please stop acting. you used to make fantastic films. remember wild at heart, raising arizona and valley girl? those were great! hell, even the weatherman was fucking good. i really dislike you now. please don't make me hate you the way i hate tom hanks.




xo
michael james guerra

i am floating on cloud nine these past three weeks. life is good. things are good and getting better.

i love this band.

cris: "man, if i was going on as many interviews without any results as you are, i probably would just kill myself."

me: "yeah, working on that."

keith and i entered nassau coliseum to an overload of preteen and teenage girls. we could not believe it. on the way to the venue we discussed what we thought the crowd would look like and we imagined screaming gay men and women in their 20's. instead we were greeted with the mall crowd but on a level much worse than anything you have ever experienced.

once inside we beeline it to find beer ... $7 for a bottle of budweiser or bud lite. we both cave in and decide to just spend $7 on something we could actually get a six pack of for the same price. for some reason keith got ID-ed and i didn't. since keith's ID is out of state the woman asked him to show her where his birthday is listed on the ID. I laughed and quickly make my way to a men's restroom only to discover a very long line of girls waiting to step inside. luckily i found a second door to the same bathroom, i walked in and saw 10 unused urinals and a line of preteen girls waiting for the bathroom stalls and staring at me wondering "Is this the first dick I am ever going to see?" here I am, a fat dude in tight jeans, a cardigan and a Siouxsie T-shirt about to give these girls a show more exciting then the Spice Girls. so i do what any respecting man would do in the same situation. i prop my beer on the urinal and take out my dick and release the urine. the entire time i could hear the girls discussing the situation at hand. usually i would comment back letting them know that i am not in fact a deaf person, but i felt that i was already doing my part. i also wondered if i could go to jail for what i was actually doing.

eventually we sit down in our seats listening to the chatter of girls around us. i could probably write a novel on the insightful and philisophical words expelled from their mouths. instead i'll just leave it to your imagination. keith and i wondered why we didn't make t-shirts with puffy paint advertising our love for the spice girls like every other attendant there.

the show was fun. of course they opened up with "spice up your life" and kept the hits coming for most of the show. every time posh sang (and i used the term "sang" loosely when it comes to anorexia spice) the girls in the crowd screamed their heads off. i hate her. every time ginger did anything i smiled and clapped and screamed in my heart. man, i love her. the girls changed a lot. they had about ten male dancers to entertain the crowd during this periods, i felt that the dudes were not needed and actually bored me. eventually they each got their own time to shine. posh was only one who didn't sing. she walked out onstage to rupauls' "supermodel (you better work)" and treated the audience to a runway walk. how exciting. man, i fucking hate her. scary covered the lenny kravitz hit "are you gonna go my way" while climbing a ladder and whipping a dude, rubbing her crotch in his face and eventually ending the song with her face in his crotch. the girls in front of me were actually covering their eyes with their hands. baby spice did some song of her own. ginger covered "it's raining men" and ran around the stage with ten shirtless dudes who were picking her up and moving her around. it was her shout out to the gay world. i fucking love ginger. sporty (dykey) spice ended the solo exhibitions with her song "i turn to you," and i realized that scary and sporty are they only ones who can actually sing their asses off. they wrapped the show up with a "spice up your life" ending the show-remix thing. it was a nice bookend.

leaving the venue was a terrible ordeal. girls screaming, pushing a mother telling keith to "be careful of the little person" in front of him and mass hysteria at the merch booth. during this time i overheard two men who were pressed against each other trying to leave say "i'm not gonna lie, dude, but this is pretty gay" ... really? because that fucking spice girls concert you just sat through wasn't gay at all?


