Writer's Block: Ten for the Tenth

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"Favorite albums" is an interesting question, because it doesn't mean i'm necessarily going to pick the album with the most, best individual songs; i'm more likely instead to pick albums that work really well as a coherent whole and which overall have impacted me deeply. So, in the order they occur to me, i'm going to go with:

Dead Can Dance "Spiritchaser"
Tears For Fears "Everybody Loves a Happy Ending"
Seal "Seal" (1)
Beck "Sea Change" (though i can't listen to it much, it still reminds me of my breakup in 2003)
U2 "Achtung Baby"
Siouxsie and the Banshees "Tinderbox"
New Order "Republic"
Beatles "Abbey Road"
Blue Oyster Cult "Tyranny and Mutation"
Jethro Tull "Roots to Branches"

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Wow, some grim stuff happening today: Circuit City bankrupt, DHL closing in the US, Fannie Mae still badly in the red, GMAC on the chopping block, and General Motors teetering on the brink.

Wal-Mart and McDonald's appear to be up, though. I'm sure they're swamped with job applicants, too.

Interestingly, this points to one way in which American capitalism is poorly equipped to handle serious economic downturn: the fact that operations get forced to shut down, and people are forced to stop working, when it happens. In other places, what happens is that people keep working without a paycheck for several months. Which SUCKS, don't get me wrong, but my off the cuff impression is that on the whole it sucks less than shutdowns and layoffs. At least some of the wheels of what makes up society keep turning that way.

fun with today's headlines

Obama makes historic White House visit, where a Keeper was installed on his shoulder and he was introduced to his new Drakh overlords.