Bleak on Bleak

I came here this morning to elevate the mood, moving on from the darkness of the previous post and ignoring the Democratic Party clusterfuck in Iowa. And then I read this interview with Patterson Hood about Drive-By Truckers' new album, The Unraveling.

Rolling Stone's review of the album features a headline that reads, "Drive-By Truckers Channel Their Disgust With Trump’s America on ‘The Unraveling’" So Hood, et al, are kinda feeling it, too. "Stick it up your ass with your useless thoughts and prayers" from the aptly named "Thoughts and Prayers" may well be the rallying cry for the frustrated and increasingly less silent majority.

So here's that song for your listening pleasure(?):



There's a little bit of hope peeking out, which I suppose describes our time well. In the NPR interview linked above, Hood says, "The last line of the song, "Awaiting Resurrection," that ties in with the album cover, which has the two little boys standing on the beach watching the sunset. I'd like to think that somehow that is the ray of hope at the end."

We need a ray of hope, for sure.

Is It Over Yet?

The following is a partial list of the things that interest me more than do the 2012 Boston Red Sox:

• The Minnesota State Fair (better than a 50/50 chance I'll be there on Tuesday night)
• Food poisoning (better than a 50/50 chance I had that last Saturday during OBFT19)
• Professional sports in Hampton Roads, Virginia
• Avril Lavigne's wedding plans
• Skip Bayless
• The Small Argon Near Misser
• Craisins
• Randy Chinese pigs 
• Randy Travis' naked driving skills
• This paddleball game
• Scooping the litter box
• Preseason NFL Football (I have yet to watch a down)
• My heroin habit
• Rob Dibble's opinion about Stephen Strasburg
• Face-Kinis
• The novels of Susan Sontag (which are self-indulgent, overrated crap)
• Cactii