Insecurity - A Raving Playlist

Have you been feeling down, depressed, small, insignificant or otherwise insecure - then you should probably not listen to today's Raving Playlist. And if you're bi-polar, not a good idea either but we suggest you try either:

• Harmonic Insanity    or
• Incoherent 

Today's playlist takes the Winter doldrums and amps them up with steroids to generate audio-manic depression from some of the most disturbed musicians in history. The band being highlighted throughout the list is Alice in Chains. These guys are the only band we know of that were able to take a Kafka short story and turn it into a chart-busting rock hit. You'd never guess by listening to their songs that the lead singer would die a pathetic, tragic death at 34 - or maybe you would. Why Alice in Chains was so popular is hard to explain - there is something that speaks to you through the suffering in their songs - it's just not too clear what it's saying. Perhaps we all feel like that a little now and then - but our success is in being able to leave it behind.

Alice in Chains

Man in the box is the most awesome depressing song ever

Life got you down ? - don't listen to this

Insecure

Monty Python – Galaxy Song (Monty Python Sings)
Alice In Chains – Man In The Box
Counting Crows – A Long December
3 Doors Down – Loser
22-20s – Such A Fool
The Police – Message In A Bottle - live
Beck – Corvette Bummer
Pearl Jam – I Got Shit
Alice In Chains – Down In A Hole
Genesis – No Reply At All - 2007 Remastered LP Version
John Mellencamp – No One Cares About Me
The Doors – The End - Live Hollywood Bowl 1968
Bob Seger – Beautiful Loser
The Transgressions – Drunk & Depressed
Alice In Chains – I Stay Away
Genesis – Misunderstanding - 2007 Remastered LP Version
The Police – King Of Pain - 2003 Stereo Remastered Version
Nirvana – Negative Creep
Genesis – Man On The Corner - 2007 Remastered LP Version
The Police – Voices Inside My Head - 2003 Stereo Remastered Version
John Mellencamp – Lonely Ol' Night
Beck – Loser
R.E.M. – Everybody Hurts
Stone Temple Pilots – Creep
Pearl Jam – Nothingman
John Mellencamp – If I Die Sudden - Live
Sheryl Crow – A Change Would Do You Good
Lenny Kravitz – Fly Away
Alice In Chains – We Die Young
New Found Glory – Dumped
Johnny Cash – Man In Black
Counting Crows – Big Yellow Taxi
Alice In Chains – Them Bones
The Killers – All These Things That I've Done
Nine Inch Nails – Head Like a Hole
Genesis – Alone Tonight - 2007 Remastered LP Version
John Mellencamp – Longest Days
Alice In Chains – Shame In You
The Police – Walking In Your Footsteps - 2003 Stereo Remastered Version
John Mellencamp – The End Of The World
Alice In Chains – Would?
Johnny Cash – Ring Of Fire
Counting Crows – Rain King
Genesis – I Can't Dance - 2007 Remastered Album Version
John Mellencamp – Crumblin' Down
Senses Fail – Can't Be Saved
When Saints Go Machine – Fail Forever
Alice In Chains – Sea Of Sorrow
Soundgarden – Black Hole Sun
Pearl Jam – Life Wasted
Nirvana – All Apologies
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Under The Bridge
R.E.M. – It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
The Police – Spirits In The Material World - 2003 Stereo Remastered Version
The Cars – All Mixed Up
Counting Crows – Mrs. Potters Lullaby
Monty Python – Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life (Monty Python Sings)
The B-52's – Private Idaho
Dave Matthews Band – Ants Marching - From State Theatre, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Paramore – Misery Business
The Allman Brothers Band – Whipping Post
Johnny Cash – Hurt
Buddy Holly – Think It Over
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Have You Ever Seen The Rain
Soundgarden – Fell On Black Days
Nirvana – Lithium
Alice In Chains – Angry Chair
Social Distortion - Ring of Fire

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Raving Predictions for 2013

We're hurtling into the future at warp speed  - ok, maybe not quite that fast but the New Year is coming up pretty soon. It's time for our predictions for things to come next year. Will they come true - who knows, we're not psychic - we just make educated guesses based upon the facts - that's it.

Our balls (uh, ball) are (is) bigger than yours...

Predictions for the New Year:

• Gas companies employees drilling deep wells in Eastern Ohio will plunge to the center of earth and befriend Neanderthals while being chased by alien lizards and dinosaurs.

Fracking's number 1 opponent

• Time will stand still for awhile but few people will notice because they won't have their watches.

• The first Facebook Church will open - it will become it's own religion. Eventually this will lead to a holy war against Twitter.

• Wayne LaPierre and the NRA will call for armed waiters in restaurants, armed attendants in nursing homes, armed referrees at all sporting events, armed moderators on political shows, and arming the entire cast of Glee. The NRA will also create a new cartoon to emphasize to America's youth the importance of shooting first, called Bullet Buddies. 



Don't know much about history, don't care for Geometry, but give me some bullets and an Uzi...

• The Walking Dead will visit FX's American Horror Story for a battle of the ghouls non-reality special.  

• The new Star Trek movie will feature a cameo by William Shatner as a really big Tribble. 

This rifle was NRA approved - on star date 2230.3

• Congress will movie into negative popularity poll numbers. 

• Mitt Romney will come up with several more excuses as to why he lost - none of them involving him.

• We will fall off the Fiscal Cliff, bounce off of the debt ceiling, plunge into the river of deflation, drown in a pool of liquidity and crawl onto the muddy plains of slow recovery after being stimulated through renewed quantitative easing.



The first step is a doozy - it gets better though...

• Zombies will begin running for office as Tea Party candidates - no one will notice. 

I promise to eat Democrats - A brain in every pot!

• Lot's of people are planning to have sex - not all of them will be so lucky.

• After going over the Fiscal Cliff, renewed budget cuts will force the government to cut all remaining aid for Mental Health - the government will declare victory however by following this year's precedent on autism and redefine all mental illness thus making 90% of currently crazy persons sane next year. This will lead to more crazy people buying assault rifles and arming the cast of Glee.

• The origin of Dark Matter will be discovered - it will have something to do with peanut butter.

• Kim Kardashian will need to pose naked more often to gain attention.

Kim paid a lot for that body - so look at  it already - and don't stop

Kim sings too - although usually dressed like that

• Elton John and Madonna will find out that they are the same person.

• Life will be found on Mars. They will be really pissed about how bad the John Carter movie turned out.

music from Mars about Mars

• Birds will sue Bees for sexual harassment.  

• PCs and Macs will sign a non-aggression treaty; the peace will be short-lived after Windows 8 claims that it is "hip."

The long war between Macs and PCs has often been both ugly and vicious... 

• Scientists will discover the meaning of life - corporate funded 'deniers' will insist they are wrong and encourage more consumer spending. 

• George Lucas will change his mind about Star Wars and ask for control of episode 7 when he sees Justin Bieber cast as Luke Skywalker. Disney will try to change the tagline to "The Beliebers are with you."

• Global Warming will get hotter, polar bears will break into homes all across Canada that have central air and / or a pool.

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