I like to spend some time browsing EarthPorn on Reddit. One of my bucket list goals in life was to visit every National Park in the country. I think I’m over halfway there. In the meantime, I live vicariously…
Best Reddit Pic So Far this Year
Super Bowl LV in Perspective
Springsteen did well to point out some issues in his SBLV ad for Jeep, but it really came off as a cop-out to me – for somebody I previously viewed as fairly legitimately authentic. Maybe illustrating some fundamental societal issues in search of a Jeep makes sense in a commercialized world where money is king. Continuing to act like nobody’s the bad guy in this country anymore is just stupid.
I’ll stay with this track from the Nebraska album, when it comes to my current feelings on Bruce’s view of American society:
Bombers over a half-empty bowl couldn’t more vivdly exemplify the sorry state of our society and culture: Big crowds, Big Money, Big Wars, Big Pandemic, Big Airplanes and lots of Death to go along with everything.
Fuck you Springsteen. I’m callin’ you out for not callin’ them out.
Dear Mr. Grim Reaper
Before Covid, preferably.
I Don't Care What Kind of Music You Think You Like
But this is some good stuff:
Won't Get Fooled Again
Yes we will. It’s the nature of the business. But at least maybe if we try to do better, people like Pete Townsend could write some other songs.
“Trump fatigue lies over the land like a fog that just won’t break.” Thanks Mike.
Pre-Loaded with all the Most Popular Misinformation and Propaganda Platforms!
Death Is Everywhere
RIP Eddie. Late Update: Lung Cancer.
https://www.jambase.com/article/eddie-van-halen-letterman-1985-1995
Find It
Learn from History
You’d think it would go without saying by now, but here we are again.
“They’re defending something bigger than themselves, which is why it’s so appealing,” Carlson said. “That’s why white supremacy isn’t about ‘bad apples’ or individuals. It’s an ideology. It’s a culture. It’s a movement and a thread in the fabric of American society.”
RIP Peter Green
A truly crazy musician if ever there was one, I’ve loved Peter and Fleetwood Mac since before I knew their names. I have to agree with B.B. King on the rating – “probably definitely.” They put alot of the roll in rock and roll for me, tho some labelled them “light,” I guess they were in later years.
Found Another Muse
Octavia figured it out quick:
Pandemic Music!
One good thing so far: New Stones music!
Quarantine!
Your Un-Checked Government
I alluded to the smart/dumb people analogy in terms of government stupidity a few days ago. The related learning from history or not analogy, as the case may be, applies here. This is what you get with un-checked authoritarian religious bigots calling the shots:
“It has never been my practice to choose the popular course,” she said. “When others lie as naturally as they breathe, I become frustrated and angry.” She concluded “with one request—and that is that your committee protect those Americans who have honestly, wholesomely, and unselfishly tried to perfect this country and make the guarantees in our Constitution live. The actors, musicians, artists, composers, and all of the men and women of the arts are eager and anxious to help, to serve. Our country needs us more today than ever before. We should not be written off by the vicious slanders of little and petty men.”
Full story here. 69 years ago this gang of charlatans called a government ruined the career of a great artist for nothing. Hazel Scott wasn’t the first, and certainly wasn’t the last. These mutherfuckers running the government today have been laying low waiting for the Trump opportunity. They are now in the process of a full-scale assault on women’s reproductive rights.
Fuck Trump. Fuck the Government, and Fuck every single clergy, councilman, state rep or Federally-elected seat holder who thinks their conservative views on race, religion and sex are worth the slime they skate around on.