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“Viva Voodoo!”
- Yahoo News, reply to article “Zombies Not Welcome”, 5-9-06
Yes, I was once again not doing work at work, and instead cruising around from news article to news article in the hopes that I could make the clock move faster. I couldn’t. But I did find this ripping good read on Voodoo. "I was having difficulty in school and in social situations, but everything got better when I became a vodousiant,” says Gelin Jean Sergo. Well, why wouldn’t it? Isn’t this cheerful and painless religion known specifically for making people smarter and more popular? Seriously, though, the best part of this article was the posted replies from people who read the article. Here’s a few profound insights for you:
- Pray for Haiti, it needs Jesus.
- For years the whites told us that it was wrong to practice our own beliefs. They were ignorant to the fact that our spiritual beliefs were far better than their bible. They gave us the bibles, in exchange for guns so we could kill each other. Today we starve and they tell us to pray. The bible itself is a sham. A book designed to fool africans and to take away our pride. It oppressed us for years. Viva Voodoo!
- Witchcraft-no matter of what variety or culture, is WRONG and anti-God!
- True Christianity solves all problems. Jesus came to give life. If Haiti would surrender to Jesus and follow the way of the Bible, Haiti would become a great nation without any needs. The Devil is out to kill, steal, and destroy. Look at Haiti where Voodoo is a national religion. Prime example of the Devil at work. Pray for Haiti.
- Anyone know a good recipe for zombie powder?
I hate the ranting of moronic religious ideologues. Mostly because it conflicts with my own ideology – fire worship. They’ll find out, though. Soon enough fire will come to their homes and their families will be ruined. Fire will crush their feeble Christian morality. Or voodoo morality. Or whatever.
Well “Stadium Arcadium” has arrived, and in keeping with the consistency of this band over the past decade, it is an immaculate album. Now, it is a double-album – twenty-eight songs and two hours (plus) worth of music, and as such I think there are maybe 7 or 8 songs that really aren’t much more than filler. I suspect they probably should have trimmed ten or eleven songs in total, very carefully, and kept this as a single, breath-taking album, but hell … it’s been over four years since their last album, so I’m not complaining. The more new shit the better. Most of what comprises the filler are lackluster nods to their former energetic funked-up youth. An attempt, I believe, to appease the old-timers that cheered the band in their early days. But again, these attempts remind me of Metallica’s “St. Anger” album, which is to say … self-parody. Especially that horrid little masterwork of shit “Hump de Bump.” Uggh. Probably the next single, by the way. Don’t be surprised. And don’t say I didn’t warn you.
But there’s a good 17-20 songs on here that are more than worth the long wait since “By the Way.” Some excellent melodic tracks, heavy on the harmonies, and some other upbeat pop rockers with fun alliteration-thick lyrics courtesy of Anthony Kledis. I wouldn’t want to say that this is better than “Californication” or “By the Way,” but I wouldn’t say it’s worse. It’s similar in a lot of ways, probably just as good as far as overall quality goes, but nothing really new. And that’s fine for a band that has been around as long as they have. I give this album a 9 out of 10, HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT, and look forward to picking up The Raconteurs’ “Broken Boy Soldiers” promptly Tuesday afternoon. Stay tuned…
No word on a release date for “Highway Companion” yet. Not only that, but the August 15th date for Petty’s show at Darien Lake with the Allman Brothers now appears to be up in the air. It’s disappeared from Petty’s website, and still isn’t on Darien Lake’s. I’ve got an open letter for Mr. Petty:
Dear Tom, either take this shit seriously or retire. There are those of us who own every album, every DVD, the greatest hits, the anthology, the live album, the book, have a poster from “Wildflowers” on our bedroom wall, and play every song on the guitar, and are spending a lot of money to go to Bonnaroo this June … and those of us that there are do not appreciate all this promising without delivery that has been going on over the past few years. “Highway Companion” was announced last April, and here we are over a year later without so much as a release date. Now you schedule a concert that I’ll be able to attend, just to taunt me (I was there in ‘99, ‘02, and ‘05) and then you yank it. Where’s the new greatest hits you planned? Where’s the new live album we heard so much about? Are you really filming a documentary, or will that get put off until 2012 as well? Maybe you’ve been at this for thirty years and don’t feel any pressure to make your fans happy, but we support you with time and money and at some point I think it is fair to demand that you at least deliver a product. Or, if the business of rock and roll is preventing you, through no fault of your own, from delivering, then I think we at least deserve news of some sort. Updates, Tom!! And by that, I don’t mean pop up every six months just to say the album has been pushed back another four months – no, I mean real news. What’s going on, why’s it delayed, and what is the goddamn release date!? Either that, or it’s time to retire and let your career speak for itself. I’m pissed, Tom. Very pissed. But I can be appeased. Get “Highway Companion” in stores and put Darien Lake back up on your website, this time to stay. It’ll be like it never happened. Square one. Haha. I’m clever. Good song, by the way. Okay, well I better wrap this up. Let me just close by saying you’re the greatest, you’re still the greatest, please let me be a roadie!!!
