more casa de chaos

"A witty saying proves nothing."-Voltaire

"Scientists in the 19th century postulated that in time, the world would be taken over by morons. My belief is that this actually happened, but we are now too stupid to realise."
-Kirruth

"There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots."
-???

"What is originality? Undetected plagiarism."
-Dean William Ralph Inge

"No human thing is of serious importance."
-Plato

"One's real life is often the life that one does not lead."
-Oscar Wilde

Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death...."
-Longfellow

"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."
-Robert Frost

"It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others."
-???

"It is not true that life is one damn thing after another...It's one damn thing over and over."
-Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better."
-???

"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience."
-Dr. Laurence J. Peter

"While we are postponing, life speeds by."
-Seneca

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."
-William James

"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."
-Robert Heinlein

"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad
-Aldous Huxley

"There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness."
-Henry David Thoreau

"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police."
-Jeff Marder

"Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy."
-George Bernard Shaw

"It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done. "
-Samuel Johnson

"Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards."
-R. A. Dickson

"We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation."
-George Bernard Shaw

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
-Douglas Adams

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
-Napoleon Bonaparte

"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
-Calvin

"Maybe this world is another planet's hell."
-Aldous Huxley

brand new fresh n fruity updates....

casa de chaos

ahhhh, the sickly sweet smell of youth

I used to spend weekends watching black and white movies on the UHF channels after the cartoons were over. These are the ones that lurked in my childhood

Turn of the Screw -a creepy Henry James adaptation

The Nanny with the older scary Bette Davis

Lord of the Rings-I felt sick when Piggy was killed

Gaslight-The evil husband convinces the wife she's going MAD, MAD I TELL YOU!

One about death caught in a tree by an old man who doesn't want to die. Death tricks his grandson into a terrible accident that would kill him but for Death's entrapment. Grampa must choose either to die or condemn his grandson to everlasting pain.

I got the following from a site on

hateflesh

a listing of many dark insanities.

I'm so goth, in preschool, the only crayon I used was black.

I'm so goth my black is blacker than your black. I call it "black black."

I'm so goth, whenever I walk into a room, all the lights go out.

I'm so goth I wear sunglasses when I open the refrigerator.

I'm so goth I don't paint my nails black--I bash them with a hammer.

I'm so goth I died and didn't notice.

I'm so goth I offered to sell my soul to the devil and he wouldn't take it!

I'm so goth, when I go outside, the sun sets.

I'm so goth the smile muscles in my face have atrophied.

I'm so goth, when I was born, the doctor asked me, "What's with the shades?"

I'm so goth I say things like "eternally yours in darkness" and "love and darkness" and "may the eternal darkness of the abyss enrapture and enshroud you in its infernal sickly sweet embrace."

I'm so goth I don't use fabric softener, because I like pain.

I'm so goth I'm shocked by heterosexuality.

I'm so goth a little rain cloud follows me wherever I go and rains on me.

I'm so goth my diapers were pvc.

I'm so goth I got my medulla oblongata pierced.

I'm so goth it takes me an hour and a half to get dressed.

I'm so goth it takes me longer to get UNdressed.

I'm so goth I think electrical tape is a fashion accessory.

I'm so goth I carry black food dye around in case I have to eat anything that's not black.

I'm so goth, in high school, all my papers were titled, "DEATH."

I'm so goth, as soon as I was born I put eyeliner on. And I put on too much.

I'm so goth I slather on spf 45 before I open the refrigerator.

I'm so goth I wonder if my dog's collar would look better on me.

I'm so goth I KNOW my dog's collar looks better on me.

I'm so goth I stole my dog's collar.

I'm so goth I ate a Happy Meal . . . because I like to live dangerously.

I'm so goth I don't take my medications, so I can be more goth.

I'm so goth I make flowers wilt.

I'm so goth I like them better that way.

I'm so goth I keep getting hit on by necrophiliacs!

I'm so goth I practice my blank stare in the mirror.

I'm so goth I tried to be a hippie once and hugged a tree--and it died.

I'm so goth I have actually seriously uttered the phrase, "the darkest dark of the dark darkness."

I'm so goth, when I'm sleeping people come and check my pulse.

