.

kyeo: Who are you, what is your job in the band, and who else is in Touche Amore?

Jeremy: My name is Jeremy and I sing. Other members include Clayton Stevens, Nick Steinhardt, and Tyson White.

kyeo: Can we have some background history on the band? How did it all start?

Jeremy: Sure. TA is a band that I’ve wanted to start for years and I just never got around to it. When my time in my last band was coming to an end it gave me the motivation to start it. Our previous drummer Z and I had been friends for years and I always loved his drumming so I asked him to start it with me, so he and I started jamming together. Tyson and I had only known each other for a handful of months before asking him to play guitar for it. We have an interesting mutual connection that made us become great friends. He had never been in a band before or even played guitar through an amp but that didn’t matter at all because the stuff he’d play me on his acoustic was great and we have very similar appreciations when it comes to music and ideas. The three of us wrote more than half the songs on the demo before getting Clayton and Nick in the band. Those two joining definitely made a huge impact on our songs. I knew Clayton since he was about 14 years old and Nick and I’s old bands would play together all the time.

kyeo: Your band is a self-described “hardcore” band and when I listen to your music I get the impression that many of you take in a lot of other influences, especially from the screamo genre. Your sound has a very strong balance of both styles of punk. What are some of your biggest influences in terms of sound and how would you describe Touche’s sound?

Jeremy: I feel we’re lucky enough to ride that line between a hardcore band and a screamo band and be able to have kids on both sides find an appreciation. We’re all vinyl kids and Tyson, Clayton, and I are huge fans of classic screamo stuff like Orchid, Pg 99, Portraits of Past, and Saetia to only name a few. But on the other end, we all have mutual love for bands like American Nightmare, Suicide File, Modern Life is War, Cursed, Hope Conspiracy, etc. The combination of all those fuels what we love to play. The one thing all those bands together have in common is honesty, and in the end that’s our biggest influence.

kyeo: what other things, outside of music, influence your band?

Jeremy: I think Art is a big influence in our band. Nick is about to graduate from Cal Arts with a bachelor of fine art in graphic design. He does all of the artwork for our band and I’ll never get over how talented he is. Clayton has his nitch in the art community as well. He attends a lot of openings and paints in his free time. We all have a mutual appreciation for hand made/hand screened things. You get much more of an appreciation for something when you notice the time it took to get it in your hands.

kyeo: What are your views on diy and how do you incorporate it’s philosophy in the way your band is managed and presented?

Jeremy: Aside from the 7” that came out on No Sleep, everything we’ve put out we’ve made ourselves. Our CD demos that we had at first were all done by hand along with our tour CD and tour 7” covers. I handle all the booking for our shows/tours and prefer to play a DIY space over a non-DIY space any day. We don’t limit ourselves to a strict-diy sense, because we appreciate any opportunity that comes our way, but I can say it’s much more fulfilling to do it yourself.

kyeo: Your lyrics often seem to deal with negative themes. Your words are written simply, with certain exposed details every so often, and coated with hidden meanings. i can’t ever seem to interpret any song one specific way (honest sleep is about nihilism? Broken records is about love and loss?). can you explain some of the songs that you sing and the meaning behind the words?

Jeremy: A lot of my lyrics are pretty cut and dry, but yes I do use some symbolism and have hidden meanings, but they’re structured in a way that you can come up with your own feelings for them. Like most anyone who writes, some songs are far more personal than others. Honest Sleep was written in the parking lot outside of the studio we were recording at right before doing it. It’s a song of confession, exhaustion, and self provoked loneliness. When you have a reputation of always being a certain way, that’s all anyone expects out of you, whether it’s a bad reputation or a good one.. and it gets old. Broken Records is a song of the constant repetition that is my love life.

kyeo: You guys have recently gotten a new drummer. What happened to Z?

Jeremy: We actually haven’t committed to a drummer yet. Our friend Alex has been kind enough to help us out while we’re drummer-less and he’s done an awesome job filling the gap. Z just didn’t have the same feelings as us when it came to the direction of the band.

kyeo: Touche Amore went on tour in March. I heard really good things from friends that went to your Bay Area shows. Can you tell me how the trip went and were any good stories birthed?

Jeremy: It was our first tour and it couldn’t have gone any better. Whether we played to 12 kids or 40 kids, every night was special in one way or the other. As for good stories, I’m sad to say we’re pretty boring and nothing too insane happened. There was some goofy behavior when we were in Washington, but that’s about as much as I’ll say on that!

kyeo: How was it writing and planning everything for the LP that you guys are planning to put out this month? (in May right?) how did you guys hook up with 6131 Records?\

Jeremy: Writing just happened over time. We didn’t necessarily stop and focus on writing at any point. We’d just practice and eventually kick out a new jam here and there and by the time we started discussing a full length, we had enough songs. The album is actually a split release with 6131 and Collect Records. I was having lunch with Joey from 6131 and I mentioned we didn’t know who was going to put it out yet and he offered out of the kindness of his heart. Collect is Geoff Rickly’s new label and I had given him our demo when it was first done and he said he wanted to work with us in the future. Having both Joey and Geoff be apart of our release is awesome since they’ve been such good friends of mine for over 6 years and they’re people I know we can trust.

kyeo: Touche Amore is also playing Sound And Fury festival! Everyone I talk to about it is really excited and happy for you guys for having such an amazing opportunity to share your music with more and more people. How did this happen? Perhaps there will be a tour planned around it?

Jeremy: I think our ties with 6131 had a lot to do with it. We had some other people putting our name out there that I’m sure helped as well. I’m actually just as nervous as I am excited for Sound and Fury! We’ll be heading out on a West Coast tour directly after S&F and then heading East in the Fall. Hopefully we’ll play the majority of this country by the end of the year.

kyeo: What are some of Touche Amore’s plans right now? what will the future bring TA?

