downloaded and can’t stop listening to mother love bones’ “chloe dancer/crown of thorns.” remember, from the Singles soundtrack?
if i described it as a combination of “november rain”-era g and r pomp and 90s aerosmith swaggering…well, it wouldn’t sound as good as it is. but i like it. yeah, child.
stone gossard on guitar, though? those is some cheesy licks.
i want him to win the nomination. so. bad.
what?!?!? peggy noonan?!?!?
so mitt’s in third place nationally – way the eff back, like edwards – but winning in new hampshire and iowa. he’s also won the largest amount of gop political contributions in oregon (like edwards w/ dems.) can you imagine how cool and hallucinatory it would be to have a whole election cycle up close with this dog?
OBAMA CLINTON FEUD ON CNN OVER YOUTUBE DEBATE QUESTION
(edit… oops. this is a pro-Hillary vid. well, now you know how “fair and balanced” we is over at the prisonship.)
i need to remind myself that it is way, way, way too early to be prognosticating, but…
i am very impressed by obama’s making hay from the youtube debate snafu. hillary’s staff clearly prompted her to jump on any imaginable difference of opinion between her and her adversary, and to paint it as a question of experience versus untested idealism. if this has not quite bitten her in the ass, it has shown that a) obama is ready, willing, and capable of coming back on her, and b) that she is capable of making mistakes.
maybe this excites me because it’s showing a side of obama that i for one needed to see before i could get too riled up. i don’t know how much you buy into the idea that he’s attempting a Reagan-style ‘insurgency for change,’ but it makes me think… maybe if he is as charismatic as he seems, and maybe if our demographic were actually to take it to the polls… well, maybe we could stop another four years of clintonian circle jerk?
so i’m mixing the record. and i have career stuff on the horizon and career characters in town whom i can’t identify clearly as either protagonists or antagonists.
i’m wickedly sick, shuddering and wrenching my tongue into pulp. it’s hard to concentrate on mixing when you’re clammy like this.
but in a way mixing’s what i need to be doing. because, praise be, i have a feeling that, with the completion of this album shall come a kind of funerary catharsis. finishing this album, i see two hard years and five ugly sides of me vanquished on a viking funeral schooner. c’mon… pick up a super-soaker filled with bleach and douse that effigy.
it’s already phase three, now. we’re just putting phase two on cassette, is all. for later.
ooh, i’m back from a 3-day work orgy in the big town, featuring odd ‘clandestine shit in the night.’
i’ve gotten sick. my vocal chords are in some liquid-solid state. i’ve got zizek to watch, which may or mayn’t be vomit-inspiring. few things are so depressing as laying down, sick in the daytime with the shades drawn and lights off.
‘mixing the record tomorrow. – p
what the hell is he talking about?
(feel free to apply this comment to anything he says.)
i’m glad to see hillary clinton – who very soon will be getting lauded for her expressions of “competence” tonight – mention hugo chavez in the same sentence as leaders from Syria or Iran.
wow, i love listening to Baby Boomers tiptoe around gay marriage. boomer wankers. here comes edward’ turn.
so far, the top three all look strong. i effing hate hillary, but i can see how what she’s doing is, like, the most spectacularly middle of the road speech/praxis in the history of time. she is, like, the drunken nightmare of 3rd way, EU neolibo insanity. and that’s bad, people. but it’s apparently effective in this political culture. it apparently makes people’s mouths water. oof.
this politico bit alleges a Clinton-Fox pact that most of us’d prolly find plenty believable… it’s just another part of the horrid, mistake-free grandeur that has been the ‘Hillary’ campaign so far.
i guess that’s what happens when you’re an ex-preznit’s wife and an odds-on favorite. i was bemoaning obama’s lack of message to my da recently when he reminded me that all the money in the world cannot buy you the wherewithal to know whom and what one should spend it on. for example, you can dump millions on Iowanese luminaries and GOTV people, but without experience, it’s impossible to know “who’s bullshit and who’s not” (Da’s words.) that’s very true, of course. only experience running national campaigns can hip you to those you need (and those you needn’t) in your organization.
but the other thing is that Obama has been way too lax about HC’s war record. i guess he’s picking his spot? but maybe Dems don’t even care that Hillary was a hawk until 2006?
anybody watching the debate today? look for a pile-on on Hillary, and look for HC to protect her hold on the center.
