tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28589426174049464542024-03-12T19:59:42.858-04:00...! ThwartTHWART...! Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger455125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2858942617404946454.post-69617904570370041602016-09-14T13:08:00.003-04:002016-09-14T13:08:45.468-04:00Chili, Creatures & Outlet Malls; Prowling Über-Monroe, Ohio... The City of Everything? PROVE IT! (Internal Audit In-Process)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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encounter had been a long time coming... Much too long. </span></div>
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out both chairs at a table near the front of The Gold Star Chili and takes seat
at the one closest to the window. The window overlooks the busy intersection
bust with vehicles full of creatures slithering to and fro in their vehicles each
high on the Bengal’s' Victory the previous Sunday. Today is Tuesday (I think)
already threes talk... "This year is THE year baby! Cincinnati Bengal’s at
the Super Bowl" That shit is real cute. I appreciate the optimism. It's
really adorable to see so many people getting-off on something together that
doesn't involve that much violence.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the seat opposite of Raul. I'm wearing a shirt that clearly sez FOOTBALL on it.
Normally it is my yard-mowing shirt but today I needed to add some extra
statement to my being, so the FOOTBALL Shirt was chosen. Today was a special
day for me... The last tine I seen Raul was during the Day of Two Totally Huge
Fucking Dudes–TFHD Day which means something only to us and maybe one (at best)
totally unknown other. TFHD Day was in 2012 just before major crashes, bashes,
lashes and dashes fell upon us both in a frenzied veil of utter bullshit known
as life (and that word is intended to be used verily lightly). On this day, we
were reunited. We looked at each other as if the other was a ghost... Not
believing our eyes until we titanically hugged.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 24pt;">I wore
the shirt was wearing this exact shirt during a day of drunken motor-boating at </span></div>
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(yelled) the stranded boaters with confidence, hands cupped around my mouth for
added volume and a bit of slurred speech... I said "DON'T WORRY!!! MY SHIRT
SEZ 'FOOTBALL' </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 32px;">EVERYTHING WILL WORK OUT FINE!!!"</span></div>
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a Gold Star Chili location nestled on Big Bad Route 63 near 1-75 within
eye-shot of Traders World, Cincinnati Premium (level) Outlet Malls and Tire
Discounters in Über-Monroe, A City of Everything... True, Raul or I are not
within view of a mobile-phone retailer, a Mattress Outlet nor Liquor Store (the
big Suburban 3) but we know for a fact that Monroe does have a Hustler Adult
Bookstore chain location and Joe Morgan Honda location that employs one of the
worst Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde salesman I have ever personally witnessed. I'm
confident that if a proper community audit was done, a shady well-lit with LED
advert signs cell-phone store, Mattress Outlet and even a synthetic marijuana
selling location would be discovered.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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upon entering a Gold Star, patrons know exactly what they want. In the last
decade the menu of Greater Cincinnati Chili parlors have began branching out to
include French (Freedom) Fries, Counter-productive foods like Salads (yuck) as
well as Double-Decker’s and even at some Skyline Chili spots decadent foods
like Funnel Fries... Raul and I knew we wanted Chili–that was given. However,
asking and then being granted for a moment to decide from our attentive
waitress, it wasn't a matter of chili or its various forms, but how much chili
we were going for.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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previously stated, visiting the Tri-State/Greater Cincinnati area from the Fat
City-Junk Town region of Colorado, a truly memorable level feast was called
upon. I took charge of the situation. I refused to let our telephone and
Face-Time discussions to just be talk or here-say. This meeting of Raul and I
was going to be memorable... Or else.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 24pt;">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe,_Ohio</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Their Distractions: Racism, Greed, Accusations, Hate, Exploitation, Religious Fanaticisms, Sexism, Elitist views plus much, much more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">see that </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They Fight Us </span></span></div>
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a certain cruelty of life that you can't escape. No matter how fast you run,
how deep you dig or how far you motorboat away from troubles, life finds you there.
