Bush is as good as gone. The Dems elected a great candidate. The Republican party is in complete disarray from it's leaderless top to the frenzied blamestorming bottom. And those are exactly the changes we needed. So... Mission Accomplished.
I'm done with it. The benefits of winning include leisure. I have no desire to obsess over the daily ins and outs of Obama's presidency. I don't care who he chooses for his cabinet. I don't care about the makeup of any House committee. I don't care what happens to Joe Lieberman. I don't care to parse texts or impromptu remarks for hidden connotations. I don't care to play the game of partisan attack and defend. I don't care. I'm taking three giant steps back. Let Obama do what he's going to do. I'll judge him by the real-world effects of his policies, not by the method he implements them. I'm going to zoom out: to hell with the obsessive microscope; all hail the wide angle. Less politics, more ... something else.
It's all you, Obama. Don't disappoint me ... too much.
According to your little sidebar thingy Bush has stil got 73 days to ratfuck the country. So we’re not out of the woods quite yet.
oh yeah… well, you wouldn’t know it from the news. it’s all about Obama, now.
more music.
I have a marimba, and by god I’m gonna use it!
Music seconded.
Who’s your all time favourite band readers? What’s your favourite album?
My choices are Radiohead and OK Computer. Every nook and cranny of that album is perfect. As a band they re-invent and keep on surprising me. Last years ‘In Rainbows’ just keeps getting played at our house. :)
i can do more music, sure.
i don’t think i could name a single all-time favorite band, but candidates are: Robyn Hitchcock, Sea And Cake, The Stones, Miles Davis, The Floyd, The Cure… (no order)
favorite album… well, this year it’s Spoon’s “Girls Can Tell”.
Cleek,
I, too, am ready for some leisure, but only for a little. The ratfucking has already begun for P. E. Obama. We must stay vigilant.
I will enjoy music in the interim.
The problems I have with favorite band, favorite song thing is that I can’t pick just one, it is truly impossible.
Favorite thing I’m listening to right now (aka the thing that gets loads of replay): Tortoise: Millions Now Living….only because I saw them at ATP in Sept. and it blew my mind up.
As far as favorite bands of all times? Unrest, Mountain Goats, BTS, Bonnie Billy, Sebadoh…way too many to think about.
Thanks, Cleek for a great site, and a great outlook.
dbati
cleek,
Great post.
Agree with: “I have no desire to obsess over the daily ins and outs of Obama’s presidency.”
I’m not talking about all four years — or even the next year, mind you — but I think it would be wise to step back for the proverbial “first 100 days,” everybody take a deep breath, and let Obama do his thing.
I guess the topic of bands got into this because we need to cue up the music to celebrate. So I’ll go with the Beatles.
Theme song for the Age of Obama: “Revolution.”
“You say you want a revolution/Well, you know/We all want to change the world . . .
“Don’t you know it’s gonna be ALL RIGHT/ALLRIGHT . . .”
Agree with dbati: Great site. And great to see all of the new commenters.
Russell: Sent you a personal comment over at “Pull Out.” Thanks for the kind words.
now that i’m drinking and putting my music in order, I just started listening to Superchunk and then Portastatic, so they’ve got to go on a list (and the Pavement that I was listening to earlier). See, for a 40+ year old guy, it’s too hard.
CREED!
i’ll put a new Name That Tune up on Monday
NAME THAT TUNE! Yay!
Favorite band is a tough call for me. There’s just so much good music out there. More and more every day.
People like to make music.
Lately I’ve been checking out DJ Dolores, a guy from Recife Brazil who mixes up electronica with traditional northern Brazilian party music. There are about 1,000 different kinds of music in Brazil, it’s an amazing place.
I’m also on a minor Big Star kick. I have to listen to “September Gurls” at least once a day. The rhythm guitar part is these distorted chimey quarter notes, somehow that’s gotten under my skin and I can’t get enough of it.
I lost track of what the pop world was up to a while ago, which is one thing I really enjoy about hanging out here in cleek-land. Cleek’s college of musical knowledge, dudes!
R
i’ve been trying for years to figure out just what that guitar sound is on September Gurls. is it just a couple of Strats? is it phased, flanged or ring-mod’d ? love it, whatever it is.
and now that you’ve mentioned it, i’m going to have to take it out of the Name That Tune set i’d just put together :)