Halloween Playlists ๐ŸŽƒ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿ‘ป๐Ÿˆโ€โฌ›๐Ÿซ๐Ÿฆ‡๐Ÿ’€๐Ÿญ๐Ÿ•ท๏ธ๐Ÿ•ธ๏ธ


If you read this, you know I mostly use Amazon Music, but I do copy stuff to Spotify. I should copy these ones over. I refuse to pay to synch them with Tune My Music though, so I try to wait until I’m close to done to copy it. I may have copied some of these a long time ago.

What are your go-to Halloween songs? What am I missing from these lists?

You can peep this Misfits tribute from 20 years ago too, and don’t forget to get some Halloween swag or solve some free Halloween mazes.

Get Your 'Ween Out (Halloween Punk Rock) ๐ŸŽƒ

Update | Maze Marauder Mitigated


So, a while back… did you read about the weasel who grabbed a bunch of mazes online and put them into a self-published print-on-demand book to be sold all over the damn internet?

I guess I never did update, lots of the listings are down or read as “Temporarily Unavailable.” I would like them to read as “โš  404 Page Not Found.“

I did get two short emails from the offender. Thank you to Jakob Mewes for reaching out! I never did hear back from Jakob after reaching out for further details. Did you Google AiXeLsyD and/or Gasoline Dion and find me here? I’d love to know!

I did get two emails from Mr. Heppke.

From: Kurt Heppke <mail@kurtheppke.com>
Date: Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 8:22โ€ฏAM
Subject: Re: Unauthorized Use of My Artwork in Your Book โ€“ DMCA & Cease-and-Desist
To: Eric Carroll <red@acted.yo>


Dear Mr. Carrol,

I'm sorry for using your trademarked images and I really want to apologize for that. I took the images from Pinterest and did not check the license. I made a mistake. 
I have requested today that the book be stopped selling immediately and will send you confirmation as soon as I have it.
I hereby give you written confirmation that I will no longer use your work.
I also confirm the immediate cessation of any further use or reproduction of your work in any form.

I am truly sorry for the trouble I have caused you.

I would like to make one more point about your WordPress post " Stolen Mazes! (Someone took my art.)". It gives the impression that I have flooded half the world with my books. No. I've sold the book 8 times in the last 3 years. So I think the damage is limited.
That's not an excuse! 

Anyway, thank you for your patience and kindness and I will definitely change my behavior when it comes to checking licenses.

Best regards

Kurt Heppke

---
Kurt Heppke
Tel: +## ### ########
Mail: mail@kurtheppke.com
Homepage: www.kurtheppke.com

And, then this, referencing the photo below:

From: Kurt Heppke <mail@kurtheppke.com>
Date: Tue, Jul 1, 2025 at 11:01โ€ฏAM
Subject: Re: Unauthorized Use of My Artwork in Your Book โ€“ DMCA & Cease-and-Desist
To: Eric Carroll <red@cted.yo>


Dear Mr. Carroll,



I have withdrawn my book "Labyrinthe" from sale and would like to inform you of this, as promised:

Labyrinthe
Leichte Schwere und ganz ganz Schwere

ISBN-13: 9783756233120
Verlag: Books on Demand
Erscheinungsdatum: 30.06.2022




the German sentence:

"Wir haben Ihr Buch wunschgemรคss fรผr Bestellungen aus dem Buchhandel gesperrt. Auch die Listung fรผr den internationalen Vertrieb und der E-Book-Vertrieb wurden damit automatisch ausgesetzt."

means:

"We have blocked your book from bookstore orders as requested. The listing for international distribution and e-book distribution have also been automatically suspended."


I would like to apologize once again and thank you for your patience and kindness.

Best regards

---
Kurt Heppke
Tel: +## ### ########
Mail: mail@kurtheppke.com
Homepage: www.kurtheppke.com

And this was in there:

the German sentence:

"Wir haben Ihr Buch wunschgemรคss fรผr Bestellungen aus dem Buchhandel gesperrt. Auch die Listung fรผr den internationalen Vertrieb und der E-Book-Vertrieb wurden damit automatisch ausgesetzt."

means:

"We have blocked your book from bookstore orders as requested. The listing for international distribution and e-book distribution have also been automatically suspended."

โœ๏ธ

I did not reply, as I am still salty about it. A little theft is still theft. I know Joe Wos sent something over to the effect of a Cease & Desist or DMCA, and Brian Hilbert commented on my last post. I never did get a comment from Sean C. Jackson. Not sure how many other maze artists were robbed. I never did track any others down.

Please, don’t steal others’ art & sell it. I have a lot here for free, like the ones that showed up in this book of plundered pathways.

<shameless plug>ย You can support your favorite punk rock letter-writing goofball maze artist by buying a copy ofย So I Finally Made a Maze Bookย orย You Can See Yourself Out, or getting some cool swag from myย TeePublicย orย RedBubbleย stores.ย </shameless plug>ย 

I did just upload some Halloween mazes, and TeePublic is having a sale. You can always get my books & merch up top. I sell tens of copies worldwide myself, I don’t need any help from art thieves.