Cincinnati Punk-band DEAD FLOWERS said it best with song stating: <i>life is a hard fucker</i>. Yes, hard and quite a fucker
indeed. Those early millennium words still ring true to this day, as perhaps
they always will. It's funny how you spend an entire evening where you don’t
drink a drop, or take any drugs... You even refrain from gorging yourself
late-night bags of Ranch flavored Doritos with Diet A&W Root Beer, or sacks
of White Castles... Ice water is your poison for an evening and <i>still</i>... You wake-up the morning after
performing MC duties for the Release show for LO-FI CITYS 3rd helping of
fruit salad full of greatness in the form of a compilation representing a mere
fraction of this zones crooners, movers and provers... Every Queen’s reign
needs a soundtrack and Lo-Fi City provides in kind. </span></div>
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Still,
life insist on manifesting itself as a hard, mean sadistic fucker that laughs cruelly
in your face, kisses you on the cheek and buries a jagged dagger in your back
at the same time. Everywhere you look: land-locked naval battles within a
landscape of muddy rivers, mattress outlets and cell-phone stores, is a city
elbow-deep in addiction death-tolls, pop-up thunderstorms and praise for the
skills of fine-fine-fine wobbling fruit who may or may not be drunk, stoned or
perhaps both or just really great fucking dancer! In what I can only describe
in comparison as a tragic Shakespearean twist, I awake the following morning
with a hangover!!! You know, a 'life hangover' resembling an old-fashioned
traditional alcohol, White Castle hangover of the classic variety…. Life is a
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I
find personal comfort in arriving early to functions and finding surprises and
low-hanging fruit like Lil' <b>Billy Catfish</b> firmly in place waiting and dangling his finger from
where a pecker would be poking out of his jeans if, in fact, he was that
certain kind of fruit) accompanied by <b>The Broken Werewolves</b>, single-fisting golden whiskey
standing in The Chameleons performance area smiling. That’s why its called
Fruit Salad you know–Because ('as Nanny's Chris P. would soon find similar
enlightenment) all the fruits (people) are mixed together in one container (the
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Later,
it would be brought to my attention by a friend-fruit concerning my liberal use
of 'little' in referencing Lil’ Billy Catfish: "I think he dropped the
'Little' from his name a while ago,” the fellow fruit said. I responded with
the confidence of a level akin to a successful retail fruit-department manager
"Good for him, but to me he will always be "LIL' Billy
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Why
you ask?? Why do you, the desperate Thwart reader ask this? Please note: If you
are reading Thwart, you definitely fall into the <i>desperate</i> category. Desperate for <i>something... Anything… </i>If you care to acknowledge it or not…
Your desperate (get use to it-its kiss or kill) there are lots of media-options
for all kinds of different fruit salads out there. You got this deep into this
Thwart-related piece of literature... You are obviously searching for something
<i>deeper</i>, something with more <i>meaning</i>... You are searching for <i>girth</i>. Life, <i>the hard-fucker,</i> has brought you here to Thwart.
You are a victim and hero at the same time. Relish this opportunity. Good for
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Being
completely honest and rather artistic too, I must clarify, I found Lil'
Billy at the Chameleon standing doing that dick-thing, drinking <i>alone</i>, in a vacant room, lit with LED
lights (his observation-not mine) smiling. Conceptually though, Lil' Billy
wasn't 'alone' he was accompanied by The Broken Werewolves, <i>his</i> broken Werewolves. Billy is much
more than a musician, he is an 'ArtCon', a performer of music as a conceptual art
form. Dare not ask, "Who are the Broken Werewolves Billy?" Because
like it or not, YOU are a broken werewolf! You are there, with Billy, just
trapped in human form. Billy sings songs <i>with</i> you, <i>about</i> you. Celebrating his highs and lows–your highs and lows–both in a
cacophonous chorus of smiles, spirits and yellow-ledger warnings of the
bourgeoisie declaring his one-man micro-nation aka 'Dressing Room.'</div>
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Joined
by fellow ArtCon Weven "Pussy Steve" Stalls wearing a fragrant
Carnation in his hair, Lil' Billy Catfish and all of the present Broken
Werewolves played a great set of folk ArtCon ballads calling the world out in
all its hypocrite red-tape terror-fanatic mess. If the world is flat-out-fucked
as Mudhoney solidly stated on their 1989 self-titled release, then Lil' Billy
is a prover of that on a continual basis while Steven Walls erected a <i>du
moment</i> living
barrier of loose Chameleon tables and chairs following an Andy Kaufman inspired
message to the room saying "Can I ask you a question?" Which was
