vs
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/09/21/parts-of-america-are-becoming-uninsurable
The Economist, hardly a publication with Left-leaning tendencies, also had a podcast on this.
I hope whoever is drafting the regulatory framework and policies for this... initiative(?) is doing so in good faith. We're talking about a country without the legal infrastructure or the technical expertise to operate, in theory, mutually beneficial agreements.
- Is "Born In A Tank" in the top-10 Candlemass tracks?
- Fuck off, no way!
- Top-20?
- Absolutely not!
- Top-30?
- Nah, stretching it.
- ...
- ...
- It is bloody great!
- That it is!
- Top-40?
When Marduk aren't trying to be edgy-idiots ("Viktoria" sounded a bit empty - in a bad way; "Panzer Division Marduk" is nostalgic but mostly boring) and when they try to filter their idiosyncratic eccentricities (like in the bitter "Plague Angel") they are really good.
I do not think there is a chance for the magnificently titled "Memento Mori" to become my favourite Marduk-with-Mortuus album. However, it certainly feels likely that they nailed the best song title for 2023.
This toothache is a bane in my existence.
Standard painkillers don't help. Sleepless night.
So I am doing admin work, deleting emails, saving down documents, doing taxes, feeling so tired, grumpy miserable.
And then I remembered that back in the summer of '98 I had messed up my elbow (playing basketball probably) and I spent a sleepless night that was made transcendentally better by the "A Pleasant Shade Of Gray" VHS (and some late night TV videos from Ronnie Scott's).
This dawn is also made better by this unfathomably deep and rewarding album.
Fates Warning are one of the best bands of all time.
(If the pain persists after the visit to the dentist, I'll probably end up not-so-randomly appreciating King Diamond's "Conspiracy" next.)
