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At Least You Thought You Wanted It, That's So Much More Than I Can Say For Me -- George Jones (1931 - 2013)
I grew up in a dozen small towns in Nebraska, passed on from relative to relative, friend to friend, orphanage to orphanage, while alcoholism, military life, court battles and adultery ravaged my family. Despite this predisposition to the very marrow of country music, our family was middle-brow to a fault. When we'd accidentally catch a snippet of twang on the car radio, we'd clamp our noses closed between two knuckles and honk out some improvised lyrics about trucks & trains, even before we'd heard Steve Goodman's country send-up, "You Never Even Called Me By My Name". My father loved deep, masculine voices and would get a little tight and sing along to Mario Lanza, Paul Robeson, Ezio Pinza, and Giorgio Tozzi in the wee hours, a bi-product of his alcoholism I actually found comforting and miss very much even thirty-some years after the booze killed him. He also played the hell out of Jim Reeves & Tennessee Ernie Ford records, singers I don't think he ever really connected to country music. I guess he -- like many Americans -- was thrown off by all those lush strings and voices colored more by the diaphragm than the adenoids. My mother liked "Go-Go Boot Country" -- Nancy Sinatra, Jeannie C. Riley, Bobbie Gentry, Joanna Neel, etc. -- but once again, I think she associated that more with hip LA than Nashville. We listened to a little opera, but only the arias. So country seeped into our lives from the jukeboxes in cocktail lounges, transistor radios balanced precariously atop the hoods of diner grills, the open windows of passing pick-up trucks, and the cabs of those fancy new combines that actually caused traffic jams on otherwise deserted highways. Stuck behind them for an hour, it was possible to get a pretty decent education in country music. And still our family insisted it wasn't for us.
There's nothing worse than the middle-brow mocking the low-brow. I'll smile and take it if Gore Vidal wants to tell me country music is atavistic hogslop, but small-town merchants in polyester leisure suits who listen religiously to Roger Whittaker, Glenn Yarbrough, and Helen Reddy, probably don't have much purchase when running down Conway Twitty.
You can't grow up in rural Nebraska and not know country music. While I didn't listen to it myself, I could sing you a little of every country hit and the names of the bands and performers were not lost on me. KRVN, a radio station out of Lexington, Nebraska, was always no more than a drugstore comic book buying spree away, and even if you're not paying much attention, your nose buried in an issue of Unknown Soldier or Weird Worlds, you're going to come away with a little "Hello Walls" or "There Stands the Glass" lodged in your pre-teen muddlehead. Of course I came to country music cattywumpus. Even though it was right there, the tinny radio soundtrack of my Nebraska life, it took the Grateful Dead, Pure Prairie League, and Eric Clapton covering Don Williams' "Tulsa Time" to get me curious about what I'd been trying valiantly to ignore. I remember DJ-ing a dance at Garden County High School in Oshkosh, Nebraska (my home for five years) and playing a few of the twangier Grateful Dead cuts off of Europe '72, thinking I'd turn all of those damn cowboys into Deadheads before the night was through. One lanky, half-crocked son of a bitch shambled over to the DJ table and told me stop playing "that disco shit". I guess I'd never really know what "Jack Straw" sounded like to them, how it reminded them of disco, but I'll always appreciate that cowteen for talking me down off my high horse.
Three events really pried me open and transformed an interest once coincidental and arbitrary into one conscious and deliberate. First, I fell moon-eyed in love with a girl from the rodeo club. Though I was an army brat and our family moved around a lot, from Puerto Rico to the Philippines, Alaska to Mexico, there were types in Nebraska that seemed utterly exotic to me. One year I courted a Mennonite girl for six months. She lived miles from town, in the absolute center of nowhere, and I spent many evenings on her porch, under the stern eyes of her mother and aunt, sipping fruit juice, admiring her excruciating blondness, and watching pale feathers of her hair escape from bobby pins and bonnet as the unchecked prairie breeze gusted through their meager acreage. Gradually my natural teenage impatience got the better of me and I found more suitable feminine companionship. That is, until I met the Rodeo Club Girl. Now, I don't want you to think that I was a Zeppelin/Sabbath-listening pothead brave enough to break free from my social set and compete head-on with the real-live bull and bronc-riding cowboys of Western Nebraska for the hand of this beguiling barrel-rider. I only proceeded once I decided she wasn't being nice to me at Quonset keggers because she'd downed half a barrel of Southern Comfort and grape Kool-Aid on a dare. So we began to date, and because she had the upper-hand, I began consuming country music as it was meant to be consumed, driving pick-up trucks on late-night country roads with the speedometer needle buried and a pint of Jim Beam clenched between my thighs. We'd drive and drive, changing 8-tracks willy-nilly from the pile of them on floor -- Merle Haggard to Tom T. Hall, Alabama to the Oak Ridge Boys, Tanya Tucker to The Kendalls. Thankfully, I was savvy enough not to start wearing cowboy hats and snakeskin boots, in fact my wardrobe ran more towards Robin Williams' duds in Mork & Mindy, with the occasional foray into tie-dye. But I definitely adopted her music. Of course she moved on after a few months. Apparently she found me exotic at first, but once I ran out of stories about Mexico and Alaska, she started to ridicule my horsemanship and that was that. Of course, the soundtrack to my busted heart was George Jones -- The Battle and Memories of Us in particular. Although I do recall one night when I listened to Tanya Tucker's "Would You Lay with Me (In A Field of Stone)" from 7 p.m. until eight in the morning, which is hell on an 8-track.
The mid-70s was a great time to be into what was called "Real Country Music". Crossover was everything and gradually it got so bad you could listen to allegedly country radio stations for hours without hearing a steel guitar. Imagine that. While the group Alabama packed stadiums, you could catch Conway Twitty, Merle Haggard, George Jones, Porter Wagoner, Ferlin Husky, and Johnny Cash at county fairgrounds for three bucks, and I made it my business to see them all. During this time I began playing taps for the funerals of dead veterans and fell in with a feisty bunch of old drunkards from the local VFW. After I stood on some Ash Hollow Cemetery hillside in the rain for an hour waiting for the rifle salute cue to begin burbling taps through my waterlogged old Conn trumpet, they'd get me out of school for the entire day and we'd sit down at Tom's Tavern, drinking beer and loading up the jukebox with quarters for beautiful, soggy afternoons full of George Jones, Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette, Johnny Horton, and Ray Price. Some misguided soul opened what he hoped to be the next Branson, Missouri on a lake about a hundred miles north and started putting on huge shows, bills overloaded with outmoded country geniuses. These feisty vets and I made the trip up at least once a month, and when I wasn't smoking pot on the high jump pit and talking Led Zeppelin with my stoner friends, I was galavanting around the badlands with a bunch of drunk old men to hear Jim Ed Brown & Helen Cornelius, Roy Clark or Mel Tillis. I paid to see George Jones on about twelve separate occasions and only managed to actually see the man perform three times. You've never seen anything like a crowd turned away at a George Jones show. While there was always a groan of disappointment, it quickly gave way to wry grins, quickly stifled guffaws (a lost art), and conspiratorial whispers, as if it wasn't a known fact that Jones was inebriated between here and wherever. Nobody wanted to be a gossip.
