Don't need no more lies

Won't need no shadow man
Runnin' the government
Won't need no stinkin' war!

There is new powerful anti-war music from Neil Young streaming now at neilyoung.com, a new album called Living With War.

You should listen.

It is angry. It is truth-telling. It is very very good.

He recorded and wrote this new album in just a few weeks. Wrote some songs and recorded them that very day.

This is powerful art, very much in the moment. Raw and fresh, and not in the Subway sandwich kind of fresh. We're talking organic peppers pulled right from the dirt.

This is not some bogus dude at a peace rally who can't play the guitar. Nor is it Paul-McCartney-Ewok-Victory-Song-Garbage.

Neil Young just produced a protest album like Kirk Hinrich's long three-pointer at the end of the Bulls-Heat game this afternoon. With a minute left, Hinrich lofted a three from way behind the line that deflated the Heat. The dependably superlative-happy Bill Walton said Hinrich is now well on his way to superstar status. Whether that's true or not, Hinrich and the Bulls made their opponents look like idiots toady. Which is exactly what Neil Young has done.

And right now, it sucks to be the other guys.

(Also, check out the Living With War blog.)