This Friday at Electro-Retro...

The Return of Retar-D2! That's right, I'm DJing there again this Friday, so get ya ass down there for some serious weirdness and a mind-crunchinjg collision of New Wave and Newer Wave. Expect to hear stuff by My Favorite, Industry, The Butthole Surfers, Kaiser Chiefs, Dear Enemy, NUMAN (well, duh), Robots in Disguise, The Comateens, new Beck, Antarctica, Luomo, Jem, maybe some really oldskool Front Line Assembly and Gruesome Twosome, Atom & His Package, Devo, Men Without Hats, X-Marks the Pedwalk, Blancmange, Chromeo, Classix Nouveau, Earth WInd & Fire, and...hell, I might even have to bust out some Young MC or Gerardo!

Remember, folks--as Cypress Hill says: "I'm high-strung! Think I'm sprung? 'Cause I don't live on the humdrum!" The red light's gonna be beamin' atcha this Friday, so you'd better expect some serious robotic love jams, analog synth solos, and lots of gay-bar beats.

Ladies and gentlemen...QGP.

Once again, my homies at Brookhaven National Laboratories have come through with some fresh new physics: A new state of matter that is a nearly perfect liquid.

It's a quark-gluon plasma, built out of a novel combination of fundamental particles that may or may not have existed shortly after the Big Bang...which means, this delicious concoction of ups n' downs, strange quarks, exotics gluons, and just plain ol' weirdness is SOMETHING TOTALLY NEW. Pat yourself on the back, guys, you've just become gods.

My pimp name is...

Snake Eyes Derek Clinton

Go here to get yo's, hos.

Seriously. I want you all to start calling me Snake Eyes, from now on.

The Agony and the Ecstacy

Very little ecstacy to report, alas, but a whole lot of agony. I woke up this morning feeling like my entire body was a sack of broken bottles and rusted wire and rotted rubber straps just about to break. I can't wait to see the doctor tomorrow, but...it doesn't look good. I spoke to my uncle briefly yesterday and it looks like I may very well be developing fibromyalgia, because when he first started getting it this was prettymuch how it felt. Thing is, though...he didn't get it until he was sixtysomething. I'm thirty-two. Yay.

On the other hand, though, I went to Cal U today to pick up a copy of my grad school transcripts so I could get approved for this new class at Penn State Fayette and while I was down there I got to see a number of my old colleagues. I was also surprised when, completely out of the blue, some girl working at the library asked me, "Are you the Pegritz that used to write for the Cal U Times back in the '90s?" Seems she'd been going through the old issues I'd worked on looking for something about campus crime at the time and got a laugh out of the old cartoons I used to do for it. Bizarre. Looks like the Legend of Pegritz lives on!

My New Favorite Song

The Bravery, "No Brakes."

No brakes this time
I slit the line
But if you want me, it's cool
You can take me for a fool
I could slow down if you want me to
But just for you, just for you, just for you...

Carry me home, put me to bed!
Leave me alone, it's all in my head!
It's out of my hands, over the wheel
My only chance, my only appeal

What if you're here to save me from this?
If I disappear will I be missed?
I never know what I should do
Can I leave it up to you?

No brakes, it's true
No brakes, just you
Something to move me instead
Of this rolodex in my head

I never meant anything I said
When I see red, I see red, I see red...

Carry me home, put me to bed!
Leave me alone, it's all in my head!
It's out of my hands, over the wheel
My only chance, my only appeal

What if you're here to save me from this?
If I disappear will I be missed?
I never know what I should do
Can I leave it up to you?

Can I leave it up to you?
Can I leave it up to you?
Can I leave it up to you?

Story of my life, yo. Story of my life.

Seriously.

You're an Indie Pop Kid. You like songs about
relationships and the prettiness of nature.
You're sentimental, but not certainly not emo.
Oh, and if you aren't an English Major, you
should be.


You Know Yer Indie. Let's Sub-Categorize.
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