Annie's 12 years old,
in two more she'll be a whore
Nobody ever told her it's the wrong way
Don't be afraid
with the quickness you'll get laid
For your family get paid
It's the wrong way
I gave her all that I had to give
I'm gonna make it hard to live
Big salty tears running down to her chin
And it ruins up her make-upI never wanted
A cigarette pressed between her lips
But I'm staring at her tits
It's the wrong way
Strong if I can, but I am only a man
So I take her to the can
It's the wrong way
The only family that she's ever had
Is her seven horny brothers and a drunk-ass dad
He needed money so he put her on the street
Everything was going fine until the day she met me
Happy are you sad, wanna shoot your dad
I'll do anything I can
It's the wrong way
We talk all night, try to make it right
Believe me shit was tight
It was the wrong way
So run away if you wanna stay
Cause I ain't here to make ya, oh no
It's up to you what you really wanna do
Spend some time in America Dub style!
She'll give you all that she got to give
But I'm gonna make it hard to live
Big salty tears rollin' down to her chin
And it smears up her make-up I never wanted
So we ran away
And I'm sorry when I say,
that straight to this very day
It was the wrong way
She took a hike
it don't matter if I like it or not
Because she only wants the wrong way
I gave her all that I had to give
But she still wouldn't take it, oh no
Her two brown eyes are leaking like a sieve
But it still ruins her make-upI never wanted

"April 29th, 1992"
(I don't know if you can, but can you get an order for Ons, that's O-N-S,Junior Market, the address is 1934 East Anaheim, all the windows arebusted out,... if he wants to)

April 26th, 1992
There was a riot on the streets
Tell me where were you?
You were sittin' home watchin' your TV
While I was participating in some anarchy
First spot we hit it was my liquor store
I finally got all that alcohol I can't afford
With red lights flashin',
time to retire
And then we turned that liquor store into a structure fire
Next stop we hit, it was the music shop,
It only took one brick to make the window drop
Finally we got our own P.A
.Where do you think I got this guitar that you're hearing today?(
Call fire... respond mobil station. alamidos in anaheim, its uhh flaming up good...)
When we returned to the pad to unload everything
It dawned on me that I need new home furnishings
So once again we filled the van until it was full
Since that day my livin' room's been much more comfortable
Cause everybody in the hood has had it up to here
It's getting harder, and harder, and harder each and every year
Some kids went in a store with their mother
I saw her when she came out she was gettin' some Pampers

They said it was for the black manThey said it was for the mexicanBut not for the white manBut if you look at the streets, it wasn't about Rodney KingIt's this fucked-up situation and these fucked-up policeIt's about comin' up and stayin' on topAnd screamin' 1-8-7 on a mother fuckin' cop It's ain't in the paper, it's on the wallNational guardSmoke from all around
(Units be advised of an attempt 211 to arrest now at 938 Temple, 9-3-8Temple, many subjects with bats trying to get inside the CB'shouse...they're trying to kill him)Cuz' as long as I'm alive, I'ma live illegalLet it burnWanna let it burn, wanna let it burnWanna wanna let it burn(I feel insane)
Riots on the streets of MiamiWhoa,
riots on the streets of Chicago
On the streets of Long Beach
In San Francisco
Riots on the streets of Kansas City
Tuskaloosa, Alabama
Cleveland, Ohio
Fountain Valley,
Paramount,
Vista BuelleEugene,
OregonEureka,
CaliforniaHesperiaSanta Barbaramother fuckin' NevadaPhoenix, ArizonaSan DiegoLakeland, Floridafuckin' 29 Palms
(Need a unit to... structure fire and numerous subjects looting)(10-15 to get rid of this looter)

well im out of a job, so THAT sux!!!! well i quit. my ass. Manager and everyone i worked with were constantly making racial comments and sexually harassing everyone. i told the Manager, i even called the main office, but nothing happened! so i quit. of course now im out of a job, and everyone knows how the job situation is in barstow......

