This poem may possibly be made into a song. I don't know yet.

*Guilt*

Smoke rings rise from Isaiah's tomb
As I spiritually fish the shallow waters of Jordan
I am sorry
Heartbreak at Hyperion Bay
I'm sorry I'm so beautiful

I am the enigma and the stigmata
I am the son of sam - the shining light, the devil's passenger
And I break these promises like threadbare twine holding these relationships together

I've always been here
I can be so free
But I feel so helpless
Suddenly life doesn't look so good

The cavalry's been called and the stallions are galloping to Kennedy's camelot to save the day
Pigs don't sweat
And cows don't sing

The prodigal son begins his journey
Can you dance to this revolutionary beat?

The shoe fits the wrong foot
Where is Ishmael to go?

It's all over
It's all over
It's
all
over

Visited Visual Studies Workshop today and got these cool links:
www.adanon.org
www.disincorporated.org
www.annikab.com [she's a quite good singer/songwriter, dennis monroe played with her for a little]
www.galvinglassworks.com
www.premavastram.com

other local designers/artists:

www.mitchydigital.com
www.danbress.com

I'm home with a cold so here's a short poem I wrote last night...

*Our Own Baals*

Sometimes it can be so quiet
When I need it to be
Sometimes the war is only inside
And the fighting becomes cold//robotic//automatic
Sometimes the machines grind their monsterous gears with apocolyptic sound
And Gehenna cries over the lost children of Molech
Sometimes the dawn can break so subtly
I barely noticed it when the fire bled into my room from the rising sun
Sometimes the answer is so simple
But it takes a revolution to realize
Sometimes the dogma is unreal
So we sacrifice in a jingoistic bill of rites at the cold and tarnished altar to Baal

Nationalism is Fascism (Part 1)
Nationalism is Fascism (Part 2)

Announcements:

Attention Social Justice Community!
Join us for another FOOD NOT BOMBS cookbook promotion:

Saturday, June 15 from 1 to 3:30 p.m.
Abundance Cooperative Market, 62 Marshall St.
entertainment by Mike Strobel and Ray Baumler of the Golden Link Folk
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free refreshments

If you already have a cookbook, come party with us anyway. This is a good
time to socialize with other activists, exchange ideas and strengthen our
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An essential purchase for any Rochester activist determined to feed the
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networks.

The FOOD NOT BOMBS Cookbook is only $10 and helps us get supplies for our
servings. We are serving over 100 people every week.

For more information, contact Elaine Russell at alienartist@hotmail.com.

This band, Flowers in the Attic sent me an e-mail asking if I could pass along a request for a show in July as they are touring and will be in the area. Dates and July 10 and 11. I won't be around, but you can e-mail them @ kennakool@aol.com. I guess comparisons are Converge and Combatwoundedveteran.

Also, if anyone wants to book me for a show before I leave for Montana to live with some Cowboys on July 5, e-mail me: boyxfallen@positive-youthfoundation.com

Well, Sunday I saw Arms Length's comeback show with Coheed and Cambria and the Paragraph on Cosmonaut Records.

I'm going away on July 5th to be a cowboy, so if anyone wants to book me for a show before then that would be great. I don't use the internet much these days, but if you e-mail me @ boyxfallen@positive-youthfoundation.com I'll definately get it and we can talk business.

My new hobby is herbs. I don't mean people you don't like. I mean the plants. I have a garden at my house and I use the herbs for all sorts of wonderful things.

I don't think I'm going to release the World After April for a while until I get the layout and everything perfect, so saying that it would come out last month was probably a little amitious.

My graduation party is on the 28 of this month. I'm so excited. Today was my last day of high school!

Well, recidivism is a good word.

My new article is up at YellowTimes.ORG
Resisting the Script: Q and A with Prisoner 8

So yesterday was the first of 3 events this summer at my house. We held an outdoor party for my father who has just completed his Master's degree. The robot and I played by our house and at the fire. Also, I backed my brother up on jawharp while he was playing banjo. The songs I played were Wilde Mountain Thyme (with the robot), L(arson)y, High School Globalization and Zu Zu's Pedals (with the robot). I'll probably play at my graduation party later this month. Also, I'm planning a coming home party for myself after I get back from the American west. I haven't asked them yet, but I hope to have Mike Daniels, Josh Gillikan and Little Techie play.