I'm so goth I don't have a pulse.

I'm so goth the people at the suicide hotline have asked me to stop calling.

casa de chaos update

check out what's going on with the family

good god it's true!

SIGNS YOU HAVE GROWN UP

Your houseplants are alive, and you can't smoke any of them.

Having sex in a twin bed is out of the question.

You keep more food than beer in the fridge.

6:00 AM is when you get up, not when you go to bed.

You watch the Weather Channel.

Your friends marry and divorce instead of "hook up" and breakup."

You go from 130 days of vacation time to 14.

Jeans and a sweater no longer qualify as "dressed up."

You're the one calling the police because those %&@# kids next-door won't turn down the stereo.

Older relatives feel comfortable telling sex jokes around you.

You don't know what time Taco Bell closes anymore.

Your car insurance goes down and your car payments go up.

You feed your dog Science Diet instead of McDonald's leftovers.

Sleeping on the couch makes your back hurt.

Dinner and a movie is the whole date instead of the beginning of one.

Eating a basket of chicken wings at 3 AM would severely upset,rather than settle, your stomach.

If you're a girl, you go to the drug store for ibuprofen and antacid, not condoms and pregnancy tests.

A $4.00 bottle of wine is no longer "pretty good stuff."

You actually eat breakfast food at breakfast time.

90% of the time you spend in front of a computer is for real work.

You read this entire list looking desperately for one sign that doesn't apply to you and can't find one to save your sorry old butt, then you forward it to a bunch of old pals & friends

BONUS: When you find out your friend is pregnant you
congratulate them instead of asking "Oh S*$# What Happened?"

new pictures of the holidays

See the new pictures of the holiday vacation

pictures of the holiday

new update to

chasa de chaos

/ soon.

Happy Birthday to Dante. Three years old today!

yet another digital photo project

here's another i'm working on called

pornography of flowers

. These should be huge with throbing pistils and thrusting stamens.

night lights

here's a small digital photo project. it's called

city lights

. they might be cool blown up on the fujix and pixelated or perhaps as a small book of jewel like images?

check out new update

alex's family journal

how old am i?

i remember.....
my father was the only person we knew with a beeper - he had it because he was a doctor
candy was 10 cents
in highschool cigarettes were 77 cents
there were gas lines and odd / even days
the radio was talking about watergate
if someone wasn't home when you called the phone just rang and rang
there was only one phone company and you leased your phones
there were both letters and numbers in your phone number
they were rotary phones
the after school lineup was mr. rogers, sesame street and electric company...was rita morano on that show?
cool kids watched zoom
lunch came wrapped in wax paper in a paper bag or a metal lunch box
the gap was a cut rate jeans store with a cartoon frog that sang "fall into the gap"
wonderful world of disney played every sunday night
there were 6 channels-3 network 1 public 2 UHF
saturday morning cartoons were over when american bandstand came on
a local ad for the philly area -crazy eddie was insane!
another local ad- played between mary tyler moore and the bob newhart show for years -"if you;ve got a passion for fashion and you've got a craving for saving, take the wheel of your automobile and swing on down to ideal."
kimba the white lion followed by speed racer with the ever elusive yet desirable racer x the secret brother
soldiers returning from vietnam
watching man walk on the moon on tv
a black power protest going up my block when we lived in the city of philadelphia

the big breakup

American University, my college, called me today. They wanted to update my information. I told them "No. No, I will not play this game anymore. You only get in touch with me when you want money. Never a christmas card....You don't even know when my birthday is. Do you?!"
Silence from the phone, then a bit of sputtering.
I broke in, "It's just take take take! I'm not getting anything out of this relationship. You're not meeting my needs. I'm breaking up with you, American University. Please don't call me anymore. If I hear from you again I will consider it stalking!"
A small chuckle from the other end and a bemused, "OK. I'll take you off the list."
"THE LIST!?! You have others!"
Click!

hedonist

hedonist
Originally uploaded by postpunkmama.

don't forget to wipe my ass

don't forget to wipe my ass
Originally uploaded by postpunkmama.

evil genus

evil genus
Originally uploaded by postpunkmama.

Steal this Idea

Here's an email exchange that sparked an idea......