Jeremy: Album will be out in June sometime and just heavy touring after that. We have a couple splits in the works right now. One with our amazing friends and No Sleep labelmates La Dispute, and will be released on No Sleep. The other with an incredible country/folk band called Olin and the Moon, and that’ll come out on Melotov Records.

kyeo: Last words?

Jeremy: Listen to MOLDAR!

12. john cota

2009-05-16T01:19:00.000-07:00

john cota - www.myspace.com/johnfuckingcota

john cota is a screamo band from the bay area. they play moody, energetic skramz with some really sweet clean arpeggio parts. they have only started playing together in the past 2 months. their first demo is finally finished and can be heard by clicking the link above. ex-members of home is colored gold, iwastheexplosion, and coco busan.

11. kyeo speaks - 1

2009-05-03T18:07:00.000-07:00

this weekend me and andrew put the first issue of "kyeo speaks" into print. if you would like a copy, please sign up for our mailing list. here are some pictures for you to look at and digest. i also scanned all the pages so you can read it here. (click to enlarge)
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the master copies

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i also made some baby's breath cds. they're $1.

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ALSO! we don't have many MLDR shirts right now so if you bring a blank shirt, we'll spray one of our stencils on it for free.

10. racist quotes by famous people

2009-04-29T21:24:00.000-07:00

“Tell Yao Ming, ‘Ching-chong-yang-wah-ah-soh.’” – shaq

“I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility.” – john wayne

“[Jewish people] suck…they’re like leeches.” – michael jackson

“The black is a better athlete to begin with because he’s been bred to be that way.” – jimmy "the greek" synder

""I certainly do not wish to live in a society dominated by blacks, Mexicans, and Orientals. Look at Africa, Mexico, and Asia." – edward abbey

“Immigrants and faggots / They make no sense to me.” – axl rose

“Fucking Jews… Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.” – mel gibson

“Fifty years ago we’d have you upside down with a fucking fork up your ass!” – michael richards to a black heckler

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RUSH LIMBAUGH GETS HIS OWN SECTION.

1. "I mean, let's face it, we didn't have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back; I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark."

2. "Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?"

3. "You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We miss you, James. Godspeed."

4. "Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it."

5. "The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies."

6. "Take that bone out of your nose and call me back(to an African American female caller)."

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"The Negro is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent."- che guevara

"Mexicans are a band of illiterate Indians." - che guevara

"Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir (blacks), whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness." –gandhi

"I don't care if she's a Mexican, a whore or whatever. It's not because she's black, it's because we use the word n***** sometimes here. I'm not gonna take a chance ever in life of losing everything I've worked for 30 years because some fucking n***** heard us say n***** and turned us in to the Enquirer magazine." – dog the bounty hunter trying to convince his son, tucker, to break up with his black girlfriend.

"That's some nappy-headed hos there. I'm gonna tell you that now, man, that's some -- woo." – don imus referring to the WNBA

"The fact is that it's news all over the world. That you know, you can imagine in China it's like, 'Ching chong & ching chong. Danny DeVito, ching chong, chong, chong, chong. Drunk. 'The View.' Ching chong " – rosie o’donnell

"White people are screwed. Especially in my industry, they're screwed. White people are going to be picking cotton for literally like three years." – pauly shore

"I hope you rot in f**kin hell. You're a piece of s**t, f**kin liar. & I hope I never f**kin talk to you again you f**kin c**t. You're a coward and a liar and a f**kin n*****. – charlie sheen to his ex-wife, denise richards, who is white.

“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races - that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything.” - abraham lincoln

9. "five songs" - 3rd edition

2009-04-29T03:13:00.000-07:00

"five songs" by MOLDAR
3rd run. limited to 100.
link - http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mqyjqwnkzjj

ABOUT THE DEMO.
me and andrew (bryan helped one time) made another run of 100 cds of "five songs". we told people that we would mail out a hard copy if they sent us their addresses. we waited a week to compile a list. we sent out about 35 packages. thank you to everyone who asked. we've still been getting messages about mailing out a cd but sorry,we can't afford to mail anymore out for free.we made the demos at a loss and mailing them really ate away at our funds. we would really like to keep our music free and as cheap as possible but i'm afraid that sending everyone a free hard copy won't be possible for us anymore. we are already having a difficult time pinching pennies for our summer tour. if you would still like to receive the latest copy of the demo, please send us a payment of well concealed cash ($3 is perfect) or paypal blackjazze@gmail.com. or if you somehow can't download any of the music off our page, i'll burn you a cd and mail it to you on my own. again, sorry but thank you to everyone who asked for one.

if you would like to join the "kyeo speaks zine" mailing list, please send us your info and we'll start send you some of our literature/cds on a semi-regular basis. if you want to send us stuff please address it to :

poo haus
8318 hermosa drive
san gabriel, ca 91775

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here is me and andrew last thursday

yes, that's a thong.

right after a huffing sesh.

8. home is colored gold interview

2009-04-29T01:28:00.001-07:00

Home Is Colored Gold interview by Mark
1/27/09

Home Is Colored Gold is from San Francisco, CA.
www.myspace.com/homeiscoloredgold

Kyeo: what is your name and your role in Home Is Colored Gold? who else is in the band?
Conrad: I’m Conrad Nichols. I play bass and I yell things. Ryan Johnson plays guitar. Ryan berggren plays drums and also yells things.

