Highest iTunes Playcounts from the '60s

1960: Dirty Dirty Feeling - Elvis Presley
1961: Marieke - Jacques Brel
1962: Down on Me - Janis Joplin
1963: Don't Think Twice, It's Alright - Bob Dylan
1964: Sie Liebt Dich - The Beatles (unexpected)
1965: Ballad of a Thin Man - Bob Dylan
1966: Laisse-Moi - Chantal Goya
1967: Wild Honey - The Beach Boys
1968: Baby - Os Mutantes
1969: Candy Says - The Velvet Underground

Veritable Cornucopia

Bristling with images:
Prototype blueprints,
Grappling hooks, stopwatches,
Calendars and paranoia.

Bridges to nowhere can only take you so far,
But it's time, not distance, that matters most
When you're just sitting over coffee, hung over with a cold.

I don't want to go anywhere.
So, I just lean over the railing and stare
At water under the bridge.

Farming the Octogon

Fins sprout like grey stalks of corn.
It is springtime and my head swells
As though my blood and I agree
That the only place to be is outside.

Funting the Calypso

Drip drap - where my funnies at?
I eat so many worlds I don't even need a money map
Criss-Cross - my teeth need fliss-floss
But I eat steel wool and I drink piss cause I'm the bliss-boss
Don't like rhymin? It's all in the timin
And I got time covered in grime like sime
Mese cat - fuckin a baseball bat cover'din fat.

I'm not sure if it's good news...

...but it seems like better news.

Today's Gallup poll (3/31/11) says that unemployment just dipped to 9.9%. I've been looking at that number every for months, and honestly, I wasn't sure it would ever get below 10% again. Maybe I'm just young, and not used to crises like this one. It's nothing to get very excited about since it still means our economy is in the toilet. Still, a little hope.

Also, Obama's on his way up in the polls again, which is a relief. Approve = 49% / Disapprove = 43%