I'm Shutting Down

[thebes]

Pursuant to duly authorized directives from the House Appropriations SubCommittee on Boogie-Woogie and Company B, effective Midnight tonight, I'm am under stern admonition to cease and desist from all federally funded acts of stereophonic orgasm. I am also ordered and commanded to forthwith abruptly depart, desist and dopamine the cataloging an desmontration of of all federally protected wax, red tape and CD's (certificatbifurication of disks), until the full and August Body of the House of da Representations etc. shall for with re-order a resumption of hostilities.

Sorry guys, I knew it was a mistake at the time. I hand a line on a collection of 1500 primo, mid-80's disco wax. I couldn't swing the deal with my own ducats, and in desperation I turned to the loan window of the Federal Farm Subsidy Bureau of Cornpone and Slick Dealing. Sure the only cow I had ever seen was on my dinner plate and cooked medium rare, but I put in a couple of "them thars" and "small family farmer" in my application and immediately approved for up to, but no more, than $33 billion. The record collection was $75, leaving me plenty of cash to indulge The Twins in their annual uplift the fashion sectors of West European couture shops via lend and spend lease.

It would appear The Twins got carried away with what they thought was a coming trend in Irish lass skirts, and so for some reason I now own Riverdance Productions, and am heartily sick of those clodhoppers tromping around my house.

I've hired lobbyists and I'm confident I will have tube owners declared essential personnel, but if my gambit fails comes the witches hour my system will fall silent. Until then it's free form listening for me. I think I'll kick it off with a little Gracie Slick.

So what will you be playing when they come to shut you down?

[rplace]

So what will you be playing when they come to shut you down?

Guns of Brixton - The Clash

When they kick out your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun

When the law break in
How you gonna go?
Shot down on the pavement
Or waiting in death row

You can crush us
You can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh, Guns of Brixton

[thebes]

I'll probably be making love not war:

(by the way, the Billy Joel version of this Leonard Cohen song is absolutely killer)

She stands before you naked

You can see it, you can taste it

But she comes to you

Light as the breeze

You can drink or you can nurse it

It don't matter how you worship

As long as you're

Down on your knees



So I knelt there at the delta

At the alpha and the omega

At the cradle of the river

And the seas

And like a blessing come from heaven,

For something like a second,

I was healed, and my heart

Was at ease



O baby I waited

So long for your kiss

For something to happen

Oh - something like this



And you're weak and you're harmless

And you're sleeping in your harness

And the wind going wild

In the trees

And it's not exactly prison

But you'll never be forgiven

For whatever you've done

With the keys



O baby I waited

So long for your kiss

For something to happen

Oh - something like this



It's dark and it's snowing

Oh my love I must be going

The river is starting to freeze

And I'm sick of pretending

I'm broken from bending

I've lived too long

On my knees



And she dances so graceful

And your heart's hard and hateful

And she's naked

But that's just a tease

And you turn in disgust

From your hatred and from your love

And she comes to you

Light as the breeze



O baby I waited

So long for your kiss

For something to happen

Oh - something like this



There's blood on every bracelet

You can see it, you can taste it

And it's please baby

Please baby please

And she says, drink deeply, pilgrim

But don't forget there's still a woman

Beneath this

Resplendent chemise



So I knelt at the delta

At the alpha and the omega

I knelt there

Like one who believes

And like a blessing come from heaven

For something like a second

I was cured, and my heart

Was at ease



O baby I waited

So long for your kiss

For something to happen

Oh - something like this

[dtel]

I'm am under stern admonition to cease and desist from all federally funded acts of stereophonic orgasm.

Guess your going to just settle for the old fashioned kind, there not bad really.

[gnatnoop]

or you could indulge all you want, just fund it yourself, instead of expecting someone else to pay it for you....

[BigStewMan]

you could get a ghetto blaster and fake an orgasm

[thebes]

I figure I owe the government allegiance on this one because the Office Of Space Gizmos created most of the underlying technology employed in The Thebes Awesome Stereo Project. It would appear a shutdown has been averted so I think I'll just keep on trucking with a side or two of The Grateful Dead.

[JL Sargent]

SHUTDOWN AVERTED!

Death benefits plus others saved.