In honor of Memorial Day…

I am going to get fucking drunk & listen to punk rock records to a point where I won’t remember Memorial Day… thank you for believing you are defending my right to do so if it makes you feel good about your participation in the race for the last of the precious resources… with that said I want our leaders to pick up the guns & fight this fight them selves, they are the ones who benefit from the victories… fuck war, let’s fuck instead. I think my cock could solve the problems of the world if I was only given the chance to have sex with one of every kind of person on the globe. It would be like Noah’s Ark but with breasts, butts, forward butts…etc

- Karl Bakla

too drunk...

I’ve been rereading old punk zines lately, fuck it is such a blast to read our history as it happened, it’s a shame a lot of this stuff isn’t in books or on some fancy website for young punks to read. I have a fairly large zine library & I know I can’t reread them all but I will try to read all of the Las Vegas zines, earlier Maximum Rock “n Roll & Flipside issues. You do see a lot of nostalgia over punk 77 or hard core 81 but I have some what later less popular shit from the late 80’s up to the punk 90’s revival period & up until now. With that said fuck punk 77 & hard core 81 is great except when those dinosaurs claim it died with them, fuck them! Right now I’m reading old issues of Probe, one of the greatest zines of all time too bad Aaron Probe didn’t keep it going, he had a way with words that made you feel like you knew him & that you were his buddy! Bethany & I have both written him in the past & he was cool as fuck!

Da’ play list

Wolfbrigade –Wolfpack Years 10”
Scared Straight – Born To Be Wild 7”
Shark Attack – Blood In The Water 7”
Shitgiveit’s – American Way 7”
Sound Like shit – Once Upon The Metal 7”
Spazm 151 – Power Songs For The Kids 7”
Storm The Tower 4 song 7”
Straight To Hell - 7 song 7”
Street Trash – 6 song 7”
Strife – My Fire Burns On 7”
I Accuse! – 8 song 7”
Ignite – Call On My Brothers LP
Artless – Beer Is Better… 7” one of the best punk records of all time!
Cringer – Time for A Little Something… 7”
Cringer – Karin 7”
Cringer – Live In Europe 7”
Cringer – Perversion Is Their Destiny 7”
Ringworm / Terror – split 7”
Ten Yard Fight – Demo 1995 7”
Joyride – She’s A Rebel 7”
Lincoln – 4 song 7”
Clairmel – Dust Doesn’t Lie 7”
Clairmel / Cease - split 7”
Less Than Jake / J Church – split 7”

....way too drunk to keep track on anything.....

As I listen to records I wonder why so many people as they “grow up” & get older throw music to the side & trade it in for TV, power tools, conservatism, sports ...etc. For fuck sake when you listen to music you can read a book, draw, paint, cook, clean, organize, write, exercise, dance, & think… music is awesome because you can do something else while enjoying it, you can throw on some New Order & fuck your man as fast as you can.

As for fucking fast or pumping fast I got a serious case of whiskey dick the other night, I had a rock hard boner & I just couldn’t cum as much as it fucking felt good. I tired to pump & pump & pump as fast as I could, as the excitement of menstruation splashed all over my beer belly I just couldn’t cum, what the fuck?

I’m sure the problem arose because earlier in the day I had beaten off twice to a DVD of some guy fucking some guy who likes my art work while he’s fucking his wife. The DVD is kind of gross but it turned me on that he liked my paintings, I thought about giving the DVD to Danny Hatefuck but then I thought “maybe this DVD isn’t meant for everyone to see” Mayor Oscar Goodman what the hell are you doing with that cock in your ass? No, it wasn’t him but I sure as fuck would have loved to see that.

Bethany’s birthday is coming up & I’d like to share with her that I love her, but I can’t think of any way of doing it besides saying “I love you”. I don’t know, I know no other way than being straight forward. I’m told I’m creative but I can’t think of a creative way of expressing this besides “you’re cool, I’m cool, lets fuck!”. I feel like I should buy her something but that seems so fake, maybe if she hates someone I will kill them for her, I think that is what I would like someone to do for me… Presents are so lame, but I know people like them…. I’m so torn between my anti social world that is so far removed from everyone else & the world where people enjoy presents. I don’t know what to do. I walked into Target yesterday to buy my daughter some stuff & I just about freaked out, I haven’t been in a place like that in a long time, I wanted to run & hide away from everyone… Why isn’t being honest with someone & saying “I love you, I’m glad to spend every year you get older with you” enough? That is how I feel… fuck, whatever… you peaked enough into my world…

Wow, I am off my fucking rocker right now, but I guess than happens when you drink 6 beers & chase each beer with 2 shots… fuck it!

