I HEREBY CHARGE YOU...

...with unlawful misuse of a brain.  You are a danger to yourself and, most importantly, human beings around you who have not let their brains turn to ant feces.  You shall be confined to a room where you will not be able to misuse a handgun, medication, or otherwise cast grim shadows on the faces of perfectly useful items.


Probably not the way the law would write it.  But it ain't hapn'n, so whatever.  I saw a photo on some news story ad that where someone was holding a protest sign that said "Disarming me will not protect me" and I was just like "DUH!", but there are people that would beg to differ, citing individuals that don't know how to use a gun.  If you don't know what you're doing, you should at least know what you're dealing with.  Everybody knows guns are dangerous.  Yes, the criminals and legalized madman (kings, dictators, etc.) are the reason they exist in the first place; you can't change the past.  They exist, and the criminals aren't going to quit using them just because they're illegal.  Problematic drugs have been illegal for like half a century at least (well before I was born), and they're still being sold.  If guns were flat out outlawed, it'd probably be the same deal with them.
  And the fact that people take antibiotics for 3 or 4 days when the Dr. says TEN is a social injustice.  If the doc says to do something, either do it or don't.  Doing it halfway is a biological disaster waiting to happen.  You don't just screw up your own immune system, but you ruin the drugs' performance capacity for EVERYONE!  What will scientists do when all the medicines we have available cease to work b/c people don't listen to their dr?  Why the heck would anyone think they know something their doctor doesn't?  Anyone care to answer?  "Oh, well I Feel better so what does it matter?"  Is that a rhetorical question or did you think to ask your doctor before you assumed there was no logical answer to that question?  You know that IS a question, correct?  And yes, these are rhetorical questions b/c I already (think I) know the answer, but I could be wrong, so feel free to answer if you have the time and inclination.
 

browser wowser

For the past few or so months I Have had to pay $4.99 a month to hear music albums w/ a little bit of radio functionality courtesy of Rdio.  Which was fine for a couple or so months, except albums are not normally the kind of thing someone such as myself would seek out w/o having any real reason to.  Until I got accustomed to having and using the internet, album listens were typically something I would experience after being propelled to buy the album via hearing one or two songs from it on the radio.  So, unless the album is something I'm already at least somewhat familiar with, i.e.: one of the dozens of worthwhile albums I used to own but sold b/c I "needed" the $ or an album by a band who had made one of those albums, then it's not something I will seek out.  Amazon has recommendations for albums, but most of them suck.  Rdio has recommendations too, very seldom updated, and most of them suck too.  So, many times I end up with absolutely nothing to listen to, except some artist mix, which is usually a ton of b.s., b/c there's no "artist" who consistently makes worthwhile music.
  But things got REAL hairy on Mar 1, when, after a few days of account expiration, I re-newed my Rdio subscription and it couldn't even playback music that I had paid $4.99 to hear.
  So, out of desperation, I uninstalled Google Chrome, "The fastest browser"...and since I can't get IE off my computer, I tried that, and if it weren't for its constant freezing, I would have been fine w/ it. But it couldn't go more than half an hour w/o freezing up for several minutes.
  So I am now using Opera.  Wow.  I can now listen to Pandora!!!!  I always loved Pandora.  I couldn't listen to it b/c Chrome would not work w/ it, at least not on a steady basis; the songs would chip and chop, and then sometimes they would skip after having only plaid only a few seconds if that, and of course if the stuttering and sputtering had kept up, I'd be stuck on some song, which i may or may not like, and if i did like it, that's not necessarily to say I'd be interested in hearing it at that moment.

So yeah.  I had Opera on my computer a while back, a couple years ago?  idk, but it wasn't real compatable with a lot of web sites.  Aside from Google websites like the one I'm at now, gmail, and etc., most of where I go has no problem with Opera or v/v.

Awesome-ness, at last!

