GOOD NEWS SEARCH ON GOOGLE - SLIM PICKINGS & FEAR FOR OUR FUTURE -

GOODNEWSNETWORK.ORG AND THE END OF GOOD NEWS

As you are all well aware, the sheer volume of ''bad news'' from all areas of the world can tend to disturb some people. Sometimes we may ask ourselves "Isn't someone saving a cat from a tree somewhere? Perhaps nursing a wounded bat back to health after a ceiling fan accident? Maybe a stranger decided to help an old woman carry her numerous bags of Campbells soup across a busy street while onlookers gasp in disbelief?" 

"Why didn't he just trip the old bag, take the soup and run?"

Well, the good news is these things are happening. In fact, I can prove it if we are to trust the headlines. http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/ is a website that only reports good news. This site warmed my heart so much that I decided to click on an article entitled "2 share Nobel prize for work on AIDS and Cancer". Sounds progressive and highly useful. Maybe there is indeed hope for the collective to move forward. Let's check this out.

When I clicked on the article, the article did not display, but instead the website demanded a subscription to view the 'good news'. Not even a fucking sample? You can't show me one story? Quite a diatribe and somewhat convincing, the website listed reasons for reading positive news:

5 More Reasons to Join

Saves Time - Geri is your personal shopper for good news, gathering it all to your fingertips so you don't have to spend hours searching CNN, ABC and around the globe.

Access to Vast Archives - More than 10 years of archived, searchable positive news stories and inspiration, like the 1998 favorite, "A Brain Tumor - The Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me"

Finding Birthday Good News - "On This Day in History" is a unique daily column that lists all the good things that have happened historically on any calendar day. GNN-i is the only place to find "On this day" historical info with a positive twist.

Motivates You - Read motivational articles from our panel of experts, like 7 Steps to Contentment and How to Be Happier, and new weekly columns like, Workplace Wednesday and Friday's Word Fast

Improve your Health - Studies show OPTIMISM cuts heart and lung ailments

Wow. There are a variety of payment plans, the recommended one being $97 per year.

SUMMARY:
Let's finish this thing off. The question is - is this similar to 'The Secret's principle; paying $23.95 for 'abundance conciousness'? Good luck with that and keep a diary. This seems to be what it comes down to. After all this. It's a market. Our modern gatekeepers are Oprah and anyone with a book who appears on her show. Big business to a shocking extent - especially for content that can be summarized with "Be here now" type ideas, which can be helpful of course. Why is everything an infomercial of some sort? It's difficult to get those credit card numbers from you and it takes a certain tone to achieve it. You can have good news, but you will have to pay dearly. Save up.

My suggestion to stay positive. Check all trees (the ones that are left) for cats and various wounded animals.

(And to the owners of this website, don't get too upset. This is meant to be a humorous blog)
Steve Moore

Consume
Rate this
Place importance on
Downloadable media
Kim Kardashian sex video
Jolie nude pics
Baby Suri
Swallow whole
the wrong things
Items without end
Everything receding
A new voice for someone without thought
Sweet meat
The world eating it's young
Sick
All of us
We share this
Our collective vision hones in on the kill

Reviewed by Royce Icon (Industrial.org)

POST DEATH SOUNDTRACK - Music as Weaponry CD

"Music as Weaponry" is the debut album from Vancouver based coldwavers Post Death Soundtrack, and it's certainly an interesting one. PDS utilize a diverse aural arsenal, blending elements of EBM, trip-hop, metal, darkwave, noisy guitar, world musics and more together into their own style that is more tied together by theme and vocal content than musical style, which is fine by me.

One thing that is consistent throughout the majority of the tracks is a slowish tempo, and pretty swell production. The vocal stylings at time remind me of a less dramatic Prick, or possibly a more pollished less aggro Hansel, with a bit of Cop Shoot Cop era Tod A. cynicism thrown in.