Kyeo: how do you describe your band’s sound? what are your influences?
Conrad: We’ve been called “Football Skramz,” I’m not sure what that means. I’d call it aggressive punk, bordering hardcore. I don’t know why I’m so opposed to referring to us as a hardcore band, I guess I feel like it has a negative connotation sometimes. As far as influences, This Flood Covers The Earth, Mammoth Grinder, Daniel Striped Tiger, Ampere, Comadre, Metallica (ST ANGER ONLY). Berggren likes Fugazi.

Kyeo: what does “Home Is Colored Gold” mean?
Conrad: It started off a lyric to a song Berggren wrote. Its a kind of ironic statement about how home is always supposed to be a happy, simple place, when in reality it usually isn’t.

Kyeo: you originally didn’t play bass in the band right? everyone sort of switched around. why?
Conrad: That’s right. I started off playing drums and doing backup vocals. RJ was on bass. And Berggren was on guitar and leads. That was when were more of an aggressive rock band. Then Berggren and I switched. We played our first show like that, then I moved to bass and RJ to guitar. It seems to work best like that. Or not, I don’t know. We all write the songs together.

Kyeo: you guys just put out a new demo this week. i read that you guys record yourselves?
Conrad: Yea, we do. I’m not super proud of the quality of that demo, but the ideas are there. We rushed through the process and we’re missing some of our gear. Funny story: We actually recorded the some of the vocals in a car on the way to santa cruz and in davis. We eventually redid them. I have the capabilities to make the next recordings much better. Learn through experience I guess.

Kyeo: how does your band go about writing songs?
Conrad: Well, one of us will come up with a piece or two and we take it from there. I do most of the composing of the songs, Berggren writes a lot of the lyrics, and RJ just plays the hell out of them.

Kyeo: this was my next question: what are your songs about? since you and ryan share vocal duties, how do you both write the lyrics?
Conrad: A lot of our lyrics are about the discomforts of social norms, situations, and relationships - platonic, romantic, all kinds. Just some simple catharsis - they mostly deal with personal experience (or lack thereof). Sometimes one of us will write something and the other will take it, revise it, change it. Or maybe one of us will just write a full song. We’re not set on any one way to write songs or lyrics.

Kyeo: what’s the most important aspect of being in HICG for you? is it the work ethic of being in a diy punk band, musicianship, experience, etc?
Conrad: For me, music is everything. Being in a band like this is a great outlet for me. I’ve already had some of the best times of my life, and we are a fairly inexperienced band. The DIY community is amazing to be involved with, I can’t imagine having it any other way.I guess to sum it up, I just want to jam.

Kyeo: recently, you guys went on a small winter tour. how did that turn out?
Conrad: Very bittersweet. We met some amazing dudes, from other bands and people just hanging out at the show, and played some very fun shows and very interesting venues - record store, a bar near some rollercoasters (HOLLER* @ COASTERS). We had 5 shows planned, and played 3 before my truck’s transmission blew up on the way to LA. We got stuck in a shitty town called Patterson (fuck that place) for 7 hours where they wanted to charge me $5000 to fix the transmission. “Luckily” we were only about 100 miles from home, so my girlfriend picked us up and I had the truck towed home. Even with the shitty circumstances, it was still the most fun I’ve ever had.

Kyeo: what will HICG be doing in the near/far future?
Conrad: Some BETTER recordings, maybe some split releases (anyone interested??). I’m planning a spring tour, probably about a week or so. Its funny, we can’t get on any shows in the bay area, but I can book a tour in places i’ve never been. I guess no one likes us after they see us live haha

Kyeo: anything else you’d like to add before we say goodbye?
Conrad: Support bands you enjoy. Tell them you enjoy them. They’ll appreciate it. Thanks for the interview. BIG UPS TO: MOLDAR, ColorChromatic, Matsuri, O Lucky Man!, Deers!, Sentinel for driving 80+ miles to/from our show, anybody playing music because it is important to them and not because it is cool.
Most importantly: COASTERS

*Conrad, it’s “Hollah”, not Holler.

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since this interview happened, HICG broke up sometime in march. here is sort of a part 2 interview regarding the demise of HICG.

part 2 happened on 4/29/09.

kyeo: hi conrad. how was your spring tour?
conrad: o hai derr. the tour was great. it was something i've already wanted to do, and i finally got a chance. it was nothing short of amazingly fun.

kyeo: please tell us everything. where did you guys go? how were the shows? what were some of the highlights of the trip?
conrad: Well, we hit the road with our best buds in Matsuri. We had 9 shows lined up, in 8 days. We played Palo Alto, Lemon Grove (san diego), San Gabriel, Santa Monica, Marina, Sacramento and Davis (in the same day!), Eureka, and Belmont, respectively. There were really too many good times to even begin to mention, but some of the highlights include: playing with Loma Prieta, Touche Amore (twice!), seeing friends all over the state as well as making new ones, listening to Harry Potter books on tape in the van, losing a drummer for a few shows, and seeing Kyra Sedgewick (that chick from The Closer on TNT) at our Santa Monica show.

kyeo: was she really there? did you talk to her?
conrad: It was really her. I was sitting across from her for awhile and finally ask her if she was Kyra Sedgewick. She said yes, and I told her my dad likes her TV show. She said thanks and asked me if I liked it as well. I told her the truth and said I've only seen an episode or two and that it OK, and very intense. She laughed. I think we're dating now. Does it work like that?

kyeo: when, how, and why did HICG throw in the towel?
conrad: It isn't the most exciting story. We called it quits on April 22, 2009 after our show with FURNACE. Someone got tired of playing with the other guys in the band, someone got tired of playing in HICG, and someone got tired of playing music all together. I considered continuing this band with new musicians, but decided against it. someone once told me that bands are all about capturing a moment, and to drag it on any longer than it should wouldn't be justified (I won't tell you who told me that, but I'll give you a hint: he is in a band named after a W.O.W. character and a band about babies). I wish we could've made it work because the best times I've ever had were because of this band. No regrets.

