Devo - It Takes A Worried Man

I'm first seeing this on the 'Tube on Aug 21, 2025. Watch it now, 'cause I can't believe that it'll stay up more than a week. 

You Tube has officially gone down the tubes lately. The old White House dictated "American values," like the ones killing Facebook. 

(It's not blackface! It's radiation damage!) 

Bantam Rooster - Run Rabbit Run

This is the song that should be pinned next to the dictionary definition of rock and roll. 

Peter Laughner - Ain't It Fun

All of this comes out of the nexus of Rocket from the Tombs, the Dead Boys, Pere Ubu, and Peter Laughner. I love this kind of fuck you attitude, loose, spongy, baggy, raggedy man and spontaneous. 

Dying young is a privilege and an honor. It takes a combination of luck and guts. Rocket from the Tombs will never die. They will always be a part of our cultural patrimony. I sincerely hope that Peter gets through forever on their coattails. Ubu is still delivering echoes of Peter's attitude. I thank everyone involved for their enormous efforts. Fellows and girls, I love your work. 

Lou Reed & John Cale - A Dream

Cats die with class. They know it when it's time, and they walk their range looking for the perfect spot to die in. The time comes and they go to their hidden spot and lay down and then, they're gone. Very different for humans. We must be wired to fight it, or maybe find some importance. But there isn't any. No more than the cats. This song sums it up. We live too long and we become a nullity. We become invisible. We are reduced to a fading photograph, even to ourselves. I wish that I had died young.