You Fill Me With Inertia

I've been expending my vital fluids elsewhere (http://www.myspace.com/beautifulsupermachines) trying to get a vast, pretentious, super inside-job pop-culture-referencing album recorded, but I promise to get back to charming my tiny "audience" here in 2009. And: quit smoking.

I'm Sorry But: WHAT THE FUCK?

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/blotter/entries/2008/11/21/bag_on_luggage_cart_catches_fi.html

A piece of baggage, just off a Southwest Airlines flight from Las Vegas, CATCHES FIRE AFTER BEING PLACE ON A CART.

Yeah, investigate the cause. Please.

The Department Of Who Cares

"Guns 'n' Roses" (Axlosaurus Pitifilii) is streaming his new album on MySpace tonight.

15 year-long yawn ensues, a grieving nation sells its bandanas.

Actual democracy in China came closer to fruition in the meantime.


http://www.myspace.com/gunsnroses

I'm so glad that's all over. Now for the MBV album.

New Nails Required In Reagan's Coffin

From the NYT bailout-rejection story just after the vote:

Representative Darrell Issa, a Republican, said he was “resolute” in his opposition to the measure because it would betray party principles and amount to “a coffin on top of Ronald Reagan’s coffin.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/business/30bailout.html?hp

Issa is the guy who started the California Gov. recall, bankrolled it, then withdrew from the race.

Whatever, I say nail that sucker shut tightly, as if it were nuke plant waste.

Indie Rock is Dead; Long Live...eh, never mind.

When a genre (just read the ad copy for the definitive definition of Indie Rock(s) in your mouth), gets to the 'construction kit' era, it's time to run for cover.

I find it's the "indie rock nuts" that are most annoying.

Good songs are the grown-up equivalent of putting your liquid assets into precious metals.

Or as the copy says: A bulletproof toolbox full of indie rock nuts and bolts, Black Paint dials directly into today's popular formats, from power pop ballads and dance-rock stormers to big time anthems with riffs that stick like duct tape.

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/blackpaint

Self-Esteem and Self-Medication

The Mets. It's that time of year when they play like a junkie that believes they don't deserve success and squander everything.

http://www.mugshots.com/IMAGES/Mugshot__Robert-Downey-Jr.jpg

Palin Witchcraft Exorcism OR The Consequences of a US Nuclear First Strike Against Itself

I am hallucinating, aren't I? Those aren't soup kitchens being built, are they? Meanwhile, Ms. Nero continues to string her bow. She appears at around 7:30.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl4HIc-yfgM

Remember, if you see a mushroom cloud, walk towards the peaceful, cleansing light. The options are too horrible to contemplate.

Like the one alien-abducted guy in a cage in the UFO in that one X-Files episode that was a parody and had Charles Nelson Reilly in it and the aliens and stuff, you just want to say "this isn't happening, this isn't happening......"