kyeo: so how do you feel after looking back on what was a big part of your life for the past couple of years? is there a phrase that sums it up or maybe a lesson learned?
conrad: Honestly, I'm still a little saddened by it, still emotional about it. Or maybe it's because I'm listening to Owen... It's a hard to stomach the idea that someone (in this case me) puts their heart into something so important, and another person decides it isn't good enough for them. I know that band break up, it's nothing new, but it still sucks when your main outlet into this world is taken away. Music is a much needed outlet for me, so I don't plan on stopping any time soon. I am still glad I put my all into this band, even if it didn't work out. I got a lot more than I ever expected and I am grateful for all the experiences I had and relationships I've made because of this. It's great.

kyeo: so in retrospect, is there one show or moment in HICG's lifespan that you cherish the most?
conrad: There is this picture of us at a show we played in Palo Alto, our 3rd show I think. We played for no more than 9 people, but we we're as happy as people can be. We are smiling and laughing and we don't have a care in the world other than playing our mediocre music for anybody that was willing to listen. I miss that.

kyeo: so you started a new band. tell me about john cock.
conrad: John Cota, thanks. Well, when iwastheexplosion broke up I talked to Max about playing drums for HICG. We decided to jam on some screamo style songs I had written and it took off from there. It's pretty basic skramz, with elements of melody and chaos and whatever other adjectives I can throw in there. I have very high hopes for this band. Stay tuned?

kyeo: what plans do you have right now for john cock?
conrad: We are writing more songs right now, and will record them soon for a demo. Also, we need to figure out our bassist situation, we'll see who comes through. We're planning on doing a cassette tape release with either MOLDAR or Matsuri. Either one would be awesome. We actually played our first show at the final HICG show. It was alright. We won't play many shows before we have some more recorded, distributable material. As far as our goals and methods: all DIY, all the time.

kyeo: last words regarding HICG or in general?
conrad: I'm trying to think of something amazing to say since it will be my last time doing anything HICG related. I guess all I can really say is do what you love regardless of what others think. Make your own outlet for this world. Football Skramz Forever.

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check out John Cota at www.myspace.com/johnfuckingcota

7. last meal

2009-04-29T01:17:00.000-07:00

we asked our friends: if you were on death row, what would you request for your last meal?

eggplant parmesean, hummus, philly "cheese steak" made with seitan, general tso's tofu, and a burrito. – honeysuckle from Birmingham

Kung Pao Tofu/Burrito with Beans, Rice, Pico De Gallo, and Guacamole/3 bags of Skittles/3 Churros/ Thai Tea. – romeo

One of every animal on the endangered species list. I want to leave a big fucking footprint on this planet. – sean

spaghetti with a grandslam breakfast from denny's. and horchata as a drink. and a glass of strawberry milk as my last drink. – fernando

a shit load of those little square slices of pizza that they used to serve in elementry school... a tall mug of a&w rootbeer... a shit load of beans and eggs so that when my bowels release theyll have an incredible smell to deal with... and for desert a cake with a file in it – Vincent

Stuffed pork chops, philadelphia rolls, and bacon covered in fudge with a WELL-WHIPPED orange bang. Fo realz. – travis

chicken fettucini alfredo, a slice of pizza w/a side of ranch and a rootbeer float. – matt

a damn fine breakfast. over medium eggs, hash browns, sausage, avocado on the side, sourdough toast, black coffee, an orange juice, and a water. – clayton

Huge bowl of ramen, 30 double double meals from In N’ Out, A LOT of Arizona southern sweet tea - carlos

Spicy chicken sandwich, 4 year old baby, all 31 falvors from baskin robbins – CJ and friends

Dick cheez – ramy

Fried rice, dumplings, sweet and sour soup, ice cream, spaghetti, mac and cheese, and boba milk tea. - mark

chicken potato curry, with lemon grass chicken, wild cherry pepsi – chris

SOME REAL LIFE LAST MEALS

one lobster tail, fried potatoes, a half-pound of fried shrimp, six ounces of fried clams, half a loaf of garlic bread, and 32 ounces of A&W root beer. – allen “tiny” davis

twelve candy bars and some ice cream -dobie gillis williams

A hamburger, hard-boiled eggs, a baked potato, a few cups of coffee, and three shots of whiskey. – gary gilmore

Banana, peach, and garden salad with ranch dressing. – karla faye tucker

Two pepperoni and sausage pizzas, three servings of chocolate ice cream, and fifteen cans of Coca-Cola. – william bonin

A 21-piece bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken, two large Domino's pizzas (no anchovies), ice cream, a bag of jelly beans, a six-pack of Pepsi, and a pack of Camel cigarettes. – robert alton harris

A single olive with the pit still in it. – victor feguer

A lump of dirt, denied. Settled for a small cup of yogurt. – james edward

He declined a special meal, but had two cheeseburgers, a steak sub, and two Cokes from the prison canteen, for which he paid $4.20 from his prison account. – desmond keith carter

He declined a special meal for himself, but he asked for a large vegetarian pizza to be given to a homeless person in nashville, TN. This request was denied. – phillip workman

6. organic portals

2009-04-28T21:53:00.000-07:00

There are two races that exist within the human race, adamic man and pre-adamic man. The main difference between these two groups is that adamic man have a spiritually evolved, individualized soul (the consciousness that remains intact between successful incarnations), whereas pre-adamic man’s spiritual link with the universe is through a hive mind that he shares with others like him. This “soul” is shared collectively between them. Adamic man have infant souls that grow over a lifetime to be recycled continuously through worlds and re-births. Pre-adamic man instead have “embryonic” souls, which adapt rather than evolve. The thing that these….ORGANIC PORTALS (OP) lack is a true sense of empathy, introspection, and sincerity to take in the moments of beautiful humanity that make life worthwhile. About half of the human population consists of organic portals. Where did these OPs come from? They are the original humans. They are just one link between us and our primate ancestors. Like animals, they evolve collectively and not individually. Because of this, early humans did not have culture or agriculture and used simple stone tools for a long period of time. OPs lack creativity and would not be able to create a cultured society on their own.

