by the subway philosopher™
Timeless.
As soon as you’re born, they make you feel small
By giving you no time instead of it all
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
Continue reading “Working Class Hero”
Virtuosity
by the subway philosopher™
The dismal news of the day disheartens and dismays. Fourth turnings, inflation, energy costs, 87,000 new (armed) IRS agents, Biden’s declaration of war on those who disagree with his political views. It becomes difficult to remember that human beings are capable of great things, in music and art and science and literature and all the other endeavors of creative human consciousness.
While I hate and despise utube with the heat of ten thousand, nay, a million dying suns, unfortunately they are the de facto repository of the world’s demonstrations of musical excellence. And so I offer an example or two of the positive, the greatness, the sheer unbridled talent of humanity.
Dreaming
by the subway philosopher™
The CDC’s recent about-face concerning the various mask, vaccination, and lockdown mandates reveals the profoundly pathological nature of modern western societies, particularly the political and bureaucratic classes who take for granted their superior ability to force guide us ever onward towards utopia.
Your mother died alone in a senior’s home because you weren’t allowed to visit? Gee, sorry about that. You lost your job or your business or your home, watched your family disintegrate? Gosh, what a pity. You and/or yours submitted to the vax and suffered grievous injury or death? Oops.
Twas brillig, and the Bat sleuth gloves
Did gyre and gamble in the hazmat labs:
All mimsy were the virtuous-woke,
And the Davos rats outgrabe.
“Beware the JabberFraudci all!
The jaws that lie, the claws that catch!
Beware the mRNA psychopath, and shun
Big Pharma’s bandersnatch!”
by the subway philosopher™
On occasion, celebrating the midweek hump with a meticulously curated selection of the most disrespectful, impolite, disgraceful, badass, head-banging, disturbing, irreverent, rebellious, or most enjoyable rock n roll of its time feels like a perfectly responsible thing to do, for some reason. Or no reason at all. Crank it up!
TNUC of the Year Award: After carefully screening the many applicants for HDT’s much-sought-after tnuc of the year award, the coveted prize for 2021 goes to… (drum roll) … utube CEO Susan Wojcicki. With a jaw not even a mother could love, this totalitarian battle-axe is fully representative of the toxic ‘leadership’ provided by women in positions of authority and control. Her winnings? The undying contempt and disdain of rational human beings world-wide.
On the other hand, we do owe this techno-tnuc a wee bit of gratitude as well, since she is serving as one of the major sparks igniting the current ‘Okay, Enough is Enough Already – Back to the Kitchen, Ladies’ movement now sweeping through the tinder-dry underbrush of the interwebz. Well, maybe not quite yet, but it’s coming. Sandwiches, ladies, sandwiches!
Honorable mentions: Ol’ Horseface, She Who STILL Thinks it’s Her Turn, mustache guy’s spiritual grand-daughter, Palefaced Redskin, Soyboytoy, and of course Communist Tits Horseface. Please add your own. The list of possibles is almost endless, a veritable smorgasbord of solipsistic sneetches and snatches.
by the subway philosopher™
On occasion, celebrating the midweek hump with a meticulously curated selection of the most disrespectful, impolite, disgraceful, badass, head-banging, disturbing, irreverent, rebellious, or most enjoyable rock n roll of its time feels like a perfectly responsible thing to do, for some reason. Or no reason at all. Crank it up!
Is this guy the new face of heterosexual white males? Here’s a sample of his music.
A nod to the season. U2 – New Years Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXGdc-fpuEs
by the subway philosopher™
Despite the epidemic-that-couldn’t dominating news cycles, other pressing issues ought to occupy a larger share of public awareness. Courts in the USA appear to be supporting the Second Amendment, to the delirious cheers of the guns’n’ammo crowd. Yet there remains an ever-present effort to apply more onerous regulatory requirements adjunct to the rights of Americans possessing firearms and similar items of ill-repute. Such abridgement of rights directly contradicts the clearly-stated mandates of the U.S. Constitution, but the Biden administration has signaled its determination to escalate such abridgements by increasing the financial and other burdens on gun owners. All this is a prelude to the long-term goal; inevitably, and perhaps sooner rather than later, gov.com is going to disarm Americans.
– Has any citizenry in history successfully resisted disarmament by its own government?
by the subway philosopher™
On occasion, celebrating the midweek hump with a meticulously curated selection of the most disrespectful, impolite, disgraceful, badass, head-banging, disturbing, irreverent, rebellious, or most enjoyable rock n roll of its time feels like a perfectly responsible thing to do, for some reason. Or no reason at all. Crank it up!
I first heard of Jif peanut butter when I saw it on the dusty back shelves of an East Asian supermarket a decade or so ago. I distinctly recall thinking that Jif must be the local version of Jiffy. Subsequently I discovered there is no Jiffy peanut butter in this world. In 2007 I visited New Zealand and was shocked to discover that the islands lie southeast of Australia, not northeast as I fondly remembered from geography textbooks. Another so-called false memory involves the Soundgarden video below. The version I watched dozens of times, and vividly remember, featured Chris Cornell on the cross. The current ‘official’ video was utterly strange to me on first viewing a couple of years ago, and remains so. I can offer no explanation for any of this. But the song still kicks ass.
