Song: "The Reasons" Artist: The Weakerthans Year: 2003 Album: Reconstruction Site Download The Weakerthans - "The Reasons".mp3 How I don't know how to sing I can barely play this thing But you never seem to mind And you tell me to fuck off When I need somebody to. How you make me laugh so hard. How whole years refuse [...]
Well Fab is back . And all is right with the world. After 3 games without the sophomore center in which the previously undefeated Syracuse Orange lost to Notre Dame and struggled to beat Cincinnati and West Virginia, Fab Melo's academic situation was resolved and he returned to the lineup on Saturday in Madison Square Garden against St. John's (not "at" St. John's as the majority of fans in the sold-out arena were rooting for the Orange). Fab's presence was pretty immediate and an early blocked shot led to a fast-break like we hadn't seen since he'd been gone [...]
In today's post, we have a 2nd track from the forthcoming Bowerbirds album The Clearing , which I have to say is getting me more and more excited; we have a new track off a new Woodpigeon EP For Paolo that is pretty damn awesome; we have a couple tracks that I like from bands I don't know much about, some that I know a little more about ( Said the Whale , Damien Jurado ), and we have the "slow version" of Superchunk 's absolutely brilliant 2009 B-side "Blinders", the [...]
Aasif Mandvi brings out the funny with this perfect report on the hypocrisy of Republican lawmakers in Florida and their oh-so-1980s-style attempts to demonize welfare recipients as drug addicts abusing our taxpayer dollars so the rest of us -- the actual taxpayers -- can continue to avoid casting our angry glare at the corporations and lobbyists and politicians in their pockets who have spent at least the last 10 years actively legislating against both the poor and middle class. Because -- hey -- if we get pissed about the random welfare mother (read: African-American woman) who bought $150 Nikes at [...]
...and other absolute laugh-out loud hilarity in this 2-part interview with Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are . The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes , Political Humor & Satire Blog , Video Archive Part 2. Colbert: "What does it take for a celebrity to make a successful (children's) book?" [...]
H/T to LegFu for alerting me to this... the commercial to end all commercials, the Ferris Bueller redux, starring Matthew Broderick as himself, some 27 years later (wow, has it really been that long?) Ferris was my favorite movie growing up and it still would make any list of my all-time favorites today. I assume that Honda didn't acquire the "rights" to the movie or something because they didn't go into a full-on copy of the film, but the commercial definitely makes reference to a lot of the highlights. Not as much laugh-out-loud funny as it is pleasantly amusing and [...]
I had surgery on my foot on December 7th, which turned out to be my own personal Pearl Harbor. And yes, I just compared my travails over the past 2 months with the attack that started America's entrance into World War II. Which might be worse than me weaving the story of my upcoming surgery with a review of 127 Hours . But this is my blog and fuck it, the last 7 fucking weeks have been absolute hell. So let's just move on. Shit happens to arlot of people but when you've been [...]
The title of this post couldn't be more evident than in this chart of the % share of tax cuts by income proposed by each of the leading GOP candidates for president. Disregarding the economic reality that cutting taxes during a recession is insanely idiotic and goes against every economic principle of every sane human and disregarding what this loss of revenue for the government would do to the deficit that the GOP claims to care so much about (only when they are not in the presidency), what's so tragically sad is that the GOP's plans to revive a failing [...]
Pity the Billionaire by Thomas Frank Thomas Frank, the best-selling author of What's the Matter with Kansas? , the book that explores why voters in southern and rural states vote against their economic interests by voting for Republican economic policies, is back with a new book that explores the more recent phenomenon of the Tea Party rise and how the collapse of the economy in 2008 resulted inexplicably in a populist surge that celebrated an extension of free-market policies that actually caused the collapse, instead of [...]
I read Darin Bradley's 2010 novel Noise in a single day, not just because I remain housebound and bored in the aftermath of my hellish foot surgery. No, I read this book in a single day mostly because it was an incredible read, brimming with imagination and characterization and a distorted vision of our near future, not quite a dystopian story, not quite a zombie tale (there are no zombies) but it reminded me of one of my favorite movies ever, 28 Days Later , in its story of the immediate aftermath of the collapse [...]
