this blog is dead

let's wake it the fuck up.



-d.p.

An Old Phrase

What is the opposite of pro?

- Con

What is the opposite of progress?

- Congress



Chew on that for the weekend.

- 57/60/71

Techno Jeep

Hint: Click the picture to make it BIGGER.



- Luke Seale, East Coast Perspective

Therapy Session 1.1

Mr. Totschlager's worst nightmare is to become a cannibal like his father.

His doctor prescribed #10 on this list.

- Joshua H. Coronado

Tommy Wiseau: American Poet

Oh, hi Mark.







I used to tell people my favorite movie was Adaptation, but now I've been enlightened. Now I've seen The Room.

-d.p.

In Defense of Fifty Cent

Aiyoo, you think about shittin' on 50... save it

My songs belong in the Bible with King David

Curtis Jackson, better known as Fifty Cent, started selling crack at the young age of twelve when his parents thought he was at after school programs. 50 Cent once said that he would have voted for Bush in 2004 if his felonies didn't prevent him from doing so. He took in about $100 million dollars when he sold his share of Vitamin Water. The infamous G-Unit soldier has also been in a few Hollywood movies. A few years after he got shot nine times from point blank range -- and easily survived after only two weeks in the hospital -- he sold about twenty-one million records.

And yet for some reason, most music elitists dismiss Fifty Cent as the "love you like a fat kid love cake" or "we're going to party like it's your birthday" guy. Fuck that.

That's like saying Obama is "that half-black president," as if nothing else defined his existence.

It's easy to insult Fifty Cent by quoting two of his most commercially successful songs. It is difficult to insult his musical talent after listening to two of his albums.

So here's the challenge: go download Get Rich or Die Tryin' and Power of the Dollar and listen to each album in its entirety. It might help to skip "In Da Club" and "21 Questions." Afterwards ask yourself why you don't like 50 Cent.

What you'll discover is this: the heavy synth beats that make up Get Rich or Die Tryin' are uniquely suited for 50's soothing voice. The biblical references in his work make any Sunday School vet feel nostalgic. It is actually possible to have a gun-shot in every song, sometimes as the actual beat. 50 Cent raps about more than getting shot 9 times or drinking bub.

Any song is a roller-coaster ride. Take for example "Patiently Waiting," off Get Rich: "In this White Man's world, I'm similar to a squirrel / lookin' for a slut with a nice butt to get a nut," coming a few lines after, "God's a seamstress that tailor-fitted my pain / I got scriptures in my brain I could spit at your dame."

You'll be pleasantly surprised. The depth, complexity, and fun go well beyond Da Club.

- Adam T. O'Neal

I don't get it!

Photography by Nikki Reginaldo

-57/60/71

Liar

Yesterday, I was walking along Diamond Bar Boulevard and I passed an older Indian man. He was about the height of a computer programmer, wore a thin mustache above his lips and his hair thinned at the top -- very typical.

As we approached each other, I anticipated that he would nod and continue on down the sidewalk. We eventually made eye-contact and I nodded. He looked at me and said, "SUV flip over. Crazy!"

"What?"

I looked over and about a football field's length down the road there were red and blue lights flashing. There was an accident.

He continued, "Craziest thing I ever saw. SUV flipped over on side and one small Ford car crash into it and then a nice Honda crash into Ford. I don't know how it happen."

"Maybe the roads were still wet?"

Hardly, there were just a few puddles left. I saw him gazing at the roads too.

I looked at him and said, "Weird."

He replied, "Weird."

Then we parted ways without saying another word to each other. Upon my arrival at the scene of the accident, I became a bit unnerved. It wasn't a SUV flipped over; it was a mini-van.

I trusted him.

- Adam T. O'Neal

What's Punk? with Dan Perdomo // Ep. 2: No York

Television - "Double Exposure" (Rehearsal, 1974)


Talking Heads - "Warning Sign" (Live at CBGB, 1975)


Ramones - "I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You" (Live at CBGB, 1977)


DEVO - "Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA" (Live at Max's Kansas City, 1977)


Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers - "Leave Me Alone" (Live at Max's Kansas City, 1979)


Next Episode: Manchester

-d.p.

What's Punk? is a public service of I'm Into CB

I hope he doesn't kill us.

Substitute Teacher.

He has no credentials, no.

But he has our trust.

He could be anyone; He could be your grandfather.

El Asesino

Here we have the no-budget action film El Asesino in its fullest, purest form. The movie stars the movie stars Steven Roso, Joshua H. Coronado, Adam T. O'Neal, Steven Roso and Nina O'Neal.

-Adam T. O'Neal

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Dr. Sanz

When Dr. Sanz rides the bus he pretends he is you and thinks it is so strange not to have a large beard to keep you warm.

(If you're lonely: click here.)

- Joshua H. Coronado

Dear Sir or Madman

Byron Smith/The Jersey Journal
Bayonne High School teacher Irene Nally tears up as she and students watch President Obama finish his inaugural address.

I want to be a high school teacher
—to rephrase:
I want to be a high schoolteacher.

"Techno-rap from South Africa?"
"I'm sorry, you didn't answer in the form of a question. Rich Mulligan, you have the board:"


-d.p.

Lizard Man, A Modest Man

This is Lizard Man, he is a modest man.
He has desires and regrets and cold blood.

(Below him is a haiku.
A haiku is a poem.)

- Joshua H. Coronado

Benefit/Doubt

Someone once told me that they'd give me the benefit of the doubt.

Literally, the benefit of the doubt is the gift of not believing. If that's the case, isn't this just a gift that we generously give to people who are different than us? If that's the case, we're actually more generous than we thought.

It's true. We see things that we want to see and then tell ourselves that we can't see anything else because it's unclear to us. We're not blind; but we refuse to see. Doubt isn't something that you give people. It's something that's instilled in us and makes us intolerant. The best we can hope for is that doubt will not define us. What we can hope for is something to believe in.

Maybe we're not asking for change. Maybe we're looking for someone to give the gift of believing in us. If that's the case, the benefit of the doubt is clearly no gift. It's just giving us an excuse to judge people.

I am no optimist, but I've realized that sometimes it's nice to give someone some of the benefit and not just the doubt.

- Whitney Hua

What's Punk? with Dan Perdomo // Ep. 1: Fuck Modernity

The Velvet Underground - "Venus in Furs" (From Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable)


The Monks - "Oh, How To Do Now" (Live on German Television, 1966)


Iggy & the Stooges - "TV Eye" and "1970" (Live, 1970)


Next Episode: No York

- Daniel Perdomo

There's More

The above photo was taken by a good friend of 57/60/71. She'll be dropping photographs here every so often.














Nikki Reginado
"I'm in a pickle."

-57/60/71