I’m sadly still morbidly curious to get my hands on a copy of this outrage. Share your stories of art theft in the comments, or comment here if your stuff was also uncredited in this book!

German-Style Hot Potato Salad


I was in a cooking mood last weekend, and I tried out some hot German style potato salad. As usual, I googled recipes, solicited advice on Threads, and even bounced stuff off of LLM’s. I came up with the recipe below, and it paired nice with some Reubens. The bread on the Reubens was less than stellar. I need to get some better rye, & make sure it’s still seedless. (Thanks, diverticulitis!) Maybe marbled or Pumpernickel is the way to go? I’m not much of a baker, unless it’s as easy as the Cheesy Beer Bread.

Hot German-Style Potato Salad

OK. So here’s what I did:

Ingredients

  • 2 lbs. red potatoes
  • 10 strips thick-cut bacon, chopped
  • 1/2 of a Spanish onion, finely diced
  • 1/2 cup chicken broth
  • 1/4 cup white vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
  • 1 teaspoon ground mustard
  • Salt, Pepper, Onion Powder, & Garlic Powder to taste
  • Dried parsley to taste
  • Fresh chopped parsley

Instructions

  1. Put the whole potatoes in a large pot and cover with about 1 to 2 inches of cold, salted water (or chicken broth for extra flavor). Bring to a boil and cook until the potatoes are tender when pierced with a fork, about 15-20 minutes. Drain the potatoes well and set them aside. (Next time I will add the other half of the onion here. I did add a bit of ham bullion to the water.)
  2. While the potatoes are cooking, place the chopped bacon in a large skillet or pan over medium-low heat. Cook until the bacon is crispy, stirring occasionally to ensure even cooking. Using a slotted spoon, remove the bacon pieces and place them on a paper towel-lined plate to drain, but leave the rendered bacon grease in the skillet. (I may have snuck in a tiny bit of butter here.) This seemingly takes forever but is worth it. I seasoned the bacon with onion powder, garlic powder, & black pepper.
  3. Add the diced onion to the skillet with the bacon grease. Cook over medium heat, stirring often, until the onion is soft & translucent.
  4. To the skillet with the onions and bacon grease, add the chicken broth, white vinegar, sugar, Dijon mustard, and ground mustard. Whisk the mixture to combine. Bring the dressing to a simmer and let it cook for about 2 minutes to allow the flavors to meld. Season with salt and pepper to your liking. I put the dried parsley in here, too.
  5. Dice, the still-warm potatoes into large 1-inch-ish chunks, then place in a large bowl. Pour the hot dressing over the potatoes and gently toss to coat. Stir in about half of the cooked bacon pieces.
  6. Let the salad sit for at least 15 minutes to allow the potatoes to fully absorb the flavors. Just before serving, sprinkle the remaining crispy bacon and fresh chopped parsley or chives over the top.

The fresh parsley made it pop. Of course, you could use Yukon Gold or whatever potatoes you have. Watch out for green ones!

I wondered if honey mustard would be good? Obviously brown mustard or German mustard or even yellow mustard should be fine. I wonder what Herlocher’s would be like? Apple cider vinegar or brown sugar should be fine too. I see proponents for and against just about every variation online.

I say use what you have on hand or what you know you like. I bet I used Mrs. Dash’s table blend at some point, too. Some recipes recommended wine instead of broth. I may try it with beer?

Is this one you make often? Have you ever tried it? What are your tips & tricks? Luckily both kids liked it, so I’m sure I’ll be making it again. Also… I really didn’t measure much…. I just go.

Hit me up with your take on the Reuben, too! I have made them a few different ways, but always with the same basic ingredients.

Reuben Sandwich & Hot German-Style Potato Salad

Also, this is a hilariously appropriate song to rock to while you’re cooking:

It’s tangential, but made the cut for my Fast Food Punk Tunes & Dad Shit playlists!

Shameless Plug | T-Shirts on Sale


I try to not plug my books or T-shirts too often. You know the art (one guy even tried to steal the art). You know the links to Amazon, RedBubble, & TeePublic & the links up top here. There’s even the Linktree. It’s a fun creative outlet for me, and I would appreciate a few more sales, just like I appreciate all that you have purchased!

T-shirts are on sale this weekend at TeePublic, so you can snag one for $16, Stickers, pins, & other stuff are on sale at my shop too.

