Well my talk about quitting has an outside chance of becoming moot since I may get fired. I’ve never been fired and can’t imagine it happening over this. But due to an amazing stroke of bad luck and a possible confluence of events and forces this past Saturday it may happen. Pearl Jam is number 1. The Ryche is back, gay cowboys redux, and oh yeah Joe Lieberman and democracy in Afhganistan suck.
Ironically my job trouble is being cause by the head of Q.A. of my former agency one Mr S Ramos, where I was considering going back to work. This could have the effect of shutting me out of that job as well. As a manager in said agency Brandonicus may be able to help determine an answer to that question. I don’t want to get into details because I’m bored with it all and resent being in a position to care due to not being completely alone and independently able to destroy my life without it hurting my dad. This is also ironic seeing as how much being completely alone sucks. I want my dad here. Just don’t want to bear it all alone or stress him if things ever hit rock bottom.
Saw all of last nights Lost and I think Henry Gale is GIlligan and Mary Ann’s conniving love child raised by Ginger and Mr Howell. And yes Mr Gale they do indeed have trust issues.
Crazy Joe Lieberman is at it again. On radio show, responding to the hosts switching of allegiances for the upcoming Senator race in Connecticut due to Lieberman’s moving too close to the Bush administration and questions regarding Lieberman’s saying that those who criticized the president were basically traitors, the following exchange took place:
McEnroe: You probably know that I wrote in the Currant last Sunday that if I had to vote in the primary right now I would, with some sorrow vote for Ned Lamont simply because you have kind of drifted so far towards the Bush Administration whose policies I don’t approve of very much. Tell me why I’m wrong, tell me why I should vote for you.
Lieberman: Well I…I think that your statement just then was as ridiculous and unfair as your column was. I was really upset by it. I don’t get to hear you a lot because I’m in Washington but if you’re saying that on the air really I hope your listeners are taking it with a grain of salt.
First off let me go to something that really bothered me. You have this line saying that I’ve come to a point where I’m saying that those who do not parrot my support of the war are unpatriotic and then you take TOTALLY out of context something that I said in a speech that I gave last December when I came back from Iraq and I urge you to go back and look at that whole speech.
McEnroe: Okay, tell me why…
Lieberman: Let me just finish this!
McEnroe then went on to try and read the quote in question and force Lieberman to respond but Lieberman kept cutting him off, he wouldn’t have it:
McEnroe: Let me read the line to you and then you tell me how to interpret it.
Lieberman: I know what the line is! I said it!
McEnroe: Okay but the listeners don’t.
The line actually reads:
“It’s time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge that he will be the commander in chief for three more critical years and that in matters of war we undermine the president’s credibility at our nation’s peril.”
Lieberman’s response?
Lieberman: This quote is totally out of context. You might have gotten it from the bloggers, who love to do this.
McEnroe: No actually I got it…
Lieberman: Read the whole speech, it’s below your standards.
McEnroe: Senator actually I got it from the New York Times.
Lieberman: Well that’s just as bad! Go back and read the speech, be more responsible.
Moorings sound like they’re coming loose on our former V.P candidate. Would he have been this bad in the White House if Gore had won? Let me correct that. Would he have been this bad in the White House if Gore had been allowed to take the position he won instead of being ousted by a right wing coup de tat?
Hard to say. i think maybe 9-11 shook some marbles loose in crazy Joe. Or maybe it just gave him the chance to show his true colors. I don’t know but it could have been an interesting ride in the Oval Office with him battling Gore if 9-11 had still happened on Gore’s watch.
Speaking of which Al says he’s not planning on running in 08. This probably doesn’t bother many of you. It does me. I still he think he’s one of the best qualified people out there and still young enough to be the virile figure Americans prefer. He’s changed his image some too. Not that he needed to for me. I like Gore. Always have. He might be the smartes guy in politics outside of Clinton. And I think were developing an appreciation for the benefits of having a man of some learning occupying the highest and arguably most important post in our sector of the galaxy.
Democracy is for smart people and it needs smart people to administer it.
Speaking of democracy, that process in the Middle East takes another wonderful step forward as Karzi’s-Bush backed shiny new constititution in Afhganistan is about the get someone executed for converting to Christianity. Now as sweet as an idea as that may be when you first hear it, it is of course somewhat at odds with some of the tenets of basic constitutional democracy we said we helped set up there. It’s actually kind of Taliban-esque don’t you think? It also puts Bush in kind of an awkward spot. This is his government there that he supported and wants us to believe is no worse for having an Islamist basis for it’s laws and constitution. And now they want to kill a guy for wanting to be more like Bush.
Word is the out may involve claiming that the guy is too insane to stand trial. Supposedly they are making this up. Most probably it will lead to vigilante justice as religious clerics have him hunted and killed extra-legally. But judging by the converts to that religion I’ve known, and particularly born-agains, i got to wonder if maybe those Taliban have some keen psychological insight.
I really really want to see Thank You For Smoking. I really hope it doesn’t pass this area by though. I think it is in limited release now. Everything I’ve read and the commercials I’ve seen make it sound like a brilliant satire.
Brokeback Mountain is out April 4th on DVD. Man that was fast. And you know what? I’m picking that puppy right up because damn it I miss those two fellas. They’re under my skin damnit and I may not get them out until I shed it. If you haven’t seen it yet you have no excuse now. No one will see you cry and hug yourself in the privacy of your own home. Let Jack and Ennis in. You wont ever let them leave.
Also out on April 4th is Queensryche’s Operation Mindcrime II. I don’t expect this to mean anything to any of you. The bands Operation Mindcrime, that I guess I now have to refer to as I was a defining hard rock concept album back in the 80′s. I loved this band and that album was sort of a V For Vendetta anarchist, rebel story that I guess I gravitated to even then. I’m not expecting the same level of genius all these years later especially without original guitarist Chris DeGarmo, but if I could get just a bit of that feeling that created emotions and rythmns that have me still invoking them out of nowhere 20 years later, it would be sweet.
And on May 2nd one of my all time favorite bands releases their first self titled cd. Pearl Jam, not quite as out of the blue as Queensryche, actually had the #1 single last week with the new albums first single World Wide Suicide. Numver 1 singles are not very Pearl Jam like anymore but the songs seeming lack of commercial appeal certainly is. Not sure how that happened. But it will be nice to visit with old friends again in both their case and Queensryche’s.
Don’t disappoint me. You wouldn’t like me when I’m disappointed.
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