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Archive for February, 2007
I’ve never heard of this band but I’m in love with the song. Thanks to LAist for the tip.
Westboro Baptist Church” by I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House
Fuck Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church
Fuck Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church
Fuck him long and hard until his rectum hurts
Fuck Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church
Come on ya’ll let’s fuck Pat Robertson
‘Cuz for me you know he’s got no Christian love
He took all my grandma’s money, gave it to the 700 Club
Come on ya’ll let’s fuck Pat Robertson
Come on ya’ll let’s fuck ol’ Benny Hinn
Come on ya’ll let’s fuck that born again
He claims to be a faith healer, but he’s just a charlatan
Come on ya’ll let’s fuck ol’ Benny Hinn
Come on ya’ll let’s talk about the President
Everything that comes out of his mouth is a fucking lie
He prays to a god that hates his guts, then sends young boys to die
Come on ya’ll let’s fuck the President
Now you born agains don’t waste your prayers on me
Cuz’ the good lord knows I’ve already been saved
I just pray that I live long enough to take a shit on Fred Phelp’s grave
Fuck Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church
Fuck Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church
Fuck him ’til his ass is raw and sore
Now if God hates fags, you asshole, I’m sure he hates you more
Fuck Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church
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So, Kevin Barnes of Of Montreal. Why’d ya do it? Why’d ya go and strip naked (except for fishnet stockings and a red cummerbund, of course) on stage in Las Vegas last week?
Well, according to an interview with Dan Moore that aired on WITR, the Rochester Institute of Technology’s college radio station, on February 20, he was just trying to get us all to free our minds. (Our asses would, presumably, follow).
Barnes said, “I always wanted to perform naked…it’s kind of my concept, to bring world peace to the Earth if everyone had to stand naked in front of their peers once a month. I think it’s good because it forces you to sort of come to terms with any sort of body issues that you might have and it sort of like cleanses your emotional palette.
“A lot of people get this anxiety that’s like ‘I was naked in front of an audience!’ and stuff, but I think it’s kind of cool for people to be able to face that without going to jail. That’s the thing, too, I had to pick Vegas because that’s the only 21+ venue we’re playing on this whole tour, and I didn’t want to become a sex offender, because that would be pretty dreadful.”
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Jaffa Recommends - The Dead Betties
This New York trio is hard to define in any sense. Musically, they rival the frenzy of bands ranging anywhere from The Subways to The Bad Brains. Their style is a distortion of what you may find in grunge or any near-no wave bands. And over it all, you have a lyricist who’s complex imagery and hybrid metaphors could quite possibly rival that of Cedric Bixler-Zavala from The Mars Volta.
All in all it makes for an intense cacophony of unbridled anguish and sentiment. A mashed up electric sex which makes you go back for seconds and then some.
I caught a show of theirs about a year ago when they stopped for a show in some little house/club in Hollyweird. The club was an interesting experience in itself, being a place of residence as well as a library and club all at once. They even had an old VW bus inside that doubled as a bar. Pretty bad ass.
But more importantly, The Dead Betties put on an amazing show. Even in front of a small crowd of people, some of whom probably never heard of them, they easily captivated the whole of us. I was shaken to the very core by the performance they gave. Total emotion going into their instruments and through the mic, only to have everything end up flying around the stage in a show of passion and art rarely seen so earnest.
This is a band easy to fall in love with, if you ask me.
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Some VERY reveling pictures have surfaced on PitchforkMedia.com of the lead singer from Of Montreal performing in ALL of his glory at The Art Bar in Las Vegas. Comments, thoughts?
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Sorry about being late this weekend guys and dolls. Technical difficulties. But I digress; this week I want to take Queer Punks back to it’s very core with a band both straight ahead punk and unabashedly queer.This week-
Jaffa Recommends: Limp Wrist
I recently had the rare fortune of seeing this band live. Rare, as in this band rarely ever plays. Not just California shows (I live near Los Angeles), but shows in general. You see, the members of this very illustrious band live nowhere near each other. They come from San Francisco, Portland, Albany, and Brooklyn on rare occasions to play shows for the angry fags around the world.
The show I caught was, by far, one of the most insane shows I’ve ever been to. The crowd, already packed wall to wall in the warehouse, rushed the stage as soon as the first chords were struck. The pit was less a circle pit and more a human ocean, pushing, moving, and breathing. There were times that I, a big guy myself, couldn’t keep my feet planted on the ground.