@aixelsyd13

TeePublic is having a sale, you can get these shirts & more for $16 thos weekend! Should I upload some more Halloween themed mazes? May be time to draw some new ones! You can get stickers, hats, pins, & other cool stuff there too. #TeePubic @TeePublic #TShitts #Mazes #Guitar #Food ๐Ÿค˜๐Ÿป https://tee.pub/lic/AiXeLsyD13

โ™ฌ suara asli – hasby – hasby

Playlist | Fast Food Punk Tunes


This is another punk-rock leaning short one. “Bloodbath at Burger King” is an absolute gem, as are many others here. This is what I have so far:

  • Screeching Weasel – “I Saw The Devil At McDonalds (Demo)”
  • Teenage Bottlerocket – “Blood Bath At Burger King”
  • The Berlin Project – “Taco Bell World”
  • Gas Station Boner Pills – “Fist Fight at the Waffle House”
  • Richies – “Le Big Mac”
  • Indigo Girls – “Dairy Queen”
  • The Knuckleheadz – “Fuck McDz”
  • Teenage Bottlerocket – “Too Much La Collina”
  • Wesley Willis – “Rock ‘N Roll McDonald’s”
  • The Smithereens – “White Castle Blues”
  • Boris the Sprinkler – “Don’t Really Want To Walk To Taco Bell Without You”
  • Silly Stu – “McDonald’s in the Pentagon”
  • Motorpsychos – “Fries With That”
  • The Aquabats! – “Burger Rain!”
  • Parry Gripp – “Raining Tacos”

What am I missing? Are there punk-leaning songs about Wendy’s, Pizza Hut, KFC, Raising Cane’s, or Chick-fil-A? Panera? Jersey Mike’s, Jimmy John’s, Subway, Quizno’s, Vocelli Pizza, Papa John’s, or Domino’s? What about Hardee’s, Carl’s Jr., Checker’s, Rally’s, Five Guy’s, In & Out, Krystal, Jack-in-the-Box, Rax, Arby’s, or Auntie Anne’s? I’ll even take Eat’n Park or Denny’s.

I have the current list up on Amazon Music & Spotify.

Playlist | Fast Food
Playlist | Fast Food

๐Ÿ”๐ŸŒฎ

I wish I could include the great Wat Tyler track “There’s a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He’s Satan.” It doesn’t appear to be available for streaming. I may have to settle for adding the original.

Holy cow, reddit’s r/punk and Facebook’s Oddly Specific Playlists stepped up with some killer suggestions! The list is currently at 85 tracks. Some fit more loosely than others… but close enough counts in horse shoes, hand grenades, and punk rock.

Also, I need to figure out the right plugin to let me embed Amazon playlists here.

๐ŸŒญ Dunked, Drunk, n’ Dried Dogs & Potato Wedges ๐Ÿฅ”


There are way too many ways to cook a hot dog. Not long ago, if you suggested I boil some… I would politely have found the quickest way out of that conversation. This time I simmered the dogs in beer, then popped them in the oven on the air-fryer setting.

I blogged about cooking hot dogs in 2010 when I asked how you do it, & later listed a bunch of different ways, and I like to slip them in on the New Year’s Pork n’ Sauerkraut. 2010? Hell, it only took me 15 years to get around to suggestion #3. Were air-fryers popular back then? I think it was just countertop grills.

Then again, sometimes I get weird ideas that won’t go away until they come to fruition. Hot dogs aren’t my favorite food, but they’re fun to make different every time. If not grilling, I like to cook them in the oven, especially when cooking dinner for the family & wanting a whole pack cooked at once. This time I did something different.

Lager-Simmered Air Fried Criss-Cross Cut Hot Dogs & Crispy Potato Wedges!

Man, I miss the legendary Dormont Dogs.

After you read this recipe, tell me what you’d do different, or what you like on your dogs! Oh yeah. sides too. I wanted to use corn starch on the potato wedges, but I was out, so flour it was. It crisped them up just enough to keep it interesting. I was heavy on the black pepper, so they had a bite.

Oh yeah, I cracked open a can of baked beans too.

I used ChatGPT to sort of bounce ideas around, and it helped me make a plan.

๐ŸŒญ๐ŸŒญ๐ŸŒญ

Wieners, โ€™Taters & Beans (Oh My!)

๐Ÿฅ” Potato Wedges

  1. Prep
    • Cut potatoes into wedges, about ยฝ” thick at the skin edge.
    • Soak in cold water 30 minutes (this pulls starch so they crisp better).
    • Drain, blot very dry. Moisture = soggy wedges.
    • Toss in a bowl with:
      • 1โ€“2 Tbsp cornstarch
      • 2 Tbsp oil (olive, canola, or peanut)
      • Seasonings: paprika, garlic/onion powder, salt, pepper, maybe cayenne or smoked paprika for punch.
  2. Cook
    • Oven air fry or convection at 425ยฐF (both will crisp better than standard bake).
    • Spread on parchment-lined sheet, not touching.
    • Cook 25โ€“30 min, flipping halfway.

๐ŸŒญ Hot Dogs

  1. Parboil
    • In a small pot, add:
      • 1 bottle/can Yuengling
      • 1 beef bouillon cube
      • ยฝ tsp onion powder
      • ยฝ tsp minced garlic
      • ยผ tsp ground mustard (optional, but yes itโ€™ll add a tangy depth)
    • Bring to a gentle simmer. Drop in hot dogs, simmer 5โ€“6 min (donโ€™t boil hard).
  2. Finish in Oven
    • After parboil, move hot dogs to a rack or foil-lined pan.
    • Toss them in the oven (same rack as potatoes if you can) for 8โ€“10 min at 425ยฐF (air fry/convection), flipping once, so skins blister and caramelize a little.

