The RIAA will eat your baby

Might be late on this, but here is a link I grabbed off of digg. Indie god Steve Albini breaks down what's really going on the the RIAA acting like the mother hen to all of it's artists. Everybody knows they are evil and marketing shit to the masses through repetition and payola, but Albini uses numbers and things rather than just bitching about it with nothing to back it up like I would.

Steve Albini

Demon Haunted World

I'm re-reading Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan and there are a couple of passages that struck me:

"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time-when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness."

And:

"We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements-transportation, communications, and all other industries; agriculture, medicine, education, entertainment, protecting the environment; and even the key democratic institution of voting-profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces."

The book was published in 1997 and rings so true to current events. It's just eerie. So we just need to keep reading Harry Potter books and taking our prescriptions and we should be fine as we slip into a Brave New World. Why can't Star Wars come true or something instead of these other books?

Kanye's Thoughts Not Heard In The West

We are a free nation that tries to spread our freedom to nations whether they want it or not. We want them to have the right to bear arms, free speech, racial equality, right to vote, etc...However, we cannot permit our own people to express their ideas and thoughts based on a keystone of our constitution if it is going to be beamed into people's living rooms. These messages are to be controlled and used to control those people that are not meant to read between the lines or look behind the curtain. They are better off not knowing what is out there beyond their front door or their nearest Applebee's. To find out the truth would make them feel shorted knowing they are not truly the divine creation of a supreme being and do not reside at the center of a 12,000 year old universe. Thank you NBC for not letting us hear what a celebrity has to say about current events. You have done us all a great service.

Kanye drops knowledge and is dropped from the West coast feed

In...Surgent Surgent Surgent. Emergency.

How do you get the President to leave his Summer break? Create insurgents within our walls. G-Dub is always down for an ass-whoopin' no matter where it is. Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, The Big Easy. Why not? Where there are people doing wrong, we can send men and women with guns. Don't get me wrong, the looters are definitely the bottom of the barrel when it comes to standards and you can not lump everyone into one category of scum. There are pictures of good citizens helping those that need help, but of course the media is focused on the mass exodus and the looting. Makes better footage. I just hope that at the end of this, we don't have them drawing up a constitution and I do hope that the state can recover, it is just such a duh scenario for the G-Duh-Booya administration.

By the way, INXS Rockstar is awesome. Can't explain why, but I am sucked in to it bad.