no line on the horizon

long, long, long

"long, long, long" is a george harrison song on the white album. i've always been intrigued by it. there's nothing immediately exceptional about it. it's somewhat seductive in its presentation. i used to skip it when i first listened to the white album. but i remember i was in huntsville listening and drinking in my apartment by myself. i used to do this with all the lights off and only had some candles burning and i would really try to "listen" to the music, almost completely feel it. it didn't always work successfully, but for this song it did. i felt it. the reason i mention it is because jim james (yin yames?) from my morning jacket has covered a few george harrison songs and "long, long, long" is one of them. i hope it is better than the original, which there is no way possible it will be, but hey, give it a shot. plus, there's no audio sample of the original song for me to link to. you can hear a clip on amazon. actually, you can't do that either. sorry.

as much as this country is about muscle cars and power, i cannot wait for the future of cars to get here. i want a light, battery operated vehicle that will fit myself and a bag or something, but still have protection from flying debris and flying monkeys. like those bikes/vehicles from tron (see above). that's awesome. fast, safe (unless you hit a wall and they break up into ten million pixels), but safe in reality. check out these cars from the near future.

i've been watching a lot "one year from the crisis" type shows where they go back and see what really caused things and how we really should have handled it. anyway, here is frontline's version and i love frontline.

here are the most frugal cities in america.

i have seen wilco live three times, once in austin and twice in houston. the first time in houston was april of 2005 for the ghost is born tour. i went with randy and his girlfriend. it was a great show. jeff tweedy had just stopped smoking and was a easily agitated by the crowd. he basically said he was not coming back to houston because everyone who wanted to see them could go to austin. the next time i saw them was at acl in austin. great show again. and the last time was march 2008 back in houston. they came back apparently because they forgot something, i don't know. but he had a cold this time. so every time he came to houston that i saw them, jeff was afflicted in some way or another. i also met and talked to glenn kotche outside a sushi restaurant the last time they were in houston. that was cool. i bet he remembers that. this time, i'm going to cedar park, which is outside austin to see wilco in october. it doesn't look like they're coming to houston anytime soon and i'm taking the audit part of the cpa text the week before the show, so i'm going to be ready to blow off some steam. i'm totally stoked.

audience with the pope

"i have an audience with the pope, and i'm saving the world at eight, but if she says she needs me, she says she needs me, everybody's gonna have to wait." brilliant elbow.

did anyone watch 60 minutes last night? the interviewer, i believe it was steve kroft was interviewing president obama. he mentioned how the american citizen is having a hard time handling the health care reform because there's been so much change already. what change is he referring to? what has changed? the administration has done nothing to correct the financial industry's problems. everything that happened before can happen again. today. he hasn't changed health care. he basically backed out of the public option. so what is really changing around here? please inform me of the great amounts of change going on. i would love to be corrected. because i thought i voted for change. that's what i thought.

speaking of interviews, my mom told me about wilco being interview on cbs this morning. i didn't see it because i usually don't wake up at 8:30 on a sunday morning. here is the interview.

i did make the mistake of watching the texans game yesterday. seriously. unbelievable. totally pathetic. i predicted 8-8. that might be optimistic.