Been a while since I've politically ranted on here. And I know I said I try to avoid it. But its coming close to election time and the BS has already started swinging from both sides and I thought I'd post this: A video montage above elegantly puts it clear as to why I am so disenfranchised with voting in presidential elections.
Admittedly I fell for it last time with Obama and the whole change thing. It really felt like something was changing. But it didn't. It stayed the same, if not worse. And more people are on the horizon promising the same shit. I am just so done with it. Listen, I love this country and I love the people in it. I love the freedoms we used to have (George Carlin reference there), and I love you guys who are a part of it. However, we all know that its fucked up. It may be better than some other countries out there, but its still fucked. We cannot get better, we cannot evolve ourselves or ideas. For every two steps forward we take, we take ten backwards. I get sick of the games. Sick of the lies and sick of the politics behind it. In all likelyhood we'll never get it together in my lifetime. Its always been insane but now we can expose it quicker thanks to technology. The presidency should be respected, but no hope or faith put into it and its actions. Thats how I feel.
So lately I've been paying way more attention to things at the State level. Take care of our own back porch and let the elephant and donkey slug it out for the captain's chair. Who gives a fuck. Just get people elected in your state that will do what needs to be done for us and make our lives a less of a hell than it could be or has been in the past. That seems more attainable to me. Its where you can solve some issues and decriminalize other things. You can disagree with me and go vote, thats fine. But for presidency, I no longer care. As Bill Hicks said, its the same hand controlling both puppets and I am just done with it. Head in the sand. No longer care. Nothing I can say or do will fix it so I am going to stop trying. Makes my life less stressful anyway.
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In other news (and less ranty), I have decided to get back into collecting LPs. Back in 1999, I was a hardcore record collector. My mom had a bunch of records when I was wee, but nothing super great that I would listen to beyond Beatles and Michael Jackson. So in college I got a record player and started collecting records. It was pure joy to just open the windows and toss on a record from Stevie Wonder or Tom Waits and clean the house or draw with the breeze and the music filling the air. Something about the purity of the sound on a record I am just in love with. Takes me back to a classic time, which I am all about. I had accumulated over 100 records in my time. One of the last things my mom gave me was this record player that was done up to look like an old time radio. The cassette and radio on it was shit, but the record player worked awesome. I used that. I also had a record player with four speakers I used when I lived out in the country with Ted at his house. We put all speakers up and jammed to records constantly. We didn’t have TV, just DVDs and records. It was awesome. Those were the days! But slowly after college, I got tired of lugging them around, and by then I had an ipod, so the records just collected dust. I sold them off everywhere and ended up gifting the record player my mom gave me to Ted for helping me move once. So here I am, no records. No Cds even. Just digital music. And I miss it. Not the Cds, but the records! Oh those records. I loved em. And now I am wanting them back! Something about LPs, man. When you break out LPs, you educate some and excite the older ones. No matter what the record is, its fucking cool! So I am gonna do it! Gonna get some records and get a player again. Why the fuck not, right? What I like about them especially is that you listen to each song. With digital I am really willing to skip tracks. With records playing, getting up to switch the song is a pain, so you leave it. And you discover how much you like other songs on an album. The sound on LPs are fuller. I love it. So I went out and got a couple of my favorite U2 albums (Joshua Tree and Unforgettable Fire) to restart my collection. And soon I will get another record player as a father's day present. And the good times will spin again. YAY!
Also: I'm way into cave painting. Its coming back baby!
T
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