Red Rose, Black, Words and Music By Brian McCaskill

Words and Music by Brian McCaskil

October 28th, 2002
Toast in coffe is not cool, especially when there is butter on the toast. Seriously, who puts toast in somebody's coffe, really, you fight like a girl.

My pennies are slimy, don't know why, but you know how pennies get us Jews excited.

Apparently every word out of my mouth is a rap song, Lakewood I guess. Oh, and that's Lakewood, not Lay-woo. Seriously, thats so 9 years ago, you TR kids are so far behind.

Its not just Bayview Rd, its So Bayview Rd.

To Nico, check out the cover to Rolling Stones, she is now only one step away from doing porn.

I'd like to thank Brian for the very involved update he had today.

If Mark Chapman killed the lead singer to Three Dog Night, he'd be out of jail by now, however, nobody cares, because it was John Lennon, not the other guy.

If you have AOL, you can hear the new George Harrison song. You just have to wait until George in on the Welcome Screen, since the bastards (AOL not George) have it switch every so often. If you have AOL 8.0, you can customize your welcome screen to feature mostly music, so it will come up quicker. Go to Keyword: "First Listen" if you can't find it. If you are reading this after 10/28/02, it might not still be up, see, you should read us every day.

I'm going to wait on the Nirvana CD, because I have all of the CDs, and I'm not sure if I want to buy a new CD for one song, which I downloaded already. Besides, there is still Pearl Jam, George Harrison, and Audioslave to get, which would be new material for me anyway. Besides, the best of was Courtney's idea, I feel buying it would be like letting her win. If I still have money, I'll get it though.

While typing this update, Doug Forrester called me, the Republican candidate for NJ Senate. Well, it wasn't really him, just a staffer. Well, it wasn't really a staffer, just a recording of one. Either way, I'm mentioning it just because I never actually believed they actually send out recorded calls like they say on the news. For you nosey ones out there, he just wanted to say he will protect a woman's right to choose and supports Bush on the War on Terror.

Thats all, check it up, check it out, check back.

October 26th, 2002
Tonight is the last Saturday I have to work at the Restaurant. Thank fucking God, it sucks there on Saturdays, you'll notice a much happier Joshua tomorrow, not that I was actually depressed before, but I will be noticable happpier.

They caught the sniper fucks, now there is speculation there was a romance between the man and little boy, don't know why they suggest that, they just know that they aren't Stepfather and Stepson now. They matched the gun they found on them to 11 of the 13 shootings, so while they are still "alleged" snipers, it doesn't look too good for them.

Bob Dylan is living in a political world, and he is a political girl.

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of this fatefull ship....here in Gilligan's Bible.

Ask Brian about that one, or both of them, since they probably don't make sense.

More people live in Akron (spelling?) Ohio than in Akron PA., probably because Akron is in Ohio and not PA, interesting bit of info.

Nothing going on here, its the weekend, give me a break, later.

October 23rd, 2002
I take it back, I said awhile back I had a bad feeling that Audioslave was going to suck. Well, I downloaded, "Cochise" and its pretty fucking good, and some other song. I don't know if that is the one on the radio, or if there is one on the radio, either way its still good. However, the rest of the album can suck, but my gut is feeling better about it now.

Brian is Pro-Drugs, he says fuck the lives that they ruin.

Well, the Internet was almost killed yesterday. In the "most sophisticated attack" on the internet to date, 9 of the 13 Master Computers for the Internet were crippled for an hour yesterday evening. Good thing is, the attack was thwarted, bad thing is, the government believes it was a trial by fire, so the E-terrorists can get more knowledge on how to actually do it for real next time. Oh, this wasn't on the news, you'll have to trust me. Some homosexual sniper in DC threatens children and it takes up all the news. Don't get me wrong, that is newsworthy, but I mean, c'mon, there are 24 hour news stations now, this story didn't get a blip in America. Check the Toronto Globe, I'm sure you can find it online somewhere, that is where the story was broke.

The Strokes are re-releasing "Is This It" and then releasing a DVD, only to re-release that with extra footage or something. Not sure on the particulars, but basically many fans will end up buying 2 CDs and 2 DVDs of basically the same thing, ~~sellouts, sellouts~~, cough, hmm, excuse me.

