Yipeekiyay Motherfucker!!!

I went to see Live Free or Die Hard yesterday, it was awesome. Obviously it is not going to win any Oscars but John McClane is bad ass.

The new Ryan Adam's album is out (I Already got tickets to his Salt City show on July 31, Anyone wanna go?) , as well as Kelly Willis'. They are both good but I haven't listened to them enough to know exactly how good. I'll let you know.

Thats about all I have. Nothing much happening, maybe I can round some blogworthy material/events at the 7EO tonight. I'll leave you with this, as my least favorite month ends.

Camper Van Beethoven:
June

Are you weary of the lengthening days?
D' y' secretly wish for November's rain?
And the harvest moon to reign in the sky (now that it's June)
There is nothing in this world more bitter than Spring

Now I wrote you this letter
'cause the clothes were hung on the line
And the crows flew out of the field
And up into the sky

I'm lying here in the station
Stretching out on the tracks
Are all the possible places that I might arrive

There is nothing in this world more bitter than love
In all (in all) those long days of June
Bring me the long, brown grass now that it's dry
There is nothing in this world more bitter than Spring

Meldrick: "That's the thing about this job it has nothing to do with life."

Homicide quote of the ...whatever

Det. Frank Pembleton: "You know, every day I get out of bed and drag myself to the next cup of coffee. I take a sip and the caffeine kicks in. I can focus my eyes again. My brain starts to order the day. I'm up, I'm alive. I'm ready to rock. But the time is coming when I wake up and decide that I'm not getting out of bed. Not for coffee, or food or sex. If it comes to me, fine. If it won't, fine. No more expectations. The longer I live, the less I know. I should know more. I should know the coffee's killing me. You're suspicious of your suspicions? I'm jealous, Kay; I'm so jealous. You still have the heart to have doubts. Me? I'm going to lock up a 14-year-old kid for what could be the rest of his natural life. I got to do this. This is my job. This is the deal. This is the law. This is my day. I have no doubts or suspicions about it. Heart has nothing to do with it any more. It's all in the caffeine."

Levis and porn

I have been saying this for years. The way we will defeat fundamentalism, at home and abroad, is by using human nature against the puritanical retrogrades who inhabit the fundamentalist sector. Levis and rock and roll had as much to do with the fall of the Soviet Union as nukes and stealth bombers. The same is true in the current conflict with fundamentalist Islam. Porn and hip-hop will bring down our enemies faster than any military action. In the end they will be forced to quote Homicide's Meldrake Lewis, "... human desire is kicking us in the ass."

Progress cannot be stopped, there is no return to the good old days. In the end the advance of Western technology and culture will steamroll all opposition.