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#228: Congratulations, President Kamala!

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#228: Congratulations, President Kamala! #228: Congratulations, President Kamala!

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I just remembered that I sent that book to the thrift last week 😆

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The description of the image Michael saw sounds EXACTLY like the blood eagle, that medieval viking ritual sacrifice where the person was laid prone, their open, their ribs severed from the spine and their lungs pulled out to create a pair of bloody wings, all while the person was still alive. With all the depiction of this ritual occurring as a punishment for the killing of a father and its germanic roots, it sounds like a historic and technological perversion - the ritual conducted by the missile, buried between a infinite number of other murders, killing entire lineages

Eduardo Navarro

I really mean it, though – if you, like me, are the sort of person who spends a lot of life on the outward fringe of the sane, don't read that thing until you're feeling like you've got a decent foothold on reality. There are things in that book that will be seared into your brain for the rest of your life

Michael S. Judge

That was it. Thanks! Maybe it’d pair well with A JOURNEY AROUND MY SKULL and THE DIARY OF VASLAV NIKINSKY.

Kristafer Abplanalp

You're probably talking about MEMOIRS OF MY NERVOUS ILLNESS by Daniel Paul Schreber. And I wouldn't say this about many books, but in all sincerity: be careful with that one. If you read it in a rather unstable frame of mind, it can seriously fuck you up

Michael S. Judge

Many years ago, there was a Death Is Just Around the Corner episode in which Michael Judge referred to a book that is a real journal documenting a descent into madness. Does anyone what this particular book was and who wrote it?

Kristafer Abplanalp

Also, if you've never sought this out, it's VERY interesting to ear-train yourself to recognize which solos were Paul McCartney on guitar. He played way more stuff than most Beatles fans know, including a fair chunk of the drums on The White Album (his continuous drum fill thru the last verse of "Dear Prudence," and into the final pounding "The sun is up, the sky is blue" is one of my favorite Beatles moments), and most of the more technically difficult solos are actually him. George's were always pre-composed, Paul's were always improvised, and you can pick them out by the nasty-ass fuzz sounds he favored, the very quick scalar runs full of pull-offs and hammer-ons, the way he floats and skitters across the beat rather than playing strictly in time, and how often he uses Indian and Middle Eastern modes. "Taxman," "Good Morning Good Morning," "Drive My Car," the cadenza at the end of "I'm Only Sleeping," the higher guitar part on "And Your Bird Can Sing," all the backwards guitar on "Tomorrow Never Knows," the leads on the Sgt. Pepper theme, the leads in the outro of "Strawberry Fields Forever," "Birthday," the main guitar on "Helter Skelter" ...

Michael S. Judge

My goat. I’d love the chance to hear that guitar arrangement for she’s leaving home

aaron

If I were gonna suggest one Beatles record for a guitarist to learn by heart, it would be ABBEY ROAD, both because it has George's best playing and because he switches between a Les Paul and either a Strat or a Tele all over the album, and it's a masterclass in learning what kinds of tones you need for what kinds of parts, moods, melodic lines, everything, "Something" could absolutely not be anything other than a Les Paul, "Octopus's Garden" HAS to be a Strat, "Oh! Darling" HAS to be a Telecaster.

Michael S. Judge

Oh man, most of them. I pretty much learned how music & songwriting work by learning every Beatles song from RUBBER SOUL onward, every guitar part, when I was about 16. I play George's solo on "Something" every time I pick up a Les Paul, cos I *know* how that should sound, and his solo on "Fixing a Hole" every time I pick up a Strat. Paul's solos on "Taxman" and "Good Morning Good Morning," the riffs from "Back in the USSR," "I Want to Tell You" (another Strat banger), "I've Got a Feeling," the solo from "Nowhere Man," "I Want You (She's So Heavy)," "Because" ... and I'm pretty sure, like 95% sure, that I could still play the side 2 medley from ABBEY ROAD note-for-note. Back when I did solo voice/guitar gigs fairly often, I did a lot of guitar arrangements for things that weren't written for, or played on, guitar, trying to figure out how to play all the important parts of the song on one guitar, and I would probably have to re-learn a couple bits of this, but I condensed the whole orchestra score of "She's Leaving Home" into something I could fingerpick – doing the cellos and basses with my thumb, the harp and violins with my index and middle fingers, etc. And I actually had to STOP doing that, not because it didn't work, but because there is no other song in the world that gets me choked up as reliably as "She's Leaving Home," and I would always end up missing a line or two of the vocal because I was trying not to cry onstage in front of strangers, lol.

