Hurtin' sounds

I have a 45 minute commute to work each day. That's 45 in and 45 out. I'm saved by the fact that 2/3 of that commute is through rural areas with few cross streets and almost no traffic lights. And country music on the car radio (no Dixie Chicks please!). So I enjoyed MT Owens piece on the genre in NRO today. My latest fave is from Tim McGraw.

Back When Don't you remember The fizz in a pepper Peanuts in a bottle At ten, two and four A fried Bologna sandwich With mayo and tomato Sittin' round the table Don't happen much anymore We got too complicated It's all way over-rated I like the old and out-dated Way of life Back when a hoe was a hoe Coke was a coke And crack's what you were doing When you were cracking jokes Back when a screw was a screw The wind was all that blew And when you said I'm down with that Well, it meant you had the flu I miss back when I miss back when I miss back when I love my records Black, shiny vinyl Clicks and pops And white noise Man they sounded fine I had my favorite stations The ones that played them all Country, soul and rock-and-roll What happened to those times? I'm readin' Street Slang For Dummies Cause they put pop in my country I want more for my money The way it was back then Back when a hoe was a hoe Coke was a coke And crack's what you were doing When you were cracking jokes Back when a screw was a screw The wind was all that blew And when you said I'm down with that Well, it meant you had the flu I miss back when I miss back when I miss back when Give me a flat top for strumming I want the whole world to be humming Just keep it coming The way it was back then Back when a hoe was a hoe Coke was a coke And crack's what you were doing When you were cracking jokes Back when a screw was a screw The wind was all that blew And when you said I'm down with that Well, it meant you had the flu I miss back when I miss back when I miss back when

I love this: "We got too complicated, It's all way over-rated, I like the old and out-dated, Way of life." I'm not nostalgic for a golden age as much as I am certain that simple is best and simple is seldom as simple as it appears. We are inundated with people who have a vested interest in getting us to try their product, whether that's an i-pod or "social justice." And I find peace in simply doing my best to ignore it all. Y'all get back to me when it actually does something useful. Take your RSS feeds for example. Somebody said they found it useful so I created one for NWW. Now with Firefox I can see what it does. What I fail to see is how it benefits me in any way over my standard browser. Blogrolling tells me who has updates already. To me it looks like an engineering solution in search of a problem.