Bad iPhone Games, A Review

If any of you out there own an iPhone, I'm sure that you have had your dealings with some of the quintuple-zillion games that can be had for a good waste of time. I've run across my share of many a stench-filled game. Most are free, some are not, which really gets my goat; spending one scintilla of a dime on worthless tripe thats usually just plain poorly coded. The one that's sticking in my craw at the moment is an insidious beast of a game that, I'm ashamed to admit, has been an obsession off and on over the last 6-9 months, with a 4-5 month hiatus from it for the very reasons I write this now, ONLY MUCH WORSE THAN IT WAS BEFORE!! The publisher still says Miraphonic, though I believe someone else has bought them out. It still gets billed as one of the more popular free games out there. Boy has it gotten super duper lame-o since I decided to download it again, even though I told myself before NEVER AGAIN!! That game would be none other than Epic Pet Wars... I know, I know... Brady prolly plays Super Steppin' out, Shuck-n-Jive, Ultro-Fab, Night at the Mall Barbie! Nope. Only this sorry piece of shit... My only 14 year old, wanna-be, used-to-be pleasure. I can emphatically say at this point it is an infatuation whose load is fully blown. Before I get into it, I fully understand it is FREE; so is Ebola!!

The level of incompetence that seems to still permeate this app is past the point of humorous or even just annoying. It is a constant, over-arching theme!! It is supreme sloppiness and ass-holery all rolled into one steaming piece of ultra-copro-stench!! More times than not I will attempt to train my animal only to never reach a point that would indicate I have no exp. left or money gained. Often in the middle of a fight there will come a point that I win only to be shown that hit points are left and errors abound!! Anyway, that's enough taps of the keyboard wasted on this abysmal piece of donkey dung!!
MORAL----STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM THIS WASTE OF CHARGE CYCLES ON YOUR PHONE!! YOU'LL KICK YOURSELF IF YOU DON'T....
Picture included is merely one of the many surprises that awaits the unsuspecting oaf looking for a free way to while away the time.
ANGRY BRADY

Help Us Zombi Reagan, You're Our Only Hope!!-less... (REAL REVIEW)

I haven't posted in some time, other than to say I hadn't been posting in some time, but in perusing the App's store it was suggested by Genius (part of the App's store) that I may like this app...

Firstly, I lived all of the Reagan Era and was none too impressed by Bedtime for Bonzo's twin partner in crime. People really seem to have a short memory, sorry Ronnie, pun intended! Where should I start??

Well let's see, the busting of the Air Traffic Controllers Union, I know don't start federal law prohibits government workers from striking, blah, blah, blah! The social impact was the target here. 11,000 plus workers---GONE a big thumbs down to unions and both thumbs up for business.

Reaganomics, a term that still haunts us to this day! While the promise of low taxes hits the average Pepsi-swillin', McDonald's eatin', American squarely in the pleasure centers of his/her monobrowed brain-case; that policy did very little for most middle class people. The military budget was raised higher that any other peace time Prez, 30%+ higher!! His policies toward Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and food stamps, were so profound that many elderly were eating canned dog food cause they couldn't afford med's, etc. At the same time all budgets that may have had an air of coffee house hangin', art fag-ish, crystal waving, incense burnin', liberalism were sent to the budgetary shitter!! Things as wacky as, federal education programs and the EPA to name a few!! All of this to eventually grab the American people the largest known deficit in history at that time, 3 trillion dollars!!!

While many people argue that it's a good thing the stance he took on Communism, the so called Reagan Doctrine was a very mixed blessing, if one were to call it that. "To provide overt and covert aid to anti-communist resistance movements in an effort to rollback the Soviets and governments with their backing." The biggest baddest piece of under-handed law breaking bullshit was the Iran Contra affair!! This is one of the biggest pieces of chicanery in our American history! Do you know how many people went to jail over that shit?!? High Treason I tell ya!! Does anybody know how many very poor south American countries he help to utterly decimate?!
How about "The War On Drugs"?!?!? This has got to be, and backed by statistics, the biggest waste of time and tax-payer money ever!! Well, second probably to our never-ending war in Iraq, when I think about it. Tell me one good thing the War on Drugs produced!! I can tell the reader of some. Millions of nonviolent offenders being taught how to very violent! Millions of kids growing up in broken homes, which compounds the situation! Assets that get seized that go into voluminous coffers to which you or I get to see none of, or know what gets done with! That's just to name a few.
Oh one good thing... I guess we all got to understand exactly what Alzheimer's disease is!
But I digress.
This is a review of an app. It's an app about a president that just wants to gloat about who "King Ronnie Raygun" was. BORING!!! ZERO stars.
Oh yeah anybody remember the Star Wars program?? That was sockin' money down a rabbit hole for ya'!!