- Karl Bakla

PS. If you have extra records especially punk / hard core lying around send them my way… I want to hear every fucking record!

PPS. I am drunk 0ff my rocker, fuck you!

You know who should kill them selves…

People who get excited about the NFL draft.

So it’s not like it matters…

Whether or not they approve of what I do

Marquis de Sade OG Punk Rocker!

Yesterday I was told I was narcissistic, I laughed & said back “it’s not that I’m narcissistic as much as I find others so fucking repulsive”. My coworker shook his head with the feeling of assurance that that he was so fucking correct. Fuck him… today is hard core punk day @ the Bakla house… Whiskey beer, good music, art, & an amazing play list of Koval tested hard core… For some reason I’m in the mood for go fast thrash

What Happens Next? – 8 song 7”
What Happens Next? – Euro Thrash Tour 2003 7”
Tear It Up - Taking you Down With Me LP
DS 13 – For The Kids not The Business 7”
In Defense / Guns N’ Rosa Parks – split 7”
Limp Wrist – 6 song 7”
Mystic Sampler #3 – LP
DS 13 - Aborted Teen Generation 7”
DS 13 / Code 13 – (13 song) split 7”
Severed Head Of State – Fucking Butchery 7”
Victims – Divide & Conquer LP
Scholastic Deth – Killed By School 7”
Possessed To Skate – LP
Possessed To Skate vol.2 – 10”
Seein’ Red / Stack – split 7”
Scrotums / Max Ward – split 7”
Spazz / Lack Of Interest – split 7” intentionally left for last for over whelming heavy duty power violence factor! …I love this record!

(I kind of sort of accidentally drunkenly deleted some of the records I listened to or out right forgot to list them, fuck it!... the funny thing is, the ones listed are the ones heard while drunk)

Ok, Ok, it’s time to skate… I’ll probably come back covered in blood or with an even more fucked up back, but fuck it… you have one life, so you might as well live it… drinking fine (cheap) whiskey, gulping down beer, listening to great (awful) music, eating fine vegetarian cuisine, raging against the machine, saying comments about hotel customers that make coworkers think you are a narcissist, & riding your skateboard even though you are in no physical condition to do so. Tomorrow is Mexican Fiesta Night… yeah! That means a burrito!

Watched Plan 9 From Outer Space late last night, I avoided the movie for years because I was made to feel that I was suppose to like it, you know what? I liked it!

- Karl Bakla

PS. Does anyone have a spare copy of Reagan’s In by Wasted Youth they’d like to lend to me on the next record listening session?

PPS. Ok I have a crazy political flick I must watch, feel free to join ke tomorrow night if you want to hear all about it…

Women as a distraction

I fucking hate when people / friends refer to women as distractions for why they are not creating art, writing, or making music…etc. I’ve heard someone say this today & I wanted to gag, I’ve heard many friends say this to me. I always think to myself a few different things when I hear such bullshit

A) wow, you are fucking lame, what a horrible cliché you pussy whipped chump
B) yeah that sounds about right, art, music, skateboarding or whatever probably wasn’t as important to you as you claimed it to be. It’s alright just fucking admit to it.
C) Blaming your girlfriend for your short comings sounds right coming from someone like you, pathetic piece of shit… here, let me point out one of your girl friend’s short comings she is dating a guy with out balls & most probably with out a dick.
D) Maybe Art was your distraction for the in-between women time

Now don’t get me wrong I could give a shit whether someone else is creating art or whatever, I will always create enough for anyone who has a “distraction”. The thing is every time I’ve heard the “women as a distraction” term used it’s never been by someone I asked “why haven’t you been doing what you do”. I’m not stupid it’s quite apparent to me why & I honestly don’t fucking care. I just hate when someone makes up some lame ass excuse for something you didn’t even ask. This mentality goes well for you fucks who consider women a “ball & chain” or wear T-shirts with the slogan “I support single moms” featuring a silhouette of a women with a stripper pole.

When I heard someone say this today I wanted to punch them in the face & I thought of all the times I’ve heard this in my life, it makes me want to gag…

I know the usual comeback “Ok, Karl not everyone can be like you” & you are right I do what I do with a full time job, family, a girlfriend, a bum back, & a drinking problem, most who use this excuse don’t, so fuck off!


