the phenomenology of hope, de tocqueville revisted, etc

right, so i havent much time, packing etc. i can tell you some things though. i watched obamas train trip on cspan on the weekend. cspan because it was covering obama inside the train, not talking heads outside of it. (build a metaphor into the previous sentence). fascinating. the first time i think perhaps since ike that weve had a president who can truly connect on a 1-1 level with people. interesting conversations, oh youre from cleveland, i know i guy in cleveland, do you know him? turns out the lesbian couple did. etc etc. herein lies another issue. without a doubt the first president to pay any attention to lgbt rights, and it goes without saying this issue has not been addressed. tuesday will be moving (i will be liveblogging on wonkette.com, so tune in), obama has written his own speech. dunno when that happened last. etc etc. if we truly want change, its time to buy into it. we of course do not live in a county where such a thing is deemed appropriate nor effective so, we'll see nothing and have a new president in four years. the phenomenology of hope, redux. oh and watch closely, cause it might be a body double on tuesday. dunno what to watch for really.

on de tocqueville. oh the irony. of course it has been discussed so i will not. perhaps the man to stamp america's seal of approval was not the most appropriate. i saw simon sharma on pbs the other night, was half asleep, so i didnt catch all that i should have, but it was another one of those journey-around-america wankfests where they happen to fine the one black school with children allowed to achieve, the one native american community able to subsist, the one reformed blood able to keep his block off the streets, etc. its as if to say the election has retroactively solved all these problems that have plagued america since de tocqueville's time. no, sorry, nothing is suddenly better now. nor will it be unless we allow ourselves to work again. a financial sector should not, and as we've proved, can not, comprise a fifth of our economy. volunteer your ass. work for free every once and a while. it feels good.


what will he get done on wednesday?


white collar crime-how can stealing 50 billion dollars land you house arrest? ->burglary lands you a decade in jail.



a bit power poppy. but hes a mcsweeneys person, so represent.

there are two ways to bring the fuzz. 2008 was all about noiserock so heres a quicky. track then bring the fuzz. fuzz then bring the track. 1 is hipster, 2 is sellout.

mumpower

http://wonkette.com/405436/everyone-laugh-at-the-tennessee-republicans

An Idol; A Muse; and A False Prophet.---In which order?

right so i picked up a rolling stone the other day. tend to hate it, especially since they thinned it out and shrunk the pages. but this time i found quite a few talking points amongst the veritable crap. 1 an article on ray lamontagne 2 a piece on antony (and the johnsons) 3 an interview with Benecio del Toro.


but of course rolling stone are fascistic and none of these articles are available on line.

one speaks on the femininity of earth, and ties its defilement to male-domination.

one has won an academy award and been deserving of 7, but is undeniably ego-maniacal (though to his credit, this has allowed him to prognosticate with scarjo in an elevator)

the other is dylanesque. a curious background, an excellent songwriter, but with
a flawless ability to craft public opinion.

you can guess on the meaning of the title, draw some connecting lines between the 3 people and the 3 descriptions until i can get the articles. dont by rs cause its gash, just wait on me.

what we should watch

http://www.amctv.com/videos/the-prisoner-1960s-video/

amc is remaking this, but this is the original.

what mcgoohan said of the show. co creator/writer/star

I think progress is the biggest enemy on earth, apart from oneself… I think we're gonna take good care of this planet shortly… there's never been a weapon created yet on the face of the Earth that hadn't been used…

…We're run by the Pentagon, we're run by Madison Avenue, we're run by television, and as long as we accept those things and don't revolt we'll have to go along with the stream to the eventual avalanche… As long as we go out and buy stuff, we're at their mercy. We're at the mercy of the advertiser and of course there are certain things that we need, but a lot of the stuff that is bought is not needed…

…We all live in a little Village… Your village may be different from other people's villages but we are all prisoners."

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=ed01ed40-4a7b-4ce6-b98e-62da05e46bab

baer and

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=f555be7f-dd65-4941-bfa7-a5197b5e8bbe

levy

the vikings were in north america for 500 years 1000-1500 at least. jamestown was 401 years ago. spanish 100 years before that. natives for millenia. fuck whitey.

Banksy

Im assuming you guys know about the graffiti artist Banksy. If not, intro:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/banksy/pool/

and wiki

one nation under cctv.

im mapping out which ones i can take a look at while in london, not too surprised to see the more controversial ones are being whitewashed, given that councils are often puritanically ignorant and unsympathetic. however, i should have guessed that people are selling their walls after banksy paints them, ie taking down their wall, brick by brick, and selling it to galleries for a price 'worth their while.'

the black angel's death song

my visa came, only took 3 months of hair pulling.