MY NATIONAL ANTHEM: desaparecidos - "the happiest place on earth"
I want to pledge allegiance to the country where I live
I don't want to be ashamed to be American
But opportunity no, it don't exist
It's the opiate of the populace
We need some harder shit now
The truth is getting around
And each public school is a halfway house
Where the huddled masses sober up and up enough There's not enough to fatten the cows
And feed all of us
It's just a rationing of luck
What can't be bought gets raffled off
Oh God good God shed greed on thee
Your shining sea turned a dirty green
From the industry off the shores of New Jersey
I got a letter from the army
So I think that I'll enlist
I'm not brave or proud of nothing
I just want to kill something
Too bad that now-a-days you just point and click Swing low satellite
Hot white chariot
In the computer's blue glare
The bombs burst in the air
There was a city once now nothing is there
Our freedom comes at their expense
It makes sense, does it? Dollars and cents
They're stretching barbed wire across the picket fence
That is surrounding your housing development
Just in case you lack the confidence
Oh God my God give strength to thee
These amber waves purple majesty
Are nothing but backdrops for Disney
We'll look up close
It is superimposed on a blank blue screen
It is fantasy fucking magical
The dreams floats like a chemical
Through each snapped synapse our television past That is beautiful no more no more
We cannot run from who we are. Our destiny chooses us.
Music
!!! annie a-trak
barrington levy bob dylan belle & sebastian dj mark the 45 king a tribe called quest afrikka bambaataa and the soulsonic force aimee mann al green armani xxxchange bauhaus big star billie holliday bjork black sabbath bloc party brian jonestown massacre built to spill butterfly train chad vangaalen charles mingus cocteau twins david bowie david brookings david ruffin desaparecidos devo dexter gordon diplo django reinhardt donnie hathaway echo and the bunnymen eddie kendricks eels egyptian lover elliott smith elliott smith elvis costello engine kid flosstradamus freestyle fellowship gang of four george jones get up kids gil-scott heron grace jones grandmaster flash and the furious five grandwizard theodore hank williams sr. heatmiser imogen heap jimmie rodgers jon spencer blues explosion joni mitchell joy division junior high kanye west kid sister king elementary kool herc kraftwerk larry heard laurie anderson lcd soundsystem leadbelly levy lifter living better electrically loretta lynn lou reed lucero lucinda williams m.i.a. mark lanegan marlena shaw marvin gaye massive attack meg hutchinson ministry modest mouse mogwai morrissey my bloody valentine nasty nas neil finn new order nina simone os mutantes out hud patterson and millbrook projects paul pena polyrock prince public enemy robert johnson roberta flack run d.m.c. santogold shuggie otis sly & robbie smashing pumpkins sonic youth spank rock sparks stevie wonder sunny day real estate the band the beastie boys the bird and the bee the clash the coach and four the germs the killers the pase rock the ramones the shins the smiths thelonious monk thirty ought six todd terry tom waits vhs or beta we ragazzi wilco william bell willie mitchell woody guthrie yes zero 7
and innovators and inventors of sound everywhere
, Citizen Kane, Le Samourai, The Bad News Bears (with Walter Matthau), Crumb, Breaking Away, Wet Hot American Summer, Gummo, The Shawshank Redemption, Fresh, Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory, Over The Edge, My Own Private Idaho, Sneakers, L.I.E., Super Size Me!, The Piano, Happiness, Manufacturing Consent, The Cooler, American Splendor, Scarface, The French Connection, The Game, Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead, The Accountant, Transamerica, Capote, Brokeback Mountain, Across 110th Street, Murderball, House of Games, Boys Don't Cry, The Sting, Cool Hand Luke, Oldboy, Hustle & Flow, Crash
Television
I am ADDICTED to Law & Order, Weeds, LOST, Entourage, 30 Rock, The Amazing Race (don't laugh, jerkface), The Tomorrow People, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Six Feet Under, The Jeffersons, Arrested Development, Poker After Dark, World Poker Tour, World Series of Poker, Poker Million, oh fuck it ALL POKER SHOWS OK, and Maude
Books
Cathedral, The Stories of John Cheever, Atlas Shrugged, Writing in Restaurants, White Noise, The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio, Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, In Our Time, The Little Prince, Feel This Book, Barrel Fever, Naked, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, Middlesex, Prozac Nation, 'Tis, A Million Little Pieces, Everything Is Illuminated
Heroes
John Peel, Lester Bangs, Billy Bragg, Bob Mould, Lee Hazlewood, Townes Van Zandt, Lucinda Williams, Bob Dylan, Michael Stipe, Joe Strummer, Neil Young, Thurston Moore, Gram Parsons, Joni Mitchell
I am abrasive, some people really hate me, but there may be a group of other tight knit assholes and bitches that I can hang out with and get me. Everybody else? Fuck 'em.
I've been to your page about 10x's today (i love that new tip & diva joint, the bass is phenomenal...) Thank you for your ever-consistent encouragement, it really means alot coming from you! I'll call you sometime this week...
Last time I was in Memphis it sucked more than when I lived there by a considerable margin. Its not for me. Chicago is a good place for now. I'll likely end up in New York City before too long though.
DANG! I'm sooo sorry I didn't call you back. It got a tad crazy after we hung up and then I forgot....until I saw your sweet face on this e-soap. I hope you're well. Can we catch up next week after this show?