The third event seems innocuous enough, but it legitimized my country music listening to such a point that I no longer felt like a city kid wearing a seed cap for show. During a Junior Class Slave Sale, I was purchased by one of the bigger farms in Garden County and put to work roaming the fields on a tractor, lifting about ten thousand bales of hay onto a flatbed trailer. I relished the ritual of getting up at five in the morning, stopping by Doug's Texaco for an Old Home Cherry Pie and a Mountain Dew, and smoking a joint while I made the hour-long drive to the farm, the highway to myself, the dirt roads even more-so. I also enjoyed the work. I suppose that had something to do with knowing I was bound for college and wouldn't have to do it the rest of my days. When my week was up, they asked if I wanted to stay on, and I did. I think they just liked the idea of some bookish four-eyes doing back-breaking labor eight hours a day. I worked two summers on the farm & my favorite part was repairing shit in one of their huge barns. There was a disemboweled tractor in a corner of the barn, spider webs where the essential innards would normally be, and on the rusty seat sat a little Braun transistor radio, always tuned just ever-so-slightly off a country station and the little radio hung on for dear life to that signal, giving me classic country day in and day out, while I pretended I knew what I was doing. By the time I actually knew which end was up on farm machinery, I had a storehouse of "earned" music in my head, at least that's how I saw it. No matter how fraudulent I was in the long-haul, the music came to me legitimately. Discussions of what's genuine, what's legitimate, and what's hokum are valid, but I think everybody would agree that music has a natural state. If you listened to disco in New York City in 1976, you were listening to something different than I was, dancing to The Trammps at a Ramada Inn in Kearney, Nebraska. If you listened to Doc Watson and Hazel Dickens during a mining strike in Kentucky, you heard something very different than what I heard listening to them at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival. The songs from that little Braun radio, combined with my sunburned neck, my morning drive, my aching muscles, and the voices of men of few words yapping out orders in clipped, nearly incomprehensible, syllables, were beginning to feel lived-in, not simply recognized.
As years of befuddling heartbreak set in after high school, a series of events set off by the death of my father, I turned to Joy Division when obstacles seemed surmountable and to George Jones when they didn't. Of all the country singers who'd shared my days on the farm, his voice seemed the strangest, the most unique. Though he sounded like any number of his idols early on, by the late-60s his voice was a jazz instrument, a completely unique set of nasal groans, deep dark baritone hollows, and gothically sad phrases tortured across registers like infidels on the rack. I'd put it up against Albert Ayler's saxophone any day for sheer invention. Like Coltrane making art from the treacle of "My Favorite Things", Jones' nearly infinite control of his instrument, combined with the silky, and sometimes bone-chilling, catharses of Billy Sherrill's arrangements, made shiver-inducing transport out of standard-issue country pathos. And when the lyrics poetically sketched out a kind of tract-house Gotterdammerung, as on Jones' version of Jerry Chesnut's "A Good Year For the Roses" or "The Grand Tour", he could be an all-consuming blue flame, sucking all the pretend-happiness from a tavern and replacing it with the richer textures of shared experience and memory. My sister could never understand my fever for country music, asking me why I wanted to be sad all the time, and I found it difficult to explain that lovely blue zone between sadness and contentment, the place where experience and memory are at peace. You don't have to exaggerate the good times or make light of the bad times to show your face. The operative color may be blue, but it's a pulsing, vibrant blue, a community of blue, and there, George Jones will always be king.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Forever Angels Proud: The Real Lizard Kings, Part One
|St. Nic of Detroit, AKA Nicodemus
"Show me a cop who thinks he can fuck with me & I'll show you one fuckin' dead cop!" - "Skullcap" from The Liberty Riders (quoted in the police training video 1% Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs)
Now obviously this is a police training video, so the chances of it being completely accurate are slim. I mean, these are the people who told high-schoolers in the 1970s to look out for kids who wore long-sleeve shirts in the summer because they were most likely heroin addicts. But let's admit, this is probably a more accurate, eyes-on portrayal of the subculture than, say, Sons of Anarchy or Roger Corman movies. Many of the more unsung biker films of the late-60s/early-70s do suggest the level of amorality & Sadism practiced by one-percenters, see the menacing real-ass biker Sonny Barger in Hell's Angels '69. There's no accounting for the power of his performance. It's not good, it's not bad, but I dare you to keep your eyes off him when he's onscreen. He is much more suggestive of evil than that beatnik court jester Charles Manson ever was. Even with the Brechtian distance provided by television, VHS player, capsule review in a Psychotronic film book & time, you'll be tempted to get up & lock the windows when he's onscreen. This is the real Lizard King & "Born to Be Wild" would only make him chuckle.
The secret music of bikers appeared on a dozen private presses from the 1960s well into the 80s & in it all the paranoia, bad vibes, Motor Saint braggadocio & backporch wickedness of the one-percenters squirm in wild paroxysms of drug & hooch-fueled ecstasy, fucking & violence. Various record labels who specialize in private press obscurities have released some incredible "real" biker rock in the last decade & it's hardly all of one piece. While there's a prescient melding of Blue Cheer, The Stooges, Black Sabbath & Skynyrd that make late-80s Sub-Pop sound behind-the-curve, there are also odd Goth touches, crypto-jazz, a glimpse of what The Doors would have sounded like had Morrison not lazily accepted the nebbish-blues of Krieger & Manzarek, boozy singer-songwriter treacle made interesting by the singer's inability to fathom his own degradation, Casio trailer park hijinks, Butthole Surfers-level warp & wobble & a cornucopia of nagging, junksick guitar breakdowns that really make the whole fucking batch worthwhile. Though the music blogs of record insist all of the records tackled here have some association to biker culture, only a few actually have documented connections to the aforementioned netherworld. Still, all of them represent a grim wasteland of those who just will not "come on in for the big win" as the Colonel in Full Metal Jacket so blithely put it.
