Been finding some really good Punk pod-casts out there lately. Teenage Bonehead out of LA quickly became one of my favorites. A couple weeks ago, TB put one of my band's songs (Defective Children) on the podcast ep. 8 with many other sick bands, so I thought I could help out by posting links stuff about TB on my blog and spread the word. There are also a few other Punk pod-casts I've been following lately which I'll be posting about in the next few days.
- Dusty Dirt
Teenage Bonehead on Podomatic.com- Episode 9, 11-27-12 "All Vinyl Episode. Back To The 90's"
Track List:
01.Just About Done- Two Peas in a Pod 02.Nothing Cool- The Unluckiest Man in the Universe 03.Slacker- Coffee and Cigarettes 04.The McRackins- Stupid Idiot 05.My Pal Trigger- Tyson 06.After School Special- The Lottery 07.Teen Idols- Let's Make Noise in the Bathroom 08.The Pull Outs- Miscellanea 09.Everready- I'm a Boy 10.Blue Collar Special- Waste My Time 11.Screeching Weasel- I Don't Care Anymore 12.The Proms- She's Coming Over
Teenage Bonehead on Podomatic.com- Episode 8
Track List:
1. Cochinas-Grrls
2. Flojos-Vino Tormento 3. The Cherry Icees-You Can Take Me Out 4. The Screaming Brain-New Boyfriend 5. Defective Children-Why No Tomorrow 6. Hands Like Bricks- Satellite Phone Calls 7. The Gardelics- I Wanna Spend My Life With You 8. The Mishaps- I Was A Teenage Werewolf 9. Strait A's- Who's It Gonna Be 10. The Hellstroms- Dianne Debris 11. The Panic Beats- Bash His Brains 12. Lugosi- Flinch 13. Moral Crux- Firing Squad 14. The Fratellis- Nobody Likes Me Again
I started this blog about 3 1/2 years ago as a way to promote shows and bands that played at my former residence/venue known to some as "Dusty Dirt House," as well as other shows I was involved with in some fashion. When we started doing shows at my house, the local punk scene around the Inland Empire and SoCal was kind of dying off and it was difficult to find decent spots to have punk shows. I'm sure that my efforts to help bands contributed to Punk music rising up again in SoCal, but there are also many other great people who have taken up the charge to make Punk Rock happen again. Everything is happening and changing really fast these days, I think that maybe because of the state of the nation many people are starting to seek out right-brained creativeness instead of left-brained logic thinking, because what most humans refer to as logic and reason simply doesn't work anymore and people need to find a life with real sustenance.
I really hope this social trend continues. People have been programmed from birth to accept that life is about money and material gain, but now people are realizing that this program is not advanced enough or comparable with what I like to call our "Spiritual Operating System." I and many others feel that evolution has upgraded the human psyche to the point where certain archaic belief systems are quickly becoming irrelevant and exposed for their flaws. Personally, I am not out to teach people how to see the world or what to believe, and I think that knowledge is useless without experience. Everything is intertwined, and my only real objective is to bring out the creative best in myself and others.
The reason I am writing this post today is because in the last few weeks I have been very motivated by the positive actions close friend and other people in the local and world-wide punk scene. Punk is not dead, in fact it has never been more alive. I have been very lucky to live a life of freedom, and I feel that I owe a great debt to everyone else who contributes to fighting for the rights and freedoms of everyone.
From this day forward I plan on taking Punk Not Profit! SoCal into a slightly different direction. So far the posts have been mostly personal endeavors, but now I see a growing need for more people to promote bands, shows, venues, artists, records, podcasts etc. There's a lot more cool shit going on out there and much easier to find out about thanks to social media and the internet. I suggest to everyone who appreciates art, music, and any other "right-brained" activity to consider helping out the people who create by telling others about their work, and also creating new amazing things on their own.
As always, I welcome new ideas from everyone and love to collaborate on new or on-going projects.If anyone wants to hook-up and do anything hit me up here on blogger or the vast variety of other social arenas you can find me on. To everyone out there living the dream, keep up the good work, never let anyone tell you it doesn't matter or that it is a waste of time. Bad people want to tear you a part and make you feel insignificant, they get off on that. Don't give them any attention, avoid and ignore them, keep moving on.
We finished recording this album about 2 months ago. I have been busy but also I wanted to be sure it's everything it should be. I think it's finished, hopefully we will have something on some form on physical media by next year, but for now it is complete and available for free through various online sources.....
If you do punk pod casts, radio shows, can help with a record release or distribution, please contact me and feel free to download our stuff either way.