Angry Brady

The iPad

Well, I'm not the kind to do a lot of dissin' on Apple, but I must say that the release of the iPad to the public was a major disappointment! Apple has done a lot of innovating in the last decade, shit for that matter most of it's existence! This thing, as released is a TURD!! I shall count the ways...
1. No camera! WTF!? That means no video chats or conferences, no photo taking, no video taking, NADA!
2. No app multi-tasking. With a processor this fast it's a waste of resources not to take advantage of that! I'm using X app and want to listen to say Pandora... NOPE! No can to dummy!
3. No true 1080p HD. When you want to watch a movie that's say filmed in 2.35:1, which a lot more theatrical releases are nowadays, you're only gonna take up about half the screen in portrait mode!! BUMMER!
4. No selection of other data carriers. I personally haven't had one problem with AT&T( and I even moved across the country with my first gen, nary a blip in service, except in mountains which I'd expect). I, on the other hand, just in principal don't like seeing any of the cell providers get too big or get a lock on anything!!
FUCK EM!! This is possibly the biggest faux pas on Apple's behalf! A lot of other humans HATE AT&T!!
5. No tactile feedback or more complex Gestures, as can be had on say, the newer MacBooks! Shit! Those even have 3 and 4 finger Gesture support!! LAME!
6. This is just a personal gripe of mine... FUCK E-BOOKS!!! Fuck em all to Hell!! Gearing us up for 

Fahrenheit 451 and shit!! I'd much rather have the ground up, chain sawn down, ozone depleting real thing in my hands! Ever see the e-book selections out there???!!! Hope you like reading the same shit as most everyone else!!

I realize this is merely the opening salvo from Apple, but if'n they don't get their shit together on the next version, it'll be considered a dumb move from many!!

The Price point ain't too bad considering 

it's an APPLE product... At least they got 

that ehhh??

Sorry Apple I still think you got the best products out there. just don't fuck this one up any more than you have.

That's my 6 cents.

AnGRy bRaDY

Yet Another Piece of Shit Company

In my attempt to expand my home music producing abilities, I purchased the M-Audio w/Pro Tools production suite, a.k.a. Fast Track. I distinctly remember asking the sales person if it was compatible with OS 10.6.2. The reply was YES. 
Off I was to the homestead to configure my new tool. This was a really great deal being that it had Pro Tools bundled, albeit a scaled down version for $99. Following each instruction, I eagerly installed the drivers and configured the hardware. The last step at hand was to install the Pro Tools suite. Insert the disk I did only to wait 45 minutes while the Goddamn load bar stalled at 95%. After an hour and 15 minutes... I get a message from my OS stating that the install failed and to contact the manufacturer. FUCK!
I went to M-Audio's website where I was informed that if I even remotely wanted help, I would have to register my software. ????????? Let's see here, register something I can't even get installed in the first fucking place!! That's classic! 
All of this to ultimately have a stripped down version of ProTools anyway!! 
So, after utilizing all of my options that stood before me, I decide to call M-Audio's tech support, which I wouldn't be able to do unless I had registered the fucking thing I can't use to begin with. I dial the number which just so happens to be some area code I had no knowledge of. Yes!!! Not even a 1-800 number! It was bothersome, but I have some 8000 plus minutes banked and figured what the Hell. As long as I get this resolved I can deal with a few lost cell minutes. And  NO I don't have a land line, so don't go there. I had 45  minutes before I had to pick the wife up from work, being it that I had the day off. Thirty minutes pass, and I listen to neo-techno Muzak! Real Horror Show! I have to go!!! I hop in the car and drive the 15 miles to my woman's work, she gets in and we start heading home. All the while, still on hold! Half way back to the house, dude gets on the line and sounds ever so happy to be working for M-Audio. I tell him my plight, in turn he tells me,"well sir, our site tells you that that particular piece of hardware isn't yet compatible with OS 10.6.2. But if I'd be patient an update should be forthcoming." When? I ask. He didn't know...... S.O.L. I exclaim that that is bullshit and unless you really want to sit down and search their website for an hour to find out it is not compatible with my OS, is really poor customer support and relations.
The long and short of this review and story is, in my humble opinion, DON'T BUY SHIT FROM M-AUDIO!!! Unless you appreciate being treated like a piece of human rubbish!! Die a quick death M-Audio or work like Hell on your customer support!!!

Real Review - The LG FX-1 Multimedia HDD

I recently decided to purchase a multimedia control unit for my wife to use. While I was fine hooking up my Mac to the LCD TV and plugging in my terabyte HD to that to watch movies, it was not the most user friendly experience.
I did my homework. I got to see some of my buddies media centers in action. I priced units and decided on two models that would probably work for us. We went to Worst Buy and started looking. Immediately, we were approached by someone that could possibly be of service. After some discussion with the "expert",  he convinced me to purchase the LG FX-1 Multimedia HDD. This sounded great! It was supposedly capable of reading virtually all needed files, including the ever-so important subtitle files, SRT's, etc. The bonus being that unlike its competitors, it has a 500 gig HD built in! This is important because it was the same price as the non-HD units I was considering. It also said "Mac compatible".
Eagerly we drive home to set up our new gadget. I unpack the unit, making sure all is there. The first sign something may be amiss was seeing one of those mini-cd/rom's in the box and no hardcopy owners manual. 
The paperwork that did come with it told me I could go straight to LG's site for further assistance. I decided to fire it up plugged into the Mac. As I suspected, the HD was formatted NTFS. 
No worries, the Mac has a nifty little program called Disk Utility in which I can format any drive into just about any conceivable format. This includes FAT-ass 32 and NTFS (NoTFuckingSafe).
I format the mounted volume to Mac OS Extended(Journaled), and drug some files over to test. Things go down hill from here.


Attaching the FX-1 to the TV, I turn the unit on and then the television. The FX-1 immediately informs me it is formatting itself... I start to frown a bit. It finishes. I check for my files. Gone! The FX-1 gets unplugged. I plug it back into my Mac. Disk Utility reports as I had feared, NTFS format! I repeat the steps. To no avail...
To those of you that know Mac's, they are very forgiving. They can read FAT and NTFS files like a champ! The same is not true of FAT and NTFS! Hence my need to make this FX-1's HD Mac OS compatible. NO DAMN DICE!!