Quotes from Amerika's leader:

"The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country."
- George W. Bush

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
- George W. Bush

"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any Governor, and that one
word is 'to be prepared'."
- Governor George W. Bush

"I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the
future."
- Governor George W. Bush

"The future will be better tomorrow."
- Governor George W. Bush

"We're going to have the best educated American people in the world."
- Governor George W. Bush

"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made."
- Governor George W. Bush

"We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm
commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe."
- Governor George W. Bush

"Public speaking is very easy."
- Governor George W. Bush

"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls."
- Governor George W. Bush

"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur."
- Governor George W. Bush

"For NASA, space is still a high priority."
- Governor George W. Bush

"Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children."
- Governor George W. Bush

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in
our air and water that are doing it."
- Governor George W. Bush

"It's time for the human race to enter the solar system."
- Governor George W. Bush

I should really update this page one of these days. Probably some time this summer.

The girl who was sitting next to me in the computer lab just left. She was pretty and smelled good.

I like female vocals like Azure Ray and Jejune. Those two are my new inspiration for living.

And now...
A NEW POEM!!! YAY!!

*My Dreams These Days*

Standing up late watching a candle burn to the end of the wick and then snuff out like it was punched in the chest
Sometimes I cry at how pathetic I am.

My dreams these days are happy and filled with fantasy - creativity
These days all I do is sit and wonder up at the moon's bright, shining, singing face
And I invent psalms and canticles to pry electronic eyes closed and positronic circuits blinking intermittenly

A song came to me in a dream and I tried to sing but only uttered a low hum filtered through a sustain/delay effect pedal and the system platform's standard reverb
I sand in a church and it must have been god singing back at me his/her universalist chorus

Sometimes when these gothic towers get too tight I jump! and then wake up right before I hit the hard ground at the bottom
These are all dreams
But I would like to marry an elf
She would bring me eternity and wishes and whims
We'd play badminton on a rope and lawn bowling and croquet
I think the new renaissance is coming

Isn't it about time we've declaired independance from something?
Corporate escapism perhaps?
Have you heard: it's a revolution
A renaissance
I am reborn, but not as a mortal
As a god
And I embrace divine existentialism

I breathe in and I breathe power
But I'm still alone
And I guess that's the hardest part

But sometimes when these corporate walls get too tight
I mentally jump!
And now I'm a revolutionist
And now I'm free from mental bondage

Go to this site and learn some stuff, but you might want to use a web-based CGI proxy first as the site is hosted by AOL and there is a disclaimer at the beginning that says...

Warning #1: Under the new police state -- uh, I mean
the new anti-terrorism laws -- accessing this site
automatically opens a file for you at FBI headquarters.
This warning, of course, comes too late. Sorry about
that.

so i wrote a new song called Zu Zu's Pedals. It's kinda based on the movie It's a Wonderful Life. I use the robot (keyboard/drum machine). I'm doing more electronic experimentation these days.

OK... so this weekend:
Friday; saw spiderman with wesley and kevin. out until approx midnight. bed around 1.
Saturday; out with pat and carl. was supposed to see againsttheodds (what happened dan?). ended up at analog shock seeing joe+n and then at cobbs hill. bought jejune cd - this afternoon's malady.
Sunday; lunch with matthews. hilarious. work until 9:15. home 9:30. watched red green and then chef!. bed approx 11:30.
Monday: star wars with josh, nick, audrial and irene. home approx 11:30. bed approx 12:30am.
Today: catching up on my homework and sleep. i'm so glad the year's almost over.

Comics:
WildStorm
Bone


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Good luck Jeff

I think a government agency may be monitoring my internet access. From now on I'm being very careful.
http://security.tao.ca/

http://nosweatapparel.com/

Los Altos Hills, Calif. (AP) -- While conflicts between Jews and
Arabs rage halfway around the world, Jewish sixth graders made a
gesture of peace Friday.

The students presented a $1,300 check to the Antiochian Orthodox
Church of the Redeemer, which an arsonist burned last month. The
church is attended by many Arab-Americans, including
Palestinian-Americans.

When they discovered the fire was deliberately set, students in Anat
Harrel's sixth grade class at the nearby Mid-Peninsula Jewish
Community Day School decided it was time to act.

"Upon learning about the arson attack on the church, my sixth graders
became very concerned,'' explained Harrel. "They decided they needed
to do something to show their support for the rebuilding of the church.
They did not want to be bystanders and let hate go unanswered.''

The students planned a bake sale, and urged people in the community
to make donations.

The class presented the check to Reverend Samer Youssef and members
of the congregation Friday. They closed by singing a song with the
word peace both in Hebrew and Arabic.

Sweatshops in the US
Multinational Monitor

I'm going to this show saturday:
May 18th
at the Perkins Green Apts.
at RIT, #265A
starts at 4:00 p.m., $5
featuring:
Againsttheodds
Nobody Cares
Magneto's Intentions
The Awakening
Staple Gunther