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Today kids are going underground, get some heavy rest
by anna at 10:24 AM on February 11, 2006
The classic rock station is doing 30 years in 30 days. Each day they feature songs from a given year starting with 1966. Now they are up to 1976, my heyday. I am simply amazed at how so much of the music just...sucked.
Driving to the grocery store I heard a song called Convoy that I'd never heard before. Most of it was just truckers babbling in their CB radios. We are talking simply awful. But I am sure it was popular in its day. Popular among the mainstream morons who comprise the majority of any population.
People think of the sixties and they think love beads, be-ins, drugs, war protests and such. And certainly there was some of that. My long-haired, good-for-nothing, Parkinson's disease-addled brother doled out free, legal acid in Haight-Ashbury circa 1965. He knew Owlsley, Grateful Dead pal and alchemist. This was powerful stuff, pure LSD-25.
Ah but my sisters were of age then too. They attended no protests, took no drugs aside from beer. They were boy-crazy, obsessed with getting good grades so as to get into a good college. Later they went on to snag "good catches" as hubbies, bought houses and became soccer moms. I think that is true of 90% of the sixties youth.
Many of the other 10% drifted out to San Fransisco after the so-called summer of love in 1967 (which my brother claims never happened.) By the time they got there the scene was so over. Speed took the place of acid. Muggings, rapes and robberies were common. My brother and the original hippies and the Grateful Dead and Ken Keasey and his Merry Pranksters were all long gone, moved out to the country. How disappointing that must have been.
Ditto for the recession of the 70s and the go-go consumerism of the 80s and 90s. That impacted only a small percentage of people directly. The rest just went about their business, blithely oblivious to imaginary trends.
It's kind of the same today. You've got two lunatic fringes, one epitomized by blowhards like Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannety. These guys would suck George W's dick to fruition if given half a chance. They insist we're engaged in WWIII against the evil "Islamofascists," whoever they are. The other fringe would like nothing better than to shove a hot fire poker up W's dick. They think Dick Chaney is Satan incarnate. They also believe we've brought all this terrorist mayhem on ourselves with our Western arrogance and failure to recognize the "root causes" of terrorism. And we need to "be sensitive" to other cultures' nuances and vagaries. We shouldn't go around dissing prophets unless they are the ones of ur own main religions. See: swastikas everywhere, Jews to blame for everything, Protocols of Zion, PissChrist, dung-covered Mary etc.
Namby-pamby idiots and dull-witted rednecks.
On and on they prattle, on TV, the net, radio and newspapers. Barbs, asides, putdowns, bloviation, accusation and vitriol. Nobody else really cares. We aren't going to be touched by terrorists. George W isn't going to wiretap us or designate us as enemy combatants and throw us down a legal black hole forever. So we honestly do not care one way or the other. We go about our humdrum lives, trying to earn a living, stay warm, raise our kids and accumulate things.
We're not out to solve world hunger. We're out to solve hunger in our homes. We're not out for world peace. We just wish for a little peace and quiet at home.
Ah, the utter banality of it all.
comments (8)
Huh....so what your saying is......people are self serving, egomaniacle, heidonistic, bigoted perverts out for no-one but themselves? Thank God the Canadians are going to appoint Oprah dictator and conquer Argentina.
by Clonereject1138 at February 11, 2006 12:51 PM
I didn't say they are perverted. And frightening as it may sound Orah would trounce any other candidate right her in the US of A.
by anna at February 13, 2006 7:42 AM
Yeah... I just want to press a giant wholesome 'MUTE' button.
by lockheed at February 13, 2006 4:49 PM
Oprah was in the supplement magazine for my Sunday paper. I was so excited that I had an opportunity to read about this fascinating woman from the the States... really, I can't describe my enthusiasm.
Someone being paid to ask random shit: When are you at your happiest?
Oprah: Little things make me happy. Just the other day I was out jogging, and the garbage bins in my neighbourhood were out ready to be picked up, and I thought, 'isn't it great that we live in a country in which your trash is taken away!'
Yes Oprah, fucking fantastic. Just the thought of it makes me warm inside. You fucking 'tard! Isn't it great that we pay our taxes to have our rubbish hauled away, and greater still when they leave a single bag of rubbish for you to keep for another week, because you couldn't fit it into the bin!
"Can't take anything that's not in the bin mate!"
"It's in the fucking bin you twat!"
"It's on the bin... lid doesn't close look, can't take it."
"You sackhead... here... my neighbour's bin, half empty, my bag... in it... now haul that shit for brains!"
An actual event from my life, a memory given new life after reading a dull interview with a dull woman who claims, "I've always wanted to earn my age. Y'know, at 22, earning 22,000..."
Have I cursed enough in this one? Heh. Oprah plus magazines... Christ-fucking-Allah... what a waste of paper! Paper that's not gonna help me keep the lid down on my bin I'll wager.
by Ex Crimson Guard NCO at February 14, 2006 12:14 AM
We dismantle discarded appliances so the components will fit in the bin. Damned if we will make the trek to the dreaded landfill, which they are turning into a theme park. Sludge World!
by anna at February 14, 2006 7:56 AM
*Sniff* *Snnnniiiiiifffffffff*.........
Ah......I love the smell of decomposing human shit, smells like.....decomposing human shit.....
I honestly like the lanfill. Hell, when it gets so big it 100 more feet above the surrounding land, our people cover it with dirt, and build a suburb! Treasure Hills, they call it, and y'know what they say about one mans garbage...
by Clonereject1138 at February 14, 2006 2:50 PM
How old is Oprah? She's earning a shite load more than she should be if she claims, 'I want to earn my age!'
I saw some clips on UKTV for an upcoming Oprah show, during commercials for a show I was actually fascinated with, something about cars. Something so crap it had me enthralled. Anyhoo, there were clips of news reporters standing before bodies that had been covered up. The camera zooming on a human toe that had strayed from beneath the fly ridden blanket. "This used to be a person... an American." Then cut to some huge black woman with horrendous teeth, crying and saying, "This shouldn't be happening, this is America!" Then, Oprah... in the studio, clearly touched by these images, these images she's putting on her show, to score some uber ratings. Tears in her eyes, camera up close just to prove that they're real, she's right there, full fat face filling every inch of the television screen, looking like she is carrying the weight of all the world on her shoulders alone. She says, "This... is America." Like that should have some profound impact, everything went exactly as rehearsed... and if delivered as it was in rehearsal... the viewing audience should be feeling something, maybe, a widdoo upset. :(
I smirked I think. I may have even shaken my head. {:-O
If she wanted to earn her age she'd be quite happy giving the millions left over when decucting her 'age earnings' from the total sum accumulated, to whoever needs it surely? You're so rich Oprah... the crying, toothless American woman you're feeling so much rehearsed empathy for could use a few dollars. Shit, she's giving you some diamond television drama, she must be entitled to some of your cash. You're earning from her tragedy. Heh. "This... is America. Isn't it great that my trash gets taken away!"
I believe I'd be interested in watching public executions if they involved celebrities like Oprah. We could have giant screens behind them showing the horrendous television people like her have thrust upon us... and then hang them, until they're dead, dead, dead. I'd watch that, or static... maybe static would win out... there are no commercials that interrupt static while I'm watching it. o.O
by Ex Crimson Guard NCO at February 14, 2006 7:00 PM
Executions of Celebrities might even trump Dancing with the Has-been Stars. I'd watch.
by anna at February 15, 2006 7:42 AM