Snowfall Meditations.

- I was very very disappointed to see that the HISTORY CHANNEL aired Micheal Bay’s 2001 “film” Pearl Harbor; the movie is ripe with enough historical and scientific inaccuracies to appease Benedict XVI.  He supposedly loves historical inaccuracies, according to that whole “Holocaust Story” from the past year or so (Benedict removed excommunication from four bishops who claimed Nazi gas chambers did not exist and insinuated the holocaust has been blown out of proportion).

- I find this new air of confidence in the world of Internet news and bloggers who “report” the news a bit funny.  Word has been spreading that the US NEWSPAPER INDUSTRY is facing crisis, many websites (such as DailyKos.com) seem to be giddy at the prospect of failing newspapers around the country, and what that holds in terms of traffic for them.  I don’t have the numbers, but I’d say around 90% of Internet news (NOT from a newspaper’s site, or a professional news organization like BBC News) use information from a professional newspaper or site, and most of the time actually links to said articles.  I’ve got news for anyone who “reports” the news on their “blog”: if the newspaper industry fails, you fail too.

- I’m still quite horrified at the fact that Brazil’s President LuLu (who I’d read/watched/learned quite a bit about, who I used to have lots of respect for) declared the global financial crisis the fault of those with white skin and blue eyes.  This isn’t any different than Cartman convincing Butters that the Jews (specifically Kyle Broslofski) are to blame for the financial crisis, except that was a joke on a comedy show.  Racism does still exist, and it’s rampant all around the world.  Besides, Bernie Madoff has brown eyes.

- Two of my favorite living legends (no, not Grouch and Murs!!) will be releasing new discs very soon.  Neil Young’s Fork In The Road comes out of April 7th (next week).  The album was spawned from Young’s 1959 Continental which runs completely off alternative energy.  I still think his best album, lyrically, as an old man was Prairie Wind, which talked about everything from 9/11 to his father’s passing.  Bob Dylan’s next all-new studio album entitled Together Through Life releases on April 28th.  Musically, lyrically, production-wise, it’s said to be nothing like Modern Times which was a great album start to finish (it didn’t get enough attention in my mind).  The sound is said to hearken back to the days of Chess and Sun Records, sounds cool.

- P.O.S.’ cover of Pearl Jam’s “Why Go” is all over the net right now.  And for good fucking reason.  This is one of the most inventive, yet true, covers I’ve heard in a long time.  Although, the new Local H cover of Winnebago Deal’s “Spiderbite” tickles my fancy.

- Holy shit, it’s snowing like a mo’ fo’ right now.  Date: March 31st.  Hopefully the last snowfall of the year ’round these parts.

- Jason Aaron’s on-going comic book SCALPED, which I’m starting to fall head over heels for (in an “awe” type way; we’ve all met a girl/guy like that before right?) comes out today.  Maybe I’ll actually review one of these this time around. More to come.

-Sonny