http://www.wearephoenix.com/


i cannot convey my excitement. my guiltiest pleasure.

did anyone watch the oscars, i didnt cause i couldnt. but still. pretty flat this year all around. reader was good, slumdog was good and vicky christina was good, but there wasnt much out there with oscar potential. that is to say there were a lot of good films this past year. you read that right.

what else, hmm. its warming up here and it stays light til about 5. pretty soon itll be light til 1030 and up at 500, meaning that my solunar cycle will be completely backwards, as i tend to be awake so much longer when its dark out. sokay

aberdeen's finest

yes this place and its landlord very much do exist. more on that another time

just because im here, doesnt mean i dont pay attention to whats going on there. stimulus bill-republicans take advantage of Our Dear Leader by inserting tax cuts, which will not be solving anything any time soon, or even ever. i suppose we can call that postpartisan.

hello

its cold here

i like it

http://zeitgeistfilms.com/examinedlife/

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.