I'm movin' on blogger. Yer just not giving me enough options. Enough ways to show my weirdness. Dig? Dig! I've been dreading moving over to Word Press actually because I hate learning a new system and I have only a little bit of knowledge with Word Press. The damn thing I find very confusing. At least as far as the template config and everything. I find blogger much simpler. It is much simpler. But it's also less flexible. And I need some flexible my friends, I need some flexible.
This will be my final Weird Biz post on Blogger, so long!
I have been doing this thing but maybe... and this is what I originally wanted to do, I'll just do it here. We can call it WeirdBiz ramblings. The problem is, then I will be somewhat restrained in what I say obviously. I can't tell you everything, for God's sake. You're reading this. And some of you may even know the man behind the mask. The fleshy organ that eats and drinks and mostly has coffee. I think my bagel may be burning.
Ah, nah, it's alright. So I guess today we should... Wait, who's we? I. The Weird Biz. Mr. WeirdBiz. Doctor habit train. Master of bad thoughts and marmalade. The sasquatch of the night with painful eye and stupid brain.
#1 thing - STOP CHECKING MY STATS. checking stats doesn't make anything happen. It really doesn't. OK, sometimes you can get some valuable info about what's working and what isn't. Don't get me wrong. There's a place for checking stats. But it's probably ONCE A WEEK instead of every day. In fact that's what I should say. Perhaps SUNDAY should be stat checking day. I don't check any fucking stats until Sunday. OK? That way I'm not wasting precious fucking time looking to see if anything has happened. It'll be a hard habit to break, stat checking. But it must be done.
OK, now what about you, my faithful reader(s) - As if you are still reading this nonsense. As if there is anyone out there besides my own crazy brain that is reading this. If you are reading this, put a flare up, tell the world about it. Let the magic of this place seep into the consciousness of every man, llama, and bear.
NO. The fame is too much. I feel overwhelmed and trapped. I feel that people's expectations of me are crowding out my very existence, my creativity, my mindspring. Ah yes, I do, I do feel for those that have become objects of "the public eye" because quite frankly I hate the public. People are disgusting thoughtless sloth monsters.
Meanwhile the truth is being spoken, yes who is really listening? Take a listen:
Which I'm very happy about. The Rockies are lame. I hate all of the newest expansion teams - The Diamondbacks, The Marlins, The Tampa Bay... I don't even know what their name is. Devil Rays? Whatever. They are stupid teams. But the Rockies are the stupidest of the stupid. Why? Because of their stupid ass field that screws up all of the stats. Yeah, that's right. I'm a baseball stat nerd from way back and I don't care for it one bit. It's BS that Matt Holliday won the batting title this year. He didn't deserve it. Check how his home-away splits vs. Chipper Jones.
Anyhoo, good riddance to the Rockies. I'm not a huge fan of the Red Sox, but at least they're not the Yankees. Not quite, anyway.
The 12 Month Internet Millionaire will show you exactly how a 28 year old guy made over $100 million in just 23 months. Yes you read that correctly. People are making insane amounts of money online. This is where things are going. Why be a lawyer or even a CEO of a big company when you can make more money than them working from home with a simple website or two? Sometimes you don't even have to have a website to make a ton of money online! Anyway check out the website and learn how you can make millions online!
Bill Gates turns 52 today. Ah yes, that genius founder of Microsoft that has made us all so happy and giggly. I say praise thee, great ol' Gates for what you've done and whatnot. You are a chicken amongst eggs. You've hatched and you've done. Also the foundation is pretty terrific, broseph. Keep on rockin'.
Videos makes us believe,don't they? In the above I (or someone with legs like mine) talk about the apparent proof that video can give. Mask Man says that he is wearing a mask and you see that he is. Now I am also wearing a mask. I am telling you that while I type these words I am wearing a mask. But you may or may not believe me. You really have nothing to go on.
Why would I lie about that? Why wouldn't I? I could be the mask man or I may just be a regular weird biz. I may be a cat or a squirrel. How do you really know for sure? It's hard to know when you are reading if what you are reading is true or not. It is some form of communication though, perhaps words in and of themselves are truth.
What is it (truth) anyway? When a cat ponders the universe is he any less likely to understand it than we are? Is there anything to understand? You have pondered these things and now you are reading that they have been pondered by others, or are you? Perhaps you've written this yourself. Perhaps you are the mask man?
Can you really prove that you didn't write this? I'm not really sure that I have written it and I'm quite sure that I will not be writing it later.
I'm also not entirely sure that you and I aren't somehow more connected than is apparent. Perhaps that's the biggest illusion of them all. That people are somehow separate. You may think you know who the Walrus is, but really he is me and we are all together. Dig?
