June 29, 2008
June 27, 2008
Do you remember?
Just some timely appropriate lyrics: Welcome home! 
Husker Du – Do you remember?
We do it all for fun you know
Get loaded after the show, it’s all part of the scene
Don’t hate us, we’re just kids
People say we’re behind the times,
go ahead and see if I care
Do you remember?
When you were our age
Do you remember?
June 23, 2008
George Carlin. Don’t RIP!
So many losses this last year or so: Thompson, Mailer, Vonnegut, and now Carlin. Reckon if there were a heaven they would be “at peace?” They would be kicking the shit out of death as they did in life!
“Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man…living in the sky, who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer and burn and scream until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you and he needs money.” — George Carlin
June 22, 2008
Hope or despair.
This is a very ambivalent song, when studied closely. Is it about despair, hope, freedom, redemption or survival?
For me, all those things apply. But let’s aim for hope and redemption and freedom
Bob Mould – Sacrifice.
If I ride on the rails
I shall ride them alone
And if I need all this pain
I will find it alone
If Im wanted for leaving
I will leave here alone
And if I cant resist this
Then I am unfit to go on
A simple solution is all I require
If fire is the passion I only aspire to be free
Let me be free
If the strain on your conscience gets under your skin
And leads you to making a sacrifice
Sacrifice me
Let there be peace
To the grave from the cradle
We dont rock anymore
Now I stand here with both feet
Planted firm on the floor
And if youre planning a future
Of indefinite grace
Youd better start removing
The lines of deceit from your face
A simple conclusion is all I require
If fire is the passion I only aspire to be free
Let me be free
And all of the hypocrites lie through their teeth
Talk about making a sacrifice
Sacrifice me
Let there be peace
How much longer can all this go on?
How many more choices can one person have?
And all of the questions with no proper answers
Continue continue
Have to go on have to go on have to go on
Should I bend down and worship the ground
Of the beautiful people who live without flaws?
Success is a virtue to share with the world
But failures a lesson thats best learned alone
Respect is a virtue that strong men command
But when words become weapons
Therell be peace in the valley of death when I rise
Peace in the valley of death when I rise