Raven's Back to Ohio Blues is probably the most instantly enjoyable bit of stranger danger represented here. Recorded in 1975 in Columbus, Ohio, this is proto-punk that lives up to that moniker -- every lyric an invocation of sex, drugs & death, every riff a pummeling graveyard shake. Raven (the main man's sobriquet, not a particular band configuration) gasps at one point, voice raw from amphetamine, bourbon & beyond, "Shoot me up with some morphine & let me die here in my grave/Just gimme some junk & let me fade away". Unbelievably this plea doesn't sound like something he'd appropriated from an old blues record. Unmoored as it is from standard coy rock'n'roll drug metaphors, it's chilling as any smack rock from that era (and that era had some GREAT smack rock) & Mr. Raven sells it with the kind of first-time-fronting-an-electric-band abandon that should dot your backbone with shivers just like Ron Ashton's dead-stop & re-establishment of the theme in "TV Eye". Though much of Back to Ohio Blues sounds like the Rosetta Stone/Missing Link between the more primal aspects of Cleveland's generous contributions to garage rock & the gravity-defying obliteration of genre gifted us by Mirrors, Rocket from the Tombs, Electric Eels, Styrenes, Pere Ubu, etc., there's no real evidence that Mr. Raven was doing anything other than delivering his own tortured take on blues rock of the era & obeying the zapped knell of his blistered id. Best of all, the guitar torture in the 13-minute plus title track is enough to make you forget what a snore blues rock turned out to be. To call this music "druggy" would be doing it an injustice. It's druggy with space, with a real, but hazy & purely instinctual, notion of what the next mad primal guitar dirge will mean when connected to the last. In the buzzing air pockets between riff & solo, between the naked drips of electricity from the amps & the plectrum striking the hot-wired strings, is carnage waiting to occur, the road as a generator of uncontrollable impulses. Back to Ohio Blues was recorded at Owl Recording Studio in Columbus as a limited vanity pressing to hand out to friends & associates, but its freakish mutations of metallic funk ("Raven Mad Jam") & ass-dragger Harley balladry ("Don't You Feel It") deserve a place in the pantheon of white boy junkyard hoodoo & other aural miscalculations to live by. It took geniuses to deconstruct this kind of blues/garage gore into something as transcendent as Electric Eels or Ubu, but some barely-sentient weirdo roadhogs had to make the riffs & sonic aphasia worth dismantling & reconstituting in the first place. The original Owl Records LP seems to be going for around $100+ these days & the 1994 Rockadelic reissues for between $50 & $80 depending on condition. You can pick up the Raven Jams reissue for $20.
Fraction's Moon Blood is the most conventional album here & if it had been released on Sub Pop in 1989, no fan of their Stooges-meets-Sabbath trademark sound would have blinked an eye. While the caveman guitar goo is occasionally worthy of Sub Pop's only truly great band, Mudhoney, the orderly song structures & radio friendly vocals would have made them instant staples of 90s alternative rock. Recorded in 1971 at Whitney's Studio in Glendale, CA by a bunch of ne'er-do-well LA musicians who'd been in & out of dead-end bands for a decade, this private press/limited edition record became known as hard-rock godhead by collector types, some who thought it was Jim Morrison moonlighting with another band, even though Fraction vocalist Jim Beach sounds NOTHING like Morrison. Well, that's not entirely true, he does go for a very mannered Morrison on "This Bird (Sky High)", but this only goes to show these journeymen were decent mimics. Most of the record, however, sounds like a Zeppelin record slowed down just a hair. Every song is a long-ish to long guitar epic, performed professionally, but with a little more sonic splatter than you'd expect in a major label offering. Another wiggy bit of trivia -- the members of the band were apparently Christians, though the spectrum of hippie Christianity in the early-70s ran the gamut from vaguely psychedelic Guitar Mass strumminess to baptisms with blood & mud in Topanga Creek & being brain-washed into chanting some Gnostic "OM" until the world went up in flames. The lyrics on Moon Blood rarely slouch towards the apocalyptic, making this one of the less interesting Christian musical artifacts of the era. Beach even sells out the Doors pastiche "This Bird" by grunting & shrieking the usual Jesus Freak "white dove" doggerel. For an album that allegedly sold for $2000 to wide-eyed collectors, Moon Blood is a bit of a letdown. Despite its rough edges & last-band-on-earth sprawl, these were mockingbirds grasping for stardom, not outsider freaks. Still, if you can get past the abominable lyrics & the aggressively annoying rock star impressions of Beach, it's worth a listen. Just don't pay more than $10. The Mexican Summer reissues are going for $30, but you get a free 10" in the bargain.
Kenneth Higney's Attic Demonstration is finally getting to the weirdo core of the matter. Not that it's a great album, in fact there are those who may find it utterly unlistenable, but it's obviously meant for a decadent, hermetic audience who don't give a shit about radio, manners, coolness, or intellectual acuity.This is cave spazz that almost never hits the mark, which is its crazy charm. When Higney tries to be funky, he slogs along with his proto-rap (?) long after the drums & bass have surrendered their fucked groove & started jamming with no regard for rhythm whatsoever. When he tries to lay down a garage screed about hating John Denver, something that could have been a three-chord classic, the band decides to venture off into amorphous free jazz. Nothing here melds, coheres, gels...Every element fights the others, with Higney occasionally crying out for order as the mess disintegrates, but it's all done with such wasted glee that Attic Demonstration stands as one of the great TOTALLY FUCKED albums of all-time. When Higney tries to be heartfelt ("Children of Sound") a synthesizer glurps & splurks brilliantly in the background until the damn thing becomes a masterpiece. This is freak rock.
Attic Demonstration was recorded in 1976 as a way of promoting Higney's songwriting, but 500 copies made it into the world & became "holy grails" (sigh). To his 500 crazy friends, this dead-end album yielded a messed-up fireside shamble for bikers & other road savages, "No Heavy Trucking". It's a galvanizing, fist-pumper for those too drunk to lift their arms & conveys a message of lawlessness so tame ("No heavy trucking/Do it on your own time/No heavy trucking/No heavy parking fines"...or "porcupines"?) that it's an eye-roller when sober, a valid statement of purpose after a quaalude & ten shots of Jack Daniels. Either way, it's goddamned irresistible. There's something automatically alluring about listening to an absolutely unlovable, subhuman singer tell some girl he can't possibly love her & Attic Demonstration has several classics in this department, the best being "Can't Love That Woman" where Trog Higney tells the object of his affection that she's just not sensitive enough for a boy like him. Higney went on to a series of other failures which (guess what?) became collectibles, including an album of Attic Demonstration detritus called American Dirt he recorded with an Allman Brother & other hired guns & an album of all-new material, Ambulance Driver. If you have great love for Lester Bangs & The Delinquents' Jook Savages on the Brazos, Attic Demonstration would make an ideal B-side to that cassette in your glove box nobody on earth will touch. This is a classic & you'd be a damn fool not to own it & force people to listen. It's the musical equivalent of optimistically trying to masturbate when you've no hope of even achieving an erection.
