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In the Comfort of Your Home
A few centimeters of steel
thrust in a slab of tree
is all that stands between the world
and my blessed privacy
A world of red eyed thieves
of bureaucratic rogues
A society of fear
guarded by numeric code
A few scraps of paper
an infusion of rare ink
is all that stands between myself
and the brink of poverty
We have expectations
and we have the TV
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Culture and Lack Thereof
Being American, I am keenly aware of my lack of culture. Culture is something inborn that dictates life. For Americans, culture isn’t a rite of passage, a hand-me-down, in the same way as it is for people like Jews or Aborigines. Culture is an intersection of media and commerce. Culture is a brand preference. We have the luxury of choosing our ( Read more... ) -
The Rapture!
It’s the rapture
and I have to work tomorrow
It’s the rapture
I gotta wake up early in the morning
It’s the rapture and I can’t stay up late
to see the arrival of the Great Savior
So I’d best repent now
and say all of my prayers
I didn’t give anything up for Lent
Oh shit! There’s garbage at the stairs
It’s the rapture and I can’t celebrate
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And the Beat Goes On...
I wrote this almost seven years ago. Like most of the “poetry”/songs/verses/whathefuckever you want to call ‘em, it was a mystery to me. It just fell out of my moving fingertips. Those are always my favorite ones, the ones that have no meaning. The ones that are total free association, that are an involuntary access of my subconscious.
I wrote ( Read more... ) -
Buddy Comedies
From Stephen Holden’s sublime liner notes for Reprise’s The Very Best of Frank Sinatra:
The arc of his career, with its swift rise, slow descent, and meteoric comeback also made him a role model for survivors of every stripe. What other entertainment figure had fallen so far, then re-ascended to new undreamed-of heights?
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His metamorphosis from ( Read more... ) -
Starch and Protein
You deserve a sound braining ( Read more... ) -
Wait and See
One day ( Read more... ) -
You Cannot Wear That In This Heat
From an R.E.M. concert chronology (http://members.iinet.net.au/~darryl74/1984.htmlRead more... ) -
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Lunchbox has a buy 2 get 1 free thing going on used CDs, so I treated myself to the following:
James Brown, The Payback - The only proper record of James Brown’s I’ve heard that wasn’t a compilation of some sort. It focuses on longer and grittier jams, and features particularly tasty bass work.
Echo and the Bunnymen, Songs to Learn & Sing - A ( Read more... )
