staring.

Easter came again this year and surprised us with a break from “work” on the cartoon. Slow week, ate a lot, but we did do part two script meeting yesterday, and with renovations at Dinca Studios, it may be a little while, a week or so, before we get back in the rhythm. Until then, here’s my song of the day; The Loudest Sound by The Cure;

— mgmt.

everything that happens will happen today.

Big big week! Yesterday was our biggest week so far in the production. We had a casting meeting, and we spoke to a lot of great actors who we have added to our ensemble, and their pending roles!

 They are;

Nick Endres — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ4Mokcag10

Ambassador Nippon

Assistant to Ambassador Nippon

Japanese Woman

Second String Two Ton (In the event that actor Eric Anzalone cannot record a voice for Two Ton, his auxilary will be Nick)

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Mike Perlman — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INx5kcRwa1w

Moon

Jeff

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Dale DaBone — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fryc8ZyvVUw

Tod Howarth — (Guitarist, ex-Frehley’s Comet)

Terry Valderas — (guitarist, ex-Toadies)

Growthy

(Note: Dale would like us to remind you to visit his website, http://hotrawks.com/ !! Open up and say RAW! If you like to fuck, go to HotRawks!)

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Matt McVay — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9MPAApMBRI

Matthew Wages — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ7thSXKoKU

Ryan O’Callaghan — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUAwKi12OVI

Sean Moore — (No Reel)

All these people, and about three others, are trying out for the part of Scott Stapp. We have not reached a conclusive verdict, but we will in the upcoming weeks.

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Derrick Matthew Gary — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48UmCYpglF4

The Sun

Czeff

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— Tommy “RED” Duke, sunday morning animation

(THE.HIVE.)

i dont know what you people are all about.

Semi-eventful week, we’re auditioning people for the role of Scott Stapp and Growthy, we printed off the script and are sending it to the members of Moty Python, and see what THEY think!:) — tom

welcome to the control room.

This week is beginning of our storyboarding!

We are writing the storyboards for the pilot episode of Living Evil, ‘cult’.

We are doing the visual setup for the scenes, everything from the re-done opening credits, to the actual scenes.

We’re also narrowing down the music that we’re using. With roughly 100 songs in our ‘pool’, we decide which songs are gonna be appropriate for a scene. For more on this stuff, go to the soundtrack page, at https://smorning.wordpress.com/sponsors-and-contributors/

http://quoteunquoterecords.com/

One of my new favorite songs for the soundtrack is this one from a great group on our friends Quote Unquote Records ( http://quoteunquoterecords.com/ )

The band is called the Taxpayers, and heres a link to their page!

http://thetaxpayers.net/

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— Tommy, aka Abu Ahmet, Hive of Dukes

the problem with music.

LIMITED TIME ONLY; DOWNLOAD THE NEW ALBUM FROM BRIGHT AS THE SUN, ONLY ON ARCHIVE.ORG!

http://www.archive.org/details/GiveItUp_916

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http://www.archive.org/details/HowToFillADancefloorVolumeIi

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Abu Ahmet

(keep it surreal)

if you don’t like it, survey says ‘suck it’.

Today, I did a little rooting around at DINCAA (pronounced ‘Dinka’) studios on different subjects, and had a nice meeting of the minds with the two other bones of the Hive, the original framework, the original team, box. (Marcus), Sex Tornado (Ryan), and DW Merritt, aka Abu Ahmet, (me, Tommy).

This is especially relevant in that there has been something of a schism amongst two members of the Hive, but that is none of yours’ concern, and I’d hate to harp on it. I’ll let you know how THAT works out. We may go to more of the “retro” lineup of the Hive, namely box, S.T, and me, with our new intern Josh (who doesnt have a pseudonym yet). We will keep you posted.

Also, a quick mention on my stance towards Copyright. I cannot speak for the rest of the Hive, and we are a privately owned company, wherein the financial responsiblities and such  are owned by me, but the decisions of the group are made democratically for ease of deciding, as well as that all our thoughts are taken into account. Having said that, the copyright itself, on all articles created by the Hive, from the words I currently type, to the artwork on the site and in the videos we make, are licensed under a Creative Commons license. We do this because we believe in a free, non-commercial inter-spersal of ideas and images, for the love of art, for the projection of ideas and morals, and for the hobby of art. If a 5th grader saw Growthy in our header, and thought it looked cool, and cut the head out in Microsoft Paint, and put it on a new background, with new text, it is a new work! He isn’t profitting off of it (and consequentially, isn’t depriving us, the artists, of profit that helps us eat), it is totally fine to us. While we see the right of a person to protect their ideas (and moreover, their profits), we more importantly see that we should be able to freely re-mix, satirize, re-purpose and re-design the images of our near and distant past, for use in new art.

