Review of "The Slide" by Kyle Beachy

For those of you who haven't read 'The Slide' by Kyle Beachy yet, pick it up soon.

I've known Kyle since he was a smart-ass, privileged, little freshman in high school, and since then, I've always wondered what he would amount to. It was all worth it. Published by The Dial Press, 'The Slide' takes me back to our early adulthood where that nagging question keeps beating you up through your post-graduation (still living with the folks) transition, 'Yeah, this is fun, but now what the fuck am I supposed to do with the rest of my life?' His writing is introverted to the nth power (rather, 'ntroverted') due to excessive word usage and attention to detail (especially his own obsessive quest for Truth and/or a good reason for living) and he uses so many references to real-life anecdotes, I kept feeling like I was more or less reading his diary.

Penned as fiction, yet set against the backdrop of real-time St. Louis, the story reads well, especially to any post-college child (or parent) of the eighties who wold get the inside jokes, midwest dialectic word play and constant major league baseball references. I got chills, I cried here and there, and by the end of the story, I was satisfied.

Well done Kyle. Keep 'em coming.

Casting Couch by J-Toth (1st verse and beat) and Helias (2nd verse and scratches)

[TOTH]
Ever since she was in high school, she made the
guys drool, laid the pipe cool, gave a
nice jewel, and was accustomed to custom
equipping your whip, by sucking the right fuel.

She was nice too, it shined right through,
but she doubted her power to shine true,
every hour she showered her flower with
fine fumes, cause who’d allow her a ripe womb?

Head shots, they want head shots, just a
couple of meaningless head shots. Yeah but
what if their meaning of head shots, is a-
kin to you cleaning their head off? To

bed, or to bed not…the
question gets deeper than bed rock, but when
heads rock, only according to who gives the
best jaw, do you get on, or do you get off?

[BREAK-from “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”]
Do you think she’s talented? Deeply and importantly talented?
No. Amusingly and superficially talented yes, but deeply and importantly, no.

[HELIAS]
It’s the inverse of personal, she’s all work with a murder feel, the hurt she used to feel finally shriveled up and died, behind those great white shark eyes is a re-
flection of my own avarice, only amplified.

She plays games that people play that don’t play games for fun, and likes to drop my name, case my name weighs a ton.
Zanax keeps her dead inside, cocaine brings her back to life, a zomie wandering the party, acting extra nice.

She’ll get jobs, with those headshots, with-
out ‘em, she’s deader than hemlock, that’s
why she plays up that sexpot persona,
sex sells, and sex bought her that Porche,

Upper echelon, a step beyond a gamer, she
leaves me for someone up the food chain, I can’t blame her,
she knows I got a knack for this casting couch magic trick,
actresses doing back flips off of my mattresses…

[BREAK-from “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”]
Gracious! Do you think she’s handsomely paid?
…Hmmm?




***FROM THE UPCOMING ALBUM***
“Cinewax” by Jonathan Toth from Hoth and Helias


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What if God was one of us?

F Posterity .76 "Just Be Happy" (Frustrated Conversations with God)

God asked me once, YOU WANT PARADISE?
I said, sure...but just to clarify,
what's the catch? Come on God throw it at me.
THREE WORDS, ONE ACTION: JUST BE HAPPY.

What do mean, regardless of the price?
YOU'VE ALREADY PAID WITH YOUR LIFE...Right, but
how can we be happy with all the bullshit?
BULLSHIT EXISTS, IT'S STILL YOUR CHOICE TO LIVE, KID.

Oh...it's that simple...like
popping a pimple...YOU KNOW YOU LIKE IT...like
dropping a thimble full of LSD for one
swell-ass week? MORE LIKE PERMANENTLY.

Just be happy amidst such foul play, on a
planet where some 'civilized' nations now claim, that
winning at any-and-all-costs is a proud aim, whether
genocide, torture or some economic bowel pain?

JUST BE HAPPY. Like that, no room for argument?
WE CAN ARGUE, I KNOW YOU LIKE TO SPAR A BIT.
No! I want to be happy! GOT'CHA! THEN PROVE IT.
Fine, how must I come to it? JUST DO IT.

God! You're so cliche'! WELL THERE'S A REASON WHY,
SO CLICHE' MEANS MOST SAW THE WHOLE REPLAY, AND
NOW IT'S COMMON KNOWLEDGE LIKE 'HE SAY, SO SHE SAY,'
but what's that got to do with the price of cold DJs?

IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE DJ, WHAT DO YOU DO? I
bitch and I moan 'til the tracks come through.
EXACTLY...what do mean exactly?
YOU DID JUST WHAT YOU NEEDED TO BE HAPPY.

But I want change! ALRIGHT, I'LL GIVE YOU CHANGE.
Cool! GIVE ME TWENTY BUCKS...no dude...
change my life! LIKE WHAT? Like where I'm stuck, like…
give me peace of mind. ALRIGHT, BUT NOW YOU HAVE TO GIVE A FUCK.

I want love and I want wealth,
I want drugs and I want health,
ALRIGHT, YOU WANT THEM…no, you literalist,
I CAN GIVE IT TO YOU, BUT WHAT YOU GON' DO WITH IT?

I'd be happy. GREAT, IT'S YOUR'S. I want more! THEN GO
GET IT. No! Just give me! I'M ALWAYS GIVING IT FREELY
Well, why can't I get it? YOU CAN, (AND ARE) YOU'RE STILL HEALING. From
what? FROM BLAMING YOURSELF AND ME FOR YOUR NEEDING.

