Society

A paranoid, delusional review of all the other people that constantly surround OUR hermitage with spears and torches. Or that clever thing that Sartre said…

Waving My Dick in the Wind – The Non-Nudist Naked Freedom-Loving Nude Beach Review

by Jason Thomas Kocher August 19th, 2010 Culture » Philosophy » Politics » Society »

There will come a time when everybody
Who is lonely will be free…
To sing & dance & love (dance and love)

There will come a time when every evil
That we know will be an evil…
That we can rise above (rise above)

Who cares if you’re so poor you can’t afford
To buy a pair of mod a go-go stretch-elastic pants…
There will come a time [...]

Gogol Bordello vs. Primus vs. Meat on the Williamsburg Waterfront

by Jason Thomas Kocher July 31st, 2010 Culture » Society » Culture » Sounds »

Gogol Bordello rocked out the Hayek-inspired “Not A Crime”, commenting, surely, on free-markets and free-minds, then spent the rest of the show trying to sell people the shit they don’t want to buy…the new album. There’s too many fucking singers, like some sad after-school multi-cultural feel good pallette…that, yes, feels good, but sounds like shit. And I know the band [...]

The Obscenity of Obscenity Laws

by Jason Thomas Kocher July 17th, 2010 Culture » Philosophy » Politics » Society »

Here is a call to outlaw Obscenity Laws on the grounds that they are the only obscenity.

Full Disclosure: I don’t feel that I am defined by these things…but I do like sex…and I do like porn…

…and for me, the question of whether something is artistic or not is moot. In less controversial realms, I think Revenge of the Nerds and [...]

Qualifying Success

by Jason Thomas Kocher June 7th, 2009 Culture » Philosophy » Politics » Society »

After Barack Obama’s election, one of the jokes that I most frequently made was…

“After the next 8 years of unqualified success, I will still somehow run for and be elected president to succeed his two already wonderful terms.”

This is to make light of the fact that even before the election was final, the general American Idol opinion was that [...]

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