"Alex, I LOVE your website, I laughed out loud. Maybe we should collaborate on a t-shirt line. I could design and produce off your concepts. Hmmmmm ??? -Kathy"

My response.......

ok how about this. we call it "d.i.y. t's". you go to the web site. you pick out the phrase you want on the shirt. then you order the kit. it contains one white cotton tee shirt (s,m,l) a print out of your choice phrase and one black sharpie. If you order the magnum kit you get a red, blue and green sharpies as well.

tag lines could read "Used to be hardcore, now you're a corporate whore? you make it. you wear it."
"Additional feature - the sharpie can also be used for culture jamming and street art."
it's sort of a diy art project. customers could send in pictures of their shirts and we'll post them on the site.

it's all about the packaging and design. like

vinnie's tampon cases

(the actual product is a flimsy folded piece of material sewed at the ends. I could have made this in domestic arts in highschool. it's also cheap enough that you can blow $10 on it just for fun.) maybe we charge $1 over cost.

what do you think?

An open letter to Mr. Bush from California

Dear President Bush:

Congratulations on your victory over all us
non-evangelicals. Actually,we're
a bit ticked off here in California, so we're
leaving you. California will now
be its own country. And we're taking all the Blue
States with us. In case you
are not aware, that includes Hawaii, Oregon,
Washington, Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, all of the North East
States, and the urban half of Ohio.

We spoke to God, and she agrees that this split will
be beneficial to almost
everybody, and especially to us in the new country
of California. In fact, God
is so excited about it, she's going to shift the
whole country at 4:30 pm EST
this Friday. Therefore, please let everyone know
they need to be back in
their states by then. God is going to give us the
Pacific Ocean and Hollywood. In
addition, we're getting San Diego (Sorry, that's
just how it goes.) But God is
letting you have the KKK and country music (except
the Dixie Chicks).

Just so we're clear, the country of California will
be pro-choice, pro-gay
marriage, and anti-war. Speaking of war, we're going
to need all Blue States
citizens back from Iraq. If you need people to fight
in Falujah, just ask your
evangelical voters. They have tons of kids they're
willing to send to their
deaths for absolutely no purpose. And they don't
care if you don't show pictures
of their kids' caskets coming home.

So, you get Texas and all the former slave states,
and we get the Governator
and stem cell research. (We would love you to take
Britney Spears off our
hands, though. She IS from the south, right?)

Since we get New York, you'll have to come up with
your own late night TV
shows because we get MTV, Letterman, the Daily Show,
and Conan O'Brien. You
get... well, why don't you ask your people at Fox
News to come up with something
entertaining? (Maybe you should just watch
Crossfire. That's a really funny
show.)

We wish you all the best in the next four years and
we hope, really hope, you
find those missing weapons of mass destruction.
Seriously. Soon.

Sincerely,
California

DIY t shirts

All you need is a paint pen or even a sharpie and you are your own t shirt Picasso. Try these at home.

Anti-Bush....

WWJB
Who Would Jesus Bomb?

Support the Troops
Bring them Home

Bush+Iraq=Vietnam

Hitler was democratically elected, too.

Don't blame me. I voted for Kerry.

Regime Change Starts at Home

NOT my President

You don't go changing horsemen in the middle of the apocalypse


Baby T's......

Been inside for 9 months

Hedonist

Insomniac

BioHazard

Center of the Universe

Don't forget to wipe my ass!

Future Metrosexual

The family types

I am goth
Jon is skater punk
Dante and Hugo are emo, cause they're both whiners.

Punk is dead! Long live punk!

I call myself post punk mama because punk died long ago and although the outer trappings live on in a co-opted, corporate form, I can no longer don bondage pants without concern that I will not be able to catch my 2 year old as he sprints toward oncoming traffic. There are some, who, bereft of statue of liberty spikes, carry on the true spirit of DIY individuality and homegrown rebellion. We are over 35. We don't look scary. We have jobs. But we can still stand up and say FUCK YOU.
FUCK YOU BUSH
FUCK YOU CORPORATE STRUCTURE
FUCK YOU CONSUMERISM
FUCK YOU!
OK, I have to go back to the bookkeeping. I need to get it done before the co-op board meeting where I am nominated to hold an office.