This Ain't No Picnic

Hey mister don't look down on me
(for what I believe in-
I got my bills and the rent)
I should go pitch a tent
but our land is not free
so I'll work my youth away
in the place of a machine

i refuse to be a slave

THIS AIN'T NO PICNIC

Clampdown

The voices in your head are calling
Stop wasting your time, there's nothing coming
Only a fool would think someone could save you
The men at the factory are old and cunning
You don't owe nothing, so boy get runnin'
It's the best years of your life they want to steal

But, you grow up and you calm down and
You're working for the clampdown
You start wearing the blue and brown and
You're working for the clampdown
So you got someone to boss around
It makes you feel big now
You drift until you brutalize
You made your first kill now

Piss Factory

Sixteen and time to pay off
I got this job in a piss factory inspecting pipe
Forty hours thirty-six dollars a week
But it's a paycheck, Jack.

Eddie and the Hot Rods Inspire Young Man to Quit Factory Job

From the comments:

When I was a young man working in a factory in a Northen Engish town, I heard this song and decided one day to walk out of that shit hole and be free. I never regretted it once.

There is nothing good about grinding out a living in a mind numbing job for a bunch of rats who get super rich off your efforts without so much as a million pound bonus even once a century never mind every fucking year. Fuck capitalism, Fuck the rich and fuck all the stupid cunts who say there is no other option.

best/worst of 2010

a random list, with random punctuation, in random order...

Best of 2010



Just Kids by Patti Smith
Winter's Bone (d. Debra Granik)
playing guitar with a bass player
playing drums with a bass player
Johanna Fateman writing for Book Forum
The Wipers Out Takes LP
The Reactionairies 1979 LP
Running 5K
Swimming in Lake Chelan, Lake Crescent & Lake Cushman
Spending my birthday reading by the pool in the sun
New Comet Gain LP (unreleased)
LP's by Best Coast, Frankie Rose & The Outs & Dum Dum Girls
Tavi Gevinson's feminist rants
Bikini Kill Archive
Dolly Mixture Demonstration Tapes reissue & Box Set
Neonates
Black Leggings aka Beatnik Superhero Pants
Working on several awesome KRS releases by INDEPENDENT female artists
Washington State Pharmacy Board ruling on Plan B
Martha Nussbaum lecture at TESC with Michelle Noel
Martin Rev on Letterman with M.I.A. & Born Free single & video
John Water's Role Models
all the feminist dialogue/hang outs/criticism inspired by Girls To The Front
being included in MoMA's Modern Women
following Kathy Valentine's go-go's memoir-in-progress
MRR, especially the comics issue (don't miss Bam Bam and the Barbarians "A Punk with a Past"!)
playing guitar on Friday nights and every day for (the first part of) the summer
starting a new project band with Joaquin de la Puente and Erick Lyle t.b.c. in '11
Dee & Dillon in America
Team Natalie (sad summer, but what an awesome community we live in)
all the rad shows at Northern
Erick Lyle at The Olympia Library
riot grrrl panel at the Olympia Library with Blood Bones
dj Dan Treacy on fb
Coasting
Wild Flag
Grass Widow Past Time LP
Olympic Peninsula with Joaquin and his family, especially La Push & Forks
Camp Quixote surviving another year
ditto for EGYHOP
Angela Davis & Antwi Akom at TESC w/ my mom
Judith Butler refusing the "Civil Courage Award" in protest of racism at Berlin Pride
Columbus, OH with Joaquin de la Puente
The Rainbow in the Dark Connection
The Artist's Way, for reals-creative practice rules!
seeing Joey Shithead getting a hotdog at Jakes
seeing Joey Casio live in Olympia
spending NYE with The Sonics at The Capitol Theater
djtv on blip.fm & last.fm & fb youtube style (I don't like hanging out in bars)
meatless monday
tofu tuesday
gluten free diet (helps with allergies)
Trashkit
30 Rock
Upstairs Downstairs
Janelle Monae Tightrope single & video
"Green Prisons" in Washington State (even Angela Davis liked this)
Greenberg (and I hate Ben Stiller, but this was hilarious)
OFS's Classic Film Series
Ursula Meier's Home (saw it in 2010)
Veronica Ortuño's Cease To Exist Podcasts
"Todos Somos Arizona"
watching The Need with my mom
ditto for Wild Flag
Threadbared/ Mimi Nguyen's writing
Mother (d. Bong Joon-ho)
Joaquin & Grandma Hartl's birthday dinner in Tacoma
Suzie Bright on The Runaways movie
Weird TV
Record Store Day
watching Jeanne Dielman with my mom at The Capitol Theater
new feminist writing by Marissa Magic, Layla Gibbon, Nadia Buyses
ShotGun Seamstress by Osa
Breeders Pod demos
Jigsaw's Guide to Feminist Theory (will be back in 2011!)
Haiti Benefit: Old School Meets New School at The Eagles Hall (Human Skab!!!)
Grass Widow & Viv Albertine!
Mo'Nique's hairy legs on the Red Carpet
Kathryn Bigelow winning the Oscar for Best Director
A Reference of Female Fronted Punk
Wetlands by Charlotte Roche
Hair Zine #1
Nuts fanzine #4 & #5
Temple Grandin starring Claire Danes
A Single Man (now I have to read the book)
A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx by Elaine Showalter
student riots in London against education cuts
massive French protests against budget cuts
Hysterics demo
Lips Unsealed by Belinda Carlisle
Morgan and the Organ Donors Arrogant Man 7"
K Zip Pack series
Rye Rye & MIA Sunshine
Son Skull LP
Driving Driving Driving by Kimya Dawson
Keith Richards' LIFE (hilarious, educational, disturbing)
The Return of BISAR (Books I Shoulda Already Read, Slim Moon's book club)
Simone de Beauvoir's words saving me from CRUSHING despair
revisiting Shelia Rowbotham, new and old writing
Nimo's War, Emma's War by Cynthia Enloe (not finished yet)
Zed Books launching their "Essential Feminism" series
reading Sandra Scoppettone's Lauren Laurano detective series
The Feminist Theory Reader
immigration reform protests
Olympia Food Co-Op in The International News!
reggae, dub, ska, rocksteady comps on Soul Jazz
working on new shit (even though I didn't finish much)
practice space jams
friends
WikiLeaks
the feminist debate on Julian Assange
U.S. Senate vote to repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell
Cosmetics Data Base
The Seagulls starring Billy Karren
punk shows in Olympia with so many girls/women in bands, YAY, and thank you, Hell Woman!
U.S. Girls
Wendy Yao visit on my birthday
The New Reef
Portland International Film Festival
The Fall on vinyl
Hot Tub Time Machine
all the records in my room that I still need to review
everyone at The Bumpidee Reader
Nettles/Quercitin
Liquid D3
Omega 3
The Seattle Storm
Scam #7 (pictured above)
Ivy's writing on Haiti
Breathless at OFS
The Kids Are Alright with my mom at OFS
Natalie Cox's recipes & dance party/feast
Maggie Vail, MVP of 2010
Saturday night at the movies
Ben Moore's
Kathleen Hanna at Joe's Pub on youtube
pie at the reef
quitting coffee
drinking coffee
making my own curry (inspired by Nat's recipe)

