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10.17.2005

derek

.muskegon sucks, more often than not.

when i was growing up skating in a shittier little town, coming to muskegon was fucking rad. it was a million times more skateable than hometown, usa. i loved muskegon. then i moved to muskgon, after living in grand rapids and it didn't quite hold the same place in my heart. all i did was roam from my house to the video store and work. in between we would light bottle-rockets off at one another, light the curtains on fire and break stuff on the porch. okay, so being in muskegon was kinda fun. i moved away again for a while and relocated every six months for a few years. upon moving back to muskegon there were problems with the law that had them stopping me every time i left my apartment. and that's no fun. well, okay, it kinda was. i mean, as much of a pain in the ass as it was, i knew it was getting under their skin as well. and so it went for a couple years, just like that. i had quite a collection of officers personal business cards. again i moved to grand rapids though. i'm torn between the two cities, so after living there for about six months i moved back to muskegon. i'm not sure why i'm drawn here anymore, it's definately not the skating. i haven't skated nearly enough to still be able to call myself a skateboarder, and that's a bummer. it's not because there's a booming marketplace, because this down is a barren wasteland of employment opportunities. any sensible business has left the area, or relocated outside of town near the mall. oh wait! i remember why i love muskegon:

last week when i was leaving work on my bike i got down between fourth and fifth street and two, of a group of four, guys ran out into the street and knocked me off my bike, the chubby one then says, 'give me your bike.' katie was with me and stopped, only to have the other one tell her that by opeing her mouth and saying anything to them was how girls like her get raped. the chubby one then grabbed her bike and threw it across the street while the other one explained that this 'is how we do, in the city'. i grabbed my bike and she grabbed hers and we rode off while they called her a slut, whore, and bitch and yelled how they were going to rape her. nice. but that's only part of the reason i love muskegon. two nights ago, exactly one week since they fucked with us, katie was riding home alone - because i had gone home early, not feeling well. she ran into the same group coming out of the alley between the chronicle and the theater. they remembered her and called out to her. when she saw them they ran out into the street toward her telling her that they were going to get her and rape her. they ran after her, yelling that they were going to find out where she lives and rape her. this time they had enlisted a dumb white kid to help with their threats. now, this is why i love muskegon.

we have this piece of shit 'city' that the politicians are trying to clean up to welcome industry back into the area, but in the midst of this beautification we have dumbfucks running around downtown threatening people, trying to mug them and threatening to rape them. nice. i'm sure they old ladies going to the theater will enjoy that, or the wives of the masons going to their lodge events. or the familes going to hockey games, etc. we have kids growing up watching gangter/gangsta movies thinking that they need to be hard as hell to prove that they are worth something. they act out their rap videos and their shitty hip hop albums. i love hip hop, but all this mainstream lil' john, lil' wayne, lil' zane, lil' kim bullshit sucks. that's not hip hop. fuck these wanna be gangster kids. they said that this is how we do it, in the city, but this isn't a fucking city - a real city anyway. this is the hollow shell of a city-gone-by. if these stupid little fucks tried their shit in detroit, chicago, any of the five boroughs, l.a., they'd have their asses handed to them. they'd become the statisics that they were born to be, statistics that they get to avoid being by living in a backwoods nowheresville like muskegon.

but if they want city life, i'll give it to them.

the next time i see them and they want to start some city shit, i'll knock their fucking heads in with a fucking bat. and not all of them. just one. that chubby fuck. bring him down and it would drop the rest of the crews' balls right to the ground. if they want some hard shit we'll see how they like fighting in the streets. you bring all your friends, because we know that you only find safety in numbers. cowards. but you bring your friends and i'll bring my bat. fuck you. and fuck musegon.

by puke
a new hope

brown eye pie is back, im so frekin happy, i remeber getting a greezus sticker and it saying to send him a buck to join his fan club. i didn't send him a buck but im still a fan.
the muskegon scene report 2005
To start it off, Muskegon is the asshole of Michigan , it's a shitty town with shitty people in it that feel it's there duty to give poeple shit, but it has it's good days. The scene hmm well I guess that depends on what scene your talking about theres your "str8edge tough guy hardcore" scene witch takes place at either ther eagles lodge or this place called the hot room, the music involves lots of drop d's and mix up of different vocal styles dependant on the band. Most of these band are named after days and include the words he/she and dies, the crowd has been reported to be totally stupid with stupid antics of tough guy ism (no pits only change pickin uppin) . This stuff aint my cup of tea so I can't realy report on it accuatly with out being totaly bias. But shows seem to be few and far between recently there was sweat fest some three day hardcore fest with a shit ton of bands and if i recall a couple national act's or some shit. I didn't go in I just stood at the door. Next up on "scenes" in Muskegon would be the PUNK fuckin ROCK scene. this scene has dwindled in the last couple of years due to tragic event's and a scene polarity witch i haven't witnessed until recently and question very much.