BUT then the best part of the night happened! while slowly pulling the car out of the parking lot i heard a noise which sounded like a thud. i glanced around and hear keith say "oh my god you clipped a little girl with the mirror!" i saw the girl and i will never forget her face for the rest of my life. her head was turned and she was holding her elbow in pain. she was looking right at me and saying "ow." the rest of her car load were just getting in the car ignoring her. so i asked keith what i should do and like any respecting man in that situation he told me to drive away. so, i drove away. all in all i felt like some young girl had to take one for the team after all the screaming, pushing and all around annoying they just put me through. wrong as it might be, that girl is completely ok. sure she might be in a little pain today, but she has the memory of the spice girls in her brain and that can heal all wounds.







i am still laughing.

i have been a man about town. today melissa called me "the king of summer" and the title is working well for me.

i am living every event, especially the free ones, in new york. so much fun to be had.










and a/c saves my life.

this shit sucks. i am on dial up and my powerbook has like less than two hours left of battery so i came on for a split second.

wilma came through and tore apart life as we know it. our home is fine. my family is fine. but fucking aye my neighborhood looks completely insane. it looks like a battle zone. this thing was only a category two. how it caused so much destruction is beyond me.

my mother and aunt are leaving florida in may. it was basically decided today. the eye past right through us so the neighborhood i live in had to deal with the eye wall and let me tell you that was some scary acts of nature.

the weather outside is beautiful.

i so wish i was not living here. i hope everyone is ok. call me if you read this.

flaunt is tomorrow night. we're doing something crazy. if you show up with ten people you get a free bottle of kettle liquor. shit should be insane.

so come out and support me. yeah, thanks.


also, this is my song of the season. sofa king good.

i had a really great weekend.

i like being happy.


now if i could only be a millionaire. and not live in florida.

every single thing i planned to do today fell apart. basically someone shit on my day. thanks.

i know i am whining but after today i can whine for the next fucking two weeks. yes, i just gave myself that permission.

fuck the wambulance.

i need other dj'ing gigs. i could be making more money off of something that i am doing quite well at right now. especially ones where people don't ask for the most random and retarded shit, but of course that happens everywhere. also, i would like a promoter that actually promotes. what a crazy notion i know.


and in even more aggravating news: i lost my modest mouse - the moon and antartica cd. you know the original pressing that you cannot buy anymore, yeah that one. someone apparently jacked it last week.


the other day carolina asked me if she complained too much, i told her i had no room to talk.

November 7th, 2004

Friends,

If there was one group who really came through on Tuesday, it was the young people of America. Their turnout was historic and record-setting. And few in the media are willing to report this fact.

Unlike 2000 when Gore and Bush almost evenly split the youth vote (Gore: 48%, Bush: 46%), this year Kerry won the youth vote in a LANDSLIDE, getting a full ten points more than Bush (Kerry: 54%, Bush: 44%).

Young people were the ONLY age group that voted for Kerry. In every other age group (30-39, 40-49, 50-59, etc.), the majority voted for Bush.

In my state of Michigan, observers noted that it was the record youth vote that helped to put Kerry over the top in the state (AP: "Young Voters Played Big Role in Kerry's Michigan Victory").

Contrary to all predictions and to tradition, MORE young adults (18-29) voted in last week's election than in any other since 18-year-olds were given the right to vote in 1972.

It was the first time that a MAJORITY of all young adults came out to the polls: 51.6%.

Young adult turnout was UP more than 9% higher than the 2000 election ("Big Voter Turnout Seen Among Young People").

4.7 million MORE young adults voted in this election than in the last one. All these numbers are likely to go up when the millions of provisional ballots (and absentee ballots) are counted later this week (it is believed that young people were among the hardest hit in being forced to vote provisionally and students away at college make up a large bulk of the absentee ballots).

Rock the Vote and MTV's "Choose or Lose" had set the seemingly unattainable goal of getting 20 million young people out to vote. In the end, nearly 21 million youth voters cast their ballots last Tuesday -- A RECORD.

From the beginning, I believed that young adults and "slackers" would rise up in this election. As we began our slacker tour in Syracuse's football stadium on September 20, we could tell that this election would be like no other. It was no longer uncool to talk politics like it was five or ten years ago. Now, you were considered a loser if you didn't know what was going on in the world.

After speaking to the 10,000 gathered in Syracuse, we went on to hold rallies in 63 cities, mostly on campuses. Every night the events were packed, with anywhere from 5,000 to 15,000 people showing up. We registered thousands to vote and got tens of thousands more to sign up to volunteer with Move On, ACT, the College Dems and other groups like Vote Mob and the League of Pissed Off Voters. We reached perhaps a half-million people in person and millions more on local TV and radio in those 63 cities (all but three of them in swing states).

