this post was awesome
i had a highschool band that used to write drug songs about what we though drugs might be like.. as we had never had any.

ah.. good times though

Yes, I think that's a high-school band universal as well.

This is Marxy... then

When and how did your swing to neo-liberalism happen?

I'm accused of being a neo-liberal, but I'm surely not any kind of Reaganite. I'm still intrigued by socialism after all these years, but after reading Elster's An Introduction to Karl Marx and some Schumpeter, I've felt it very hard to be a kneejerk ultraliberal. I think I like the symbolic and aesthetic aspects of Economic Leftism more than the actual practical suggestions for society. Momus and I both like Galbraith, but my refusal to assume collusion and oligopoly are "socialism" has somehow made me an enemy capitalist.

Hm, highschool bands. This was definitely middle school era for me, but does any name scream wanna-be early 90's "alternative" style more than SUPERRAG? Then there was "9 Volt Spork."
Geez, Mr. Marx, thanks for helping me get these embarrassments off my chest; although I will never feel shame for the best of all my adolescent projects; The Wooly Faced Butt Bratwursts.

(I'm having fun back in America too... but TV here is blowing my fucking mind.)

Never mind the shades of difference between neoliberal and ultraliberal, what the world wants to know is where are the Red Star and Raised Fist mp3s?

I second Momus's request! Lets hear it!

The highschool punk band I played bass for never recorded. I did alot of recordings on my own that probably sounded like Metal Machine Music. Have no idea what happened to any of the tapes I did in college and cant even remember the names of the compilations some of em came out on. Basically I got no evidence of any music I ever did until a couple of years ago. So I guess I'm kinda jealous.

I am brave enough to talk about RSRF but I'm not sure I'm ready for them to be reborn on the Internet through the power of mp3s.

well how bout playing the tape for a select few listeners over drinkies then?

Fine, but why would I actively make you all listen to something that results in nothing more than me being mocked? It's not like you're all going to be, wait, Marxy, this is awesome!

Come on, admit it; what you secretly fear is that we'll all like it more than we like what you're doing now! Our commie fists will be pumping the air!

I very much doubt that you'll fists will be pumping to:

"I give props to Jose Marti / Economic independence means free"

I'm not sure how I got them (I guess David sent them to me at some point a few years ago), but I have a few "Red Star and Raised Fist" mp3s on my hard drive.

The song titles are "Seismology" and "Mixing Up Your Day."

It's very groovy...

Shhhhhh!

The chorus of "Seismology" (this is the same song with the Ethan Frome lyric) goes as follows:

If you want to mess with me
You're gonna have to show us something we can't see
And if you don't
Seismology
We'll measure your house-rockin' ability

Now that is phat!

Now I know what I want for Christmas, yo!

for once, i agree with st. nick!
post the mp3s, david.
it is the least you can do to support the dirty (global) south.
post! post!
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Don't post! It's a trap!

i have heard early marxy music. you don't want to hear this stuff.

i'm hoping david will get sauced on egg-nog and post this one up anyway.

if you don't post these old mp3s because you thin they're embarrassing, you're succumbing to hubris and hypocrisy by assuming that the mp3s you're making now and posting are not also totally embarrassing.

a random question marxy

i remember a japanese magazine which featured photos of apartment studios lived in by young artists/musicians, etc. like an interior design mag. would you happen to know where I can find this?

thanks

You're probably talking about "Tokyo; a Certain Style."

random question: it's not necessarily artists and musicians, but there are a series of semi-regularly published "mooks" called "インテリア bible" that show young people's tiny, immaculate, meticulously-designed rooms.

if you search for インテリア　at http://www.gakken.co.jp/ you'll find lots of related stuff, but I think they might not be publishing the bibles anymore.

MP3s MP3s !!

Ten bucks says this whole thing is a hoax anyway. Matchups 2K6 FOR REAL

thank you, i'll check out those rooms

I "e-mailed" Panther founder (and BBQ mastermind) Bobby Seale about COINTELPRO being all up in his shit

This is the difference between you and me, Marxy. When I was writing a paper junior year of high school on the Chicago Seven, my post-radical teacher told me Bobby Seale's buddy Rennie Davis lived in my little post-radical town. Where you decided to e-mail, I decided to ignore the opportunity. If you're more successful in life, I blame it on this decision.

Finally! A copy of Ethan Fromme to call my own...