Ecoheretic

Tag: Absurd

  • Drink – Alestorm

    “We live each day like there’s nothing to lose
    But a man has needs and the need is booze
    They say all the best things in life are free
    So give all your beer and your rum to me“

    Heavy Metal Pirates!  I Haven’t seen them live  yet, but to me this is absurdity is at genius levels.

    Piracy’s a crime and crime doesn’t pay
    And we go home poor at the end of the day
    But I’d rather live my life in rags
    Than be chained to a desk with a wife that’s a hag

    We live each day like there’s nothing to lose
    But a man has needs and the need is booze
    They say all the best things in life are free
    So give all your beer and your rum to me

    We are here to drink your beer
    And steal your rum at the point of a gun
    Your alcohol to us will fall
    ‘Cause we are here to drink your beer
    We are here to drink your beer
    And steal your rum at the point of a gun
    Your alcohol to us will fall
    ‘Cause we are here to drink your beer

    Drink, drink, drink, drink
    Drink, drink, drink, drink
    Drink, drink, drink, drink
    Drink, drink, drink

    We sailed Over the Seas for Wenches and Mead
    And told great tales of the Huntmaster’s deeds
    The Quest for a drop of That Famous Ol’ Spiced
    Has shown us the wrath of Leviathan’s bite
    We went Back Through Time to get more Rum
    Though we end up Shipwrecked having no fun
    But Heavy Metal Pirates we must be
    So give all your beer and your rum to me

    We are here to drink your beer
    And steal your rum at the point of a gun
    Your alcohol to us will fall
    ‘Cause we are here to drink your beer
    We are here to drink your beer
    And steal your rum at the point of a gun
    Your alcohol to us will fall
    ‘Cause we are here to drink your beer

    We are here to drink your beer
    And steal your rum at the point of a gun
    Your alcohol to us will fall
    ‘Cause we are here to drink your beer
    We are here to drink your beer
    And steal your rum at the point of a gun
    Your alcohol to us will fall
    ‘Cause we are here to drink your beer

    Drink, drink, drink, drink
    Drink, drink, drink, drink

    Written by: Christopher Bowes, Lasse Lammert Album: Sunset on the Golden Age
    Released: 2014

  • King of Fools

    Every space in my life is filled.

    Except for the most important space, which has been void for ages. The void is immense, and I doubt now it will ever be filled again.

    Things, nicknaks, books in towers, shoes upon shoes, pans atop pans, prints upon prints. So many “things”. Things purchased not out of need, but to fill someone elses void. Things saved and forgotten in boxes, to collect dust for nostalgia? Need?

    No amount of organizing, cleaning, no matter how much you do ever matters, nor works. The teetring mountain of things will overwhelm you, it will tip over on you and you will become lost in the clutter.

    When you realize that you are part of the clutter, just another thing with no space left for self. So you forget who you are, and give up more space until you are part of the background, part of the clutter in someone elses life.

    Then you become the house, to hold the clutter. The Foundation, encompassing all, keeping things safe, keeping the peace, like Atlas all of the weight is on your shoulders.

    Then you disappear, until you speak up, only to be given a performance to pull you back,  to get you to go silent, to forget again, to meld back into the clutter. To get you to be a creek in the wood of the foundation on a freezing day.

    Woe, my story is the story of millions of others, both men and women, i know im not alone in this tale. Just another fool/tool; be it fear of being alone, or keeping your honor and word out of pride, or not giving up in the face of overwhelming defeat. Where is the logic in any of that when you finally realize you are a thing? Knowing that you are a provider, a foundation, the protection, but not valued or recognized for any of it, or shown real affection or love. You are just a thing to be used for the comfort of others.

    This my dear, is what fools do. Maybe im the king of fools. To know the truth, walking that fine line between speaking truth to power, but at the same time knowing you’re the punchline of the biggest self-owning joke of all time.


    Actually, on second thought, Mike Ness can keep his crown. I have no need to be the king of anything.

      ©️ Jacob Pickard. 2026.

  • Burning Christmas – A Tale of Terror

    I don’t think Im cut out to write a children’s book. Ive always wanted to, but somehow my absurd & dark sense of humor always takes the house.

  • Lifetime – Dark Future Philosophical Sci-Fi

                                LIFETIME

  • Shift – Dark Future Science Fiction

    SHIFT

  • Cacophony

    Cacophony Album Cover – Rudementary Peni release 1988

    A wall of sound, like a train into solid mountain granite

    A cacophonic quartet of smashing rhythm

    Surrounded by darkness and a halo of thin light.

    The bar, black walls, stale smoke and beer

    Illumination of execution by genocide, crucifixion for/of beliefs

    Murder, letting of blood

    Metamorphosis

    Material to ethereal, body to spirit

    Or some would call it glory, ascendancy of man to heaven

    Cyclical thunderous melody, droning and blooming into monotonous complexity

    Bombastic renewal of circles cycles, of intricate repetition.

    The eye of Isis, the death and rebirth of Osiris. The annual flooding of the Nile.

    Life is a system, the process of rearrangement of cyclical moving parts, like a wall of sound.



    Written around ~1995 after seeing the band Neurosis at Okayz Corral in Madison, WI. It was so loud I couldn’t hear correctly for an entire week.  ©Jacob A Pickard.  2025.

  • “As long as people continue to believe absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.”

    Attributed to Voltaire

  • Putting things in Perspective

    Whenever life gets you down, Mrs Brown
    And things seem hard or tough
    And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft
    And you feel that you’ve had quite enough

    Absurdum for our absurd cruel world.

    So remember when you’re feeling very small and insecure
    How amazingly unlikely is your birth
    And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space
    ‘Cause there’s bugger all down here on earth

  • ALIEN_RELAY – ISSUE #7

    ALIEN_RELAY – ISSUE #7

  • ALIEN_RELAY – ISSUE #6

    Epithetic text
    A macabre rality perplexed

    Execrations – literary tales of atrocities fairy
    Exoneration – harsh, cold bloody marys
    Excogitation – a narcissistic eutechnique
    Exculpitation – perverse artworks, so unique

    Monographic text, a literary vex
    The macabre perplexed, with reality meshed

  • ALIEN_RELAY – ISSUE #5

    ALIEN_RELAY – ISSUE #5

  • ALIEN_RELAY – ISSUE #4

    ALIEN_RELAY – ISSUE #4

  • Emoji Haiku for the Bad Apple

    Apple 🍎 crisp?

    Soft, mealy 🤮

    Fuck 🖕that Apple

       ©️  Jacob Pickard. 2025.

  • ALIEN_RELAY – ISSUE #3

    ALIEN_RELAY – ISSUE #3

  • ALIEN_RELAY – ISSUE #2

    ALIEN_RELAY – ISSUE #2

  • How to create a quote

    Saw lot’s of quotes of wisdom when I was on SS; this is the best i could do. 🤷‍♂️
  • Hot Cock

    Hot Cock

    Cock filled with hot sauce

    I’m usually not one to use my wired space for intense philosophical questions & reflection, for Absurdum. But I am anyway, I present to you a hot cock in all it’s glory.