I blended the footage with digital audio from their album and made this fan video from live footage of the band as well as post-gig footage at Oki Dog in Hollywood, Los Angeles, all shot by Dave Markey.
Dave Markey of We Got Power Films, drummer of Sin 34, was very ambitious and always carried a movie camera and film with him back then. And from the footage he shot, he made some short films and the punkumentary The SLOG Movie, featuring a number of SoCal bands including Sin 34.
This video was put together by me uses his footage, which he shot for the Slog Movie. #WastedYouth #ProblemChild #DavidMarkey #DaveMarkey #WeGotPowerFilms #punk #PunkRock #SoCalPunk #AtomicVideoJukebox #DJAtomic #djatomiclv #djatomic702
DISCLAIMER: I do not own the rights to any of the audio or video. All audio, video, and images belong to their respective copyright holders. I am just here to promote content creators, artists, and musicians, all of whom I hold all in the highest regard. If copyright holders have not been given proper credit for any of their material that appears in this video, or if they wish their content NOT be used in this video, PLEASE contact me so that I may correct the issue by crediting work or providing appropriate links to websites or removing content. Contact me at: hansonmeyer@yahoo.com. Wasted Youth Problem Child 1981 ATOMIC.
Punk's Not Dead; Atomic Video Jukebox, 5/10/21; Seth Auberon, Dhr. Seven, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Today is Earth Day, so how shall we honor our Mother [Earth]? We can start by calling her Bhumi, Tierra, or Gaia. Then it might help to honor the Goddess as giving so much to us, our very bodies. Sure there's a karmic reason and an invisible alignment/arrangement of particles that make these amazing vehicles we're powering, but it is earth (base materiality) as the "what" these bodies are or appear to be. Is there "spirit" (prana)? Yes! That wind-like thing, the ephemeral airs as explained in Yogic philosophy and detailed in a collection of sacred Buddhist texts referred to as the "Higher Doctrine" (Abhidhamma or the "Dharma in Ultimate Terms"), can be called a "spirit" (pneuma). That's what "holy spirit" in Abrahamic religions seems to be getting at.
We have hardware and software as modern analogies, but in the past the seers had dense mud and invisible air to make the same comparison of the yang (hard) and yin (soft) that is this "self." Self is a persistent illusion, hard to grasp and understand, but the Buddha went to great pains to explain it in two doctrines, one being the Five Aggregates and the other being (in response to the common question, "Well, what is there then?!") Dependent Origination. If one understood the latter, the question of "what is there?" would not confuse the asker to assume there has to be something solid and "real." In the Allegory of the Cave by Plato, there's "something" (shadows), but that doesn't make them real, that is, that doesn't make them what they appear to be.
So this body, this earth, made of soil and the Four Great Elements (mahabhuta, the dhatus, which strangely are not "things" even though they sound like the most fundamental things but rather are qualities/characteristics of materiality, and that material can be reduced to something translated by Ven. Dhammadipa as "particles of perception" or what the historical Buddha called kalapas).
So thank you, Mother! "Where to next, Columbus?" Crass sings. Why? Westerners are imperial menaces in the world...
Earth Day is an annual event on April 22nd to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First held on April 22, 1970, it now includes a wide range of events coordinated across the planet through earthday.org (formerly Earth Day Network) [1], including 1 billion people in more than 193 countries [1, 2, 3].
In 1969 at a UNESCO conference in San Francisco, the peace activist John McConnell proposed a day to honor the Earth and the concept of peace, to first be observed on March 21, 1970, the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere.
This day of Nature's equipoise was later sanctioned in a proclamation written by him and signed by [Burmese Theravada Buddhist] Secretary General U Thant at the United Nations.
A month later, U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson proposed the idea to hold a nationwide environmental teach-in on April 22, 1970, and hired a young activist, Denis Hayes, to be the national coordinator.
