A friend let me borrow the Brian Wilson CD "Smile". Smile? I think "Pile" would be a better name. Holy crap, I think this CD was runner up in the World Trainables Songwriting Competition.

And I also just got the Beatles Anthology DVD set...watched the first DVD today. I don't know why everyone's always hatin on Ringo...as a drummer anyway. His drumming is pretty freakin good - especially for the songs of the early 60's. Besides, I don't think any of the Beatles songs would have been better if he was in there trying to play like Neal Peart (even though NP was but a child at the time...you get the point). People are just haters. If you listen to his interviews now, he's a bit of a pompus windbag, but so are a lot of "stars".

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I finished Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals last night. Gives a radical a lot to think about. A lot of what I've been trying to do is not to organize as Alinsky did...he got folks together to fight the man...I've been trying to get folks to help get rid of the man and replace him with something else. But there were definitely nuggets to use. Some excellent analogies...awesome stuff...

The one about Christianity...Oy Veh! Judeo-Christians never really act as their organized religions tell them to do. So to confront them on behaviors using religious morality doesn't make sense because it's really outside their experience - actually acting like they say they should when in church/temple.

There's good stuff about communication, getting things done, convincing people...that kind of stuff. I'd actually recommend this over Lakoff.

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I was listening to the radio the other day...and comedian Patton Oswald was on. They were talking about an old routine of his about gays in the military...he said they should encourage gays in the military because they're tough...they take it up the ass, whereas the homophobes (who are probably just repressing homosexual tendencies) wouldn't let you go near the ole itchy eye. Not a bad point. But hell, let's take that to it's logical conclusion...with that kind of thinking, we should recruit porn stars to form an elite branch of the Marines. A new version of WAC's...Women's Anal Corps. I mean, let's face it...some of those chicks get every hole filled then probably go horseback riding. Tough MF-ers.

It would be like..."What? You have a bomb strapped to you? Big freakin whoop...I just got DPed by Ron Jeremy and some other ugly porn guy. Bring it on!" And boy would they be able to withstand torture. I mean, look at some of those ridiculous porn positions followed by the dumbest thing ever...the facial. Electrodes? Sleep deprivation, loud music & bright lights? Shoot, throw in an enema and that's a day on the set for these chicks. Man, I'm starting to dig this idea...

OK, how 'bout an elite squad of lesbian interrogators. The minute one of them came after me with one of those things that plug into the wall, I'd be talking up a storm. Kitty's been chewin on the cord, Dude. Shove Saddam on a Sybian and see what happens. At least the letters I'd have to write for Amnesty International would be more interesting.