We are made up 3 components. The first being the Higher Self, also known as “the spirit”, the essence, “I”. The second is the mechanical part of you which is the ego. The last component is the body, the collective consciousness of your cells and organs. OPs have both their personality and body-consciousness but lack a spirit. They lack true empathy and compassion because the components that they do have know no morality beyond social conditioning and self-preservation. (there’s a lot more I can say about centers and your chakras but it would take too much time and deviate from the matter at hand.) The aspects of true humanity are mimicked by OPs and energy is being constantly leeched from souled humans to feed a hunger a they will never fulfill. There are many ways an OP can steal energy from you. A simple way is through an automatic physical method were in close proximity, energy can be siphoned from the motor center of a person. This will usually in turn cause exhaustion and/or fatigue in the victim. Seduction, intimidating, or venting could also be used to tap into the lower intellectual center. Lies, fantasies, and begging for attention will cause energy from that area to be drained. During sexual intercourse, an orgasm could be used as a key transfer point of stealing almost all of one’s energy. OPs are human chameleons. They adjust themselves according to the soul profile and behavior of their target. The two categories for this adjustment are intellectual calculation and soul emulation. Intellectual calculation is what they use to get close to you. They will say the right things, do the right things, use the right body language, and so on to gain the trust of a souled human. Occasionally their motives are to harass or sabotage and by using this calculation, they figure what buttons to push to weaken you intellectually and emotionally. Since OPs share a hive mind, once their data on an individual has been collected, it can be shared with other OPs through this hive mind.

Intellectual calculation is a method for attacking mundane behavior but soul emulation is the way they give the illusion of soul depth. OPs can leech energy from a target’s higher centers and use their intellectual calculations again to reflect it back to the target, giving the victim a perception of his own soul’s reflection. This will usually be used to build a “connection”. (I realize that there is just way too much information on this topic to even try to summarize. I promise I will elaborate in future publications.)

Questions to ask yourself and friends/family: Am I an Organic Portal???? Am I a psychopath??? Am I an agent of The Matrix?????? A predator??? Am I this? Am I that? What do others think of me?

5. MLDR shows

2009-04-28T21:42:00.001-07:00

we have a couple of shows this weekend.

1. Rocky's Bar? in Pacoima w/ Ceremony, Pressure, Lewd Acts, and Faith Snakes

2. Jeff's house in Westchester w/ Calculator, ColorChromatic, Marowak

details @ myspace.com/moldaro

4. baby's breath

2009-04-28T19:54:00.000-07:00

i just started a new band. it's called baby's breath. it's very this bike is a pipe bomb, against me!, pop punk sounding stuff. aaron and sonny started jamming with me as a backing band for cdxx but after playing together we decided to venture a bit more with this group. we recorded a 5 song demo last week and played our 2nd show last friday. our next show is on may 16th on a rooftop in silverlake. you should go.

we're also planning a split with our good friends, black sparrow press (www.myspace.com/blacksparrowpress). you should care. bye.

baby's breath - www.myspace.com/babysbreathpunk
baby's breath demo 2009 - http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?nayzm4mjlmz

tracklisting:
1. ceremony
2. baby's breath
3. rosa
4. polanski
5. a sloth among men

3. windchime house interview

2009-04-12T04:52:00.000-07:00

Windchime House / Food Not Bombs Whittier
Windchime is located in Pico Rivera.
Q & A.

kyeo: who are you and who lives at The Windchime House?
Bella: I’m Bella, one of the 4 people who live at Windchime. My housemates are kaleb, cruz, and willy.
Cruz: I’m Cruz and I live with Bella, Kaleb, and Will.
Will: I’m Will and i live at the Windchime with Kaleb, Cruz and Bella. If any of you have come to the A Cafes, I’m the guy that lives upstairs. I usually get home from work and am too tired to chill. I personally am not involved with much of the
activism that goes on in this house. Sometimes we butt heads to speak on many issues, but in the end, it’s a big learning experience to all that live here. It’s fun, and i wouldn’t trade it in the world.
Kaleb: Me? well folks know me as Bunni. they tell me im rather sporadic, a little crazy, insane has been the word. But yeah, I live here at Windchime house with bella cruz and willy.

