conformity).      Go ahead, work for the machine, (Stromboili) join the perpetual ignorance so you can live in your latex bubble. Please come back to the blue bench. Now Playing at the Casablanca       Even the best music groups are not popular forever. Some fade away gracefully, quietly dying with a "best of" album then forgotten in the dust. But others, others are "Now playing at the Casablanca." If you don't already know what I'm getting at, you soon will.       Playing at the Casablanca is the end of the road for a musician, (If he can still be called that). No longer can they gather huge crowds distilling their brains on LSD at a dead head concert. They are now playing in empty bars and showrooms on $5.00 ticket sales. As they end a fine tune, they load into the VW van and land in another town, another dead casino.       Tell me you haven't heard these cries from the radio in recent months and years. "Remember 'Sugar Days' by the Steve Miller Band?, well we have the drummer and he's got all your favorite hits...now playing at the Casablanca." It's over, no more self respect.       Here are some future visitors at the Casablanca. * Remember the bassist for Nirvana? * Remember Hanson and the hit 'mmm bop'? * Remember The New Kids on the Block? * Remember Vanilla Ice? * Remember the keyboard player for Madonna?

* Remember N-SNC and Backstreet Boys before the outbreak? Now they are playing together with all your favorites like "Baby Baby." * Remember GARTH BROOKS? (maybe someday in my prayers) * Remember Aqua? (Actually, I think they are playing right now...want some tickets?) * Remember the bat from KISS? * Remember Twisted Sister? ("We're not gonna take it!!!!" Now they are) * Remember The Monkeys? (They haven't been on the beat for years) * Remember Ice Cube? (Now doing Coke Ads...not the drink) * Remember Boy George (I don't) * Remember Judas Priest!? (Currently on tour with Marlyn Manson) * Remember Brittany Spears? (Hey, if I misspelled it no one would know anyway) * Remember "I saw the sign"? (We forgot who really sang this) * Remember the Spice Girls, we have Pregnant Spice, Drug Spice, Obese Spice, and newly recruited Rodman Spice * Remember Mealie Vineelie? "Blame it on the background vocals" * Remember MC Hammer (Can't Touch This....now you can for 10 bucks) * Remember the artist formerly known as Prince, currently Known as Princess? "And then there was no more music" Hanson is truly in the middle of nowhere...crackbabies go to music...tragic