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Montreal, Canada: Eco Bazaar

In order to celebrate BND 2005 and to take a bite out of the consumer culture that is increasingly targeting them, high school students from Montreal’s École Internationale in Westmount, in partnership with the Éco-quartier Décarie/Loyola, held an Éco-bazar at their school during the lunch hour on November 24th (the Éco-bazar was held on that date due to a school strike that was scheduled for the 25th of November). The bazar worked as follows. Students brought used items that they were ready to part with and that were still in good condition to a given classroom on the day previous and on the day of the Eco-bazar. In exchange for their objects, students received coupons. At lunchtime on the 24th, the students came to redeem their coupons for other items. Geneviève Grossenbacher- volunteer coordinator Éco-quartier Décarie/Loyola

Berne & Geneva, Switzerland


Bristol, UK
Hi guys, Just thought you might like to know how Buy Nothing Day went in Bristol, in the UK. In a one word summary, Amazingly! We held our Buy Nothing Day event in the middle of Broadmead, the biggest shopping centre in Bristol. Despite the freezing weather we had a massive turnout, with over 50 people turning up to help out from a range of organisations; Bristol University People and Planet, University of West England People and Planet, the Bristol Freecycle Network and Bristol Dissent! Network. We gave away free food and free cups of tea, all made from donations from individuals, Kebele (the anarchist community centre) or local markets. We had a kids area, with masses of sofa cushions and rugs, where kids could have their hair braided and their faces painted, or just play giant snakes and ladders. We had a free shop which was a massive success - people donated books, computer games, clothes and even a TV, and members of the public browsed, donated and took what they want.
The entertainment was provided by a drum circle (with instruments made of household rubbish) and by subverting the cheery sounds of a brass band by singing anti-consumerist lyrics over traditional Christmas Carols. The Carol Singing was such a success, in fact, that we ended up with a group of 30 singers wandering around indoor shopping centres, singing, distributing leaflets and (eventually) getting ejected by security.
A video of the event can be seen at: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/11/328594.html
Buy Nothing Day was a success last year, a massive success this year, and it seems like it is just going to keep on growing! Thank you for all the ideas and inspiration.
In solidarity, Ben Watson, Bristol Uni People and Planet

Taipei, Taiwan

Once again the amorphous group BND Friends formed with old and new faces, and put on quite a show this year on the sidewalk in front of SOGO shopping mall in the upscale east district of Taipei. Rather than taking the route of former years (asking for permission to use public park space), this year (2005, our fifth year) we did something bolder and different. This year sparked the beginnings of a much-needed debate on public space, between BND Friends and the Private Sector, ie, SOGO.
Peter BND Friends - Taiwan

Anchorage, Alaska

This Buy Nothing Day a few friends and anyone we could muster met up at our local mall for a protest. The minute we stepped inside we were watched like hawks by the security guards, so we consented to stay outside. We braved the 10 degree weather for around three hours, passing out handbills and talking to people. A few of us took some fliers and put them on all the windshields on the block. There was free food while it lasted, and we all regreted that we didn't have a way of heating anything up. About halfway through the protest, someone began to sing some Buy Nothing Day carols and a local news station showed up, cheerfully saying "they won't let us film inside, so we'd rather do a story on you guys!" We also handed out the t-shirts we had, reading "I'm a consumer whore!" "And how!" and hand made earrings as free gifts. There were those who couldn't fathom not buying anything, and then there were those who were very receptive. Some went into the mall and came back out minutes later and happily exclaimed "I didn't buy anything!"
All in all, no appendages were lost to frostbite, and it was a small, but successful Buy Nothing Day in Anchorage!
Thanks Adbusters! Jodie Banks, Rebecca Barker, Nick Pullen, Amber Finstad, Alicia Auleta, and Tony Glavinic.

Code Pink Pittsburgh
Photo: Philomena Odea
Francine PorterCodepink Pittsburgh

Ann Arbor, MI
I teach a basic government class at a community college in Ann Arbor, Michigan. For extra credit, I asked the class to research and participate in "Buy Nothing Day". At our last class before Thanksgiving break, some of them mentioned that they researched BND (and bless their hearts, had dutifully printed out part of the Adbusters website). This led to a nice discussion on the materialism/consumerism of our society. Next semester, I am going to try to weave in some sort of lesson on consumerism and politics. The way I look at it, if even one of them stops and thinks about the rampant materialism that plagues us today, then it will have been worth it!
Thanks, Patti Smith Ann Arbor, MI

