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System You Radio #15 is online @ www.systemyou.org. Stop on by and check it out!

the set:

1-All In a Day Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
2-Dead Cities The Exploited
3-'Til Your Ears Bleed Adhd
4-I Hate You Verbal Abuse
5-I Hate Myself Offenders
6-Can't Wait Hepcat
7-I Ain't Got No Boss Mojo Nixon
8-Tight Black Rubber Black Francis
9-Butterfly Stroke Mudhoney
10-Icom Rollins Band
11-United & Divided Fuzigish
12-American Achievements MDC
13-Big Mistake Electric Eel Shock
14-Born To Lose Johnny Thunders
15-Criminal Citizen Fish

Come on over the www.systemyou.org for show number 14! It's free, punk rock, and....free!

Set list:
System You Radio #14
1-Captain Pasty Black Francis
2-Hungry Wolf X
3-The Drawback Warsaw
4-Snobs Crosstops
5-Year Of The Rooster The Riverboat Gamblers
6-Chinese Bombs Blur
7-Pulled Up Talking Heads
8-Totally Wired The Fall
9-Our Fallout 100 Flowers
10-We Evolve Mouthwash
11-Commando Ramones
12-The Closet Lydia Lunch

ok soo, as said in one of my other blogz i cut myself and made it into an A for the first letter of my name. One person cared so much for me to stop she sent me a message telling me to stop and she knowz what i'm going through. but she put it into more depth. so here iz her credit deserved. thx bella. :)

I waz in my bed thinking last night. I waz thinking that i am nothing special, nothing new, nothing there. I'm just air getting blown into the wind. the wind iz more pain and cruelty. The wind i want to get caught but i don't at the same time. My feelingz right now are way to confuzing. on second i'm sad the other i'm furious, another i'm happy the other i'm emotionless.

vwala a work of art i just got into this whole cutting thing. and i kinda like it. no clue why either. so today in the truck while my dad was sleeping i got some nail clipperz and carved the first letter of my name on my left ankle. it lookz sweet.

System You #12

http://www.systemyou.com

1-Friction Television Marquee Moon
2-Same Old Blues Big Boys Wreck Collection
3-Black Cross 45 Grave Black Cross 7 inch
4-Coptic Times Bad Brains Bad Brains Live
5-Make Me Smile The Slackers The Question
6-Your Generation Generation X BBC Live At The Paris Theatre '78 & '81
7-Dachau Disco Cretins Dachau Disco 7 inch w_ Blut+Eisen
8-Lynch Mob Fang Pissed Off (picture disc)
9-Out of School JFA Blatant Localism 7 Inch
10-Radio Silence Rhythm Pigs An American Activity 7"
11-Red and the Black Minutemen Tour Spiel Ep

How rude of me! I just realized that I started posting here, without any decent introduction, or getting-to-know-me stuff (other than my User Profile).

This must be rectified, stat! With that in mind, here's a quick set of bullet points -- so arrogantly written in the 3rd person -- that should bring you up to speed about my background:

* born to an overseas Pinoy (Filipino) family headed by a lifelong investment banker;

* raised wherever his dad's expat status took him, including stints at an all-boys Catholic school in Singapore and various international schools in the Asian Tiger Economies, circa the height of the whole deregulate/privatize/liberalize shebang;

A friend of mine -- let's call her Dead Star -- relocated to Dubai several months ago, to live with her dad (an engineer in the ranks of the Overseas Filipino Workforce) and his new girlfriend.

Her first weeks in the country left her bored out of her skull, unable to deal with the frustrating mix of large-scale consumption (grandiose shopping malls; opulent luxury resorts) and fundamentalist Islamic cultural practices (getting the stink-eye for her discount-bin harajuku fashion, and dealing with the inconvenience of buying cheap snack food during the Ramadan fasting).

Punk, Anarchism, Feminism, pt.2

One of the things feminism taught me was that the patriarchy was deeply embedded inside my mind and inside my body. from the hollywood fairytales I'd been force fed, the prince in shining armor, the soul mate, the person who would complete me. It taught me about the feeling of incompleteness. It taught me to look at it critically instead of looking to fill it with promises that couldn't come true.

One of the thing Anarchism taught me is that the feeling of incompleteness is part of the neurosis of living in a world that robs us of our humanity by turning us into consumers and vacationers. work time and weekend time. Our feeling of incompleteness was partially due to the attempt to fill our needs with empty products, fill our loneliness with empty fun.

I have put up a new show...System You Radio #11! Stop by for a listen, it's free of course!
http://www.systemyou.com
Setlist:

1. Inside My Brain Angry Samoans The Unboxed Set
2. Nocturnal Tiger Army Tiger Army
3. Reject of Society Crass The Feeding of the 5000
4. Long Painting 50 Foot Wave Golden Ocean (UK Acetate Promo CD)
5. Rent Is Due The Riverboat Gamblers To The Confusion Of Our Enemies
6. Little Doll The Stooges The Stooges
7. We're On Our Way Home Sangeeta .. Edinburgh Fringe EP ..
8. Blast Off The Birthday Party Junkyard
9. My War Chuck Dukowski Sextet Eat My Life
10. Wound Jawbreaker Unfun

thanks to punk planet for inviting me to be on here.

I have a sort of mythology about how I became a punk. It's not exactly the true story but it goes sort of like this - I didn't become a punk until after punk died -- when Green Day first signed to a major label, and I didn't even know who they were. In Berkeley, where I'd just moved to, there were people sitting on curbsides, taking up public space, making invisible places theirs. They said they weren't punks any more, that punk had betrayed them, that punk was not going to change the world. They were ex-punks I guess, but I don't know. They seemed like punks to me. What I loved about punk was the way we actually lived in the world, walking everywhere and exploring every abandoned building. I liked the hope behind the desperation, and I liked the desperation. I was tired of pretending. Although, honestly, that was something that was hard to unlearn.