Joe Strummer in The Harder They Come 7"

Kinda makes me dizzy.  Life has left me a little dizzy at times, in fact I think I spent about 10 years dizzy.  Yesterday was 7 (edit:er..um..brain damage, it's 6 years)  years clean for me with dope or liquor in my blood...I still get dizzy sometimes though. Another game for you, Circle the Cat, took me about an hour to conquer it. I have Rudimentary Peni on the brain lately, took me a few days to listen to everything they have released, and I gotta say they do not have one bad song...not fucking one.  A great Rudi Peni cover... Godless - Blissful Myth (Rudimentary Peni) Speaking of RP, you can read about an extremely limited tune here, that's not on any of their LPs/EPs. A longer track than most of their stuff, but it fits well with some of their latest works... RUDIMENTARY PENI - Wilfred Owen the Chances Except fot that and the Catastrophe bootleg, I've got everything they've released, but now I'm trying to get everything on vinyl.

An email I got from a friend in England that's good for a laugh. ECONOMICS WITH COWS -

SOCIALISM You have 2 cows. You give one to your neighbour. COMMUNISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and gives you some milk. FASCISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and sells you some milk. NAZISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and shoots you. BUREAUCRATISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and then throws the milk away... TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income. SURREALISM You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons AN AMERICAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. Later, you hire a consultant to analyse why the cow has dropped dead. ENRON VENTURE CAPITALISM You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters ofcredit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute adebt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get allfour cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rightsof the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman IslandCompany secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rightsto all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. You sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States, leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the release. The public then buys your bull. A FRENCH CORPORATION You have two cows. You go on strike, organise a riot, and block the roads, because you want three cows. A JAPANESE CORPORATION You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create a clever cow cartoon image called 'Cowkimon' and market it worldwide. A GERMAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk themselves. AN ITALIAN CORPORATION You have two cows, but you don't know where they are. You decide to have lunch. A RUSSIAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you have 2 cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka. A SWISS CORPORATION You have 5000 cows. None of them belong to you. You charge the owners for storing them. A CHINESE CORPORATION You have two cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim that you have full employment, and high bovine productivity. You arrest the newsman who reported the real situation. AN INDIAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You worship them. A BRITISH CORPORATION You have two cows. Both are mad. AN IRAQI CORPORATION Everyone thinks you have lots of cows. You tell them that you have none. No-one believes you, so they bomb the **** out of you and invade your country. You still have no cows, but at least now you are part of a Democracy.... AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION You have two cows. Business seems pretty good. You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate. A NEW ZEALAND CORPORATION You have two cows. The one on the left looks very attractive AN EU CORPORATION: You don´t have two cows, because EU gives you a new Mercedes Benz everyyear for not having two cows. Your neigbour is even more successful: hedoesn't have four cows. Edit:My buddy Billy added on from his native Greece... You have two cows you sell both cheap and send money to Switzerland then get a loan from a loan-shark to buy another cow you buy the cow,you sell it cheap and send the money to Switzerland then get loan from a loan-shark to buy another one cow

Two headlines next to each other on the Yahoo homepage yesterday: "Many vets a paycheck away from homelessness" and "Eagles give QB Michael Vick $100 million deal"

Today's headline: "Why Jennifer Aniston Always Wears the Same Bikini" (just one of many reasons that the human race would not be missed if it ceased to exist)

Most of my friends and visitors around here don't do reggae and actually would probably shun those that do (and maybe they just feel sorry for me knowing that I dig a lot of it).  But this is Joe Strummer doing reggae/ska so it has a different kind of credibility (or not).  Got this 2009 release recently, kind of a bootleg kind of thing (blank labels, no release info, and I don't think anything on the runout grooves), so I guess it could be rare.  I am totally down with the Long Beach Dub Allstars, so Mr. Strummer jamming with them was kind of a treat.  Two great covers, one reggae, one ska, live and studio, so in my opinion you can't go wrong. Harder They Come Harder They Come (live) Rudi, A Message To You (live)