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World/Inferno Friendship Society: All Borders are Porous to Cats Sentence Starters

lines taken from the 2020 album All Borders are Porous to Cats. edit as needed. tw: mentions of violence and substance use.

“I’m not living in the past, I’m just trying to explain it.”

“Bitterness corrupts.”

“You sweat it off and you let it go.”

“There is a joke I can’t tell to anyone.”

“There is a joke I can’t tell to anyone. It gives me crooked grin that I’m told annoys some.”

“Life is simple when focused on death or a love affair.”

“You can buy drugs from the cops if you want to.”

“The world is always ending.”

“The world is always ending and the world is never right.”

“The world is never right.”

“It’s troubled times.”

“You’re always gonna have to fight.”

“I’m hanging on to this joke with my fingernails.”

“Got so many good excuses, but I mustn’t use any of them.”

“We are more beautiful than we think.”

“But seeing you here, in this wilderness, in this world without end… I can’t help but know the hopes of love.”

“I can’t help but know the hopes of love, and our grace that rests on it.”

“Wake up, stand up, take your rights and fight.”

“Having a double life is hard, but obviously something you enjoy.”

“How many secrets can you keep from how many people?”

“Keep your head.”

“This requires nerve.”

“We read that we ought to forgive our enemies. We do not read that we ought forgive our friends.”

“You and your friends, you and your ghost. No one can compete with that!”

“How many secrets have you kept?”

“I don’t care to find out.”

“Pay with cash. Hide your tracks. Keep your head.”

“You’ll need luck.”

“The cat in the hat has a right to sing the blues.”

“Hey, that’s a great question! Why ruin it with an answer?”

“This place has a strange reputation.”

“It might be time for a permanent vacation.”

“Everyone is going mad.”

“The problem with being a saint is that you have to be dead.”

“If I agree to anything, it’s ‘cause I’m not listening.”

“Never bequeath your claws or your teeth.”

“Gotta make a call for a fake ID.”

“Gonna need some cash - better plan a robbery.”

“If you don’t get my e-mail, then it means I’m dead.”

“Less talking, more kissing.”

“It’s clear what works for you don’t work for me.”

“Come to the station, please bring the bail.”

“Tell them I wasn’t there.”

“I’m calling in favors, please look into your heart.”

“I know why the caged dog howls.”

“You’re half a visionary, you’re half a charlatan, and you’re three parts what the fuck.”

“So you paid your bills and you got your pills.”

“If I had your number, I would have called you so many times.”

“Well, run, man, run.”

“Did you think you would get away with it?”

“I’ll be your alibi.”

“Listen to me just one time.”

“Gotta put this shit together, man.”

“Life is chaotic, but I’ll always be your alibi.”

“I got your back, just sit back.”

“I’ll never let them know what happened that night.”

“If you do what I say, you’ll get through this alright.”

“You always knew how to end a fight.”

“When you run out of hope, you let the bastards win.”

“You did the right thing by coming to me.”

“I won’t let you down.”

“You gotta pull yourself together. You gotta look straight. You gotta dress sharp.”

“It’s a Barnum and Bailey world, just as phony as you can see.”

“If I ever thought about it, this not where I would be.”

“Maybe I ain’t gonna let shit go no more.”

“It looks like blood, but it’s probably wine!”

“I’d love to sit around, but I have a date.”

“I’d love to sit around, but I have a date dancing on someone’s grave.”

“I’ve heard some incredible defenses, but nothing quite this absurd.”

“Alright, I’m not gonna say there wasn’t some blood involved, but mostly-”

“If you don’t hear from me, then you’ll know I’m in jail.”

“Conviction demands belief.”

“The truth will set you free.”

“The truth will set your house on fire.”

“All I can do to help you with your nightmares is to keep you up late.”

“To escape from the fire, you must be quick.”

“The better part of valor is not an option.”

“You really didn’t see what this was gonna be.”

“Don’t be coy, my friend.”

“See you on the other side!”

“We don’t deserve it, at least not more than most.”

“I didn’t plan to be around to be accountable.”

“You weren’t around to explain.”

“Meow. Meow, meow.”

“Freedom is a wilderness.”

“Freedom is a wilderness, made for you and me.”

“When I went crazy, I was sincere.”

“Patience breeds contempt.”

“Patience takes control.”

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telltaletypist · 4 years

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#world/inferno friendship society #all borders are porous to cats #toons

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starf · 3 years

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StarF’s Top Ten Albums of 2020

Another year, another list. Let’s not even bother with the preamble this time around, you get what it is.