๐Ÿฅ– Buns + Cheese

  1. At the last 2โ€“3 min of hot dog oven time, open buns, lay on pan.
  2. Add cheese slices. Toast until buns are warm and cheese is gooey.

๐Ÿ”„ Timing Plan

  1. Start soaking potatoes โ†’ 30 min.
  2. Preheat oven to 425ยฐF (air fry/convection).
  3. While soaking, prep hot dog beer bath.
  4. Drain & coat potatoes. Get them in oven first (they take longest).
    • Timer: 25โ€“30 min.
  5. While wedges cook, simmer hot dogs in beer bath (~5โ€“6 min).
  6. About halfway into potato time (15 min mark), move hot dogs to oven on pan/rack.
    • Theyโ€™ll need ~8โ€“10 min to finish, which lines up with potatoes finishing.
  7. Last 2โ€“3 min: add buns + cheese.

Everything should hit the plate hot at the same time.

๐ŸŒญ๐Ÿซ˜๐Ÿฅ”

๐Ÿซ˜ Drunken Baked Beans

A simple can of beans made rich with the leftover beer broth from the hot dogs. Deep, savory, slightly maltyโ€ฆ itโ€™s like BBQ beans with a secret ingredient.

Ingredients:

  • 1 large can of baked beans
  • ยฝ cup reserved beer broth from hot dogs (strained)
  • 1 tbsp brown sugar
  • 1 tsp mustard (yellow or Dijon)
  • Optional: dash of hot sauce or crumbled bacon

Method:

Taste and adjust seasoning โ€” more sugar if you like sweet, hot sauce if you like heat.

Combine beans with broth, sugar, and mustard in a saucepan.

Simmer low and slow (20โ€“30 minutes), stirring occasionally, until thickened and glossy.


๐Ÿ‘‰ Extra Tips:

  • Flip wedges and hot dogs at halfway for even browning.
  • If wedges look done before hot dogs, crack the oven door and let them hang on residual heat.
  • You can reduce a little of the beer/bouillon liquid into a quick dipping sauce (mix in mustard/ketchup) if you want to go wild.
  • I added the beer/bullion liquid to the baked beans with BBQ sauce… not what ChatGPT suggested.

๐Ÿซ˜๐Ÿซ˜๐Ÿซ˜

Needless to say, I didn’t follow that exactly… but I did toast the buns, & made the dogs to order. Mine had relish, my son’s had fresh jalapeรฑo from the garden, my wife didn’t want cheese, and my daughter didn’t want mustard.

Dunk, Drunk, n' Dried Dogs
Dunk, Drunk, n’ Dried Dogs

I gotta buy some damn corn starch.

Crispy Potato Wedges
Crispy Potato Wedges

I used Yuengling, but I also would use Straub Amber, Penn Pilsner, Lion’s Head, or Smithwick’s. What would you use?

If you do make this, you gotta crank some punk rock Dad Shit. (The Amazon Playlist has more than Spotify.)

Playlist | Proto-Punk ๐Ÿงท


Inspired by the comments on a reddit post, I wanted to dig into some pre-“punk” proto-punk. I set Gemini, ChatGPT, Perplexity, & Copilot to the task as I’m fascinated by their ability to parse & compile information if prompted accurately. (I’m also fascinated my their penchant to provide completely incorrect or even made-up information. Some time I will have to blog about my experiment in having them search restaurant menus in an area to see if they serve shellfish. Copilot recommended some seafood places, so clearly it wants to kill me.)

I added my own stuff that some of them disagreed with, but it is my list after all. ๐Ÿคฃ Going back to little Richard and including Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid” were points of contention, as I would expect from a conversation with people.

Music snobs aficionados, audiophiles, and punk rock gatekeepers will argue all day every day about the origin of punk… but for me, to be clear, it’s the moment that the Ramones’ self-titled album dropped. So, with that in mind I gave the language models this prompt:

There is and always will be constant debate, but if we agree for the premise of this exercise that the Ramones self-titled debut album was the first punk albumโ€ฆ What are 25 songs that should belong on a proto-punk or punk precursor playlist?

I would assume bands that get mentioned as the progenitors would most likely include The Kinks, the Sonics, Link Wray, The Stooges, the MC5, the Velvet Underground, New York Dolls, & more I’m sure to be missing. Maybe even the band Death who hailed from Detroit MI?

All songs on the list should have been released before April 23, 1976โ€ฆ and be listed in order if release date by single or album, whichever dropped first.

