Shot With His Own Gun

Welcome to the Popcorn n Whiskey, Let's All Watch The Bush Administration Self -Destruct And Take Us All Down With Them edition of the Friday Random Music Blob.

Reminds me of the latter days of the Nixon misadministration, when ol Dick was visibly deteriorating, and some of his staff discussed ways to keep him from The Briefcase should he decide to play with the pretty buttons in a fit of despondency.

The difference here is our wonderful leader is apparently capable, and fully intends, to push the buttons because he's God's choice to bring on the end times, shades of James Watt. Reports from the WH is that Chimpy is 'unhappy and on edge'.

Oh, that's good. A paranoid megalomaniac dry drunk with power issues and deeply felt xenophobia is unhappy, and discussing military actions. I love this plan! What could possibly go wrong?!

Is there a way we can keep Dominionists and Left Behinders out of positions of authority? If you believe some particular fairy tale about the end of the world, you shouldn't be able to bring it about. Self-fulfilling prophecies and all that.

Anyways, think good thoughts, kiss your loved ones, grab a powerful mind altering substance and sit back to see if we can Live Through Another Cuba.

69 days till Summerfest. Alice Cooper, Elvis, Pearl Jam, Tom Petty, Nine Inch Nails, Bauhaus, Ben Folds, Violent Femmes... The latest announcement of Nickelback certainly brings the average down. With a little luck, the nuculer holocaust can be delayed long enough for one more S-Fest.

On to the music, playing from my trusty iPod today. 49.65 gigs, 12,207 songs. No self auditing or scoring, cuz I like all these songs.

1. Roads Girdle The Globe from the album “Transistor Blast - The Best Of The BBC Sessions (Studio Sessions 1)” by XTC

2. Tokyo Eye from the album “Experimental Jet Set, Trash And No Star” by Sonic Youth Nothing like a little anarchic noise breakdown on a beautiful Friday morning to pep up the day.

3. Madonna Of The Wasps from the album “Queen Elvis” by Robyn Hitchcock Classic psychedelia from an erstwhile punk with a Dylan fetish. If you don't see how that works, you'll never 'get' Robyn Hitchcock.

4. Final Solution from the album “I'll Show You Mine EP” by Ultrasound Ultrasound doing a Pere Ubu cover. Sublime.
5. The Small Print from the album “Absolution” by Muse

6. No More Parades from the album “Straightaways (Warner Bros)” by Son Volt musical godsons of the Mekons, debris from the lauded Uncle Tupelo. I gotta change that file name. Why should the Label be part of the album name? Stupid.

7. The Price of Oil from the album “Peace Not War (Disc 1)” by Billy Bragg Very quiet, intense song from Billy, written before the Iraq invasion and eight times as appropriate right now.

8. Space Pirates from the album “The Life And Crimes Of Alice Cooper (Disc 2)” by Alice Cooper Hey, it's ol' Alice. Used to scare the straights until he came out as a Republican. And a golfer. As long as he fellates a snake at Summerfest, I'm okay with that. If he's no longer debauching animals, he's lost his edge. That's the plain truth, or the fact is as Gary Ruppert will put it.

9. Happy Town from the album “All Shook Down” by The Replacements It says the placemats on the album, but it's really pretty much the first Westerberg solo effort. Works for me though.

10. She Never Let Me Down from the album “Acid Bubblegum” by Graham Parker Now on my favorite Bloodshot Records, Graham is a aging specimen of the Angry Young Man. Luckily, there seems to be a bottomless well of things to make one angry.

11. Hoolywood Bitch from the album “Shangri - La Dee Da” by Stone Temple Pilots A bit of grunge. I t may be dated, but I like grunge. And STP has always had a healthy dose of Cheap Trick in the songs, so it's plusgood.

12. Join The Club from the album “Freedom And Weep” by Waco Brothers Ah, the Wacos! Cash meets Clash. Jonny Langford's other other band. We'll be seeing Langford on Saturday. From all reports, it won't be a drunken mash up like a Wacos set, but the early reports are excellent. He'll be joined by Sally Timms, Tony Maimone, Jessica Billey on violin, and Grant Hart (ex-Husker Du) is opening.

13. Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On) from the album “The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads” by Talking Heads Let's wind this up with a little live Heads from this earlier set, preceding Speaking in Tongues.



That's it, let's hit the bars.