Hammer Mill Days

Give me another look at that map. No, no - not the Earth map... that outer space thingy. You know... the one Mitch gave us last week. Right, right - that's the one. Thank you. Hiya, folks. Glad you could stop by. Gives me a chance to 'splain something... something kind of important. (By "important", I mean in the relative sense. Not life-changing, not even day-changing, but perhaps momentary thought-changing.) As you know, over the last few weeks, we've been referring to the impending release and distribution of our second album, which we're calling Monacalucci Summer ... I mean, International House . (Sorry... I was thinking about that art house film I saw a few days ago. Monacalucci, was that weird! ) And, as you might imagine, our rapacious corporate label, Loathsome Prick Records , has been kibitzing a bit on the marketing. More than a bit, actually. In fact, LP has put their collective foot down... right on our necks. (This is just like the Hegemonic Rec...

A few weeks ago, we saw the Democrats cave on the revised FISA law, voting with the administration and congressional republicans on a bill that would grant the co-conspiratorial telecom giants retroactive immunity from civil lawsuits while underwriting Bush's claim that the president can break pretty much any law any time he wants to (as well as spy on any of us who happen to communicate with people beyond our national borders - see Sen. Feingold's appearance on Democracy Now! ). Now we can watch in disgust as the party of Jefferson caves on the question of opening vast wilderness areas and the continental shelf to drilling by the obscenely overfed oil companies. Clearly Harry Reid and company have one beady eye on opinion polls that suggest a majority of Americans favor this giveaway in the misguided belief that it will bring down the price of gas. When I say "misguided", I mean actively so not only by a shameless political leadership but by an industry with more m...