albert walker

"How low do you have to stoop in this country to be President?" - Hunter S. Thompson

@thebalamacab @n0covercharge @leeartr Good to hear. Stoked to hear some new zones from ya.

@n0covercharge @leeartr no, people just don't pay attention lol. thank u! i'm coming back slowly. a late bloomer. also - life is finally kinda okay and has been for a while

There's probably like a plethora of millennial indie band/bedroom pop artists who were just totally obliterated by the opioid epidemic and then forgotten forever

@WestLoopTom Terrible pot laws in Wisconsin. Insanely terrible pot laws in Indiana.

To the people who drive over the Illinois border to Wisconsin or Indiana for cheaper gas or cigarettes what’s stopping you from living there? I’ll hang up and listen for my answer.

@JesusHSchvice Gave the 12 yr old the importance of Big Star lecture on the way to volleyball tournaments last weekend. For some reason they aren’t teaching this in school.

@cametoplaywith @saddles44 I live in chicago so I’ve been able to comfortably vote my conscience my entire life. Never mattered. At the time I couldn’t support continuation of the Biden era blind military support. But ya the Kushner/ Trump era turned out to be worse than I could imagine for the region.

@Walker_Albert @saddles44 All good. But the whole Harris thing is an example of how antizionism is a western movement. If it was about Palestinians, keeping Trump out of office would be paramount to anything else. But most of all, good decent kind people should be able to agree to disagree. It’s healthy

A brief Jew post between jambanding I probably know at least 20 Jews who go to a lot of Goose shows and almost all are liberal zionists. Maybe 1 or 2 “nonzionist”. Not a single one is antizionist or MAGA. The liberal Zionist position is by FAR the best for Palestinians.

@cametoplaywith @saddles44 didn’t vote Harris for many reasons including support of arming Israel. never voted cuz they’re all clowns. I’m more of an anarchist lefty I guess. Ha. Needs to all be torn down. But it’s true anything near center can wrongly appear right to me. I don’t hate tho. Just argue. Ha

@Walker_Albert @saddles44 Try to be less binary. You’re spitting out silly things like I’m a right winger. I’m a US citizen who voted Harris and plan on never leaving the country. I’ve never voted for a republican in my life. Liberal Zionism is real. We’re literally being othered for “thought crimes”

@cametoplaywith @saddles44 I’m sure. got a handful of Zionist friends in the states and Israel I occasionally scrap with but it is such a deep morphing evolving history. I learn more from listening to opposing opinions than an echo chamber. just want my and everyone’s kids to inherit a less aggro world

@Walker_Albert @saddles44 We probably agree on more than we disagree but we’re just talking past each other. It’s impossible to unpack this on twitter. The far right considers us dysgenic lizard people who control the world and the far left sees us as white colonizers with no Levant attachment 🤷

@CBTamis @TMay35 Especially pre 94. midwestern kids pulled in after the bonkers summer and fall college tours through the Midwest.

@Walker_Albert @TMay35 Early 90’s Phish was >80% New England boarding school types. Lotta Choate, lotta St George’s, lotta Loomis, lotta Holderness. Not as much Pomfret or Millbrook.

One thing that amazes me about Phish is that each era has a truly insufferable part of the fanbase. 1.0 - OG Wooks/Tour Kids 2.0 - I’ve seen Phish 50 times. They suck and will never be the Dead Fan. 3.0 - Phish was better in 90’s Fan. 4.0 - Content Creater/Rage Bait Fan.

@ranoverray @TMay35 I mean world music not alpine . Antelope show

@ranoverray @TMay35 He’ll ya. Murat and alpine 93 were my first shows. Chicago kid.

@cametoplaywith @saddles44 Ha. entire post is straight right wing weirdness. Kinda proved my point that “liberal” Zionists don’t really exist. Liberals don’t resort to using “woke” and “race” to defend their positions. Noone here talking bout whiteness but you. Bizarre. Peace homie. Appreciate the chat

@Walker_Albert @saddles44 You are literally talking to someone who knows 100x more than you on this. You know nothing about Israel’s formation. And you are completely missing my point. I know “Woke” means you don’t have to respect any of the expertise of white people. You just lecture. I’m used to it

@ranoverray @TMay35 Agreed. Seeing em in a tiny 2k theater summer 94 on a Wednesday night in the Midwest everyone there was there to hear every note. Tight as fuck. Shreddy ass phish will always be my band

@Walker_Albert @TMay35 93-96 they still felt like a magical secret . Theatre shows and not much nitrous compared to today. No smartphones, Made friends and shared setlists.

@cametoplaywith @saddles44 Me and homies are 💯 left of you but not brain washed or misinformed or falling for propaganda we just have different thoughts on how Israel’s behavior and inability to check its more fringe fascist elements shoujd be judged. As an American I’m just not comfortable paying for it

@Walker_Albert @saddles44 there is no such thing as "modern zionism". Israel has existed for 80 years. You either want the Jewish state dismantled (delusional in practice) or you don't. You've bit on the "free Palestine" western narrative. Which has nothing to do with helping Palestinians.

@cametoplaywith @saddles44 At least with modern Zionism they aren’t playing victim. They are comfortable admitting they are an offensive aggressive nation actively sponsoring settlement building illegally on stolen land. It’s better than pretending otherwise like they did previously. They openly jail kids

@Walker_Albert @saddles44 The binary parry would be FAFO. if you turn down a state to start a 2nd intifada where you regularly suicide bomb civilian buses, there will be consequences. Who on earth other than Israel is expected to allow this? The real truth is complicated and culpability is shared.

@TMay35 @Nonagonb741 Those we’ve got a few we hang in rotation

@Walker_Albert @Nonagonb741 Posters too. I was responsible enough to get the home back then.

@cametoplaywith @saddles44 So they should be allowed to continue to build on land that’s not theirs? For me this is where it turns weird and dark and clashing with my beliefs as a human. Why my Jewish hippy friends are not Zionists. They don’t subscribe to FAFO. Don’t agree with military occupation.

@TMay35 @Nonagonb741 Living good will do that. Ha. None of my original shirts survived. Wish I bought a few ave just stashed em

@Nonagonb741 @Walker_Albert That’s awesome. I still have a summer tour 1996 tshirt that I wear every now and then, but it’s actually too big now. Freshman 15 is a real phenomenon. This is me circa 2001. Wearing a Big Cypress shirt.

@cametoplaywith @saddles44 I would say the entire state sponsored checkpoint system is not a good look and goes far beyond just the Hilltoppers. Also the military basically allowing the behavior and often partaking. It’s insane imo

@saddles44 @Walker_Albert I think Jewish Terrorism is a more accurate descriptor. There is nothing Israeli about it. It’s being committed by these crazy hilltop youth who think they’re biblically entitled to erect illegal outposts and violently steal land. It’s a bastardized form of Judaism.

@Nonagonb741 @TMay35 In way too many shows that Hershey is an all timer for me. Love that one. Wilson Jam Reba. First set is bonkers. Overnight drive straight in from creek. Clsssic run

@Walker_Albert @TMay35 yeah. picked that shirt up at the hershey show. it was only my 3rd show. Bruce hornsbys brother Bobby drove me and his son (Bruces nephew) up to it. Bobby wanted to be on the road with some heads again like his old dead days.

@Nonagonb741 @TMay35 Nice. Youngin catching shows. With the classic logo T. Sick

@TMay35 @Walker_Albert 96 me with a summer 96 tour t. i was 17.