. you can occasionaly catch a show at the ice pick if your lucky but word on the street is only a few show's this year. during the summer theres a few shows at the fruitport bandshell, and also at magrath park, if nothing else shows go on in basements or garages (weather permiting) as of right now I believe there is a new place in town but it's just rumor. bands can range from slow alternative nivana sounding shit to fast as fuck shit with hard as fuck vocals to match, along with many opposing views and opinions with a nice balance of male and female front persons well ive seen 3 bands with girl singers and a shit ton of dude singers so i guess the ballance is way off but fuck it, I believe the anarchist in town hold vegan potlucks every wesnday all around town along with mass bike rides on roads and the party kids party just about every night all over town.The fight rait at these "punk" shows seems to be far less than that at "hardcore" shows i haven't seen a fight at a punk show in a realy long time, shit last one i recall is me geting hit in the face, other than that tits get grabbed sometimes but no one gets punched in the face over it, I don't enjoy calling it hardcore how bout we call it………..well i just wont mention it again ever again if i do i will refer to it as salon rock.

As for age I think Muskegon is to small to have a 21 and up shows so the shows include people from the age of 6 to 40+ and the bands are the same way, one particular thing that pops into my mind about the punk rock shows in Muskegon is that the bands get hazed quite occationaly old men shouting to see some tits, or a barage of popcans flying at the band, somebands take it others yell some even through shit but I haven't seen any fight's break out because of it .shit happends. All and all Muskegons gots a nice diversity of shit, i like it, most poeple who don't move away. muskegons got potantial if people can put believes and politcal views aside for the good of the music and not turn it into a right or wrong contest.

mike sardine

this is Mr. Mike Sardine reporting live from Kalamazoo, Michigan, the most psychologically insane city in the state. I'm not sure if that's a fact, but I do know in 1970 there were over 8,000 patients in the crazy bin, and this year there were a reported 128. that means there's almost 8,000 (considering they didn't axe themselves) people walking around the streets of k-zoo. They are dubbed "the walking wounded," and shout incoherent strings of vowels and consinents at me as I ride my bike passed. Anyways...time to report. Hell Or Highwater just recently had a CD release show/party. I didn't go, but heard it went over well. Those guys are playing hard and going strong. A few good shows happened at Kraftbrau Brewery, but i didn't go to those either. I kind of suck this month. I've been going to Ann Arbor every weekend to see the best fucking girl on the planet. and maybe mars, too...but yeah, those were the shows. more this month, but i don't know what yet. i'll get back to everyone on that. Also this month, Henry Rollins will be apppearing at the State theater on Burdick St. on the 27th. Tickets are some cash dollars, but i think students get a discount. Henry's the man. I'll be there, you can count on that. Last, there was a homemade salsa competition, sponsored by the People's Food Co-op of Kalamazoo, held at Kraftbrau brewery on sunday, october 1st. i didn't go, but my brother said it was fucking delishious. He tasted a wide variety of salsas from sweet apple salsa to fiery habenero and jalapeno salsas. Salsa is a hard word to fuckin type, man. I just copied and pasted it every time because i kept spelling slasa. dyslexia got the best of me.
As far as myself...Duck Bomb's still kickin' it, although we haven't played in a while. No shows are scheduled at this time, but we've been brewing the best batch of ass-kicking ever, so get ready! I've been cutting stencils like a coke-head cuts lines and an obstetrician cuts umbelical cords...word. i got that shit on lock-down. right now i'm making a rose with 6 layers. 6 is a little excessive, but i want lots of color contrast. hopefully i can find enough shades of red and pink. yes. i'm still going to college, taking 17 credit hours. that's five classes. i've decided to swing towards a degree in medicine. maybe...i bought a new mountain bike. it's a gary fisher, and it fuckin rocks!!! i can haul ass on that beast. i was thinking about entering in a mountain bike race, just for fun. just to see what it was like. there's an orginization called the MMBA (michigan mountain bike association) that holds races all over michigan every year. maybe i could join that if i was good enough. But then again, my bike just got stolen a few days ago, so some filthy fucking bastard can enter in the races instead of me. or hock it for some dope or rocks. FUCK!!! it got stolen from inside my front door, B&E cunts. but, i gotta keep livin' and lovin'. i'll get over it...someday.