Real fans don't need hundreds of dollars of merchandise to be a fan, unless you are a fan of NSync or something.

I'm going to use a High School Flashback, C U L8R, sorry about that.

October 20th, 2002
Ok, I don't normally do this, but I'm going to do a commercial for MTV. I just saw that tv show, "Scratch and Burn." Don't get me wrong, I hate it when MTV does stuff that has nothing to do with Music, but this is a little different. Its 4 guys who do rap sketches, but funny. Kind of like the Lyricist Lounge, but the focus is more on comedy than the rap, there are some normal sketches as well. Trust me, the show is real funny, if its on when you flip the channels, try it out.

If you haven't heard the new Nirvana song, or well, old Nirvana Song, "You Know You're Right," Download It or something. Its really good. Don't take this the wrong way Nirvana fans, but I was actually impressed with the vocals on this song as well. I read in an interview not long ago that Kurt said it sounded like a really good Alice in Chains song, and well, he's right. Either way, check it out.

I don't want you to think I'm a fag or anything, but the new Matchbox Twenty song, "Disease" is pretty good too.

Bucs game is on in 5 minutes, kick the Eagles's asses.

The site will be expanding, check back real soon.

Like later tonight or tomorrow.

October 9th, 2002
Whoa! CD review here.

Well, I don't normally do this, but I'm bored. I just bought the Bonnaroo Music Festival CD compilation today so I will review it. First off, you have to enjoy a lot of different music feels to really like the album. There are bands of Blue Grass, rap, and "grass roots" rock. For example, four artists on the CD are Jack Johnson and Ben Harper, Norah Jones, Bela Fleck, and Phil Lesh. Either way, Bonnaroo was a Woodstock-esque three day music festival this summer in Tennessee. Unfortunately, each artist only got one song on the CD, so there are only 21 songs on two CDs, but the CDs are quite long since many of the bands jam, like Phil Lesh and Trey from Phish. While the artists vary, its basically non-MTV type stuff, but not too experimental. Somebody referred to it as Woodstock for DeadHeads, just with less pot and more soap. Either way, its pretty good, go to Bonnaroo.Com to get the entire list of artists, if you like most of, or even just a couple, you should like the CD. I personally bought it for Ben Harper and Jack Johnson, and Ben Harper's Track (Burn One Down/With My Own Two Hands) was really good, but I was a little disappointed since Jack Johnson's Track was Rodeo Clowns, I was hoping for something he did with Ben Harper or something off of his album, either way, so far its a 3 of 4 star album.

Java Joint has been getting more and more lame, if you are still in the area, GO!!! for heavens sake. Well, the magician wasn't there, but Mr. Hiller for those of you who know him was there, and there was a one sided rap-off. When I say one sided, I dont' mean there was no competition, I mean there was only one person battling. There was another act who played good songs (Flake by Jack Johnson and Watchtower, Dave's Version) but just couldn't sing. So go and help us help it be cool again.

Pat Brian on the back before he breaks his arm doing it himself, not only is he leading our team on the "Dylan Pool," but he is ranked in the top 100, he has to beat me or I won't let him live it down. In a related story, this early in the pool, Nico has already dropped 30 points behind the closest team member.

I'm not mad that nobody checks the site anymore, Nico on the other hand....

If you don't like my fire, don't come around, because I'm going to burn one down, well not really, but I am out.

October 7th, 2002
Brian can't look at the site, yet he can still read my shit, weird huh.

To clarify things, I don't think Greenpeace is gay, just Brian.

Also, some more responses since Brian has grown some balls since leaving us for college:

I think everybody should have the right to vote for a Democrat, hey sometimes I do. However, its the Democrats responsibiltiy to get their shit straight. Its not the Republicans fault Torricellis is a self centered prick. Had the US Supreme Court overturned the NJ Court's decision (Today they decided not to take the case) it would have been Torricelli's and the Democrats fault that you wouldn't have had both parties to choose from, since Torricelli waited too long to admit he had no chance of winning. Just watch, there will be many problems due to two ballots being printed. Personally I thought Brian was smarter than just repeating Democratic Propaganda at me.

