Wendy Kicked Your Girlie Ass!

Bad girls come. And bad girls go.
But nobody in the music scene was a bad as Wendy O. Williams.
A former porn actress/sex worker, who went from exploited to exploiter, fronting the punk band The Plasmatics, Wendy blazed a trail through rock and roll that nobody has been able to match. Sure, we seem to have had a steady stream of 'angry bitch' recording artists throughout the 90's, and still to this day, but none of these wimpy fake Barbies can match the bitch level set before them. They are all girlie-girls by comparison. I don't care how many tattoo's they got to prove otherwise.


A passionate blend of erotica and rage, Wendy actually knew how to use a chainsaw, sledgehammer and a shotgun, (unlike most 'professional' feminists), destroying cars and guitars onstage(or anything else), often topless, while defying all social conventions and bridging the gap between metal and punk. Waging war against the status quo, she was Girl Power before Girl Power was a cheap marketing gimmick.


The Rock World's baddest bad girl. And always will be.






Spinning the Plasmatics (on vinyl,back then) turned every gathering into a party, and every party into neighborhood bust-up.
You want to see blogger tributes to the 80's?
This is the 80's!

Random Thought...

I remain convinced that Woman exists for the sole purpose of separating Man from his money.

Black Book

Yeah, here's another movie review. Given your responses to previous well-written reviews of some great flicks, I've decided not to waste my time boring you all with my efforts. Let's just say that I've found a new favorite actress, who dominates the screen (she is almost always on camera in this film) and can turn facial expressions on a dime. Black Book has something for both sides of the movie house: romantic tear jerker scenes for the ladies; ample violence and boobage for the menfolk.

View the trailer here.Fair warning: not likely SFW. Un-rated Euro trailer.Includes a couple of boobie-flashes.

Paul Verhoeven turns out a winner with this one.
I like this director for his willingness to not let the 'limits' confine his art, as opposed to others who seem to make their art all about breaking the limits. That, and he possesses a sense of humility. Any director who would actually show up to receive hisRazzie Award(for Showgirls) you've got to respect.

Enjoy the show!

(If you think you notice I have a pattern of foreign film watching, you're right.)

Wishing you all a happy and holy Easter weekend.
Thanks for stopping by.
Be back monday.

I'm Old Enough To Remember, Not Old Enough To Have Forgotten

Former President Jimmy Carter expressed his support for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trip to Syria

"I was glad that she went," Carter said Wednesday. "When there is a crisis, the best way to help resolve the crisis is to deal with the people who are instrumental in the problem."

How the hell would he know?


For his next sermon, Jimmy will discuss how to manage an economy, control inflation, assure a strong oil supply,earn the respect of dictators, keeping our kids off pot, how to lead the Democrats into the future, the vital differences between "yawl" and "y'all" and why his party is symbolized by an ass.

Now, For A Different Kind Of 'Chocolate' Jesus

Oh, come on...
You knew it was coming.

It's the Obama Jesus!




In another grand case of dumbing down art, this paper mache creation is being passed off as sculpture. And once again, I think MichelAngelo would be less than impressed.



Seriously, Mexicans have been creating such sculptures for centuries, and none of them need four years of art college before doing so.

Displaying great wisdom, the artist has chosen a hollow medium for his work.Therefore I do give him credit for at least being philosphically correct in regard to his subject.
That, and said fellow seems to have a tongue-in-cheek sarcastic attitude toward the whole idea.

"All of this is a response to what I've been witnessing and hearing, this idea that Barack is sort of a potential savior that might come and absolve the country of all its sins," Cordero said. "In a lot of ways it's about caution in assigning all these inflated expectations on one individual, and expecting them to change something that many hands have shaped."

I'm thinkin... I kinda like this artist guy. At least he gets it.

After this little display has had it's run, this hollow blob of paper and glue can always be filled with candy and donated to a Mexican birthday party.

Just think of the great newscoverage, and ensuing caterwauling, when the media films 'Obama' hanging from a tree and beat with stick.
Even the joyless Hillary can get a kick out of that.

Let Them Have New York Since We Aren't Using It Anymore

There has been some controversy,again, surrounding another one of New York's weirdo 'artists'.
The latest involves this guy, and his latest, and obviously successful, cry for attention: NY gallery cancels naked chocolate Jesus exhibit.

I don't know what this artist's intent was in creating a sculpture of some outstretched naked man out of chocolate, and presenting it as Jesus. But a quick perusal of his website may offer some clues. Photographing a bed covered with sliced ham? Using fecal matter as a medium? The naked posterior of a woman with rude verbiage written across it?

