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Crime And Safety Minus Satan
I only thought I had the music collection to end all collections. After delivering him those first few CDs I asked JL to make a list of stuff he wanted because I was pretty sure anything he would be aware of I would have. But on his list of 24 I don't have the first six, or the last eight. Some of what I am missing is from the mainstream, like Creed, Evanescense, Eve 6, Three Doors Down, and Sevendust. Also I would like to say--for a kid who didn't do well in school he sure has great penmanship.
Just because I have a lot of this music does not mean I have ever listened to it so last night I listened at moderate volume (higher volume was upsetting Killer next door in his rain-soaked doghouse) to samples from my own rather large list. I sampled songs by listening to a few seconds of their beginning, middle and end and got a pretty good idea of the meaning of "derivative." But JL seems to be drawn to some of the less than melodic strains of modern music so I burned for him discs from Atrocity, Cradle of Filth, Crazytown, System of a Down, Staind, Stompbox, Soulfly, Spastic Ink, Praxis, and a few more before I found something on my list that struck me as happier fare. Unfortunately, the title of the disc was God Bless Satan, from a group called Mephiskapheles. On my list they fall between MegaDeth and Metal Church. I am not inking on the disc the name of the album, just the artist, so I figured this would be ok. I deleted the song Satanic Debris because even though most of the song is bouncy and happy it does start out with a semblance of satanic gurgling, which was making me want to slit my wrists if I could only find a razor in this mess I call my home. Don't tell me I'm not a concerned psuedo-parent.
There is this long legged cajun girl who works next door at the auto title place and she just about as elusive as a person can be. And all business too and hard to make smile. Hair like black silk. Eyes to burn holes in your soul. The paper prints a sampling of crimes from each district, this is the 1st District, and today I read the crimes for Dec. 28 (I was in Austin) which is a late enough post date to be almost worthless as news but all the same I mention it because it was an armed robbery at three in the afternoon at Iberville and N. Rocheblave and those people at the title place are mostly the only humans that inhabit this block so I wondered about her because I think she's the one that runs deposits to the bank. She's been parking near my driveway a lot recently and if she would just ask she could park IN my driveway, use my phone, my bathroom, get me to do her laundry, deter bandits with my unique bandit-repelling ability, massage whatever the hell aches her and well, probably just about anything is what I would do for her and when the Martians give me full power that is the way I will arrange things to happen. For now though, I'm just gonna stay right here behind this desk, whereupon there should be a standup plaque that reads--safety through inaction.