worst of 2010

losing Natalie Cox to cancer…everything after that seems somewhat trivial...I know the death of a friend is not worse than a global disaster, but a personal loss can't be quantified...needless to say, some of this stuff really sucks and some of it was just annoying:

getting depressed (see above)
Erick Lyle getting his unfinished book stolen from a bookstore in Olympia
fighting with friends & strangers on the internet
pay parking in downtown Olympia
terrible summer blockbusters (new Twilight movie was so bad)
Best Coast doing a record for a chainstore, blech…
Helen Thomas resignation from The White House Press Corp
missing DOA at the 4th AVE
gluten in every food
gluten free bread
no gluten free bread available
no twiglets
no pizza
no more pie at The Reef
L Word (I got obsessed with it and then hated it)
Haiti Earthquake
Flood in Pakistan
Washington State executing Cal Coburn Brown (ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY)
7 Year Old Aiyana Jones killed by the Detroit Police Department
Arizona 1070
ODA's "Girls Night Out"
corporate viral marketing to raise money for non-profits via "clicks"
unnecessary drama, making things harder for people who deserve better
selfish dudes
Runaways movie (except Kristin Stewart was good as Joan Jett)
Recession hitting musicians harder than ever before
NYPD arresting planners of NYC Anarchist film festival
29 People Arrested after "riot" in downtown Olympia (aka Anti-Police Brutality March)
old school legendary Tacoma punk Scott Burroughs dying suddenly, RIP
Massey Energy Mine accident in WV killing 25 people (cited for 1,300+ safety violations)
Alex Chilton RIP
allergies
Storeman's Boycott (so sick of not being able to buy groceries downtown)
152 arrested in Oakland at the Oscar Grant protests…and the verdict that spawned them
Teal Triggs lack of ethics and common courtesy
BP Oil Spill
typical noir or "literary" writer-guy misogyny
getting sucked into mediocre chick lit & trashy memoirs
streaming bad TV on the computer
not really finishing any of my projects (working on it)
not getting to visit any of my friends this year
Julian Assange as "Man of the Year" on the cover of Works in Progress
Dream Act not passing
Arizona's ban on Ethnic Studies
polarizing aspect of Co-Op Israeli boycott and all the non-conversations about it
"Clean" Coal
Election Night, especially 1098 not passing
Climate Change
Gay Teen Suicide
Islamophobia
still not understanding Obama's "Healthcare Reform"
most "indie rock" and "pop"
most "dude punk"
a lot of formula pop-punk (I do like the energy I don't like the sound of the instruments)
U.S. drones in Yemen & Pakistan
RIP Haitian Feminist Leader Myriam Merlet
epidemic unemployment
more than 10,000 people died in Afghanistan in 2010
The Girl Who Played with Fire tied with Heartbreaker for worst movies I saw this year
missing In the Realm of the Senses at OFS
RIP Vanda Boone
RIP Aunt Maxine, the last of a generation
RIP Ari Up