Due to the diversity of the tracks it's really hard to compare Post Death Soundtrack to anyone in particular, though I am reminded of The Evolutionaries just a little bit on some of the more coldwavey tracks, and of Puscifer on some of the lighter ones, but those are just vague composites. I think I prefer when these guys are angry, but their sadder tracks are pretty rad as well.


All in all, "Music as Weaponry" breathes some fresh air into the whole coldwave concept, utilizing as much melody as they do aggression to create an overall worthwhile listening experience. If you're yearning for an industrial rock project that isn't just ripping off Ministry or worse, VNV Nation - Post Death Soundtrack

I resign
Looking through the holes of this pop culture corpse
Wandering in stretched skin
And babbling to no one
Warning: full disclosure
Hands outstretches into smog
The darkness only ignorance can shade

Driving hope's face into a wall of nails
Over and over again
Truth is a quick fuck
Captive animal will never see the light
Painfully unaware of self
Who is the one that laughs?
The primordial joke is told as the sun rises
Frantic noises and then silence
Institutionalized in the pleasant mundane

Without a doubt this is the new madness
Reckless abandon
Pounding at the door

Fraud
You appeared too suddenly
Like a ghost right after the kill
We created for ourselves a grand vision
Children drawing in the sand
Birthday is coming

Inadequate cornerstone
The structure lives on

You reopen a fresh wound
Without the desired result
The crippled creation runs
Outlaw architect
Hunted>>>>hunter

I will eat you alive

Clenched fists
Poised
Starving
Embracing the edge wholeheartedly
Like a naive child/a daring tourist
You went too far
I will never forget
Nothing will come between us
I am wolf
I am animal
Trespasser
You chose wrong
Breathing in wild eyes
Venom in every cell
Metal through veins
Ceiling fire

I will eat you alive

Poor child
Young mind
You left your hometown
Ostracized
False comfort found in a false path
Don't I know it
Come closer
Too late to question why
You relinquished your rights
Fit of hysterics
Trample
Insect soul

I will eat you alive

Hegemonic Bastards Network (www.postdeathsoundtrack.com)


"We've got a toothless, thumbless audience tonight
Let's introduce the pigs"

The anchorman complains about minorities
The military bombs a market
El Presidente kisses a fat baby
The kids prostitute their intelligence for MTV's corpse
Stardom remains our god!
Books in the discount bin
"Tap into the new you!"
Well, sell me a new fucking idea
Tailored salesman scum
Are we out of ideas?
I thought I saw this film a million times
With the same actors and the same lines

Pull my skin off
Take my eyes and teeth off
Pull my skin off
Take my eyes and teeth off

("Is there anybody out there?.....Anyone?")

My fellow humans
To those who destroy the peace with brown paper bags
Tonight we talk to you
Creation of false truths that cause you fear
To those who propel the myth of the Boogie Man
To keep you all tucked so tightly in your sweet little beds
We can no longer be driven to helplessness
Giving up our freedom as a nation of fear

This is your life and I don't give a fuck what you believe
As long as it's your belief
We no longer need to accept the sour idealogies
Trickling out of the teat of those hegemonic fucking bastards

Wake up and pull the pacifier from your mouth

"As long as we unite.....Get this thing right"

("Is there anybody out there?.....Anyone?")

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Let's pull this microcosm out of slumber!
A dissident stream of conciousness
THIS IS HISTORY!
THIS IS HISTORY!

Racist backwoods corpse
YOU ARE A DEAD MAN WALKING!
Housewives glued to the TV screen
YOU FAILED!
Fucking hyprocrite swine
You will never learn
This will never end
This will never end

The newest episode of South Park is focused directly on the people who buy the shitty tabloid magazines, watch E! with reverence, believe all the paparazzi crap and obsess about the fantastic lives of hollywood stars yet choose to attack and tear down the stressful lives of other stars. People really enjoy the Britney circus. It seems like fun to rake at her until she finally does something drastic that ends up hospitalizing her or killing her. It's sad that her potential death WILL sell magazines for a looooong time. The question is: Do we WANT to leave her alone or do we NEED to watch her get worse?