10. I DON'T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME - RAZZMATAZZ

Let me tell you right now, I struggled with this tenth spot. There were about four albums that were pretty much tied once I narrowed it down this far because it was a jam-packed year. Ultimately though I had to give it to iDKHOW for their smooth brand of piano rock-pop. This is their debut album and it brought the heat. While it didn't dazzle me immediately, with every subsequent listen I feel a little more of that promised razzmatazz from the title. I also absolutely love the ballad "Nobody Likes The Opening Band," which will certainly be a fun song to hear them perform some day whether they're the opener or not.

9. The Front Bottoms - In Sickness & In Flames

The last offering from The Front Bottoms, Going Gray, left me feeling a little lukewarm. In Sickness & In Flames, however, is a much stronger return to form for the band in my opinion. Some people say all of The Front Bottoms' albums sound the same, and maybe that's a little bit true. But maybe 2020 is the year that we needed to hear some new Front Bottoms material. It was a strange time for all of us, and in these times this kind of album just hits different. From the optimistic opening of "everyone blooms" to the infectious singalong moments of "Fairbanks, Alaska," this album is a good time all around.

8. The Used - Heartwork

Did you know The Used is still around? Not only still around, but apaprently they never went away! When I saw that they had released a new album early in the year I assumed it was a comeback, but I was wrong! For me there was a 12 year gap since I had personally listened to a new Used album, and this one blew me away in a big way. They're still going big, going hard, and rocking their signature sound - but updated for the modern age. This is a band that has managed to hold on to their roots while successfully adapting and progressing into the future.

7. Oliver Tree - Ugly Is Beautiful

Where do you even start with an artist like Oliver Tree? An absolute master of internet marketing, the release of this album was a tortured and dragged out experience, like a person chasing a 20 dollar bill on a string and having it constantly pulled away over and over again. By the time it came out it was a little disheartening that an entire half of the album had already been released via single, but overall it is undeniably a powerhouse of a pop album and a strong showing from Oliver Tree. A strange character, but an impossibly catchy album with earworm after earworm.

6. The World/Inferno Friendship Society - All Borders Are Porous To Cats

I pretty much always enjoy any offering from this band, but to varying degrees. Their last few albums have certainly been good to my ears, but for whatever reason just didn't resonate enough with me to earn a spot in my top ten. This album is clearly different though, and keeps me enthralled the entire way. With their unique brand of punk-jazz-cabaret, All Borders Are Porous To Cats tells the story of one Mr. Cat In The Hat, and it's a wild ride that you're going to want to hear.

5. Run The Jewels - RTJ4

One of the most biting and necessary releases of the year, RTJ4 dropped right when we needed to hear it most, and for free no less. It's my personal opinion that Run The Jewels continue to get better with every release they put out, and their fourth showing is easily my favorite so far. El-P and Killer Mike come through with some of their sharpest bars and heaviest beats yet. It's just a shame that for how much history repeats we as society still haven't learned some of the lessons that an album like this continues to attempt to teach us.

4. Aesop Rock - Spirit World Field Guide

Spirit World Field Guide is not a typical Aesop Rock album, but then again what is? Back in 2016 I fell in love with the album The Impossible Kid, an accessible (by Aes standards) album that hooked me in immediately. Spirit World is a different beast that took me off guard the first time I heard it, and left me a little bit lost - but that almost seems to be the intent. An absolute monster of an album coming in at 21 tracks and over an hour, this thing wasn't necessarily meant to be ingested all at once, or even in the order presented. The more I revisit it the more I put the pieces together and enjoy it more and more.

3. Poppy - I Disagree

Let's take a journey all the way back to January before the world entirely fell apart. I discovered Poppy for the first time through this album and was quickly intrigued. Going back through her older music, and then her YouTube, and slowly unraveling the mystery that is Poppy was perhaps some of the most fun I've had experiencing an artist's work in years - all topped off with seeing her perform live that month, the last large live music show I've been to. I Disagree is an eclectic blend of pop, metal, and strange curiosity. It starts off right away with the oddball banger Concrete and promises to weed out those who aren't prepared to take the mental trip through this album right away. It's not for everyone, but it's definitely for me.

2. Jeff Rosenstock - N O D R E A M

Well here we are! The number one spot! You guessed it, it's Jeff Rose- what? This isn't number one? Well that can't be right, hold on. Nope, I guess that's correct. The new Jeff Rosenstock album, N O D R E A M comes in at number two this year, a fact that will probably shock and confuse anyone who knows me. This is the proof that Jeff doesn't automatically get my number one spot if he releases an album, but with all of that out of the way, let's talk about the album.

