ich bin ein auslander

Wendy’s dad had been here for a week, and the whole war thing got to be too much… time to celebrate and get out and do nothing with our brains for an hour or two… but there weren’t any decent movies, all the things we wanted to see had horrible reviews… but “Bend It Like Beckham” was playing at the artsy-fartsy theater (along with “Irreversible” but I wasn’t really up for a 15-minute ass-rape sequence). Pretty damn good flick, actually. Hard to sort out why a foreign director would choose to emulate the most watered-down cliche American style movie, the romance comedy, but what the hell. It’s 20 times better than most of those made here. And there was soccer. Can’t beat that.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/26/sprj.irq.soldier.blogs.reut/index.html

anyone else see this as far more relavent then “embedded” “journalists”? and how cool is it that they have internet access?

with war coverage. have reached saturation point, can’t take anymore. need distractions. no decent movies out. no decent new albums out. no decent new books out. man, i’m a good consumer. reduced to getting annoyed with my cable company and repeatedly reloading my blog to see if anyone else has updated.

the onion is extra hilarious this particular update. however, war burnout even sapped that of most of it’s pleasure.

Comcast (the “new” AT&T broadband cable company that just took over and upped rates) has seriously bad timing. I’ve been pretty much leaving CNN on 24/7 so I can listen to crap while I’m working or whatever… so Donny “Beastmaster” Rumsfeld is on giving a briefing while I’m in here working away, and all of a sudden the Emergency Broadcast Network kicks in and I sprout about 200 grey hairs and knock over my water leaping up from the desk and running over to the TV… of course, it was just a test. Gee, fucking thanks.

Went and saw Ministry last night at the house of blues. It was interesting… these guys were seriously hardcore and fairly political (meaning the rocked hard and had some actual substance to their stuff) awhile back. Check out “A Mind is a Terrible Thing To Taste” and revel in the wonderful nastiness of it all. Unfortunately, that was well over 10 years ago now. At some point (most likely due to copious drug use) they decided to just become caricatures of themselves and now they’re just older, fatter rock monkeys performing the same riffs over completely unintelligable screaming and really fucking stupid visuals consisting of a) flame b) skulls c) bones d) stock footage of war or any combination thereof.

Still, the pit rocked pretty damn hard until my noggin got rocked pretty damn hard and reminded me that I’m old. Breathe! Breathe! Breathe you fuckers!

Anyways, the war is starting to get nasty as I knew it would. Should be interesting watching how broadcasts are going to get scaled back. I’m torn on the journalism issue - on the one hand, sure it’s pretty courageous to go out there and report, but on the other hand(s) it’s fucking wrong to broadcast all of this stuff as it turns the rest of us into tv junkies and makes it seem like a fucking video game and it’s just plain fucking stupid to be “embedded” with troops fighting a real war.

Trying to take a break from it all today but keep catching snippets as I can’t seem to turn off the tv and getting sucked back in. Some captures, more death, a disgruntled US soldier who probably should be working for the post office, not entrusted with the finest weapons known to man turning on his own troops… and now we’re saying some Russian companies have been breaking the UN sanctions and selling/training Iraqis some seriously hardcore tech. It’s all too terrifying to see how this can slip into a world war…

Outside of the fact that most other counties (even the ones on our side) are starting to talk about the next baddie nation that we should be taking on.

Sigh. So anyway, trying to get away and work on music but getting bogged down by technical issues and tired to trying to deal with those. Maybe just bang away on the piano today.