Word: wrasslin
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...competition, but Apple is essentially operating its own closed miniature techno-economy. What is this, Soviet Russia? Why not license Mac OS X to Dell, see what hardware it comes up with and let the market decide whose ride is flyest? Is Steve Jobs afraid of a little healthy wrasslin' in the great American bazaar...
...goin' on!" It's a firm but liquid tenor, at times quavering with the infusion of the Spirit (perhaps holy, perhaps profane) that Jerry Lee heard and sang in the Assembly of God meetings of his youth. Which is of course at the sundered heart of his music: a wrasslin' match between the Deity and the Devil. Jerry Lee, whose cousin is the evangelist Jimmy Swaggart, has often said he is a man of God doing Satan's work. His music, beginning with "Whole Lotta Shakin'," imparts much of the thrill and dread of someone who has taken the Lord...
...about Lewis in 1962 pertains today: "Still he pumped onward, roaming the country in a dirty Cadillac, howling of the fire and the shaking, seeking his own vague salvation, indomitable." Perhaps God or the Devil has other plans for the Killer. Or perhaps Jerry Lee sees them still wrasslin' for his soul, and as referee he refuses to call off the match...
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