Where'd Yah Go Phillip

Hey guys it's gonna be about a week before you see another blog post outta me. I am going to be BUSY as HELL. I just recently released my new EP. "Dirty Room, Dirty Mind". I will post more after I don't have to pull all nighters. In the meantime let's take those bastard fat cats down?

DIY Youth Subculture Alive and Well, but Not Really

 Being a "punk" kid in these times is a bit different than it was at anytime previous. On one hand there are a lot more people making their own music, independently releasing music (thanks to Band Camp), and a great range of free thought available thanks to the  internet. On the other hand a lot of the 80's/90's DIY environment is dying, being replaced by newer venues, music, and social media.
 Things change, and I get that. I am not from that generation, but every time I hear of a 20-30 year old independent venue closing down I get kind of sad. When I hear that this year's PIX Fest may be the last I get sad. When I hear about bands breaking up and musicians retiring I get REALLY sad. The reason I get so dang sad is, I realize in 20-30 years punk will be around, I still believe the youth culture will be strong, and I still believe people will playing 3 chords as fast as they can with their thoughts and opinions blaring. I just know I won't recognize it at all.
 It reminds me of the Descendants song "When I Get Old"...it scares me a bit not going to lie. I bet when Chris Calvin was young he never saw it coming, same thing with Brett Gurewitz, Ian Mackaye, Jello Biafra, that the scenes they built, the culture they contributed to, the music they invented would be so drastically different in time. I guess I could waste my time whining about it or I could just get over it and accept it.

I bet Milo, never saw it coming either!

Anarchy at 20

 Looking back to when I first started getting into Anarchism, back when I was 17, I see how much I have changed. Today is my 20th birthday, I am not nearly as angry as I was, not nearly as self destructive and nihilistic either. I feel like my views haven't changed very much, but my outlook has. I thought the whole being an Anarchist thing was solely yelling at cops and saying you hated the government. Now I know that it's a lot about civic responsibility and making an effort for change.
 So I celebrate this birthday, as a day to realize how much I have matured. Just because I am a little bit more mature doesn't mean I will be any less easy on the Bastards of the world though. That's a promise.

Going hard since 1993

Cockroach Backpack Controversy Or How Bleeding Hearts Want To Set Science Back.

 So I woke up to one of my computer science major friends, posting about something called a "Cockroach Backpack", going on about how people are saying it's controversial, and how people were overreacting. After clicking the link then discovering the disappointing fact that the "Cockroach Backpack" was not a backpack made of live cockroaches, I did discover it was an impulse manipulating device you place on the back of a cockroach and control with a phone app. That is possibly the coolest thing ever. Cockroaches are gross, overpopulated (thanks to our filth and expansion), and overall some of the most interesting creatures to do research on.
 What's the problem here? Well, like everything awesome, the bleeding hearts of the world have some ridiculous ethical problem with it. The company that makes the device wants to target it toward science projects and as a teaching aide, with Animal Behavior Scientist Jonathan Balcombe to being quoted as saying,
"If it was discovered that a teacher was having students use magnifying glasses to burn ants and then look at their tissue, how would people react?"

 The difference between playing around with electrical impulse control and burning ants with a magnifying glass is, burning ants with a magnifying glass is entirely pointless. It would be like comparing boiling noodles on a stove, to using babies as fuel for cars, one has a reason while the other doesn't. I know as a kid in school I loved science and being able to see how something works like the electrical impulses on a body would have been beyond cool!
 

 To anyone saying the science has no use I do have to point out that electrical impulse technology has successfully been used to stimulate nerve damaged limbs, heal brain damage from Alzheimer's, and to restart hearts. Getting kids interested in this stuff could cause one of this generation to be the doctor or scientist who figures out how to get a quadriplegic to walk again. The science has a solid and fundamental use, plus a cool factor kids will be drawn to.
Now there are a certain group of people who I don't even know if I should acknowledge just, because they are that insane, though I think I have to. There are the people who seriously think this will lead to "Mind control". These people are also the ones who probably thought that the CERN Hadron Collider was going to end the world, or that nuclear discoveries are bad because they can be turned into weapons. If we fear all scientific advancement, because something can be used in a bad way, we'll never advance as a species. Especially when something can do so much good, with such a harmless impact.

Links:
To buy or learn more about the "RoboRoach": https://backyardbrains.com/products/roboroach
To read the original BBC article I read: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24455141

Things I Want

I want the scumbag politicians, holding their better than you noses up in the air, out of power. I want The police that hassle me and my friends, to give up their badges. I want everyone under the age of 25 to become educated about the world and learn to fight for what they believe in. I want more all ages, under $10 a ticket venues. I want to not worry about money I want every bank to collapse and prove they are just big enough to fail. I want this president and all future and past president impeached. I want an end of sexism, racism, ageism, and any other negative "isms". I want people to start doing what they are saying and to shut up about what they are going to do.
I want a lot of things I hope you do to. This world isn't perfect, but we can make it work if we made steps toward making our wants realities. That's all I have to say tonight...bummer right?

Anarchism and Social/Personal Responsibility

 A lot of times when people think of Anarchism, all they see is people looking to dismantle the government. It seems to many people forget for a working Anarchist society to, well work, we need social and personal responsibility. I will go into depth in this post about responsibility. I'll even give some tips to YOU about how we can take the bastards in charge down by taking responsibility for our actions and environment.

 First things first, let me explain a few facts about what an Anarchist society would take to work. We need to maintain roads, schools, hospitals, pretty much all functioning services the government provides now. Who will do all of this? Well the people of course, if we don't maintain these services we will lose a quality of life and prove we need government after all. We can't allow ourselves to prove we need someone to wash our dishes for us, especially not some fat cat politicians.

                        Quick reminder I don't own the Copyright to this, but I am using it as an educational example. I believe the links at the
                                bottom of the image are credits. SO thank those guys. 

 Now while it may be a bit away from us maintaining our own education system or setting up a free health care network, what can we do now? It's easy, see a pothole in the road...fill it, see trash on the ground...pick it up and recycle or compost it, basketball hoop at the public park missing a net...make one, etc. It is not that hard, little things are what will give the government less power. They may have the guns, but if we don't need them, we'll beat them down and take their guns from them.
 There is one negative thing I want to talk about the Anarchist scene and it's needless destruction of property. While destroying government property seems like a good idea, remember there are facilities people use. If you light a children's slide on fire at a park, you aren't sticking it to the man, you are ruining some 6 year old's day. You break open mail boxes, you aren't making a statement that the United States Postal Service is fascist, you are stopping someone from talking to their Grandma. Do you guys get the picture? If you so choose to throw a brick through a cop car or spray paint something on a courthouse, that's your choice and possibly justifiable. But, when you start destroying the services people use, and lowering a quality of life, you make all of us look jerks hurting the cause.
 Just keep all of this in mind. I know it's hard to take responsibility for the world around you, but do your own dishes.

To Vegan? Or Not To Vegan? That's a Question.

In the sub culture to which I belong there are a few long standing arguments. You have pro-drug use and anti-drug use people. You have people who believe in violence and those who are pacifists. Though the longest standing and most heated argument is Vegan vs Non-Vegan.
 The sides are usually divided like this Humanists who believe humans are the most important things and Anarchists who believe in freedom of choice vs naturalists who believe nature is equal to man and Buddhists and other types who believe killing is wrong. I have no clue why these conversations always get so heated, but they need to stop. Just because someone is a little different you doesn't mean we aren't all brothers in the pitt. We can talk about this kind of stuff calmly and in a civilized manner right? Plus if we spend our time in fighting how will we have time to take down the man?

                                                                                            food or murder?