Michael S. Judge

Do you have any favorite Beatles songs to play on electric guitar?

aaron

Tremendous opening

foul tarnished

What are your thoughts on Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo?

Jamar Zeppelin

Critical words in these times, MSJ, bravo.

Shivvy

from the part of the irish catholic diaspora that didn’t have to go to church and therefore CAN think about it, you’re better off

Shivvy

It’s called ‘Empire State of Mind’ by Gold and Youth. It rips.

Michael McGroarty

Did you make that song at the end? If not what is it called and can I find it anywhere?

Riley Ken

Drove me insane, it's sooooo important most important election ever. But rather than lying like any other normal politician, let's bring out Liz Cheny, which got 0 votes. Almost like they hate their base and wanted to lose.

adc90

You and Chat Pile are keeping my keel even.

Jordan Wisniewski

We just need lower gravity; THEN WE'LL BE THE BASKETBALL STARS!!!🙌

justDave

A rat done bit my sister Nell But whitey's on the moon Her face and arms began to swell And whitey's on the moon I can't pay the doctor bill, But whitey's on the moon Ten years from now, I'll be paying still, While whitey's on the moon

Michael S. Judge

There are only 5 planets, and the other 4 are black. Mercury? Black. Jupiter? Posi-TIVE-ly black.

Michael S. Judge

This Yakubian Devil still talkin' bout the outer worlds?🙄🙏

justDave

Also side note, that Brady Corbet dude dedicated the Brutalist to Scott Walker. Had the chance to see it and found it to be an overwhelmingly brilliant film. When you get a chance to see it would be curious to hear if you think it lives up to that dedication. Be well brother.

Ben Degnan

Holy shit, thank you so much for that response. I’ve learned so much from you over the years and that gives me much to ponder. And on a human level I deeply appreciate you taking the time and effort to do what you do, I know it takes its toll on you. But for what it’s worth I’m sure I’m not alone in saying that you’ve given me so much and I often hope and try to send good vibes or whatever that you are well. You mean a lot to many people.

Ben Degnan

I can’t explain how much pleasure I got out of hearing the theme to The Rock. Just perfect.

Ben

Absolutely. And thanks for the Frank recommendation. I heard somewhere that denial and projection are the defining pathologies of the average American mind. I don’t think any of us can truly say we have transcended these conditions: to a certain extent one MUST deny the suffering we inflict near and distant. It’s enough to make you wonder what it’s all for and where it’s all headed. “Comfort” and literal Hell?

Bob Mycelium

Holy shit… this makes so much sense for reasons I know u understand

Gabi

Holy shit… this makes so much sense for reasons I know u understand

Gabi

True I just thought it was important to mention

Diego Hernandez

My brain was so formed by my youth and education that I actually cannot think about this, even if I want to. You say "Catholic anime character" and I just hear a burst of white noise

Michael S. Judge

Just like trump won my heart by staring directly at the eclipse (as you should, this is how the power of Ra is harnessed) the coconut queen won my heart by that refusal to abide by common proscriptions of what time of day/situation merits sobriety. They don't want you to know the secrets of how best to operate heavy machinery, this one trick will surprise you.

Divad Kong

I can't remember who, but possibly it was Ted Hughes, who described mankind as driven by a chopped in half worm trying vainly to recombine between male and female, but I like the analogy better for the American democratic system. The poor Dems just want to fuck and cuddle with the republicans but hard as they try they just can't permanently recombine into perfect single entity

Divad Kong

They are goading internet schizophrenics for engagement with that one for SURE.

Divad Kong

pissed at my own dick vs. off a bar and that brown liquor: America is riven down the center and does not know how to heal

Michael S. Judge

Her absolute refusal to abide by "WARNING: Do not combine this medication with alcohol" is the only likable thing about her

Michael S. Judge

Mi-ZIZ-ih-pee

Michael S. Judge

Yeah, the policy isn't new, but it was only right after the election that Israel issued an official announcement that residents of northern Gaza – i.e., most of the people IN Gaza – will never be allowed to return

Michael S. Judge

It is a pair of sandals to be worn by 4 men at the same time. For when you go to the sandals store.