“Art makes life more comfortable for us, and, if we’re lucky, someone else too. ” – Abu Ahmet, (me)

Art is part of our primitive urge to create, to produce, to comment on, ridicule, understand, and show our thoughts to the outside world. Without art, in a more vast sense of the word, we’d live in a bland, un-feeling world.

So our small contribution to culture, if any, is for the purpose of making a statement. if 50 people read this sentence, and 10 of them are ignited in a fight against exclusive copyrights, that’s all worth it.

— Tommy, aka Abu Ahmet,

keeping it surreal.

clint eastwood.

Put some new interviews up!

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check out my interview with supermodel and friend Naima Mora;

– Supermodel Naima Mora from America’s Next Top Model

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naima_Mora

http://www.scribd.com/doc/50325930

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Working on a music video for one of my mashup tracks for my mashup proect Bright as The Sun’s new album, “I’m Ready, I Am Ready.”

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Please check out the new photography page from The First Lady of the Hive, our very own Daisy Duke, Miss Sammy Davis;

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Home-of-the-Heart-Photography/136452799757396?sk=wall#!/pages/Home-of-the-Heart-Photography/136452799757396

(We’re using her photography as our background this month, and depending on your response, we’ll keep it up) :)

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Song of the Day? Lightning Bolt, Ride the Skies! —

— keep it surreal,

abu ahmet (tommy, of the hive)

continued arguments.

Here is the continuation of the piece; “An Argument For and Against Capitalism”

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Person Five:  

my parents were poor as fuck but i supported them. they both were work a holics but they did not make enough cash to cover rent, bills and food. i moved away from home at 17 in 1980 but i still carried on supporting them because they did t…heir best as they slaved away at crap jobs , i saw it as my duty to help them out. capitalism is a nasty killer system. as a kid me and mom went out after the food stores shut to get the food they threw out. even tho the nasty guards threatened us with guns. saying rude shit to mom like “why don’t u come here and shop like “normal people”. my mom said “do u think we like to go through your garbage to get some food?, we paid our rent and not much was left for rent”. ah yes the u.s.a. the best nation on earth. what a bunch of SHIT!! i learned that at a young age. i think we must be self reliant. free of state control. stop being consumers of useless crap. i see all the debate about socialism vs capitalism. well how about folks going off the grid and becoming self reliant. sure as a kid in the ghetto in the 60s and 70s this was not really going on as far as i was aware.
i attended the black panther breakfast program in the late 60s because of my economic status, i am not black, so the reason i was accepted in the program was purely economic. it was a community effort for us kids in the ghetto.
i do think it is crazy to expect help from the greedy capitalists , after all they want us to be hooked to their system. my parents never applied for help via the system. they were immigrants anyways. after all the system was too busy waging wars around the world to gain profits for the greedy capitalist power structure. the main motto for capitalism is “expand or die”
here”s hoping there is a revolt in the u.s.! fight the power.

Person Two:  

Your views are negative against a group of people who are SAID to be capitlists. When you hear “capitalist”, you’ve been programmed to see an old white man swimming in a pool of money naked with a gold dollar sign medallion. This is old and… outdated thinking. EVERYONE has options for survival and to thrive. Capitalism is a very base system, and interpretations of that doctrine of individuality are varied and some are negative! But you blaming capitalism for all the ills of the world is like me blaming the doctrine of Christ for all the superstitious “god-inspired” murders, or the tragedy in Guyana. You cant blame an idea for real-life problems, its the institution of the ideas that become troublesome.

Person Three:  

I have seen many instances of Christianity that lived up to its Ideals. I have seen instances of socialism that have lived up to its ideals. I have seen instances in which both have failed. I have seen not one instance in which capitalism h…as been anything other than a greedy moral quagmire. Libertarians prate on about the free market being distorted by corporatism or corruption or conspiracies but they have never and can never show a single instance of their free market Utopia ever working anywhere at any time. And do you know why? Because you will NEVER get social benevolence out of a system based on cold blooded self-interests. I don’t care what Ayn Rand spouted on about the virtues of selfishness- Giraffes never breed Hippos.

