No Line On The Horizon

It is hard to know where to start when I have been disconnected for so long. As always, it wasn't that news items didn't pop up that intrigued me (I have a stack of dog-eared magazines to prove it), but it is amazing how easy it is to get overwhelmed by the minutia of daily life.

Case in point, as I type this, I am listening to U2's latest album. It came out last Tuesday and, freakishly enough since it was in my face that a.m. as I journeyed to my expensive coffee-esque beverage purveyor, I bought it. And I am JUST NOW listening to it, almost one week later. This time last week there was 6 inches of snow. Today it will be almost 80 degrees. The world turns on a dime. The bottom can drop out at any given moment, with no warning. Relationships change, drama is created, and hopefully in the end you surprise yourself and emerge from it all for the better.

So meanwhile, much has been made lately of Rush Limbaugh and the freakish pull he seems to have over the Republican Party. I think the fact that so many GOP members have felt like they need to apologize for criticizing an entertainer is the surest sign of what is wrong with the right. Can you even imagine the same thing happening if a Democrat criticized Keith Olbermann or Bill Maher or even Jon Stewart?

I have read/heard several accounts that indicate the Democratic Party is intentionally going after Limbaugh to further divide the Republicans and weaken them more than they already are. If so, then it is about the ballsy-est thing the Left has done in some time.

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My buddy in the blog-o-sphere, Creative Kerfuffle, recently requested her friends to send her their fave tunes for her to download. This of course set me off on a musical journey that harkens back to my days as a dj at my beloved alma mater.

My mind has been like a hyper juke box the past several days, thinking of songs and bands that I love. Meanwhile, the CD player in my kitchen has had the Beatles Sgt. Pepper album on repeat. Listening to it while cooking or eating made me realize just how perfect an album it is. Each song flows into the next and even the songs that you may not think are on the same par (such as "Getting Better" or "Lovely Rita" although I defy you to get either one our of your head once you start humming them) truly stack up and hold their own with the openly brilliant tunes (i.e. "A Day in the Life").

Me being me, I tried to think of other albums that had the same flow and consistency and level of greatness. The first one that popped into my head was U2's The Joshua Tree. Like Sgt. Pepper, in my opinion, it doesn't have a weak link. Separately the songs are great, but put together they are nothing short of mind blowing.

Anyone got other suggestions?