It could be worse....

Once again, I have managed to snatch manic depression from the jaws of almost total happiness. One person in particular has annoyed me of late. As it happens, the people who often annoy you the most are people that really shouldn't annoy you at all. But that's life. I was just surprised and dissapointed by what this person would do for nothing more than money. It makes the things I did for them just seem terribly, terribly sad...

But I have a place to live, beer in the fridge, and a rabbit hopping around being terribly, terribly cute, so it could be worse. I have found in life that the best way to feel less depressed is to find someone more bitter than you are. It works damn near every time. Today's helper monkey is Gordon Gano. And, specifically, his band - The Violent Femmes.

Violent is self-explanatory, I would think. Femme is Milwaukee slang for wimp. And you gotta love a drummer who is credited on an album for playing tortoise. Nirvana once was the opening act for a Violent Femmes show in Australia. Cobain refused to go onstage until someone got him some drugs. The tour manager gave Cobain some "powerful narcotics" - Tylenol. Kurt apparently felt "much better" when he took the stage...

Some Violent lyrical gems....
"I'm nothing now and I'll be nothing when this nothing world has it's nothing end"
"Will I lose my mind in the winter-time, it's spring and I'm a spring ding-a-ling, It's summer and I'm just a little dumber, and I'm not taking a fall, cause if I ain't got you I got nothing at all."
"Why can't I get just one ____" (I'm sure you all know what goes in the blank...)

Yes, listen to the Violent Femmes for a couple hours, and everything seems so much better.