Random Thoghts

Random Thoghts

02.16.05 (12:27 pm)   [edit]
1.) This Rush bootleg from 1978 I'm listening to fucking rocks.

2.) The South Park guys are true heroes of a deranged age. I watched The Passion Of The Jew for the first time yesterday, and it's GLORIOUSLY offensive. Truly, utterly, beautiful. And not even one of my favorites that I've seen recently. Cartman leading the adults of South Park through town chanting Nazi slogans (the adults too stupid to even bother finding out what they were saying) was some damn fine television.

3.) It's so nice to see that getting rid of Saddam Hussein has made the world a better place. Syria and Iran sure are being cooperative, eh? Yes, our President is a smart, godly man with fabulous instincts and planning abilities. He's truly a great man. For me to POOP on!

4.) I've been really into Triumph The Insult Comic Dog for the past couple days. Can you tell?

5.) I got Chris Rock's new album Never Scared yesterday. It's based on the same material as his recent HBO special. If not for Bill Maher and Lewis Black, Chris would be my favorite comedian right now. Razor sharp shit, motherfuckers.

6.) Speaking of, Real Time With Bill Maher starts its new season Friday night. I'm there with the VCR, baby. A couple somewhat iffy episodes towards the end of last season in no way change my view of it as the best thing on television right now. I absolutely adore The Daily Show, but Bill goes farther, and unlike Jon Stewart, Bill usually seems to have little concern what anyone thinks about anything he says. Well, I still think he wants to bang Ann Coulter, but a guy has to have SOME faults, right? He's not just a comedian, he's an original thinker who cuts right through the bullshit myth of "liberal vs. conservative" in this country by forging a sensible path through both "sides." I admire him hugely.

7.) My daughter has been way into wearing dresses lately. She's three and she's already worried about how pretty she is. I tell her not to worry because A.) She's beautiful, and B.) it's more important to be smart and funny and sweet and kind and thoughtful, and she's all those things too. I've been taking her out to the store and library more often lately (like we did before she went into daycare) and she's been so much fun. Like any 3 year old, she asks for things she doesn't need and pushes the right buttons, but she's remarkably good at listening to me when I try to work with her and compromise. I'm trying to find a way of teaching her that she can't always get what she wants, but if she has the right attitude and works with me, I'll be quite happy to let her have *some* of it sometimes. I think it's working pretty well, though I have to admit that I do think we still spoil the hell out of her sometimes.

8.) Been reading Kurt Vonnegut's Cats Cradle, which is time off from reading loads of horror fiction recently. Clive Barker? Sick goddamn motherfucker. Love him. I read Rawhead Rex the other day, and lemme tell ya, that's gotta be the best fuckin' story about a nine-foot tall baby-eating demon from Hell I've read in at least a few days.

9.) I'm working on being more of a prog-rock/fusion geek recently. Oh, I've always been one, but sometimes you get sidetracked and your priorities get out of whack, and next thing you know you're listening to the fucking Eagles or something. I mean, come on. If you don't listen to Stanley Clarke at least a couple times a week, you don't have any right belonging to the Overplaying Asshole Bass Player Club anymore, and that my friends, would be wrong. So I've been doing lots of that. It's fun.

10.) I'm very upset that McCartney didn't show some titty at the Super Bowl a couple weeks ago.

Love,
Dougie