PLEASE HELP STOP SOPA/PIPA NOW! TOMORROW IS THE VOTE

Please take a few moments (took me 2 minutes) to call your rep and tell them NOT to censor the internet. The Stop Online Piracy Act seems like it would be a good thing for artists, but in reality it gives the government full on power to block websites and prosecute/fine them. THIS WILL AFFECT YOU. THIS WILL CHANGE THE INTERNET AS WE KNOW IT. We use the net now for commerce, communication, and in ways we all take for granite. Please don't sleep on this. Call them and tell them its crazy and will block your freedom at home and abroad.

I wrote an article on Occupy Wall Street

I couldn't sleep the other night, so I stayed up and put my thoughts together and wrote an article. It got posted today over at Metalsucks.net. Check it out right here, and sound off if you feel like you need to. I know I did. Thanks so much for checking it out: http://www.metalsucks.net/2011/10/12/you-know-what-im-talkin-about-valient-thorrs-valient-himself-on-the-occupy-wall-street-protests/

California bill seeks to legalize and tax marijuana

this is the biggest foray into marijuana legalization i've ever seen. Sure there's places just like california where you can smoke and its basically decriminalized... Denver, parts and parts of alaska come to mind... But there are many bills like this that haven't gotten nearly as much attention in the past few years, in weird places like North & South Dakota, and other farm states, that HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN that all you'd have to do to generate a shitload of revenue was to tax weed.

What's scarier than getting your head chopped off? 71,400 Jobs lost yesterday

holy shit!  71, 400 jobs lost in one day.  That makes over 200,000 jobs lost since new years so far.

2.6 Million were lost last year.  That's the most in a year comparatively speaking since 1945.  Maybe that's why everyone is cutting heads off, and dissolving people in acid.  They're the competition.

FDA FINALLY approves stem cell research

Funny how less than a week after the worst president in US history is out of office, the world starts progressing again. This couldve happened like five years ago... but once again, Bush used some backwards "politricks" to try to f everything up.  He said, sure you can go ahead and spend bread on researching this "stem cell" stuff, but then they quickly found out that only about 2 dozen lines would work.   You see, Bush said they could only research "already existing" lines.  So they appealed him, but he vetoed it their requests- TWICE.  So these dudes are going forward now, in an effort to learn more and quite possibly HELP people w/ spinal injuries, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's & diabetes.  I'll never get over people who want to stand in the way of "real magic".  I believe in science.

inauguration ceremony *UPDATE* Worst Clusterfuck Ever...EVER.

wow.  i cannot explain to you in words how hectic shit got.  I was there ready to go @ 5:30.  No gates were opening til 7, which ended up being more like 8.  Around 9, i was deep in a line (crowd) of thousands storming one of the many gates.  See I was supposed to go in @ 1st street, but you couldn't go there, and furthermore all roads were closed w/ huge iron gates past the E crossstreet.  So, they kept sending everyone to 3rd and 7th, but neither were budging.  I didnt quite feel so bad when I saw none other than Chris Matthews from "Hardball" get denied rigth beside of me.  (See pic...)  The FBI/secret service guy said, "hey man, i love msnbc, but you've gotta go to 3rd or 7th just like everybody else."  I thought Matthews was gonna drop his fucking bagel.  He looked about as defeated as everyone else.  Then they said try to go around 14th (nope), then try heading around 1st, around the back of the capitol building (nope).  I mean dudes were paying 600 bucks a pop for these tix on ebay and craigs list.  And i just kept seeing people clutching theirs between their claws, and sweating and cursing their own stupidity.  When i finally DID get thru the iron bars, it was another hour wait to get checked by security, only to find out that when i emerged, i was stuck in the 9th circle of hell.  They had everything past pennsylvania ave blocked off for the parade route til after 11.  And between every street there were more huge iron gates.   After being sandwiched for some time, i truly wanted the fuck out of there.  I didnt care who i was supposed to meet, I just wanted out, but there were NO exits.  And the natives were getting restless.  Thousands started beating on the gates and screaming "let us in , let us in".  It was like something out of a zombie/holocaust movie.  The Zombies wanted in, and those who just waited almost 3 hours to get in there, suddenly wanted out.  But never the twain should meet.  I guess if i could sum up the morning in three words, they would be cold, blisters, and bootleggers.

Inauguration Ceremony

"i got a purple ticket!"  sung to the tune of- "i got a golden ticket!"  only i'm not winning a chocolate factory.  parliament would say i'm partying in chocolate city.

playin rekkids/ Happy MLK day!!

Happy MLK day everybody!

my friend up in dc, paul goodman is a great photographer.  He took these pics the other night of me jammin some jams at his house.  Check him out.  Plus, i scored a ticket to the Inauguration.  Gonna get up close and personal.  Ill post some pics on here tomorrow after the show is concluded.  Steers,  Valient.

Inauguration Time

yolla,
im out, headed to DC for the 44th inauguration. This is significant on many levels. Particularly in that its the first one that many people even give a shit about. Ill be playing some records, imbibing some spirits, and generally just partying as much as one can whilst in a city with over 2 million visitors/tourists/people looking to do the same as you/me. Cheers America.

Quincy Jones asks Obama for a Secretary of the Arts.

you can sign the petition here.  You can join the facebook group and learn more info about this here.