Michael S. Judge

I'd have to give it a listen with that in mind, but to be disappointingly sincere about it, I think the conflation of songwriting (including rapping) wiith poetry is totally off-base in about 99.99999% of cases. In writing, you have to get EVERYTHING into the language, there is simply nothing but the language and what it does inside the reader's head; there are, however, great songwriters whose songs would be hideously embarrassing without the music. Most Bob Dylan, on paper, is TERRIBLE poetry, and I haven't listened to Dylan in a while, but I loved him back in the day. A guy like Thom Yorke achieves all his effects (the good ones, at least) by taking bland, vacuous, corporation/government-speak and fitting it into a musical context that makes it horrifying and paranoid and hyper-resonant. A song is usually a song, which is not a poem. The one person I can think of, impromptu, whose lyrics would be great (but very different) writing without the music: latterday Scott Walker. Most any song from THE DRIFT or BISH BOSCH could stand on its own as modernist poetry. Having written a lot of songs and a LOT of books, I can tell you that songwriters have the easy way out – if the music is good enough, and especially if you nail the relationship between the music and the ostensible subject matter, songs basically write themselves. Being a serious writer, probably for most people in history but especially now, is so fucking HARD. It's unbelievably hard. I wrote thousands of words per day, every day, for 10 years, and I woke up every day deathly afraid of having to do it again. When I was in benzo withdrawal in 2016, I couldn't focus long or seriously enough to write for a couple days, and I clearly remember sitting on the front stoop and putting out cigarette after cigarette on my left forearm and deciding that it was time for suicide attempt #(I have no idea of the number there have been so many), because I considered writing the only thing I was any good for, even though it scared me to death. If you're serious about it, genuine ice-in-your-spine serious, being a writer is hell, and though there are of course other mitigating factors here, but at the end of those 10 years of 2,000 words every day, I was **drastically** more mentally ill than when I started. I have theories on why this is so – I remember talking to a photographer one night about how writers and photographers are the artists who most often kill themselves intentionally, because if you're a musician or painter or sculptor or whatever, you're only doing that thing WHEN YOU'RE DOING it, and bare inclusion in society will not ever require you to make a sculpture, but writers and photographers are 100% 24/7 enmeshed in the artform, language and image, there's no turning it off, I was At Work for every fucking minute of 10 years – but the upshot, possibly the shot up from under my jaw with a shotgun, or the upshooting that rendered me incapable of surviving without junk for 5 years, is that being a songwriter has its pitfalls and obsessive terrors, like anything else, but being a WRITER-writer will kill you. Until you start, you don't know if or how it's going to kill you, but it will.

Michael S. Judge

Folks, you hate to say it, but you also hate every other way it could've gone

Michael S. Judge

I really don't play video games at all, just not into them, but I do like to see what they're doing aesthetically, and one of my brothers is re-playing a game from the early 2000s that I vaguely remember – it's called KILLER7 and it's fucking bonkers. It looks and feels like a genuine bad dream, and it follows a group of contract killers who work for the American state but eventually become enmeshed in a plot that involves hardcore Japanese nationalists taking over the Japanese government and forming colonies in the USA to train child assassins and manipulate Presidential elections, and all of this also involves a cult-but-maybe-biological-weapon called Heaven Smile. Insane visuals, insane transmuted nightmare mashup of Japanese ghost damage from Hiroshima and shit like Aum Shinrikyo and the CIA + yakuza roots of the Japanese Liberal Party

Michael S. Judge

Hey Mike, you ever think about Only Built 4 Cuban Linz as a piece of epic poetry? But also as the greatest film never made? ((You sound fine by the way. No better/worse than the rest of us.)

Ben Degnan

I'll have to check that out. I like a couple movies from that director. Devil Daggers is a very, very cool indie fps with a strong late 90s/early 2000s aesthetic. There's only one real resource in the game and it's an almost identical looking red diamond that drops from these Eldritch void creatures. It has a very nightmarish and oppressive atmosphere that I thought might be tangentially related to the Dreamtime stuff. I also just wanted an excuse to talk about Devil Daggers. It rules.

HATERSLAYER420

I don't think I know what "Devil Daggers" is – that's a still from THE NEON DEMON

Michael S. Judge

My brother in Christ, you've done well. I just commented this on the episode in question but while I have your attention, is the episode art for #218 from Devil Daggers? I'm listening to it right now so my bad if you end up mentioning it later lol

HATERSLAYER420

Michael, this is the first of your episodes I've listened to with headphones, and the production is, to my ears, flawless. Excellent work. Please consider offering production/recording and engineering services to some of your brothers and sisters in podcasting.

low_art

Wow I haven’t heard Billary in a long while.

NYCM&AHole

Sincerely, thank you, that really means a lot to me. Any time I hear that I've made more than just "entertainment," and that it really mattered to even one listener, I get a renewed sense of what the teachers back in Catholic school would've called "vocation."