followed by all the rooms’ mixed-up fruits loudly screaming, "YES!" in
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Wevens
sculpture was the question that still remains unanswered and to this day Lil'
Billy Catfish and Stalls maintain lifetime, individual bans from The Whispering
Beard Music Festival.</div>
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genre coined by Midwest punk pioneers The Embarrassment (circa
Kansas 77-82), Sleepy Drums played as if they were a Jovian moon on a decaying
orbit heading straight for Jupiter’s infamous anticyclonic great red
spot–playing every song, every note how it should be played–like it was their
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Sleepy
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couple oldie but goodie jams by <b>Jetson Maneuver</b> which, according to post-show digging with
Lo-Fi Jonnie himself, existed from 2001-2002 featuring 'Lo-Fi' on guitar/vox,
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Hall on guitar/vox with Andrew Wisenberger on bass and Steve Anderson on
drums that lasted for roughly a year and eventually beget two other bands
called Kindl and Shizer 9... More '+ Friends' action included the
infamous Rob 'Roller-Coaster' S. for a hearty rendition of "Dead
Flowers" by Lo-Fi City 3 contributor <b>Sack Lunch </b>and<b> </b>yet more surprises in this
late-night bowl of Fruit-Salad when Alessandro 'Midnight Dro' C. would
step-forth into the ever rotating Sleepy Drums (and Friends) banner for a brief
reunion of the late <b>Dinosaurs
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Guitarist Aaron W. to their line-up, <b>Nanny</b> gloriously kept it weird. Falling somewhere in the
hinterland in-between Eno, Neu!, and Roxy Music–the Chameleon crowd were once
more pulled away from either the Chameleon patrons on the rear smokers deck
ogling the boringly modern box architecture of whatever was built next door
(conclusion: "They really got it all figured out") or the bars TV
viewing of <i>The
Big Game</i> to
witness a set of ethereal, melancholy semi-analog/semi-digital danceable jams,
not only capturing but adding to and furthering the pre-determined ArtCon
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Rounding
out the night was a brand-new band (well, to me they are new) that I purposely
neglected to listen to provided Bandcamp clips called <b>Fun Machine </b>who I instantly look a liking to
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One
of those reasons why is because early in the night, I already filled by 'new
friend' quota. Ever since seeing my first punk-show (Fugazi in Dayton during
June of 1991) I have taken it upon myself to break out of introverted roles
where I would actually pray for invisibility and in this new scene (which I
really wanted to enter with a fresh-start including a new name–Shawn Abnoxious)
and wherever I was at–try and meet someone new. Instead of shying in corners, I
committed myself to embracing the punk-scene. Now, more than 25 years later, it
comes totally natural to introduce myself to new people and talk about
something–anything. I had already met a videographer capturing vidz of all the
bands named Jesse S. "Oh, you two already know each other?" inquired
Jonnie Lo-Fi when he seen Jesse and I talking-up the antics of Weven Stalls
earlier. "We know each other... Now!"<o:p></o:p></div>
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On
the night of the 26th, as I was ogling the boringly modern box architecture of
whatever was built next door to the Chameleon coming to the conclusion that the
buildings architects really got it all figured out, the members of Fun Machine
ambushed me! Knocking me off-guard by introducing themselves to me! <i>The Horror! The
Horror!!!*</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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my 25+ years since my first show, there are people that I have met which
(viewing in hindsight) that I would instantly connect and bond with on a
variety of levels. People that would ultimately make me a better person for
knowing. I think knowing the fruits in the fruit-salad that is Fun Machine
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By
time they would settle in as the night clean-up position of an already stellar
night of performances, things could only get better–which it did! Fun Machine
played from a perch of confidence that very few bands exhibit. Fun Machine had
a plan... A purpose... Like Dally, Fun Machine were jazzed up for the rumble** Whether
or not there were meetings or pep-talks before hand, I am not certain of, but
Fun Machine delivered-in-full. I didn't even see them play from a set-list!
Their set was played as-if a calculated, well-timed Gulf-War 2 shock & awe
cruise missile attack. Precision was a concept that Fun Machine wielded with
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jerky, vocal-driven angular punk bringing to mind the aforementioned
Embarrassment and playing with an intensity reminding me of WU LYF, The Rakes,
Mountain Goats and even The Strokes at times (yeah, I still like the Strokes).
