ich bin ein auslander

Finished reading it last night. Man, I am depressed. So many good reads recently - Al Franken’s “Lying Liars…”, Michael Moore’s “Dude, Where’s My Country”, Bill Maher’s “When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden”… and those are the supposedly funny ones (with, admittedly, some inaccuracies, which everyone picks on even though they let Limbaugh and Coulter and the like get away with far, far more amazing bullshit.)

Then there’s all the investigate and more seriously journalistic books I’ve been reading lately, all of which lead to one conclusion - we’re fucked, and “democracy” and our all our supposed rights that make us blow up other countries so they can have them, too, are disappearing fast. Sigh.

And then there’s the fact that the entire world hates us even though the vast majority of us either aren’t aware of what our government is doing to the rest of the world, not to mention what they’re doing to us, or don’t agree with the policies. So register to vote. Tell a friend what’s going on and get them registered. This is just fucking ridiculous. If there weren’t a number of pictures of me wearing make-up with 10 foot hair, drunk as a skunk, floating around, I’d run for office at this point.

On a lighter note, a page out of Bushwhacked that I marked last night - various slogans bandied about by folks with a similar mindset. Funny if not so damn sad.

DRUNKEN FRAT BOY DRIVES COUNTRY INTO DITCH
WHO WOULD JESUS BOMB?
WAR BEGINS WITH “DUBYA”
BUSH IS PROOF THAT EMPTY WARHEADS CAN BE DANGEROUS
LET’S BOMB TEXAS, THEY HAVE OIL TOO
HOW DID OUR OIL GET UNDER THEIR SAND?
IF YOU CAN’T PRONOUNCE IT, DON’T BOMB IT
ONE THOUSAND POINTS OF LIGHT AND ONE DIM BULB
PREEMPTIVE IMPEACHMENT
FRODO HAS FAILED, BUSH HAS THE RING
MAINSTREAM WHITE GUYS FOR PEACE
9-11-01 : 15 SAUDIS, 0 IRAQIS
I ASKED FOR UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE AND ALL I GOT WAS A LOUSY STEALTH BOMBER
THE ASSES OF EVIL
SMART WEAPONS, DUMB PRESIDENT
THE ONLY THING WE HAVE TO FEAR IS BUSH HIMSELF
HOW MANY LIVES PER GALLON?
TO THE PEOPLE OF EARTH: DON’T BLAME US, WE VOTED FOR THE OTHER GUY
ONE NATION UNDER SURVEILLANCE

Did a bit of shopping last night after the final madness of Wendy’s art show… it’s still far enough away from Christmas so I figured we could go nuts on media and still have things to tell parents to get us when the time comes. As such (and thanks to Jason and a blogrolling bump) I’ve updated my lists…

Also, thanks to Ross, I think I’ll be starting up a little Amazon wish list this year so friends and family. Of course, they don’t have booze. That’s always a safe bet.

At any rate… working, more music, etc. Actually, I need to go and root around in Wendy’s CD collection and put “Dark Side of the Moon” on the iPod. I’ve always taken a perverse pride in the fact that my music collection starts at the Buzzcocks (ok, a few dylan, stones and beatles cds might have snuck in there but otherwise..) but I was told that if I plan on seriously considering this whole music production thing, I need to be intimately familiar with the ol’ Dark Side so a rippin’ I shall go.

Lot of fun last night; a lot of people there… biggest turn out yet for the open studios, as far as I could tell. Wendy had the best art there, but I might be a bit biased. Good turn out of friends as well; I’m always really uncomfortable and totally crap in those situations. I like to hang out and talk with people but there was just a continuous stream of friends so I had to pogo about and say hello to everyone. So I drank a lot to make up for feeling uncomfortable, which of course made my transitions even worse. I apologize if I just walked away from anyone in the middle of a conversation

Anyway, the show continues today… wendy’s already over there, and I’ll be heading back over in a little bit… first, I’ve got to try and sweat out any of the lingering booze so it’s off to do some biking.

Working on more mixes for Rob… gotta nail them quick as we’re having dinner tonight…

Wendy’s art opening is saturday…

Getting a hair cut today….

Well, it seemed like a good idea last night - go to the 6:30 am showing of the matrix, the first showing, timed for world-wide simultaneous release. So we did.

No spoilers, just opinions, since all of you won’t be seeing it until this evening…

It sucked. At least I thought it did. Just a continuation of my X-Files gripe - somewhere along the way, storytellers forgot that their job - their duty - is to tell a story, to make decisions, to reach conclusions and make the hard choices for their characters and their world. It shouldn’t be left murky or up to the viewer to decide what actually happened and what it means. Tell a fucking story, for christ’s sake.