The name "Earth Day" was coined by the advertising writer Julian Koenig [4]. Activist Hayes and his staff grew the event beyond the original idea for a teach-in to include the entire United States. More
The Solvang Ranch (280 Crosby St., Altadena, California) is a historic 3,100 square foot craftsman courtyard house built in 1915. Situated on nearly an acre, it has been meticulously restored by owners Rob Bruce and Greg Gill and is known for hosting community events, such as the Soul Force Project's Earth Day Celebration. More
Earth Day Celebration in Pasadena, Los Angeles? These are the foothills of the San Gabriel Valley, one of the most Buddhist places in the United States. Join us and the City of Pasadena as we celebrate Earth Day and the official release of the goats into the Arroyo ("gully," "wash," dry riverbed). This family-friendly event includes goat yoga, a goat petting zoo, educational experiences, and interactive booths from local sustainability organizations. Let's celebrate and find our Flow. How? Goat Yoga in the Arroyo. Enjoy a lighthearted outdoor yoga experience surrounded by playful goats, Nature's great grass eaters. This beginner-friendly yoga session blends movement, laughter, and connection with nature, offering a unique way to relax, recharge, and celebrate the arrival of the Arroyo Goats. More: OneArroyo.org
The City of Pasadena and the One Arroyo Foundation are set to host a distinctive Earth Day Celebration this Saturday, inviting the community to witness an innovative approach to landscape restoration and wildfire risk reduction. The highlight of the event will be the deployment of approximately 600 goats into the Arroyo Seco ("Dry Gully"), where they will embark on a targeted grazing mission across 100 acres to clear invasive vegetation. This natural method not only helps protect the beloved Arroyo but also offers a fascinating spectacle for attendees of all ages. More: pasadenanow.com/weekendr
Soft power in politics (particularly international politics) is the ability to co-opt rather than coerce (in contrast with hard power). It involves shaping the preferences of others through appeal and attraction. Soft power is non-coercive, using culture, political values, and foreign policies to enact change. In 2012, Joseph Nye of Harvard University explained that with soft power, "the best propaganda is not propaganda," further explaining that during the Information Age, "credibility is the scarcest resource"[1]. More
One of the sexy readers today just happened to be one of next month's features, Joseph Nicks, a man after the biological and whimsical, the terrestrial and environmental.*
He is currently working on a dictionary of Nickisms, his invented contributions to the English lexicon, like the term chronicide.**
Ron Koertge
Life is but a poem...or novel. (Ron Koertge)
(Poetry Foundation) South Pasadena Poet Laureate Ron Koertge, former PCC professor and current bestselling YA author, then schooled us all on how to present life in the Midwest roundabout the Fifties.
() Poet and young-adult novelist Ron Koertge grew up in rural Olney, Illinois, and received a BA from the University of Illinois and an MA from the University of Arizona.
Is no topic verboten in poetry?
Comfortable in both free verse and received form, Koertge writes poetry marked by irreverent yet compassionate humor and a range of personas and voices. He has published numerous collections of poetry. His novels and novels-in-verse for young readers include the popular Stoner & Spaz.
Koertge’s honors include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a California Arts Council grant, and inclusion in numerous anthologies such as Best American Poetry, Poetry 180, and Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry” column.
Koertge’s young-adult fiction has won awards from the American Library Association and PEN America. For many years, Koertge taught in the MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults program at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. He lives with his wife in South Pasadena, California. More: Poetry Foundation
In the crowd
Other readers were in the house: GT Foster was reading from Warped by War his new collection of poems about being in Thailand during the US War on Vietnam (and Cambodia and Laos), derived from his novel The Boys Are Not Refined (Butt Naked Press). Helena and other Quakers, Toti O'Brien, Barbs Bagwell, and British poet Martin Jago.
Perhaps the highlight of the night was when Mandy Kahn hit below the belt and delivered an exquisite work of poetic art she dubbed "Poo." The audience thought they might have heard "Pooh." But no. It was poo. It was the most provocative of topics covered due not to its candor but its seriousness. To mimic it as to suggest what it was like would be difficult butt not impossible:
(Poetry Foundation) ...in true LA form, enthusiastically live-tweeted by audience member Jenna Elfman, Mandy Kahn has been developing more ideas for poetry installations — an active syllable conservationist; she's now dubbed them "Kahnstallations." She says:
Mandy Kahn, live at the Getty Museum, LA
I’ve been thinking a lot about how to inject some energy into the poetry reading format. Slam poets have found a way to make their readings extremely appealing to wide audiences, as have the spoken word poets, and the avant poetry world seems to be doing lots of format experimentation, too. But I’d like to see mainstream poets find that same wider audience — that audience of fans who aren’t writers themselves. So I’m experimenting. Tonight I’ll be trying out four installations, and at the end of the night I’ll pass out comment cards so audience members can let me know which installations worked best for them. And I’ll keep writing new installations — keep honing — until I find a few that audiences seem to respond to. More
What is "slam" poetry?