A Presto,
Mike
End music
Long overdue, but I’ve finally started (very slowly) working on a novel. I’ve got ten pages written in over a month. I envision it as a totally unpublishable mess of twisted imagination, unrelenting satire, and near poetic language broken up by long stretches of crude, violent, and jarring outbursts. The very, very, very loose plot involves me (the author) chasing me (the character) through an increasingly bizarre fiction landscape because me (the character) is not doing what me (the author) has in mind. This makes my book increasingly difficult to present to literary agents, and so my pursuit becomes heated and angry, while me (the character) moves carelessly about in a world that is tearing itself apart from chaos and anarchy after an alien spacecraft crashes into Lake Erie. Like I said, a totally unpublishable mess of twisted imagination, unrelenting satire, and near poetic language broken up by long stretches of crude, violent, and jarring outbursts.
I’ve also been finding new and inventive ways to pass the time at work, that doesn’t, of course, involve actually doing my job. Okay, well I’ve found only one new and inventive way, but it’s a good one. I’ve been writing song lyrics. I’ve got a whole stack of them. Maybe I’ll eventually put some chords to a few of them and have myself a private catalogue of ingenious, wildly inventive, completely unlistenable tunes. Either way, the way I figger it, the theory is this: the best way to combat the brain destroying hum drum of office life is to rebel against it by spending your work hours doing creative things. It’ll either pay off completely by keeping me sharp and sane, or it will get me fired … either way, I’m just as happy.
Tonight is game four of the series against Ottawa. To respond to Happy Jeff’s request … who has not been pulling their weight? Well, until the last two games I would have said Miller, but he appears to be (at least for now) back on track. Vanek – goes without saying, but watch … he’ll explode out of nowhere when they put him back in. Every time this season he’s been threatened with Rochester and/or benching, he’s responded with a mess of goals in a short period of time. Still, he’s a liability against fast offensive teams. He doesn’t want to backcheck, and that’s killer. Nivotny is a safer bet for us at this point. Who else? Well … tough to say. Max has been on and off, I guess. Briere has done some dumb shit, but made up for it with a lot of points. Same with Dumont – like always, he’s invisible 99% of the game, but he suddenly materializes on the ice, chuckles to himself while the other team blinks, rubs its eyes, blinks some more, does triple-takes, and then finally starts crossing themselves madly and saying “Our fathers…” in the hopes that this ghost/demon will not possess their soul, and then he scores a goal. He’s an odd kind of player. Overall, I think just about everyone on the team is chipping in, and I’m happy to see it. I don’t expect this to happen, but Christ would I love to see us finish off Ottawa tonight. Coming back from 0-3 deficit is nearly impossible (only been done twice in NHL history), but Ottawa’s the team to do it if they get any momentum. So let’s wrap it up ASAP!!
Well, that’s a solid three pages on WORD. Now to transfer it to the blog. Hope you enjoyed, chums. If you did, leave a message.
