I have to agree with Kathy Fennessey's review of last Saturday's Ty Segall show at Chop Suey: the audience was annoying. I don't mind getting covered in beer at a show. A-ok! I'm not made of sugar! Why so much crowd surfing? It was hot, and butts-to-nuts packed in there. I didn't want to hold you up. I fought the urge to pull you down. Which brings me to the poll below.

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• Jay Reatard surfs the Crocodile, June 16th, 2009

So all this talk in Megan's post about Tyler's use of "faggot" and "rape" got me thinking about The Mentors. They proudly called themselves "rape rock." Does white guy shock rock compare at all to Odd Future? It's interesting to think about (even though El Duce is dead, and was never pretty enough for MTV when he was alive.)

We're creepy crawlin' through the night
We're lookin' for some pussy good and tight
Hopefully you will be drunk and asleep
For us to sink our dicks in deep
Little Betty wasn't too frisky
When she passed out from the whiskey
Then we gave her knock-out pills
To help us get out thrills
Now she's conked out from whiskey and wine
it's time for us to form a line
She was passed out and stripped in bed
We knew that she would give us some head
We're the sleep bandits, can you stand it
I'm a sleep bandit, can you stand it
First in line came good ol´ El
And I say she's starting to smell
Then Red Dog for a quickie
After that came Don Scary
Who said she was a disgrace
On her head he jacked off,
Right on her face

Stupid ass! On the eve of Megadeth's Seattle concert too.

Most disturbing: "Earlier in the election, I was completely oblivious as to who Rick Santorum was, but when the dude went home to be with his daughter when she was sick, that was very commendable."

So I guess you'll be okay when dude's president, and if the unfortunate and extreme case that your daughter is raped by a homicidal lunatic, you'll force her, Electra, to have the baby and love her little horrible gift from God for the rest of her living life.

That's sick and gross, Mr. Mustaine. Read the full interview on Music Radar.

"I'm just hoping that whatever is in the White House next year is a Republican. I can't bear to watch what's happened to our great country. Everybody's got their head in the sand. Everybody in the industry is like, 'Oh, Obama's doing such a great job...' I don't think so. Not from what I see.

"Looking at the Republican candidates, I've got to tell you, I was floored the other day to see that Mitt Romney's five boys have a $100 million trust fund. Where does a guy make that much money? So there's some questions there. And watching Newt Gingrich, I was pretty excited for a while, but now he's just gone back to being that person that everybody said he was – that angry little man. I still like him, but I don't think I'd vote for him.

"Ron Paul… you know, I heard somebody say he was like insecticide – 98 percent of it's inert gases, but it's the two percent that's left that will kill you. What that means is that he'll make total sense for a while, and then he'll say something so way out that it negates everything else. I like the guy because he knows how to excite the youth of America and fill them in on some things. But when he says that we're like the Taliban… I'm sorry, Congressman Paul, but I'm nothing like the Taliban.

"Earlier in the election, I was completely oblivious as to who Rick Santorum was, but when the dude went home to be with his daughter when she was sick, that was very commendable. Also, just watching how he hasn't gotten into doing these horrible, horrible attack ads like Mitt Romney's done against Newt Gingrich, and then the volume at which Newt has gone back at Romney… You know, I think Santorum has some presidential qualities, and I'm hoping that if it does come down to it, we'll see a Republican in the White House... and that it's Rick Santorum."

We all know about the rightwing Komen shit that hit the fan last week. We all, however, may not know about the CD, Sex Positive, that the local chapter of Planned Parenthood recently released to raise that money. Complied by the singer Alicia Dara, the CD contains music by the masterful Choklate, the rocking Ra Scion, and the adorable Land of Pines. You can't go wrong with this compilation, so be like a Spike Lee joint and do the right thing.

When it started, I was captivated by the bold "We are the 99 per cent" slogan and the identification of Wall Street - the literal and symbolic headquarters of the wealthy few - as the centre of this global financial crisis. Have we finally reached a breaking point? Only those completely out of touch with reality would disagree that economic inequality and corporate greed is a problem. Supposedly, I'm one of the more "successful" independent musicians in Seattle and I'm currently fighting a home foreclosure, don't have my own healthcare plan, and am still paying back loans on a college education I've never completed. Whatever my struggles and privileges: I, too, am the 99 per cent.

Another passage I love and have to share:

Furthermore, it was clear to me that the people who started the 'Occupy' protests probably didn't look like me and probably didn't consider my or my community's issues. Otherwise they wouldn't have named this movement with a word we historically (and presently) colonised people aren't too fond of. The absence of colour and abundance of pale bare feet at Occupy Seattle and Occupy Portland confirmed this for me, and I left the Northwest on tour feeling conflicted about this whole OWS thing. But as Mao said, "No investigation, no right to speak", and I couldn't bring myself to either throw my support blindly or become overly critical without taking the opportunity to see this movement unfold as we travelled from city to city.

Maybe Planned Parenthood should hire Ronald McFondle for their next fundraising campaign? Or is "Keep Abortion Awesome" just too strong a message for them? I wonder about these things... And also, WHAT DO THE JUGGALOS THINK?

Listen:

• If six was nine = 66%

Oh, boy. Somebody made a doozy of a statement with the Hendrix statue in front of the Blick store on Broadway. Alas, the question remains:

Whoa bros. Here's a video for the Spits' "Fed Up." IT'S BRAND NEW. First watch this and then continue reading to see what people are saying about America's hottest new sensation: the Spits!

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