Glasgow, UK

We had a great buy nothing day here in Glasgow. We prepared a press release and tried to get the local media interested but to no avail. We also prepared a very simple website. A few posters suddenly popped up in town also.
The Critical Mass bike ride on the Friday was tied in to BND and there was free food and films at the Saorsa Social Centre afterwards. On the day our swop-shop and info stall went down a storm. So did the Clown Medics (a.k.a Retail Therapists). See this link for more info on this aspect: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/11/328657.html
We handed out leaflets and tried to engage with as many people as possible. People were very receptive to the ideas behind the day so it was all worthwhile.
Here’s to a buy-nothing Christmas and an anti-capitalist New Year to all at Adbusters!
Bye for nowPTM.

Hamilton,ON,Canada: BND in Walmart

We hit up our local walmart mall for buy nothing day. Remarkably we put up signs handed out cards and were quite loud about the cause and we were not removed from the property at all. Everyone was quite receptive to us.
-Cathy

Japan

* KYOTO: a kimono clad Zenta Claus meditated in front of a department store while elves passed out Buy Nothing soup.
* NAGANO: a teach-in made the connection between African poverty and Japanese overconsumption.
* OSAKA: 30 haves and have-nots gathered in a homeless neighborhood to feast, talk and feel the cold wind blowing at Japan's aging day-laborers. "We built Kansai airport, middle class apartments, office towers, but we're denied even our right to pitch a tent..."
* TOKYO: lazy was the word- with several events organized by the Sloth Club and a lazy food night at a radical bookshop. "Laziness is an act of slowing-down the high metabolism that eats up the World."
Gabi Hadl Buy Nothing Day Japan Networker
Pictures>> More info>>

Finland
Photo: Hanna Oksanen
I'm writing to inform you about this years BND here in Finland. The general picture is that things went well - even better that we expected. We have had BND's in our country already since 1993, and this was the biggest and broadest campaign ever.
Our national theme was "make and consume culture" by which we tried to encourage people to get their aesthetic experiences and identity building material from cultural experiences rather than of shopping. Our message was that borrowing a book from library or going to a small theatre doesn't harm environment in the same way that constant buying does. In addition, free artists often picture more realistically our contemporary life that the adverts do, so culture is also healthy for our brain and soul. The third "pro" of the theme was that it allowed us to invite museums, theatres and other cultural institutions + artists to participate.
Kind regards, annukkaBND CoordinatorFinland
more pictures >>

Knowmore in Providence, RI

It was a successful Buy Nothing Day for the Knowmore.org crew. Knowmore is a corporate watch search engine where people can enter the name of any product, brand or company and get the full wrap sheet on their history. We rate every company on workers rights, human rights, environmental concern, fair trade, business ethics and political influence & litigation, and encourage people to vote with their dollar. We had one crew in Providence RI causing a big disturbance at the Providence Place Mall... we started the day out in front of the mall in the street, where bad santa smoked cigars, looked bloated and swung his whip around, yelling at shoppers to hurry up and get in the mall because the war wasnt going to pay for itself... santa also had a little sweatshop elf running around passing out BND flyers, but the sweat shop elf never seemed to work fast enough...
pictures of providence action>>

Bristol, UK

hiya! for the second year, we celebrated buy nothing day in the heart of broadmead, the shopping area in the centre of bristol, england. A lot of people turned up, we had a free shop, a kids area, lots of information. we were giving away free food, and jamming very happily and loudly with instruments made of recycled stuff... A part of the group went into The Galleries, the shopping centre and sung altered anti-consumerist christmas carols.
cheers! ana photos >> more photos >> video clip >>

Reverend Billy Blesses New York

Buy Nothing Day in New York City saw the notorious and irrepressible Reverend Billy and his Stop Shopping Gospel Choir entertain the crowds in Times Square.
>> Take a gander at videos, stories and pics of the Times Square festivities.
>> Find out everything you ever wanted to know about the good reverend at RevBilly.com.

Montreal, Canada: American Apparel's Attempt to Infiltrate Activist Group Fails
The Plan
This Buy Nothing Day, Optative Theatrical Laboratories had planned a video shoot inside American Apparel to show patrons in the store what the company is really all about.
What Happened
On the morning of Buy Nothing Day we get a few calls from people who heard about us through the Adbusters website and various other postings.
We explain the jam and everyone has their input. Then, we finish up planning and get into places. When we arrive at the store, we find out that one of our players from that morning was an undercover American Apparel security agent...
Watch the videos and read more at: Optative Theatrical Laboratories.

