Starting Now I'm Starting Over

This is post number 200 for Bible Belt Babylon, and I think it’s time to retire it. Not entirely, of course, but I’m going to take some time and put together an actual website with a way to list shows, display videos, and still include a blog. Look for www.thistotallysucks.com to launch sometime next month. In the meantime, check out the most recent Othello’s show and marvel at the last twenty headlines and the songs that inspired them. And buy my CD. It’s at Guestroom Records in Oklahoma City and Norman as well as Size Recs in Oklahoma City. It’s good. There’s lots of people that are funny on it. Special thanks to James for conceiving and executing the project. And thanks to everyone who stops by to read this stuff.

We’ll be back soon.

11/14/07 - “I've Got Problems; I'm Gonna Use Them.” from “In Case We Die (Parts 1-4)” by Architecture in Helsinki

11/18/07 - “Ah, That's A Bummer But We'll Recover, I Bet.” from “Groundbreaking” by Elk City

11/21/07 - “I Know Hapiness Writes White” from “Happiness Writes White” by Harvey Danger

11/22/07 - “If You Want Some More, Come And Get Some More” from “Sing Songs Along” by Tilly and the Wall

11/26/07 - “It's The Room, The Sun And The Sky.” from “Lazy Eye” by Silversun Pickups

11/28/07 - “They Don't Come Much More Sick Than You” from “Flathead” by The Fratellis

12/1/07 - “歩いてく” from “Never Ending Journey” by Cocco

12/5/07 - “Here We Go Again” from “Here We Go Again” by Hello Stranger

12/11/07 - “So The Trees Got Tired And Laid On The Ground” from “The Ice Storm” by Tilly and the Wall

12/21/07 - “Du-Du-Du Dun! Du-Du-Du DUN! Du-Du-Du-Du Dun!” from “The Wrath of Mikey” by The Go-Team.

1/1/08 - “It's Just An Illusion Caused By The World Spinning...” from “Do You Realize?” by The Flaming Lips

1/5/08 - “Can't You See The Camera Loves Me?” from “Stars of CCTV” by Hard-Fi.

1/13/08 - “Somebody Told Me” from “Somebody Told Me” by The Killers.

1/14/08 - “Stare At The TV Screen. I Don't Know What To Do.” from “Computer Love” by Glass Candy (Kraftwerk cover)

1/19/08 - “Them Other Fuckers Don’t Know How To Act.” from “SexyBack” by Justin Timberlake.

1/23/08 - “I Can't Tell What Kind Of Life I've Led Today” from “Ha Ha” by Mates of State.

1/30/08 - “My Talk Is Dirty But My Boots Are Clean” from “Trust is Shareware” by The Ark.

2/5/08 - “On Super Tuesday I Wanted To Die” from “Vote” by The Submarines

2/6/08 - “I'm Just A Love Machine” from “Love Machine” by Girls Aloud

2/20/08 - “Starting Now I’m Starting Over” from “Time Bomb” by The Format

HI MOM!

I'm Just A Love Machine

Short post today. I'm leaving soon for Arkansas, where I'll be hosting this week at the Loony Bin in Little Rock. It's my first out-of-state booking! Come check it out if you happen to be in the Little Rock area. And if you want to hang out, we could go see Billy's Bibliotheque.

Next week will see the release of the first CD to include my comedy. It's a 77-minute monster, packed full of performances and interviews with local comedians. If you love comedy or mental illness, you'll probably get something out of it. Special thanks to James for putting the CD together and for planning the CD Release Show at Opolis on Friday, February 15. Come check it out if you happen to be in central Oklahoma.

In the meantime, you can listen to some of my new stuff from last night. I'm Just A Love Machine

On Super Tuesday I Wanted To Die.

Happy Votesmas, people!

I hope you all managed to find some time to give up for our political process today, or will whenever your community has it's primary election. Or if you're an independent, never mind.

I'm not an independent. I'm a Democrat. I have been since my 18th birthday. There's no way that I wouldn't join the party of FDR. I'm just not sure that it is still his party or not. But let's leave that aside for a moment. New Deal or not, the Donkeys are my people. Represent.

Now, when I went to represent this morning, I walked into a roomful of disappointment. It started when I signed in to vote, as I have for the last 12 years. The sweet old woman with the book looked up at me and asked "Republican?"

Heart. Break.

How could she know that I want a single-payer health care system, increased funding for the arts, a complete redeployment from Iraq to Afghanistan, and mountains of money thrown at our public schools? For whatever reason, she looked at me and just assumed I was there to kill Medicaid.

I told her that I was, in fact, a Democrat, and it sounded far more defeatist than I had intended. I signed in, was handed a ballot and asked to return the pen after I was done. I walked to a booth, readied my pen and looked at the ballot.

Heart. Break.

Staring back at me, top of the list, was "Dennis J. Kucinich."

DAMN YOU! It was like getting a voicemail from someone who just died in a car accident. That shouldn't be there. There's nothing I can do about it now. All it can do is remind me of what could have been, if only the world had turned a little bit differently.

Tempted as I was to throw my vote away just to say that I had voted for him, I did not. This is too important a task to waste my time making statements or scoring private moral victories. I'm not going to say who I voted for, but I will say that I am not happy with Dave Letterman right now.

I await the results of today's contest with anxiety and trepidation.

Happy Votesmas.

By the way, where was Gravel? And who the hell is Jim Rogers?