2012 has been an interesting year so far. There have been great new music releases, a few good movies, a revival of reading thanks to Kindle, some exciting sports events, even signs of economic survival, but unfortunately it is also an election year. Today more than ever it gives a feeling of dread, comparable to someone inflicting rancid flatulence in a crowded elevator. We are hearing the same old drivel from political campaigns jammed with promises never to be kept, both the media and internet so drenched with propaganda that Hitler would be proud. Most shocking is the masses still go on believing it. They stick to their political party little different than religion even if the political objective is openly destructive to their lives, against the most basic principles that made America a nation. It has become a recognizable societal psychosis. Realities are replaced with delusions, truth is replaced with opinion, the populace endlessly brow-beaten, programmed into a cowed submission, a subliminal desperation - the masses willing to believe anything for any sense of hope. Nevermind the world falling down around them, as long as people believe in their favorite political rhetoric good WILL prevail. So in response MagellanMusic will soon be releasing a specially made video featuring the song “I Can’t Afford To Puke”. Since it deals with social stigma and political depravity the title should speak for itself. It is rumored that the video explicitly examples the attitude of America toward today’s Establishment, so I’m sure we’ll know soon. We will inform everyone when “I Can’t Afford To Puke” is ready to view. Very notable news is Amazon.com has finally put all MagellanMusic titles in one place. In the past, two albums were listed as Magellan while the others were MagellanMusic, but the latest album ‘Whispers’ was difficult to find. Even the MagellanMusic distributor was puzzled. We aren’t sure yet how it was fixed, but we are extremely happy that it is. Mostly because Amazon.com is one of the largest online sellers in the world. Besides new and used discs at great prices, their download program is easy to use, sound quality is excellent, your credit card number is not automatically charged as on iTunes, and there is a matching program called Cloud Player that saves all downloaded songs. Gone are the days of accidentally deleting an entire file and having to buy it again. Here is the link to all MagellanMusic titles on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dpopular&field-keywords=magellanmusic NEWSFLASH: Vladimir Zsoerbin has sadly been diagnosed with depression. When he hadn’t eaten for 2 months while watching the same episode of “Beanie & Cecil” we asked what was happening. He responded, “I just want you to know that I’m feeling depressingly depressed.” We asked why. “Here I am, brain the size of Uranus, living on a planet full of bi-pedal humans who don’t like my 3 arms and 1 leg. Oh god I’m feeling so despicably depressed!” We asked Vlad what he will do. “I’m not sure. I have a terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side. I feel disgustingly depressed!” Should we call Dr. Albert Hofmann? “It won’t help. I’m feeling too disparagingly depressed.” The Voyager staff instructed Vlad to ingest an entire page of blotter acid and call us in the morning. “That already makes me feel more disgruntlingly depressed!” We haven’t heard from Vlad since. A particularly interesting item is MagellanMusic is now in the process of registering their name as a trademark. When trying to load songs onto the music website called SoundCloud they were blocked several times on the premise of potential copyright infringement. It was soon learned that not one, but two others were using the name MagellanMusic as artist titles. They were not published artists, just ama