kyeo: what’s the story behind it? how did you end up there and why did you name it The Windchime House?
Bella: Haha. Everyone wants to know Windchime’s past. Anyways, the actual house belonged to Kaleb’s family, but when they moved to Nevada Kaleb decided to stay in the house, try out school, and continue to work with cruz and I on perusing our dreams of a radical community. Willy had already been living in the house and became a legal renter. After Cruz and I came back from 3 months at the Santa Barbara Infoshop, we needed a place to stay so Kaleb hooked us up with a room. But technically, Kaleb, Cruz, and Willy all pay rent, but I don’t. I go to school at CSULB and I have a dorm there, but I’m also living at Windchime. It’s kinda of a double life. Once we were all settled in, Cruz and I automatically jumped in to help with the Food Not Bombs Kaleb had started,and from then on more and more projects began to bloom. The actual name, is more simplistic, ha. I think kaleb just made it up. He got really excited about the house and went through a couple werid names before he landed Windchime. I think there were names like The Woods and Enchanted Forest but that one was already taken. Ha. Ultimately, we all decided that we liked Windchime. I think we were supposed to make windchimes like our mascot and have them everywhere, but that hasn’t happened yet.
Kaleb: Well, my family had owned the house. my grandfather had come here from the Philippines in the 60’s and bought the place, remade it and raised my ma in it. She grew up in it, and then I was born. I moved out to North Virginia and then eventually back here in ‘99. Spent the majority here mostly, took off for a while. Then my folks gave me a holler and I came runnin back. They said I could have this place for rent so long as the fort could be held down and maintained. So my friends and I moved in here and are maintaining the place. And what a better way to take care of it then make it a radical safe-haven or community center? The way I see it, it’s our home just as much as my parents or my grandparents and they’ve been keen enough to let us leash off for this long. But in about two years or so the place is going to be sold.
How WIndchime came about? I had originally wanted it to be a chill place to be at so I was thinking up a name, I thought! Hey Windchime sounds kinda nice, why not? And it stuck. And originally food not bombs was one of my main priorities of the household, so long as I could get that down I was semi-set. And voila it happened with an insurrectionary bang. Shit came over two-fold and all this organizing came out of it. From our A-cafes to FNB whittier to other events being held, this dream came about in a most rather spontaneous way.
Cruz: the culmination of me being 13, wanting to drop out of the pyramid scheme, hating the education system, hating the way society is, hating the complacency so many people have with the way things are, not having anyone to talk to, to listen, to understand, and finally (4-5 years later) finding other social outcasts like myself to scheme and dream. that’s the very brief short story behind it. Now…how I ended up in Pico Rivera (of all places!), getting myself grounded, rooted, and beginning to organize on a communal level to change society is either pure luck or destiny. Around the time I was floating around from radical community to radical community in California with Kaleb and Bella, Kaleb’s parents took off to live in Vegas and now his grandpa rents the house out to us. As for the name…I blame Joe. Not really. (Joe, it’s an inside joke). I’m pretty sure Kaleb knows the full story.

kyeo: how do you view the house’s role in your community? why did you decide to start an infoshop?
Bella: I definitely think the house is an important symbol on our street and in our community of pico rivera. We essentially bring people togher, we make isolated people, houses, and streets, a thriving community by tying to set an example.I think we make people aware of the issues this world faces by facing them head on with projects like Food Not Bombs or Anarchist Café. For a while, it was a goal of ours to have an infoshop somewhere cool and where the community wasn’t as isolated. The original goal for Windchime was to create a space similar to an infoshop, but we never really considered it one. When we acquired more and more literature, and started hosting shows or other projects, the people who came here thought of it as an infoshop. So really, we weren’t the ones to dub it an infoshop, the people who experienced what we do. It was a really cool feeling knowing that people thought we just as good as any other infoshop. So it went from a house, to a radical house, to a co-op, to an infoshop. We’ve changed, and each time it gets better.
Kaleb: Well the neighbors don’t like us, well the grouchy ones in the least. Mostly middle class keep to themselves. But the immediate surrounding neighbors love us. We exchange food once in a while and we’ve slowly come to the understanding of neighborly consideration when it comes to noise (winkwink). The filth had come by a couple times to shake us up and shut us down cause of a couple noise complaints. But other than that we are trying more to identify with our local community rather than the stereotypical subculture associated with the anarchist movement. (crust, punk, dreads, molotovs, ect ect)
Cruz: I think it’s great that we’re having monthly events and weekly Food Not Bombs servings because it keeps the atmosphere on the block fresh and thriving but I don’t think it’s so important what the house’s role is as to what role we play as people living in the community.
I want to inspire people to not only question the world around them and educate themselves, but to also begin to talk to one another, work together, and DO SOMETHING, ANYTHING to work towards a better world. I want us as people and as a radical space to become catalysts for change, to show what alternatives there are and show how it’s possible to work together and build a new world. Are we doing that? In the big picture I’d like to think that in a small way we are, but on the local level I think we’ve barely begun to tap into the surrounding community.

It’s for all those reasons and more that I’m doing what I’m doing.

kyeo: the house is also the headquarters of Food Not Bombs Whittier. why did you guys decide to dedicate the house to this group?
Bella: Well FNB was already started at Windchime when it was just a regular house. We knew that having a FNB there was the least we could do, basically, it was the least we could contribute to our community. For months, it was just Kaleb, Cruz, Jake, and me getting food, cooking it, serving it, and cleaning up. But as the house got more attention, FNB started growing in size. We all had plans for WindChime, FNB was just the first one on our list.
Kaleb: Food not bombs came even before windchime was born. That was my original goal to start things up and to get things kicking. My friend Willy and I and what was our roommate faith had started scouting and dumpstering as well as started routine meetings with others whom have been come to be called, hmm that word, oh yes FLAKES! Big ol fuckin bowl of frosty flakes, so fuckin frosty you can’t stare at them without getting a little pissed. The group started off big, but had wittled down to the folks living in the house and a few outside friends. Slowly but surely though a more influx of folks are starting to come and help us out, which was one of the original plans, to make this group self-sustaining.
Cruz: jeez, a lot of different reasons. Prior to settling down in Pico we were used to living rent free and not paying for just about ANYTHING. Settling down in LA was a big difference, especially not having a job, any income, and very little cash for gas for a couple months. All the food we had either magically appeared in our hand or bag as we walked out of a store or was dumpstered, in fact a majority of the food we eat today is still purely dumpstered or donated (though now that some of us have jobs we’ll occasionally spend money on food). So, it’s kind of a scenario where we’re always trying to live cheaply and we get a lot of food donated or through dumpstering, so why not give back? Why not offer it all back to anyone who wants food?