Put it this way I don’t give a fuck why you have stopped or have slowed down. Almost everyone I know has dropped out, slowed down, killed them selves, or has become a Republican… so I don’t care! If I ask please tell me, chances are I’m not interested but please come up with another excuse if I ask which I won’t. If you have ever used this lame excuse shame on you, but ultimately it just fuels my fire so go ahead… On the flipside of this, fuck everyone who says “you are lucky you have time to do art, no I’m not lucky you are just lazy!” The time you are recovering from work, watching stupid DVDs or TV I draw on the back of discarded paper, drinking whiskey, & crying…etc

I don’t care, I’m gonna get drunk & listen to DS13 records tomorrow, ride my skateboard, & draw, or write… not going to watch sports & be a spectator. Everyone at work today was excited about some stupid sports game, I felt bad that they had to have someone else make their lives seem interesting, maybe they should go out & shoot some hoops, throw a ball, or swing a bat…. Oh that’s just a dumb Karl Bakla idea. Maybe for them living is letting someone live the life they want to live. As for myself it’s much more interesting living my life whether or not it’s a successful one or not, at least it’s my own & at least I’m having fun. You can ask me about records & then I’ll pick up my guitar & sing you a song with a chorus of “fuck you”, I like music I play music, fuck you!

Just a bit off my chest, with my attention being focused on food riots, cassette tape revival, & other things I thought it’s about time to let it rip… I think I’ve been too easy on fake ass punk rockers, jockers, & fake ass artist. I’m a “fuck you” stylist!

- Karl Bakla

Just so you know…

Citizen Fish is coming to town on 6/20/08 so be there! Yeah.... with that said we missed the Los Crudos reunion in Texas, what the fuck... Leatherface, the Marked Men, & Dillinger Four were playing as well, what the fuck was I doing here? Shame on me for not getting down to the Chaos In Tejas...

- Karl Bakla

- Karl Bakla

You know? People roll their eyes at me all the time…

Fuck, I just wanted to throw this out there… I was listening to the FU’s tonight & the song Unite Or Lose came on, a great fucking song if there ever was one. I only mention this because there are so many hard core punk bands from back in the day you are told to check out & compared to the Dillinger Four album Midwestern Songs Of The Americas they sound mediocre. Sure those bands aren’t mediocre but maybe they just don’t stand the test of time or whatever, I don’t mention them by name because I am absolutely gaga over those mediocre bands, so fuck you for thinking such great bands are mediocre, fuck you, die! Where the fuck was I? Oh… the FU’s are / were a great Boston hard core punk band, so put down that latest piece of shit Fat Wreck Chords has released because when it comes down to it everyone you know including me will eventually pick it up, I’m just saying… on one of your ordering sprees order an FU’s album & give George Bush an FU by buying a FU’s record with that stimulus check, it will stimulate your penis, butt hole, & ears… fuck…. With that said, don’t think because I am talking about music I have forgotten about you Karl Rove & the rest of you mother fuckers… I also have not forgotten about the food shortages & dramatic price increases around the globe, we cry about gas prices but still we drive to work & have mobile billboards advertising some whore you can fuck, I need to hire someone to write about this shit for me… as an added bonus for those of you who hate my PC rantings the FU’s were known for their anti political stance & the Dead Milkmen referenced them in the classic tune Tiny Town! Whatever your stance on politics you can’t deny they were a great fucking hard core band, I never really had an issue with the Fu’s, but many did…

I was reading the book Ham On Rye by Charles Bukowski & there is some line in the book about not carrying about being one of the have’s & just wanting a place to hide out with food & plenty to drink… sounds nice to me, wish I remembered the exact line. I highly suggest reading this book. The people are right, probably his best book or one of them… can you believe I have read 11 Bukowski books in the past 5 months? Yeah he kicks that much ass…

Fuck, I just got back from the Steakout, sure glad there is a Steakout, fuck I am so drunk the Weakerthans sound so good to me… it’s Ok to have fun & still give a fuck…I know I can never experience the same pain but as long as there is still pain out there I will feel pain for them… fuck when I get the chance I will share my experience with the hunter that wanted me to punch him on Desert Inn… there is enough of my pain as well as others that I have run from tonight, fuck I am sooo drunk, maybe too drunk to awake tomorrow I’ll try to keep you posted…

- Karl Bakla

Ps. So how the fuck can I figure out how to get out of work & pay the bills paid?

Discover your weapon & use it the way you know how...

yes, that red shit is my blood...

- Karl Bakla

PS. Shit happens when you are drunk.....

If I write a song about you. Don't Take It As A Joke. I really hope you die!

...DIE FUCKING DIE!!!

Tomorrow is Wednesday which is the day I get drunk & usually sit on the porch, listen to records or do both. Either way I think I will wear my overalls, put on some flip flops, & drink whiskey, yeah that is what I will do, drink whiskey. Enjoy the new drawing!

- Karl Bakla