On the downside, I found a TV a week or so ago that seemed like it could run off of battery(s), but it needs a car battery, which means I have to own a car to watch TV, and if I don't, I need electricity.  If I don't have electricity, I'm sure as heck not going to own a car, which means, as far as I can tell, TV (movies) will be a no-go once the economy falls out from the federal gov't's deficit.
 

literature & fiction

"Small trees attached my parents' house at the foundation"
What the heck?
That's the first sentence from Louise Erdrich's NY Times Bestseller THE ROUND HOUSE.
Perhaps I should revise that sentence, maybe it's too straightforward?
And since that sentence makes absolutely no sense, the author probably wastes two pages trying to explain it.  A nice twist of karma would be if the offspring of the trees that had to be slaughtered to make pretentious mountainous wastes of time such as TRH would attack Louise Erdrich's house.
I started reading Marilyn Robinson's HOUSEKEEPING, and it makes sense, but it's like the author/narrator just rambles on about nothing at all.
  For instance, "It seems as if there was a time when the dimensions of things modified themselves, leaving behind a number of puzzling margins..."  Uh... Do I care?  Um...no.
  Freakin' annoying.  No wonder so many people think they hate reading.

a list of great things

The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man

The proton pack

The ecto-1

That aside,
A lifetime supply of batteries and/or electricity
so I can listen to
Music and watch movies
Hi-fi audio gear to enhance the experience(s)
+
the willpower to eradicate impure foods from my body
and the ability to be happy at the highest level

Stuff

STREET TRASH two disc meltdown edition
AOXOMOXOA (2003 remaster digipack w/ bonus)
WORKINGMAN'S DEAD (2003 remaster digipack w/ bonus)
AMERICAN BEAUTY (2003 remaster digipack w/ bonus)
THE SMITHS (2012 remaster)
MEAT IS MURDER (2012 remaster)
PORNOGRAPHY (2006 remaster)
FAITH (2006 remaster)
UNKNOWN PLEASURES (basic)
CLOSER (basic)
LOW-LIFE (2008 exp)
OCEAN RAN (2004 exp)

a mess

I'm writing a list of CDs.  I don't need CDs.  A couple CD-Rs, maybe...idk...my CD collection is basically just for show.  The real enjoyment of music occurs when I go online to Rdio and, usually after several failed attempts, find something to zoom in on.
  It's going to be hard not having professionally produced music.  Most of what I listen to is electro-something or other.  I'm listening to SHRINES by Purity Ring for the 3rd time, and I'm still digging it.  I first heard it yesterday or the day before (not sure which).  My lifelong musical companion is INVISIBLE TOUCH by Genesis, which is total electro-pop/rock.
  The only entertainment I'll have is books.  I don't know if I'll be able to sit down and concentrate on a book if(/when?) I lose my gov't assistance, which includes my anti-psychotics.  I have a hard enough time sitting down long enough to finish GHOSTBUSTERS.  I started Elliot Perlman's SEVEN TYPES OF AMBIGUITY like 2 or so years ago, and I'm not even halfway through it.  I did manage to finish 37 pages of A FRIEND OF THE FAMILY by Laura Grodstein in two sittings over the course of a week.  I swear, I've started 4 or 5 books since it became clear I might actually finish SEVEN TYPES OF AMBIGUITY.  I haven't finished a single one.  I think I got like 200 pages through LET ME IN aka LET THE RIGHT ONE IN by John Ajvide-Lindquist(sp?) over a year ago, and never have gotten around to pick it up again to resume it.
  These are temporary concerns based on predictions made by people who have a history of knowing what they're talking about.  Long term, there's the possibility that I'll be under 50y.o. when the Antichrist steps up to solve these economic woes and kills those who do not accept his mark.  If I die, so what?  There are two more serious concerns I have.  1) the Antichrist may not be satisfied in simply killing me; he may want to torture me first.  2) without my medication there to ground me, I may be more susceptible to the tricks Satan and his demons use to try and get Christians off their path of righteousness.  I spent several years fighting w/ all my might to resist the reality & benevolence of God.  I still don't see why Hell and Satan need exist, but the fact is it's not up to me and never will be.  And, with any luck, I'll get answers when I'm free of the schit I carry in my head...
  So yeah.  I'm wasting my time writing any kind of CD list.  Starting March, I'll be paying $50/mo xtra toward the mortgage that my sister is obligated to pay and that me and my mother are paying b/c my sister is living in Georgia and cannot afford to pay rent/mortgage for her current living space atop the cost of the house she bought while she was living in Missouri (me and my mom are living here, not like we're millionaires who are just helping her out b/c she's family...).  I don't know if $50/mo extra will be enough to get the mortgage paid off before the gov't gives up hope and cuts welfare from its budget.  I guess we'll see.  It's not like I'll be living here peacefully until I die in my sleep at the ripe old age of 80+.  But until the Antichrist kidnaps me and puts me in a concentration camp for useless individuals or forces me to choose the mark or death, I would like a comfortable place to sleep.

