Listened to Travelogue once the day it was released and put it away. Waaaay too depressing to listen to given the emotional state I was in at the time. I mean, think about it, when was the last time you heard this many depressing topics dealt with on a CD? Terrorist attacks airplane crashes a life without love loss of 60's innocence a blood dimmed tide loosed upon the world innocence drowned in anarchy god making everything we dread and fear come true losing all taste for life starvation of the faithful crucifixion of the saints prosperity of the wicked breathtaking ignorance the emptiness of commercial success the shock of knowing you really have no one having no one to give your love to greed lust gas leaks oil spills sex as a mortally dangerous act doctor's pills giving new ills getting buried by an avalanche of bills everyone hates everyone rapists in the pool kids packin guns ulcerated ozone skin cancer the massive mess we're in sex selling everything holding back tears perfection always denied thunderheads of judgement gravestones giving up one's child at her birth uranium mining tearing down landmarks paving over parks ripping off Indian land short sighted businessmen nothing lasts for long rape of a child drinking at home with the TV on dark cafe days sniping steadily snubbing snidely the loss of our dreams' grandeur the great sadness of our human consciousness of time
Well yesterday, on a long car trip, I listened again. And again. There is greatness here. Still a lot of sadness (and anger), but great poetry and music. And the choices seem mostly right, given the times we're living through.