Person Two: Ive never seen an example of socialism working in a real-life setting. That is why it is the moral version of a board game, or something of the like. Youre asking for a capitalistic UTOPIA, because you know a perfect society cant exist. Socialism IS utopianism, a giant pipe dream leading to its own defeat. Capitalism is great in that a business, ANY business, cannot exist without it. Certainly not Facebook, or whatever company makes your sex toys.

Person Three:  

There are plenty of instances in which socialism has worked or is working right now. Chiapas has been a socialist success for over a decade now. Venezuala despite the propaganda has lifted thousand out of dire poverty under Chavez. Others w…eren’t so lucky. The Anarcho-syndicalists in Northern Spain during the Civil War were successful until they were crushed by the combined force of Stalinism, Fascism, and Republicanism. In every instance capitalism unchecked has had to rely on radical state intervention to bail it out of its own mess because it cannibalizes the tax-created infrastructure every time. It is a pathetic mess. You have no argument. Every time I bring up a point you rely on simple minded rhetoric and never address the fact that most of the world is in abject poverty and most of the world is capitalist. Or you try for some juvenile ad hominem attack. Sex toys, really? Who needs that shit when you have skype and the numerous women who want your to utilize it with them. Well, numerous for me- for you it seems unlikely!

Person Two:  

I always address the point, but you choose to repeat the same entirely wrongly-minded points over and over again. I cant repeat myself to you EVERY time, but the point is, Chiapas is a violent part of a violent country, of which the entire …government is corrupt and the “kind’ socialistically sanctioned police force assaults the populace. Chavez is a sick bastard and also an anti-freedom of speech personality. Poverty is STILL ridiculous there, and crime and murder rates are some of the highest in the world. Chavez is also a dictator. How about your other hero, Castro? Lenin was an all-around dick as well! If Socialism creates quality, why are women regarded in the lowest way in Latin America and Cuba, and healthcare is despicable? As to the point you think Im avoiding, I.e., poverty? Poverty is a problem that has been around since the dawn of civilization, but all people are given the opportunity to GET a job in America because the capitalist “wage slavemasters” PAY people to work to make money, for them and their bosses. Most of the world, capitalist? Major countries follow a profit and work framework. For a group of people who seem to value labor so much, I dont see why you dont understand that people labor to make money, to buy things. Its simple. No commerce, no money, no THINGS, no comfort. Capitalism is what started this country, free enterprise, as well as enabling the POOR to work and survive. The government has no business babysitting everyone fm cradle to the grave.

As for the Anarcho-Syndicalists, any commune has not prospered unless it was really just people crashing in the same place. A “government-shaped” commune, with laws and a setup etc., have been failures.

Capitalism, as an idea, is great. In action, it is up to the person to make it work. Socialism relies upon a governmental power to organize, so any self-respecting liberty-minded individual, i.e., libertarian/anarchist type, would be sickened by the government having control of the entirety of the power behind life and death. Its a bullshit idea that is ENTIRELY impossible to implement in a developed nation like the US. Thats a promise.

Person Three:  

You no what it? I take it all back. Capitalism is precisely and efficiently successful. When a few are profiting at the expense of the many that is the measure of the success of an ideology that has no other concern in life other than profi…t at all costs. Hell, even fascism has some sense of a society or a community to justify it! Society, community, humanity in general- these only factor into the equation when it turns a buck. One can not think of an ideology that more closely approximates the world view of a sociopath. Capitalism is amorality elevated to a metaphysical principle. You can try to justify it through some bullshit belief in “meritocracy.” That “merit” is just the merit of a con-man being good at lying. I don’t care what you tell yourself to sleep at night. By definition capitalism is concerned with only profit. Only a moron tries to hem and haw about how this will magically transform into the good of all. It doesn’t and can’t by its very definition. I will never trick myself into believing white is black like you have. I though will stick to a rational and compassionate understanding of life.