This guy does display a minimal level of artistic talent,but he ain't no Michelangelo. I've seen better works when I was failing to attend classes at the junior college. But what ever little shred of ability he does have seems to be overwhelmed by his sophomoric level of expression.
Get real, ya moron... 'poopie' stopped being funny when the rest of your classmates were still in grade school.

And this masquerade just happens to be taking place in what is supposed to be the cultural and artistic capital of the United States? heh... maybe the jihadists are right about us after all.

I Know A Beat When I Feel It

Back in 'the day', the 70's it was... the big environmental science warned of Global Cooling, and the coming in our near future of the next ice age. Of course, this was all our fault. We used deodorant. Enjoyed air conditioning. Drove V8 cars. And lived the benefits of a non-stone age lifestyle.

Today the big scare is Global Warming, and of course, yet again... it's all our fault because we use air conditioning, deodorant, and drive cars.

I'm old enough to remember the first scare, and the pious lectures to change our ways, or else...
It all sounded much like the latest scare, and the pious lectures to change our ways or else...

I'm also old enough to remember, waaaay back, the 80's it was...
Global Cooling was out of style. It took about ten years, but we all realized, eventually, that utter bullshit had been heaped upon us and we were refusing to step in it anymore.
Now it was the trees that needed saving,instead.
Strongly encouraged to change our ways, and threatened with the loss of precious oxygen in the atmosphere, the grocery stores stopped packing our stuff in paper bags, and switched to plastic. It was better for the environemnt.

Today,with the latest from the wacko trendsetter city of San Francisco, we have returned to our roots, so to speak S.F. Leaders OK Plastic Grocery Bag Ban


In about ten years, the Global Warming doomsayers will be forgotten as we realize, once again, that we were fed more bullshit.

And a new crisis will be invented...

And more pious lectures delivered...

And the beat goes on....

Do As We Say...

*LINK*

An aide to Sen. Jim Webb was arrested Monday when he entered a Senate office building with a loaded pistol belonging to the senator.

Jim Webb is a democrat. A member of the party that overwhelming denies the second amendment exists. I don't know what Webb's personal belief about gun rights is, but he was definitely breaking the law.

What I'm getting tired of is left leaning politicians who never met a arms restriction they didn't like, while packing heat for their personal safety
(Senators Feinstein and Rockefeller to name just two).

I generally view all gun control legislation as illegitimate, and therefore having no application to myself. But if somebody wants to sit on high, and tell me my rights don't exists as stated, they better be towing the line themselves.
I hope this aide is jailed for the longest possible term, and Senator Webb is called to answer for his apparent lawbreaking. He's been caught red-handed. He better pay the price.

UPDATE:Senator Webb speaks:“Everyone here knows that I am a strong supporter of the Second Amendment, that I have had a permit to carry a weapon in Virginia for a long time, and I believe that it’s important — it’s important for me, personally, and for a lot of people in the situation that I’m in, to be able to defend myself and my family.”

Still, a Virginia permit is not a valid permit anywhere outside the jurisdiction that issues it.
Senator Webb was clearly in illegal possession of a firearm within D.C. He needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of law, just as you or I would be.

Black Snake Moan

After reading several blog reviews that mostly downed this film, I decided to go see it anyway. Something about a movie flowing with blues guitar,rural southern culture, and ample promise of seeing very much of Christina Ricci is irresistable in it's own way.
By now, you know the story: Young, nearly naked, white nymphomaniac is found beaten on the side of the road by an older black farmer who takes her in, attends to her injuries, chains her lithe form to a radiator... and proceeds to 'save' her through a mix of preaching and music all the while saving himself from his own struggles of depression.
It's more of a "Father finds Daughter" story than the racially charged sexual exploitation flick it's been passed off as.

If the plot seems kinda stupid, it's because it is. Keep your mind at home, and enjoy the mix of drama, comedy, sweetness, southern cliches, and The Blues that meld together in what is really not a bad movie.


And Christina Ricci has never looked better.
Yep, this pretty much sums up her entire wardrobe in this film, more or less. With less taking place more often than more.
Nothing wrong with that.

Stickin' It To The Man

If you look under the hood of any vehicle, there will be some sort of emission control certificate verifying that said vehicle was manufactured to air quality standards required of all new cars sold in the United States.


California has even stricter standards than the feds require, and this will also be attested to with the little certificate also stating the car was manufactured to California standards, if it is indeed the case.


