Thanksgiving

On this hallowed day
which Providence has given us,
I just want to take a moment to
thank all of the noble savages out there for your
most noble sacrifice.
Let me buy you a drink, Red
(as a sign of gratitude).

What's that? You've already got one?
Your own bottle of Mohawk?
Oh my goodness!
In that case, I'll take this one
for the both of us.

I've heard it said that
You can take the savage out of the plains
and the plains from the savage,
but you can't take the savage out of the savage.


So on this wonderful day
Drink up and give thanks
to our most noble savages
and their most generous,
Red Delicious
sacrifice.
Amen.


Hey! Save me a piece of that apple pie, dammit!
--

Brandy

Sometimes I wonder sometimes I wonder,
endangering my well-being in doing so.
Why we starve amid surplus
and kill killers
and hang leaders
Ignore the hungry, so inconvenient.
Fuck the poor
And shit on the righteous,
Self-righteous stump-speeches
And political polling
Television ratings
Tax cuts
Must change the producers
into consumers.
This is progress.
Fuck the consumers, we’re over-consuming.
Give birth
Consume to sustain
[develop]
'Need to sustain consumption rates,
Rates, rates, rates,
And this rape goes unpunished
while grams put fathers in jail
and we say justice has failed,
but they strive for jail;
'better than the neighborhood hustle.
[Have you seen Philly lately?]

We get hustled more every day
while snoring in our creaking beds, raining,
Dreaming dreams of sex and death, and exams unprepared for.
The Dream is a nightmare and I’m thrashing violent in my sheets
But I can’t wake up.

Somebody please
call Oprah
and ask her what to do.

Worth a Look: Radiohead - Creep Acoustic with flash animation

I feel like a total tool posting this on my blog (note: this is not an adolescent cry for help), but I'm a fan of this song, and the animation that goes with it does an excellent job of capturing the sentiment. Handelsman says: 2 thumbs up. Worth a watch.

Here's the youtube link (or you can look at the bottom of the page--it's probably already there):

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JsHKoJM8uv8

A sudden heaviness from who knows where.

I retreat into myself for warmth and companionship

but come up empty-handed

and cold

[Is all that we see or seem...]




This morning I arrived at my door at 6 a.m.
alone again
and layed in bed
until 9 a.m.
and wondered, in between foreign dreams,
How?
A rhetorical question.

Si tu te vas

Dicen que vengo de lejos,
cantando Pasa la vida.
Desde la Isla a Triana,
desde Triana a Sevilla.

Eucalipto de Chapina,
callejones de Triana,
plaza, la de Doña Elvira,
plazuela, la de Santa Ana.

Si tú te vas,
si tú te vas,
yo me quedo en Sevilla
hasta el final.

Si tú te vas,
si tú te vas,
yo me quedo en Sevilla
hasta el final.

Apuesto por Sevilla por el mundo,
no me cambio de barrio por un beso,
canto para saber que estoy cantando,
vivo para saber que estoy viviendo.

Vente p'acá y déjate de frío,
vente p'acá y déjate de frío,
hay ramas por todos los rincones,
me casaré, te casarás conmigo.
Ay Sevilla,
Sevilla de vacaciones.

Si tú te vas,
si tú te vas,
yo me quedo en Sevilla
hasta el final.

(R. Amador)

Pubic Hair

When you go to the only bathroom in the house, only to be greeted on a regular basis by someone else's pubic hairs and an overwhelming smell of methane, you know you live with a grunting slob named Oscar.