Falmouth, UK

We are an organisation based in Falmouth in Cornwall, UK set up to raise awareness and promote debate through our website about sustainable issues including over-consumption, controlling waste and the environment. On Buy Nothing Day we covered the town with plastic bags (as a symbol of consumer waste) and created a path towards our stall in the centre of town (they were picked up at the end of the day). Along with posters giving people questions they should be asking themselves when buying anything. At the stall we were dressed in suits and ties to look as if we were seriously selling something and proceeded to sell people absolutely nothing. When we offered "Huge discounts on nothing", "Nothing in a bag" and "Two nothings for the price of nothing" we were met by some odd looks and responses of "Sorry I don't want that" (which they didn't realise was exactly what we wanted them to be saying!) Those people who were interested in our cause, of which there were plenty, were given a message of responsible consumption and thinking before you buy, as well as offering them flyers (on recycled paper) giving suggestions of what you could do instead of buying. Go to our website at www.minusequalsplus.org to see more. Thanks to Buy Nothing Day we like to think we brought a bit of ethical mindedness to our corner of the world. The -=+ Crew

Superior WI: WalMart Display

Y'know, it's amazing how most people just walk on by like being stuck in overdrive in a tunnel. All serious and determined in their faces. It's an experience of invisibility as people walk past your sign, your prank or display, even your outstretched hand that offers a pamphlet. Of course there are exceptions like the little old man who stopped his car in the driving lane, got out of it and stamped to the sidewalk with a speech about being ungrateful and unpatriotic and you should be ashamed. Yes, I said, I feel ashamed to be a representative of white america on Turtle Island... to be part of a culture run amuck... to be in a civilization that refuses to end its sociopathic destruction... to be standing here afraid that you might smack me for standing here pointing my finger at something that needs attention... ...all while the divine traffic backs up behind the car stop ped in the roadway.

Ideas for a Better Planet
• SUV's are now considered buses; people driving them must pull over to bus stops and give others a ride.
• All assault weapons are hereby banned; the waiting permit for a handgun is now a lifetime.
• All standardized testing, including SAT's, will no longer be used in schools. Instead, students will be graded on critical thinking and innovative ideas.
• The tax on junk food should be 100% with the proceeds funding universal health care.
• If the company you work for doesn't pay you enough to live, it must supply you with free housing to make up for it.

Larry, thegospelaccordingtolarry.com

Forget about the Bill of Rights - we the People have been sold a Bill of Goods!
The government and the media have been trying to scare us out of our wits for years – and guess what? It's working! We're duct-taping our windows, running off to war, assuming that fear and violence is the de facto state of the world. But it doesn't have to be that way.
I swear, if I have to listen to another politician say that our country's greatest natural resource is our children, I'm going to PUKE. 'Leave no child behind'? Has anyone taken that lame political jingle and compared it to the statistics on education, child poverty, and gun violence? Hel-lo?
If you listen to politicians' words, kids are important; if you pay attention to their(ACTIONS, we) 're not. Why can't they just admit the only resource they're concerned with is the amount of money our corporations rake in or our never-ending quest for world domination? I wish they'd just SAY it so we can finally stop hoping they're going to DO something about it.
Better yet – what are YOU, yeah YOU - doing about it? Are you going to peace marches? Calling your Congressperson and Senator? Are you working for campaign finance reform so we can stop this nonsense from the ground up?
You want things to be different – YOU make them different.
You want things to be better – YOU make them better.
I certainly don't have all the answers but here are some things I'd do if I could get elected:
• Not one soldier goes to war unless every Senator and Congressperson sends a family member to the front lines first.
• For every sky-is-falling, world-is-going-to-end story on the news, the next story must be life-affirming and positive. Balance reporting to keep us balanced.
• For every dollar spent on punishing criminals, another dollar will be spent on preventing crime with youth programs, education, and training.
Vote for me, vote for somebody else, but just vote!

well its after christmas. a new year! time to try to be a better person. that has never seemed right to me! you can be a crappy person, up until january where u make a bunch of promises, keep them for a week and then go back to your regular jackass self!