Michael S. Judge

Hey Michael. The episodes you did with trueanon, especially in the early days, are some of my favorite. I've always loved you as a guest, but I've never completely delved into your podcast. I subscribed for a minute years back, I think it was to listen to a Pynchon episode, but I neglected to return. And I wanted to say, this is one of the best episodes of anything I've ever heard. There is power in this, and in what you're doing. I'm ashamed it's taken me this long to properly listen. As someone else said, bravo. It's a little embarrassing to suck someone off this hard but you deserve it with this one. Thanks man.

HATERSLAYER420

I mean it literally was. The New Democrat Coalition fucking Clintonite Democratic Party began theorizing itself because of how 1972 went, and in 20 years, they had their dream – to "throw off the baggage of the New Deal," as if it were fucking slavery, and not the single most popular and successful idea and movement in the history of their party. In LISTEN, LIBERAL by Thomas Frank, an astonishing amount of people make it clear that their ultimate political goal is for the electorate, and especially the richest part of it, to stop associating the Democrats with FDR and the New Deal. This is what I mean about them knowing and consciously deciding to lose on their terms – they fucking hate you, they fucking hate me, and it's not just personal, it's fully instantiated on the level of policy.

Michael S. Judge

She done got schlonged.

Danielle

No one's totally sure, I've asked a dozen doctors and they can't cure shit, but the likeliest explanation is that because of a genetic deformity I have, a version of Eustachean tube syndrome (only found in people who are part-Native American or Inuit, which is how I found out that, unlike 98% of white people who claim it, I actually AM part Native American), the empty spaces in my skull, inner ears, sinus cavities, etc., are misshaped, and they flex and swell and move when there's a major change in barometric pressure, among other things, and whatever you imagine it might feel like to have the bones in your head and face trying to change shape, you've probably got the idea.

Michael S. Judge

See this is effectively true, it may as well be literally true, but they don't need to be "controlled opposition" in any traitorous or self-aware sense. This has been the trajectory of the Democratic Party since Nixon won in 1972: backstab labor, the poor, people of color, sexual or ethnic or religious minorities, everybody who once made up the New Deal coalition, because, as these people used to say openly, "They've Got Nowhere Else to Go," move in on as much yuppie & billionaire money as possible, position yourselves an inch and a half to the left of the Republicans so you get the vote of every traditionally Republican constituent – i.e. white urbanites with lots of money, and after the late ’70s & Reagan, various bands of nouveau Christian evangelical psychopath – who likes to feel fuckin' VIRTUOUS when they leave the voting both, knowing it's all fine for them either way, they were never in trouble, they never will be, so shit, might as well feel the glow of being on The Right Side of History. And then, Obama and afterward, constant secret war and assassination everywhere, at all times, which is what they offer as a response to "constant loud televised Iraq-style war 24/7," not fighting the wars is not on the menu, not murdering millions of strangers is frankly a naïve idea to begin with and we're willing to bet that enough of you secretly believe that for you to Vote or Die anyway. And it worked with Obama, because he was a slick focus-grouped motherfucker who'd spend his entire life somewher near the warm sterilizing glow of the CIA, and because Obama, unlike the average aspirant for Presidency, can be asked a question offhand and NOT reply "I am engaged in sex slavery and I hate everyone who votes for me." And that 8-year imperium convinced them that it was Ever Thus, for time immemorial, quack doctors and doomsday preachers in the Senate and the House but always a cool black guy or woman or [enter next exploitable category] for the President – and finally, finally, in 2016 and just now, when there emerged an antiphonal reply to "They've Got Nowhere Else to Go" so loud that you'd think even these blind-deaf-and-tragically-not-dumb motherfuckers would have to hear it, namely WE'RE STAYING HOME, when the question "Where else can they go?" received the generational answer WE DON'T HAVE TO GO ANYWHERE – YOU OFFER US NOTHING, YOU GET NOTHING BACK – SPEND THE NEXT FOUR YEARS OF HELL TRYING TO THINK UP SOMETHING GOOD ENOUGH TO MAKE US BELIEVE IT WHEN YOU SAY "I'M SORRY" – the final, and I do mean final, verdict, the logical outcome of a horribly logical process, is it exactly what all other signs have indicated for more than half a century, exactly what every other fucking facet of your life and mine tells us while we try to avoid drawing the self-evident conclusion to which each & all of those facets point: there's nothing coming. The Democratic Party is a business, and it does better, not worse, when it can use vague notional threats of tanks rolling down your street to drown out the actual American tanks rolling down every other actual street in the fucking world. You want healthcare? A living wage? No more wars? Pentagon budget slashed? Rebuilding the social welfare state THEY have personally spent 50 years gutting? You want to stop arming and funding the genocide you've now been watching every day for a fucking year? You want back the parts of your mind, the better part of your soul, you've lost by watching the worst thing in the world happen over and over and over to the people who least deserve it, and you have to watch, who and what would you be if you didn't watch?, and seeing that there are never any consequences, that there's never even a limp half-assed gesture at giving the world back to the starving terror-mad delirious people whose world you've seen extinguished and exterminated and expunged every few hours for a year, a month, and two days? You want a vote that means anything? A vote you're even certain will be counted? You want safe legal status for abortion and women's healthcare – a safe legal status that we lost UNDER A DEMOCRAT, and that Democrats have been intermittently talking about codifying in federal law for two and a half years, without doing a single goddamn thing to make it happen? You want back all the things you lost UNDER DEMOCRATS? You want back what DEMOCRATS took from you, and what Republicans ripped from your hands, your heart, your parents, your children, your fucking womb, your sense that there is any value or meaning or worth in human life, while DEMOCRATS stood by and did nothing, ever, not one thing? Listen, hist!, o listen!, to the Carol of the Bells: Fuck off. Have fun with the other guys. Jeffrey Epstein 2028-???.

