Today's Friday Random goes out to Keith Olbermann, of course, for the Big KO he delivered the other day.
Rather predictably, the Freepers are incoherently jabbering and screeching for his head as a traitor. They are always eager to go after other Americans for utilizing the rights that they claim to want to protect by..insisting that other Americans stop using those rights. Something like that. It's hard to read. It's like arguing with a meth-addled Gollum.
1. The Mute Speaks Out from the album “The Obliterati” by Mission of Burma New album. Excellent. Return to form by legendary east coast post-punks.
2. Club Mekon from the album “Rock n' Roll” by Mekons Another classic punk/post-punk/prealternative/alt-country-alt-folk/electronica deathmetal band!
3. I've Been Tired from the album “Surfer Rosa & Come On Pilgrim” by Pixies Boy, that's true. Klark Kent life nearly fockin killed me this week.
4. Pretty Girls from the album “Look Sharp!” by Joe Jackson Classic Power pop.
5. Only A Lad from the album “Farewell- Live (Disc 2)” by Oingo Boingo Danny Elfman abandoned this skapunk skatecore band to siphon the easy dollars from Hollywood Movies. What a putz.
6. Aerodeliria from the album “From Ritual To Romance” by The Loud Family Scott Miller is a Genius. It is a travesty that he's never made a living at music. If the music industry actually rewarded talent, rather than marketability, he would have been wealthy after the second Game Theory album.
7. Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her, Kiss Her from the album “The Big Express” by XTC
8. Sunday Sports from the album “The Brooklyn Side” by The Bottle Rockets
9. That Big 5-0 from the album “Snakebite: Blacktop Ballads & Fugutive Songs” by Stan Ridgway
10. Maps And Legends from the album “Fables Of The Reconstruction” by R.E.M.
11. London You're A Lady from the album “Peace And Love” by The Pogues
And in a final note: Mark Green refuses to abide by the law. What a Republican. Laws are for other folks. It's like a genetic inability to believe that rules apply to them. Sheesh.
Friday Freak Out
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On Mr. Elfman. Initially-- with Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Edward Scissorhands, and Batman-- I think Danny actually helped revitalize movie soundtracks. They had ALL gone John Williamsie and Elfman brought some spark and muscle to movie background music.
ReplyDeleteOver time though, the new became the standard and the driving rhythms became overbearing and repetitive. Oh listen, another Danny Elfman theme. I wonder what instrument he'll tweak into his standard salvo of musical crescendos this time. Ho hum.
In this regard he strikes me much like John Madden. When Madden first started doing football analysis he was interesting and different from most, probably all, of the other commentators. He actually knew what he was talking about it and communicated that knowledge to the viewer in a straight-forward, refreshing manner. Time passed and "Boom" became a cliche and pretty soon Frank Caliendo is doing a dead on balls accurate parody of Madden that is just hilarious.
This is not to excuse Elfman, exactly. He should have known that particular trap was lurking. But he is far from the only person to fall into it, and to say he's a putz for being a company man now shouldn't diminish what he did accomplish early in his movie theme career.
On a side note-- I saw bits of the Forbidden Zone a few weeks back on Showtime. OMG what a bizarre little piece of film that was. Including Danny doing his best satan impression.
Hard to believe that the lovely Jenna Elfman actually married into the Elfman family.
Oh, and on Green. Turns out that what he did was and is perfectly legal. Something that many other politicians on both sides of the aisle have done in the past. Interestingly enough it only became "illegal" when a visibly partisan election board suddenly made up a new rule making it so.
ReplyDeleteSo, perhaps that inability to believe the laws apply to them isn't genetic but rather a healthy reaction to a blatantly unfair and partisan effort to handicap the opposition? That'd be my take. But read up on it for yourself: http://time.blogs.com/daily_dish/2006/09/off_the_green.html
And note that Andrew Sullivan and his guest bloggers are not exactly rightwing fanatics. Pretty centrist while leaning left or right depending on the particular topic under discussion.