HALLOWEEN FESTIVITIES

HALLOWEEN FESTIVITIES
Katie's Halloween bash was a lot of fun.

CUTE BABY

BABY

I FEEL LIKE DANCING

UH HUH HER

It's been over a year since this album was released and it is still a vital part of my music collection. Haunting, beautiful, with a dash of danger in joy, and joy in danger, a perfect dark brilliance. Polly Jean captures the unflinching truth, with her gift of insight and her ability to translate raw feelings into something that conveys the underlying emotion is so fantastic. The Slow Drug, The Letter, The Desperate Kingdome of Love, and You Come Through anchors this record with a sense of hope and hopelessness, reading as an uncannily accurate meth-fueled state of the union (not that I would know what that feels like...).

I FEEL LIKE DANCING...

MILLIONAIRES

MILLIONAIRES
you
no faces
no faces at all
laughing at nothing
let me tell you
i have drunk in skidrow rooms with imbecile winos
whose cause was better
whose eyes still held some light whose voices retained some sensibility
and when the morning came
we were sick but not ill
poor but not deluded
and we stretched in our beds
and rose in the late afternoon
like millionaires

By Charles Bukowski

BURNER PICTURE

A SNAPSHOT FROM BURNING MAN

Thanks Erin...

BUSH SAYS GOD TOLD HIM TO ATTACK IRAQ

BUSH SAYS GOD TOLD HIM TO ATTACK IRAQ
WASHINGTON: The mystery as to why US President George Bush decided to invade Iraq stands resolved. It was God who told him to do so, he told Palestinian leaders two years ago. Not only Iraq, but Afghanistan also got invaded because of a divine directive. This is the first time the president, a born-again Christian, has claimed that God communicates with him direct. God also told him, he said, to create a Palestinian state. This revelation about the US president’s inspiration and statecraft is due to be made in a BBC programme to be broadcast on October 10. In it, the Palestinian prime minister and foreign minister describe their first meeting with President Bush in June 2003. Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath says, “President Bush said to all of us: ‘God would tell me, ‘George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan and end tyranny in Iraq.’” khalid hasan.

Like I said there is a fine line between religious awakening and mania...

YOUR MOMENT OF ZEN

AN EXTRAORDINARY MACHINE

AN EXTRAORDINARY MACHINE

It has been six years since Fiona Apple released her last album (When The Pawn...), and after changing producers, leaked MP3's and other conspiracy theories, Apple returns with a vengeance. After hearing her original takes with producer Jon Brion, I wasn't impressed with the original version of Extraordinary Machine, but with the release of re-recorded version (produced by Mike Elizondo), I am glad she she switched producers. The original version of Extraordinary Machine sounded too much like I was in a carnival, it was too playful, and it lacked the intensity that Apple projects in her music. The new version is a much more powerful emotional whirlwhind. It's amazing how slight beat changes and progressions can change the music so much. Basically the lyrics and the beats are all the same, but the construction of each song is so completely different. This is an album worth waiting for, so take a bite and dig in.

MY DEATH WILL CONSIST OF...
My death will consist of a murder or a car crash, perhaps something exciting like cancer, but I'm never that lucky to always get what I want. I just had a root canal, when they numbed my gums, I felt like one of those people who survived a stroke. I went to get a Vanilla Ice Blended at the Coffee Bean afterwards and I was drooling all over the place because my lips couldn't keep in all the juice. I love the Coffee Bean, it feels like a coffee place, and I feel like I am in some exotic Pacific Island when I am inside. I just got the latest Death Cab For Cutie CD, it rocks, but I'm not emo. How come you have to be emo to listen to Death Cab?? I hate that. I don't know why I have so many issues with being labeled of emo, perhaps its because it makes me think of all those snot nosed skater kids, and I can't stand to believe that they're listening to DCFC and not Blink-182 or Green Day, or perhaps its just because I hate labels.