Prozac Nation (2001)

Directed byErik SkjoldbjærgWriting credits (WGA) Elizabeth Wurtzel (book)Galt Niederhoffer (adaptation) (more)

well, im 20!!!!!!!!!! yea!!!!!!!!!! things have been bitter sweet. I'm getting a free thrip to europe in June which kicks MAYJOR ass. But my depression is back. i went to theropy for two years and i finally thought i was getting better, but.......
i don't know whats wrong. Some times i fell.....Dead.
(If you've ever read or seen Prozac Nation you'll know this quote.)
"...'till one day you wake up afraid your going to live." thats how i feel. I started burning myself again. I did it at work this last time. i talked to Z, he was helpful, of course.
there is other person i talk to, he has the same name, he had a different way of dealing with me and my problem. (we'll call him Z2) He yelled at me and told me i was stupid for burning myself, i needed pro help, and Z should have told me the same. thier both right i guess, i don't know.....

happy happy b-day!

4 days till my 1/2 way to 40 b-day! happy b-day to me!!

Megan Williams: Cheers are supposed to be simple, make people feel good. Graham Eaton: Cheers make girls do stupid cartwheels. Orgasms make people feel good.

We knew the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love, and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.

I baked a pie full of rat poision. I though I could eat it, you know, without being suspicious. My nana, who is 86... [starts to break down] she really likes sweets. She had three pieces.

What I heard then was the melody of children at play. Nothing but that. And I knew that the hopelessly poignant thing was not Lolita's absence from my side, but the absence of her voice from that chorus.

Lo, plain Lo in the morning, standing four-feet-ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks... Dolly at school... Dolores on the dotted line. In my arms, she was always Lolita. Light of my life. Fire of my loins. My sin. My soul. Lo-lee-ta.

I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth. She was only the dead-leaf echo of the nymphet from long ago -- but I loved her, this Lolita, pale and polluted and big with another man's child. She could fade and wither -- I didn't care. I would still go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of her face.

A normal man, given a group photograph of school girls and asked to point out the loveliest one, will not necessarily choose the nymphet among them.

the Libson letter


In this dark, there will be light

will you help us?

Tim Winer

The feeling, was akin to unearthing the anklet of some poor smothered girl in Pompeii
She had just put it on, and was dandling it before the window, admiring how the jewels glittered,
when they suddenlylit up red with the volcano's eruption.

Virgin Suicide
What was that she cried?
No use in stayin'
On this Holicaust ride
She gave me her cherry
She's my virgin suicide

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get out there and get noticed. You also have
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helps me to express feelings and dreams that I
can't say to people, is through my writting.
Maybe you should try.

You're a sexy girl! You are beautiful, and you
love attention from guys, and are very
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Why Charlie's better than Harry for kids (USA TODAY)

Harry Potter' Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince sold 6.9 million books in the first 24 hours. Even with discounts up to 50% off the $29.99 cover price, the take was over $100 million.
•Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was seen by over 9 million kids and grown-ups. With a national average movie ticket price of $6.21, the weekend take was $56.2 million.
Four of Rachel's and my six children are ages 7-14. Some of their reactions and mine to the two attractions:

Karina, 8: "Wow, he (Charlie) won the whole chocolate factory because he was the best kid with the nicest family. I wish we still had grandparents who could live in our house like his did."

Alexis, 14, was more interested in chocolate factory owner Willy Wonka, played by Johnny Depp, whom she adores "even though he looks a little like Michael Jackson."

The weekend highlight for Alexis was the midnight bash Friday at the local bookstore. That was one of over 5,000 such Harry Potter parties in all 50 states.

But this week I've noticed few pages turned in her Potter book. That's fine with me. I've read all 652 pages of my copy. Conclusion: This book is not really for kids. Too much grown-up sex, sin and death replace the youthful charm and intrigue of the earlier Potters.

So, if your children want to see Charlie twice rather than read Harry once, take them. Buy them an extra chocolate for their good taste.

little black book

late nights, heartaches
too mny tears, lots of fears
here today and gone tomarrow
what can i say, too much sorrow.
out all night, always a fight
hours long chats, the truth from matt.