It's Just One Pig Replacing Another

“I didn’t consider myself a nihilist at that time but certainly Black Flag had songs like ‘No Values’, which Greg wrote, that espoused that mind set. But I believed in shooting the cops, I believed in violent revolution. I thought we should just clear the fucking slate and I don’t think that any more. The real villains just make money off the blood of the common person in a violent revolution. It’s just one pig replacing another.”

From “Spray Paint The Walls: The Story of Black Flag

I have been thinking about this quote a lot in regards to the events happening in Egypt right now. It sure fits our own political structure here in the USA. Democrat, Republican, Libertarian...all of them are pigs. Women, workers, students, and veterans just keep getting screwed no matter who runs things. Choosing between these people is about as sincere a choice as picking Pepsi over Coke. 

 

What if everyone had the Black Flag bars tattooed on their arms?”

“I’ve asked that myself before,” murmured Bill. “I thought that when I first saw people with them. I thought, what if everyone had one of those? Everyone? And I got scared, because I learned in the Bible about the devil and stuff, and everyone would have one of those 666s or whatever on their body… Who knows? What if everyone looked the same? What if everyone had the Black Flag bars tattooed on their arms?”

Bill Stevenson

Black Flag

Signifying Nothing Podcast 6-11-12

https://signifyingnothing.net/uncategorized/signifying-nothing-podcast-6-11-12/

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The Mob-Witch Hunt
Integrity-Kingdom of Heaven
Crow-Dance of Death

Crisis-Alienation
Dead Stop-Hate To Say
Omegas-Fevered Freedom

Hoax-Sleep
Youth of Today-Expectations
Citizens Arrest-Open Wound

Give-I Am Love
Pressure Release-Obstacles
Sacrilege-The Closing Irony

Disclose-Bloody Religion
Arctic Flowers-Fall To Pieces
Meat Puppets-Oh, Me

Napalm Death-Moral Crusade
Distino Final-Atrapados
Caustic Christ-Immaculate Deception

Black Flag
Kent St 10-13-84
My Ghetto
Black Coffee
Beat My Head Against The Wall
Rat’s Eyes
Police Story
Rise Above

Signifying Nothing Podcast 4-2-12

https://signifyingnothing.net/uncategorized/signifying-nothing-podcast-4-2-12/

Collapse-Failure (Don Fury Session)
Rain On The Parade-Do Or Die (Full Speed Ahead)
Bikini Kill-I Hate Danger (The Singles)
Direct Control-Hardcore For Heroin (Self Titled)
Green Beret-Neutralize Me (Demo)
The Unseen-I Don’t Care (Protect & Serve)
Spazz-Rat Pack (Split With Black Army Jacket)
Paintbox-Can’t Bear Anymore (Singing Shouting Crying)
Saccharine Trust-The Worm’s Quest (Worldbroken)
Talk Is Poison-Talk Is Poison (Condensed Humanity)

The Comes-Panic (No Side)
Christian Club-Christian Club Will Die (Self Titled)
Knife Fight-Who Are You? (Out Of Print 2002-2004)
No Rock Stars-I Hate School (No Core)
False Liberty-Unity (Silence Is Consent)
Fratricide-Going Under (Pusmort Sampler)
Dead Nation-Jerk Off (First Four Days Demo)
Wretched-Se Ne Fregano (Split With Indegesti)
False Justice-Hold Your Head High (Demo)
Dinosaur JR-Raisans (You’re Living All Over Me)

Black Flag-Rat’s Eyes (Slip It In)
Anthrax-Violence Is Violence (Capitalism Is Cannibalism)
1.6 Band-Plastic Bags (Discography)
The Ruts-Babylon’s Burning (Peel Session)
Vanishing Leper-The Vanquished (Self Titled)

