If You're Not Paranoid, You're Crazy

[Monte Davis]

John Hiatt, "Shredding the Documents":

Oh what have you done with your life
Oh please don't tell me
Just shut up and go to work
Cause you're interrupting me

I won't represent the U.S.
In the summer Olympics
My character's questionable
My life is a broken record

I'm shredding the documents
I'm keeping my mouth shut
I'm running on radio silence
I'm letting the record speak
I'm shredding the documents
The switchboard is lighting up
I'm not taking any more calls
Well, maybe from larry King...

And I don't know who killed who
I'm having a sex change
To a woman who loves too much
My sister's a petty thief

I doctored the evidence
Yeah, it was a cover up
I want to stay wrapped in my blanket
And never get out of bed

I'm shredding the documents
I'm keeping my mouth shut
I'm running on radio silence
I'm letting the record speak
I'm shredding the documents
The switchboard is lighting up
I'm not taking any more calls
Well, maybe from Larry King

All rumor and innuendo
An Eagles reunion
The 20th century's closing
It's closing in on me

You know what my father said
Well I'm not going to tell you
Some words that I try to live by
It's none of your goddamn business

I'm shredding the documents
The switchboard is lighting up
I'm not taking any more calls
Well, maybe from Oprah Winfrey...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_HPqaVrCDc

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 7:19 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Apologies if this has been posted before but it seemed like something
> some P-listers would enjoy.
>
> A writer's reluctant embrace of paranoia in the surveillance age, with
> mention of an acquaintance he describes as "a notably solitary older
> novelist who avoided computers altogether"...
>
> "With me was a friend named Dalton Brink, a former Navy nuclear
> technician. We’d driven down from Montana the night before, tuned in
> to one of those wee-hours AM talk shows whose hosts tend to suffer
> from a wretched smoker’s cough and whose conspiracy-minded guests
> channel a collective unconscious understandably disturbed by current
> events. Their hushed revelations are batty but compelling, charged
> with weird folkloric energies: Our nation’s leaders have reptile DNA
> and belong to abominable sex cults. Microwave stations above the
> Arctic Circle whose beams cause cluster headaches and amnesia are
> crippling America’s truth-seeking subversives. To those who understand
> that fiction warps the truth in order to tell the truth, the literal
> meanings of such tales are beside the point. Nightmares are a form of
> news."
>
>
>
> http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/11/if-youre-not-paranoid-youre-crazy/407833/?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email
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> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
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