Person Two:  

Your view is by no stretch of the imagination rational. To love others is a virtue, and to have family is a great choice, and helping the poor and the lesser-thans, so to speak, is fantastic. But all people who survive are being capitalists…. The problem that even INTELLIGENT leftist writers fail to understand is that they use compound terms like “capitalist government” as a means to create a visual of a cold, uncaring machine. “Amorality” is the choice of a person, and if a person IS a capitalist and chooses not to care about prisons or homeless people, that is his choice. But you and others like you seem to ignore that the people you hate, you hate not because of their political inclinations, its by their choices and how they present themselves. You cant think that capitalists are just waiting for things to become magically better, because it is up to PEOPLE to make it better. I think you’re negating people of other viewpoints is bigoted and rude, and as a former socialist and a prominent organizer of socialist ideaology, I CAN and WILL counter all your arguments with intellect and fervor. I am above making the crux of my argument a mere personal thing, and you seem to ignore that there are just as many people who are socialists who are cold, unfeeling people as there are in any other political facet. People are people, and just because you are a socialist doesnt make you an asshole. Mr. Ervin, above, who is a well-thought-out individual and a writer of several pamphlets which I have read, is not presenting himself as you are, as a sophomoric and ignorant prick, pissing on my leg over your pussy excuse for an argument. I am entirely opposed to your views of what has happened in the US, and I suggest you think about the error of wanting a welfare state, a state-socialist fascist empire where a rigid set of rules enslave the many just as you seem to think the government is doing now. There are problems in all civilizations, but on the whole, the United States is a place of individual freedom. Even as there are horrible issues with it, (I.e. the prison system, religious fundamentalism, murder), you can find those things in any continent on the globe. Dont dog America, because you are given the freedom to be your own person, whether you choose to take it or not.See More

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We’re talking with Justin Moyer, aka Edie Sedgwick, about making a music video. We’ll keep you checked in on that!

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— keep it surreal

— tom, (of the Hive)

endless love.

We begun the process of working with one of our favorite record labels, Alternative Tentacles! ( http://www.alternativetentacles.com )

They release music from countless amazing bands, everything from old school Dead Kennedys material, Subhumans (Not the cool UK punks who sang “Mickey Mouse is Dead”, the Canadian ones), Alice Donut (Terribly underrated! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=092DUlx2hX0 ), to more recent stuff, including spoken word stuff (Notable albums by former DK frontman and friend of sludgies the Melvins, Jello Biafra) and the new album by Jello B and the Guantanamo School of Medicine! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svsrlL4CeBI&feature=related

They also released stuff from my old buddy Noam Chomsky, and our friend KK Null’s band Zeni Geva (A favorite of my hero Steve Albini, whose band Shellac performs our opening title music!)

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We took on a new member in the Hive, our unpaid intern Josh! Picture below;

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We began interviews with all our friends in the circus sideshow industry, music, and politics, and we’ll have to see what comes of that :)

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Here is a discussion on the merits of capitalism versus that of Socialism, done in an anonymous way to let you see it without a face. I WILL let you know that one of them is me, and one is a famous Black Panther named Lorenzo Ervin. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_Komboa_Ervin )

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Person One:

We need worldwide movement of poor and homeless people to put pressure on the capitalist state and system, and fight against austerity campaigns by the rich.

　

Person Two:

What we have in effect is not a capitalist state and system, we have a mixed economy. It is a failure, but that is no fault of capitalism.

　

Person one:

mixed economy? I have heard this for years, and i am no economist, but do not assume social programs under capitalism constitute a form of socialism like the Republikkans claim. They are reforms that have been fought for and many died for, but the social system remains the same.

　

Person Two:

The system itself, I believe, is not the issue. In recent years, more socialistic programs have been implanted, and I dont see it fixing the primary issues of the poor and downtrodden. Its made people that are reliant on government cheese, …with no prospects of contributing to society. My father is one of these, and I legally seperated myself from him because Im not some bum. Im an independent business owner and Im proud that the freedom that capitalism has alloted me has given me the freedom to make my own money and be my own person!

　

Person Three: Wow I have to give you credit for just admitting that you legally separated from your father just because he was poor. Wow, I would have been ashamed to effectively admit I was such a superficial scumbag but man you have some guts! It must have been all the shiny toys that the capitalist system gave you that raised your self-esteem so high to have the courage to turn on your own father just because he had fallen on hard times. Ayn Rand would be proud!