In a Post-Post- world we see Jeff returning to a more traditional take on putting together an album, rather than simply rushing through it to get the feelings out of his head (both perfectly valid approaches). N O D R E A M continues to explore themes of being lost and confused in such a soul-crushing and increasingly overwhelming world - all while attempting to find the silver linings and be optimistic about where we're headed. Whether it's the world at large or a personal journey, this album is an anthem to a year that saw most people holding their head in their hands and saying "please, just, let's all get through this, okay?"

1. Will Wood - The Normal Album

Wow. Just wow. Okay, where to begin? I was listening to a random Spotify radio when it started playing a song by Will Wood & The Tapeworms called "Hand Me My Shovel, I'm Going In!" Intrigued by the style of the song, as well as the title, I clicked through and listened to their most recent album which was 2016's "Self-Ish." I thought it was really good! I enjoyed it a lot and continued to listen to it for about a week. At that point when I started digging further into the band I learned that there was actually an even newer album entitled The Normal Album, categorized on Spotify under just Will Wood, which is why I hadn't previously found it.

I enjoyed Self-Ish, but hearing The Normal Album took it to an entirely new album and blew me away in a way that I haven't experienced in years. This wasn't just a great album, this was one of those musical discoveries where you think "oh wow, this is something I can't live without going forward." Will Wood is exactly what I needed in the back half of 2020 to keep my sanity, and even now I still listen to this album usually at least once a day. It's perfectly crafted in every sense of the world. Not a single second is wasted or out of place. The technical skill is in full display without muddling the pure enjoyment of the melodies or taking away from the overall vibe of the songs. The writing is some of the sharpest and dense I've ever seen, without being undecipherable or inaccessible. This is an album that truly does it all.

The feeling I have when I listen to this album and attempt to get people to listen to it is identical to how I felt about Jeff Rosenstock in the late 2000's, back before he had sort of blown up. Will Wood certainly has a following, but his music is definitely niche at the moment and somewhat obscure. Much in the same way that eventually people listened to me about Jeff, I hope they will find out about Will. Everyone should hear this album. It's breath-takingly perfect.

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thecolorsfucked · 3 years

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#this is the most romantic thing i've ever heard wtf jack #world inferno friendship society #Spotify

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gregthecoolnerd · 3 years

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Top 15 Punk Albums of 2020

(These albums are in order of their release. I love all of them equally.)

Good Luck Everybody by AJJ

27 Miles Underwater by Higher Power

Hurry Up and Wait by Dune Rats

CTRL ALT DEL by Pmx

PEARS by PEARS

A Beautiful Place to Drown by Silverstein

Death in Venice Beach by The Bombpops

Heartwork by The Used

Ronin by Rotting Out

Show Me the Blueprints by Days N’ Daze

Forever + Ever x Infinity by New Found Glory

The Ride by Bad Cop/Bad Cop

Kooky Spooky...in Stereo! by The Aquabats!

Green Room by Radkey

Silver Linings by Less Than Jake

Runners-Up:

All Borders Are Porous to Cats by The World/Inferno Friendship Society

Revolution Spring by The Suicide Machines

Afterburner by Dance Gavin Dance

Skeleton Coast by The Lawrence Arms

In Sickness and In Flames by The Front Bottoms

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heartofsurgingflame · 3 years

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all borders are porous to cats slaps too hard for the subject matter. But i wouldn’t have it any other way

#it's about fascism btw #its like *authority pardoning itself for its own crimes* and im like oh shit its a bop because it is a bop thank you mr dark cabaret

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ameltzerdesign · 4 years

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The World/Inferno Friendship Society - All Borders Are Porous To Cats

LP packaging - another first for me! And for a band I like on a label I respect!

The lyrics were made using a variety of handwritten and newspaper type fonts, layered atop more paper textures than I can keep track of. The items scattered about are references to the album’s protagonist - a drunken, jazz loving, arsonist who may or may not be an anthropomorphic cat...

