George, the creator of this fine blog, told me that I had a big day today. I get the blog post the day after the presidential election. Well, la dee freakin’ da! I really can’t express how important the election was all over the country. There were also many state ballot questions that loomed large.
Well, first, I have a song to those who voted for Obama. I found it quite fitting, and I’m quite surprised no one used this as a campaign song! Sorry, there’s no sarcasm button to warn you all about it. However, this song is pretty fitting. Hopefully it’s also laced with a high amount of truth. It’s Public Enemy’s “Brother’s Gonna Work It Out”, off of the 1989 album Fear of a Black Planet.
Next up? Fuck you, State of California! That’s right. You dimwits voted 61 to 37 in favor of Obama, yet you voted in favor of banning gay marriage 52 to 48. Now, it’s still not final, but if it is? It shows how transparent your votes are. It means you essentially voted with your wallet. So for my next addition to the blog? I think Black Sheep got it pretty well summed up in “For Doz That Slept”.
Last up is a classic. It’s easily one of my favorite songs, and it strikes close to home for us today. It’s John Lennon’s “Imagine”, a song once considered incredibly controversial.
Even more haunting is the following video for “Imagine”. Hopefully the lessons he tried to teach others are being learned still. Because I don’t want to feel ashamed to just happen to live within these borders.
As always, please buy music from these artists! And thank you for voting! It exceeded my expectations by around 10 million, and I am unbelievably happy to have been wrong. Just goes to show we maybe shouldn’t be so jaded.
Shenanigans are always afoot in politics. If McCain finds a way to win while Obama has held a lead for much of the campaign, it might look like April 29, 1992 all over again.
Though they’d rather not discuss it, local law enforcement agencies are planning for possible civil unrest following Tuesday’s election.
“We have no intelligence indicating there will be problems,” Fulton County Assistant Police Chief Gary Stiles said. “Law enforcement must deal with ‘what ifs’ and worst-case scenarios. What if there’s an extended power outage at a polling place?” Similar preparations are under way across the country, fueled partly by Internet rumors and crystallized within recent comments by Democratic strategist James Carville on CNN.
“But you stop and contemplate this country if [Barack] Obama goes in and he has a consistent five-point lead and loses the election, it would be very, very, very dramatic out there,” he said.
Another concern: excessive celebrations following a potentially historic outcome, as sometimes seen following sports championships.
I could be wrong. But the left is so confident already that Obama is going to win, that I can easily see how they will probably feel like some fraud has taken place if suddenly McCain pulls through.
So… I realized today that I have some interesting IM conversations that relate to music that I could share with you all. I added pictures, video, music, and links to the conversation to make it more interesting. I left all the retarded spelling and grammar mistakes just for shits and giggles.
B-Run says: So Mookie who are you going for in the election mookie says: i think i will choose to not bother B-Run says: oh gosh, have you been to votesmart.com? B-Run says: the 2004 questionaires for the pres. are very insightful, not to mention who voted on the bailouts mookie says: ha mookie says: 2004? B-Run says: yeah, they didnt submit for 2008 B-Run says: but it gives you their stripes none the less mookie says: interesting
B-Run was wrong about the site. It’s actually http://www.votesmart.org
mookie says: hey…if you were not listening to house…what would you be listening to? B-Run says: well right now im listening to the dead kennedys, but as far as beats ive been up on the liquid & terra funk side of D&B mookie says: interesting B-Run says: yup i reverted back to punk and metal after the mixer died mookie says: i have always had a love for punk myself B-Run says: dj bailey, deviation w/ benji B on radio one xtra are pretty good mookie says: what’s your favorite album by DK B-Run says: i just have mutiny by the bay mookie says: 2001? B-Run says: yup B-Run says: with jello biafra mookie says: Goons of Hazard!
B-Run says: hell yes mookie says: nice. mookie says: good stuff! B-Run says: yup B-Run says: bullet for my valentine has been rockin my car lately mookie says: really? that surprises me! B-Run says: for sure mookie says: what are your fav songs? B-Run says: hearts explode into fire is my fav, reminds me of my trip home to be with dad mookie says: hmmm mookie says: they just got nominated for Best Festival Rock Act mookie says: www.festivalawards.com
B-Run says: the bands up north suck so bad mookie says: the south has some amazing bands right now mookie says: so many great bands out of georgia mookie says: Manchester Orchestra, Dead Confederates, Colour Revolt B-Run says: dude the south and the southwest rule because its warm enough for people to have personalities mookie says: LOL mookie says: yeah mookie says: frozen brains up north mookie says: There is a band playing in your neck of the woods soon…Bayside mookie says: good stuff B-Run says: ill look for it mookie says: www.myspace.com/bayside mookie says: you heard of the Triple Rock? B-Run says: No ive been goin back oldschool cause i never was there reallyl mookie says: it’s the name of a venue B-Run says: oh mookie says: in Minneapolis mookie says: is that too far for you? mookie says: it’s where Bayside is playing
B-Run says: shoot thats about 6 to 8 hours one way mookie says: oh! mookie says: nevermind then…although they would be worth it. B-Run says: the most exciting thing about my hood is the topless 70 y/o man walking around with his flapping b-cups B-Run says: wait, no there are dozens of chicks at the Y, like you wouldnt believe mookie says: YMCA? B-Run says: the ratio gets to like 12 to 1 mookie says: LOL B-Run says: yup it smells like a girls locker room
B-Run is super weird and creepy at times. But he always makes for a lively conversation.
mookie says: are they hot chicks? mookie says: ew. B-Run says: omg yes, lol B-Run says: i ran 8 miles in 100 minutes wed. you wouldt believe the techno they play, you would cry so bad mookie says: that bad? and what does that have to do with running 8 miles? B-Run says: the track is above the gym, and they fill up a whole basketball court there are so many B-Run says: like at least 60 mookie says: oh…so they have techno night at the Y, and then you run laps while this is going on? B-Run says: hell yeah mookie says: that’s kinda cool mookie says: but it’s bad techno mookie says: like who? B-Run says: thank god for the ipod, they have corporate mixes they have to order mookie says: what does that mean? B-Run says: it means they have songs that are like the “Muzak” of underground muic mookie says: yikes. B-Run says: yup mookie says: like The Launch? B-Run says: probably mookie says: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vczS1Szwec4 mookie says: LOL B-Run says: is it safe for work mookie says: it’ the music video for the launch mookie says: ha ha mookie says: speaking of work…I gotta get back to mine… mookie says: stay up.