-Dusty Dirt
Downloads from Soundcloud are free, if you want to support the band and buy the album, you can do that at bandcamp.com.
We began recording songs for this album in January 2012, and finished in August. I hope that everyone who listens to this album will enjoy it and understands everything we're trying to say.Life is a series of moments, one to the next. In each moment you have many chances to learn many things.... and grow.
"Double Talk" is a song I wrote about this asshole I worked with on a construction site in Palm Springs. He was on some macho trip and annoyed the fuck out of me, but at least I got a great song from the experience.
"Sick In The Head" is about relationships that never worked out, and how people's past failures can drive them to insanity if emotions are left unresolved.
"I Cracked My Skull" is about another guy I worked with in construction. He was a macho dick as well, and probably got more stupid after he crashed his motorcycle and cracked his skull.However most of this this song is more about me.
"Pillar Of Salt" was the first song I recorded after I moved to "The Farm" in Fontana back in 2005. My wife had just left me and all of my friends were fucked up on drugs. I was left by myself in a house of alcoholics who I tried my best to avoid. The moral of this song is that looking back on things you loved and lost get you nowhere. It is better to just move forward and laugh at all the reasons that make you cry.
-Dusty Dirt
Defective Children- "Double Talk"
Lyrics:
Sarcastic smart ass remarks pour out of your loud mouth like diarrhea,
no one wants to hear your annoying comments or jokes.
That are blatantly and obviously thought up to instigate
more drama making those around you feel like communicating is a waste of breath.
Don't beat around the bush
get to the point I've had enough with the Double Talk.
Leave me the fuck alone.
Shut your trap and stop the stupid rhetorical Double Talk.
A word to the wise keep your opinions and
advice where they belong give it a rest and
lay off from the arguments and speeches for a change.
If you keep acting this way sooner or later there
will be a day of reckoning then you'll be sorry and
after that think twice about being a dick.
Don't beat around the bush
get to the point I've had enough with the Double Talk.
Leave me the fuck alone.
Shut your trap and stop the stupid rhetorical Double Talk.
Defective Children- "Sick In The Head"
Lyrics:
Remember the failures of past memories
Hearts and initials, carved in a tree
Names and dates engraved in concrete
All the dirt roads that came to be streets
Pages of scribbles, in spiral notebooks
Polaroid pictures and chances we took
Dehydrated roses, rusted antiques
Chaotic collages, lets play hide and seek
Pages of scribbles, in spiral notebooks
Polaroid pictures and chances we took
Dehydrated roses, rusted antiques
Chaotic collages, lets play hide and seek
Torn apart, ripped to shreds, scatter-brained
Sick In The Head
Emaciated, underfed, ruptured veins
Sick In The Head
Scraps of newspapers, cut out and pasted
Procrastinated propaganda, thrown out and wasted
Random words, forgotten on the floor
Uncharted horizons, boarded-up doors
Pages of scribbles, in spiral notebooks
Polaroid pictures and chances we took
Dehydrated roses, rusted antiques
Chaotic collages, lets play hide and seek
Pages of scribbles, in spiral notebooks
Polaroid pictures and chances we took
Dehydrated roses, rusted antiques
Chaotic collages, lets play hide and seek
Torn apart, ripped to shreds, scatter-brained
Sick In The Head
Emaciated, underfed, ruptured veins
Sick In The Head
Defective Children- I Cracked My Skull
Lyrics:
Always had a few loose screws the rest are bent and stripped flew way over the cookoo's nest snapped and flipped my lid Like an elephant in a china shop I'm a slow and clumsy ox There's really nothing inside my brain just empty holes and rocks Fell off my skate board hit the ground so hard broke a few bones and I cracked my skull Crashed my motorcycle soared through the air smashed on the asphalt I cracked my skull Neutered, sterile and declawed I'm a mangy ally cat who creeps and craws around his town eating from garbage cans Deformed and lacerated dirty, with lice infested hair the people wretch at the sight of me but I don't really care Second handed, dented like discounted damaged goods I'm never seen in perfect health and easily misunderstood Fell off my skate board hit the ground so hard broke a few bones and I cracked my skull Crashed my motorcycle soared through the air smashed on the asphalt I cracked my skull
Defective Children- Pillar Of Salt
Lyrics:
That which was dead, is now alive infertile soil will profit and thrive Changed the fate of those destined to die laugh at all the reasons that made us cry But to look back with regrets and dwell in remorse like infected sores emotions will swell Injected with medicine to help the wounds heal jaded and confused untill theres nothing left to feel The altimatum, forced to choose either join cheat win or loose be defeated forfit, decided by default or fade from existence and decay like a Pillar of Salt
