Thanks to the Missus for some new music.
First… TV on the Radio (warning– video contains werewolf chicks)
Then… John Hartford (sadly– no werewolf chicks)
Oh, and she even got me the complete Firefly set.
Wanna know the truth?
I’m barely hanging in there
Sometimes, on somedays
I don’t discuss it
I try not to dwell on it
Hide it all away
Remember that song?
Coral, “I still need you but,
“I don’t want you now”
Don’t know if thats right
Or the other way around
I’ve been wondering
Theres no sharp pain now
No bone-crushing sense of loss
Just misplaced presence.
I don’t feel her now
But I don’t really try to.
Afraid she’s not there.
Looking back is strange
Called her “raison d’etre”
Gave my life to her
But she went away.
Dead, like a leaf on a tree
No beauty in that
No, no poetry
Biological warfare
Stupid microbe crap
But I keep quiet.
I don’t speak about it, why?
Cuz I’ve heard it all.
I can’t explain it
Can’t take peoples reactions
Makes me furious
Stupid impulses
Don’t even know why they’re there
Resentment, anger
Mostly on the web
November, kept me going
Now, drives me crazy
For years I’ve written
AT’s a face I wear well
But nothing to say
I’m hanging it up
Gonna put AT away
With other keepsakes
Gonna be myself
Without that raison d’etre
See how that works out
This ain’t permanent
I’ll leave the shoutbox open
And might be around.
And trust me, I’m fine
You guys know me well enough
Tell you if I weren’t…
No Fellini market for Oak Ridge.
When asked if Aldi had given a reason for withdrawing its proposal, O’Connor said, “No, although there was some discussion about a site-preparation issue.
“They just wanted to be community friendly.”
I can’t rent grocery carts and buy weird off brand stuff on my side of town now? Poo.
So, I got no muse this morning…
But I got music, I guess
(Pigpen likes to sing along to this…)
Because copyright laws are continously being changed to provide copyright owners with ever broadening and restricting definitions of what exactly you can do with the movies, music, and electronics that you plunked your money down, today we all celebrate Fair Use Day!
Its easy to sit back and say that these laws are helping artists, engineers, and creators be safe from the evil pirates (arr), but the truth is that you should be able to exercise the same priviledges with modern technology that you did with your old Betamax, which means that if a damn good episode of Golden Girls is coming on, man, you should be able to fire up that DVR recorder and save it without restrictions. You should be able to pop that episode into any TV set (even at your friend Lenny’s house), and watch it.
Can’t do that with Tivo. Can’t do that with your cable DVR. But the thing is, they fool you into thinking that because its digital, or because its the latest and greatest, that giving up these things is the price of having the cutting edge.
Bollocks.
So, the options are suck it up and let Big Media have their way with you, put on your eyepatch and risk getting a call from Blondie at the lawyer’s office, or to make some noise and let those losers you elected know that you’re tired of taking it from Big Media.