To be honest, this tour was a killer and not the easiest thing to do for a guy who isn't 18-29. Two (sometimes three) cities a day for over a month, crisscrossing the country, is enough to make you want to sleep for a year. But I was deeply inspired by what I saw. The level of dedication and commitment amongst everyday, average citizens was overwhelming. Each night from the stage I could see it in people's eyes that they were not going to give up -- and they, too, would not rest until Bush was removed from the White House.

In every town, this movement was being fueled and often led by young people. I don't ever want to hear another adult talk about how apathetic the youth are or how they don't have "it" in them. What you are about to see in the coming months is going to shock you. These kids aren't going away. They have a resilience that cannot be snuffed out by older people's whining and moaning about the state of America. THEIR America has yet to be formed as they see it, and this one setback is not going to stop them.

Witness the students at Boulder High School in Boulder, Colorado on Thursday, two days after the election. These kids can't even vote yet but that was not going to get in their way of expressing their outrage over what we adults had just done. The high school students took over the school by staging a sit-in and would not leave the building. They stayed there all Thursday night. They told the media that they were protesting the election results and putting Bush on notice that there was no way they were going to allow the draft to come back. It was the most uplifting moment of the week.

In the day after the election, the pundits were spewing their hot air about how the youth vote didn't matter this year. I wonder, even though they have the same facts available to them as I do -- the ones I've cited above -- do they just chose to ignore them because it doesn't fit into their tired old routine they call "conventional wisdom." I guess it is easier to simply repeat the same broken down clichés than it is to find out what the truth really is.

And it's even more important to kill what smells like teen spirit to them. God forbid if young people ever realized their true power and used it. Maybe what young adults need to continue to do is keep creating their own new media and news sources on the Internet and through other new technologies. Just bypass the old farts on Fox and CNN and all the rest. One thing's for sure -- by never challenging this president on his lies that sent our young off to war, they have proven which side they are on and it isn't on the side of the young or the future.

Congratulations, 18 to 29-year-olds -- you rocked.

Yours,

Michael Moore
www.michaelmoore.com
MMFlint@aol.com (if full, try mike@michaelmoore.com)

Monday, September 20th, 2004
Put Away Your Hankies...a message from Michael Moore


9/20/04

Dear Friends,

Enough of the handwringing! Enough of the doomsaying! Do I have to come there and personally calm you down? Stop with all the defeatism, OK? Bush IS a goner -- IF we all just quit our whining and bellyaching and stop shaking like a bunch of nervous ninnies. Geez, this is embarrassing! The Republicans are laughing at us. Do you ever see them cry, "Oh, it's all over! We are finished! Bush can't win! Waaaaaa!"

Hell no. It's never over for them until the last ballot is shredded. They are never finished -- they just keeping moving forward like sharks that never sleep, always pushing, pulling, kicking, blocking, lying.

They are relentless and that is why we secretly admire them -- they just simply never, ever give up. Only 30% of the country calls itself "Republican," yet the Republicans own it all -- the White House, both houses of Congress, the Supreme Court and the majority of the governorships. How do you think they've been able to pull that off considering they are a minority? It's because they eat you and me and every other liberal for breakfast and then spend the rest of the day wreaking havoc on the planet.

Look at us -- what a bunch of crybabies. Bush gets a bounce after his convention and you would have thought the Germans had run through Poland again. The Bushies are coming, the Bushies are coming! Yes, they caught Kerry asleep on the Swift Boat thing. Yes, they found the frequency in Dan Rather and ran with it. Suddenly it's like, "THE END IS NEAR! THE SKY IS FALLING!"

No, it is not. If I hear one more person tell me how lousy a candidate Kerry is and how he can't win... Dammit, of COURSE he's a lousy candidate -- he's a Democrat, for heavens sake! That party is so pathetic, they even lose the elections they win! What were you expecting, Bruce Springsteen heading up the ticket? Bruce would make a helluva president, but guys like him don't run -- and neither do you or I. People like Kerry run.

