The Liberation of Western Civilization Begins by Way of Art

Matt the Junglecat (or just plain JUNGLECAT to you newbies) is a Michigan irregular and current Chicago troublemaker (artist) by way of Cincinnati Ohio*. Junglecat dedicated much of the early millennial years as front man, not only of the Gazelles where he honned his pioneering of 'fountain diving' but also later as a member of THE WHITEGIRLS... Then he 'grew up', 'settled down' and infiltrated the jowls of urban life itself with wife and child in-tow.

Now, remade as an urban disrupter, he unveils EXPO CRYPTO into the frey by way of the system itself.  Behind enemy lines and without oversight. Junglecat has become a near mythical Kurtz-like figure amoung the city drones, spires and other concoctions that thinks they are safe.

No ones safe. 

We are at war.

We been at war.

You no longer need your secrets... Liberate them and build new ones.

Visit the website. Learn. Lean. Sit. Fight

http://studiojunglecat.prosite.com/86886/3615150/-projects/expo-crypto

*Chicago suburb? You decide.

GOOD TIMES DOWN (Micro-Story)

I love football even though I never really watch it or much-less play it. So I suppose I should just say I love the concept of football... I cant say that I appreciate the game or even remotly understand the particular feel or sprit of the game (I live a non-competative lifestyle) but that's the truth. The real truth of the matter.

The other day my friends and I were seeing how much weight each of us could bench-press... We searched for our max-out weight. Even though I felt as if I could do more, I stopped after lifting the bar once. It weighed 55 lbs. alone. I declared my great feat of strength acomplished and took up residence in a bean-bag chair across the room and resumed my Walgreens store-brand beer drinking. A brand I re-named Ghost Wheel due to the fact that the cans label art features a stand alone water-wheel in the middle of a river not attatched to a visable structure.

You can get a sixer of this Ghost Wheel for $4 and change. Any beer that you can get a six pack for less than six dollars is, as I say, priced to move.

A hard pull of my sixth, and final wheel brings a little escaping splash that lands on my shirt. I rub it in for good measure. A little spilt beer never hurt anything. As per my ritual, the six pack yoke is still connected to beer number six. It tickles my nose and face everytime I take a drink.

This beer will not last forever. The sixth beer of a six pack is the most desperate beer of the whole six pack. The last one. The last beer that brings about the first step to getting more beer.

Thwart...! Chores Playlist Early June 2014

Things are weird around the THWART...! HQ. Call it a writers block or whatever else the kids are fucking calling it, but I just don't really feel like I have anything to say. Sure, I gots loads upon loads of stuff I wanna write about music wise but something is keeping me from reaching a writing apex where things just come easy... So, for now,here is a playlist.

I'm hoping 'music therapy' will kick me back in full gear...

BOLD= from Cincinnati      Italics & Bold= from Ohio Proper

Black & Blue THE SPITS "Spits II"
Eyesore Subverts 
VA - You Weren't There A History Of Chicago Punk 77-94
Fat Back Thee Headcoats Elementary Disc 1
Heavenly Charm TOM VERLAINE "Songs And Other Things"
Butcher, Future trins-trans     Darth Vadar
Gonna Make You THE TROGGS "The Best Of The Troggs"
When The Macines Rock TUBEWAY ARMY "Replicas"
3 Important Domestic Inventions THE BEAKERS "Four Steps Toward A Cultural Revolution"
Pop Doormat THE DANCING CIGARETTES "The Gulcher Recordings"
Lifespan THE EMBARRASSMENT "Heyday 1979-83" [Disc 2]
Godfrey Harold Hardy THE EMBARRASSMENT "Heyday 1979-83" [Disc 2]
Corona MINUTEMEN "Double Nickels On The Dime"
O.D. Receiver TUBEWAY ARMY "The Plan"
Sickness BY-PRODUCTS OF AMERICA "Moving and Storage"
On Again/Off Again THE CLEAN "Anthology"
Wet Work Q AND NOT U "Power"
To The Kill VIOLENT FEMMES "Violent Femmes (Deluxe Edition)" [Disc 1]
Without Limbs 100 FLOWERS "100 Years Of Pulchritude"
Below This Level CAN "Anthology 1968-1993" [Disc 2]
Takin' Retards To The Zoo THE DEAD MILKMEN "Big Lizard In My Backyard"
Silver Ponds FIGURINES "Skeleton"
Red/Green BIG BOYS "The Skinny Elvis"
Holidays DESPERATE BICYCLES "Title Unkown from Unknown Source"
Meat Eaters Dikes of Holland 
Live at WFMU on Talk's Cheap, Aug 28th 2012
Apocalypse Rock Dinosaurs and Thunder Hoped Destinations
When The Flesh Hits GO GO GO AIRHEART "Exitheusa"
Spot In My Heart JOSH RITTER "The Historical Conquest of..."
Rumors JOSH RITTER "The Historical Conquest of..."
The Old Laughing Lady NEIL YOUNG "Decade" [Disc 1]
Missy Neonates Untitled Self-Released CD
Can't Get Clean Night Birds The Other Side Of Darkness
River Run Philip Glass, J.La Barbara, I.Nisky, G.Rickard, D.Landry Analog
Crazy PYLON "Hits"
Do It Again QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE "Songs For The Deaf"
Street Fighting Man THE ROLLING STONES "Through The Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2)"
Negaman SHEARING PINX "Haruspex"
Space Guitar THE SPITS "Spits II"
Bring On The Nubiles The Stranglers No More Heroes
Touch Me SUICIDE "The Second Album"
Between The Lines Synthetic ID S/T EP
The Creeper UNNATURAL AXE "Is Gonna Kick Your Ass"
Brazil WIRE "Pink Flag"
Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie BLACK FLAG "Everything Went Black"
The Red Telephone LOVE "Forever Changes"
Alan Is A Cowboy Killer MCLUSKY 
"McLuskyism [Disc 1] A-Sides"
Witch Hunt THE MOB "Let The Tribe Increase"
Romantic Me POLYROCK "Polyrock"
Inhuman SONIC YOUTH "Confusion is Sex"
The World Looks Red SONIC YOUTH "Confusion is Sex"
Confusion Is Next SONIC YOUTH "Confusion is Sex"
Making The Nature Scene SONIC YOUTH "Confusion is Sex"
Gone Missing Wussy Wussy
Adult Books X "Wild Gift"
Rock vs. Single Parents MCLUSKY "My Pain And Sadness Is More Sad And Painful Than Yours"
The Morning After MY DAD IS DEAD "Shine(r)"
Karen THE PERNICIOUS KNIFS "Amond Extract"
Beautiful Beats Q AND NOT U "Power"
Give The Beaches To The People S PRCSS "Tastes Like Daughter"
(She's In A) Bad Mood SONIC YOUTH "Confusion is Sex"
Shaking Hell SONIC YOUTH "Confusion is Sex"
Ghost Town FIGURINES "Skeleton"
Back In The Day FIGURINES "Skeleton"
Protect Me You SONIC YOUTH "Confusion is Sex"
Devil Doll X "More Fun in the New World"
Red Scab Adam & The Ants "Basing Studios Aug. 1978"
Satisfied Burning Itch Burning Itch
Butthole Surfer BUTTHOLE SURFERS "Psychic....Powerless....Another Man's Sac"
Who Are The Boys? Buzzards VA - You Weren't There A History Of Chicago Punk 77-94
Pickney Gal DESMOND DEKKER "The Best of Desmond Dekker"
Daddy's Little Girl John The Conqueror The Good Life
Fireside Chat KASPAROV "Tiny Machines" (final mixes unmastered)
Baby's Lost Touch KILL THE HIPPIES "Erectospective"
Open Your Heart The Men Open Your Heart
Bombshelter NAKED RAYGUN "Basement Screams"
City Sounds PINK SMOKE NO PARTY
Jumpin' Jack Flash THE ROLLING STONES "Through The Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2)"