Here's where the teeth gnashing and hair pulling session come in. I'm not about to stick that miniature cd of death into my laptop, so I go to LG's website, per the instructions given in what little paperwork I had. 
UHHHHH.... LG's website has never heard of this product. I even tried typing in it's fucking serial number, to no avail. I tried LG's over-sea's sites. NADA!
At this point I'm relegated to looking for a pdf of the owners manual. Nothing on RapidShare or like sites. Nothing on Bitorrent. Nothing on sites that reviewed the damn thing!! ZERO!
I calmly wrapped the piece of stinking, poorly engineered, shit up and returned it the next day!
 I considered loosing my cool to a manager at Worst Buy, telling him/her about my wasted gas, wasted time, and the employee that recommended this contraption, knowing full well I asked about its Mac compatibility. I did not this time, for fear my anger may get the best of me.
I haven't given a rating for anything yet on this site, so I have no guideline. So how about this... I'll call them ANGRY YELLS. The order being 1 Angry Yell being the best and 10 being the worst. This steaming hunk of wasted time gets 7 ANGRY YELLS.

LG has FAILED!!!


DO NOT BUY!!
P.S.   Just today while writing this I found the damn thing on LG's site dedicated to it's junk. Try sitting through the "flash fest" that is it's site and tell me if you still have the nerve...
On another note--- I got the Western Digital TV Live. Works like a damn champ!!




ANGRY BRADY

Angry’s Favorite Director (or how NOT to get ahead in advertising)

While chewing the fat last weekend with Darth at The Chief’s shin-dig; We got to talking about movies. I happened to mention some of my favorites, including my all time favorite director David Lynch. Darth made the suggestion I review either some movies or the like, which is rather out of character for me.I know, I know...I think he’s right on this one.
For those of you not familiar with Lynch, he wrote and/or directed such greats as: Eraser Head, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive,the most non-Lynch-like The Straight Story, Twin Peaks, the list goes on.
In addition to these he is a jazz musician, sculptor, painter,and all around strangely sanguine, even nerdy sorta guy born into a family in Missoula, MT. unsettlingly familiar to some of the “Leave it to Beaver” type families, ‘with a twist’, Lynch has in his cinema.
One needs to understand the impression he had on me at a very young age to be able to fully appreciate why his movies are burned into my psyche’. I was probably 12-13 when my Pop brought home this video called Eraser Head. He probably said something like, “Come on boys! I’ve got the new Rambo flick! Only better!” My dad was that way, always fucking with our young brains. Don’t get me wrong. My dad was a great guy, brilliant too, I think even Darth and The Chief would concur on that one. Anyway, there I was swept into an entirely, not just new and strange, but absofuckinglutely twisted and enlightening new universe!! Lynch busted this boys Amygdla and Thalamus wide open! Ain’t been quite the same since.
Eraser Head is too fucked to try and explain here. WATCH IT!!
Blue Velvet was the next movie I watched. This is probably still my favorite Lynch film. A Brief synopsis: College boy visits quite home town. Boy finds ear. Boy gets involved in the dark and dangerous underbelly of said town. Boy gets to meet Frank Booth, a twisted cat that likes to huff Oxygen( yes, Oxygen,Lynch interview said so) then get really schitzo and run amok! “Don’t you fucking look at me! Daddy wants to fuck! I’ll fuck anything that moves!!” Dean Stockwell (Quantum Leap fame) plays a freak called  Benny... You Gots to Check it Out!! Good times will be had bay all!! Especially that first date. wink-nod.
Wild at Heart is another great piece of cinematic glory. It stars Laura Dern and Nicholas Cage,(yeah before he started smokin’ that big time Hollywood producer Pole! Shithead!) This is, I do believe, the first movie I took my wife,at that time still girlfriend to. A rockin’ good time was had by all!! It’s basically a re-telling of The Wizard of Oz. Except only as Lynch could do it. Lots of cameos. Lots of good music. Lots of 1/2 dimension away from ours weirdness! Check It! Mulholland Drive: This is one of Lynchs’ newer films. It stars Naomi Watts(who plays two roles I later gleaned), and Laura Herring. Those two have probably one of the hottest sex scenes I’ve seen!! Fuck-O! Oh, and a briefly encountered Billy Ray Cyrus! Mullet and all. Basically, a starlet is riding in a limo. Her drivers try to kill her. Instead they get into an accident and she stumbles down the Hollywood hills with amnesia. She gets befriended by a wanna-be ‘starlet’. Things go Twilight Zone shortly after that. The scene in the diner, where these two, totally unrelated to the story, guys are talking, one  is telling about a recurring dream he has, that has to do with the diner that they are in presently. A walk ensues, to behind the building. The story teller is reliving his dream. He gets to a corner where the garbage bins are, and is completely horrified by what starts to peer around the corner back at him.....FUCKING CREEPY!!! I shit you not!
The movie on it surface, seems one of Lynchs’ more approachable, by the casual viewers of the usual tripe that passes for cinema. It has me firing all 8 gerbil wheels at once, more times than not trying to come up with another theory 'bout what's actually going on.
To put things a little more cut and dry... Lynch is like taking your brain to a swinger party only to find out, all in attendance either have no genitalia,or the ones that do, remind you of your first pet you loved so much, that died; Only to be brought back from the dead with messages of good will from the god Quetzalcoatl, provided you make a small sacrifice..
Long Live Lynch!!!  I hope you give his work a try. Besides, haven't you seen Monsters Inc.35  or  SAW 700 enough???