jessi sadistic

So you'd think after moving back to this area after living in Milwaukee would be a downer. I'm not going to lie and say that I wasn't upset to leave, but things aren't as grim as I feared. Plus, I had responsibility back here. Things to deal with. No matter how far, or how long, away you are-those sort of things don't just clear up themeselves. You have to face up to shit sometimes. Even if it's the last thing you want to do. I loved Milwaukee, don't get me wrong. It was the mecca for me. Three, four, five shows a week... and all of them shows that I wanted to see. Good shows. This summer I saw more touring quality bands than I've probally seen in my life up to that point. But it wasn't home.
I thought it would take awhile for me to adjust and feel like I was home. At first I did. I had a lot of friends, drank a lot, and had great times. There were some amazing things that happened this summer, and shows that would have melted your face. I know mine was melted more than once. The thing is, your home is your home. It's always good to come back, even if you plan on it only being for a short while. It's good to be around people who are your real friends, not just out to get what they can from you. I don't know if I'll move back to Milwaukee, and stay forever, and be happy. I was happy there a good portion of the time, which is something that really isn't true about here. Then again, I know if my room mate had hit me here, in a room full of people, no matter how big he is... he would have been crawling out of the room. The total disregaurd for other people really was the biggest turn off in Milwaukee. I wasn't thinking that I everyone should have my back automatically, but I know if the situation that had happened had happened here, there would have been a much differant result. No matter who the girl was. No matter who the guy was. There is just right and wrong, and what happened was wrong. But no one, not a person, did anything to try and even it out.
I still have friends in Milwaukee. People I care about. Bands that I love more than life itself. But as a scene, it's just as fucked up as any place. Anywere you go, you'll deal with that. Backstabbing. Cliques. Drama. Oh how I hate the fucking drama. So stop bitching, oh Muskegon-Western Mi-life sucks.. wah wha wah. Fuck off. Everywhere sucks unless you do something about it. So if you're not getting off your ass and doing something, I don't want to hear another word out of your stupid face.
Jessay Sadistic imanupstart@hotmail.com

derek shit

holy shit its been a long time. a bunch of shit has happened, we know what happened. but hell life goes on. there are a bunch of new bands out there. hombrinus dudes is still kicking grand rapids' ass. there is a few new grind bands but thats not all of the scene. the us beat is still going strong. not sure when the next time they are playing. last time i saw them was the fatefull night at the heartside cafe show. but any way spoon full of vicodin, sin orden (chicago thrashcore legends), xbrainiax, morihei ueshiba, sadistic slaughter, panacea, and deadstock at the mosaic info shop, 1317 fulton ave. right next to common grounds coffee house. 7pm 6 dollars w/o costum, 5 with. free candy that is on october 29,(if your not going to gwar at harpo's in detroit).
Tuesday November 08, 2005. syzslak (grinding sludge from philly)
hombrinus dudes (grand rapids finest, grinding assult squad. first show back from tour)
panacea (female fronted thrash squad), morihei ueshiba (bass and drum grindcore from grand rapids).
starts at 7. 5 dollars or 7 dollars and you get a live tape of magrudergrind, spoonful of vicodin, red menace, morihei ueshiba, deadstock and hombrinus dudes. i am so goiing to GWAR on the 29th. \derek contact me or nikole if you still want to go. cause ive tried to get ahold of you via lj. but to no prevail./ but shit division ave. is all tore up the streets are pretty much ours. the other week i was on the curb drinking beer and i didnt have to worry about one cop driving by. that was a slice of heaven. im telling you use the freedom while you got it the street isnt gonna be under construction forever. well so much left undone i dont have a job and i have been enjoying it. too bad i got to pay rent and i got to put gas in the tank, i wish pushing bags was as easy as it ws when i went to school. god damn i hated school but it was convienent. well im about to be one of those working class ones. god i hate saying that. all of you kids im telling you have as much fun as you can. break the rules, do what you want cause there will be a day when you cant. dont dig yourself in a hole you cant get out..................bang then your dead. life blows. so kick it in the balls and run.