Okay! I'm back. It's here. Welcome to the website.

Hey... I'm a music man! So this is a very, VERY, VERY unusual update right here right now. EVERY DAY, Monday through Friday, we usually have a lot of fun around here.

But, you guys who come around here all the time know, I'm not one for fakin' it.

I mean, you know how much I love doing what I do out in Central Park, how much I love music, how much I love the adventure of my life...

... how much I love the company.

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But, I'm not one to fake it.

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I'm here today with a SPECIAL EDITION of "I Love the Company". Maybe it's a September 11th emotional hangover... I don't know. But, I'll be back tomorrow with a full update and we'll get back to the fun... y'know, the music, the absurdity of that bunch of bird-watchers from last weekend, your phone calls, the kick of writing new songs. The joy of living in this amazing town.

If you're new here... hit the "Archive" button to check out the usual fare on ILTC! Come back tomorrow for some FREE downloads! We'll get back to the fun stuff. This ain't it. I'm just pissed off today!

So... RIGHT NOW I'm asking you to listen to today's episode of "I Love the Company" if you're at all interested in the reason why I'm not all full of sunshine today. I've learned that holding onto a resentment like this is very much like taking poison myself, and then waiting for someone else to get sick. So, I want to get this out... and then we'll move on.

I also wanna ask all of you to turn at least one or more other person onto this page and the podcast today. And, ask THEM to call the numbers, too. It's a SPECIAL EDITION.

Just click on this logo, plug in your headphones, jam in your earbuds or turn on your speakers and listen.(You can always subscribe to the show and get it automatically by hitting that itunes button over there.)

SHOW 321 - SPECIAL EDITION

Musical guests on this weekend's ILTC: Jay Mankita and Eric Schwartz.

I know I promised to separate the news, the politics, the world events, and the social consciousness from this site and the original podcast, placing it all in the new podcast called "Where's the Voice".

Here... here's the latest installment of WTV: Click on the image for WTV - 013

WTV- 013

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THEN... PICK UP THE PHONE AND BE HEARD!

You can also leave messages for "I Love the Company" on the same listener-lines. Here are the numbers:

Anywhere in North America:

646-224-8162

In Europe:

+44 845 280 6622

Y'see, all of this outrage today was inspired... well... while George W. Bush was embarrassing himself and all of us yet again in Australia yesterday... quoted in the Australian press as saying, "We're kicking ass in Iraq"... (At the same time we were losing another 28 soldiers in six days.) ... and swaggering like a fucking frat boy, I spent the last 2 days watching CSPAN and the testimony of General David Petraeus and that cookie-pusher, Ryan Crocker.

All I can say is this.

I'm furious. I'm disgusted. I'm saddened.

If you voted for George W. Bush... you should be ashamed of yourself.

No excuses. If you're a person with any character at all...

...you should feel fucking awful.

3,774 American lives lost in Iraq so far.

Not Afghanistan... IRAQ!

Over 1,000 more Americans than Osama Bin Laden killed in the World Trade Center.

Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians dead. Millions homeless.

If you don't see this war in Iraq for the tragedy it is... if you can still support these morally bankrupt, conscience-less criminals in Washington DC (Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Tenet and the rest)....

... then, the way I feel right now? I don't wanna know you.

I certainly DON'T love your company.

On the flip-side, if you're a good, decent person and you voted for this unAmerican troop of oligarchs for misguided reasons, or a skewed sense of loyalty or priority, and have come to realize who they are and what's been going on, if you've been able to grow through this experience and realize how horribly and tragically mistaken you've been... there are no words how much respect I have for you.

But, everyone...

YOU GOT SOMETHIN' TO SAY!?!?!

Here are the numbers:

Anywhere in North America:

646-224-8162

In Europe:

+44 845 280 6622

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Let me know what you think about the latest efforts of this monster, Ari Fleischer...

...who once said, "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."

Oh, wait....

...no, I'm sorry. That was this guy.

But, they feel and act basically the same way about Truth.

I'll play your comments on "Where's the Voice".

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Listen to ILTC and then PLEASE pick up the phone and be heard. (Don't be like those wimpy Democrats in Congress!)

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No apology.

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Thanks for showing up today. (But, I can't fake it.)