Whether you know what I mean or not, I'm not sure that matters. That's like a thin layer of icing on a big thick cake. We're in the cake together, me and you. We're in this together. You wrote this as much I did. Although currently it may feel like you're reading this, you have to realize how fleeting the whole time thing is. There's no way of getting a grasp on it.
But really, you know how that is. Being that you were there when it happened, and it's happening now.
I was thinking about this. Who would be my top 10 favorite bands/artists of all time if I had to choose? I'm not saying put them in order, just choosing 10 would be hard enough. So this list will be in no particular order except perhaps the first two are the two that I immediately thought "they have to be on the list."
The Beatles Radiohead Pink Floyd The Olivia Tremor Control The Flaming Lips Primal Scream The Beach Boys Beck Bob Dylan Ween
Some of those I'm not really sure about. I definitely love all of these... but I also really dig The Stones, The Who, Aphex Twin, Akron/Family, Spiritualized, Brian Eno, David Bowie, and of course Ludwig Van Beethoven.
The Olivia Tremor Control = the awesome. More people should know these lovely beasts of psychedelic pop rock madness. They only released two albums but both are among the top 10 albums of decade in my opinion.
The following 3 albums/collections are necessary (and should probably be bought in this order)
1. Dusk At Cubist Castle (1996) 2. Black Foliage (1999) 3. Singles & Beyond - songs not on their two albums, it's not as good as their albums but there's still some great songs.
Here's VenomFangX on "Cults" & "World Religions." I'm not a big fan of the overuse of quotation marks but see... I think it fits here because of how ridiculous it is for one world religion to poke fun at other religions because of how silly they are based on... their own religion. Ah hell, just watch this crazy bastard yammer on. He's a good yammerer. My yams are silly. I need salt. I need potato. He's really surry?. Whaaaait. Is Venom a Canadian? HAHA. He calls evolution a "cult" that is "unbiblical" (agreed) and "unscientific" (whaaat?)
I find it funny to hear a Bible beater talk about a cult. What's the difference really?
It's hard to know where to even start, it's just all so ridiculous. I guess it's all a game, innit? or is it? There you go. I suppose since we don't really know much of anything we can play along with whatever.
mmm delicious tasty teeth. i may have been robbed by a door to door salesman today. but whatever, who cares. yesterday i found out i'll be making about $7000 less than i thought i would be next month (and each month after that in the foreseeable future) in otherwords i'm having some FUNK problems. having problems getting my funk on. yeah, whatever dude, you may be saying, you got more likes*** than a windmill. and i agree with that since windmills have no legs. it makes me want to smoke some weed.
perhaps i should focus. set up some new goals and then knock them down, one by one. that's all i can do. fretting about stuff i don't have a lot of control over (at least not directly... or at least not in a way where it's like yes i do this now and this happens NOW) ... it's just. i don't know, i guess with anything so up in the air that's what it is. sorry to be too cryptic, but it's somewhat necessary. perhaps ppc is the way to go with this sort of thing? just perfect my ppc campaign and go from there. it seems like the great G is always changing the rules. it's hard to play the game when you don't know what the rules are.
***likes = legs in Eskimo. I sometimes type in Eskimo for a few seconds at a time.
Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also.
Well well well. What have we here? This don't make no damn sense. Yes. That's how I interpret it. The moon is not a "lesser light," it is merely the light from the sun reflected. I like how they just throw in that he made the stars also. The stars, of course, in reality being much like our own sun just many many many miles away.
I just don't get how people can read this sort of biz and take it literally. It's just insanity. It doesn't make any sense. It doesn't relate to the real world we know about. Sure many thousands of years ago when they didn't know anything about the world it was fine and dandy but now we do and it isn't. To me taking the Bible literally is like using medicine from the Middle Ages instead of modern medicine. We've moved on. Hmm... We've evolved. The real question is: Why haven't you (bible beaters) evolved too?
A new Weird Biz feature is coming soon: Bible Interpretations.
A Weird Biz character (to be named later) will read a passage from the Holy Bible and then give his interpretation of what was written. I see this as a new beginning for Weird Biz. So hold onto your socks!
Have you seen the "Smiling Bob" commercials for Enzyte? I must admit, it looks like some pretty groovy stuff. Yeah man, that's what I need. I don't think it requires any prescription or anything of that nature.
WHAT? OK. Perhaps I have lost my mind, or perhaps I am so sane it's ...
I've been thinking about Tay Zonday a lot lately. I've been thinking about the summer of Tay Zonday. "Chocolate Rain" may be quite burned into our consciousness but where does that leave ol' Tay? And how burned is it? Last night a song was rainrolled in a living room. So it exists now. But it's only been a few months. The same thing couldn't happen a year from now, could it? Perhaps.