AnGRy BraDy

Google Anal-itics

GOOGLE ADS ON THE SITE

Well I know that we're gonna have to cough up money to someone in the near future for funniest story, etc. What better way to pay that someone than to post Google sponsored ads on the site!

The biggest gripe I have is how utterly inappropriate they are given the context of the particular page one may be viewing. Consider this. I just logged on to check the other flurry of meanderings I posted, only to be given the opportunity to contact 3 different law firms. Mostly the kind you contact when you really don't have that good of a case in the first place, but you're told you could probably get 25 bazillion dollars cause you inserted that thermos of coffee up your ass and the lid came off while firmly positioned near your upper intestine. Ya' you'll prolly be told that if the thermos manufacturer had spent a little more time considering the preferences of it's consumer, and that, obviously no thought was given to design; well Hell!! You got a case!!! The funny thing is, my post had nothing about Law, Suing, Suits, Legal, or any other shit for that matter about The Law!!Google, considering the time and money they spend on their 'analytics', ought to check shit out a little more... Or maybeeee their tryin' to tell Angry somethin'???

angry BRADY

One Dry But Obsessive Read

In an effort to lessen the banality of Angry's work life, and possibly do something other than bust my knuckles for a living; I have been studying Mac OS X Support Essentials, which is not all that dull. The dullness I have discovered is a byproduct of the Console App. I've found that from an enjoyment to read standpoint, the Console logs are as dry as dehydrated water stored in packing desiccant! On the other hand, I find myself obsessed with the Goddamn thing! So much so that I have wasted literally 10's of hours on a couple of logs that I'm none to sure what is actually going on with my system. While I understand there are all kinds of errors that occur that I can disregard, it isn't those that fluster and consume my time. It happens to be process logs, etc. that I can't even get a clear answer from the Apple Knowledge Base, posts, other websites, you name it! ( Fuck! I can't even believe I'm writing about this shit!! Although, if someone read and commented on my last rant, anything can happen...) The Console acts as an info application for all events that have occurred from boot-up to shutdown. Hundreds if not thousands of 'events' get logged. For the typical admin. of a computer this is quite informative. For a freak of nature as myself, these logs can be a nightmare! They are definitely useful to me, yet I've had a difficult time leaving these little fuckers alone! Even people in the know have said, " As long as your Mac is operating correctly; Don't worry about them." I don't know.... I just want to know what makes things tick, obviously to my detriment. I'm not sure if it's 'cause I'm getting older, or that the more I think I learn the less I feel I know. I've left the Console alone now and again, only to be sucked back in after having to view some other legitimate process. Is there a 12 step program for Console? My advise to anyone else.... Don't even look at that damn thing! Unless you're an Uber-Unix-Geek. If that's the case, Angry could sure use some comfort on this front. It's either that Console or the information out there about certain processes is a bitch-devil-whore!! At least I don't see shit like this anymore! Winblows... Now that really IS a nightmare! ANGRY BRadY

News!! Print, Media, and The Net

Greetings and salutations!

I have almost completely "weened" myself from the large and enticing, but ever growing and ominous teat that is Google. Browser has changed, e-mail is in process, and I have found other places to glean images and the like. If you can't comprehend why, or you still think it's just the "do no evil",their own words, big fluffy friend that has all the answers, then have a look at this...

DO NO EVIL

If your attention span is that of a gnat, email me. I send ya' the PDF. This is part of an ongoing story and I digress.

The actual premise of today's meanderings is that of the news sites I have encountered, and my continued belief that society is coughing up sputum from the More, Better, Faster, Shinier Virus it has contracted.

Perusing some of these "news" sites makes me ill!! Even from the likes of the BBC, Washington Post, New York Times, etc,etc. Actual news that can be informative, thought provoking, and that might even convince me that I'm not being lied to.... About 30%. That's being generous!!

The rest... ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT!! Don't believe me? Check out The L.A. Times. This is the fucking front page!! Check out as many others as you care to. The BBC is probably the closest thing to news that I remember.

Television, rrrrrh, I don't even wanna get started on that worthless medium!! The only thing I can discern as news on that shit is traffic, and to a much lesser extent weather. An even lesser extent may be news of missiles heading our way!

Have our attention spans really gotten down to 3 second sound bites, Beer Summits, and which celebrity is doing whatever the fuck those people do?! Plastic! We love it!! We love it so much, when Dow came out with the shit, it wasn't long after we had to start living it, consuming it, being it.

My moniker fits me, with good reason! If others were to take the blinders off and smell the turd, and not recoil back into Plastic World; to really look at what is going on around them, we may be in a much better spot. How does everybody think we get into the messes of the variety we are in now?

Want an answer?? COMPLACENCY!!!!!! Power loves that shit. What's on the news is only a symbol people. Are you too busy being mind-fucked by your bag of MSG laden chips and your NutriSweet fortified cola? "It's all the good stuff, so you won't fight so much"!!

Back to Dreamland....

