speed of dark

Religious wars.
Political scandal.
Racial intolerance.
Domestic violence.
Global warming.

Today's news is enough to make a person want to go hide in a box until it's all over. I'll bring the music; you bring the beer. By the way, I like expensive beer.

I could have posted R.E.M.'s "It's the End of the World As We Know It" or Nick Cave's "Till the End of the World," but that would have been cheap and easy. No matter what anyone says, I am not cheap or easy. Here are some less obvious selections for the end of the world mix.

Thom Yorke: The Clock

the Dears: Fear Made the World Go Round

Doves: There Goes The Fear

Decemberists: When the War Came

Cosmic Rough Riders: Life In Wartime

Silversun Pickups: Future Foe Scenarios

Elliott Smith: The Enemy Is You

Wolf Parade: Modern World

Doves: Last Broadcast

Thom Yorke: After the Gold Rush

Pearls Before Swine 10/01/06, by Stephan Pastis