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bountyofbeads · 5 years

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'National tragedy': Trump begins border wall construction in Unesco reserve

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/12/border-wall-organ-pipe-cactus-arizona?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Post_to_Tumblr

‘National tragedy’: Trump begins border wall construction in Unesco reserve (This is short-sighted and 😔 😭😭😭sad that our government is destroying the environment just to build Trump's vanity project. “They are violating our constitutionally protected rights, and that should terrify everyone,” she said. “Even if you don’t care about butterflies, you should care about this.” 🤬🤬🤬)

Wall will traverse the entirety of the southern edge of the Organ Pipe Cactus national monument, one of the most biologically diverse regions in the US

Samuel Gilbert in Tucson, Arizona | Published Fri 13 Sep 2019 01.00 EDT | The Guardian | Posted September 13 2019 9:40 AM ET |

Construction of a 30ft-high section of Donald Trump’s border barrier has begun in the Organ Pipe Cactus national monument in southern Arizona, a federally protected wilderness area and Unesco-recognized international biosphere reserve.

In the face of protests by environmental groups, the wall will traverse the entirety of the southern edge of the monument. It is part of the 175 miles of barrier expansion along the US-Mexico border being funded by the controversial diversion of $3.6bn from military construction projects.

This will include construction in Texas, New Mexico as well as Arizona where, according to a government court filing, some 44 miles of new barrier construction will pass through three federally protected areas. These are the Organ Pipe wilderness, Cabeza Prieta national wildlife refuge and San Pedro Riparian national conservation area, the location of Arizona’s last free-flowing river.

The Trump administration has deemed the new structures necessary due to a “national emergency” of unauthorized immigration into the US. According to CBP, in the 2019 fiscal year there have been 14,265 apprehensions in the Tucson sector, where the Organ Pipe wall is going up, compared to 51,411 in the nearby Yuma sector of Arizona and over 205,000 in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.

Yet Organ Pipe is a contentious setting. “What is being proposed is bulldozing one of the most biologically diverse regions of the entire United States,” said Amanda Munro of the Southwest Environmental Center. “Walling off these precious places would be a colossal mistake and a national tragedy.”

Organ Pipe, located south-west of Tucson, Arizona, is a 330,000 acre wilderness home to mountain lions, javelinas, the endangered pronghorn sheep and “more bird species than can be listed”, according to the National Park Service website. It is also a deeply significant area for the nearby Tohono O’odham nation which has long opposed Trump’s border wall on their ancestral lands.

“This unneeded, expensive blight will use precious water for its construction, cut off wildlife species from their habitat; and its all-night lights will destroy the clear night skies,” said Kevin Dahl of the National Parks Conservation Association.

Much has changed since the 1970s, when Dahl first visited Organ Pipe as a high school ecology student. At that time the border between the US and Mexico was easily and frequently crossed. “National Park rangers would walk across the border and eat lunch,” said Dahl, motioning to a roadside restaurant in Mexico clearly visible behind the vehicle barriers, reminiscent of the Normandy beaches on D-day, that make up a section of the border.

In the decades since, Dahl has witnessed a dramatic increase in border militarization and barrier construction, including miles of fencing, access roads and a surge of border patrol agents. The new construction will replace pedestrian fences and vehicle barriers, which can easily be traversed by animals, with a 30ft tall bollard wall and accompanying infrastructure. There are fears it will impede migration, cut animals off from water supplies and increase flooding.

“They haven’t thought the design through,” said Dan Millis, the Borderlands Campaign coordinator for the Sierra Club. The slotted barriers have frequently trapped debris during rainstorms, including in Organ Pipe in 2008 and 2011, turning the “so-called porous walls a solid dam”, said Millis. There are also plans to pump water from underground aquifers to make concrete.

The impact could be most grievous at the cherished Quitobaquito Springs. This oasis on the border, one of the oldest inhabited places in North America, is home to the only US populations of the endangered Quitobaquito pupfish and Sonoyta turtle.

“It won’t take much to dry them,” said Dahl, standing amid the willows and cottonwoods that surround the spring-fed pond and provide some of the only shade in an otherwise treeless landscape.

“Pumping water out of the desert at Organ Pipe Cactus national monument, on federally protected land, to support this project is a crime against the American spirit and will do lasting damage to a national treasure,” the Arizona congressman Raúl Grijalva said in an email to the Guardian. “Congress has to step in and stop this.”

The government’s ability to build in protected areas along the Mexican border is unique. A 2005 law grants DHS the power to waive any laws “necessary to ensure expeditious construction” of border barriers. It has been used ever since. The Trump administration has waived numerous state and federal laws, including the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Air Act, to construct barriers in protected areas in every southern border state.

Ongoing litigation by environmental and immigration rights group could halt construction.

Dahl worries it will be too late. Standing near Quitobaquito Springs and looking toward nearby Mexico, he contemplated what is at risk.