ANgrY brADy

Some "New", "Old" Found Fancies

One day, some months back, I was researching some new and different audio software, and I came across this link to a website that piqued my interest. It was, (here for your perusal), fascinating, humorous-as-shit, and had a Stick-it-to-the-Man attitude about it. http://goodblimey.com/tunes

Well this got Ole' Angry's creative gerbils whirling around in their wheels so fast the second gerbil just gave up and fell limp, letting the other whiz it around like a fresh cadaver! The interesting aspect, is that somehow my mind reacted as if this were the first time I had heard this sort of thing. Which was totally fallacious! Negativland, The Evolution Control Committee, The Bran Flakes, and People Like Us (to name a few) were all "bands", I use that term extremely loosly, I had been listening to for years! I'll get into that later. I guess the thing that was so much different about the audio available on this site, was I don't recall hearing music done in this way before. I know Hip-Hop/Rap, Industrial, fuck! even some Rock has used sampling! This is different though! Check it out! I guarantee you will find something of interest there. If you like it enough, well he even gives you the info you need to save a file for later listening pleasure! Or to piss off the boss/wife/kids.

So this got my imagination sent into overdrive and I spent the next 56 gazillion hours, not only finding other websites (which I will list), but researching software and gear to be able to pursue this new found hobby. I'm sure my wife was as pleased as punch.

This leads me into the Sociopolitical aspect of all of this!! I'm viewing things that give me a modicum of power over the MegaGlobalCorp's; To be able to fight back insubversive ways, even if it's infinitesimally small!! I know!! Not enough FUCKS, and BRAINS BLEEDING THROUGH PORES you're used to from Angry... Even I have sanguine moments.... This is one of them.

The deeper I dug, the more I was like "Shit Ya'. This is what I need to be doing!" There are groups of people out there that do something called "Droplifting". They make these CD's, mixing and mashing, sound-scaping, etc. from 'found' sources, rip-offs, you name it! They then package this stuff and go to the "Big Box" record stores and put, or drop-lift, their merchandise into the "popular" section! Fucking brilliant!! One can imagine all of the scenarios! Here's the link to that if interested in becoming involved or just want to do some internet rubber-necking.

http://www.droplift.org/

The Coup de Grace, the fucking Rosetta Stone for all things Recycled Culture, or Social engineering, or just plain being a crafty bastard is this site! USE WISELY ;-)

http://www.detritus.net/

I don't know if that was ULTRA enough for you, but I will give it the 23rd chromosome missing,

super-swank mongoloid: 12 FINGERS UP!!

Oh!! Also check out Plunderphonics at: http://www.plunderphonics.com/

P.S. I know I said I'd get into the whole Negative Land, E.C.C., thing but I've done enough for one day!! Google 'em!! Or better yet. Use http://www.ixquick.com/. Or some other anonymous

metasearch site. Google is another name for spy/purveyor of info on YOU to sell to others, including any of that 'old' archived email sitting in your Gmail acct. Ever wonder why your storage space keeps growing and growing?! That's another rant for a different day.

LATER, AnGRy BraDy

A New Review For The Newly Redesigned Website......

Well, I Think I may have flogged this dead horse until it's turned to fucking glue! But, I've been reading a lot recently, and may as well fill the readers brains with the tripe I've been staring at!

This fine rag is of course called American Hardcore: A Tribal History. By Steven Blush. This book is, as one may or may not know, a pretty complete history of the American H/C Punk scene from the late 70's up through the late 80's. Which, by that time H/C was pretty much D.O.A., to use a punk band name. Of course, one might argue that Punk was dead as of the late 70's! Ahhh! But that would be a different flavor of Punk. You know, how people say Disco died circa 80-81? Only to have so many permutations of it crop up  in the latter 80's, 90's, 00's, that one could swear that if one walked into a club, one might think they had stepped into a time machine to Disco Hell!!! Don't believe me? Look at the fashions the Gen Yer's are so enamored with today. Shit most of the riffs I've heard sound just like the Giorgio Mororder synth arpeggiations that were being pumped out in the day!!! Like my funky Type face? Ya.. don't really know what happened right now? Let's just try and get through this in one piece tonight!!! Goddammit! Let's see you try and publish something this late at night, when you haven't been able to sleep well, and try and remain focused, and be somewhat lucid all at the same time! Fuck the type! Onward!!! This really is a who's who of the H/C scene written from it beginnings on the East Coast after an influx of the British Punkers known to hang in those parts, CBGB's and the like. It then takes a look at the burgeoning West Coast scene. Then like any good H/C'er that was not only a heavy part of the scene, but also a bit addled by copious amounts of drug use, he starts to skip around in between both coast's and in and out of sub-genera's. These range from the Elvis-esque, Horror Show trappings of the Misfits, to the Straight-Edgers, like Slap Shot,SS Decontrol, and Minor Threat. The amount of names this guy pulls up from the past were enough to make my head hurt! The author also spends a few chapters on some of the heavy hitters from the scene, Dead Kennedy's, Black Flag, Bad Brains, and D.I.Y., just to name a few. He stuffs this book with as many people that actually lived the action, as one could possibly imagine. Interviews, musings, and statements from the likes of Jello Biafra, Tesco Vee, Glenn Danzig, Hell...I think he even talks with Adam Yauch (yes, from the Beastie Boy's). They did, after all supposedly start out a punk band; Although if you've ever heard any of it, I would beg to differ! I don't know about anyone else, but this book was a walk down memory lane for me! Hell, It even made me go and search out some of those long forgotten gem's I've missed all these years! I know.... You were probably wanking it to Michael Jackoff, or probably trying to score some trim listening to Rick Astley. No! I got it, you were trying to be 'Like a Virgin' and 'Passing a Duchie on the Left Hand Side'. Or some other form of mass-suckitude!

