Favorite Onion headline:

"God grants John Ritter's wish to meet Johnny Cash."

Johnny Cash: 1932-2003



Favorite songs-

Ring Of Fire

Cocaine Blues

Folsom Prison Blues

I Walk The Line

The Wanderer (from "Zooropa" by U2, 1993)

I Walk The Line Revisited (Rodney Crowell w/ Johnny Cash, 2000 (?))

Girl From The North Country (duet w/ Bob Dylan from "Nashville Skyline", 1969)

Tennessee Stud ("Jackie Brown" movie soundtrack, 1997)



Favorite albums:

Cash (American Recordings I, 1994)

Live At Folsom Prison

Live At San Quentin



Favorite Cash moments:

watching his TV special on video at Museum Of Broadcast Communications in Chicago, esp. episodes with guest Bob Dylan

Johnny Cash's liner notes for Dylan's "Nashville Skyline"



he will be missed

Here's something that's been bothering me for awhile: for years, the American public has been told by the media that if you go to McDonald's/BK/etc. and get a cheeseburger or whatever signature sandwich they offer and complement that with greasy fried potatoes and a sugar-laden soft drink, that constitutes a well-balanced meal. Never mind that the burger/whatever is mostly bread (empty calories) anyways, plus the oil in the meat, cheese and fries; plus all that sugar. Supposedly if you get it biggie/super-size etc. that's a really great deal, right? Wrong. Only in America can people be so well-fed, yet malnourished at the same time. Kinda reminds me of the novel, Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. Also reminds me of the song, "American Fast Food" by Randy Stonehill.....



AMERICAN FAST FOOD



Words and Music by

Randy Stonehill



American fast food, what a stupid way to die

American fast food, order me the jumbo fries

Oh, oh, it's easy

It's so easy and it's trouble free

It's quick and disposable, just like me

If I don't stop eating this greasy American fast food



Well, we're undernourished, but we're overfed

And we're munching on the burger with the white bread

And we're sucking up the sugar in a milkshake

Till we slip into depression with a big headache

And our arteries are crying out, "give us a break"



American fast food, what a stupid way to die

American fast food, you kiss your old age goodbye

Oh, oh, it's easy

It's so easy and it's trouble free

It's quick and disposable, just like me

If I don't stop eating this greasy American fast food



You won't have to embalm me when my life is through

There are so many preservatives in what I eat

The job's being done right now for you



"Can I take you order, please?"

"A cheeseburger, fries, and a big chocolate malted"



It's prefab junk at an exorbitant price

And it's bound to make you nauseous if you look at it twice

But they're selling you by telling you it's food that's fun

When it tastes like cardboard It chews like sponge

'cause it's really only garbage on a sesame bun



American fast food, what a stupid way to die

American fast food, order me the chili-size

Oh, oh, it's easy

It's so easy and it's trouble free

It's quick and disposable, just like me

If I don't stop eating this greasy American

I don't stop eating this greasy American fast food



© Copyright 1983 by Stonehillian Music & Word Music (a division of Word, Inc.) (ASCAP)

Ok, the other night the wife and I went to Pizza Hut and wound up finishing an entire medium pan-crust black olive & mushroom pizza between us. I think I may have committed the unforgiveable sin, though, of actually (horror of horrors) re-filling my own soft drink... the server for my section kept giving me this look the whole time, you know? Ironically, I discovered while ordering that if you buy a large pizza, you get a free DVD! The choices were, Honeymoon In Vegas, Mr. Mom, All Dogs Go To Heaven, and Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey. The ironic part is, the next morning I stopped by Meitetsu grocery store to buy some orange juice and ran into (not literally) Dan Shor, who was "Billy The Kid" in the FIRST Bill & Ted movie. I told him about the DVD thing and his jaw literally dropped, then I explained it was the second one, to which he replied, "You mean the evil one"? just joking of course!



In other news, my wife and I enjoyed looking at Mars from the balcony last night.

I know, it's been over a month since I posted anything here. Oh well, people get busy, plus peer pressure forced me to start a livejournal. I really prefer blogger tho...



NEWS:

ftp'd some new mp3s to my website today, plus changed the content of some of the pages on my site and uploaded those as well.



that's all for now....