I held onto every note the Fun Machine spat forth as they maintained a high
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but I appreciate a good quiet and sudden slipping-away myself and try my best
to emulate that personal fondness myself. I traversed to the northern zones of
Cincinnati homeward and as I promised earlier to a hippy named Brian M. who had
apparently found his shoes sometime between <i>then</i> and <i>now</i>, I threw Wevens Carnation out the window as I hit Cincinnati's
northern suburban zones hoping for the same results as when birds eat seeds,
carry them elsewhere and deposit them via their droppings (shit) to spread
fauna from place to place. I wanted to spread the ArtCon sentiments/infections
of Weven Stalls northward to infect the new asphalt, Chopping Strip Mauls and
manicured lawns of unsuspecting masses. The gesture was purely symbolic but I
really strive for artistic thinking amongst my zones habitat Art Now! Art Often
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really exist anywhere does it? Think about it... I made myself two thick
peanut-butter sandwiches that I washed down with a new batch of Grape flavored
fitness drink while I watched an episode of History Channels <i>Ancient Aliens</i>... Firm in my earlier statements
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My wife, Sarah, had gotten some Etcha-Sketchas for the kids she was teaching art to and that's how it found it's way back into my world. I just picked it up and started to see if I could doodle with it like I did when I was a kid. I tried to push myself into seeing how far I can take it. It dawned on me that the Etcha-Sketch is perfect for these days we live in-disposable. Attention spans that lasts for nano seconds and then we move on. As soon as a piece is done on the Etcha Sketch, it's time to wipe it clean and start over. A digital picture is all that's left. Something that took a few hours is now a memory. I'm sure I could go deeper into this thought, but that's the core of it. From dust to dust.<br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It just comes out with the tinkering of the knobs, really. No planning yet. Planning on the pieces will come with the pieces I do for the show. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Subject matter is weird because I feel my best stuff comes from just turning the knobs without an idea of what is going to come out. Working it out as it goes along. I guess I have plans of trying subject matter that would interest me, but right now it's all about going with the flow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In lieu of Donald Trump's rousing 'Law & Order' (donk-donk) speech at the 2016 Republican Convention... T<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">he compromising defeat of Colonel Bernie Sanders and rise of Hillary 'H.I.L.L.' Rodham-Clinton... </span>Jack Burton, truck-driver (retired) and subject of the 1986 documentary BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA, once again referred to himself in 3rd person stating "Jack Burton just wants his country back!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"What lady doesn't love a big deck to hang out on?" Nancy, a modest 38 year old Receiving Department manager for a major home supply retail chain and mother of three proclaimed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Starting with a busy Memorial Day weekend of nearly constant grilling, lounging and fireworks, action proceeded to include birthday parties, True Romance gatherings, meetings of The Oakenshild Knife-Throwers Guild (founded by Bill in 2002) and much more. These organized events all not only occurred on the Sundermans' big deck but also featured an impromptu hippie drum circle one evening after the family returned from their kids' soccer game.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"We came home, thought the neighbor had his stereo on a bit loud.." explained Bill, age 45 and owner/operator of 7 Columbus area BallStop© Convenience Stores, "We smelt patchouli and followed the beat to the Big Deck out back."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">After a rousing Fourth of July weekend jam-packed with neighborhood grill-outs and Fireworks displays with the Sundermans Deck being the highlight of the entire neighborhood, ideas for the second-half of the summer as Bill and Nancy explained include a family reunion, at least two more birthday parties, a baby shower, another True Romance gathering and in Bills own words "the biggest fucking fireworks display this neighborhood has ever seen" for Labor Day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Holiday weekends bring out the worst in everybody and everything including myself. I'd like to think its just a 'nihilist moment' or think that its just a phase but if not for the fact that <b>1-800-BAND</b> (BAND) were not on tour in support of Almost Ready Records (who also released Cincinnati favs Bummers Eve debut fullie) release of <i>High Beams</i>; BAND's second fullie and playing <b>Junkers Tavern</b> on the opening day of the 2nd Fourth of July of the 2016 Summer season then (as some ancient astronaut theorist say) I would have been at home on the couch of ideas watching TV. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mama said being an enemy of the state would be easy... Its getting harder and harder trouncing through the muck to find the sweet spots of resistance that such strongholds like Junkers represents. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I guess A Lamb of Ulysees himself; Ian Svenious' Chain and The Gang were playing mere blocks away at The Northside Tavern that registered immediately as being 'wayyyy o'er there' in the interest scale... Fuck it. Chain and The Gang becomes described as 'The guy from The Make-Up with an all-girl band' which is really unfair but sparks my interest despite the gimmick-y nature of that overheard 'product with product' description. My final ananysis as The Northside Tavern not being an option for the evening has much do do with the fact that 1) The Nation of Ulysses must Prevail and 2) Apathy isn't so much as a cause rather than the fact that I think 1-800-BAND are a really great band.