This has been corrected for my typically egregious spelling/typing/lack-of-proofreading errors. After tossing the rules to the wind, keeping to the spirit of punk rock, we arrived here:

  • “Little Demon” โ€“ Screaminโ€™ Jay Hawkins (1956)
  • “Tutti Frutti” โ€“ Little Richard (1955)
  • “Whole Lotta Shakinโ€™ Goinโ€™ On” โ€“ Jerry Lee Lewis (1957)
  • “Rumble” โ€“ Link Wray (1958)
  • “La Bamba” โ€“ Ritchie Valens (1958)
  • “Love Me” โ€“ The Phantom (1958)
  • “Louie Louie” โ€“ The Kingsmen (1963)
  • “Surfinโ€™ Bird” โ€“ The Trashmen (1963)
  • “Baby Let Me Take You Home” โ€“ The Animals (1964)
  • “House of the Rising Sun” โ€“ The Animals (1964)
  • “Iโ€™m Crying” โ€“ The Animals (1964)
  • “You Really Got Me” โ€“ The Kinks (1964)
  • “Gloria” โ€“ Them (1964)
  • “I Canโ€™t Explain” โ€“ The Who (1964)
  • “Dirty Water” โ€“ The Standells (1966)
  • “My Generation” โ€“ The Who (1965)
  • “Strychnine” โ€“ The Sonics (1965)
  • “Iโ€™m a Man” โ€“ The Yardbirds (1965)
  • “We Gotta Get Out of This Place” โ€“ The Animals (1965)
  • “96 Tears” โ€“ ? & The Mysterians (1966)
  • “Wild Thing” โ€“ The Troggs (1966)
  • “Complication” โ€“ The Monks (1966)
  • “Psychotic Reaction” โ€“ Count Five (1966)
  • “Pushinโ€™ Too Hard” โ€“ The Seeds (1966)
  • “7 and 7 Is” โ€“ Love (1966)
  • “Iโ€™m Not Like Everybody Else” โ€“ The Kinks (1966)
  • “Youโ€™re Gonna Miss Me” โ€“ The 13th Floor Elevators (1966)
  • “Talk Talk” โ€“ The Music Machine (1966)
  • “Iโ€™m Waiting for the Man” โ€“ The Velvet Underground (1967)
  • “Doctor Please” โ€“ Blue Cheer (1968)
  • “Sister Ray” โ€“ The Velvet Underground (1968)
  • “Fire” โ€“ The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (1968)
  • “Jigsaw Puzzle” โ€“ The Rolling Stones (1968)
  • “Kick Out the Jams” โ€“ MC5 (1969)
  • “I Wanna Be Your Dog” โ€“ The Stooges (1969)
  • “Little Doll” โ€“ The Stooges (1969)
  • “TV Eye” โ€“ The Stooges (1970)
  • “Paranoid” โ€“ Black Sabbath (1970)
  • “Get It On” โ€“ T. Rex (1971)
  • “Schoolโ€™s Out” โ€“ Alice Cooper (1972)
  • “Suffragette City” โ€“ David Bowie (1972)
  • “Raw Power” โ€“ Iggy & The Stooges (1973)
  • “Search and Destroy” โ€“ The Stooges (1973)
  • “Personality Crisis” โ€“ New York Dolls (1973)
  • “Jet Boy” โ€“ New York Dolls (1973)
  • “Urban Guerrilla” โ€“ Hawkwind (1973)
  • “Violence” โ€“ Mott the Hoople (1973)
  • “Cum On Feel the Noize” โ€“ Slade (1973)
  • “Editions of You” โ€“ Roxy Music (1973)
  • “Ooh La La” โ€“ Faces (1973)
  • “Subway Train” โ€“ New York Dolls (1974)
  • “Hey Joe” โ€“ Patti Smith Group (1975)
  • “Piss Factory” โ€“ Patti Smith (1975)
  • “Roxette” โ€“ Dr. Feelgood (1976)
  • “The Next Big Thing” โ€“ The Dictators (1975)
  • “Chez Maximes” โ€“ The Hollywood Brats (1976)
  • “After Eight” โ€“ Neu! (1975)
  • “Ghost Rider” โ€“ Suicide (1977)
  • “Little Johnny Jewel” โ€“ Television (1975)
  • “30 Seconds Over Tokyo” โ€“ Pere Ubu (1975)
  • “Burn My Eye” โ€“ Radio Birdman (1976)
  • “Politicians in My Eyes” โ€“ Death (1976)
  • “Cherry Bomb” โ€“ The Runaways (1976)
  • “Roadrunner” โ€“ The Modern Lovers (1976)
  • “She Cracked” โ€“ The Modern Lovers (1976)
  • “Shake Some Action” โ€“ Flaminโ€™ Groovies (1976)
  • “Blank Generation” โ€“ Richard Hell & the Voidoids (1977)
  • “Anarchy in the U.K.” โ€“ The Sex Pistols (1976)
  • “Sonic Reducer” โ€“ Dead Boys (1977)
  • “Neat Neat Neat” โ€“ The Damned (1977)
  • “Chinese Rocks” โ€“ Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers (1977)
  • “Psycho Killer” โ€“ Talking Heads (1977)

I used Tune My Music to import it to Spotify from a text file, then copy to Amazon Music from there. I tried to go to Amazon first, but it messed up quite a bit of the songs. I did have to add “7 and 7 Is” by Love manually as it shows as “Seven and Seven Is” on Spotify. It weirdly plopped a Bob Marley song in that spot. Amazon was full of weird covers and the wrong songs when trying to import from text.