The Dirty Three has a new album coming out, their first new album since 2005's Cinder, a long break for the Melbourne trio who play violin, guitar, and drums, no singing, just brilliant music, the first and maybe only rock band to feature violin so prominently, or so impressively. The new album is titled Toward the Low Sun and is coming out in February followed by a tour of Australia and New Zealand in March and some festivals in the UK and Europe over the summer. No word yet on an American leg. But here's [...]
Last winter in Wisconsin, we saw the start of a pushback by the middle class against the rich overlords who had just abducted our government by proxy, a theme that continued later that year on a national level with Occupy Wall Street and all its local derivations. Finally the Americans who were being hurt by the right-wing policies of our government the past 10 or 30 years (depending on how far back you want to go) were speaking up en masse about the inequality of opportunity and the tilt in our political system that gives all the tax breaks and [...]
Song: "(This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan" Artist: Dentl (with Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie) Year: 2001 Album: Life is Full of Possibilities In 2001, my interest in music underwent a great and wondrous revival that started with my first listen to Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane over the Sea , continued with my discovery of Modest Mouse and Godspeed! You Black Emperor and by the time the year was over, I was a full-fledged devotee to this [...]
HBO aired last week the final part of the Paradise Lost documentary trilogy covering the West Memphis 3 and the murders of Christopher Byers, Michael Moore, and Steve Branch, a trio of 8-year-olds, back in 1993. The whole sordid affair is a true tragedy on multiple levels -- the unbelievable death of these young boys, the sham of a trial of three teens for "Satan worshipping" that led to their conviction for the boys' murders, and then the gross incompetence and/or malice of a criminal justice system that spent the past 15 years denying the wrongly accused any [...]
OK, I'm clueless about HTML and website design shit even though I've been blogging for like 6 years now. I probably should have read a book or something. But I couldn't figure out how to black out this website for a day to support the strike . If I could have, this is what you would have seen: Unfortunalely, as I said I'm clueless, but in case you don't know what's going on, read my post from yesterday or the excellent description by [...]
Some of the most popular websites on the Internet are shutting down tomorrow as part of a nationwide day of protest against censorship online. On Jan. 18, the English version of Wikipedia will go down for 24-hours to protest the U.S. anti-piracy laws - Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA). FYI, that's midnight tonight. [...] Wikipedia joins sites like MoveOn, Reddit, BoingBoing, Mozilla, WordPress, TwitPic and the ICanHasCheezBurger network. Google, Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr will not be joining the day of protest, however, all have expressed [...]
Stephen Colbert, host of the The Colbert Report, has paved the way for a presidential bid by transferring control of his political fundraising organisation to his former boss Jon Stewart . Lampooning the campaign finance rules that permit such fundraising groups, known as super pacs, Colbert announced it would be renamed the "Definitely Not Coordinated with Stephen Colbert Super Pac." The move potentially paves the way for Colbert to enter the Republican presidential primary in South Carolina , his home state. Campaigning politicians are prohibited from [...]
I've been watching Syracuse regularly since 1987 and religiously since at least the mid-90s and I do not remember ever watching a Syracuse team this completely dominant, game in and game out. Now I know the Big East is down this year and we've maybe not had the toughest schedule so far but in nearly every single one of the last dozen or so games, the Syracuse Orange have flat-out destroyed their opponent, leading each game by close to 20 at some point of the contest. And this isn't like Colgate or Cornell or other early season patsies. This is [...]
Song: "I See a Darkness" Artist: Bonnie "Prince" Billy (with Alex Neilson and Harem Scarem) Year: 2006 Album: Live, Queen's Hall, Edinburgh Scotland, 12 April 2006 Well you're my friend (it's what you told me) And can you see (what's inside of me) Many times we've been out drinking And many times we've shared our thoughts But did you ever, ever notice, the kind of thoughts I got? Well you know I have a love, a love for everyone [...]
In a mostly forgettable and unnecessary opinion piece in Monday's USA Today, Gary Bauer, a right-wing religious blowhard of significance a decade or two ago, writes a column titled " Why We should Apply a Religious Test " that I honestly couldn't ignore. In his idiotic tract, which I guess is a shot at Mitt Romney's Mormon beliefs (even if not mentioned, it's the only possible reason I can think of for why this piece appears at this time), Mr. Bauer acknowledges the Constitutional basis for NOT applying a religious test for public office: "That is what the [...]
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