Sure 8 albums weren't Dylan, but two were, so Brian thinks Dylan constitutes 20% of the best live music. Besides, I'm just telling you to watch out for his 100 overall albums, the top 40 of which will all be Dylans.

Don't get me started on Dylan/Brown Sugar.

Coldplay could be worse, could be better but could be worse too.

The weird thing is, Brian's old haircut made him look like a child molestor, while his new one makes him look like a molested child.

Don't quite know why Brian says I like bombing things, I don't remember saying anything about that. If I had mentioned something about Sadaam, I suppose I would rather support bombing, than support a man who has committed TWO yes TWO campaigns of ethnic cleansing, senseless kills thousands, financially supports suicide bombers, and probably the man with the most crimes against humanity since Hitler, as apparently Brian supports.

In the news, that sick fucking Sniper guy in Maryland who has shot 7 people, killing 5 so far, hit his 7th target today. To make it worse, it was a 13 year old boy walking to Middle School. To make it even worse, the boy was walking with his mother, who had to watch the whole thing unfold. On the bright side, despite a shot to the chest and guy, the boy is in stable condition. Somebody arrest this guy so he can take a few "shots" of his own in jail.

On a lighter note, how about them Tampa Bay Bucs again?! With another win they are 4-1 and tied for first in the division, BUCS BUCS BUCS.

I repeat again, Dylan Live the best Live album, seriously now.

Well thats all for today, feel free to sign the guestbook, while Brian may judge you for your comments, and not accept them because he disagrees, I never judge.

The Great Trash Heap has Spoken!!!(correction from last post)

October 4th, 2002
Holy of the Houses, Brian updated his shit, check it out.

Well, if you plan on emailing Brian about his top 100 albums list, don't be insulted it it hits number 43. You see, thats actually a compliment, since numbers 1-42 are reserved for Bob Dylan albums. Just check out his top ten live albums, Dylan Live '66 made it to number one, seriously now.

Which brings up a good argument about music, is it more important that it entertains, or is it more entertaining when its important? Personally, I feel it should be entertaining, and if its important too, great, if not, oh well. However, if a song is about real important stuff, but is just extremely hard to listen to, well, then the song is a failure, might as well be an Al Gore speech.

Speaking of politics, just recently the New Jersey (thats us) State Supreme Court made it ok to ignore the laws of the state as written. If you haven't heard, Senator Bob Torricelli has decided not to run for Senate again, since his 15% lead last month vanished into a 15-20% trail. The problem is, in New Jersey, without a good reason (death, family issues) you must make any switches prior to 51 days before the election, when the Torch did it, it was only 36 (15 days too late). The State Supreme Court said basically, "Well, never mind the law, do what you want." Now, I'm all for competitive elections, but that falls on Torricelli. He withdrew only because he was losing, he admits it. That shouldn't be reason enough to bend the rules. Also, some absentee ballots have already voted. Its not like the election was only having one candidate for the election, including the Democratic Candidate, there were 5 or 6 others. By saying without a Democratic Candidate, there is no competiton is basically pissing on any dreams a third party had of being able to compete in the unfair two party system. Either way, the U.S. Supreme Court might step in and stop all of this, or if Torricelli resigns and our Governor, McGreevey appoints a replacement, the election would be delayed a year. Well, at least we'll keep Florida company in the "Can't run a fucking election right" Potluck dinner in November.

Sorry about that.

Just a little more on politics, maybe I'll add a section to the site where some of it can be discussed, I figure between Brian, Nico, and myself, we should be able to come up with 2 or 3 viewpoints on most issues, and if it works out, I can try that forum thing again perhaps, sign the Guestbook if you have input.

I have a bad feeling Audioslave's album is going to suck, no reason to believe this, just a bad feeling.

I you haven't registered to vote yet

DO IT HERE!!!!

You haven't much time left, in fact the link might take too long for them to mail you the stuff and for you to send it out, so go to your municipal building and do it quickly.

Pow.....der

The Great Swamee has spoken, g'day.

September 26th, 2002
Whew! Its been awhile since the last time. Oh well, deal with it.

