john zooropa

i thought "jadroplov" was the only wesley willis song in which an accused criminal was found not guilty! i based this on my having been a wesley willis fan for almost seven years now, and having heard literally hundreds of his songs...i'm sure i've heard at least five hundred of his songs.

and i was wrong.

"john zooropa" is another wesley willis song in which the suspect was found not guilty.

not guilty of robbing wesley willis of $300.

i'm so hooked. i've been listening to his music for so long, and especially lately, over the last month or two, i've been listening to almost nothing but wesley willis. it just hit me yesterday how addicted i am to wesley willis' music...out of 11,760 people on last.fm who have listened to wesley willis in the past week, who has played the most wesley willis tracks? that's right...me.

and i've still barely scratched the surface. those five hundred songs or so that i've heard...that may be about twenty-two, twenty-three albums worth. wesley willis released over fifty.

and it is my goal to eventually own them all.

a whole book!

there's a lot of talk on the internet about how humourously bad the "series of tubes" speech that ted stevens gave last year is. it's all well-warranted...it's a really stupid speech.

but, i've never actually seen anyone remark about the part of the speech that i think s clearly the stupidest, the part that clearly shows how unfamiliar that ted stevens is with the internet.

he remarks at one point in the speech about how corporate users are trying to stream "ten, twelve movies at a time...or a whole book at a time" across the internet.

are you thinking what i'm thinking? because i'm thinking that the text of a whole book would take up less memory and bandwidth than one movie, much less ten or twelve. (except for what, maybe the OED? even then, that won't be as big as TEN MOVIES STREAMING ACROSS THAT INTERNET!) every time i hear this part, i laugh, or at least stare agog at my computer. the way he says "a whole book at a time" in such a shocked manner, after rattling off comments about people streaming ten or twelve movies across the internet several times before in the speech just cracks me up.

a book? one book? taking up as much space in the computer world as a movie? as ten or twelve?

and this idiot is in charge of regulating the internet. i'm going to go cry now. or drink. or something.