A Presto ...
- Yahoo News, reply to article “Zombies Not Welcome”, 5-9-06
Yes, I was once again not doing work at work, and instead cruising around from news article to news article in the hopes that I could make the clock move faster. I couldn’t. But I did find this ripping good read on Voodoo. "I was having difficulty in school and in social situations, but everything got better when I became a vodousiant,” says Gelin Jean Sergo. Well, why wouldn’t it? Isn’t this cheerful and painless religion known specifically for making people smarter and more popular? Seriously, though, the best part of this article was the posted replies from people who read the article. Here’s a few profound insights for you:
- Pray for Haiti, it needs Jesus.
- For years the whites told us that it was wrong to practice our own beliefs. They were ignorant to the fact that our spiritual beliefs were far better than their bible. They gave us the bibles, in exchange for guns so we could kill each other. Today we starve and they tell us to pray. The bible itself is a sham. A book designed to fool africans and to take away our pride. It oppressed us for years. Viva Voodoo!
- Witchcraft-no matter of what variety or culture, is WRONG and anti-God!
- True Christianity solves all problems. Jesus came to give life. If Haiti would surrender to Jesus and follow the way of the Bible, Haiti would become a great nation without any needs. The Devil is out to kill, steal, and destroy. Look at Haiti where Voodoo is a national religion. Prime example of the Devil at work. Pray for Haiti.
- Anyone know a good recipe for zombie powder?
I hate the ranting of moronic religious ideologues. Mostly because it conflicts with my own ideology – fire worship. They’ll find out, though. Soon enough fire will come to their homes and their families will be ruined. Fire will crush their feeble Christian morality. Or voodoo morality. Or whatever.
Well “Stadium Arcadium” has arrived, and in keeping with the consistency of this band over the past decade, it is an immaculate album. Now, it is a double-album – twenty-eight songs and two hours (plus) worth of music, and as such I think there are maybe 7 or 8 songs that really aren’t much more than filler. I suspect they probably should have trimmed ten or eleven songs in total, very carefully, and kept this as a single, breath-taking album, but hell … it’s been over four years since their last album, so I’m not complaining. The more new shit the better. Most of what comprises the filler are lackluster nods to their former energetic funked-up youth. An attempt, I believe, to appease the old-timers that cheered the band in their early days. But again, these attempts remind me of Metallica’s “St. Anger” album, which is to say … self-parody. Especially that horrid little masterwork of shit “Hump de Bump.” Uggh. Probably the next single, by the way. Don’t be surprised. And don’t say I didn’t warn you.
But there’s a good 17-20 songs on here that are more than worth the long wait since “By the Way.” Some excellent melodic tracks, heavy on the harmonies, and some other upbeat pop rockers with fun alliteration-thick lyrics courtesy of Anthony Kledis. I wouldn’t want to say that this is better than “Californication” or “By the Way,” but I wouldn’t say it’s worse. It’s similar in a lot of ways, probably just as good as far as overall quality goes, but nothing really new. And that’s fine for a band that has been around as long as they have. I give this album a 9 out of 10, HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT, and look forward to picking up The Raconteurs’ “Broken Boy Soldiers” promptly Tuesday afternoon. Stay tuned…
No word on a release date for “Highway Companion” yet. Not only that, but the August 15th date for Petty’s show at Darien Lake with the Allman Brothers now appears to be up in the air. It’s disappeared from Petty’s website, and still isn’t on Darien Lake’s. I’ve got an open letter for Mr. Petty:
Dear Tom, either take this shit seriously or retire. There are those of us who own every album, every DVD, the greatest hits, the anthology, the live album, the book, have a poster from “Wildflowers” on our bedroom wall, and play every song on the guitar, and are spending a lot of money to go to Bonnaroo this June … and those of us that there are do not appreciate all this promising without delivery that has been going on over the past few years. “Highway Companion” was announced last April, and here we are over a year later without so much as a release date. Now you schedule a concert that I’ll be able to attend, just to taunt me (I was there in ‘99, ‘02, and ‘05) and then you yank it. Where’s the new greatest hits you planned? Where’s the new live album we heard so much about? Are you really filming a documentary, or will that get put off until 2012 as well? Maybe you’ve been at this for thirty years and don’t feel any pressure to make your fans happy, but we support you with time and money and at some point I think it is fair to demand that you at least deliver a product. Or, if the business of rock and roll is preventing you, through no fault of your own, from delivering, then I think we at least deserve news of some sort. Updates, Tom!! And by that, I don’t mean pop up every six months just to say the album has been pushed back another four months – no, I mean real news. What’s going on, why’s it delayed, and what is the goddamn release date!? Either that, or it’s time to retire and let your career speak for itself. I’m pissed, Tom. Very pissed. But I can be appeased. Get “Highway Companion” in stores and put Darien Lake back up on your website, this time to stay. It’ll be like it never happened. Square one. Haha. I’m clever. Good song, by the way. Okay, well I better wrap this up. Let me just close by saying you’re the greatest, you’re still the greatest, please let me be a roadie!!!
