Showing posts with label neil young. Show all posts
Showing posts with label neil young. Show all posts

One Year In Texas Talk 10-06-10

By Nate



One Year In Texas Talk is an answering machine we have set up to our OYIT hotline. Please call in and leave an anonymous message. If we deem it worthy, it will show up in this weekly piece. Tell us what's on your mind. It doesn't even have to pertain to the website!

No rights for sinners

Yeah, I was calling in because we have to stop the liberal indoctrination that's going on at college campuses. You know what they're teaching at college? That homosexual marriage is a human rights issue. That's ridiculous. Being gay is a sin. You don't need special rights because you're committing a grotesque sin. Wake up people. They're just homosexuals.

Stop the presses

Now, I don't know if this is true or not, but I saw on the History Channel that aliens may have built the pyramids in ancient Egypt. So why is everybody getting so upset about illegal aliens building our garages? All aliens are alike and nobody is going around complaining about the pyramids, at least not that I have heard.

Gas, Grass or...Mass!?

I have a problem with local teens sticking forks in my lawn at night. When I wake up the next day there are about 100 plastic forks sticking in my lawn and overnight they froze there and are really hard to pull out. I don't know where they got this idea, but it is reprehensible. I work hard on my lawn, I mow it about every 9 or so days. I think we need to send these kids to church and let the lord work them over. Maybe then they would have some respect for other people's property.

Don't put this on the Computer

I see the university has hired a bunch of Asian faculty and Hispanics. I wonder how many of those can speak good English. How many times do students have to deal with teachers that can’t speak English? I’ve had the wonderful experience of having to deal with a doctor at the med center who had to repeat everything he said twice just so I could understand a single word he said. We should not have people working here who do not speak good English. And don’t put this on the computer. Put it in the paper.

Chapter and Verse

Regarding the caller who suggested Barack Obama is not baptized, I call his attention to Page 208 of ‘The Audacity of Hope’ in the chapter titled ‘Faith,’ in which Obama describes being baptized at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. He wrote ‘I felt God’s spirit beckoning me. I submitted myself to his will and dedicated myself to discovering his truth.

Rebel yell

I think I am finally starting to figure out President Obama. Since he has a ax to grind with America and America’s past, the reason he won’t help any of the Southern states with the immigration problem is because they were rebels during the Civil War. He is not going to help anyone whom he sees was against his African-American side.

With child

I work with this girl who at one time was a real go-getter. Now she can’t push a broom to sweep the floor and cannot lift anything. Why? Because she is pregnant. In my opinion, if you can’t push a broom to sweep the floor, then you should be on bed rest. If you can’t lift anything, stop lifting the cigarettes to your mouth.

The Bible says

There’s a danger with the government controlling our health care as well as our pensions. In Revelations, it says unless you belong to a certain persuasion, you will not be allowed to compete in commerce. In other words, you will do what you’re told, or you will not trade or eat or be taken care of. Once the government has the ability to sway your votes, you’ll be compelled to do what they say.

America's Chickens are coming home to roost!

AMERICANS claim to be serious about education. However, when a suggestion is made to extend the school year to equal that of other advanced nations in the world, the public will come up with every excuse in the book not to do so. To me, this illustrates that the children rule the roost.

The Needle and the Damage Done...by texting and cell phones?

Today we were going to a meeting and we were going east on Mitchell Avenue. Right on 26th Street, I just happened to look out the window as a passenger and there, laying very plainly on the grass, was somebody’s used needle. That was absolutely the stupidest thing that people could do. But they are drug people, so that’s why they don’t have any brains. Children could pick that up and get germs from it. And if you have HIV, you can give it to those kids because they’d play with the needle. That is absolutely ludicrous. Texting is a problem, yes, but the cell phones are worse. If you can’t walk and chew bubble gum, how do you expect to drive a car and talk?

April Cargo Cult



By ScottB

A cargo cult is a type of religious practice that may appear in traditional tribal societies in the wake of interaction with technologically advanced cultures. The cults are focused on obtaining the material wealth (the "cargo") of the advanced culture through magic and religious rituals and practices, believing that the wealth was intended for them by their deities and ancestors. - Wikipedia


BOOK: "American Studies" (2002) by Louis Menand

Centering mostly on the intellectual/cultural history of 20th Century America (duh, it's Menand), this book acrobatically straddles the divide between T.S. Eliots' antisemitism and the codependency between the SAT's and the hydrogen bomb. And yes, it's true that most of Menand's paragraphs end with a joke.