So, what do you think of the list? What’s missing? What needs added? Are my parameters skewed? Do you not accept anything past the date of what parameters were set? What obscure band that 14 people heard at the time is missing from this list? Don’t come at me with the Sex Pistols over the Ramones. Should we whittle it back to 25? Only have 1 song per artist? Come at me with healthy discourse.

Looking for a video of that one time I sang “I Turned Into a Martian” on stage with the Misfits.


Every once in a while, I just throw this into the รฆther just to see if it gets any response. One time, I got to pop up on stage and sing “I Turned Into a Martian” while Jerry Only played bass, sang, & Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein played guitar, & Goat (a.k.a. Eric Acre, a.k.a. “Chupacabra”) played drums. I’d love to find a video of it if it’s out there.

We take for granted that everything is recorded these days, but back then it wasn’t. Misfits bootleg videos were a hot trade commodity at one point online. I’m pretty sure this show was recorded, because Crowbar had closed-circuit TV’s that were displaying the show as it happened. It may have been deleted or not recorded, it may have hit a personal private collection. Someone else may have been in-house recording. Not sure if Doug Evil was there?

Thanks to Misfits Central & Concert Archives, I now have a specific date: Sunday, November 5, 2000. It was at the now-defunct Crowbar in State College, PA.

Actually, thanks to the Wayback Machine, I found some old photos form the show! Problem being I guess that I took them, but did not hand off my camera while I was on stage.

An-Die & I road-tripped to State College several times with several different groups to see the Misfits in several iterations in addition to seeing them a bunch in Pittsburgh… so my memories may be conflated. I know Russ from TVCasualty.com was there!

I’m pretty sure Murphy’s Law & Impotent Sea Snakes also played. I only remember this because Goat was pulling double duty, and our friend Laurel was apparently hit in the face with an… adult toy… during the ISS set.

I remember An-Die telling me that I had stage presence, and obviously Jerry Only has a huge stage presence, and it did not jive. Ha ha. I’m sure I looked weird, but holy shit it was fun. (I always feel weird signing without a guitar in my hands anyway.)

Another fun fact, this was after I had broken my nose, and i was wearing a bandage covering most of my face. I know I have photos of that somewhere but I cannot find any.


The Misfits - 11/05/2000 lineup @ Crowbar in State College PA | Jerry Only, Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein, Eric Goat/Chupacabra Acre, & some random a-hole.
The Misfits – 11/05/2000 lineup @ Crowbar in State College PA | Jerry Only, Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein, Eric Goat/Chupacabra Acre, & some random a-hole.

Oh yeah, I broke my nose stage diving at American Music Cafรฉ. Who’s set was it? I think it was Third Place, Tybalt, or maybe even Ten Pounds Lighter/Secrets Lie Within. I just remember someone fake kicking me that ended up not being a fake kick, a weird celery crunching noise, and my nose being mostly under one eye. I ought to try to chronicle old show stories some day.

I was the Fiend Club “Chapter Head” for a minute in the late 90’s early 00’s, so I got to see the band when they were in & around town. I think Jerry & Rocky sort-of kind-of knew who I was, but I always tried to not be a pain in the ass & ask for stuff or to get on the Turbo Die or anything. It was a fun time in life.

If you have the video, or have info that could help me track it down, I’d really appreciate it! Feel free to help by sharing this in fan forums & what-not online. We Are 138!

You can hit me up at the contact form here, on Threads, on FB, on Instagram, on BlueSky, TikTok, YouTube, or even X.

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Stolen Mazes! (Someone took my art.) ๐Ÿคฌ


So, I recently got an interesting message via my contact form:

Hello,

I bought a book in germany and in that book a "Kurt Heppke"
from "Norderstedt : Books on Demand" is using your artwork.
Did you ever give permission to that? I can send you more information if needed.

Greetings from Germany, Hamburg

I did write back, but have yet to receive a reply. I would like to thank you Jakob, for reaching out! Not sure how you found me, but then again maybe I am sure as the one stolen maze is kind of highly specific in subject matter, but we’ll get to that.

I did do some light Googling though, like a modern-day super lazy Sherlock Holmes (or at least Dick Tracy). The ever-so-helpful auto AI summary was actually kind of enlightening…

An AI summary via Google about some weenis that stole a bunch of mazes to create print-on-demand books.

Yeah. That one past stuck out.

“He finds inspiration for his books by browsing graphic portals and libraries.”

I take that to mean “Bruh finds shit on Pinterest or Google image search and steals it to put into his books.”

Cover of Labyrinthe: Leichte Schwere und ganz ganz Schwere by Kurt Heppke, stealer of images.

I did find a book creatively titled Labyrinthe: Leichte Schwere und ganz ganz Schwere, which according to Google Translate says Labyrinths: Light, heavy, and very, very heavy. It luckily had a link that looked like a preview link, and I was able to see inside part of the book.

Mr. Heppke has a website, and apparently several books. I know that print-on-demand can be looked down upon by “real” publishers, and these are considered “low content” books, but theft is theft.

