tracy hide

it's a lively saturday here at the household. i'm studying all day. currently taking a break, wearing a hat and going through my wondermints albums, of which i have four. you read that currently. i have four wondermints albums. why? i don't know.

the s/t first album, bali and mind if we make love to you. i also downloaded an import of theirs, years ago, called the wonderful world of the wondermints. that's probably their best album. it's an album of covers including brian wilson (via glen campbell) the monkees and others. it's really, really good.

the rest are okay. some songs are amazing. some are pretty lackluster.

wow. see. i just stumbled across a song that sounds a lot like trader by the beach boys.

convinced of the hex

financial regulation reform passed last night. what does it mean? well, it means nothing. the bill contained nothing. no real regulation. no real change. it was as if your parents grounded you, but you still could do whatever the hell you wanted. "be home at midnight, unless it's a day of the week between monday and sunday, with monday being the beginning of the week and sunday being the end of the week, with all days considered to exist in between."

here is tyler durden at zero hedge. every word is true:

"as if anyone thought otherwise, the final shape of financial regulation has now been formalized and as Shanien Nasiripour at the Huffington Post notes, "many of the measures that offered the greatest chances to fundamentally reshape how the Street conducts business have been struck out, weakened or rendered irrelevant." congrats, middle class, once again you get raped by Wall Street, which is off to the races to yet again rapidly blow itself up courtesy of 30X leverage, unlimited discount window usage, trillions in excess reserves, quadrillions in unregulated derivatives, a TBTF framework that has been untouched and will need a rescue in under a year, non-existent accounting rules, a culture of unmitigated greed and all of Congress and Senate on its payroll. and sorry, you can't even vote some of the idiots that passed this garbage out: after all there is a retiring lame duck in charge of it all. we can only hope his annual Wall Street (i.e., taxpayer funded) annuity will satisfy his conscience for destroying any hope America could have of a credible financial system."

the debate is settled

in the 80's there were two types of men: men without hats and men at work. both had their unique characteristics.

one band of men made songs about safety. the other, made songs about coming from down under. both were unforgettable. both were equally strange.

so, who was the better man in the 80's? the men at work? or the men without hats?

i got the hots, pt. 2

those guys over at the burning platform, you got to love them. they're filled with more righteous indignation than any human being should be and bless them for it.

they watched gasland last night. and they were not happy with what they saw. i mentioned the documentary in yesterday's posting, "i got the hots." which is a great song from underwater moonlight by the soft boys.

did anybody else watch it? i do not have hbo. i only have channels a-g. from h-z, i got nuffin, with the exception of m. somehow that one comes in.

in other news, eons of darwinian evolution somehow produce mitch.

i got the hots

haven't we heard that natural gas is going to lead way into the future? cure us of our addition to oil? foreign oil? well it might all be true. and in the process, it might just ruin us all.

what? what you say? you did say what, didn't you? outloud. or under your breath. or into a coffee cup. but you said it.

fracking. that might be an issue going forward. fracking is also known as hydraulic fracturing. basically, they shoot a bunch of water, chemicals and stuffs into a hole to help get the stuffs out.

but that stuffs they're shooting in there, it ain't no good. it's made of some bad stuff.

and why are we doing this? for shale gas. it's going to power the world some day. which is a shame, because i shorted shale gas and went long on love.

but see, there's this town of damascus, where people are getting sick. their water is bursting into flames. i mean, that sounds fun, but i like soft water.

and if you don't like reading, which who really does, check out this film/trailer for a documentary called gasland.

jigsaw falling into place

radiohead has a new album coming out this year. that's what mr. ed o'brien is saying at least. i liked in rainbows, but i had issues with it. wilco got tons of flack for releasing an album that seemed to be made up of various phases in their collection of sounds. i gave them flack for that.

but wasn't in rainbows the same thing? listen to it again in that context and you hear the various sounds of their career. there's over-edited, cut-up tracks recalling kid a/amnesiac. there's melodic, soothing, soaring songs recalling o.k. computer. there are straightforward-ish songs recalling hail to the thief. i liked the album. but radiohead received praise where wilco received derision. they made the same album. neither one of them was horrible. but neither one of them was groundbreaking.

groundbreaking like this.

not like this.