Back in the early 90's, in an attempt to collect even more money from citizens, California instituted a levy on all out of state 'non-California' vehicles being registered within its borders. It was passed off, and titled accordingly, as a 'smog impact fee'. This one-time fee was set at $300.

Immediately, some taxpayer watchdog group, I cant remember who, filed a challenge to the new tax, and after about 5 yrs, it was thrown out by the United States Supreme Court, at least I think it was the Supreme Court,(anyway, that's an unimportant detail, and I'm too lazy to fact check it)... as an unconstitutional tax on interstate commerce and free flow of people across state lines,yadda,yadda,yadda...
As a result, California was required to reimburse all those who had registered out of state vehicles within the period of time the tax was in effect, and who had supposedly paid this illegal tax.
The catch: the owner who had registered one of these cars had to apply for the reimbursement. The state was, wrongly in my opinion, not required to track down and notify it's victims of its evil deeds. The burden was on the victim to learn about and press his claim.

I previously mentioned my past ownership of a Geo Metro. I purchased this car from somebody else who had purchased it, also used, from somebody in Ohio, where the car was originally sold. After driving the car to California, he promptly sold it to me without re-registering it first. I was required to pay this tax when I registered the car before the state would issue me California plates.
The clerk at the registration desk, after informing me of my fees, and my requirement to pay this particularly evil one, goofed. She forgot to collect this extra $300 from me! And inadvertantly also proving what I'd always suspected: that government employees aren't necessarily the best and brightest among us.(keep this in mind when you start thinking gov't run health care might be a good idea).

Being eminently smarter than the lowest-common-denominator-type-person who works for the government, I kept my mouth shut, wrote her a check, grabbed my plates and paperwork, and quickly gotthehellouttathere.

About a year and half later, I read about the overturning of this illegal taxation perpetrated upon the people, and how the victims of this evil can receive restitution.

Sensing I had nothing to lose...
I filed my claim.
And was reimbursed, by the State of California, for taxes I never paid in the first place.

I remember a conversation I had with a survey taker/marketer not long ago (2 months,maybe). Among the queries was whether I would consider buying a hybrid. The answer was 'no'.
Here is why: there is not a hybrid out there that performs as well as a pure gas powered car. And those that do come close, cost too much.

I'm not down on the hybrid idea, though. I'm just down on hybrids as currently offered.
If a salesman offers me a hybrid, as a selling point, I immediately assume it is a lessor performer, and/or more costly. "But its a hybrid! Cheaper on gas!" is an excuse, not a selling point.

There is not a hybridized model of any car that performs as well as the standard version. Add the cost of hybridization to that, and you have a "less costs more" equation.

Hybrids are not offered as great vehicles in their own right. They are overpriced compromise cars, who's only real purpose is to assuage guilt. I want what I want, at the price I'm willing to pay. That's all there is to it.
I really don't care how its powered, only that it performs as to my needs and desires, and at the most affordable cost. Cost of a vehicle is more than price. Cost includes all the sacrifices in comfort, power, handling, fuel, reliability(or lack of) and upkeep.

As it stands right now, petroleum fuel is the most economical way of putting power to the ground. Nothing else does as much for as little a price, or even comes close.

I want cheap gas. But even at $10 a gallon, I doubt that anything else will still be as economical. Ethanol actually cost more to produce than gas. So, as it stands now, corn is still not a solution to petroleum.

Even at the exorbitant cost that Europeans have traditionally been paying for gasoline, they still stick to gas powered cars. Why haven't they figured out something else by now? If the price of gas is any motivation, they should be 40 years ahead of us in the technology, don't you think?


I don't know what will come next. but as long as gasoline is still around to do what it does as economically as it does it, I will stick to it.

And these overpriced hybrids do not impress me. They offer marginal fuel economy at a much larger price tag. My V6 Santa Fe gets 25mpg hwy. The comparable hybrid, Ford Escape, gets 27 mpg. And does not have the same power.
I had a 1990 Geo that got 45 mpg. (only the Prius comes close, and it took over ten years to catch up to that.) All gas.Very primitive technology. I got it used with 95K on it, for $1200. Over 4 yrs, I put just shy of 150K additional miles, over the course of which I replaced 12 tires and one battery, changed oil every 5k... And no other costs. It went everywhere I needed it to go, even off road every couple weeks to go shooting in the hills. When I was done with it, I passed it over to my gardener (for free). When I last saw him, 18 months later, he was still driving it. What hybrid out there is going to treat me the same way, economically, as this Geo did?

(All that, and I took the state for $300 in reimbursed registration fees. That I did not pay. It's always good when you can screw The Man and get away with it.)