Chocolate Rain now has over 10 million plays:
His big follow up "Internet Dream" has over 1 million plays. While it's a quite good song it kind of puts Tay in on the joke. I think the thing is, people wanted to make fun of him, not laugh with him. So... While I think it's actually a better song than "Chocolate Rain" ... it's not as effective as a piece of amusement.
His latest song is "Someday" which sounds quite heart felt. It's actually not that bad but he does struggle to sing in tune, now that's something I can identify with.
He does appear to have some real fans on that there YT. For that I say congrats Tay. He does enjoy making these songs and they are unique. I think he's a pretty creative weird bastard. For that I give him the Weird Biz Salute.
You know I like to keep you updated with the insanity that is VenomFangX. I just find the guy amusing, what can I say? Well here it is. I can't say whether this is a good one, because I haven't actually seen it yet. He usually delivers something amusing.
I've found lots of videotaped Salvia trips on YouTube. Having experienced Salvia myself (3 times) I find these videos quite interesting. But it's important to realize that all you are seeing is the outside. The real action is going on in the person's mind. You can't capture that with a video camera. And really ... you can't convey what happens in a Salvia with words either.
I'm not endorsing the use of Salvia. In fact I would never do it again. I am worried that if I were to do it again I would not return to this world.
But that being said, it is an incredible experience. I had done LSD and mushrooms and various other psychedelics previously. Nothing I had done before had really prepared me for what happens when you take Salvia. An immediate complete disassociation from everything around you. And a complete disassociation from your own personality.
I believe it's like immediately going to some other part of your mind that you don't normally have access to. Psychologically it's incredibly interesting. Although I'm not going to say it brings any answers. I would say it only raises more questions.
It's not a "fun" drug. In fact it can be quite scary. It's intense. If you want to see the other side, to experience a true psychedelic awakening then maybe it's for you. If you aren't a "reader" ... you know if you are just looking to have a good time, then I recommend finding a good time elsewhere.
Important Note: In my experience if you smoke it in a pipe you will get some results. If you smoke it in a bong you'll get a lot of results and you may think you are a domino or you may find yourself floating in the air or perhaps leaning against an imaginary school bus. If you smoke it in a bong and use a butane lighter you might think you are dying.
Another Note: It doesn't matter what music you are listening to. It doesn't matter what you are looking at. You have to understand, you will be somewhere else entirely.The only thing that's important is to make sure you are in a safe place in case you try to get up and move around.
3rd Note:There's different levels of Salvia strength. When you read about 40X or 15X those are extract versions which are much stronger (however many times stronger) than just plain Salvia which isn't that strong.
The Unknown: 40X Salvia
Phil
Here's a good example of the kind of guys who probably shouldn't be using Salvia. Also doing it out of a can like that is really lame. I guess if you want to treat it a like a recreational drug that would be the way to do it. Stansbury
In Rainbows is a great record to start a revolution. It's one of the most perfect albums I've ever heard. It's immediately doing battle with Kid A and OK Computer for the title of the best Radiohead album of all time.
go to www.InRainbows.com now and get in on the action. The site is currently down... But keep checking...
I got a pretty smart looking phishing attempt today. First of all it got past my GMail filter which usually filters a nice % of the spam/phish attempts. Secondly... It disguised itself as the IRS (better yet as the IRS wanting to give me money!) and did so reasonably convincingly to someone who is not real familiar with the internet. But if you look closely at the link they wanted me to click on you'll see it's country code is UA. This is the Ukraine's country code. Yes... somehow I doubt that the IRS is stationed in the Ukraine.
You should hopefully know this by now... But be extremely suspicious of any email of this type. No one wants to give you any money.
That's my plan for the day. In Rainbows was released today (at least the download version) and I've already got it on my computer. I bought the disc box version so I'll be getting a CD and a double LP version as well sent to my house... They said that bit is sent by December 3. I'm being very careful right now not to read anybody's "first thoughts" about In Rainbows. I want to go into listening it as a true virgin.
I think that's one of the really exciting things about the way they have released this new album. People all over the world are truly hearing it for the first time ... at basically the same time. This is a bit of the magic that people used to get from an album's release but that was "ruined" by downloading. Radiohead has shown with this that it's not ruined at all by downloading. You just have to go about things differently. It makes me cringe when I hear aging hipsters (and I'm aging myself here...) talk about how it "used to be" and all of this. If you're in your 30s you should be spending less time being nostalgic and more time doing something NOW. I'm tired of nostalgia, I want new and exciting.
I love Radiohead and would be excited to hear this album even if I was getting it in leaked form (which is surely how I would have been hearing it if it had been released through the normal methods) ... But I think it's so much more exciting to hear it in this way... In the same way so many others are hearing it today.
