Am I still here? Uh, I guess so...or something.

(inarticulate whimpering)

"Where Generation X earlier struggled with meaninglessness in the '90s, grudgingly settling into adulthood conventionality after experimenting with the slacker lifestyle, Generation Y seems to have fully accepted meaninglessness as the basis of life in the 21st century."
---Garrett Chaffin-Quiray, Generation S.L.U.T. review, popmatters.com.

So, have I truly settled into adulthood conventionality? I suppose, but I'm not happy about it.

"Some people don't got no damn sense."
---T.C. Brooks, 14 April 2004

What have I been reading lately? Here are the last five books I've read:

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange ed. by Stuart McDougal
The 39 Steps: A British Film Guide ed. by Mark Glancy
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Doctor Who: The Infinity Doctors by Lance Parkin

Isn't that edifying?

Why Eat Peeps at Easter? - How the marshmallow chicks found Jesus.

In honor of Easter, let's remember what it's really all about...Marshmallow Peeps.

"I think if you're remotely intelligent you can't help being depressed. It's a positive thing to be. It means that you're not a crashing bore. I mean, you don't get support groups for rugby players, do you?"
---Morrissey, Guardian interview, 9 April 2004

The Pixies are coming to Atlanta, tickets are on sale April 9th...this is cool, I saw them live in Athens in November of 1991. It should be interesting to see how they sound after all these years (indeed, if they're still touring after a long summer together...the show is in October).

Holly's World
ladybugpicnic

Today is my sweet girl's 5th birthday. She is growing up fast! Her latest site has a special guest star, "junior associate" Meredith.

For Kurt Cobain, A Sleepless Nirvana (washingtonpost.com)

So, it's been ten years since Mr. Cobain ended his life...I can still remember driving home from school that day and noticing that everyone had their car lights on...the announcement on the radio...the coverage on MTV. A weird time to be sure. He died on my oldest daughter's birthday, and was born the day before my birthday. Coincidence?

Well, yeah, but...

Ghost Town

This is the photo story of a woman's motorcycle trip though the ruined landscape in and around Chernobyl, site of the world's worst nuclear disaster so far. Eerie images.

"You'll never hear me talk about
one day gettin' out.
Why put a new address
on the same ol' loneliness?"

-"Just Be Simple", by Songs:Ohia

PLAYLOUDER | NEWS | 47 DAYS TO GO!
A rather positive review of the new Morrissey album. Sounds like it should have a different sound but still have his trademark dry wit and melancholic overtones. Which is not a bad thing. Favourite titles so far: "I Have Forgiven Jesus", "The World is Full of Crashing Bores", and the epic "How Can Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel?"...

Slate also has this article about the pending Pixies reunion; quite hard on Frank Black's solo efforts, perhaps justifiably so. Black Letter Days and Devil's Workshop are still solid, however!

"Horror, horror has a face. And you must make a friend of horror. Horror, and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies." - Colonel Kurtz, Apocalypse Now

Unfortunately, there's plenty of horror to be found in the world right now. I only hope that the "better angels of our nature" may someday prevail.

They certainly didn't in Rwanda.