By now it's probably become apparent that the biker theme of this piece has become more or less hypothetical, though there is some evidence these private press editions were quite popular with self-professed outlaws who yearned for a music all their own. Raven was definitely a favorite with Middle-American bikers & the next three records really get to the crux of the matter. Easily the best of this bunch, Circuit Rider's self-titled dirtbag classic is biker heaven, the kind of album you picture only being listened to around a lurid bonfire, all the wrong drugs passed hand-to-hand, the chicks half-flirting/half-retreating for safety, tongues of fire reflected in the chrome of thirty resting Harleys. This is a record full of snorting hogs, barking dogs, atomic blasts, slippery off-kilter beats, lyrics that constantly celebrate the triumph of the beast in man -- true Lizard King music. Perhaps recorded in the early-70s, maybe as late as 1980, Circuit Rider's album is (but for the kinda Santana-ish & predictable "Limousine Ride") a demonic sneer from beginning to end. The Doors-ish moments are actually the best, because they're so much better than anything that band laid down behind Morrison. We have no way of knowing if the lead vocalist of Circuit Rider had Morrison's charisma (though I suspect all that info will become available shortly with this primo re-issue from Numero Group), but slithering snake dances like "How Long" & "Old Time Feeling" evade Morrison's artier impulses & get directly to the Dionysian/limbic boiler room. Once again though, many critics have gone overboard with The Doors comparisons. Circuit Rider's singer has a backporch drawl that countrifies even the band's most acid rock settings. Desert lopers like "Billy Bad Billy" seem meant for the soundtrack for an even darker version of Peckinpah's Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, while the hoarse, damaged cat-strut of "Red Dog" seems more at home in the short-lived white garage blues "explosion" of the mid-90s than the acid blooz scene of the 70s. This is high desert snake-handler testifying at its most seductive, filled with shallow graves, silent morning escapes from lust & murder, the slow death of conscience & the ecstasy of being finally beyond morality. A classic & the Numero Group reissue is going for a paltry $15.
Stephen David Heitkotter's Heitkotter was recorded by a drug-destroyed lunatic & a trio of friends in Fresno, 1971,. The songs are meandering, mumbled, nearly formless pleas for heavenly mercy, despite the real-world concerns indicated by titles like "Fly Over the Moon", "Cadillac Woman" & "Quaker, Dog Got Away". The easiest reference point would probably be Jandek, though Heitkotter exhibits none of that once-mysterious Texans otherworldly control. The little band, with zero sympathy for Heitkotter's cosmic predicament, jams on & on, veering through moods that only occasionally represent the haunted desperation of the man at the center of it all. When it comes together -- anarchic, amateur vacuousness melding with Heitkotter's troubling, tuneless Nembutal afterthoughts -- it can be brilliant, but Heitkotter is most frightening when the band goes one way & the poor crazy bastard goes another, achieving a spectral loneliness one rarely hears from a band allegedly committed to some communal goal (a record). They hit something like a groove for "Cadillac Woman", and it's like listening to a home-recorded ZZ Top 8-track with a Quicksilver Messenger Service live bootleg bleeding in from a past recording. Every song starts out haltingly & ends up in a meaningless pile of shit that finally dribbles away to silence, which seems somehow appropriate to Heitkotter's half-brained/half-hearted attempts at desire & occasionally long-lost biker bravado. One senses he may have been some kinda tough guy before the electroshock therapy, but even when he rises to the occasion, scatting like a welter-weight Manson in "Quaker, Dog Got Away" the song cuts off, probably to calm the poor bastard down before he jerks & flails himself out the window. And nothing -- not the palsy of an old woman trying to knit, not the yelp of a dog with a paw caught in the fence -- will ruin your day like hearing SDH try to croon "I love you" over & over in "I Don't Mind". The rampant anti-telepathy among the various members of this hopeless trio becomes hypnotic eventually, if you've got the stomach for its heart-breaking immediacy, but you'll never leave Heitkotter's world alive. You can get some original Heitkotter vinyl for $80 through Amazon, or the reissue for $25 from Time-Lag Records.
"I picked up an acoustic guitar at seven years old and could instantly play, much to my surprise. I played an unconventional style which many other guitarists could not figure out what I was doing or how- they were into the copy note for note conventional guitar lesson taught style of music-mimicking their heroes. In my teens I had a band, J.H. Trio, and got a real good shot at being signed to Motown, which was an exceptional experience. I remember David Ruffin telling me, "Man, it don't matter what they say about you as long as they keep talking about you and spell your name right." - From the Myspace page for St. Nic of Detroit, borrowed from the wonderful Frog Not Prog website.
The two records by St. Nic of Detroit, AKA Nicodemus are the most fascinating of the bunch, a gutbucket visceral taffy pull of Goth, New Wave, serious biker/redneck Gotterdammerung, sociopathic stabs at sensitivity & jarring attempts at what can only be called "hit-making". Nic, with his long white beard, leather cowboy hat, legitimate club colors & dangerous fist jewelry comes on like a trailer court Stephen Merritt, moving from style to style with more aplomb than you'd ever expect from such a creature. In fact, both of these albums make up a kind of One-Percenter 69 Love Songs, with Nic singing honestly about his often objectionable sex habits, his unrepentant substance abuse, the scuzzy melodrama of outlaw love...sound familiar? Raw Energies is awkward on occasion, with the synth-stippled country death song "Wednesday Morning" sounding like something you'd hear on the demos of a million bar bands across the nation, but for the most part Nic's breathtaking ambition wins the day. Even if one Bat Cave-y Christian Death homage doesn't exactly rise to the occasion, the next brutally honest, besotted Mark Lanegan-style shanty will & the fact that everything seems to be played live on junky keyboards & hopeless guitars engenders a feeling of good will that gets you over the rough patches. Oh, those endearing rough patches.
While Raw Energies is a puzzling little gem, the album he recorded with his brother Matchez (formerly the Congo Kid), Better Art Music, is a whirling mindbender. Recorded in 1986 at their own R.A.T. (Recording Artist Techniques) Brothers Studio in Detroit, this is easily one of the weirdest & most enjoyable outsider New Wave pop albums of that queer little era. It's as quirky & atmosphere as anything concocted by Don Dixon & Mitch Easter & as fundamentally smart as anything by Was (Not Was). While Nic's vocals occasionally stray into the realms of 80s LA metal, the arrangements are pared down to daft synth blips, swampy guitar, rickety but on-target drumming & exquisite bargain basement studio trickery. Nic's oversinging in these hazy, plunky settings actually starts to work once you're used to it. It's an utterly novel sound jury-rigged from whatever didn't sell at last week's yard sale. Lyrical concerns make bleary circles from the comic-book cosmic to the practical troubles of a man who can't seem to sober up for ten minutes & then repeats the formula ten more times. If there's a peak in this consistently engaging wealth of unhinged ideas, it's the stunner "I Am Not Happy", which somehow manages to lasso the Goth, New Wave, Glam & Shitkicker elements into a perfectly cohesive something-or-other. Imagine Bauhaus & ZZ Top...well, you can't, until you hear this raging burlesque of craft-store glitter & stunt guitar. Robot disco, outer-space effects, whirring-wizzbangers, sauerkrautrock, veiled threats, some kinda Weird Al-ish take on "Junco Partner", a Zappa-inflected Casio version of "My Way", drunken dub, relatively straightforward glam metal honk that wouldn't sound out of place on an tape of Guns N' Roses demos ("The Legend of the Headless Harley Rider") & spooky little Halloween instrumentals for the kids -- could you possibly expect more from a record?
