shit from an old notebook

Let the products sell themselves.
Fuck advertising, commercial psychology.
Psychological methods to sell should be destroyed!

Because of their own blind involvement
In their own conditioned minds
The unit bonded together
Morals, ideals, awareness, progress
Let yourself be heard!

-- Mike Watt / D. Boon (Minutemen) 1984

Electric Eye

Up here in space, I'm looking down on you.
My lasers trace everything you do.
You think you've private lives? Think nothing of the kind!
There is no true escape; I'm watching all the time.

I'm made of metal, my circuits gleam.
I am perpetual, I keep the country clean.
I'm elected -- electric spy. I'm protected -- electric eye.

Always in focus; you can't feel my stare.
I zoom into you, but you don't know I'm there.
I take pride in probing all your secret moves.
My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove.

Electric eye in the sky.  Feel my stare, always there.
There's nothing you can do about it.
Develop and expose, I feed upon your every thought.
And so my power grows.

-- Halford / Downing / Tipton (Judas Priest) 1982

The Road Warrior

When the world was powered by the black fuel, the desert sprung great cities of pipe and steel. Gone now, swept away. For reasons long forgotten, two mighty warrior tribes went to war and touched off a blaze which engulfed them all. Without fuel, they were nothing; they'd built a house of straw. The thundering machines sputtered and stopped. Their leaders talked and talked and talked, but nothing could stem the avalanche. Their world crumbled. Cities exploded. A whirlwind of looting. A firestorm of fear. Men began to feed on men....

-- George Miller, et al (1981)

Natural Grace

 I live in this place with a natural grace. 

And I walk through confusion with a smile on my face. 

-- Laurence Colbert (Ride) 1994