Driving the nails. Soundgarden – Jesus Christ Pose
by the subway philosopher™
On occasion, celebrating the midweek hump with a meticulously curated selection of the most disrespectful, impolite, disgraceful, badass, head-banging, disturbing, irreverent, rebellious, or most enjoyable rock n roll of its time feels like a perfectly responsible thing to do, for some reason. Or no reason at all. Crank it up!
As if Oz doesn’t have enough problems. Three guesses what these ‘consultants’ will find (and the first two don’t count).
A dangerous mind. The Lazys – Nothing But Trouble
by the subway philosopher™
A tripartite ship of fools is sailing the muddy, toxic waters of planet Earth these days. Beneath the hoary, fluttering ensign of the corporate state, on the vessel’s main deck, we see the ‘plenty of oil, nothing to worry about’ crowd. Crammed into the cargo hold are the peak-oil doomers, kept out of earshot of decent folk in order to mute their tiresome cries: ‘the oil is running out, the oil is running out!’ And aft on the poop deck we find the abiotic ‘oil is constantly replenishing itself’ gang.
But despite the apparently conflicting viewpoints, it’s all the same ship. Consider the following unpleasant facts:
1) The amount of energy per barrel of oil that’s available to power the economy and civilization is in relentless decline. Seventy years ago, 95% of a barrel’s energy helped drive prosperity and growth to dizzying heights, while today that figure is hovering somewhere in the 80-85% range for new discoveries – a significant reduction.
by the subway philosopher™
On occasion, celebrating the midweek hump with a meticulously curated selection of the most disrespectful, impolite, disgraceful, badass, head-banging, disturbing, irreverent, rebellious, or most enjoyable rock n roll of its time feels like a perfectly responsible thing to do, for some reason. Or no reason at all. Crank it up!
Nine million bucks… that’s a lot of cash. A rapper with principles?
Just because (and for nkit ). Bebop – Ayeon
by the subway philosopher™
On occasion, celebrating the midweek hump with a meticulously curated selection of the most disrespectful, impolite, disgraceful, badass, head-banging, disturbing, irreverent, rebellious, or most enjoyable rock n roll of its time feels like a perfectly responsible thing to do, for some reason. Or no reason at all. Crank it up!
Say what? “More than any ideology, more than any religion, more than Vietnam or any war or nuclear bomb, the single most important reason for the diffusion of the Cold War was … the Beatles.” – Mikhail Gorbachev (h/t RF). An extended edition of HDT in tribute to the Fab Four.
Peace and love, people. The Beatles – Revolution
by the subway philosopher™
On occasion, celebrating the midweek hump with a meticulously curated selection of the most disrespectful, impolite, disgraceful, badass, head-banging, disturbing, irreverent, rebellious, or most enjoyable rock n roll of its time feels like a perfectly responsible thing to do, for some reason. Or no reason at all. Crank it up!
Why do you hate jazz (or rock, classical, country, etc.)? Italian physicist turned philosopher guitar theoretician Tommaso Zillio explains the importance of a balanced musical diet. In honor of Dr. Z’s hypothesis, HDT herewith presents a judiciously nutritious menu… of rock n roll, naturally.
Come on, baby. Chubby Checker -The Twist
by the subway philosopher™
Quotations from the great novel Dune, by Frank Herbert:
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. – Bene Gesserit proverb.
There is no escape — we pay for the violence of our ancestors. – from “The Collected Sayings of Muad’Dib”.
A world is supported by four things – the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous, and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. – The Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam.
by the subway philosopher™
On occasion, celebrating the midweek hump with a meticulously curated selection of the most disrespectful, impolite, disgraceful, badass, head-banging, disturbing, irreverent, rebellious, most enjoyable rock n roll of its time feels like a perfectly responsible thing to do, for some reason. Or no reason at all. Crank it up!
Trigger Warning: Continue reading at your own risk. Or just piss off.
The rock n roll world is still finding ways to shock. Definitely not safe for work.
Muslim chicks. Voice of Baceprot – Psychosocial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fjag5Yy86G8
by the subway philosopher™
It’s ironic that the Silent Generation, while benefitting to a degree unprecedented in human history from the sacrifices of its immediate forebears, is also the generation that quietly delivered a killing blow to Western Civilization, a mortal strike whose effects are now, decades later, wreaking havoc.
The Silents, also known as the Lucky Few, never coalesced into a unified political movement, such as occurred with Boomers and the Counter Culture, but nonetheless are credited with a great number of political, technological and social advances. Many of them fought in the Korean and Vietnam wars, endured through the McCarthy era, and developed both rock n roll and the civil rights movement.
