This Week’s "Moron of the Day of the Week" is……


Believe it or not, it’s not some moron that thinks Obama wasn’t born in the United States! Despite the White House releasing his long form birth certificate, there are still batshit crazy people that still don’t believe him. To you people? I am glad you don’t want healthcare. Because you need to die. Soon.

Anyhow, there’s someone else even more stupid out there. And it’s the man that cried racism and then called the cops and had a man arrested – for singing “Kung Fu Fighting”.

“We were performing Kung Fu Fighting, as we do during all our sets,” he told the newspaper. “People of all races were loving it. Chinese people have never been offended by it before.”

But Ledger told The Sun an Asian man walking by with his mother hurled an expletive and made an obscene hand gesture at the performers during the Sunday afternoon performance, then took a photo with his cell phone.

“We hadn’t even seen them when we started the song. He must have phoned the police,” The Sun quoted him as saying.

The man claimed he was “subjected to racial abuse,” police told BBC News, and complained to the police the same evening.

So this jerkoff publicly makes a crude gesture and remark, and nothing happens to him. A man covering a song made famous by a black man is then arrested? To that oversensitive “man”, I also have an obscene gesture for you. It’s called a middle finger, because you’re a fucking tool. To the Hampshire Constabulary? I’m pretty sure you have better things to do. You know. Like help solve murders? Or send your people off to help with that ridiculous wedding that’s nothing more than a middle finger to poor people across the world? No. You are doing a fine job. Idiots. All of you.

Click to Play Carl Douglas – Kung Fu Fighting

another elbow drop

There are five things I love about Elbow:

1. Asleep In The Back (2001)
2. Cast Of Thousands (2003)
3. Leaders Of The Free World (2005)
4. The Seldom Seen Kid (2008)
5. Build A Rocket Boys (2011)

Well actually, there are quite a few more. The band makes excellent music, chooses great songs to cover, and is generally a class act. I wrote about them here before so use the search feature before you read ahead if you’re not familiar.

Elbow’s new release, Build A Rocket Boys does nothing to tarnish their reputation. After a few listens it falls around the same place as Leaders Of The Free World on the Kilter Lists Elbow’s Profundity To Order (KLEPTO) scale. That’s actually on the low end of the scale, but let me qualify that statement: A) It’s still new to me and it generally takes me a while to really digest an album by these guys, and B) that’s like being on the low end of the Times I Had Awesome Sex With A Supermodel scale. When you’ve been as consistent as Elbow has over the years it’s not a question of whether the album is good. It’s just a new chance to see what these guys have been up to and remember how touching they can be.

Click to play Elbow – Lippy Kids

I won’t gush about this release. I’ll just post a couple more songs for you. This one reminds me of something Erik Satie would have whipped up.

Click to play Elbow – The River

Here’s one of the more upbeat songs, which was also the first single:

Click to play Elbow – Neat Little Rows

On an unrelated note, other than they’re another of my favorite bands, Veto released their new album in late February. It’s called Everything Is Amplified . I haven’t been able to find it for sale in the US yet, so I’ll admit to checking it out via other methods. It’s very interesting, as they’re going in a more experimental direction. Once I find a copy that doesn’t require me to use babelfish to purchase it I’ll write a full review. All I can say is that if you find it out there you need to buy it and support this band. They’re one of the freshest things out there, if you ask me.

Oh, the Horror!

This is yet another short but sweet post. This cut today is the first single off of the upcoming release Primary Colours by The Horrors. It’s titled “Sea Within A Sea” and is just one great song. It goes eight minutes, but each time I listen, it seems like the first time I happen to look? It’s already halfway through the track. As of now, this is the best cut I’ve heard this year.

[Download The Horrors – Sea Within A Sea]

So now open your wallets, or whatever way you use to buy shit, and go support these guys!