Get it! Read it! I dare ya!

th

ANSWER ME! A Review

Well... After a brief respite from the very Angry world of my mind, no, I didn't have E.T.C., or suddenly decide the world was all the Snuggles Bears and Holly Hobbies! I've had some other rods in the fire in the past week.

I thought I may spend some more time reviewing some of the fine literature in my possession. This book/zine, ( It did start out as a zine.), was developed by one of my favorite dudes, Jim Goad. His wife at the time, Debbie was also a contributor, but to a lesser extent. They divorced not long after. If you're ever interested, Mr. Goad wrote a biography called "Shit Magnet". It will give you the low-down on him, although I would recommend reading The Red-Neck Manifesto. I'll save that for another time though. On with the review.....

Answer Me! is a compilation of the first three years of it's existence. This was originally a 'Zine that Jim and his wife put out in L.A. in the early to mid 90's. It is filled with all kinds of goodies, and some just downright offensive shit! For instance, Night of a Hundred Mass Murdering/Serial Killing Stars is quite informative. It's a veritable who's who in the world of extreme depravity, but an interesting read none the less! The section labeled, The Family Must be Eliminated, is a Sociologist wet dream. Some good points are made about the family being at it's roots, one of the great detriments to personal liberation and proper individuation. Some of the great interviews include, The Honkey You Love to Hate; a low-down on David Duke (remember that guy?). Or, Funky Necros, Geto Boys Dance on Your Grave. This is not really up my alley, the Gangsta Rap thing, but there is some good info for those of us looking to avoid these kinds of people. The interview with Dr. Jack Kevorkian titled, Is There a Suicide Doctor in the House is enlightening!

The tag line in the middle of this rag is, We're Back. Are You Going to Kill Yourself? Or Do We Have to Do It For You?, pretty much sums up the feel of this read. It is all rather dark... At times humorous, Very ANGRY, and quite off in left field somewhere. This is deffinately not Goads' best work. It is much earlier than Redneck Manifesto or  Shit Magnet, but it can be seen for anyone with knowledge of one of Amerika's greatest amateur/underground Sociologists, that the seeds are firmly planted and the big, ugly tree, known as Jim Goad, has not only been fertilized with Miracle Grow of the mind, but is taking a very deep, angry root!

So, if you got an hour or two to kill, and want some light reading, give it a try! If you can find it, that is. If not! Well... As I like to say, Go Pound Sand!! Latters...... Angry Brady

Anti-terror billboard

Anti-terror billboard.

These Billboards are supposedly cropping up all over Great Britain, and are quite Orwellian if you ask me! There is a guy that is posting the originals, with the ability to deface them from the comfort of your own computer! Kudos to him!!! 

Here's a shout-out to him. Click link above for hours of  whimsical enjoyment!

This is my attempt!

Angry!

Review: Apocalypse Culture II

Angry Brady's Book Review Corner: Come have a seat children!!

Well, I couldn't sleep! My bottom front teeth are hurting. The result of a dental procedure I'm in the process of. Long story, maybe I'll tell it sometime. So... I decided to review a book out of my home library; for your reading pleasure, or not! It makes me no difference. This shit just keeps the gerbil that runs that little wheel in my head, from driving me certifiably bat-shit!

On with the review! Apocalypse Culture II is the sequel to, obviously, Apocalypse Culture, which I may review at a latter date. Edited by Adam Parfrey and published by Feral House ('cause you like nice things'. My insertion there. Not the publishers.) As a side, Feral House is a damn ballsy, and excellent publisher! If we had more publishers in this society like them, we might not be in the sad shape we're in! Of course we might not BE! Check out some of their other titles if you dare...BWWAAHAHAHAHA!

Apocalypse Culture II is a compendium of Paranoids, Alternative Thinkers, Satirists, Writers, Artists, Psychotics, and Killers. The book is definitely NOT for the faint of heart,or that have delicate, morning dew on a Fall Pansy, sort of constitutions. Some of the articles are written by the likes of, Boyd Rice, Crispin Hellion Glover (yes McFly!), George Petrose, Charles Darwin, and Ted Kaczynski, just to name a few! 'Who the fuck are they?!', you say. Well, if your asking yourself this, and have managed to read this far....STOP!... and move along to the FaceBook profile you were trying to find, or to the Betty Crocker Institute of Cooking with Lard, or whatever the hell you were trying to waste you time doing! If not.... Read on.

One of the most interesting stories to me was,The Strange Crime of Issei Sagawa. It is the factual story of a Japanese man, living in Paris, who befriends a female and eventually kills and eats some of her flesh and organs. Which is, of course, for our T.V. Babies, nothing new. What IS interesting is, how big a celebrity he became! Not only in Japan, but in European countries as well! This after a stint in mental institutions,jails,etc. He then began writing very strange poetry, and the story evolves from there.

Another article that was quite an eye-opener was, The Late, Great Asthetic Taboos. This talks about how we Americans, love to talk about our freedom of Press and lack of censorship with one side of our mouths, then scream about indecency and lack of personal responsibility with the other. Basically it's only okay with us, as long as it doesn't offend our Puritanical leanings. It pushes the envelope of moral standards and belief structures. Interesting though.

The story entitled, Real Doll, (this one's right up 'America's addiction to sex' alley), is about the cottage industry of producing 'life-like sex dolls'. Some of these baby's go for upwards of  $5000 to $7000 dollars a pop (pun intended)! They are made of silicone and prosthetic skeletal structures. Some even come with voice chips and real human hair, in all the right places, wink-wink, nod-nod.