　

Person Two: How about this; the “welfare’ system gave money taken from the taxpayers to my father, who spent his money NOT on his children, but on heroin, cocaine, and a motorcycle. But the government came running to his aide, and took money from, oste…nsibly, my mother who WORKED to feed me and my sister, to give him stale food to eat and pay for his apartment. While there is a population of homeless and downtrodden, they need an actual FIX, not a lifelong coddling from the government. I’ve BEEN homeless, and I happen to know several very kind and genuine homeless people. BUT the welfare system has created a bunch of ne’er do well druggies and losers who cant survive on their own. I didnt seperate from him for being poor, its because he misspent HIS money, then BEGGED for money from the government to pay for food for HIM. You are a sophomoric prick, and your two-dimensional, out-dated logic deserves a place on the “Abolition of Work” paperback.

　

Person Three: You didn’t explain that but I figured that the story was something like that. If you don’t want people to think you are an asshole than you should explain that rather than praising the capitalist system. Why hide your justifiable anger with your father behind such drivel anyway?

　

Person Two: They arent linked in and of themselves, that story about my dad was one story that justified the general idea of Capitalism as a system moreover than socialism. You dont seem to understand that in Socialism, were it to take place in the US …(Which is never could), you’d have to convince EVERY person living in the country to co-operate with you. I know too many assholes to justify working with others, and as Capitalism IS the freedom to be your own person and have your own money, to act as an adult as soon as you please, and not have to put up with the government, and socialism is basically strengthening a government stronghold on the people, whether you like it or not. And I didnt explain myself because I made a point, and for me to go into a giant story about my life for no real reason is a pretty shmucky thing to do unless its warranted by some skeevy lowlife who thinks that Karl Marx’s childish vision of the third world being implied for action in the united states is even possible, let alone plausible.

　

Person Three: You were the one who brought it up, so stop whining now that you are called on your obvious ploy at emotional manipulation. The example of your father justified nothing and you had no point at all. There are plenty of neglectful drug addict… fathers who are rich so it is irrelevant on every level. Capitalism is only promises freedom for those who can be able to hold onto owning the means of production. For all others- us, Wage Slaves who are in the clear majority- it is the freedom to sell away your life, labor, time and self-respect to the social leeches you work for. You better hope and pray that “Marx’s childish vision” is as implausible as you think cause your minority freedom to live at the expense of the freedom of the majority will be flushed down the crapper of history if it isn’t. Until then we will have to put up with the deluded self-righteous stink of people like you. I am used to idiots like you, so your little tantrum is amusing but holds not a single point that can’t be shot down despite your attempt to make the argument about your narcissistic woes rather than just the same old selfish bull shit that comes poring out of the t.v. set day and night that they try to sell you here in the U.S.

　

Person Four: Capitalism is a scumbag system. Before Fabian socialism and “Scientific” socialism this was obvious.
Changing the guard at the capitalist circus to csome form of State socialism doesn’t change this. Neither do social control systems disgu…ised as “relief”. A system of privilege and exploitation remains.
Heroin is a type of social control.
Part of the problem here is dumping the cost of child rearing (i.e., socialization, human capital) on the poor. A worker-run economy would have workplaces (producers) do this.
Making those sickened by capitalism is part of the process of expropriating the weath of the upper classes in a social revolution. Until that occurs, we must fight to preserve mutual aid between working people and amonst the poor. This has been done for hundreds of years when the church and state were gendarmes of the political economy of exploitation.
La lucha continua…
Semper repugnare (always fight back)!
-S.

　

Person Two: Those who are worse off have not capitalism to blame. Youre blaming people who have hijacked a cronyistic approach to economics, and calling THEM capitalists. You (Justin) are obviously upset that your socialistic system requires associatin…g with people who you dont like, and if you cant handle talking on facebook, I see that YOUR self-righteous, Leninist, violently negative approach to the world today is doing nothing. Nothing for you, nothing for the world, and nothing for the homeless. If you want to change the world, give a homeless person a free room in your house for the rest of his life for no rent. Seem a little extreme? Welcome to Socialism 101. Communism only has a faint breath left in it for one reaosn, and that is that people like you can claim that socialism and communism are social systems that help the poor, but all Communist experiments have failed, and seeing as your pipe-dream dies out in that the OUTSTANDING majority, I’d wager 80 percent of the world or more, believe in freedom. YOUR freedom, and mine. Communism makes you a slave to the government, and capitalism makes you your own boss. I wont be told what to do, and Socialism wants to tell the HAVES to give up everything that isnt nccesary, when the entire reason why we make money is to make life more pleasureable. You have decided to ask me to argue a negative, whereas you fail to see that the burden of proof, sadly, lies in you and the lowly pissants like you who use the pain of the poor as a front to implant a whole new kind of “wage slavery”, that is the Harrison Bergeron-esque equalization that never worked for animals, and will never work for humans.

