On Vox: A few things
The new Built to Spill album is the best album to come out in the last 10 years (when Keep it Like a Secret came out). Go buy it right now. It's a bit darker in tone than the last few Built to Spill albums, and includes the closest thing Doug has written to a Treepeople song since... well... Treepeople (a eulogy to State of Confusion's Pat ( Read more... )
As for Tofurky, I'm probably going to get one for Thanksgiving. No joke. I love that shit. And I don't particularly like actual turkey.
As for farts, nothing does it for me quite like Chinese. For some reason that always just gives me the worst farts ever smelled. I think it's the combination of hot tea and spicy sauces with the fiber in the vegetables kinda all stewin' in my belly and creating monstrous gas in the process.
But I need to start eating lighter regardless. I'm getting a tad plump myself. I think I might just start trying to limit myself to one serving of actual meat a day and maybe lower fat cheese. My metabolism isn't really diggin' on the non-vegan diet, and no matter how much I work out, the gut is definitely showin' it.
Man, I need to get out of Boise alone soon. I sort of want to attempt to relocate to California and try and figure out some way to get a prescription for weed. The Fest sounds like it's gonna be sweet as hell. Who all are you going for?
And yeah. Phish is great. The musicianship alone puts most bands to shame. And while they have their share of really lame songs and overly goofy covers, when they're on, they kill it. I think a lot of people just sort of miss the point of Phish and consider them just sort of a bunch of Grateful Dead wannabes. But really, what they're doing doesn't really have much to do with what the Grateful Dead did beyond a superficial level. Where the Grateful Dead took more of a country approach to the whole "jam" thing, Phish are all over the place and they incorporate about 20 more years' worth of influence than The Dead ever did just because they had that to draw from. The variety is definitely nice.
Although it's not everything. I've been listening to a lot of Gov't Mule lately too. And they're not really known for variety so much as for doing one thing really well. All I know is any band that releases a live album on which they cover "War Pigs" and "Cortez the Killer" in the same show (and do a good job) is cool by me.
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I've still never experienced the west coast, and it's something I am itching to do soon. I've endlessly read awesome things from people from California, and although I doubt I'd like the LA area at all, San Francisco sounds awesome. Everyone from Charles Bukowski to Nolan Bushnell (Atari) always talk about a "west coast" mentality that totally appeals to me. It's a place where I've seen pictures of C+ tagged on bridges, and is more interesting to me now than ever. Plus yes, their weed reform is incredible. I mean, you can't get arrested for possession here, but it's still not legalized by any means. I hate how most states have such archaic marijuana laws. Aging dinosaurs of politicians need to get the hell over themselves already - at this point the amount of cultural distance between the dumbed-down population and the out of touch old folk's home of a legislature is alarming at the least. I think we should all try to live off the grid at some point, the idea sounds so fucking cool to me.
Haha, and as for tofurky... it just rules, end of story. What you said was true though, much like so-called "imitation" meat should, it blows out like weed on the nether end, haha.
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Well, weed is definitely not really legal in California, either. It's just generally tolerated in certain areas (and not at all tolerated in others - believe it or not, California is far more conservative than most people give it "credit" for). Still, I think in our lifetimes, we'll see at least some progress on legalization thanks to groups like NORML and SAFER. But full legalization is probably still a long way off, even in California. I think Mexico will probably legalize before they do. They just passed a nationwide decrim bill in August, so we'll see where that goes. Hopefully not the way of their last attempt to decriminalize in 2006, where the US government started openly questioning their "commitment to the war on drugs" and spooked them back into less enlightened drug laws for 3 years.
The biggest problem I see is that the legislature really isn't that out of touch with the population. The people have exactly the elected officials they deserve. It's a shame, because those of us who aren't completely fucking retarded have to suffer for it.
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Everyone got so up in arms about the '08 election, and I'll admit - I got caught up in the show business myself, being so sick and tired of Bush, and forgetting the fact that it was all a farce. Just like any politician, pretty much most of the things he stated before being elected have not and will not ever come to fruition. Everyone cheered when he signed the order closing Guantanamo, without bothering to even take a look at the horrific provisions that executive order included. Indefinite detention without trial still exists.
But most alarming of all, the people Obama appointed are just the same brigade of bullshit. Secretary of the treasury... Timothy Geithner? I mean, the man who used to run the New York Fed? Yeah... there's a lot of "hope" and "change" in having one of the most powerful members of Wall street run the country's treasury, and packed the whole department full of Wall street lobbyists - that's just one thing I'll point out, but every one of his appointees come from the same exact elitist breed that the Bush administration took from, and probably the Clinton administration took from, and the list goes on.
Everyone was getting pretty pissed and beginning to pay attention by 2008, then Obama gets elected, and the game continues. The establishment has won again, and we'll continue to get screwed, this time under a new puppet with academy-award winning acting skills.
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