An ongoing question I like thinking about: What would be on God’s iPod, assuming he didn’t own a Zune? I compiled a list last night while I was high as a kite. I like how most of them aren’t even songs.

Here it goes, in no particular order:

1. the first song Dizzy played after she stepped on his trumpet
2. the sound of Archimedes as he got out of the tub
3. Lucy’s laughter just as she fell asleep in the cave
4. whatever song that was playing on the walkmans of the cosmonauts while they flew in Apollo 11.
5. Dolphin pings- over and over and over again

…a question I will revisit again later, I’m sure.

I still don’t know what this weblog is supposed to be about. I just like the name: Disco Dead… I’ve just been working from that. I reckon it should be, in one way or another, about music and death right? Or clubbing and death? Well, whatever I know that the ideas I like thinking on the most are music and the bigBIG questions.

So then today, I was happy enough to revisit these elements through our favoritist death metal quartet: Slayer. Yay!

On a Rives-tip we can riff from pop culture to crimes against humanity to human endeavor. So here we go:
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