　

Person Three: I refute your argument thusly: Most of the world is capitalist and most of it is riddled with massive poverty and oppression. Welcome to capitalism 101. I love how people like you say that capitalism is great but it has only been corrupted …by cronyism and corporatism. Well name me ONE example of you free market utopia that ever worked any where at anytime that didn’t flower immediately into corporatism and cronyism. Uuuuh ya’ can’t cause it doesn’t exist and never existed and no system based on selfishness and exploitation can ever be anything other than selfish and exploitative. You may say that socialism and communism have failed but at least they have had moments of success that due to either external or internal pressure were undermined. You my friend have ZERO examples of success for your free market utopia and sorry to break it to you but you never will either. Awww how is that for burden of proof douche bag?

　

Person Two: Well I know for a fact that there is not one human OR business that ever existed without being greedy. Without greed, guess what? The fucking human race would never have cropped up, you mopey son of a bitch.

　

Person Three: If that is the best you can come up with than you just put a big smile on my mopey face! :) The human race evolved as bands of hunter gatherers who could harness fire. You seem like you might have picked up a book at some point so tell me does the culture of hunter gatherers- of which we evolved to be in- resemble more a capitalist society or a socialist society? I’ll give you a few moments to google search that in the likely situation you don’t own any books.

　

Person Two: Your definition of greed is warped. It is the CHRISTIAN definition of greed, regardless of your religious affiliation. Greed is wanting more than you have. And if I can work hard enough to have more, guess what? I deserve to keep it without… levys, taxes, and general government meddling. I dont want people to suffer any more than you do, but socialism is not a means to go about it. Also, your definition of “exploitative” is warped too. We WORK to get money to buy things. That’s the society we’ve built. For the short period of time we have, we are hedonistic, and try and make life pleasureable. Money gets you more things, and things are comforts. If I had a choice between a rice cake and a rack of ribs, I’m sorry to say I’d like ribs. and If I work and “slave” for my WAGES, I can buy them! but Socialism wants 100 people to have one crumb broken off of one man’s loaf of bread. It wont feed them, so they will ask for more, without working for it. If they DID work for it, they become part of the group of people with the loaf of bread, and they will say “LAY OFF MY FUCKING BREAD!”, thus proving the panhandling of socialist tactics are a farce.

　

*No responses to this last post have cropped up in 16 hours.*

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Song of the Day?

Ronan Stone — Spaced Out Space Suit Boy

(If youre a part of the contest, copy the name of the above song and a link to this website, www.nocensors.com , as your status on Facebook or Myspace, and let us know, and you are entered to win a free Ronan Stone CD, and more! )

— keep it surreal

— tom, (of the hive)

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>.get ‘cho’ ‘ghetto’ ass outta herr.<

Did a lot of soundtrack mailings and sendoffs today, including some to our friends at the bands on the roster of my favorite record label, Quote Unquote Records! (http://www.quoteunquoterecords.com/albums.htm )

PLEASE DONATE! It’s OUR donations that keep Q.U.R. running, and amazing music that’s being used on the soundtrack, such as Chott/o Ghetto;

http://www.chottoghetto.com/

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And we talked to Pete Swanson, formerly of experimental/industrial noise group Yellow Swans (whom i am nuts for, their breakup really shattered my libido for about two years, nothing would come out.) Pete said that we could use Yellow Swans in our cartoon even though the band is no longer a united face; http://jyrk.com/yellowswans/

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We’re terribly sorry that actor Tim Holmes can NOT audition for a place on the show, due to his SAG status. We hold no hard feelings Tim, and best of luck on your other projects, as well as being a father of a pair of newborns :)

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— keep it surreal

—  the mgmt (hive of dukes)