What's that supposed to mean? LOOK, YOU'RE HURTING. SOME-
WHERE ALONG THE LINE, YOU STRAYED AND STARTED SWERVING, AND
WHEREAS YOU MAKE THE CLAIM, YOU'VE SINNED AND AREN'T WORTHY,
I CONSIDER ALL THOSE 'LESS THAN PERFECT' MOVES 'LEARNING.'

Who hasn't messed up? YES I CONCUR,
and who hasn't cursed you God? FOR SURE. I
wish I wouldn't have done a lot of things that I did, but
how am I supposed to be rid of 'em. JUST FORGIVE.

FORGIVE YOU, THEN FORGIVE MOM, THEN
FORGIVE YOUR LOVER, YOUR BROTHERS AND YOUR DOG,
FORGIVE THE WEAK, THE MEAN AND EVEN THE STRONG, THEN
ONCE YOU'RE CLEAN WITH EVERYONE, FORGIVE GOD.

You? Forgive you God? Oh come on…
you're the sun and the stars and everything beyond.
What kind of audacity could I have with me to pawn...BE-
CAUSE, I MADE EVERYTHING, THAT INCLUDES RIGHT AND WRONG,

UNTIL YOU REALIZE THERE'S NEITHER, THERE'S JUST ETHER.
ONLY THINKING MAKES IT EITHER...TRUST ME SIR.
FORGIVE IT ALL BECAUSE THERE'S NOTHING TO FORGIVE,
ALL YOU'RE DOING IS USING YOUR WITS TO FOLLOW YOUR BLISS.

AND ALL OF THIS IS FOR THE GOOD OF ALL, NOT THE
GOOD OPPOSITE OF EVIL, BUT WHAT WOULD BEFALL,
ALL LIFE AS IT EVOLVES, FROM YOUR FIRST CRAWL,
TO YOUR FIRST PLAY WITH A BALL, TO YOUR FIRST DAY AT THE MALL.

So this is entertainment to you? IT'S ONLY LOVE,
HOLY LOVE, SOLELY LOVE, but I'm so lonely Love,
YOU'RE NEVER ALONE, YOU'RE FOREVER MY ONE AND ONLY LOVE,
well, I wish you would make it easier...OH JUST SHUT UP!

What?

JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP AND BE HAPPY!
JESUS, YOU FUCKING PEOPLE…GOD DAMN ME!

originally from myspace.com/jonathantothfromhoth

December 30, 2008

The Most Important Election of our Lives (from 10/2008 on myspace.com/jonathantothfromhoth)

The Most Important Election of our Lives
Category: News and Politics

Why?

This is the older generation's last stand. Obama represents change, McCain, more of the same. There is a reason the economy is collapsing, and it's because we've been given nothing more than...the same...for many years now. I'm tired of "the same." It's going to get even worse before it gets better, but that's because we've been in denial for so long. Here's another interesting note that the fundamentalist Christians have been misinterpreting: The Book of Revelations in the Bible speaks of an age where we shall experience, "end of the world," which may be a shortening of the phrase apokalupsis eschaton which literally means "revelation at the end of the æon, or age". Hardcore Christians see this as an actual "end" of humankind, whereas it makes more sense to see it as the end of living in denial or that which does not work.

How do we get ourselves out of this mess? END CREDIT, and FORGIVE ALL DEBTS. This will balance out money again as it should be balanced. Work and/or exchange goods for MONEY, NOT CREDIT. It goes along with that old logic of: Since I owe you, and you owe them, and they owe me, if we each pay each other we'll end up even anyways, so let's skip that step, forgive the debt and begin anew. Kill the DEMON through forgiveness. It was an optimistic idea, but we've proved that we slack when we don't have to work for our cash. Who did Jesus whip out of the temple? The money lenders and the gamblers. ...Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors... [Lord's Prayer, King James Bible]

...just an idea i caught floating around in my head.

Several scenarios that will enable Barack Obama to become President of the United States (from 2/2/2008 on myspace.com/jonathantothfromhoth)

Saturday, February 02, 2008

Several scenarios that will enable Barack Obama to become President of the United States. Category: News and Politics 1. The Jesse Ventura Effect: When Jesse "The Body" Ventura, former pro wrestler, was voted Governor of Minnesota, America witnessed the phenomenon of what happens when pop culture capital turns into political culture capital, due to the (primarily) white men who voted him in. When white men see something cool, they pay attention, and there's a lot of them out there. 2. White America's Love of Black Music: Since the birth of American music, black men have found the ways to make it look, sound and feel the coolest. If 80% of rap is bought by white people and 80% of them are white men, there is an amazing power to be had in being that black man who was cool enough to be voted in as the first Black President. 3. The Oedipus Rex Complex: Every new generation of white males has a broadening history of doing exactly what their fathers tell them not to do. For some white fathers, hearing that their son voted for a black president could be enough to kill them, and that's a motive. 4. Barack Obama as our President: He's inspiring and has a powerful way of grabbing your attention. He's good looking and funny. When viewing all of the candidates photos on the same page, he stands out as the holder of the most culture capital out of everyone. He has that feel of what you know deep down you should vote for, if it weren't for X,Y and Z, blah, blah, blah, blah... If the younger white generations of men decide to vote this year, Barack Obama will be President.