"It Came from Cleveland" Opening Reception Rambling

It was a night of savagery. the Shrewdness Of Apes (SOA) Gallery in Covington Kentuckee or as some would call it, Kentucky or as still yet others would deem it Greater Cincinnati... Our mega-beast is stronger than your mega-beast... When those mega-beast go to battle, entire zones are destroyed... But let's let that be it's own seperate story.

T-Wray and I evade all savages in their multiple forms. Their aautomobiles are their steed, weapon and armor in one package. After all, we are a nation at war on multiple fronts. It's Friday evening and there's heavy traffic round the surviving liquor houses--which is sort of sad, beautiful and downright funny t timed. The remaining liquer stores which were much more in abundance then than they were thesedays. Looks like the gladiator pits have been busy and bloody too. 

Surviving is the new ________________

Eventually though, we find the  gallery... actually, we  passed it up a couple times... Inner Covington strikes me to be similar to Dayton Ohios Oregon District. Hey, there's Sugarcube Rcords! A loud screeching train comes by via elevated track about every 20 minutes or so like some form of ancient Aztek god of 'the end.' They call it Quetzalcoatl which isn't an item on Taco Bells Dollar Menu...Yet

I get drawn into the moment I suppose...

"Will we make it out of this labyrinth of gentrification alive?" I ask T-Wray. Let it go on the record that I believe in T-Wray and asking this question was not to doubt his ability or his skill, because , like I said, I believe in T-Wray.

"Yeah, I think so." He responds.

T-wray drops my crippled ass of in front of the gallery. I stand in n automotive grease spot while he parked the car we enter the gallery together. It was a small gallery packed with art of greater magnitude than SOA or the whatever gallery across the street could hold. Irony was thick. It was a clash of cultures. They the across the street carried their plastic glasses and entered SOA more than once too. I tried to worry them from the chair that T-Wray dragged out of SOA "There's a lot of Terror-art in there! You need anything, you just scream"

I heard no screams. Unfortunately.

So, me hat I'm trying to say is: the It Came from Cleveland show at SOA was amazing. I felt verily strongly that I had to be there despite my multiple reasons why good bruddies like T-Wray dragged a chair around for me. This was my first 'gallery' show not to diminish a 24 hour display at The 40 Watt Zoo (Electric Company) circa 2001...

I highly endorse the future efforts of the SOA Gallery.nit was packed wall-to-wall with something interesting everywhere you could turn. The room voted as if an orbiting solar system with the tub of canned booze as it's sun, the viewers as it's planets and the art as a universe. I believe SOA are still working to evolve more and more into a bohemian center of art and creativity. I asked to be included in more shows an I was assured a spot... SOA was about what art is all about, they were screaming the secret aloud; Art is what you want it to be so go and do it.

 L-R Timothy "T-Wray" Combs, Some street vagrant. photo by AB1

Gallery Window picture by AB1