Lastly, the read entilted, Hi-Tech Market Research, is a veritable plethora of information on how 'Big Business' uses psychology, sociology, body language (in the form of EKG, EEG, Galvanic Skin Response, and EMG's), studied in controlled clinical environments. All to better 'understand' what you, the consumer, wants! And if you happen to not want it, well, you will soon enough! Some of it is a dry clinical read, but well worth the effort. It's a who's- who of big name companies you know and love, that are analyzed, their secret's divulged, by some of their very own. A must read, if you believe you are any kind of a thinking person, and may not  yet feel you are in the full clutches of, what I like to call Psycho-Consumerism. Or possibly you are feeling the tinges of that biggest of Consumerist diseases/lies called, BUY ENOUGH SHIT TO FILL THAT BIG HOLE  INSIDE-ITTIS! No matter how much you wish it away, spend it away, waste it away! You know what I'm talking about? Like when you start getting all AMPED when you're about to purchase that new Rube Goldberg Machine. The one that washes your clothes, while it orders your dinner, and allows you to watch "Those Dallas Cowboy's on your T.V." all at the same time!! Then once you get it home, as the days and months go by, the love affair wanes, kinda like that $8000 BowFlex you just knew that if you had, you too would be as buff as the young Aryan stud on the info-mercial using it was! To quote Jello once again, "It never happened, did it?"

My summation, if your not too enamored with the latest Dean Koontz thriller, or busy reading the latest Danielle Steel soft-core porn; It would behoove you to find this book and put it in your brain! Of course, ignorance IS bliss! Besides, you may be too busy even to be reading anything of consequence, 'cause you're too caught up in who might be the best dancer on  "Dancing with the Schmaltz", or possibly extremely concerned about which Tribesman gets kicked off the Island next. Or possibly, you may be waiting with bated-breath, with heart palpitations even, for news or views of the next Eninenima/Poop Daddy  bling-fest to stare at! Ah!! The shit that keeps the North American continent afloat. I understand. Thinking is better left to those that can handle it.

Latters!!!

Television's Digital Conversion a Sucksess?!

So, after a week or so of  infrequently, and I do mean infrequently, viewing a television with the RAD new digital signal, I have to say how completely underwhelmed I am! I've never really been a big fan of television. Even my earliest memories are of the nice little 13" job my parents got, which my step-father, almost immediately de-soldered all of the channels on the manual channel changer, so we only received PBS. (For all you young pups out there, YES! One had to get up off one's ass to change the channel!). My step-father was an electrician by trade, and pretty intelligent at that! He also made it possible to turn the volume up and down, in addition to being able to turn the sound off completely with the use of a 1/4"  jack, some cable and what looked like to me some odds and ends from his shop. This, of course, made it very difficult to stare at the One-Eyed-BrainSucker for hours on end, and not get fucking bored as Hell! I used to complain about it, not having a big t.v., not having cable, not having a remote, etc. I believe today, WHOLE-HEARTEDLY, that my parents did me a big favor by doing these things! I probably ought to tell them both that one of these days.

Anyway, enough about that you say! Get to the point! Fair enough. So, the little experience I have had with the digital switch, makes me scratch my head until I reach brain matter! Weird audio glitches, out of sync audio, digitized blocking of the picture, tearing, stretched oblong pictures, (I'm assuming due to the program not being made for high Def), I mean the list could go on and on! WHAT IS ALL THIS SHIT ABOUT? Was this really necessary?! What was wrong with good 'ole analogue? I know, I know... You may be saying to yourself, " Brady must be a fucking Luddite! " No! I like technology as much as the next cyborg! My problem with this television switch stems from a much deeper root. I shall explain.....

In the early 80's, 1982 to be exact; the compact disc was released to the mainstream public. With much fanfare, generated mostly by Sony. People were told of the level of sound quality of CD's. They were informed that one may never have to worry about loosing their music collection to age, being it that CD's would last for thousands of years! Well..... After 27 years on the general market, any audiophile worth their weight in vinyl, will tell you that CD's actually have piss poor quality! And those thousands of years? Ask any technophile about degradation of CD/DVD's information storage capabilities over the long haul!

Then came all of the new audio and video gadgets made to utilize all of this new media technology. Things like, solid state receivers instead of tubes, digital tuners for stereos, or how about the Laser Disc player? A fucking movie on a disc the size of an LP, but looks like a CD! The VHS or Betatmax war's. ( Sorta reminiscent of Blueray or HD DVD of today. ) Again, any audiophile will tell you, tubed is better that solid state! Of course nowadays, I think there's been research stating that younger listeners think older audio sources sound bad, because they've gotten used to the ultra compressed and ducked sound of mp3's!! And all of this for what we are told is the ability to have our audio and video in new and exciting, and BETTER ways. 

Does anyone really think this is the case? Do you even think about it? Do you even think? Or is this the tried and true 'Snake Oil' routine? I do know that technology has brought us some amazing and useful things. Hell, the computer I'm pecking away at right now is probably Goddamn reversed engineered alien technology! 'Cause I can hardly believe something so useful could have been devised by the likes of a highly polished equivalent of a used car salesman. Which is what the major electronics companies really are! I know, I'm guilty of hipocracy! Why is he bitching about all of this shit as he admits to watching a t.v. and using a computer? Yes, I even own an mp3 player... Well, I am a part of the society in which I dwell. And as most people, I am partially a product of the larger environment  in that I exist. This doesn't mean that I don't have a brain and, that part of my psyche doesn't scream at me, telling me to ask these questions! Large parts of me loathe the desire to acquire the newest, shiniest, dog turd on the block!