The South park episode is brilliant. Highly Recommended.

Out of the depths I run
Into terror and apathy
You've become dead to me

Vision of conflict
Come closer
Revolve with me around the sun

Arson in serenity
Tolerance/blasphemy

This is the new madness
Reckless abandon pounding on the door

Patterns you do not understand
You have not seen the place I come from
Childlike assumptions amuse
Live the words of beasts

Fingers wrap around
Cold to the touch
Inviting
Loosen the grip when it's buried/destroyed

Well, it's about 2 weeks until the "official" release date and there's torrents popping up all over the net of our new album "An Offering". Just a guess, as we haven't tried downloading any, but judging by the dates some of these started coming out, a good portion of them are fake. This is why we decided to A) Not charge shipping from our Innersurge.com store ($10 per CD) and B) Charge 0.75 per mp3, undercutting the digital stores. Motivation to support an original band and save yourself a fat worm on your computer.

Try them out though, some may work...it's just that the more people who actually support what we're doing the higher the chance there will be another one. The CD is also selling in advance partially because of the "leak", or, supposed leak.

AN OFFERING - JAN 26

Once again, those of you who are buying early are finding something extra in the package....that's our thanks to you.

I S

Thanks for visiting our website and blog. We're very thankful to everyone who's bought the album so far or sent us their kind words and feedback. With artists like Josh Grobin and Avril Lavigne in our faces on a daily basis, it's nice to feed off a few scraps, words from real people who have an understanding of what we do and appreciate it. It's all in the acknowledgements, folks.

We hope you like the new site...the priority for us was to make sure there was a lot more content and we could make www.innersurge.com a destination rather than a support for our other pages. This blog will be updated frequently with opinion, background on the songs, news and rants so keep checking. Any suggestions are welcome...join the forum too. Let us know what books you're reading, things you're learning about, music you're into, anything you'd like to pass along. It's all word of mouth on the underground.

Mainly, we hope you enjoy the new album, "An Offering", an album we worked very hard on, and as a result are very proud of. We've said a lot more on this album and we've accomplished a lot more musically. This album says all we wanted to say, all we could say in 63 minutes. It's uncensored, truly, and that is becoming a very rare thing. It's not background music, and a lot of people won't have the attention span to dig in. For those who do, we hope you get something out of it and do something with it.

As for the tracks and the subject matter, this was a cathartic and upsetting project to tackle. Sometimes those can be the most rewarding. We'll go over a few themes and leave the rest. Any questions, feel free to ask in the forum.
There's been some discussion (and there will be more) on the track "Interahamwe". This song is simply based on a first person perspective of the Interahamwe during the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide. To us, it's not controversial, especially since the song depicts them accurately as vicious psychopaths. The song also touches on the fact that they were assisted in fleeing the country safely by the United States and France, and were then supported financially and militarily by the United States. Motives and numbers are not touched on. A sidenote, the thousands of machetes used in the genocide were imported from China, but you already knew that. History repeats itself, does it not? The info is documented in Martin Meredith's book "A History of Africa". The saddest thing about this song is you could replace the title these days with "Janjaweed". Maybe soon you will be able to replace that name. We would be happy in 10 or 20 years to say that this song is not current or relevant.

"Halliburton Piggies" is fairly self-explanatory. The reference to "Mrs. Cheney" was inspired by a portion of Ward Churchill's book "A Little Matter of Genocide", where he wrote that Lynne Cheney had refused in particular to speak to any documentary filmmaker who referred to the eradication of Native American's as a "genocide". Would "murder" be sufficient? Who knows.

Well, in a very different context from the song "Stimulus Response", we've decided to "stay the course". Thanks for listening.

I S