kyeo: how has your community reacted to FNB so far?
Kaleb: Well, our community is all over the place, from our immediate neighborhood, to uptown whittier, to long beach all the way down to Downtown. The Food not bombs groups are very much an open venue for folks to come to terms with one another, be it race, class, gender, age, ect. SO to answer the question, slowly but surely the community is building and is starting to spark hearts that have been asleep for a long time.
Bella: Overall, the people who come and eat or watch us serve are curious at first but quickly admire it. It’s so funny to have them ask questions like “ why do you guys do this?” or “ are you guys a church, which one?” I feel great when I tell people that we’re not an organization, we’re just a group of people who want to see some change…so we’re making it happen. We’re appreciated, and that’s all I could ask for.
Cruz: The folks who come to the servings really appreciate it but a lot of people don’t really take it too seriously. They just think it’s something we do, that it’s rad, but nothing is really going to change. There will still be the rich and the poor, the hungry and the well fed.

kyeo: Windchime always puts on a show at the house during their potlucks. why did you start doing that?
Bella: Cuz it ain’t a show without free food! :]
Yeah, that’s basically it. Hah. We knew that most people love two things, free food and music. So why not combine them.
Cruz: Great Food + Rad Music = Good Times. There’s also a certain level of intimacy that’s created when you throw in free food, especially free food that everyone who comes brings.
Will: Haha, wow, long story, it all started a while back when we first moved in, we would have almost a weekly concert in the house, including all types of music from ska to punk, etc. also a few parties too but then the cops got involved, so we had to stop it all. But after talking about it, we came to the consensus that it would be chill to have shows during these potlucks. Even though they have been kind of limited to only acoustic type music, it is still fun.
Kaleb: Cause its fun, because life is boring without music. Because we like seeing local bands and people should support local bands, because we like seeing friends play. Because life is a lot more intimate when the folks who are singing know you and the moment you here them could be the only time you do here them playing. Because we are momentous and live in the present, not some pre-recorded time two years ago.

kyeo: do you feel there’s an attachment between music and activism?
Bella: Definitely. Music is that feeling in your body you get when your motivated to do something and it comes out as activism. They can go hand in hand. It’s beautiful to hear music strike a chord in my heart and make me want to really do something meaningful. Essentially, music is the fuel of activism, it keeps you going.
Kaleb: Activism? bash that word! so we have to have a label to say we care about shit. Fuck your labels, fuck anarchism, fuck activism, fuck any sort of set limitation on who you are. Subscribe to no ideology. Be caring enough to say I won’t stand for that shit and I’m going to do something about it. Don’t box yourself up with some label, your only constricting yourself in the long run. and hey it also creates an image, which is one reason why I don’t like to identify so much which the subculture anymore, it doesn’t reach out to my 90 year old neighbor or the family down the street who’ve been victimized by the system and therefore are struggling within it just to get by. I may believe in anarchy, and folks may call me an anarchist, but in the long run, we only have ourselves to blame if people get misled by labels rather than actions.
Cruz: Definitely, if the music doesn’t make me feel like blowing up a dam, stabbing a CEO or president with a red and black dagger, crying for the genocide of indigenous people everywhere, sobbing for the confusion and alienation so many people feel everyday, or making love with Bella on the roof of an abandoned factory then it’s not music.

2. calculator interview

2009-04-09T17:48:00.000-07:00

CALCULATOR INTERVIEW by Mark
1/26/08

Calculator is from Westchester, CA

www.myspace.com/c4lculat0r

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Kyeo: who are you guys and what are each of your jobs in Calculator?
Jeff: i’m jeff and i sing/yell, sometimes play guitar.
Ramez: Ramez. Bass and sometimes vocals.

Kyeo: who is everyone else in your band?
Jeff: you go, Ramez.
Ramez: besides me and Jeffrey, there is Christopher White who plays the drums, Nik Soelter on guitar, and Christopher Adams on guitar as well.

Kyeo: here’s a very vague question: how would you describe your band? (even in non-musical terms)
Jeff: well, I could give you the list of influences but i can tell you this: It is 5 teenagers trying to come to terms with their teenage years. Calculator: the most disorganized band ever.
Ramez: it’s like math. it sucks, but once you figure it out it rules. hahah not really, i dunno.

Kyeo: is there a meaning behind the name “Calculator”?
Ramez: seen the movie pi? it has nothing to do with that. i mean initially it has no real meaning but to me it’s grown to be not a calculator like a TI83 but a person because everything is calculated. not in numbers necessarily, just in thought.
Jeff: ditto.

Kyeo: you guys just finished recording your new demo. it turned out sounding fucking incredible. what was it like recording it?
Jeff: it was really fun. I distinctly remember thinking “is my voice going to turn out okay?” cause I’ve had vocal troubles in the past (well I just sucked) but in all honesty my voice and vocal tracks turned out so well. i can actually stand to listen to my voice on recording.
Ramez: it was actually the smoothest process ever. I hear some say that recording really tests a band but it was great. Alex at earth capital is amazing at what he does and we thank him. If any bands need to record hit him up, he’s cheap and great. I second Jeff, the vocals are awesome.

Kyeo: and you guys named it “arguments” because…?
Ramez: haha. we have them a lot accompanied by Chinese food from Szechwan Palace.
Jeff: yea two things calculator is good at is arguing and ordering Chinese food.
Ramez: but also nothing changes without an argument or a different opinion; Clashing opinions create change.

