Yahoo! Music: Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue by The Ramones

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Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue by The Ramones
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Video: Testing

Testing. Go back to your televisions. All is well. (And I hate the drapes, too.)

What's a podcast, anyway?

"What's all this new crap I see on this guy's blog?" If you are familiar with podcasting, you may skip this post.

By using the Audioblog.com function in association with Blogger, I now have the ability to post audio and video to this blog and to publish that audio and video to any podcast-capable player in the world. I can phone in an audio post, or take pictures or movies with my camera phone and post those. Or I can upload stuff I've pre-recorded, like something I might do in my home studio. It's really pretty cool.

(And in case you hadn't noticed, then it is my pleasure to inform you that such technology will bring your movable-type printing presses to a great, grinding, bucking halt. And your lie-spewing TV newsrooms, too. That's too bad...)

But regarding this blog... In short, you may keep your life simple and find any of my text, audio, and video here at this blog at ckpi.blogspot.com.

But if you want to get fancy --and I sometimes like to get fancy, so maybe you do, too-- then you can subscribe to this CKPI "feed" by clicking on this button: Or you can paste this link into your podcast-capable player: http://ckpi.audioblog.com/rss/chris_king_pop_icon_podcast.xml

So what's a podcast anyhow? I kind of discovered this whole podcasting thing a bit late, so I'm still getting a handle on it myself. But I think this is true enough for our purposes: The term "podcast" derives from the Apple IPod. That's a portable audio player that plays music and audio programs from the Internet. You can connect your IPod to your computer and download all the new audio from the feeds that you have subscribed to. Subscribing to a feed is usually free and is as simple as telling your podcast-capable player to gather all the media for a feed. So every morning, I check my player and listen to all the feeds that I have subscribed to.

A podcast-capable player doesn't have to be an expensive IPod, or any other hardware player for that matter; many free music programs also function as podcast-capable players. Remember that I'm using Yahoo Music for the music for this show? The Yahoo Music Engine allows you to subscribe to podcasts. (It only does audio --no video.)

ITunes, by Apple, is a player that lets you listen to podcasts, in addition to listening to licensed music. ITunes does video as well as audio.

So... If you want to keep your life simple, just go to this blog. You'll never miss anything. But if you can tolerate some complexity in your life in exchange for convenience, then subscribe to the podcast using your player of choice.

That's it! Have fun.

Video: Canvas Control

My apologies to Air for the unauthorized use of their music "Electronic Performers." It's a beautiful piece of music, and was perfectly suited to the item.

(There is an audio/video sync problem with this copy of the video, for some reason. I wouldn't even recommend watching this copy; the effect isn't...working. For a higher quality and properly sync'd version, go to www.ckpi.com/video/canvas_control.wmv .)

I am in complete control of your brain.

Video: Good, Fire, Hit Him

"The Misadventures of Three Iraqi Farmers" (To be rigorous, they're probably Afghani.) I put this together in February of 2004.

Many claim that these men were insurgents who were about to launch the Flying Car Armada! I say they're farmers. And my reality is more entertaining anyhow. (And I'm probably right, too. Never known a battle-hardened evildoer to gaily skip...)

For a higher quality version, go to www.ckpi.com/video/gfhh.wmv

Video: I Wanna Dance

A HappyTime short.

For a higher quality version of this, go to www.ckpi.com/video/i_wanna_dance.wmv

Hey, Liberal Types!

So, uh...had enough of government yet? I dare say that you seem...cured!

The same legal mechanisms that you would allow for the purpose of student loans and handicapped parking privileges and HappyTimeNicenessPrograms were used to erect the government of your nightmares. Der.

You can't very well switch parties; they're both the same. Yours is a party of lining your own pockets. Theirs is a party of lining their pockets. I'd really rather that all you fuckers just stop trying to line your pockets at gunpoint.

Right about now I think that the only hope for human liberty is no government at all. One of the few valid arguments in favor of the state is the economies of scale of mutual defense. (Of rights, not safety, I must point out...) But with modern technology, the cost of defending one's rights is very low: Guns are inexpensive, private security can be hired cheaply, and information and communications costs are low. Since that is the case, then the argument for the economies of scale of mutual defense is made meaningless. This is especially true when considering that one neighbor can still pledge to defend another.

So who needs government? Not me. Not you. The only people who need government are the ones who want to steal your money, your property, and your freedom.

And if that's you, then know that I've had about enough of your wars, your AssBananas, and your shakedowns.

Free Government Grants!

I saw on TeeVee that some states and municipalities are angry that they're not getting so much federal anti-terror money as they think they ought to.