I have been drawing mazes since I was a kid, maybe 4th grade or so? I have put a bunch up on the internet (especially at this blog among other older sites) for free over the years. I don’t need this dude or anybody stealing my stuff, taking credit for it, or making money off of it. Oh yeah, taking credit? Dude has stones. That sure looks like a ยฉ 2022 to me by his name in a book full of mazes that he didn’t draw.

Two of my mazes appear to have been pilfered:

Bruh took a bunch of mazes, but these are mine,

The original posts can be found here:

I know I have pinned them in the past, so they may be floating around there too. There are probably about 100 people on the planet who have heard, saw, heard about, or remember my old punk band, AiXeLsyD. Why take that maze? Our logo is right there beside a terrible drawing of my 1986 Buick SkyHawk. Weird. Also, it name drops Sheetz & Wendy’s as places to not stop (as well as a nudie bar). They may have a harder copyright infringement case than me? ๐Ÿคฃ I’m sure the maze is much older than 2012. The quality of the scan & the coloring is BAD.

The AiXeL-Mobile (1986 Buick SkyHawk)

I have thought about collecting all my old stuff for a book… but the thought of checking to see if they’re passable & providing solutions is overwhelming, and now that I put out You Can See Yourself Out, I feel like I have a level of quality that I need to maintain. Drawing the mazes & posting them has always kind of been a creative outlet & stress relief for me. I think I’d need to re-scan the pile of stuff that I have, and the stuff that I just posted to social media with phone pictures if I were to do it right… and include solitions.

I’m not doing art to get rich, or even make a living… but if I can fund keeping this blog AiXeLsyD13.com, and buy some art supplies, that would be awesome. I have made tens of dollars off of my books and merch. That’s not a complaint by any means, but some dude across the globe shouldn’t be making money off of my art. (As an aside, check this shit out! Art theft is rampant, and following @kilkennycat_art on Threads has opened my eyes to it.)

Which brings me to the other mazes here. I’m sure just by looking at the style, there’s a few mazes by renowned cartoonist, maze artist, & educational television host Joe Wos. I think there’s at least one by Sean C. Jackson. The cover appears to be by Brian Hilbert (Check out his Pittsburgh maze!).

Maze artists: Is your maze art here?

An index of stolen mazes assembled & being sold by Kurt Heppke.

I have tried to lift up other maze artists here. It’s a weird little niche. We gotta look out for each other, in my opinion. I did post about this issue on r/mazes, too.

I’m unsure of my next step. Is reaching out directly to Norderstedt Books on Demand and/or Kurt Heppke directly via email with some sort of cease and desist the way to go? Is that at all official? Is Google Translate even gonna get it right?

I don’t have any written verbiage here about my mazes being copyrighted, but I do have dated posts, and I think copyright is implied with any created works… no? I have no idea how any of it works really within the US, let alone internationally & specifically in Germany.

It also looks like this damn thing is available on more than a few sites:

…and so many more.

At any rate, I implore you to by mazes (or any art) from the artist through their official channels… or enjoy the many free mazes that are put out there by all of us.

So, Cease-and-Desist email or letter? DMCA Takedown? Both? Lawyer up? I’m assuming there is not much to financially recover with print-on-demand sales. I just don’t want anyone making money off of my art other than myself.

<shameless plug> Speaking of that, you can support your favorite punk rock letter-writing goofball maze artist by buying a copy of So I Finally Made a Maze Book or You Can See Yourself Out, or getting some cool swag from my TeePublic or RedBubble stores. </shameless plug> If you’re not inclined to make a purchase, that’s cool too. Maybe share the links, or just enjoy all the free mazes here, & check out all the other maze artists?

I look forward to your thoughts & advice in the comments!

Rock N’ Roll Movies ๐ŸŽฌ


I like rock n’ roll movies. I’ve seen a bunch. I still need to see a lot of them, or it’s been too long to remember what I thought of them.

What are your favorites? Mine are noted below: โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜… is good โ˜…โ˜†โ˜†โ˜†โ˜† is bad. I just threw them in a table, then sorted by rating then title.

Please don’t say Rock of Ages. I have no interest in musicals. ๐Ÿคฃ

I used AI to partially successfully create a table with as-of-now correct IMDB & RT ratings. I’ll copy & paste it below, & link to my spreadsheet.