Still, this begs the question. What makes the digital so much better?! I just see glitches and poorer service. Or is it that the powers that be just want us to incrementally lower our standards in preparation for better assimilation into our McLive's, and not analyze things as diligently as we might, provided we really had choice in the matter at all.

Happy Krampus kiddies....   Angry Brady

Let's Review, Where We're At Now. No! It Ain't Some New Whitney Useless Song!

Greetings and Salutations! I thought I would change it up a bit this time, and do a little posting in The Ultra Critic section. Aren't you happy? I bet you're about to shit little green weenies, in anticipation of what this dude may spout next!!! :(   Well, I'm as broken a record as The BeeGee's, "How Deep is Your Love", with several razor cuts in the grooves, played by a drunken Irishman with one finger on the turntable, and his fist up the arse of the creator of " Veggie Tales". Just to give a brief description.

Anyway! On with the 'shoe'... 

I was wondering if anyone happened to see the 60 Minutes episode about the FDIC taking over banks? Well, I was quite intrigued with the story right up until about the end of it; when it was revealed that, (and I should have guessed) most of the take-over's are of smaller banks, usually of the 5 billion or less market. When, whatever the Schmudzvink of a reporter it is, asks the field director of the FDIC, her opinion on the subject, using Citibank as an example of the BIG guys are getting bailed out, but not the smaller community based banks. She said something to the effect that, and I'm paraphrasing, 'The American public and Congress might really want to look into the bigger banks EVEN BEING ALLOWED TO EXIST'. Well, I did one of those fucking Lewis Black jabbering of the jowls in my mind!!! Holy Shit!! Someone in the Fed being honest and forthright! Well I was floored.

So as far as MY review goes, of this would-be UNCLE SAM automaton; Well she gets a fucking A+ for honesty at least!

While I'm at it.... I think I'll review something else! How about something simple?! TIME

For starters, try explaining to your boss the next time you're late to work that the average U.S. city commuter looses 38 hours a year to traffic delays! Then watch as his head turns so cocked, (like the RCA dog) that it falls off and his brains sprout wings and fly away, WEEEEE!!

Or maybe the next time you're in a really nasty, heated, blood-boiling debate with your significant other, over something as trivial as wether you're going stuff a 3 or 6 piece McMaggot meal down the chillin's throats. You could let your one and only know that.... Daylight Savings Time began as a joke, ole' Benny Franklin devised to get people up earlier, to stay outta the house longer, and conserve on candles!!! Whoopie!! Then watch as you partners eye's sag out of their sockets, and a Raymond Scott 'Merrie Mellodies' tune starts magically coming out of the stereo you just KNOW you had tuned to Z-107.7!!

Or that "time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so." As Douglas Adam's put it so eloquently.

I don't know that that was much of a critique, that last bit of drivel. But I do know it's late and I've had enough!!

Later!

Craigslist Spoiled

Craigslist...A once good thing spoiled!

As I'm sure many of you do; I too peruse Craigslist. Sometimes, I may be looking for that one special garage sale where I just know I'll get the .25 a piece copies of OUI, 80's hairy bushes and all. Or maybe I might want to sell my 1985 Cutlass Supreme with the 60% tinted glass, the rad Craigers, and the 5 1/2"chrome chain steering wheel. Or, quite possibly find a job.

AHHH! But alas! My once eager pleasure of getting home from my shit-box of a job, and sitting down to see what deals can be had, or what new connections could be made, have been dashed to pieces, like the Merrill-Lynch Bull in the fine china shop (well I guess the bull was never shown smashing anything, but you know what happened after those camera's were turned off!!).
In the last couple of months there has been some talk of UNDER-EMPLOYMENT going around the nation; me dost think!

Being in a state of general dissatisfaction ("general" being a rather light description, more like about ready to behead those around me with a 30 megaton hydrogen bomb) with my present job environment; I decided I would start looking on my once favorite website.

I am so fed up with the Spamming assed cock jockey's, promising get rich from my computer, while you shoot up too!!! Or 'Skilled Trades Person' needed, must have 745,368,254,900 years experience, every tool known to man including Gemini 6, be a TEAM player, submit to a follicle sample, a piss test, a D.N.A. test , a Stanford-Binet test, and produce a small alien society from the depths of your anal cavity. (Zat enough ,,,,,,,,,,,,'s yet Darth?) All for the low,low price of barely a pot for you and your wife and offspring, to barely piss in!!!! Oh and no insurance included. Better prove I'm not an illegal alien too....

FUCK THE FUCKING FUCK OFF, AND WHILE YOUR AT IT, GO FUCK NOT ONLY YOURSELF BUT YOUR WHOLE GODDAMN LINEAGE TOO!!!

---Just saw this one tonight! " Wanted: EXPERIENCED PHLEBOTOMIST preferably an LPN or RN. $12.00. First off, JACKOFF, damn well better be experienced!! Secondly--- awe, FUCK! Need I go further?!

This is but merely a slice of the veritable plethora of wonderful short-term careers that will stare you in the face and make you wish you could grab the cock-sucker who even had the gall to consider posting such rubbish, around their throat and throttle the ever-loving shit out of them.
Oh I forgot I probably have to have a PHD,MD,DDS,LPN,CNA, to do that! And they're prolly just phishing for my resume' and email address anyway.........
Prolly not even qualified to write this,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
ANGRY BRADY