Emergency Broadcast Network - We Will Rock You

He's still constitutionally eligible for one more term, can George H. W. Bush be drafted for the Republican nomination?



Or Democratic nomination will be fine too... might be interesting to see all the SuperPACs revved up to smear 41...

Depressed

Ok, so my favorite band ever is Cracker/Camper Van Beethoven. It's the band I really latched onto in college in Athens and they have been my favorite ever since. The best concert I ever saw was Cracker at the 40 Watt during the Golden Age tour. To this day, if anyone asks I say Low is my favorite song. And it really is.

So I was derping around the interwebs tonight and found out David Lowrey has a solo album. Not only that I can buy the album through his website for 13 bucks. Including shipping! Including an MP3 download. AUTOGRAPHED! Holy shit! Autographed CD from the lead singer of my favorite band!

Not only that, he teaches a class at the University of Georgia! My Alma Mater! How fucking cool is that! Damn I want to buy this CD now. Lemme listen to one of the songs first. Yeah, it's probably just like Camper/Cracker, but I'd like to at least hear it first before buying it. So I click on the YouTube video for Raise 'Em Up On Honey that is embedded on David's Website.

Huh? David's song... on David's website... Where he's trying to sell his music... And I actually WANT to buy it from him because I want to support him (and get an autograph)... and I can't even listen to it. Whaa? It doesn't help that David is apparently virulently anti-file sharing and seems to believe that anyone who downloads music is a schmuck who just wants to steal from artists. Well David, unfortunately the only way I seem to be able to listen to your music before I buy it other than hearing short clips on Amazon is to download the goddamn thing because your own record label has blocked me from hearing it on your own website. Music that you supposedly put up on YouTube yourself.

After clicking around for a while I found a couple of videos on his website that I could actually watch. And they're awesome. Like this one.


Even so, after reading all this stuff tonight written by my favorite singer, I can't help but feel like a goddamn criminal just for wanting to listen to his music. Even though I have already bought just about every single Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven album. Even though I have bought tickets to three of his shows and actually stuck around for the encore at the 40 Watt at The Golden Age tour show after all those assholes who were acting like fools and making racket during Dixie Babylon left. Even though I've wanted his  autograph for decades and it's sitting right there in front of me and all I have to do is whip out the credit card (and at 4:30 in the morning while I'm writing this, believe me I'm more than drunk enough and willing enough to do it even though my wife will give me the skunk eye when the credit card bill comes) and buy a fucking CD for less than I could buy it at most retail outlets. Even though I want to support this guy, all I feel right now is that David Lowrey and his record feels that I'm a scumbag for expecting to listen to one of the songs on the album I want to buy before I buy it.

Sorry, but with all this SOPA/PIPA/ACTA/PCIPA horseshit floating around right now, I can't in good conscience support an organization that wants to destroy the internet. Especially one that only views me, an actual paying customer, as a fucking criminal. UMG's blocking of that YouTube video literally cost David Lowrey an album sale tonight. And David, if you somehow end up seeing this post on this bullshit little blog of mine somehow, let me just say I still love your stuff. And in full disclosure, while most of the Cracker/Camper CDs I have I bought new, there were a couple I bought from a used CD store because they were out of print and I couldn't find them anywhere else when I bought 'em. And since you don't see a dime from those sales, well, it's just the same as piracy, right? I pretty much stole your music, right? So, David, leave a comment or e-mail me of you happen to see this and I'll send you ten bucks for those two CDs since I'm apparently a fucking goddamn music thief just because I'm one of your fans. Because I'm sure as hell not buying your solo album now.

And that makes me sad.

Votin' for Vermin

I still love Mr. Cain, but he ain't promising me no ponies.



(I really need to floss everyday anyway)

Movin' to Iowa

And votin' for Bruce



(after I vote for Herman in the GA primary that is)

Damn... my resolution to avoid politics this year has really gone all to shit, hasn't it?

(via Techdirt)

VOTIN' FOR HERMAN

See? See? I'm not the only one who knows Herman's right for America! Vote for Herman!

Jesus was not a socialist

But Newt Gingrich is! Still votin' for Herman.



(so much for posting every day, eh?)

Still Votin' For Him

Via

Votin' for Herman

Yep, I'm convinced.



via

Oh Fuck

Didn't we just go through this shit??

The Daily Show
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noooooooooooooooo

About Damn Time

Erasmus B. Dragon is finally out of a job.



All these slackers are gonna be on the dole! At least my tax dollars won't support them anymore!

Eminem - Mosh

Red and Blue

Here's a timeline of the 1860-2008 Presidential Elections and Electoral maps. It's a neat way to kill a little time watching the country shift back and forth from red to blue.

If you want to kill a day instead of an hour, there are more electoral maps here, here, here, here and here.

John McCain just lost.

Not even his fun game can save him now.

First rule of politics:

Never.

Ever.

Ever.

Stand up David Letterman.



The guy announced his freaking candidacy on Dave's show and he still decided to blow him off to do an interview with Katie Couric? It's mind boggling. The only electoral votes he can count on now are Alaska's and that's only because the moose will all be voting for Palin.

Ok, I Lied

I'll post a little more election stuff...

Really Good Filmmaking

I'm already pretty sick of the campaign commercials out there. "Blah blah blah, Hope and Change" "Blah Blah Blah, Too young and pretty" "Blah blah blah, I look good talking to World Leaders" "Blah blah blah, Obama and Britney, sitting in a tree..." Barf. They need to get some good filmmakers to work on their ads. Someone who knows about real quality. Like the guys who made these films:



Now that's quality!

Can You See The Light?

DO YOU SEE THE LIGHT?



HAVE YOU SEEN THE LIGHT???



McCain not only has a cool game, but he's also nice enough to make campaign ads for Obama! He obviously feels bad about his earlier ad:

Everybody Likes Ike

Another video with animated boobs.

:(

John McCain hates me...



He seems to have a bit of self-loathing himself though. 'S ok John, I still like you and I'll continue to play your cool game.

Pork Invaders

PIGS!!! PIGS IN THE SKY!!! THEY'RE COMING TO GET ME!!!!!



Oh yeah, I'm totally voting for McCain now.



You think I'm kidding..... I just saved 13.3 billion dollars thanks to John McCain!

(by the way, has anyone else noticed that the crumbling infrastructure never gets rebuilt or is it just me)

0_0

Dear Lord, make it stop.....