Chinese Democracy 2008

Today. Sunday, November 23, 2008. It's happened. It's finally happened.

Guns N' Roses. Chinese Democracy.

Released exclusively through Best Buy.

An excerpt from Chuck Klosterman's wonderfully written review:

"It's as if Axl is desperately trying to get some unmakeable dream song from inside his skull onto the CD, and the result is an overstuffed maelstrom that makes all the punk dolts scoff..."

(He gives the album an A-, btw. Great thoughtful review.)

At 2:30pm today, I've got an appointment to get a tattoo. It isn't really about commemorating the release of this new Guns N' Roses album, of course. It's about the fact that none of my friends believed this album would ever come out, and I've suffered YEARS OF RIDICULE because I've been patiently waiting for this thing. Because I believed it would arrive!

Now finally, though awfully awfully late, the Great Pumpkin has finally arrived, bitches.

Despite what your so-called friends may say to you, it's okay to believe in things, kids. It's okay to like unpopular things, like a GNR album that should've come out over a decade ago. That's what my new ink is celebrating.

(Plus, it'll piss off my mom at Thanksgiving.)