Day: March 20, 2003

To Hell With Good Intentions

McLusky
McLusky Do Dallas
Beggars Banquet/Too Pure, 2002

My love is bigger than your love
We take more drugs than a touring funk band (Sing it)
My love is bigger than your love (Sing it)
My love is bigger than your love (Sing it)

My band is better than your band
We’ve got more songs than a song convention (Sing it)
My love is bigger than your love (Sing it)
My love is bigger than your love (Sing it)

And we’re all going straight to hell

My dad is bigger than your dad
He’s got eight cars and a house in Ireland (Sing it)
My love is bigger than your love (Sing it)
My love is bigger than your love (Sing it)

When we gonna torch the restaurant? (Sing it)
When we gonna pay the guide dog? (Sing it)
My love is bigger than your love (Sing it)
My love is bigger than your love (Sing it)

And we’re all going straight to hell

When we gonna torch the restaurant? (Sing it)
When we gonna get excited? (Sing it)
My love is bigger than your love (Sing it)
My love is bigger than your love (Sing it)
And we’re all going straight to hell

Your next TV courtesy Microsoft .NET alerts?

I’ve been thinking about getting a new TV. I’m really a movie guy and watching letterboxed content on my 27″ screen is a little painful. But my options for getting a bigger TV were:

  1. A larger conventional or rear projection TV, which are a good value but won’t fit in our built in entertainment center;
  2. A front projection unit (like a computer projector), which is also a relatively good value (80″ screen, anyone?) but which requires a totally dark room for best fidelity;
  3. A plasma TV, which has the right form factor but which is way too costly for me right now

Then I noticed on Microsoft.com’s home page a link that said something about a plasma television set (the link is down now). Curious, I followed the link to find a sweepstakes: “Sign up for alerts and win cool prizes.” Including, coincidentally, the 42″ Panasonic plasma TV I was looking at. Unfortunately I’m, for various reasons, not eligible to play…

Music in the time of war

As I drove in this morning listening to KEXP, I was thinking how it was interesting that you could interpret just about any song as war commentary. Example to follow: McClusky’s “To Hell With Good Intentions.” Then John (In The Morning) put on War on War and I realized that I wasn’t the only one hearing it that way. Heck of a playlist today, starting at 6 am. In fact, I’m half tempted to submit it to Art of the Mix and see how it gets voted.

Playlist so far:

  • Billy Bragg, “Rumours of War”, Don’t Try This At Home
  • Coldplay, “A Rush Of Blood To The Head”, A Rush Of Blood To The Head
  • Echo & the Bunnymen, “The Killing Moon”, Songs To Learn & Sing
  • Massive Attack, “What Your Soul Sings”, 100th Window
  • Moby, “The Sky is Broken”, Play
  • The Fading Collection, “Grief”, Interactive Family Radio
  • Jakatta, “American Dream”, Indian Summer
  • Stars, “Death To Death”, Heart
  • Smog, “Morality”, Supper
  • The Cure, “Killing an Arab”, Boys Don’t Cry
  • The Postal Service, “Brand New Colony”, Give Up
  • Belle & Sebastian, “I Fought in a War”, Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant
  • New Order, “Love Vigilantes”, (the best of new order)
  • Butterglory, “The Sklls of the Star Pilot”, Crumble
  • Cat Power, “He War”, You Are Free
  • Longwave, “Wake Me When Its Over”, The Strangest Things
  • The Godfathers, “This Is War”, Unreal World
  • Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, “Dead Voices”, Hearts Of Oak
  • Beatles, “Revolution 1”, The White Album
  • Junior Ross & The Spear, “Rough Way Ahead”, Babylon Fall
  • Jurassic Five, “Freedom”, Power in Numbers
  • Marlena Shaw, “I Wish I Knew (how it would feel to be free)”, Black & Proud Vol. 2
  • Public Enemy, “Louder Than a Bomb”, It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back
  • Gus Gus, “Gun”, Polydistortion
  • The Future Sound Of London, “We Have Explosive”, Dead Cities
  • Sigur Ros, “Viorar Vel Til Loftarasa (good weather for airstrikes)”, Agaetis Byrjun
  • Clinic, “For the Wars”, Walking With Thee
  • Wimbledon, “That’s What I Like to Call Collateral Damage”, Cumershl
  • Grand Mal, “1st Round K.O.”, Bad Timing
  • Mclusky, “To Hell With Good Intentions”, Mclusky Do Dallas
  • Sleater-Kinney, “Combat Rock”, One Beat
  • Wilco, “War On War”, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
  • Willie Nelson, “Darkness on the Face of the Earth”, Crazy: The Demo Sessions
  • Bob Dylan, “Paths of Victory”, The Bootleg Series Vol 1
  • Ben Harper, “With My Two Hands”, Diamonds On The Inside
  • Johnny Clarke, “Love Your Brothers and Sisters”, Dubwise & Otherwise 2
  • Gomez, “Army Dub”, In Our Gun
  • The Notwist, “Consequence”, Neon Golden
  • Joseph Arthur, “Ashes Everywhere”, Come To Where I’m From

Doc isn’t reading the right sites

Doc Searls: “Liberalism may not be absent from the blogging world, but it’s certainly impotent.” He’s talking about peaceblogging, not liberal blogs in general. I wonder how he missed Tom Tomorrow? It’s not as though he’s low profile.

I could recommend a few other key liberal blogs, and so could my friend Greg, who should certainly resent the blanket description of his blog as “impotent.” Go get ’em, Greg.