Yes, OF COURSE any of us would have run a better, smarter, kick-ass campaign. Of course we would have smacked each and every one of those phony swifty boaty bastards down. But WE are not running for president -- Kerry is. So quit complaining and work with what we have. Oprah just gave 300 women a... Pontiac! Did you see any of them frowning and moaning and screaming, "Oh God, NOT a friggin' Pontiac!" Of course not, they were happy. The Pontiacs all had four wheels, an engine and a gas pedal. You want more than that, well, I can't help you. I had a Pontiac once and it lasted a good year. And it was a VERY good year.

My friends, it is time for a reality check.

1. The polls are wrong. They are all over the map like diarrhea. On Friday, one poll had Bush 13 points ahead -- and another poll had them both tied. There are three reasons why the polls are b.s.: One, they are polling "likely voters." "Likely" means those who have consistently voted in the past few elections. So that cuts out young people who are voting for the first time and a ton of non-voters who are definitely going to vote in THIS election. Second, they are not polling people who use their cell phone as their primary phone. Again, that means they are not talking to young people. Finally, most of the polls are weighted with too many Republicans, as pollster John Zogby revealed last week. You are being snookered if you believe any of these polls.

2. Kerry has brought in the Clinton A-team. Instead of shunning Clinton (as Gore did), Kerry has decided to not make that mistake.

3. Traveling around the country, as I've been doing, I gotta tell ya, there is a hell of a lot of unrest out there. Much of it is not being captured by the mainstream press. But it is simmering and it is real. Do not let those well-produced Bush rallies of angry white people scare you. Turn off the TV! (Except Jon Stewart and Bill Moyers -- everything else is just a sugar-coated lie).

4. Conventional wisdom says if the election is decided on "9/11" (the fear of terrorism), Bush wins. But if it is decided on the job we are doing in Iraq, then Bush loses. And folks, that "job," you might have noticed, has descended into the third level of a hell we used to call Vietnam. There is no way out. It is a full-blown mess of a quagmire and the body bags will sadly only mount higher. Regardless of what Kerry meant by his original war vote, he ain't the one who sent those kids to their deaths -- and Mr. and Mrs. Middle America knows it. Had Bush bothered to show up when he was in the "service" he might have somewhat of a clue as to how to recognize an immoral war that cannot be "won." All he has delivered to Iraq was that plasticized turkey last Thanksgiving. It is this failure of monumental proportions that is going to cook his goose come this November.

So, do not despair. All is not over. Far from it. The Bush people need you to believe that it is over. They need you to slump back into your easy chair and feel that sick pain in your gut as you contemplate another four years of George W. Bush. They need you to wish we had a candidate who didn't windsurf and who was just as smart as we were when WE knew Bush was lying about WMD and Saddam planning 9/11. It's like Karl Rove is hypnotizing you -- "Kerry voted for the war...Kerry voted for the war...Kerrrrrryyy vooootted fooooor theeee warrrrrrrrrr..."

Yes...Yes...Yesssss....He did! HE DID! No sense in fighting now...what I need is sleep...sleeep...sleeeeeeppppp...

WAKE UP! The majority are with us! More than half of all Americans are pro-choice, want stronger environmental laws, are appalled that assault weapons are back on the street -- and 54% now believe the war is wrong. YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO CONVINCE THEM OF ANY OF THIS -- YOU JUST HAVE TO GIVE THEM A RAY OF HOPE AND A RIDE TO THE POLLS. CAN YOU DO THAT? WILL YOU DO THAT?

Just for me, please? Buck up. The country is almost back in our hands. Not another negative word until Nov. 3rd! Then you can bitch all you want about how you wish Kerry was still that long-haired kid who once had the courage to stand up for something. Personally, I think that kid is still inside him. Instead of the wailing and gnashing of your teeth, why not hold out a hand to him and help the inner soldier/protester come out and defeat the forces of evil we now so desperately face. Do we have any other choice?

Yours,

Michael Moore
www.michaelmoore.com
mmflint@aol.com

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