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so i ordered Todd Rundgren and Utopia anthologies from django's recently. opened my mail today and all i got was the second disc of the Todd one. GRRRR! none of those great songs from Something/Anything or Runt. at least i got "Johnee Jingo", an appropriate and timely song from his amazing album A Capella (whole thing recorded using no instruments but his own voice & body, a few years before Bobby McFerrin did it), plus "Drive" and "Bang the Drum" and "Can We Still Be Friends". but goddamn! where's "I Saw the Light"? where's "Hello, It's Me"??!

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thanks to mistressxenobia for posting this:

"Eckhart saw Hell too. He said: The only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won't let go of life, your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away. But they're not punishing you, he said. They're freeing your soul. So, if you're frightened of dying and... and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the earth."
--- from "Jacob's Ladder"

it's weird, ever since i was very young and was questioning my "faith" (a few years before i saw this film) i had a feeling that the afterlife was actually like this. a one-size-fits-all sort of "reversible environment". i even went around telling people the Good News. "we judge ourselves!"

now, of course, i'm a devout agnostic. but i think that IF there is an afterlife at all, which i doubt, then it will be very much like this.

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found my passport in storage.

( wanna see it? )

my hair looks funky 'coz i had just taken out my braids (they were getting pretty ratty and close to dreading, which wouldn't have been so bad, but i hate it when it starts to get itchy-- that's why i never dread my hair)

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this whole sniper thing has been the best fucking "reality" tee-vee the tee-vee has ever seen. now that it looks like we've seen the series finale, i feel empty inside. i want more. i vote we go ahead and open up a new network, VBN (Violence Broadcasting Network), to fill this vast hole in the entertainment landscape. we need more of these types of shows to keep us enthralled, hanging on to the edges of our LaZBoys. we need more death. and we need it to be bigger, better, faster, and bloodier. not to mention, with this type of reality tee-vee, we all truly do have a chance at that fifteen minutes of fame Andy Warhol promised us; we don't have to be young and hip and beautiful anymore. we can now be characters on tee-vee in a real-life, life-or-death drama. and maybe even this new network might think about recruiting the NRA as a major, or even chief, sponsor; arming every single one of us to the teeth, just to see if anything interesting happens.

saith Julius W. Caesar: "Let them have bread and circuses!"

and gore. plenty of real, vastly entertaining gore.

may the most entertaining killer win.