Michael S. Judge

Chas, Jimmy, Weird Andrew, guy from the GC5 (or possibly Hudson Falcons but I think GC5) with the huge balls, god bless you, wherever you are

Michael S. Judge

the Brain Parade is a desire stronger than the flesh can bear, and you can only do it mid-tour at a gas station in upstate New York (I totally forgot that I told the Brain Parade story on this show, assuming I did)

Michael S. Judge

Thanks. Didn’t know this was a thing.

NYCM&AHole

https://pin.it/7IN9THPuc

Brendan Garcia

Barometric pressure. Happens to me too, the vertigo is the cherry on top

Gabi

Interesting that the archons of capital are aware of the libidinal desire for Trans seductresses, but seem to downplay the siren call of whipping out your nuts and chanting "Brain Parade". Could you explore this Michael? Is this a potential lever of resistance?

Andrew Rassling

I would like to buy a lemonade

Joey Fazz

Dvd-menu music is the soundtrack for the millennium

dimdimKing

The stuff you’ve done on HW is great, and I feel like Billary might have been a continuation rather than a disruption in HW’s power network, especially if bill as governor was just a lower-level player in the cocaine part of Iran/contra… idk, I’m cookin a ‘dems are controlled opposition’ theory cuz I think bill would have sold the dem party for protection so he and Jeffery could do their evil shit

Venetia’s glue gun

MSJ i’ll have you know that i didn’t forget, i didn’t abandon our boy. Jeffrey Edward Epstein 2024.

crumbo

That intro was like medicine for my bruised heart. Thank you! Another stellar episode. On an unrelated note: What do you think of the new Catholic anime character, Luce?

Jonathan Schultz

Why do storm systems cause you pain? You may have explained but I forgot. Apologies.

NYCM&AHole

Is that the The Rock OST I hear

Owen Martial

It's a legendary CumTown bit. Have a look on YouTube.

Ocko

https://youtu.be/F-1Wl9WQO04?si=tTptvFTjPbRF6Iv7 Thank you for this, as always. Palestina Libera

Gabi

Do they throw the losers in a literal shark tank?

NYCM&AHole

Thinking about the McGovern campaign as template for the Dems strategy of losing. Every subsequent “win” is an opportunity for right-realignment.

Bob Mycelium

one of your best intros

Madeleine Peterson

Please do a christmas episode showcasing the kaleidoscope of your accents.

Ben

It’s gonna be somewhere in a Looney Tunes cartoon

John Waaben

The African child accent gave me terrible flashbacks to Nigerian Shark Tank.

Ocko

"who could have possibly predicted this?"

Jack

Fucking Krauts. Time for Russia to do its thing with Berlin.

NYCM&AHole

& yeah you read it right. That’s what they’re calling northern Gaza’s ethnic cleansing

Diego Hernandez

Mike the generals plan in northern Gaza has been getting carried out for about a month now they didn’t just start the cleansing there

Diego Hernandez

ok i gotta hear adolf hitler pronouncing the word "mississippi"

Karl Childers

I see you found the music you were looking for 👌

Travis McKeown

Bravo mate, bravo.

Ryan Edwards

We might not have got the result we wanted but it's exactly as true today as it was last week that she ran the best campaign possible, the perfect campaign. America has spoken and voted for the heritage Foundation (male/angry) and rejected the heritage Foundation (female/drunk)

Divad Kong


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