Oh yeah. And there's the whole thing about how you can set your own price for the album, that you can pay any amount you want to for it. That's extremely cool. The whole thing is actually marketing genius in a way (They might cringe to think of people thinking of it that way, I'm not sure...) as it has got lots of people talking about the album and I think will get more people listening to the album than otherwise would have. And since Radiohead is such an incredibly good band, the more people that hear them the better for them long term. More people at their shows and more people buying their albums and spreading their music around to their friends and so on.
I'll be giving my first thoughts on the album later on today after I've heard it... And then I will go around and see what other people think about it too. But I want my first experience to be virginal. Dig? I most certainly dig it myself.
I haven't been this excited to hear a new album in a long time. Perhaps since Kid A.
VenomFangX is at it (the insanity) again in this video on the "pre-flood world." Ah. I just love this crazy bastard. He keeps me entertained, that's for shizzle. I believe he really believes this stuff. Does he? That's the question, really.
A lot of people have asked me. "Hey Mr. Weird Biz, Do Vimax Penis Pills REALLY Work?" Well. I have no idea. I've never used them. My penis is HUGE already. I mean, I would put a photo of it on the computer screen but it would never fit. That's how big it is. Are you getting any sort of idea now about the massive side of my dong?
Anyhow, for a more in depth look into Vimax Penis Pills I'd look at a site like www.VimaxReview.com and leave me the hell alone. I just don't know nothing about 'em, so why do YOU keep asking ME about Vimax! Please stop! Thanks!
I bought the Disc Box version of the new Radiohead album In Rainbows today. Pretty sweet. I get the downloads tomorrow like all of the downloadering people but I also get a CD (with extra songs) and an LP version. I'm not sure if the LP version has the extra songs or not. Sure it's 40 pounds... or over $80 in US dollars. But... I love what they are doing with this thing so I wanted to do it full out. Plus it's fuckin' Radiohead.
I'm excited to let you know that I'm moving up the Weird ranks! WeirdBiz.com now ranks #35 (at least when I search for it) on Google! Pretty cool huh! Support your local WeirdBiz.com by telling all of your friends about this beautiful website and why it's the greatest site to get all of your weird on. Why? WHY? W H Y? Because my weirdness isn't just some BS monkey stain frat boy BS. This shit comes from within the terror dome, MFer. Deal!
I've been working a little bit on becoming sane. Oh yes, and forgive those commercial interruptions. But those were some hot products, no? Yes! Oh lordy. The commercial, commercial, commercial. Nothing is real brothers and sisters. Let me tell you what. Phillip K Dick is the master of my brain matter. That guy rocks my boat. I need to get going. It's NOON. Although that's not really that late I suppose. I'm already feeling a bit drowsy. Doing this stuff makes me drowsy. Is any of this getting through to you?
I've been reading some delicious Phillip K Dick. The Shifting Realities of Phillip K. Dick: Selected Literary And Philosophical Writings.
"I Blew Up My Own House And Forgot I Did It." Sounds familiar... Fight Club? I wonder if Chuck P. is a Phillip K Dick reader? Dick said that his house was blown up and among his list of suspects was himself. He believes he may have blown up his own house to prove that he was not paranoid...
I really liked the stuff he says regarding the "androids" he often writes about in his stories. It's... More complicated than it may appear. You know... The idea that, perhaps some people are less than human because they've never fully been alive. They've become nothing more than "androids." Or maybe they've not become that, but were never anything more. Aye.. I'm not explaining it as well as ol' Phillip does. And I'm quite tired right now. But I do suggest you get this book and read it with all of your faces off.
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Radiohead have announced they are releasing a new album IN RAINBOWS on October 10th. It'll be available for download only at that time. You can pre-order it now at www.InRainwbows.com - The craziest thing about all of this is that they allow you to choose how much you want to pay for it (the download of the album.) They literally say the price is "up to you."
You can also preorder a discbox version which includes a CD, an 2 LPs, and the download of the album on October 10th. They said that those will be made to order and will be begun to be shipped by December 3.
So basically it looks like they are completely bypassing the record label thing (at least for now.) Pretty awesome in my opinion. People were expecting a new Radiohead album sometime next year. So for them to suddenly announce it's "out in 10 days" yesterday was quite a surprise. Those crazy Radiohead cats. I think it's rather fantastic that they've managed to bring back that feeling of excitement for a new album. I don't remember being this excited to hear a new album in a long time. I love the idea of however many Radiohead fans all hearing the album for the first time on October 10th rather than the usual slow "leak" that has become customary over the last 10 years of file sharing.
It's funny to me that they've somehow brought back that old school excitement of a new album's release by doing something completely different & new.
And of course we've been waiting long enough, eh? How many years has it been since Hail To The Thief? (Four)
