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steve humann

Anybody remember punk rock?

About Me

At 43 I'm angrier than I ever was as a disaffected punk rock teenager. Slowly I have become everything I've always hated. 31 years since my first AA meeting and I'm still absolutely sure that those 12 steps are fucking religious bullshit. I'm fat and bald now. I feel about three hundred years old when the alarm clock goes off at 4:30am, announcing the start of another 12 hours of pointless work moving furniture for some stupid movie or TV show. I have two ex-wives and two kids. I've only been with about 10 women over the last 15 years, two of whom I married. Yes, the other 8 or so were pretty much inbetween the marriages. Yes I finally get it now: marriage is a bad idea. I've buried every singer of every band I've ever been in. Except for myself. Stevo, Dan and Ken--they're all dead now. Not sure what that means but I miss them.I'm not going to mention Joe Escalante here anymore. What he's done is clear but I only still really care because of Stevo. I tried to make Stevo get over it for years but now that he's dead I find myself holding his grudge against Joe more than I want to. Only for Stevo and only in the forlorn hope that justice might eventually prevail.

My Interests

Um, kinky sex with girls half my age? Collecting stamps and coins? What the fuck do you put in here?

I'd like to meet:

George Bush so I could beat his punk bitch ass with a tire iron for about a half hour.Since this attempt at political witticism might be deliberately misconstrued, I'm going to point out that "beat his punk bitch ass with a tire iron" is really just a metaphor for "vigorously discuss his failed foreign policy and how to fix it."I'm sure the one-man-church-of-scientology has already alerted the proper authorities, so the rest of you can relax.

Music:

Dieselhed, Ween, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, Devo, The Pack, all the obvious '77 bands you can think of. The great LA bands of the early punk era too: Germs, Black Flag (no henry please), Weirdos, Screamers, Dils, Avengers (OK, not LA, yer right)."Auf Erden mir die Hoffnung wich, ich hier so einsam bin." -F. Schubert

Movies:

Breaker Morant, which I loaned to someone and I still don't have it back. Um, new stuff? I like Paul Thomas Anderson's work. Just saw and liked Days of Glory, Babel and The Departed. Think Babel was best of lot. Between Innaritu and Cuarón, there's only been great stuff coming out of the DF lately.

Television:

Um, kinda feel it's not worth it once all the ads matriculate into the subconscious. That said, when I watch it I usually watch The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, National Geographic Channel, History Channel or Discovery Channel. No network news or sports, ever.

Books:

The War On Truth, by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed. Look Away, A History of the Confederate States of America, by William C. Davis. Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast. Oh I wanna finish Doubt, A History, by Jennifer Michael Hecht (what a beautiful woman! I'd trade a dozen lifetimes with supermodels for an afternoon with her). That said, I would like to find more time to read in the future.

Heroes:

Smedley Butler, Sid Vicious, Ralph Nader, Ward Churchill, Tony Clanton and a large rock of salt for you if you think I really believe in heroes.Actually I always liked Celine's quote from Journey To The End Of The Night: "There's not much to choose between being brave and being cowardly. The same man will be a rabbit on one occasion and a hero on the next, and be equally unconscious of what he's doing in both instances."

My Blog

Henry finds out Darby likes boys.

This is an old story that I've been telling Henry fans for years. It's the complete truth as I remember it and since I truly believe that Ian is Mr. Integrity I'm sure he'll back me up if anybody asks...
Posted by steve humann on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 10:37:00 PST

Very super scrawny activity--

Here's a nice threat to my 6-year-old daughter that I got in my email. Gosh, I wonder who this is from. Well, dear sender...as if I needed any more proof as to what you really are. Coincidentally your...
Posted by steve humann on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 05:22:00 PST

A magazine with a Reader's Write segment suggested the topic 'guns.'

We were going to some punk rock show in Hollywood. Punk was long dead, still-born probably, but certainly very dead again by this time in 1983. We'd driven up from Long Beach as we had so many times b...
Posted by steve humann on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 03:36:00 PST

why's there gotta be a category?

ah shit, i don't have time for this. usually I'm down with a good solid timewaster like this but instead I think I'll go down to the mighty (scummy) Los Angeles River and ride bikes with my daughter f...
Posted by steve humann on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 03:44:00 PST