Album:"Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" (1969) by Neil Young and Crazy Horse

Less radio friendly than "Harvest," Neil Young's first album with Crazy Horse offers more to get lost in. Some artists, like Springsteen, take an environment you thought was simple (farms, cars, summer) and transforms them into mobius strips of beautiful complexity. Neil Young takes complex themes (ephemerality, Nietzchean emotional politics between hippies, disillusionment) and makes them cartoonishly simple. And it rocks. There's something life-affirming about walking home through Brooklyn in the rain listening to "Down By The River".

Movie: "The Human Spark" (2009)

I have a soft spot in my heart for PBS docs. I've always wanted to see them get BBC levels of funding and production quality. At least we have Alan Alda to host our shit! And in "The Human Spark," his sincere interest in human origins bubbles over into a childlike enthusiasm. It's like having Hawkeye as a science teacher.

Food: CT Style Lobster Rolls from the Red Hook Lobster Pound

If the cheap, high quality fixed-gear bikes and turn of the century subway maps don't lure you to the Brooklyn Flea, then the lobster rolls from the Red Hook Lobster Pound should. Connecticut style consists of a buttery meat claw sauté, topped with chives, and served on a lightly toasted bun. I wouldn't just die for it, I'd kill you just to eat it out of your mouth.

Cargo: Blublockers and a Stuffed Bat Inside of a Crystal Ball

-The Zach Galifianakis look alike who sold them to me said: "Blublockers...well buddy, now you're on top of the world." But I couldn't respond because my breath had been taken away.

-Those who truly love me know that my Spirit Animal is a bat. I'd like to think that the purchase of my stuffed bat inside of a crystal ball represents my final and lasting victory over the beast inside.

Wake up! It's a Tuesday morning. No time left to say goodbye.

By Glenn 

Greetings. In today's good morning post, we'll cover Neil Young's lost album Time Fades Away, gym etiquette, my new bluetooth and the weather. Do you ever have a moment in your day to day life when you're driving your car down the road and you think about what it would be like to drive off a bridge or into a median? If you do, you need to go see what we call a "therapist" or "counselor." These feelings are not healthy, and no amount of good morning posts are going to fix whatever deep seated problem that's causing you to fantasize about a violent, automobile-based death. I talked to someone recently about what it would take to become a counselor, but I realize now that I already am. You are in a chair as you read this but you might as well be on the proverbial therapist's couch.

[I genuinely think if I didn't work in politics I would want to be a counselor of some sort. I like to help people with their problems because I don't have any myself.]


Today's Weather
I know when you wake up it's dark and it feels cold, but it's not as bad as you imagine. For example, today our high was 18 degrees. It may not sound like much, but it's important to acknowledge and embrace the small victories in your day to day life. Last week I don't think it got above zero degrees, even during high noon. Now I can walk outside in a hooded sweatshirt and a corduroy jacket with no gloves or hat. Do I get cold quickly? Sure, but I've decided that I'm not going to let the weather or my parents dictate my life.


Today's Lost Neil Young Album

Are you familiar with Neil Young's "lost" album Time Fades Away? I've long heard rumors of it, but just chalked it up to another great experience in this life that I would never have. Then, while visiting my parents on Christmas, it happened: I found the album in mp3 form online. For a slew of reasons, this album has never been released on CD. Young has stated he's disappointed in the album technically and artistically. Sometimes we are our own worst critics. I would ask that you all search out this hidden gem and review it positively in the comments section of this website. Let's boost Neil's self esteem.


Today's Lesson in Gym Etiquette
Please wipe down your machines after you use them. If someone uses it after you do and touches your sweat they can contract HIV.



Today's Cell Phone Accesory
Communication is the building block of any relationship. I'm constantly looking for ways to be more open and sharing with people that I love or people that I want to love. One of these ways that I have found is with my new bluetooth headset (pictured here).


Look real close. Can you see it? This is what I used to have hands free discussion. This is what I will use to get closer to people. You can't fear rejection when it comes through such a small earpiece and you can finally speak your mind when you know it has to travel the course of your tear-streaked cheeks.


Today's Prediction
Using your bluetooth at the gym will become the new faux pas, but I will use it one last time to exclaim, while on a phone call with my therapist, "I just got AIDS!" Snap Fitness will adopt this as their new slogan, which will immediately put them out of business. That's called self destructive behavior, which is also what led to Danny Whitten's death during the Time Fades Away tour. It was a sacrifice the island demanded.