Your life will be 100x more exciting if you blast this song upon waking every morning. Trust me, I tried it this morning.
People are understandably upset after video emerged of what appears to be U.S. Marines urinating on Afghan corpses. If they’re surprised, however, they need to pick up a history book. Soldiers piss on corpses in every war. On both sides. Soldiers rape civilians, as a rule, in every war that has ever taken place since time immemorial. Rape is a weapon of war. Piss, some people are now learning, is a weapon of war. Some fucked-up, disgusting combination of the two, plus shit and dismemberment, is a weapon of war. Bad guys do it. “Good” guys do it. When a country’s government decides to wage war, they are deciding to sanction piss, rape, and the torture and murder of women and children who had the colossally bad fortune to be in the midst of the war. When the U.S. decided to enter into Afghanistan and then Iraq, they (i.e. Congress and the president, and the myriad companies that profit from war) knew this. I’m not singling out the U.S. here; while we’re as good at implementing the more horrific, soul-erasing weapons as anyone, we’re not alone. Does your country have a military? In times of war, they kill people, and sometimes they piss on them.
If it isn’t clear why I’m detailing this, it is because I want to express an old thought: war is the very worst thing there is. And if you command an army, you better the fuck understand, in your probably cowardly, definitely privileged, likely draft-dodging bones, that when you send soldiers out to fight and die, they are going to do some unconscionable, irreversible things. And they are doing it in your name. Because you told them to. And pissing on a corpse is a FUCKING POEM compared to issuing an order for beautiful young people to go and kill other beautiful young people in a land far away, because you, in essence, “felt like it.”
Previously - On Hating Gay People
Fear Factor is Back, America
“In the past we would have covered someone with 100,000 bees,” Mr. Kunitz said. “Now we’ll cover one of them in 200,000 bees.”
For those keeping score, that’s TWICE as many bees!
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/12/arts/television/fear-factor-returns-to-nbc-on-monday-night.html?hp
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This month…many shows for Like, Mountains.
At least, that’s what my fortune cookie said last night.
No, it didn’t. Because I didn’t have Chinese food for dinner last night, I had beer.
HOWEVER, we do have several shows coming up, the first of which is THIS FRIDAY 8/12 with GREGORY AND THE HAWK and I HATE YOU JUST KIDDING (from LA). facebook/details here
Next WEDNESDAY 8/17 you can totally see Like, Mountains at ROCKWOOD Music Hall, 6pm. fb/deets
AND FRIDAY 8/26 Like, Mountains is playing at a new-ish bar in Gowanus called Halyards, which pours a mean (in a good way) selection of American whiskey. Also playing will be Otsego and ALSO playing will be me (Rachel) on bass, with Otsego. Probably.
Throughout the month, we will be inflicting/trying out new songs on you, which might sting a little, but will hurt me more than you, I promise.