Books Read 2011

  1. Beowulf & Other English Poems
  2. The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  3. Roland Barthes by Graham Allen
  4. With A Tangled Skein by Piers Anthony
  5. Collection of Aristophanes’ Plays
  6. The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
  7. Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes
  8. Empire of Signs by Roland Barthes
  9. Incidents by Roland Barthes
  10. Writing Degree Zero by Roland Barthes
  11. The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
  12. Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
  13. High Druid of Shannara: Jarka Ruus by Terry Brooks
  14. High Druid of Shannara: Tanaquil by Terry Brooks
  15. The Path To The Nest of Spiders by Italo Calvino
  16. Six Memos For The Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
  17. Under The Jaguar Sun by Italo Calvino
  18. The Cambridge Companion To Chaucer
  19. Spray Paint The Walls: The Story of Black Flag by Stevie Chick
  20. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
  21. Matched by Ally Condie
  22. Context-Further Selected Essays on Productivity, Creativity, Parenting, and Politics in the 21st Century by Cory Doctorow
  23. Makers by Cory Doctorow
  24. With A Little Help by Cory Doctorow
  25. Ten Plays by Euripides
  26. Discipline & Punish-The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
  27. H.P Lovecraft: Against The World, Against Life by Michel Houellebecq
  28. Virgina Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway: Invisible Presences by Molly Hoff
  29. The Odyssey by Homer (Butler translation)
  30. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
  31. Basrayatha: The Story Of A City by Muhammad Khudayyir
  32. New York Hardcore 1986-1991: A Time We’ll Remember by David Koenig
  33. Teaching Literature & Language Online (Edited by Ian Lancashire)
  34. Piers Plowman by William Langland
  35. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge by Jean-Francois Lyotard
  36. Italo Calvino: A Journey Toward Postmodernism by Constance Markey
  37. Shakespeare’s Tragic Cosmos by McAlinden
  38. Utopia by Sir Thomas More
  39. Plato-Euthyphro
  40. Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things by Gilbert Sorrentino
  41. Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott
  42. Civil Disobedience & Other Essays by Henry David Thoreau
  43. Look At The Birdie by Kurt Vonnegut
  44. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
  45. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
  46. The Death of the Moth by Virginia Woolf

Pushead Top 100 Podcast Part Three

https://signifyingnothing.net/uncategorized/pushead-top-100-podcast-part-three/

English Dogs-Ambassadors of Fear
Crucifix-Stop Torture
China White-Daddy’s Little Queen
Battalion of Saints-I’m Gonna Make You Scream
Negative FX-Protester
Anti System-Animal Welfare
Black Flag-White Minority
Social Distortion-Mainliner
Instigators-Blood Is On Your Hands
Neos-School Punks

Station ID

Misfits-Astrozombies
Shitlickers-Armed Revolution
Terveet Kadet-Outo Maa
Prong-Aggravated Condition
Outo-Death of Victims
The Fix-Signal
The Insane-Politics
DOA-The Prisoner
Bad Religion-The Voice of God is Government
Agnostic Front-Discriminate Me

Signifying Nothing Podcast January 7th 2012

https://signifyingnothing.net/uncategorized/signifying-nothing-podcast-january-7th-2012/

United Youth-Fuck Your Standards (Demo)
Vaccine-Patriot (Crime In Blood)
Infest-Break The Chain (Slave)

Lethal Aggression-Newcaster Lies (Life Is Hard…But That’s No Excuse…)
Staring Problem-Scattered Pieces (Pissed Human Dick)
Give-Life Unknown (Self Titled)

Bl’ast!-Look Into Myself (The Power Of Expression)
Crow-Occupied Japan (Vertigo)
Cro Mags-Do Unto Others (Age Of Quarrel)

The Rival Mob-Raw Life (Raw Life)
Black Flag-I’ve Heard It Before (Blasting Concept Volume One)
Mauser-New Threat (End Of The Line)

No Hope For The Kids-Cold Touch of Death (Angels of Destruction)
Overkill-Hell’s Getting Hotter (Blasting Concept Volume One)
Hatred Surge-Brutal Supremacy (Brutal Supremacy)

Siege-Conform (Demo)
Siege-Walls (Cleanse The Bacteria)
Siege-Grim Reaper (Demo)

Christian Mistress-Mother of Mercy (Mother of Mercy)
Blasting Concept-Wake Of The Spudnik (Self Titled)
State Of Alert-Public Defender (Bootleg)

Free Spirit-Selfish (Free Yourself)
Mind Eraser-The Way Is Shut (Brutal Supremacy)
Soul Swallower-Absolute Power (Devoured)

No Tolerance-Sentenced (Demo)
Discharge-Two Monstrous Nuclear Stockpiles (Never Again)
Rest In Pieces-Toys R Us (My Rage)

The Mob-Common Criminal (The Way It Was)
Confuse-Hate War (Japan One)
Cause For Alarm-In Search Of (The Way It Was)
Gil-Find Your Real Self (Japan One)

Antidote-Real Deal (The Way It Was)
Kuro-Selfish Cow (Japan One)
The Abused-Nuclear Threat (The Way It Was)
LSD-Just Last (Japan One)

Bad Brains Live In Philadelphia PA 1982
Fearless Vampire Killers
The Big Takeover
Joshua’s Song
Right Brigade