There was also a tremendous sense of unity, something I’ve felt missing from the punk scene in general. There were no fights. There was no name calling or shit talking. Lesbians were making out here and there. And when a huge group of punks hopped the back fence to sneak into the show, everyone just cheered them on.
It was one of the most amazing shows I’d ever been to. It’s a shame they don’t play as many shows as some of their counterparts. Then again, I feel some of their energy would be lost like the feeling of warmth in the sunlight. Would things have been the same at that show had they been playing a series of shows in the LA area that week? I don’t know, don’t think I would if it were like that anyway.
With a band so straight forward about their personal beliefs, not only being queer but also being straight edge, and still being exceptionally tongue in cheek (read: tongue in your mouth) it’s a pleasure to have seen them play live, and I hope that you all get that chance.
Watch the video after the jump
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A Recent USA Today article discusses how teens are coming out earlier and earlier.
Kate Haigh, 18, a high school senior in St. Paul, recalls attending her first meeting at the school’s Gay-Straight Alliance club when she was in the ninth grade. “I said, ‘My name is Kate, and I’m a lesbian.’ It was so liberating. I felt like something huge had been lifted off my shoulders, and finally I had people to talk to.”
Zach Lundin, 16, has brought boyfriends to several dances at his high school in suburban Seattle.
Vance Smith wanted to start a club to support gay students at his rural Colorado school but says administrators balked. At age 15, Vance contacted a New York advocacy group that sent school officials a letter about students’ legal rights. Now 17, Smith has his club.
Gay teenagers are “coming out” earlier than ever, and many feel better about themselves than earlier generations of gays, youth leaders and researchers say. The change is happening in the wake of opinion polls that show growing acceptance of gays, more supportive adults and positive gay role models in popular media.
“In my generation, you definitely didn’t come out in high school. You had to move away from home to be gay,” says Kevin Jennings, 43, executive director of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, a national group that promotes a positive school climate for gay children. “Now so many are out while they’re still at home. They’re more vocal than we were.”
Still, many continue to have a tough time. The worst off, experts say, are young people in conservative rural regions and children whose parents cannot abide having gay offspring. Taunting at school is still common. Cyber-bullying is “the new big thing,” says Laura Sorensen of Affirmations Lesbian and Gay Community Center in Ferndale, Mich. “Kids are getting hate mail and taunts on MySpace or Facebook.”
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Yes it is! Check it out here!
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A 24 minute documentary created for the now defunct QueerYouthTV.org showcasing the queercore music movement; from bands, to shows, and venues set up to promote the scene. Most of this information is now dated, but it’s never the less a great documentary.
Features Martin Sorrondeguy of Limp Wrist, Rudy Blue of Scutterfest, Beth Ditto of The Gossip, Belinda Broon and Patricia Cline who once promoted the now defunct weekly LA lesbian club Milk, Hunx (Seth Bogart) of Gravy Train!!!!
Queer Youth TV presents: Queercore (Part 1)
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NEW YORK — The internet has provided a forum to showcase Queer indie music artists for several years now. The evolution of Queer music online has grown from static websites to complex multimedia sites where artists can sell their music directly to their fans.
The increasing visibility of Gay America has opened the doors to queer expression and the internet is a major tool for this. The mainstream music industry may ignore Queer music but the internet is an open field for exploration and success. Queer artists now have a large network of online community to connect with. Many of these artists are self-releasing music, playing clubs, gay festivals and pride events, building a loyal fan base. According to dtdmusic.com President Terry Dobbin, a digital music store serving the LGBT community, “there are thousands of indie music artists who are queer identified online making music”. Some queer artists are promoting causes like feminism, gay rights and other political ideals while others are completely non-political.
The diversity of music by out artists online is growing each year. There are now online communities of ; queer punks, gay rappers and queer metal heads each enjoying their own scene and web sites. The emergence of “social networking” sites like MySpace page have also helped queer artists connect with an audience of like minded people. The Montreal based band, Lesbians on Ecstasy, featured songs on myspace.com and it translated into a tour of Eastern Europe. “We weren’t able to get physical CDs there, but we had people in Slovenia and Greece singing along to our songs,” said singer Bernadette Houde. “Myspace created a world for us.” (source:1.1) With the advent of digital distribution, selling music online has also made it easier for LGBT artists.
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