“This is one of the true gems of the Sonoran desert,” he said Dahl. “It would be a tragedy if it all was lost for an unnecessary and deadly wall.”

'Death sentence': butterfly sanctuary to be bulldozed for Trump's border wall

More than 200 species make their homes at America’s most diverse sanctuary, but construction through the reserve could begin in February

Samuel Gilbert in Mission, Texas |

Published:04:00 Thu December 13, 2018 | Guardian | Posted September 13, 2019 9:30 AM ET |

On any given day at the National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas, visitors can to see more than 60 varieties of butterflies. In the spring and fall, monarchs and other species can blanket the center’s 100 acres of subtropical bushlands that extend from the visitor center to to the banks of the Rio Grande river, where their property, and US sovereignty, ends.

“It’s like something from Fantasia,” said the center’s director, Marianna Wright. “When you walk you have to cover your mouth so you don’t suck in a butterfly.”

Today the most diverse butterfly sanctuary in the country, and other protected areas in the lower Rio Grande Valley along the US-Mexico border, are under threat. Last week, the US supreme court issued a ruling allowing the Trump administration to waive 28 federal laws, including the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Air Act, and begin construction on 33 new miles of border wall in the heart of the valley – and right through the butterfly center.

“Environmental tourism contributes more than $450m to Hidalgo and Starr counties,” said Wright, referring to the adjacent counties in the valley. “Many of the properties people choose to visit to see birds, butterflies and threatened and endangered species are all going to be behind the border wall. For us, the economic impact is potentially catastrophic.”

“Walls have fragmented our habitat,” said Scott Nicol, co-chair of the Sierra Club Borderland team. The various patches of land that provide refuge for these animals will become “less viable, with less and less places for them to go”.

A July letter sent from US Customs and Border Protection to a not-for-profit environmental group and seen by the Guardian describes the route and possible components of the project as including a 30ft-tall concrete and steel wall, roads, and a 150ft “enforcement zone” where all vegetation will be cleared.

With construction of the wall due to begin in February, people like Nicol fear that the barrier will not only destroy habitat and undermine ecotourism but also lead to an increasingly deadly border as undocumented immigrants are pushed further and further into marginal and dangerous areas.

“This is not just that they will drive ocelots to extinction,” said Nicol, referring to the critically endangered wild cat found in the Rio Grande Valley. “Families trying to come into this country will be pushed into the desert to die.”

“Border walls are death sentences for wildlife and humans alike,” said Amanda Munro of the Southwest Environmental Center, an organization that works to restore and protect native wildlife and habitats. “They block wild animals from accessing the food, water and mates they need to survive. They weaken genetic diversity, fragment habitat, and trap animals in deadly floods. At the same time, they drive desperate asylum seekers to risk their lives in the unforgiving desert.”

For Donald Trump, the new section of the barrier is making good on a campaign promise to build a “big beautiful wall”. A barrier that will add to the nearly 700 miles of walls and fences that already exist on or near the border.

More than 200 species of resident or migrating butterflies make homes at the butterfly center over the course of the year, including the vibrant Mexican bluewing, the tiny vicroy’s ministreak and the black swallowtail, which carpets the wild dill at the property with its eggs each spring. The center opened in 2003 and is the flagship project of the North American Butterfly Association.

“It’s going to cut right through here,” said Wright, showing where the wall will split the center’s property 1.2 miles from the border and cut off access to nearly 70% of its land.

Trump has expansive federal powers to construct the border wall on both private and public land. Since 2005, the Department of Homeland Security has had the power to waive numerous environmental laws in the name of national security.

And the federal government can, and has, used eminent domain law to acquire privately owned land for public use.

“We fully anticipate that they will seize the land by quick take,” said Wright, referring to a Depression-era provision of the eminent domain law that gives federal agencies the right to take property without compensation or adjudication. “Legal claims are not addressed or settled. You don’t get your day in court. You don’t get to negotiate appraisals or offers. Nothing,” said Wright.

On Tuesday, the president threatened to use defense spending if his plans to build the wall were challenged. “If the Democrats do not give us the votes to secure our Country, the Military will build the remaining sections of the Wall,” Trump said in a tweet.

For Wright, this threat could mean the end of the butterfly center and enormous harm to its dozens of butterfly species and the threatened Texas tortoise, Texas indigo snake, and Texas horned lizard that are also found there.

“It is truly a sight to behold,” said Wright, looking out from the bank of the Rio Grande river.

“They are violating our constitutionally protected rights, and that should terrify everyone,” she said. “Even if you don’t care about butterflies, you should care about this.”

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