Satan's Luau

Big news, huh?

No, I had to take a break this morning for the cleaning of my office ... so I got to thinking about why things stop

Earlier I was listening to Colin Hay (ex of MAtW) and the song that was on the GS soundtrack ... and yes, it's from 98, and yes I think the guy is now some comedian or something

But man, that song is great ... and MAtW, no matter what I may think of the cheese factor, had some really great songs over a two album period ... and then disappeared into the haze about 20 some odd years ago

What's my point? Make more music, mate

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American Soldiers Dead: 2001
American Soldiers Wounded: 15220 (15000-42500)

oh and by the way ... since these lives are apparently not important to our media

Iraqi Civilians Dead: estimated between 26700-30800 (as high as 100,000)

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I had heard that the White Sox were playing Journey's Don't Stop Believin' lately ... well, I suppose you would need an anthem too if you hadn't won a World Series since 1917

What I did not expect was to see Steve Perry in the crowd at the game ... yes THAT STEVE PERRY ... he was almost hard to detect with his baseball cap pulled down over his 1981 style long straight hair and ... and still looking as thin as ever ... it struck me that if you became famous, that's a good thing -- and it is what so many want ... then I thought, okay so what happens after you're an icon, you start trying to hide yourself with stuff that couldn't hide your identity in 8 million years ... well, it was cool to see Steve in public, for the first time since the walk of fame day

Well, two things struck me as I watched the extra innings World Series bonanza tonight

Number one is that when teams can't hit in extra innings ... eventually you get ideas in your mind about how to better spend your time, and one is unconscious and made for you ... you can fall asleep OR

You can sit there and think ... sheesh, when is someone going to get a run scoring hit already ... and why am I sitting here ... oh of course because if I leave, they will score and I will miss it --- and in all cases, will have wasted a great deal of time

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Until we have something to report ... still enjoying Arcade Fire, Death Cab for Cutie, I am Kloot, Spinto Band, Ben Folds, Bloc Party, New Order ... and of course, The Killers

Well, life has been going by in a busy blaze of busy work at work, lots of changes in the personal life, and off-and-on crises

Although I do not have any tremendously important to say about anything or to rant on anything ... I am experiencing a Rilo Kiley renaissance, and am just loving the little more than a year old, "More Adventurous" more and more.

Ironically, I never watched their performance on MBE until this morning off KCRW's site, and wow, it is just fantastic. It is just refreshing to see someone know how to write good songs, perform them well, and have a lot of interesting, very easy to get into, sonic variety ... just straightforward, symmetrical, hooky alt pop -- it amazes me that our local Star station only pushed "Portions ..." and not anything else from this great album

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I have really seen it all now ... I got this call from one of the credit card companies that I have a card from. A telemarketing call.

And the gist of the schpiel is that they would like ME TO PAY THEM ... wait, let me pause and try that again ... they would LIKE ME TO FKN PAY THEM to monitor my card for a monthly charge for identity theft related activity

UM, hello stupid card issuer ... YOU'RE FKN SUPPOSED TO BE DOING THAT ... this is just enough to make me cut your card into pieces, you fricken pieces of crap --- good God man, how these corporations think we're so stupid

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I find it highly ironic when people want to pad their community service resumes ... so I got another ballot recently, this time with a ballot for the state retirement system trustee elections

Quite frankly, I would rather the Gov appoint someone ... oh wait, I just couldn't stand for her to Harbinize another flunky to a major position

Anyways, so my choices are ... a social worker, an engineer, and a cop ... to which I say, can we pass until someone with investing experience finally pops up on the ballot ... and all of them seem like the "I am out in the community type"

Well that's all nice and fkn good, but I would like to have some return on my retirement account investments ... and I think a psychic donkey could probably do as well as a "look at me and my 50 extracurricular ... err I mean, mature adult community service activities"

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Being in a perpetual state of Sheryl Crow

I thought it was very funny today that while I was eating lunch, the custodian's phone rang ... and his phone's ringtone was the quasi-stereo MC Hammer's Can't Touch This

I think that sometimes it is possible to go too fast ... or be so consumed by something that everything you are paying attention to, really in the grander scheme of things ... is probably not as cool as all that you are missing

I noticed that a lot of people are putting big time focus on things that are far beyond the pale ... far beyond the things that they can control. Gas prices, house prices, wars, natural disasters, ... all these things make me say, yes, it's bad ... I can't be bothered to watch the same story over and over about it though -- there's too much other important stuff that I could focus on

For example, I've slowed down my pursuit of current music and am letting the collection that I have assembled from earlier this year soak in -- I was thinking that I was in the grand race to no place

Like a Purgatory for Music Snobbery ... I certainly wasn't as bad as those characters in High Fid ... but pretty close. Being out on the edge of the avant garde is pretty ... hmmm, a pretty aimless state to be in

I mean, it gets to the point where you go ... now what? It's like the pace of which you can get cool music is totally mediated by what labels put out, mainstream or indie whatever ... there's a bottleneck there

That is why I admire one of my co-slavers, who has the Ms. Crow best of disc on replay ... over and over and over

Yes, it places me somewhere that I need a good pair of headphones for work ... but otherwise, you gotta like these people that lock in on something, and say HEY, that's what I like ... I don't care if its irrelevant, it's relevant to me

What's the point about this ... well, if you focus on the important things in your life whatever they may be ... you'll probably enjoy life, and some of the good things (like music or art) and the others in your life more

So I turn to what I have assembled in terms of music over the past year and go, man I wish some of these artists are really great and their music holds up ... too bad that they will never be mainstream anytime soon

And it's not about being a up to the minute music snob ... it's just enjoyable to see how much I appreciate this because it entertains me ... rather than chasing down the latest, newest, bestest, hippestest, madeupwordish stuff, I think I am enjoying holding pat for a while

Sometimes it's all about enjoying what you have rather than constantly looking for greener grass ... endlessly searching for a new niche, when you generally already know what you groove to

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