Conversations with Keefy

I know that you watch me. Don't you think I can tell. I know you creep on me. I've felt your presence near. I know you still think of me. I think of you too sometimes. I know you see me in lucid dreams. In ways that you obviously can't help yourself. But you don't think I see you watching me. Watching from inside my eyes. Conjured up in my dreams and night terrors. Like a deja vu that I do not want. The truly despicable part of it is that I wanted you to see me- always. I felt the empty, opaque scream of you without me. A fracture that caused me tremendous pain. Caused me to breakdown. To tremble before you. Not anymore. Now I lick wounds once deep. Now healing and hoping although cynical to the last. You lash out from afar still clinging to your rage. It's quite nasty and unbecoming. But I expected no less all along. This is the pattern. So boring and predictable. I'm not sure what I did to deserve the ire of your i. There was a time I thought about m...

Written, Edited and Directed by Louis CK (Circus Time Productions) Massachusetts native Louis CK's new standup movie comes out today called Hilarious and I have been waiting patiently for it for a while. Louis is one of the premiere comics in America today and along with the sadly retired Dave Chappelle, George Lopez and Patton Oswalt is one of the top observers on male contemporary life. Louis' impressive resume includes a writing Emmy for his work on The Chris Rock Show, writing and directing some vehicles for Rock ( Down To Earth, I Think I Love My Wife, Pootie Tang ), roles in movies like The Invention of Lying , and Role Models countless stand up specials as well as his own highly regarded TV shows on HBO ( Lucky Louie ) and FX ( Louie ), and his numerous hit stand up specials and sold out tours. Ricky Gervais guest starred on Louis Season 1 Hilarious has been winning praise from the jump off. It has lofty the distinction as the first standup movie ever to prem...

When your #1 weapon has been taken away, what do you do? How do you cope? Like a knife that's been dulled. Sometimes no whetstone will aid it. I've no implement to strike with. The iron is cold and dead. Left alone in the vast quiet nothing of my mindseye. Alone and unattended. Jaws been flapping since I escaped the watery primordial ooze of The Cave. Ranting and rambling for anyone to hear for as long as I could remember. But primarily to please myself. My self. The ocean of uber consciousness crushes on. Flooding the shores of knowledge, inescapable tides rise. Drowning out the sands of reason. Nowhere to go with my thoughts, but deeper inside. Endless cycles of analysis. Paralysis. Ouroborus. Mostly by a design I am not equipped to fight. Perhaps if I listened more carefully to others I might hear more than the rumble of my heart, lips and lungs. My ego and intellect imprisoned by a virus. It's not sympathy I crave. Adulation is what I need to survive. But a soul o...

Insecurity Notoriety (Housecore Records) As we near the end of one of the best years in recent heavy music releases, I wanted to make sure I uncovered every important band or record to review that came across my greedy ears. Music is my life, but sometimes things try to interfere with my goal of reviewing as much tune-age as I possibly can. One album that almost slipped by me is the full length debut of ARSON ANTHEM. A bastard child made of hardcore, deathmetal, crust and doom; ARSON ANTHEM is an underground super-group of sorts. The band consists of Mike Williams on vocals (EYEHATEGOD/OUTLAW ORDER), Hank III on drums (ASSJACK/HANK III/SUPERJOINT RITUAL), Philip H. Anselmo on guitar (who needs no introduction), and their mutual friend Colin Yeo on bass. Recorded at Nodferatu’s Lair at Phil’s house and released on his own Housecore label Insecurity Notoriety is a snarling, feral spin on old-school hardcore punk with cool twists and turns tossed in for good measure. Not claiming ...