St. Nic has a daunting variety of cassettes, singles, albums & various whatnots available from his Myspace page & I may be addicted, so Plastic Submission will keep you abreast on the Nicodemus front. I recommend visiting St. Nic's page just to read his long, engaging tall tales about the Detroit music industry, his favorite instruments, his crazy life & whatever else flits to mind.
|Both photos from the 1% Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs video
Thursday, June 14, 2012
This is what he did: he unfolded the sack he was carrying, opened
its mouth wide, and seizing the youth by his head, pushed his whole body in
the rough sacking envelope. With his handkerchief, he tied up the end that
had served as way of introduction. As Mervyn was uttering loud and piercing
cries, he picked up the sack like a bag of linen and smashed it repeatedly
against the parapet of the bridge. Then the victim, aware that his bones were
breaking, became silent. A unique scene no novelist will ever find again! A
butcher was passing, sitting on the meat in his cart. An individual runs up to
him, urging him to stop, and says: "There's a dog in this sack; it has rabies:
Put it down as quickly as you can." The butcher is happy to oblige. As the
individual walks away, he sees a young girl in rags holding out her hand.
What heights of audacity and impiety can he reach? He gives her alms! Tell
me if you want me to escort you through the door of a distant
slaughterhouse, a few hours later. The butcher has returned and as he
throws his burden onto the ground, he has said to his friends: "Let's hurry up
and kill this rabid dog." There are four of them, and each picks up the
hammer he normally uses. And yet they are hesitant because the sack is
moving violently. "What's this emotion that grips me?" one of them shouted,
slowly lowering his arm. "This dog is whimpering with pain like a child," said
another, "you'd think it knows the fate that awaits it." "They usually do," said
the third, "even when they are not sick, as in this case; their master only has
to stay away from home for a few days and they start howling in a way that's
horrible to hear." "Stop!… stop!…" the fourth shouted, before all their arms
were raised in unison to resolutely strike the sack. "Stop, I tell you, there's a
fact here that has escaped us. Who told you that this cloth sack contains a
dog? I want to make sure." Then, despite the taunts of his companions, he
untied the bundle, and pulled out one after the other the limbs of Mervyn! He
was almost suffocated by the discomfort of this position. He fainted when he
saw the light again. After a few moments he gave undoubted signs of life. His
rescuer said: "In future, learn to use caution in all of your dealings. You
almost found out for yourself that it is pointless practising non-observance of
this law." The butchers fled. Mervyn, heavy-hearted and full of grim
forebodings, returns home and locks himself in his room.
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Recently we were invited to a showing of Who Shot Rock and Roll?, an exhibition of rock and roll photography at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles. We were given a tour by Gail Buckland, the curator of the exhibit and author of Who Shot Rock and Roll. Her insights and experiences with the photographers of music icons like James Taylor, Simon and Garfunkel and Crosby Stills, and Nash were fascinating and added Ms. Buckland's personal touch to an already intensely personal experience -- because what has a more evocative, emotional and universal effect than music?
The key to the music and rock photography of the 1960s, 1970s and, to some extent, the 1980s was the lack of restrictions and parameters that the artists had to consider while they were creating. Free to explore their ideas through their words and lyrics alongside photographers like Bob Gruen and Lynn Goldsmith, the excitement practically jumped off the page or out of the speakers at us, inviting us to enter the world created by brilliant, innovative and, most of all, independent thinking artists.
For those of us who are children of that era, there was nothing more thrilling than a new album by our favorite performer and running to the record store to buy the latest release ($4.99 plus tax, circa 1976) then ripping off the plastic wrap, the album cover almost as exciting as the music on the record. We would read the credits, the dedications and, of course, the lyrics, deciphering the poetic musings of our idols as we listened, over and over, waiting for the melodies to become part of our subconscious so we could hum, then sing along to the songs. We wanted to feel what they felt, interpret their words in a way that would help us to connect to them.
Now, music is so much more than someone writing and singing. Musicians are packaged, promoted, publicized and presented to us in such a way that there are so many layers between us and them that it makes it much harder to feel connected in any profound way. Every once in a while someone will transcend the slick business and really touch us -- Adele comes to mind -- but most of the time, we are presented a pre-digested ideal of what an artist should be. Today there are no album covers to dissect, and albums have given way to iPod playlists, so the experience of listening, from beginning to end, to one musician's songs seems, well, quaint.
Bloggers have become some of the least-censored cultural voice of our time, much like musicians were to the 1960s, '70s and '80s. With complete autonomy to say what we think and to interpret the world in our unique way, bloggers are free to say whatever we want. Like musicians, there are bloggers who appeal to some and not others -- there are those voices that ring true for hundreds of thousands, and those that have an audience of a dozen or so. There are bloggers who write about their children, their parents, their community, their hobbies, their passions, politics, war, cooking, their likes, their dislikes... just as musicians did back when rock and roll was young -- and still do, of course.
Remember the beautiful Crosby, Stills and Nash and Young song "Teach Your Children?"
How many blogs have you read that give you the same advice, but use pictures, websites and personal anecdotes rather than music and lyrics to tell their story?
Or how about Simon and Garfunkel's "The Sounds of Silence"? Does it get any more poetic than this?
There are poetry blogs by the thousands on the Internet. You don't have to look too far to find them. Unedited, raw, and honest -- for better or for worse -- bloggers say what they like, how they like and when they like it. The Internet is the coffee house for a new world, the poetry slam of the future.
Executives at music companies need "the whole package" (American Idol, anyone?) to find an artist marketable, dictating everything from hairstyles to lyrics. On the contrary, in the world of bloggers, anyone can say anything, and that's what makes it exciting. Like the early rock and rollers, bloggers are inventive, awful, exciting, fabulous and fresh. All you need to do is find the ones that speak to you -- like Crosby, Stills and Nash, James Taylor, Simon and Garfunkel and so many others spoke to me back in the 1970s -- and still do.


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While reading through the Google Analytics Event Tracking Guide, I came across this nugget:
In general, a "bounce" is described as a single-page visit to your site. In Analytics, a bounce is calculated specifically as a session that triggers only a single GIF request, such as when a user comes to a single page on your website and then exits without causing any other request to the Analytics server for that session. However, if you implement Event Tracking for your site, you might notice a change in bounce rate metrics for those pages where Event Tracking is present. This is because Event Tracking, like page tracking is classified as an interaction request.
Of course having read through several SEO related posts identifying bounce rate as a ranking factor (or at a minimum a quality signal), I devised a way to game it.
<div id="header" onMouseOver="pageTracker._trackEvent('bounce', 'bouncecheck', 'Look Ma No Bounce');">
I figure a mouseover on my header will probably be triggered enough to dramatically drop my bounce rate without looking too artificially manipulated. Plus I wonder if a body onLoad statement would be overkill, or trigger faster than the gif request. Anyway after implementing this for one day you can see the huge difference below.
Now while my method is obviously solely aimed at gaming the system, there are some legitimate uses. A few examples that come to mind where firing off an event make sense are video plays, if the end of a javascripted animation, newsletter signups, rss subscribes and there are probably a thousand more.


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Canada has introduced new stricter rules regarding pipeline safety and the oil spill response.
The regulations, approved prior to a launch of a major project designed to carry crude oil from tar sands in the province of Alberta, will give Canada's energy regulator, the National Energy Board (NEB), more power to enforce compliance on safety.