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Things got started off at Junkers post-opening evening of The Rock and Roll Carnival. No, I didn't go and the only way that could possibly get me there would be if BAND would play. As it just so happens, they are... In just a few hours from writing this very sentence actually but since BAND is played Junkers, I chose the familiarity of known territory where I hold a strategic advantage if/when the shit hits the fan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">BAND came right out of the gate unleashing their ever-fresh Knack meets Blondie and Freddie Fender style power-pop in fast anthemic burst of catchy songs about alienation, awkwardness, fun, innocence and rebellion. BAND's songs speak directly to you and screams into your ear its not you, it;s them. Finally with High Beams, on a personal level, I no longer blame 1-800-BAND for the hiatus or disappearance of Crimson Sweet. I see BAND as rock and roll alter-ego's of Crimson Sweet; the same great heroes they were, in new outfits doing something different and still making it pop where its supposed to pop, and causing them to drop when its time to drop!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">On Friday, May 6th Cincinnati Irregulars THE BUFFALO KILLERS celebrated their 10th Anniversary with help frm Alive Records by offering up a limited edition version of The Buffalo Killers debut LP (on colored vinyl) accompanied by handy-dandy 'Buffalo Killers' brand TOBACCO rolling-papers. With many Cincinnati citizens, puddles, crims, limbs and products (aka 'people) in attendance, The 'Killers provided a free show at one of Cincinnati's most venerable continuous venues located in the Northern Northsides' 'Lil' Gatlinburg District' known as THE COMET.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Having the pleasure and honor to accompany Zach Gabbard on the journey from the outlands and utilizing evasive maneuvers when confronting shiny black trucks in Starbucks parking lots, we 'hit the haunts' and in turn logged in some much welcomed 'leisure miles' cruising around the olden spots sharing olden-tyme stories amongst the newen, as Swamp Dogg would put it: "Synthetic Bullshit" zones of Short Vine St., McMillan Ave, Calhoun Ave., Ludlow Ave... Those streets feel like driving through a mall these days... Restaurants, Cell-Phone stores, gimmicks as storefronts selling shit no one can afford without a credit-card.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dragging the overwhelming feelings from The Butler County, Ohio 'dooming-brand drag' of Suburbiastate southward, its in my humble opinion that those particular feelings of isolation, loneness and anxiety of futile gloom aren't just mine brought from my community. In fact, by end of the night Id find out that anxiety is pretty common... In Cincinnati, what once was a close-knit community of artist and creatives, has faltered with the influx of a 'toxic urban industry' type of commercialism. Everything is a gimmick these days. Motherfuckers wearing flip-flops afraid to smoke their smoke or sneak beers in bars anymore (because they cant afford bar bought beer) have forgotten the dirt in alley ways... Carrying around fancy fucking water bottles. <i>Aint it great to hydrate</i>–FUCK the Fuck Off! Stay thirsty fuckers! Stingy, good smelling people, EVERY WHERE THERES PEOPLE (not a drop to drink) with hands that smell like their jobs that wont talk to bums anymore... We, as a creative community, in the most basic sense of the word (CREATIVE), cant get above–nor should we EVER–our raising. We can still laugh, sing-aloud and LAUGH as these new shaven legged young men with kept beards roll their eyes and take pictures of us to later shame in memes to their 'bras... Fuck those guys and 'their scene' ya know? Theres 'REAL' out there that needs to be kept. The leisure miles show me, and reiterate, that we creatives need to recommit ourselves to building a better ourselves and better each others... Create, again, a foundation and positive place, section, refuge for ourselves and each other in the process making the public safe again from all our mind-demon anxieties. We gotta rebuild our circles, our community, our mission. Those leisure miles, occupied with memories and many laughs, left me feeling glad that I put some pants on, lathered myself in deodorant... Itd been easy to stay home sitting in my underwear eating $1 snacks from The Dollar Tree. Im glad I slipped my 'gunslinger' shirt on... Drove to the middle of Butler County, blasting LOVE at loud volumes... Went outta my way to get away. Found myself once more with Z-Dub and further more with the entire shows attending zeros: Tenders, Detective Backie, Aug, Jason Snell, Adrian.. We all gotta help each other get thru whatever you wanna call this 'modern war on creatives' because we cant do it alone... We tried and all its gotten us is feeling alone and abandoned and scared. Fuck that shit.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I thank you as so much to thank you for:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and ONWARD WE SHALL PASS< WITHOUT YOU WE WOULD BE NOT.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">WHENEVER I FINALLY SET SAIL< GET OF THIS MOUNTAIN OF SHIT</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">...THOSE RUSSIAN FELLAS. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">REAL HARD TO SAY WHAT HAPPENED TO THOSE FELLAS AND WHAT THEY MIGHT BE UP TO.</span></div>
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