my girls

is it much, to admit i need
a solid soul and the blood i bleed
and with a little girl and by my spouse
i only want a proper house

i don't care for fancy things
or to take part in a precious race
and children cry for the one who has
a real big heart and a father's grace

i don't mean to seem like i care about material things and a social status
i just want four walls and adobe slabs for my girls

*make sure you select a track that is not remixed. just pick one that only has the title of the song without some crazy shit after it

war on war

remember disclosure and transparency? weren't those things supposed to utilized in the new presidency regime? i wonder where they went? because i haven't seen them....ever.

this is a wonderful article on the uselessness and utter hilariousness of the efficient market hypothesis. it's hilarious when you read what these guys factor into their models as constants and wonder why they get these every 400 year events, like every four years. they talked about this some in "when genius failed."

when is the next oil shock coming? because it's coming. and it's coming within the next two to three years. we're running at full capacity people and the only thing keeping us from teetering over right now is a global economic collapse. so i guess there is a bright side to everything. but eventually people are going to start producing and buying shit again. and demand will catch up and surpass available supply. that's when the pain starts. hard decisions will have to be made. and we've seen how our government handles hard decisions. they don't make them.

over at fortune, they are designing the perfect health care system. check it out.

clothes line saga

idealism only lasts so long. that's why we love to think back when we were younger, before we realized how the world really works. idealism is a beautiful thing and if you had it, celebrate it. if you still have it and you're as old as i am, wake the F up. this is a wonderful story. it proves finally, once and fall for all, there is no change. our future, the future of us being ruled by global corporations using money and influence to continue to subject us to loopholes and fleece us out of our hard earned, hard fought money, is set. there will be some explanation. there will be backtracking. but don't you just feel it. like you know when someone is lying or cheating. you know it. you might feel it, before you actually realize it and speak it. but you feel it. i'm feeling it. there is no change. "meet the new boss. same as the old boss."

so i have one suggestion: do not you spend your money frivolously. you don't need half the shit you have. hold on to books, music and art. don't use credit cards. question everything. realize your little handful of friends and family is as good as it's going to get, so take care of those people.

here's a Q&A with a writer from the NYT who's covering the town hall meetings on health care.

i'm listening to fruit bats right now. i'm going to see them in september. cool.

here's ten minutes with elizabeth warren. everytime i see/hear elizabeth warren, i fall in love. this woman is the best. she is the top of the shit.

parklife

the fed will be making some announcements regarding interest rates and their/his view of the economy today. ben bernanke. the man. the fed. probably should start to thinking about raising interest rates, just a smidge.

speaking of the fed, they sure like to help contribute to the making/contributing of bubbles, don't they? well they've spent tons and tons of monies this year and last. are they doing it again? have you seen the stock market? what's all that uptick based on? what has really changed? i'm not sure either.

still speaking of the fed, the fed of cleveland is proposing a three-tiered system for regulatory systematically important financial institutions. but, like before, who's watching the watchers?

this article says the bubble will pop in 2012, when the next wave hits. especially read the bottom part. wow.

bankruptcy is changing.

you what i listened to last night and i really, really liked? blur's parklife. this is one of those albums that i bought and never really listened to all the way through. i didn't like it because i didn't know what to expect and then when i listened i just brushed it off. but last night, i listened to mostly the whole thing, it's freakin' long and i missed like three songs, and it was great. terrific pop record. check it out.

our faces split the coast in half

what a weekend. let me take a second......

okay. first, houston hosted it's first, what i would call, real music festival. why was it real? well, is buzzfest real? no, it's hosted by a radio station and all the bands sound the same. is the earth day festival real? no, it's centered around a day to celebrate the earth, not really music. this one had extremely diverse acts and was actually in downtown houston, which buzzfest is not. it had no radio station ties and it was actually really freakin' great. hot as hell, but really freakin' great. here's the story of the great saturday music festival journey. we packed up on saturday morning and walked with our stuff probably two miles. in the heat. once we stopped and regrouped we checked everything out and found our place on the hill. i saw young mammal, fat tony, octopus project, the sword, broken social scene and explosions in the sky. i didn't get burned because i lathered, seriously, lathered myself in suntan lotion. and i wore a long-sleeved shirt. and a hat. and pants, but that goes without saying. or does it?

bss was freakin' great. octopus project was really cool and young mammal was pretty good too. but man, it was hot. so hot that that night after we ate and had like one drink, we all called it a night. i was thinking we would party into the early hours, but i guess, heat, old age and heat made us all a little tired.

so the next day, we woke up and tried to get our cat to eat. see the back story on the cat is, after the move, we put him on new medication for his thyroid problem. that didn't react well with his stomach and he also got into a cat fight, his first one ever, and we changed his food. several bad moves on our part. so he just stopped eating. seriously, like 100% not eating for four days. so by sunday, we were freaking out. but sunday morning he woke up kind of with an attitude that made us think he was feeling better. so we washed him off (don't ask why) and we gave him some water. i had bought some baby food late saturday night for him to eat cause we thought that would be soft enough and gentle enough on his stomach that he might go for it. and sure enough, sunday morning, he ate it. we were so freakin' happy. it was like seeing a miracle to watch this cat eat. and he's been eating ever sense. he hasn't moved to hard food yet, but he's getting there.

after watching our cat eat for a while, we ran some errands and went back to the festival. it was still hot, but it was later in the day, so it wasn't too bad. we got there in time to see what made milwaukee famous, devin the dude and of montreal. wmmf was really good. but of montreal put on this freaky, wacky show with characters in stage and balloons and magicians and little scenes they would act out. total wild. really entertaining and the music was good too.

what a weekend.

on another note, the rolling stone article i posted here a while back is getting some major heat. this guy is defending it. if you have like 30 minutes, you should take the time and read both articles. it's well worth it.