http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:random004&section=today deviantART RSS for by:random004 en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:42:17 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://random004.deviantart.com/journal/704634/ http://random004.deviantart.com/journal/704634/ Fri, 09 May 2003 13:17:51 PDT ~random004 http://random004.deviantart.com/journal/670450/ http://random004.deviantart.com/journal/670450/ Tue, 29 Apr 2003 02:01:58 PDT ~random004 http://random004.deviantart.com/journal/594608/ http://random004.deviantart.com/journal/594608/ Sat, 05 Apr 2003 01:48:56 PST Why does this hurt more than anything, ever? ]]> ~random004 http://random004.deviantart.com/journal/563855/ http://random004.deviantart.com/journal/563855/ Mon, 24 Mar 2003 02:10:09 PST
The fuckers that nominated Bush for the Nobel Peace Prize
Abercrombie
Wanna-Gs
Rap*
Pop
R&B
Emo
Whiny Imiitation Punk
Republicans
Democrats
The President (Wish someone would drown him in crude oil.).
This stupid war on terrorism
Patriotism
Materialistic people
Superficial people
Stupid people
Selfish people
J-Lo
P-Diddy
Britany Spears
Eminem (someone kill him, please.)
Any other popstars
Anyone who refers to women as "bitches"
Homophobes
Racists
Sexists
Ayn Rand
Zealous Capitalists
Rapists. Kill them all.
Child Abusers. Ditto.
Hunting for Sport
Mullets
Feminists who equate being pro-woman with being anti-male
People satisfied with the world as-is
People who take "trendy" as a compliment
Fashionable People
People that justify athletic salaries
Drama-Rock
Tipper Gore
The Military
Censorship in any form.
This stupid fucking war.
The stupid fucking war in Macedonia.
US practice and funding of international terrorism.
Anyone who uses the term skinhead without understanding
what it refers to.
Legally Blonde (who the fuck decided to produce that piece of
shit?)
Expanding upon racists: Anyone who uses the terms "sand
nigger" and/or "rag head."
Those little American flag stickers on cars.
A 35% real poverty rate in this country.
Republicans, again.
People who read "The Wealth of Nations," but not "The Theory
of Moral Sentiment."
The people that tried to attack peace protestors the other
day.°
The people that don't try.


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*There are large numbers of exceptions. Underground hip hop/rap is often highly political, objects to the current stereotypical connection between hip hop culture and gang life. I've no objection to that. Rap in the current mass-cultural sense is largely bullshit that perpetuates racial stereotypes.

°To the fellow I was forced to punch in the face with a knucklefull of spiked bracelets: No pity, jerkoff. That girl was just trying to speak her peace and you tried to nail her in the face with rocks. You asked for it. ]]> ~random004 http://random004.deviantart.com/journal/486620/ http://random004.deviantart.com/journal/486620/ Mon, 10 Feb 2003 02:14:06 PST Side note: True skins aren't bigots, folks. For all you people with your stereotyped image of the skins, listen up: A skin is someone who stands up for the common man. They've been around since the 30s, before the Nazis, and don't support racism nor antisemitism, etc. Activism for unions and the people on the bottom are what they are about.

To the Nazis dressing like skinheads, pretending to be skins: Fuck off. Skins recognize that racism is a patsy handed down from the upper-classes to divide the people on the bottom. It always has been, from slavery's introduction to pacify indentured servants, to Hitler's using it to beat up the common man under the guise of saving him. True skinheads hate racism, hate all this fucking shit that hurts half of the labor in this country (minorities and women are labor, too) and allows all to be exploited more easily. White power jackasses damn well shouldn't have the right or ability to smack down equality movements like those represented by true skins.




IAWF
UAW
Unionizers
SHARP
Sympathizers
Organizers
And to all the ABC skins out there, fighting, organizing, sacrificing, and dealing with all the shit good skins take.
True Skins keep up the fight. ]]> ~random004 http://random004.deviantart.com/journal/435925/ http://random004.deviantart.com/journal/435925/ Sat, 11 Jan 2003 05:10:06 PST Damnit, Joe, why the fuck did you have to go and die? ]]> ~random004 http://random004.deviantart.com/journal/388535/ http://random004.deviantart.com/journal/388535/ Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:27:43 PST All of us will leap to say the first is the better choice, but how few of us actually keep to that. ]]> ~random004 http://random004.deviantart.com/journal/388179/ http://random004.deviantart.com/journal/388179/ Thu, 12 Dec 2002 02:35:23 PST Always makes me wanna put on the black mask and make Bakunin proud.
Also spent some time arguing with fundamentalists. They're funny. They feel all superior until confronted by (gasp) an unbeliever who's read the entire Bible (minus two books. Also- St. James Bible. Catholics and Eastern Orthodox folks have longer ones.). Hard to argue when I know their holy tome better than they do.
Also been arguing with Republicans. They, also, are funny. "The safe path leads ever downward into stagnation." They cling to a terrible past because conservatism seems a safer course. Inside, they are seething with double standards. The shout Jefferson from the hills, but scream for censorship. They hold their guns to their breasts, but pass laws allowing the cops to take them away from immigrants. They shriek about property rights, then strip those rights away from Natives.
Funny, in a sort of disgusting way. ]]> ~random004 http://random004.deviantart.com/journal/378227/ http://random004.deviantart.com/journal/378227/ Fri, 06 Dec 2002 02:28:53 PST ~random004 http://random004.deviantart.com/journal/366725/ http://random004.deviantart.com/journal/366725/ Thu, 28 Nov 2002 23:34:43 PST
The fuckers that nominated Bush for the Nobel Peace Prize
Abercrombie
Wanna-Gs
Rap
Pop
R&B
Emo
Whiny Imiitation Punk
Republicans
Democrats
The President
This stupid war on terrorism
Patriotism
Materialistic people
Superficial people
Stupid people
Selfish people
Poodles
J-Lo
P-Diddy
Britany Spears
Any other popstars
Anyone who refers to women as "bitches"
Homophobes
Racists
Sexists
Ayn Rand
Zealous Capitalists
Rapists. Kill them all.
Child Abusers. Ditto.
Hunting for Sport
Mullets
Feminists who equate being pro-woman with being anti-male
People satisfied with the world as-is
People who take "trendy" as a compliment
Fashionable People
People that justify athletic salaries
Drama-Rock
Tipper Gore
The Military
Censorship in any form.
The people that don't try. ]]> ~random004 http://random004.deviantart.com/journal/365328/ http://random004.deviantart.com/journal/365328/ Thu, 28 Nov 2002 00:16:03 PST Do it now, before RCA stomps them under the guise of marketing.
Also, check out Desaparecidos (SP?). Good band. Solid, meaningful lyrics. They might be under Springman records, but I'm not sure.