AiXeLsyD13’s Rock N’ Roll Movie List!
Movie:My Rating:IMDB:RT ๐Ÿ…:RT ๐Ÿฟ:Category:
A Mighty Windโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…7.287%82%Comedy
Airheadsโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…6.222%57%Comedy
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventureโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…7.081%75%Comedy
Boom: A Film About the Sonicsโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…8.9n/an/aDocumentary
Empire Musicโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…6.831%84%Comedy
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Sagaโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…6.563%81%Comedy
Fat Kid Rules the Worldโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…6.484%61%Drama
Heavier Tripโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…6.091%n/aComedy
Heavy Tripโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…7.094%85%Comedy
Honeysuckle Roseโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…6.360%74%Drama
Josie and the Pussycatsโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…5.653%53%Comedy
Lemmy: 49% Motherf**ker, 51% Son of a Bitchโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…7.789%88%Documentary
Mad Tigerโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…6.767%57%Documentary
Mission to Larsโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…6.781%70%Documentary
Pick It Up!: Ska in the ’90sโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…8.0n/an/aDocumentary
Rayโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…7.780%87%Biopic
School of Rockโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…7.292%64%Comedy
The Other F Wordโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…7.278%82%Documentary
The Punk Syndromeโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…7.894%87%Documentary
This Is Spinal Tapโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…7.995%82%Comedy
Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punkโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…7.882%93%Documentary
Walk the Lineโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…7.882%90%Biopic
Willie Nelson & Family (series)โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…8.386%100%Documentary
8 Mileโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜†7.275%54%Drama
Anvil: The Story of Anvilโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜†7.998%89%Documentary
Beware Mr. Bakerโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜†7.698%81%Documentary
Bill & Ted Face the Musicโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜†6.082%65%Comedy
Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journeyโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜†6.356%56%Comedy
End of the Century: The Story of the Ramonesโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜†8.190%91%Documentary
It Might Get Loudโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜†7.680%84%Documentary
Muscle Shoalsโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜†7.797%90%Documentary
Ordinary Worldโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜†5.553%46%Drama
Searching for Sugar Manโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜†8.295%92%Documentary
Sound Cityโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜†7.8100%90%Documentary
Straight Outta Comptonโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜†7.889%91%Biopic
The Blues Brothersโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜†7.973%87%Comedy
Wayne’s Worldโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜†7.079%84%Comedy
Whiskey on a Sundayโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜†8.9n/an/aDocumentary
A Complete Unknownโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜†โ˜†7.4n/an/aBiopic
Almost Famousโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜†โ˜†7.989%92%Drama
Metal Lordsโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜†โ˜†6.762%84%Comedy
Metallica: Through The Neverโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜†โ˜†7.182%74%Drama
Onceโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜†โ˜†7.897%91%Drama
Rock ‘n’ Roll High Schoolโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜†โ˜†6.781%70%Comedy
Rockstarโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜†โ˜†6.352%57%Drama
Some Kind of Monsterโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜†โ˜†7.589%86%Documentary
Studio 666โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜†โ˜†5.756%80%Horror/Comedy
That Thing You Do!โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜†โ˜†6.993%82%Comedy
The Rockerโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜†โ˜†6.241%57%Comedy
The Runawaysโ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜†โ˜†6.570%66%Biopic
Wayne’s World 2โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜†โ˜†6.260%61%Comedy
CBGBโ˜…โ˜…โ˜†โ˜†โ˜†6.67%39%Biopic
Hired Gunโ˜…โ˜…โ˜†โ˜†โ˜†7.240%72%Documentary
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School Foreverโ˜…โ˜…โ˜†โ˜†โ˜†4.6n/a55%Comedy
SLC Punkโ˜…โ˜…โ˜†โ˜†โ˜†7.463%89%Drama
The Dirtโ˜…โ˜…โ˜†โ˜†โ˜†7.039%94%Biopic
Hysteria: The Def Leppard Storyโ˜…โ˜†โ˜†โ˜†โ˜†6.6n/a57%Biopic
Becoming Led Zeppelinn/an/an/an/aDocumentary
Bohemian Rhapsodyn/a7.960%85%Biopic
Cadillac Recordsn/a7.066%68%Biopic
Elvisn/a7.377%94%Biopic
Gutterdammerungn/a7.6n/an/aWeird
Heavy Metal Parking Lotn/a7.583%78%Documentary
High Fidelityn/a7.591%90%Drama
Jimi: All Is By My Siden/a5.768%41%Biopic
Junen/a7.5100%83%Documentary
Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Parkn/a4.8n/a60%Action
La Bamban/a6.991%78%Biopic
Metal: A Headbanger’s Journeyn/a8.090%91%Documentary
Punk’s Deadn/a4.6n/a36%Drama
Punks Not Deadn/a7.090%76%Documentary
Rocketmann/a7.389%88%Biopic
Sid & Nancyn/a7.088%84%Biopic
Sound of Metaln/a7.797%90%Drama
The Buddy Holly Storyn/a7.1100%82%Biopic
The Decline of Western Civilizationn/a7.5100%83%Documentary
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Yearsn/a7.276%76%Documentary
The Decline of Western Civilization Part IIIn/a7.2100%80%Documentary
The Doorsn/a7.258%83%Biopic

As I have finished up, damnit I forgot Filmage, Tenacious D’s Pick of Destiny (& the TV show), Crossroads, Purple Rain, Frank, CB4, Big Money Hustlas, Salad Days, Pump Up The Volume, We Are Lady Parts, Popstar, Beavis & Butt-head, Breakin’, Pirate Radio, & more. I’m gonna have to do a part 2. Or maybe this is part 2 or 3 already? I blogged about rock movies back in 2012 a bit, & about rock docs.