Kyeo: is there a certain message in your lyrics or goal for calculator?
Ramez: all the songs have their own little meaning but there mostly about growing up and moving on. Transitions, beginnings, and endings.
Jeff: in society, I’m only able to take responsibility for myself, I can try to effect those around me, but ultimately I am the catalyst of change. I mean I can go through a specific song by song break-down, but in the end every song, like Ramez just said is about growing up and taking your own responsibility.

Kyeo: tell me about the shows that go on in Westchester. Are things happening in your town?
Ramez: sad to say that we missed the happenings in our town. We pretty much set up all the shows in Westchester (we being us and Ramy). There use to be a good scene around here, but we hope to revive it someday.
Jeff: as I see it, Westchester is a suburban ultra paradise (for those who desire suburbia). All of the added bonuses go along with growing up here (republicanism, small town atmosphere, and boredom). Band wise there isn’t anything Westchesterian. No definitive scene, nothing. Everyone enjoys smoking pot and drinking a little too much. Not that those are a bad use of your time just not conducive to rock ‘n roll.

Kyeo: why did you guys start switching roles? Ramez, sometimes you’ll sing and Jeff will play guitar.
Jeff: haha well one great blessing, for lack of a better word, is that all of us can play pretty much every instrument. Ramez expressed an interest in singing so I said fuck it, he can sing a song. The result is one of our best songs yet (friendslikepaddles). that makes it sound like I’m a rock star. Basically, Ramez wanted to sing i wanted to play guitar. we aren’t AC/DC so that’s possible.
Ramez: pretty much. I wanted to sing and Jeff wanted to play guitar, so we figured it out and did it. We forced Nik to play bass.

Kyeo: which show do you feel was your best? which was your worst?
Ramez: well to me there is a tie. one summer night we had a house show in Westchester and it got shut down before us and Ramy’s old band could play so we devised a plan. we moved the show to my garage because my parents were out of town. So all these sweaty bodies packed into my garage and we played one of the most fun shows to date. Second I had alot of fun at our recent show with our favorite doods from MOLDAR and ColorChromatic. beer all over X’s on our hands and love in the air. Worst was probably in the cold by a pool. I had fun but we weren’t baby tight. it was a last minute show because we were scheduled for a show at MotionLA but it got cancelled…. so we moved it to some girl’s house. Yeah I guess it wasn’t too bad but I’d say our worst.
Jeff: well the best show we ever played was almost a year ago, like our sixth show. it was at a church and my god, I don’t think we played exceptionally well, it just was the first time I was able to experience some one singing my lyrics back at my face (which really is a special feeling). Kids were going crazy too. i don’t think we have had a “worst” show. we’ve had bad ones but nothing that has been AWFUL.

Kyeo: what are some of your favorite bands in southern california right now?
Ramez: MOLDAR, ColorChromatic, letlive, Touche Amore, Obi Juan Kenobi.
Jeff: MOLDAR, ColorChromatic, letlive, Touche Amore, Ghostlimb, I’m gonna cheat and say Comadre, Dangers. we have like the same answers.
Ramez: Underground Railroad To Candyland is also really awesome.

Kyeo: what does Calculator have in store for us in the future? What are your plans?
Ramez: tour. hopefully a tour video. 7in. lots of shows. t-shirts. love and nakedness
Jeff: tour (hopefully), another e.p, a 7″, splits for the willing. and nudity. I like that.

Kyeo: any last words?
Ramez: it’s coming to an end (the interview not calculator). Listen to MOLDAR, ColorChromatic, and letlive. Come to the shows and keep the scene alive. We love you even if you hate us. oh and a cover is coming soon and many new songs (sooner than you think.
Jeff: ay check our e.p arguments, that shit is hot, flying off the shelves and even though the economy sucks, BUY IT. Thank you mark, listen to these bands: MOLDAR, ColorChromatic, letlive, Comadre, Refused, Hot Water Music, and the Jonas Brothers. To republican rhetoric, buying our e.p guarantees more jobs.
Ramez: NOT. We employ 0 people. D.I.Y. or DIE

Kyeo: thank you!
Ramez: thank you!
Jeff: thank you!

1. kyeo speaks

2009-04-09T02:51:00.000-07:00

hi. the kyeo speaks newsletter is a blog/zine about music, art, and community. for some reason or other, blogspot isn't letting me import all my posts so i'll slowly work them all in the updates eventually.
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this page will also act as a MOLDAR journal. our correspondance can be reached at moldarband@gmail.com or www.myspace.com/moldaro.

MOLDAR is currently in a writing stage. we are focusing all our efforts into crafting a solid collection of music for our upcoming split with Calculator. we've written half of it already and hope to have it out by june. oh yeah, we're also touring during the months of july and august. we will be going as far as we can. we will be on the road with our good friends from the bay area, Matsuri. if you want us to play your town, we will find a way to get to you. any networking or suggestions/ideas would be very helpful and greatly appreciated.

here is some MOLDAR footage for you. thanks tony for filming this.

3/23/09 MOLDAR - "Letting Things Go (to Pieces)" from mark chen on Vimeo.

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last month, the pooxcrew got together to record ColorChromatic's Spiral EP. we spent 2 days and 2 nights tracking. to be honest, bryan did all the work. most of the time, i was high sitting on the couch talking to andrew while he was pretending to help. right now, we're in the process of mixing all the songs (bryan's doing all of it). two songs have been finished and can be heard at www.myspace.com/colorchromatic.

Spirals will be released by Olhar De Vidro, a new label ramy and i have recently started working on. we will be making cd and tape copies. any further information can be found at olhardevidrorecords.blogspot.com.
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poo fest '09