SLAM: (Youth Speaks) "Somewhere in America" by Los Angeles Team
Poetry slam is a competitive art event in which poets perform spoken word poetry before a live audience and a panel of judges.
"Do You Have Any Advice For Those of Us Just Starting Out?"
By Ron Koertge
Featured poet Ron Koertge, MFA
Give up sitting dutifully at your desk. Leave
your house or apartment. Go out into the world.
It's all right to carry a notebook but a cheap
one is best, with pages the color of weak tea
and on the front a kitten or a space ship.
Avoid any enclosed space where more than
three people are wearing turtlenecks. Beware
any snow-covered chalet with deer tracks
across the muffled tennis courts.
Not surprisingly, libraries are a good place to write.
And the perfect place in a library is near an aisle
where a child a year or two old is playing as his
mother browses the ranks of the dead.
Often he will pull books from the bottom shelf.
The title, the author's name, the brooding photo
on the flap mean nothing. Red book on black, gray
book on brown, he builds a tower. And the higher
it gets, the wider he grins.
You who asked for advice, listen: When the tower
falls, be like that child. Laugh so loud everybody
The hominid hand. Its prehensile qualities (due largely to that remarkable opposable thumb) are legendary. It is perhaps the only anatomically advantageous structure this animal possesses. That oft-touted capacious cerebrum seems as often as not to allow itself to swell with a meaningless steam that marginalizes whatever intellectual potential it had in the first place. And with that pushed-in rostrum tucked up under the cranium and bent into an L-shaped labiolingual-laryngeal mess that imparts to this animal the power of speech, well that ability seems rarely to be put to good use.
No, it is the manus hominis that has allowed this species to be so constructive. Of course, as with those other two aforementioned structures, it can be just as adept at wielding weapons as it can tools. And when it is clenched into a fist, it is pretty much useless for anything other than fucking things up.
Though some of them may be infused with a certain degree of anger, none of the poems in this book, for example, could have been written had these fists not managed to come occasionally unclenched. More
*Killing a Homo (as in a Homo sapiens or "Man thinking") is homicide so, naturally, killing time is Chronicide (a Nickism by Joseph Nicks).
Ron Koertge, Mandy Kahn, Joseph Nicks, Steve McQueen (Papillion, 1973); all uncredited poetry by Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation) (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly
The shaman climbed the mountain, gathering sacred flowering herbs and berries along the way -- Datura moonflowers, toloache, Brugmansia angel's trumpets, Salvia apiana sage, kasiile, toyon, holly -- until delirium overwhelmed him with lurid and ecstatic visions of hell and heaven. Then he returned to the human world.
Word spread of him. People asked, "Is it true, as they say, you have seen hell?"
"I have."
"What is it like?"
"It's hideous, ironic, horror beyond imagination," the shaman winced to relive, nearly blinded by his recollection:
"There's food everywhere, but no one eats, and drink aplenty, but no one drinks. There are long wooden spoons with which to partake, but their bodies have only tiny appendages for arms, too short to bring such elongated spoons up to their shriveled lips. Parched slaver forms like ashes in their mouths, and bodies waste away. Struggle as they might, everything goes to waste. They bellow in agony."
The people shrank away, with growing acreage dedicated to burying their discarded surplus, collapsing under smoldering heaps of trash.
"And heaven?" asked the hopeful. "Is it true as they say, you have seen heaven?"
"I have."
"And what's it like?" they pleaded.
"Heaven," the shaman revealed, "is exactly the same."
"What," cried the people, "the same? Surely, that is no heaven!"
"There is one difference," the shaman went on to explain.
"In heaven, there is an abundance of food and drink, long wooden spoons, and bodies with tiny appendages too short to bring these utensils up to their mouths. But the beings there, without hesitation, use the long spoons to feed one another. There is no want. No request ever goes unanswered, no desire unfulfilled. Acts of kindness overflow as do spoons.
