A world wide web of LIES

Due to the weakening economy (don’t say the “R” word!) many currencies have lost their value. A year ago, your problems could fetch as much as two shits. Today, I can barely give half a shit (0.47shit, to be exact). Also affected: damns, tinkers’ damns, hoots (in hell or otherwise), figs, flips, fugs, fucks, flying fucks, craps, tosses, a good goddamn (devalued to just a mediocre goddamn), and many more that I couldn’t find on google but probably exist even though they’re not Avril or Eminem songs. Anyway, the currency hardest hit has to be the poor rat. Lately I find I cannot even give a rat’s ass for the concerns and issues of the day.

To summarize: shit ain’t worth shit anymore!

And now, a favorite album for each year I have been alive on the earth planet:

1972: Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
1973: Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
1974: King Crimson - Red
1975: Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
1976: Joni Mitchell - Hejira
1977: Television - Marquee Moon
1978: The Jam - All Mod Cons
1979: Talking Heads - Fear of Music
1980: The Pretenders - s/t
1981: The Cure - Faith
1982: X - Under the Big Black Sun
1983: U2 - War
1984: The Replacements - Let it Be
1985: R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction
1986: Metallica - Master of Puppets
1987: Guadalcanal Diary - 2×4
1988: The Church - Starfish
1989: Pixies - Doolittle
1990: Uncle Tupelo - No Depression
1991: Slint - Spiderland
1992: Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
1993: Girls Against Boys - Venus Luxure No.1 Baby
1994: Rodan - Rusty
1995: Hum - You’d Prefer an Astronaut
1996: Failure - Fantastic Planet
1997: Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
1998: Don Caballero - What Burns Never Returns
1999: Trans Am - Futureworld
2000: Sleater-Kinney - All Hands on the Bad One
2001: Les Savy Fav - Go Forth
2002: Ms. John Soda - No P or D
2003: The Sea and Cake - One Bedroom
2004: Laura Veirs - Carbon Glacier
2005: Kylesa - To Walk a Middle Course
2006: Mastodon - Blood Mountain
2007: Baroness - Red Album
2008: Boris - SMILE

NOTES:

1. 1977 and 1984 were banner years for good rock, which made it hard to pick just one.
2. 1991 was no contest, but there were a few trying for “close second”.
3. If I were even older, 1966 would have been another such year.
4. I recycled this post from my el-jay, just because.

Yesterday I was walking downtown, and I heard three sets of church bells go off at once. It sounded a little like this:

church fight!

I only got the last third of it, because of all the fumbling to grab my camera and set it to movie-mode. Lightning reflexes here.

December, 2003: My pal Ted says to me that I have ONE YEAR to produce physical evidence of my musical creations. This is because I had nothing new to show since he witnessed me and Dan jamming in December, 2002. Thus was the gauntlet thrown, and sure enough by December, 2004, I had one musical CD of brotherly compositions.

December, 2008: I’ve been sitting on a 2/3 finished follow-up. I started writing/recording new stuff as soon as I finished the first CD, so this is a lot of sitting. Sure, 2005 was off to a good start, but from 2006 on, it’s been either work, or recovering from work (i.e., sleeping all my free time away). It’s probably also a bit to do with not having a set deadline, because I wanted to “take my time” and all that bullcrap.

SO, I got an idea the other day: I need a deadline, and the threat of shame. I decided that if I wasn’t finished by December, 2009, I would have to put out whatever I had done, and I would have to call the album “Unfinished Bizznatch”. And to show myself I was serious, I told myself this would be the art:

Dan, we got some work to do!

So, maybe there is a bright side to the economy being so far down the shitter it can see last year’s dinners. Maybe it will be easier to realize the True Meaning of Christmas™ without all those pesky presents in the way. Unless the True Meaning of Christmas™ actually IS about presents, then we’ll all have to… I don’t know… relate to one another?