Query

The problem with the titled entry is the enormous temptation to make every one a Daktaklakpak like deal, i.e 'Inquiry', 'Assertion', 'Assumption', you know what I mean. (Or go to this nerdly realm here if you don't.) But I reckon I can avoid it.

Anyway, the query is this: why on earth is the remix of 'Why So Sad' by the bloody excellent Manic Street Preachers (their site is cool, forthcoming best of album title: 'Forever Delayed'. Ha, nice one) at the end of 'Know Your Enemy' entitled the Sean Penn remix? I mean why? I'm sure the internet can tell me but right now I can't be arsed. Also, here's something interesting I noticed in the opening lines of Track 5 on the album, released in March last year, 'Let Robeson Sing':

Where are you now
Broken up or still around?
The CIA says you're the guilty man
Will we see the likes of you again?

Wow, precognition, it's Osama Bin Laden! (or not.)

In other non-terrorist song lyric matters, although I'm fuelling the fires for the academic critics who cite web logs as tending to devolve into smarmy self-referencing cliques, I can't believe Saint and Luther haven't heard about people in nuclear silos until now, that was on TV (possibly on 'TV Nation' in fact), like, last century guys, you are so not with it...
Ah but yes, it is interesting, and I guess good for the world when former buildings devoted to mass destruction are being turned into houses (although from memory they cost around half a million American to just buy, let alone convert, so houses only for the dominant wealthy capitalist ruling class, the bastards). Not a good place to be living when World War III starts though, if someone in Russia / China wherever hasn't updated their active / inactive missile sites intelligence, and an ICBM arrives in your guest bedroom.

And so I don't feel so dirty anymore, a link if anyone needs it to the usefulside of personal publishing, as James T. has pointed out via e-mail - Indymedia. (Nice one James.) A totally open publishing project, with worldwide connections, forum for all kinds of alternative views without any kind of censorship, to which anyone can submit a story if they like. And boy is, it going to be getting great big props in my thesis (as it already has done) should my thesis proper ever get written.

Ah, I was going to say the shorter the entry, generally the more banal, but now that that last bit is in there I feel a bit better. Nothing wrong with being banal at length of course either.

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