If you'll humor me, I'll proceed from the kookie-head, wacky-brain, weirdo-man assumption that terrorism doesn't really exist. It's an advertising term, like a soap powder's "Generation Three(R) anti-caking agent." (Sure, people throw bombs and drive planes into buildings, but it's not who you think it is. It's done by people with the means, motive, and opportunity to do it. I'm not sure how Osama bin Laden stood down NORAD or altered time, but that's just me; I'm a confessed KookieBrainMan. So humor me; I'm not feeling...'well'...today.)

So if "terrorism" doesn't exist, but people are clamoring for "anti-terror" money, you can see how people will come to convince themselves that terrorism _does_ exist. They get more money that way. I bet they'd even be willing to tolerate a few bombs here and there so they'd get even more free gubmint grants! "We're losing out! Why can't someone blow something up in _this_ town?!" (I'm reminded of the ads in the back of tabloid newspapers at the supermarket checkout: "Free Government Grants! Guide $9.99" I would always shake my head at the lazy suckers at whom the advertisement was targeted.)

And this anti-terror money goes toward new and improved systems for dismantling freedom and building your cage.

So in the end, you'll have more bombs and less freedom. ...But hey! You'll have more money...to spend at the prison commissary! ...On whatever off-brand potato chips and dusty tins of vienna sausages that your prison warden would condescend to stock.

But hey...you'll have more of it!

AssBananas for Israel

I'm working on a new pornographic equation. Can you guess who I'm going to present the bag of shit to when I'm done?

It'll be pretty easy; they haven't rotated the product in some decades. They haven't even done a packaging re-design.

Practice your hitching and chin trembling, because I'm going to give you something to cry about...

Yahoo! Music: Passing Afternoon by Iron and Wine

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Passing Afternoon by Iron and Wine
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There you go

I've decided that General Hayden's new name is Cranior.

Put your prodigious frontal lobes to use subverting the Constitution.

A great year for the fringe

The Fringe Festival is over, all the beer has been drunk, all the friends seen, all the unwelcome sexual advances made. Just one more stop to make in Miami.

One of my favorite shows this year was "Real Time," a play about a guy and a girl who meet online, during the playing of an online video game. The story traces their courtship. The actors performed skillfully and the direction was excellent. It was a pleasure to see how much imagery can be woven with the most minimal of sets.

I like to give credit where credit is due: The Sentinel provided top-notch coverage of the festival. (My earlier crack about blogs didn't target the entertainment people; it was aimed at the self-satisfied sixth-graders who fancy themselves heavy-hitting journalists, you know, blowing wide open crap that doesn't matter. "Should this road be widened to four lanes? We say yes! Ta Da! Where's our Pulitzer?" [And even this crack isn't aimed at the Sentinel; I promised that I wouldn't say another cross word about them.])

Yahoo! Music: Two Way Monologue by Sondre Lerche

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Two Way Monologue by Sondre Lerche
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You people are fucked in the head

The light of freedom is very nearly out in this nation. Most are content to consume a vile forgery, packaged in the style of the day. That the human spirit not wink out, let my every defiant breath be a monument to this society's fuckedness!

Have faith, Future People! Your soul is yours alone.

Yahoo! Music: Pacing The Cage by Bruce Cockburn

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Pacing The Cage by Bruce Cockburn
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A sad song, but that's OK.

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Yahoo! Music: Lord Of The Starfields by Bruce Cockburn

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Lord Of The Starfields by Bruce Cockburn
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This is one of my favorites.

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Blog Papers

The daily newspapers are tripping over themselves to roll out blogs. Great. Lemme get this straight: You've been writing for sixth-graders for so long that you have no sense of euphony or timing, you're now doing what the rest of the world has had five years to perfect, and you have no journalistic credentials.

Clarify for me how you propose to make a living doing this.

Posers we don't need. Hookers we do. Work with what you got.

America's Brave

Some Marines executed some people and then took pictures. Maybe they jerked off to the photos later.*

So in five short years, America has become HappyJerkOffCountry, you know, AssBananaLand. That's how AIPAC --and its donors-- like it. No matter; their first allegiance lies elsewhere anyhow. Let someone else dirty their hands...

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*I get the part about savagery occurring during armed conflict. These things happen. That's why you don't want armed conflict, especially for something so crass as the defense of economic interests.

And I will add that when I was in the military, it was explained to us that we had the moral authority --and responsibility-- to immediately execute anyone who would have carried out such an act.

The military appears unfit to conduct itself. Guns cannot be wisely borne by those with bad philosophy. Perhaps the military needs to be placed into moral receivership.