Kick @$$ Song: Number One

This is the first of a series of posts to come in the future...

Johnny Cash -- "Hurt"

I hurt myself today,
to see if I still feel.
I focus on the pain,
the only thing that's real.
The needle tears a hole,
the old familiar sting.
Try to kill it all away,
but I remember everything.
What have I become?
My sweetest friend.
Everyone I know,
goes away in the end.
And you could have it all,
my empire of dirt.
I will let you down,
I will make you hurt.
I wear this crown of thorns,
upon my liar's chair.
Full of broken thoughts,
I cannot repair.
Beneath the stains of time,
the feelings disappear.
You are someone else.
I am still right here.
What have I become?
My sweetest friend.
Everyone I know,
goes away in the end.
And you could have it all,
my empire of dirt.
I will let you down.
I will make you hurt.
If I could start again,
a million miles away.
I would keep myself.
I would find a way.

Yeah, I know it was written by and originally performed by Trent Reznor of N.I.N., but man! I'll be damned if Cash didn't make this song his own. His cover is just so poignant.

Happy Valentine's Day

For my Indian Princess,

"Your Song"

My gift is my song
And this one's for you
And you can tell everybody
That this is your song
It maybe quite simple
But now that it's done
Hope you don't mind
I hope you don't mind
That I put down in words
How wonderful life is now you're in the world

Sat on the roof
And I kicked off the moss
Well some of the verses well
They got me quite cross
But the sun's been kind
While I wrote this song
It's for people like you that
Keep it turned on

So excuse me for forgetting
But these things I do
You see I've forgotten
If they're green or they're blue
Anyway the thing is well I really mean
Yours are the sweetest eyes I've ever seen

And you can tell everybody
This is your song
It may be quite simple
But now that it's done
I hope you don't mind
I hope you don't mind that I put down in words

How wonderful life is now you're in the world
I hope you don't mind
I hope you don't mind that I put down in words
How wonderful life is now you're in the world

The Mainstream Media Peed In My Gas Tank

If you want to see the latest example of how the MSM has morphed into a 24-hour National Enquirer Network, check out this uproarious clip from the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

I wish the dead in Iraq got this kind of publicity. Maybe if we dyed their hair blonde and gave them implants.

That clip vindicates my aversion to cable news and further demonstrates why I am gay for the Daily Show. If it wasn't for it and NPR, I don't know where I would go to stay informed.