Meat Puppets - Too High To Die

Random hobbyist facebook troll is right, i'm a profoundly mediocre fly-over state musician who pointed out he was being a self-righteous jerk. Not sure either of us win a prize for that. Sure, i started it when i could have just ignored it like i often advise people to do, but the US has kind of built a reputation for itself as being full of belligerant self-righteous assholes and he certainly wasn't helping my case that most of us actually aren't that at all. I could certainly be wrong in that assessment, maybe we are, but i've chosen my perspective. We're mostly tired people making the best choices we can in a world that only offers up bad choices, and i personally balance slogging through all the menial labor by writing about listening to my record collection. Never said being a celebrant of mundanity was a particularly virtuous or rewarding career, but i'll stand by my decision that the unrelenting pursuit of "greatness" is an overall underwhelming endeavor. Mostly that's because everyone who achieves it turns back around and says "wow, this sucks way more than i thought it would" and i tend to believe them.  

Same is true the other way around, bottom of the barrel isn't a fun slog either, so why pretend to like it? If you're just gonna turn around and call everyone else a loser, then why would you expect anyone to care or respect you? I'll sink to your delusional lofty heights and call you a schmuck. You know who said it better than me? Meat Puppets. Let's listen to their self-admittedly awesomly mediocre mainstream smash Too High To Die. They say it has some great songs that are super fun, some throw away songs that aren't that great, and that's exactly the way it should be. Good enough for me, i think it's a fantastic album for its concept, plus i just really like Meat Puppets. 

"Too high to die" is a sarcastic idiomatic expression referring to being so zonked out of reality that you lose all sense of danger or the need for self-preservation. Some people insist it's a parody of Too Tough To Die by the Ramones, but Curt says he didn't even realize that was a Ramones album title, he just liked the phrase "too high to die" because it rhymes. 

The album is a mix of grungy alternative rock and their more familiar style of Cowpunk with some Blues and Gospel thrown in, and i already said i'm completely biased. I can't objectively call one thing good or another bad, it's all wonderful to my ears. What i can tell you is don't be afraid to call out some jerk for being a jerk, and don't mistake being a jerk for anything other than the coping mechanism it really is. Everyone's a miserable sack of shit underneath whatever cloak of many colors they picked out of their wardrobe that day. Granted, some people are beyond help and you have to just accept it, but as long as you can still differentiate between the person and the facade, tell that facade to take a hike. All my posts are public because there isn't anything in them i'm secretly afraid to share with the world. Never been in facebook jail that i'm aware of either, unless you count that one review of a Grouper album for which the algorithm considered the external links misleading. 

My expertise is interpretation, the art of describing what things might mean within a particular context. Out of context, pretty much everything is meaningless, and inside a stupid context (like say arguing on the internet for mere amusement), pretty much everything is nonsense.