Alright, now that I'm done with that...
Reading "The Dispossessed" by Ursula K. LeGuin again. Phenominal book... More meaningful whenever I read it.

Have a sh*tload of charcoal drawings that I'd like to upload, if I could locate a scanner to use... Might have to resort to using the ones in my school's library, then uploading them or e-mailing them from there. I'll find a way.
In other news, I'm back to working 50 hr. weeks at work, then trying to pile on fulltime scholastic pursuits. Being poor sucks. Being poor and working your way through college sucks even more (charitable donations are accepted.. ).
Aside from that, there's not much on my mind. ]]> ~random004 http://random004.deviantart.com/journal/362274/ http://random004.deviantart.com/journal/362274/ Tue, 26 Nov 2002 01:18:16 PST Basically, all pop. That includes Blink and Sum, for all of you that want to pretend like they are punk.
Hate it.

Mankind disdains prostitution because, basically, it is the cheapening of a emotional experience down to a financial one (whether this is so can be argued, but that is the rationale).
Pop music is the prostitution of music. It is regurgitated emotions to satisfy an empty place left by modern society. What makes it worse is when, in addition to cheapening emotion, it cheapens a movement. This, again, is why I hate Avril.
I tire of people defining punk in terms of dress style.
It's not the fashion.
I tire of people defining punk in terms of a musical "genre."
It's not the way the music is played. Indeed, it's not the music at all. The music provides a focus, the movement lives without it.
Most of all, I tire of the cheapening of a social movement down to a way for dissatisfied 13 year-olds to piss off their parents.
Ugh. If I see one more suburban kid spending an allowance check at Hot Topic on black fingernail polish and T-shirts, I think it's rather likely I'll resort to violence.

From Op Ivy to the Dead Kennedys, Black Flag to the Clash, the Raging Slits to the Damned, punk has been social commentary. It's been protest music. It's been fighting anthems for a generation of rioters and poets, the proud revolutionaries.
Don't reduce it down to fucking teen angst music. ]]> ~random004 http://random004.deviantart.com/journal/360726/ http://random004.deviantart.com/journal/360726/ Mon, 25 Nov 2002 03:12:50 PST
I say that discoveries like these prove that we need to keep on skinning people. ]]> ~random004 http://random004.deviantart.com/journal/357536/ http://random004.deviantart.com/journal/357536/ Sat, 23 Nov 2002 00:45:23 PST It's really quite good.

In other news, my yearning to attend CU at Boulder is only strengthened when I go up there to visit friends. But, as I'm still too broke to attend, I think my friends will have to start driving down here in the future.

Submitted another piece, not sure if it'll be well recieved, but, screw the naysayers. That's all, folks. ]]> ~random004 http://random004.deviantart.com/journal/356192/ http://random004.deviantart.com/journal/356192/ Fri, 22 Nov 2002 03:46:22 PST I like the Buddhists the most, the Baptists the least. The Hindu, Catholic, Jehova's Witness, Pentacostal, Methodist, and Jewish ceremonies fall somewhere in between.
Next on the calender are two varieties of Islam, a couple more flavors of protestant Christianity, Orthodox Christianity, Orthodox Judaism, another variety of Buddhism, and the Ba'Hai congregation near my house.

Oi.
Well, in other news, I submitted a couple new pieces, and will probably resubmit the ones removed for category violations. Depends on whether I get the itch to edit them. Who knows? ]]> ~random004 http://random004.deviantart.com/journal/346248/ http://random004.deviantart.com/journal/346248/ Fri, 15 Nov 2002 03:30:17 PST America is drifting back into conservative fundamentalism.
God helps us all.
Marriages? Not if you're gay, Pat Boone's spiritual brothers feel the need to judge.
The Selective Service folks announced they can, if needed, start up a draft within 48 hours of notification. Useful, since the idiot in the Oval Office seems bent on creating Vietnam v. 2.0.
Freedom of speech? Not for the dissenters. The freedom to pace inside of your cage.
And, for the ladies, we'll just take away your freedom to control your own bodies. _insert idiotic reasons why_.
Happen to be a minority that we don't like, from a religious group that we'd like to do without? Questioning, searching, and wiretapping until we dig up something on you. Step into the streets and a bunch of flag-flying, churchgoing zealots will scream for the "ragheads" to go home.
Creationist theology is now being added to the curriculum at educational institutions. Creation. God fashioned us all out of epoxy and DNA, and then made cute, furry little animals for us to kill. Yay.

Canada is beginning to look pretty damned good. ]]> ~random004