The Legend of Carbon Bigfoot

[matthew]

I was listening to Rust Never Sleeps tonight for the first time in over 10 years probably.

Neil is a great lyric writer.  Powderfinger's status as a classic is a little dubious to me right now.  The book ends are great of course.  Some other gems in there, but titles elude me.

I listened to Best of Buffalo Springfield last week for the first time in at least a decade too.  Mr. Soul is great, but I couldn't believe how tedious Broken Arrow was.  Expecting to Fly is sort of cool.

Neil can be..he can be amazingly brilliant at times...but he also has a tendency to smother you with cheese when producing misfires (many of his songs are abandoned to time for a reason). I never 'got' how the rather staid affair Powderfinger became known as a classic...other than its nifty title, of course.

For me "Into the Black" has always been eclipsed by the imagery and psychedelic barn-burning punk of "Sedan Delivery". That said, his rendition of "Hey Hey" the other night sent shivers.

A clip from the local news: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/Hy5jVMb_wyA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/Hy5jVMb_wyA</a> (what the blonde gal says is true!)

Did I mention that his voice is still as strong as ever... <a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/7c5LIjoxwkc" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/7c5LIjoxwkc</a>

[matthew]

Did that sound like a backhanded compliment?

[Bizarro]

General Motors loses $8B-$9B per month.  They want a "bridge loan" of $12B, so they can stave of bankruptcy for maybe 2 more months.  Then what?  More bridge loans to nowhere?

If they go bankrupt, it may break the UAW, plus they'll have to liquidate millions of cars no one wants.

Michael Moore was pointing out that we could buy the entire load of commonly held GM stock for $3B. He had some other points that were asinine, but that one sticks in my head. Why bail someone out for five times their worth then fuss over how much say you have in how they spend your money? Buy them out and run the thing right yourself.