NEB will also be able to step in in the case of oil spills if the company is unwilling or unable to respond appropriately.
Companies will also now be held liable, up to 1bn Canadian Dollars (£547m), for all spills or incidents on their lines, whether or not they are at-fault or negligent, putting the onus on owners to ensure safe operations.
"This approach is called 'absolute liability' and it will apply to all federally-regulated pipelines," said Natural Resources Minister Greg Rickford at a press conference in Vancouver.
Companies found to be at-fault or negligent in an incident will continue to face unlimited liability.
The new measures, which include a revamp of some legislation dating back to the 1950s, build on a pledge last year to require all companies operating major crude oil pipelines in Canada to have 1 billion Canadian Dollars at hand to fund spill clean ups.
In the case of a severe spill or incident, the government said it will backstop the initial cost of clean-up and remediation, with the NEB responsible for recovering those additional funds from pipeline companies.
"The 'polluter pays' principle will be enshrined in law so that it is clear Canadian taxpayers are not expected to foot the bill in the event of a major oil spill," said Rickford.
The changes come a day after Canada moved to strengthen its response plans for oil spills at sea and just weeks ahead of its final ruling on Enbridge Inc's Northern Gateway pipeline project, which is expected in mid-June.
The controversial pipeline, which would carry crude from the oil sands hub of Edmonton, Alberta, to a deepwater port in northern British Columbia, is one of three major domestic projects currently on the books.
Kinder Morgan is planning to expand and twin its Trans Mountain pipeline, which also carries oil to the Pacific coast, and TransCanada Corp has proposed a line to carry crude east to refineries in Quebec and New Brunswick.
The government has pushed hard to reassure Canadians that it has policies in place to regulate those proposed projects, which would allow Canadian oil producers, now dependant on US markets, to tap directly into more lucrative foreign markets.
But the projects are fiercely opposed by many environmentalists and aboriginal groups, which fear spills and the possibility that pipelines will hasten development of the Alberta oil sands and exacerbate climate change.
In an effort to address some of those concerns, the government pledged to involve aboriginal communities in pipeline safety plans, and encourage more collaboration with industry.
Regulators are also carrying out more pipeline inspections and audits each year, and will be able to fine companies that do not comply with requirements up to 100,000 Canadian Dollars per day.
There are about 73,000 kilometers (45,360 miles) of federally-regulated pipeline in Canada, transporting more than 100bn Canadian Dollars worth of oil, gas and petroleum products each year.


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Bayer MaterialScience Acquires Composite Materials Company
Through a business acquisition in southern Germany, Bayer MaterialScience has expanded its position on the future-oriented market for composite materials. The company concluded the takeover of Thermoplast Composite GmbH (TCG) in Langenfeld, near Nuremberg, a technology leader specializing in the production of thermoplastic fiber composites. Bayer MaterialScience will use the acquisition to expand its range of products for important industries and thereby strengthen its leading position.
The company intends to market composites made from continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastics (composites). This is a new class of particularly thin and lightweight materials, whose properties offer superior performance in existing solutions based on aluminum, for example.
Production facilities in Leverkusen, Germany, where Bayer MaterialScience is headquartered.
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Production expansion planned
The takeover of TCG gives Bayer MaterialScience access to innovative technology know-how as well as key patents and facilities. All employees are to be retained. Bayer MaterialScience plans to expand TCG's production capacity, the first step being to expand production in the Nuremberg metropolitan region. Capacities in other regions will be added subsequently to optimally supply customers.
Bayer MaterialScience is already active in the development and marketing of composite solutions based on polyurethane systems. "We are seeing significant demand and growth opportunities for composites made from thermoplastic materials such as polycarbonate," said Dr. Markus Steilemann, member of the company's Executive Committee and Head of the Polycarbonates Business Unit. "By getting into the development and production of the corresponding composites, we want to become one of the driving forces in this industry. We expect promising opportunities above all in the IT, automotive and transportation industries, as well as in consumer goods, which would further strengthen our position."
Bayer MaterialScience has long been supplying numerous industries with products and application solutions based on polycarbonate and its associated blends. This material is extremely lightweight, strong, freely formable, easy to process and can be recycled multiple times. The company has also been working for some time now on the development of polycarbonate composites. "By acquiring TCG, we have now filled the last gaps in our processing technology know-how," said Dr. Olaf Zöllner, Head of Polycarbonate Applications Development for Europe.
Composites offer numerous advantages
Bayer MaterialScience believes that polycarbonate composites are highly suited to such things as fabricating premium housings for the IT industry. These composites are an answer to the trend towards smaller dimensions and an impression of quality. And there is a number of additional advantages. "Hardware made of polycarbonate composites feels like metal, but is significantly lighter," said Zöllner. He further points out the good shapeability of the material and its quality look and feel. What is more, the material offers cost advantages in processing.
In the automotive industry, for example, such composites help to make motor vehicles lighter and more efficient. "In this segment, we think polycarbonate composites are capable of significantly reducing weight over solutions made of aluminum," Zöllner added.
Dr. Herbert Börger and Ingolf Knaup, managing partners of TCG, see great benefits for their company in the partnership with Bayer MaterialScience. TCG could now more quickly and comprehensively realize the industrial manufacturing and broad-based market introduction of unidirectional thermoplastic advanced composites based on the innovative and patented proprietary technology platform. Consequently, the purchase would be the next logical step in TCG's successful development.
Thermoplast Composite GmbH was established in 2007 and currently has twelve employees. In addition to performance fiber composites with a thermoplastic matrix, the company also specializes in ultra-lightweight foams and engineering services.
About Bayer MaterialScience:
With 2014 sales of EUR 11.7 billion, Bayer MaterialScience is among the world's largest polymer companies. Business activities are focused on the manufacture of high-tech polymer materials and the development of innovative solutions for products used in many areas of daily life. The main segments served are the automotive, electrical and electronics, construction and the sports and leisure industries. At the end of 2014 Bayer MaterialScience had 30 production sites and employed approximately 14,200 people around the globe. Bayer MaterialScience is a Bayer Group company.
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An Introduction to Sustainability provides students with a comprehensive overview of the key concepts and ideas which are encompassed within the growing field of sustainability. The book teases out the diverse but intersecting domains of sustainability and emphasises strategies for action. Aimed at those studying the subject for the first time, it is unique in giving students from different disciplinary backgrounds a coherent framework and set of core principles for applying broad sustainability principles within their personal and professional lives. These include: working to improve equality within and across generations, moving from consumerism to quality of life goals and respecting diversity in both nature and culture. Areas of emerging importance such as the economics of happiness and wellbeing stand alongside core topics including: Energy and society Consumption and consumerism Risk and resilience Waste, water and land. Key challenges and applications are explored through international case studies and each chapter includes a thematic essay drawing on diverse literature to provide an integrated introduction to fundamental issues. Launched with the brand-new Routledge Sustainability Hub, the bookas companion website contains a range of features to engage students with the interdisciplinary nature of Sustainability. Together these resources provide a wealth of material for learning, teaching and researching the topic of sustainability. This textbook is an essential companion to any sustainability course.DISCUSSION QUESTIONS Towards the end of each chapter there are a number of discussion questions that students ... THEMATIC ESSAY After the main text of each chapter you will find a a#39;thematic essaya#39; related to, but integrated into theanbsp;...