"Spoon fed and cared for, there are continuous cries of gratitude and rejoicing as beings fall over one another to be the first to give. There is food, and they eat. There is drink, and they drink, and they relish diversity and bounty. They care for one another, nourish one another, thank one another. The sweetness of their caresses, gentleness of their words, kindness of their eyes," the shaman wept to recall, "make the place so beautiful that I only wish I could have shown one world to the other."
Sahara turns green: Should we celebrate or worry? | Vantage with Palki Sharma
(Firstpost) Sept. 26, 2024: NASA’s [low orbit 20 to 50 miles up] satellite images show the Sahara Desert turning green due to an unusual shift in [intentional modification of] the weather. This is the largest hot desert in the world, but it is going green amid climate change after North Africa received a year's worth of rainfall in a few days. Why is this happening? Is a green Sahara a cause for celebration or concern? #vantageonfirstpost #palkisharma #firstpost
Life Kit (npr.org, Jan. 10, 23); CC Liu, Crystal Quintero (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Food waste is a big problem. These small changes can help
(Life Kit/NPR, Jan. 10, 2023) Over one-third of the food produced in the U.S. goes uneaten, harming people's wallets and the world's climate. [We actually waste a lot more food than that when food thrown away at farms and supermarkets is included.] Here are some steps we can take in our supermarket and kitchen to cut back on waste, have more food to eat, and save the planet. More
Motivational speaker Daniel Ally, January 13, 2021; punks Wasted Youth; Ed., Wisdom Quarterly
7 signs people are completely fake with you
(Daniel Ally) Dealing with fake people is one of the hardest things to do, especially when they act friendly. In this video, Daniel Ally shows seven clear signs that one is dealing with a fake person. What are those signs? [In my case, I was dealing with a deceptive people pleaser who cultivated the look of an angel to conceal her actual intentions, which were selfish, brutal, and all about winning an imaginary battle of coming out ahead.]
1. They forget key details in their story 2. They make fake plans
3. They show no effort to fulfill their promises
4. They're selfish
5. They gossip about you
6. They always lie
7. They betray you
WY (Wasted Youth) patch in the mosh pit
[No one should say that there's nothing to karma, Our intentional actions catch up with us. She couldn't keep going on like this without being hoisted by her own petard, tripped up in her own snare, getting found out. She people-pleased herself right into the arms of another prince, a liar and performative mate, who just happens to be a gross ten-year-long needle-abusing heroin addict. Guess who's next?
Already the drinking and pot abuse is going full tilt, popping prescriptions. Now there's just the needle to fall in love with. Rats and snakes, would a codependent enter the jaws of the snake willingly? Not with eyes wide open. But half closed, a rat might. Not me. Codependence can be cured. She lost me, and she continued to carry on with everyone else, until there was just one too sticky to break free from, a corrosive alcoholic junkie on his way to making her a junkie. But in the meantime, she felt good by all his attention. R.I.P.
One is reminded of that song Seth A. likes to sing, by LA's Wasted Youth: "We Were On Heroin." So here's a toast to their incurable addiction, fashioned by lifestyle, glued by fentanyl and poppyflower sap. Yum, too good to resist. Today a guru said, "Cut the ties. She made her own choice. Don't interfere. It's their artha, their dharma," that is, what they came into this life to do, to throw it all away. Sad that, but what can one do other than step aside and not get dragged down by their self-destruction?]
LYRICS: "We Were On Heroin"
I need it, must have it
Kill and steal, fight to get it
I need it, must have it
Holes in my arms mean nothing
I need it, must have it
I'll lose everything I own
Just to buy it, just to have it
I don't care if I die
Gotta have it to survive
My arm's decaying day by day
My veins are collapsing, doctors say
I need it, must have it
Shoot it up in my arm
I need it, must have it
I won't sleep day or night
Till I get it, till I shoot it
Take the money from my mom
Just to buy it, just to have it
Who cares about this world?
Everything seems so blurred
I don't care if I die
I don't care if I die
I need it, must have it
I need it, must have it
I need it, must have it
I need it, heroin
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