A Presto,
Mike
End music
Long overdue, but I’ve finally started (very slowly) working on a novel. I’ve got ten pages written in over a month. I envision it as a totally unpublishable mess of twisted imagination, unrelenting satire, and near poetic language broken up by long stretches of crude, violent, and jarring outbursts. The very, very, very loose plot involves me (the author) chasing me (the character) through an increasingly bizarre fiction landscape because me (the character) is not doing what me (the author) has in mind. This makes my book increasingly difficult to present to literary agents, and so my pursuit becomes heated and angry, while me (the character) moves carelessly about in a world that is tearing itself apart from chaos and anarchy after an alien spacecraft crashes into Lake Erie. Like I said, a totally unpublishable mess of twisted imagination, unrelenting satire, and near poetic language broken up by long stretches of crude, violent, and jarring outbursts.
I’ve also been finding new and inventive ways to pass the time at work, that doesn’t, of course, involve actually doing my job. Okay, well I’ve found only one new and inventive way, but it’s a good one. I’ve been writing song lyrics. I’ve got a whole stack of them. Maybe I’ll eventually put some chords to a few of them and have myself a private catalogue of ingenious, wildly inventive, completely unlistenable tunes. Either way, the way I figger it, the theory is this: the best way to combat the brain destroying hum drum of office life is to rebel against it by spending your work hours doing creative things. It’ll either pay off completely by keeping me sharp and sane, or it will get me fired … either way, I’m just as happy.
Tonight is game four of the series against Ottawa. To respond to Happy Jeff’s request … who has not been pulling their weight? Well, until the last two games I would have said Miller, but he appears to be (at least for now) back on track. Vanek – goes without saying, but watch … he’ll explode out of nowhere when they put him back in. Every time this season he’s been threatened with Rochester and/or benching, he’s responded with a mess of goals in a short period of time. Still, he’s a liability against fast offensive teams. He doesn’t want to backcheck, and that’s killer. Nivotny is a safer bet for us at this point. Who else? Well … tough to say. Max has been on and off, I guess. Briere has done some dumb shit, but made up for it with a lot of points. Same with Dumont – like always, he’s invisible 99% of the game, but he suddenly materializes on the ice, chuckles to himself while the other team blinks, rubs its eyes, blinks some more, does triple-takes, and then finally starts crossing themselves madly and saying “Our fathers…” in the hopes that this ghost/demon will not possess their soul, and then he scores a goal. He’s an odd kind of player. Overall, I think just about everyone on the team is chipping in, and I’m happy to see it. I don’t expect this to happen, but Christ would I love to see us finish off Ottawa tonight. Coming back from 0-3 deficit is nearly impossible (only been done twice in NHL history), but Ottawa’s the team to do it if they get any momentum. So let’s wrap it up ASAP!!
Well, that’s a solid three pages on WORD. Now to transfer it to the blog. Hope you enjoyed, chums. If you did, leave a message.
A Presto ...
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