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text: I think I saw at least one other report of this: I was on a trip and the energy display to my destination would refresh briefly to a 10% higher number for a few seconds before going back to the previous pessimistic projection. I may have figured out what was going on, at least in my case. The details: I was making a trip from my home in the mountains to the Blanding UT Supercharger Station (camping trip in Natural Bridges National Monument). With a 90% charge, the energy projection had a surprisingly low 6% projection for my battery at the destination. By contrast, EV Trip Planner said I can make it easily, especially in the downhill direction. So I set off, figuring I could drive slowly if necessary, and after ten or fifteen miles I saw the destination energy projection cycle briefly from 6% to 16% then back to 6%. It did this several times at random intervals. Had me puzzled. Then I noticed that "Tessie" the nav system had me making a turn at a highway junction when I always go straight. Sure enough, when I passed that junction Tessie recalculated my route and my energy projection fixed on 16% remaining; I eventually got into Blanding with 14%, driving the speed limit on cruise the whole way except for some really fun twisties (I always zoom through those). So, for reasons I don't understand, Tessie routed me over the mountains on a twenty (!) mile longer route, with thousands of feet of elevation gain, as opposed to the much lower, easier, shorter route around the mountains. I didn't notice because no local would even consider the route Tessie chose, it is absurd to go that way (and, unlike Google maps, there doesn't seem to be any way to change the route on the Tesla nav system). Not too surprisingly, the same thing happened on the way home from Blanding: Tessie chose the twenty mile longer route over the mountains and it wasn't until I got to my turn to the correct route that the energy plot showed an additional 10% battery at my destination. Going the usual way around the mountains I started with 94% in Blanding and arrived at home with 14% (next time I will just charge to 90% in similar mild weather conditions). So, if others see the energy plot cycling between projections, perhaps Tessie is measuring alternate routes. I've never seen this happen on ordinary freeway road trips but mountains with varying route choices seem to cause issues. Thats fine for me on my home ground but it could be a problem for tourists driving the mountains. It would be crazy to go over the mountains rather than around them unless mountain sightseeing was the goal of the trip. But how would visitors know that unless they had preplanned their routes? Anyway, I throw this out there as a possible reason for energy plot glitches. FWIW.


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Leave your car behind and take advantage of the Annapolis Circulator trolley. Running every 10 minutes, and located directly adjacent to The Westin Annapolis, this complimentary transportation service offers easy access to all the exciting things to do in Annapolis. Hop on the Annapolis trolley then explore the Annapolis Maritime Museum, sail the Chesapeake Bay, or feast on world-famous seafood while dining by the water. Located just steps from the Park Place pick up area, The Westin Annapolis offers visitors prime access to the city's entertainment venues, attractions and dining.
Annapolis Circulator Trolley: Hours of Operation
- Monday - Saturday 7:30 AM - 11:00 PM; last trolley at 10:40 PM
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Thousands of people in the Central African Republic have taken temporary refuge in the bush to escape violence, and are living without proper shelter or safe drinking water. As a peace deal is reached between the government and rebels, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is continuing to extend its emergency response, and is negotiating to improve access to care in areas where health staff have fled and basic medical services are no longer available.
On 10 January, MSF opened an emergency programme in the government-held town of Damara, which is on the front line of the conflict. The team is providing basic healthcare via mobile clinics. Medical staff are treating up to one hundred patients per day, mainly for malaria and malnutrition.
"The population of the Central African Republic already suffers from some of the worst health indicators in the world, and mortality rates are alarming even in times of peace," says Sylvain Groulx, an MSF coordinator in the country. "The recent instability has forced many people to leave their homes. An added burden is the fact that many local health facilities closed when medical staff fled into the bush. The few health posts that have remained open are either running out of basic essential medicines or worse, have been completely looted."
At an MSF programme in Batangafo, in the northwest of the country, consultations at the hospital have dropped from an average of 128 a day, in the 10 days before the town was taken by rebel forces, to 66. Many families are spending their nights in the open, without mosquito nets, and without access to sufficient food and safe drinking water.
In December, MSF sent an emergency surgical team to the town of Kaga Bandoro, east of Batangafo. Six people were treated for bullet wounds, and 27 civilians, including women and children, received treatment for burns after an explosion at a petrol station.
Mobile teams are regularly visiting seven health centres in the capital Bangui, training staff in the use of rapid diagnostic tests for malaria and providing malaria drugs. Staff are on standby, including a team at the Castor maternity hospital, ready to respond in case there is a need of emergency surgical support.
Several tons of medicines have been sent to health facilities that remain open in the areas around Grimari, Bria and Sibut.
Before this conflict, the Central African Republic was already in a state of chronic medical emergency. The population has suffered from decades of violence, displacement and insecurity caused by clashes between rebel groups and government forces, as well as armed bandits. Access to healthcare is limited due to a lack of qualified medical staff, few facilities outside the capital city and frequent shortages of essential medicines. Funding from international donors and aid agencies will likely shrink if there is no guarantee of a stable government or of security for aid workers.
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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Newspaper Sales Executive to join the Hull Daily Mail, part of the Trinity Mirror Group plc. In this role, you will be responsible for the delivery of circulation volume and revenue for all Trinity Mirror titles across the Hull and Humber region. Reporting to the Head of Newspaper Sales, you will be engaging in all relevant sales department activity, both in the field and occasionally within the office.
For the right candidate, this role can offer the successful individual an exciting opportunity to promote the Hull Daily Mail within an autonomous role, with varied responsibilities each day. If you enjoy meeting new people and would love to represent and promote our successful newspaper brands, we want to hear from you!
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Open Source iOS Control For Easily Creating Animated Iconized Grid Menus
I've mentioned some interesting open source iOS menu controls – most recently a slide out menu with great animations inspired by the Sparrow Mail app, and an open source control allowing you to easily create iconized popover menus.
Here's an open source control from Ryan Nystrom called RNGridMenu inspired by the Sparrow Mail app that allows you to create very clean menus that can be laid out in a grid pattern with icons, simply as a group of icons, or text.
The menu is complete with animations, a nice background blurring effect when the menu is shown, and there are many customization parameters.
This animated image from the readme shows RNGridMenu in action:
You can find RNGridMenu on Github here.
A nice clean looking easy to use menu control.
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[Intro (Flight (2012 Film)):] Source: LYBIO.net
[Block:] I'm sorry, Mr. Whittaker, I couldn't hear you. What did you say?
[Whip:] [exhales] I said God help me.