Re-Construktion Time Agayn

TURN IT ON AGAIN: THE HITS (1999) by Genesis is a handy compilation for times when you want to hear Tony Banks keyboards and Phil Collins voice but you don't have the patience to listen to songs like "Domino" or "Driving The Last Spike".  But the cover-art is like a sign that says "don't buy this CD if you don't have any intention of further exploring our offerings".  Excuse me?  Since when is graveling at a bands feet a requirement for buying a greatest hits compilation?  Oh, yeah, you won't go to jail for not doing it, you won't even get your precious CD repossessed, but you will inevitably roll your eyes at the laziness that went into the product, especially knowing how many CD stores don't have anything by Genesis - EXCEPT TURN IT ON AGAIN: THE HITS.
I'm now on track 3.  I'm starting to get it, sorta.  Track 2 and 3 have very little resemblance to each other, and those songs have almost nothing in common with track 1.  Which is probably why I've always considered this CD the bactard child of the Genesis back-catalog.

Un-American w/ no excuse...

Although man has good reason to disconnect itself with all its bright shiny objects than it holds dear, The Man has no interest in disconnecting Us from the material world for our own good.  It wants to keep its job. Republicans openly oppose 3/4th of its fellow Americans.  You'd think after the social and political fallout that occurred in response to us butting into The Vietnam Conflict, these stuffy suits would learn from the mistakes of its forefathers and quit fighting progress just b/c "its wrong".

  

They Came From Outer Space?

The Washington Post had a tremendously bland article about "the end times of trust in gov't".

  They say the alltimelow in distrust in gov't is not caused by one single event.  Oh?  I thought it was...because the news has been covering it to death...[sarcasm]

  The answer is simple: you bash politicians, you're bashing everyone.  Politicians are nothing more than United States citizens who run for office and get elected by their fellow Americans.  How is this a bad thing? Well, it shouldn't be a bad thing, and it's entirely possibly that it could once again be not a bad thing.  But since everybody is making excuses for their bad behavior, there is really nobody to elect.  Who wants as "goody two shoes" in office?  Who wants someone who refuses to "get off their high horse"?  Um...yeah.

 

Why do we even have public school?

The concept of capitalism is supposedly so much better than communism b/c it enables everyone to have equal opportunity.  Try telling that to the Republicans of North Carolina who refuse to pay for preschool b/c it's a type of welfare, with nothing to say against the notion that it will over time cut the cost of tax payers by churning out less adult welfare recipients, more high-earning citizens (who in turn pay more sales tax), and more people who don't need prison funding

That's aside from the general higher quality of life that the GOP isn't interested in hearing about.

Isn't that why we have public school in the first place?  If not, I'd sure like to know why 1/4th of taxpayers' money is paying for it when it's been sorely lacking for the past 30 years.

Hmm...is this nothing more than stupidity or something more sinister at work here?

Then the Republican talk shows & Fox News either take some quack/fluke study to prove the opposite point or they just don't talk about it.

Why is the House of Representatives hijacked by these evil-doers?

Heck if I know.  It seems to me that well over half of the people in this country are total idiots, but who am I to say...