In the news since last time, some woman surrendered to police for beating the shit out of her kid in a security camera. I mean, she was pulling combos and all that, the kid didn't do nothing either. I mean, if the kid acts up, I'm all for one across the head, but not twenty five, and this girl was behaving. Either way, this is proof that women are evil.

Brian has joined Greenpeace, I'm telling you because he won't update his shit anymore. Either way, he told me the Greenpeace slogan is "We hugging trees, when we are not on our knees." That slogan is only for the guys though, weird. The girls slogan is something more like, "Trees are cool, be we really love bushes." Oh well, if you see Brian, wish him good luck, and buy him some toothpaste, I have a feeling he'll be brushing his teeth a lot.

I think Nico is home this weekend, on a related note, New Jersey just got a little cooler.

I'm sorry, I mean unrelated note, they actually have nothing to do with each other.

How about them Tampa Bay Bucs? Yes, they are the football team you will hear me jam down your throats. Currently 2-1 after a win over the NFC champs the Rams. Go Bucs, Go Bucs, USA! USA! USA!

September 11, 2002

Yeah, I'm that guy who puts a flag on a website, fuck you.

Well, its been a year, and back then, it was France who said we were "too patriotic," and now, its our own profesors, our own representatives, and just us. Since the congressmen already had their photo of "spontaneously" singing "God Bless America," they can now go back to bullshit politics, hey the primaries just ended.

Little correction, the whole "Brian knows the guy I'm talking about.." comment I made yesterday, well, Brian does know the guy I'm talking about, however, I misunderstood the story, and he was just laughing at child abuse.

Work, school, and work suck. Notice, there were two words, "work" and "school." Yet, I still have to mention "work" twice, it blows like a drunk girl on prom night, don't do it if you don't absolutely have to. If you do, don't start your first job at 4am.

Thats all, God Bless.

September 10, 2002
Its been 52 weeks exactly since September 11th, (a year is 52 weeks and one day, technically). This is sort of the anniversary since 9/11 was on a Tuesday, if you can remember all the primaries that were postponed. Either way, this is your fair warning that tomorrow is the anniversary, no forgetting.

Laughing at the pain others went through due the the attacks is a down right dick thing to do, Brian knows the guy I'm talking about, yes he does.

It has only been five days since my last update, go me. If you talk to Brian, tell his lazy ass to update once in awhile, unless, that is, he is now too good for his friends.

Inside sources tell me that everybody at Rutgers is named Katie. In a related story, Brian has replaced Katie Depinto as his token "Katie" friend with some Rutgers floozy. She won't sign the groupie application though, beat.

Boscov's Security Guards apparently are perverts, so I'm told.

Everybody says, "visit me at work", here. Well, visit me at work, that'll show some effort, I work outside of Great Adventure, at a Restaurant next to KFC. For the guys, they just hired like 4 new hot girls. For the girls, well, those new girls are real hot, so maybe that counts for you too, maybe.

That's all, so long, suckers.

September 5th, 2002
Whew, its been over 2 weeks since my last update, about time right? Well, fuck you. I'm working two jobs and going to school full time. Have a little fucking sympathy, if you got up at 3am and work straight until 5pm you wouldn't be running to the computer either, fuck ass, give me a break.

You can send your apologies here.

Well, American Idull is over, thank fucking goodness. If I had to hear that annoying british voice or Paula Abdul once more I'd die. And I never even watched the show, ahhh.

Wednesday is September 11th, show some fucking respect.

And to that dumb fucking Alice in Chains fan, no Bush did not organize the attacks, take the cock out of your mouth.

Its not even been a year, and a new poll shows that a majority of the people in all of the major European countries believe America was at fault for the attacks, or at least partly responsible due to our foreign policies. Fuck that smelly bastards. Even if you don't agree with out policies, to suggest politics alone can cause somebody to do such things is imbecilic. I mean, America saved Europes ass in both World Wars, showed them how to produce cars, and showed them the importance of bathing, and all they could do is spit on us when we are suckered punched. Fuck Europe, England already gave us the Beatles, we don't need Europe anymore.

Invade Iraq, then play "Bombs Over Baghdad" by Outkast, for the sole purpose of that it will be funny, killing Sadaam could just be icing.

Fuck Europe, again, over a chair if need be.

I'm out, I'll try to update as soon as I can.

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