[John Piper: Your Heart Has to Get Bigger:]
You don't just fight – You've gotta SEE! Your heart has to get bigger, and bigger, and bigger so that this little temptation looks like the stupid, suicidal, insane, little monster it is! –John Piper Passion '12
Bare my soul, let it go, let it go
Heavy load, bare my soul, let it go, let it go
Verse 1:
Wish I could erase the images I've seen
Year was 93′, tape on the bed right next to me
Couldn't wait till my Auntie went to sleep, so we put the TV on mute
And the girl on the TV so cute, could have sworn she was looking at me
Now the seed is planted so deep, turn the lights off
Mouth sitting wide open, but I can't talk
Did the girl just really take her clothes off?
Can't look away, it's about to do down holler "May Day"
Real talk I thought this was a game? I left that room with chains
Never looked at girls the same, because I know
Being thirty years old and a virgin, don't mean you out grow them urges
Never should have pulled back that curtain
Thank God for the blood he purchased me
Still the images in my sleep; never thought I'd be this deep
When a girl walk past I'm weak… Why not? That's what I'm thinking
I'm a pig in the morning like bacon, clothes on in my mind you naked
My virtue I'm forsaking. My Lord
Probably going to need your grace
Don't forget my face…be back tomorrow roll tape.
Bare my soul, let it go, let it go
Heavy load, bare my soul, let it go, let it go
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Some men and some women got hooked are pornography and they got hooked at age 14 and now they are 29 ruining their marriages. They can not get free of this thing and for the sake of love say no to pornography.
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(I was) A sweet 16, looking so clean, with 2 of my girls, linking up with our boos
We agreed we weren't pitching home-runs, but letting'em hit a few bases was cool
So yeah he knew, he wasn't gone do me; plus we were coming to just watch a movie
He popped it in, it was a flick, and all I seen was the back of a chick
With her hand on his "whoa", out the corner of my eye, I'm looking at him feeling sick
You would've sworn I wasn't trying to get pregnant, they way I start yelling, "Aye pull it out, quick"
They looked at me like "you serious?", I looked like, "yeah that's right"
They looked at me and just SMH'd, I guess I killed their vibe but
I, say we gone get caught, plus it's too loud, he say, my dad walk in right now he would be proud
Wow, but bore me; he say, "nah you a virgin, you scared of this orgies"
He was right, I left that room with questions
Am I the object of a man's affections or his erection
All I know, that day I said no, & as a woman, I never looked backed
But if I did this is how it would go
I would haul in from a hard day, hop up out my heel
In heat, I would hover the internet for some hot thrills
Conscious crying, body tingling, head low singing
Bare my soul, let it go, let it go
Heavy load, bare my soul, let it go, let it go
[Voice Over:] Source: LYBIO.net
The solution to this problem gals and guys is not duty, what will not fail, what will succeed over time is: I am gonna fight for a superior pleasure that severs the root of the lie.
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I used to sneak peeks at my momma's catalog, that's where the apple falls
On pouty lips and padded bras, and that's what Adam saw
It had him all off balance
And castles fall when passive palace walls are challenged by the reign of cats and jackled dogs
She bares her chest, now I bare my chest (Hasslehoff)
I swear my chest was barely even hairy when my addict called, and told me that is all
Convincing me this blackened hall was one I had to walk
And I had a Dad and Mom
But my camouflaged was real, for every layer that she peels there's one that I conceal
And I can deal with this until I get to numb to feel what I can't kill
If you can't drive a screw you know the drill
You take the only pill and slowly kill your family
Traded my first love for a fantasy
All because a planted seed I can't retrieve
I think of how it damaged me
Can't stand to think my fantasy was probably there because her father was a man
like me… Help me Jesus!
Bare my soul, let it go, let it go
Heavy load, bare my soul, let it go, let it go
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The battle can be won and if I defile my heart and mind with picture after picture after picture, I will not be able to see God clearly and if the Bible does not say cut off your hand and and gouge out your eye rather than lust for nothing this is war
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Visiting the Waterton Springs Interpretive Trail (Photo by Liz Saunders)
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Join the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) to experience one of Alberta's most beautiful and ecologically significant landscapes! The Waterton Park Front is a haven for a rich variety of plants and animals. Species such as grizzly bear, trumpeter swan and Columbia spotted frog coexist with cattle in this working landscape, located approximately 250 kilometres southwest of Calgary.
One of the largest private land conservation initiatives in Canadian history, the Waterton Park Front is situated along the border of Waterton Lakes National Park. Since 1997, NCC has conserved more than 30,000 acres (12,141 hectares) of private ranch lands that "front" on Waterton Lakes National Park in collaboration with several local ranching families, The W. Garfield Weston Foundation and John and Barbara Poole and family.
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Cost: Admission is free.
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This is a nature centre featuring interactive displays and activities for all ages. Measure how your arm span compares with the wingspans of local birds. Follow the life-sized footprints of wild animals. Learn the stories of local livestock brands and try creating your own.
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Waterton Springs Interpretive Trail
The easy, one-kilometre trail allows visitors to explore ecological and cultural connections of the Waterton Park Front. Both adult and family/youth-oriented self-guided brochures are available at the trailhead. Small signs along the way point out natural history features of interest. With spectacular views of the Rocky Mountains joining the prairies, hikers of this loop trail can take in a vital landscape that has been conserved for future generations.
The Waterton Springs Interpretive Trail has received a rave review from the Family Adventures in the Canadian Rockies blog.
Hours: Guided walks take place at 10:30 a.m. on Saturdays, Sundays and statutory holidays from late May through August, or are available by prior arrangement. Dogs, on leashes, are permitted on the trail.
An exciting feature near the Waterton Springs Interpretive Trail is the Waterton Park Front Conservation Cache; part of an outdoor adventure game played by adults and children around the world. Visitors can bring their own GPS device to find a hidden box or "geocache," where they can share their reflections on how they can contribute to the important cause of conservation. The location of the Waterton Park Front Conservation Cache is posted in The Weston Family Conservation Centre and here.
Click on the brochures below to access a printable version of both adult and youth trail guides:
Some comments from our Trail Head guest book:
"Beautiful trail which shows both the big (mountains) and the small (flowers). We hope such initiatives will get more appreciations - thank you!"
"We thoroughly enjoyed learning about the native species and all the great work the NCC is doing."
"I am spellbound by the variety of birds and flowers here!"
Hours of operation
The Weston Family Conservation Centre is open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., May 19 to June 30 and 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., July 1-October 13th.
Waterton Springs Interpretive Trail is open year-round; however, the access road is unmaintained in winter and subject to snow drifting.
Both facilities are located at Waterton Springs Campground on the east side of Highway 6, immediately north of Waterton Lakes National Park (3.3 kilometres north of the Waterton Lakes National Park entrance gate, or 16.4 kilometres south of Twin Butte Store and Restaurant).
The Weston Family Conservation Centre is located adjacent to the campground office in the main campground building (watch for the signs).
The Waterton Springs Interpretive Trail head is located at the east end of the campground; follow the road past the main campground building to the base of the small hill and watch for the trailhead kiosk.
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