Winston Smith Takes It On The Jaw

what can you say about Bush's 'New' old Iraq strategery? He must be taking advice from his old pal Bill Bennett: Having lost the savings, the college accounts, the cars and the vacation fund at the craps table, is trying to convince the family that the only solution is to throw the house into the pot. And that, apparently, we need to go into the neighboring casino to try our hand at roulette at the same time.

Gah. It's so frightening, sickening and depressing at the same time. I was going to yammer a bit about Apple's new phone, but it seems so discordant to go into a bout of hardcore geek envy after that.

We'll just go into the Friday Random. We're up to 90 gigs of music, 23,000 songs. Apple has sold two billion songs, so it's not just me.


1. I've Been Dying from the album “Brand New Year” by The Bottle Rockets
2. Ramshackle from the album “Odelay” by Beck
3. Don't Fix It from the album “Bedlam Ballroom” by Squirrel Nut Zippers
4. Liz Phair With Material Issue - The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana) (From The Banana Splits Adventure Hour) from the album “Saturday Morning Cartoons' Greatest Hits” by Liz Phair w/ Material Issue
5. All I Want To Do from the album “Rat In The Kitchen” by UB40
6. The Fall of the House of Usher: Fall (Instrumental) from the album “Tales of Mystery and Imagination” by The Alan Parsons Project
7. Going Somewhere from the album “Going Somewhere (Extended Version)” by Colin Hay
8. The Return Of the Golden Guitarist from the album “Gravestone EP” by Mekons
9. Afterlife from the album “Liars” by Todd Rundgren
10. Metal Heart from the album “Bleed Like Me” by Garbage


and since any random with a great Mekes tune is worth a bonus, here's a few extra until I feel like hitting Post:

11. Blades from the album “Return to the Valley of the Go-Go's” by The Go-Go's

12. View From The Rim from the album “Eighth” by Eleventh Dream Day

13. She Told Me Lies from the album “Children of Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the Second Psychedelic Era 1976-1996” by The Chesterfield Kings

14. Rock And Roll All Nite from the album “Ska The Third Wave Volume 2 - Cover It UP!” by Various Artists

15. I AM A MAN OF CONSTANT SORROW - Soggy Bottom Boys from the album “O brother where art thou?” by Various Artists