political exhaustion, audio and visual
There are many feelings and snide remarks left in my head from Friday night's debate.
And, while I make the "dying bunny" noise when people scare me, I make an "enfuriated Miss Piggy" noise when the anger and blood pressure build to a forgotten tea-kettle whistle. You know the noise I'm talking about. If not, I'll find a YouTube reference for you ...
[EDIT: The Muppet Show - The Green Eye of the Yellow God - Listen at 2:19.]
I made that noise more times than I can count on Friday night. For both of them. McCain obviously would earn more of them than Obama, but still ...
I did enjoy the INdecision LiveBlog updates throughout: The Great Debate That Almost Didn't Happen. They tempered my fury considerably.
10 favourites:
9:37 - Barack Obama said "orgy"! It's been legitimized finally! We're all gonna get laid.
9:52 - I can't decide if they both have become better debaters since the primaries, or if they look better because I'm comparing them to each other and they are both crappy. - Michael Kraskin
9:54 - So, Barack Obama can't say we'll invade Pakistan, but Sarah Palin can? I'm sorry, but that's just sexist.
10:03 - Iran is an existential threat to Israel. Just like Sartre.
10:08 - McCain can't say Achmadentdslkjdkdijad's name? What's up with that?
10:13 - The average South Korean is three-inches tall?
10:17 - ... So, McCain's really fond of saying how he's known Kissinger for 135 years. We understand. You've been in Washington a loooooong time.
10:22 - McCain's not wearing a flag pin. Why does he hate America?
10:24 - John McCain can say "nuclear." I think that makes him a snob.
10:33 - That's adorable. John McCain loves the vets and will take care of them. I wish I had a president who'd do that for me. ... I'm so lonely.
Meanwhile ... I just think they [politicians] aren't scared enough of the rest of us. I'm with V, and of the general opinion that something must be done to put the fear of US back into them. Maybe we could behead one of them to get the point across.
~*~
Playlist.com used to let you have 100 songs on your playlist, and I'm not sure when that changed, but now the limit is 200.
What is the purpose of playlist.com? Among the myriad of networking sites out there, there is usually an option to play music on your profile page. MySpace, FaceBook, etc. Even LiveJournal allows for music in your profile (though not within the actual journal--fortunately, I feel). Of course, in MySpace, you can usually visit an artist's page and choose a song from their selected list to play in your profile; but, through this MySpace feature, you can only choose one. What if you have two or two hundred favourites out there? Playlist.com fills this little niche particularly well.
I had this thing about leaving two or three spots open on the list of 100--you know, just in case I thought of the perfect songs to put there. But now I have 103 open spots. On one hand, yay! On the other hand: Sigh. Decisions. I mean, 100 seemed a little excessive to me. Who's going to sit there and sift through 100 of my songs besides me, anyway? And 200 ... ?
Recent searches have revealed songs that, when I looked for them previously, had been unavailable. I still want Page & Plant's "Heart In Your Hand" on my list, but I feel like that collaboration was not a popular effort, so I probably won't find it any time soon.
~*~
In news that falls under "I'll believe it when I see it," there was this little tidbit in the Metro: Best Buy to distribute Guns N' Roses new album - Best Buy has acquired the rights to be the sole distributor of the perennially delayed, decade-in-the-making "Chinese Democracy" by Guns N' Roses. Billboard magazine reports that the electronics store giant plans on selling the album by the end of 2008.
I am fairly doubtful, to say the least.
~*~
Downloaded the third episode of True Blood and a screener rip of The Dark Knight over Saturday night.
True Blood ... oh, so over-the-top so much of the time, but I'll keep watching. Of course, I'll keep watching. Because Eric hasn't shown up yet, and I want to see what they've done with his character. Alexander Skarsgård is pretty enough to be Eric, but will I love him as much as book-Eric? This remains to be seen.
I don't really need to saying anything about TDK, per se. There's a lot I could say about the strength of the good and evil dichotomy in this film versus the gray matter of Batman Begins (and the level of the good and evil dichotomy found in the literature--particularly children's literature--of largely Christian peoples), but I'm not in the mood just now.
And, while I make the "dying bunny" noise when people scare me, I make an "enfuriated Miss Piggy" noise when the anger and blood pressure build to a forgotten tea-kettle whistle. You know the noise I'm talking about. If not, I'll find a YouTube reference for you ...
[EDIT: The Muppet Show - The Green Eye of the Yellow God - Listen at 2:19.]
I made that noise more times than I can count on Friday night. For both of them. McCain obviously would earn more of them than Obama, but still ...
I did enjoy the INdecision LiveBlog updates throughout: The Great Debate That Almost Didn't Happen. They tempered my fury considerably.
10 favourites:
9:37 - Barack Obama said "orgy"! It's been legitimized finally! We're all gonna get laid.
9:52 - I can't decide if they both have become better debaters since the primaries, or if they look better because I'm comparing them to each other and they are both crappy. - Michael Kraskin
9:54 - So, Barack Obama can't say we'll invade Pakistan, but Sarah Palin can? I'm sorry, but that's just sexist.
10:03 - Iran is an existential threat to Israel. Just like Sartre.
10:08 - McCain can't say Achmadentdslkjdkdijad's name? What's up with that?
10:13 - The average South Korean is three-inches tall?
10:17 - ... So, McCain's really fond of saying how he's known Kissinger for 135 years. We understand. You've been in Washington a loooooong time.
10:22 - McCain's not wearing a flag pin. Why does he hate America?
10:24 - John McCain can say "nuclear." I think that makes him a snob.
10:33 - That's adorable. John McCain loves the vets and will take care of them. I wish I had a president who'd do that for me. ... I'm so lonely.
Meanwhile ... I just think they [politicians] aren't scared enough of the rest of us. I'm with V, and of the general opinion that something must be done to put the fear of US back into them. Maybe we could behead one of them to get the point across.
~*~
Playlist.com used to let you have 100 songs on your playlist, and I'm not sure when that changed, but now the limit is 200.
What is the purpose of playlist.com? Among the myriad of networking sites out there, there is usually an option to play music on your profile page. MySpace, FaceBook, etc. Even LiveJournal allows for music in your profile (though not within the actual journal--fortunately, I feel). Of course, in MySpace, you can usually visit an artist's page and choose a song from their selected list to play in your profile; but, through this MySpace feature, you can only choose one. What if you have two or two hundred favourites out there? Playlist.com fills this little niche particularly well.
I had this thing about leaving two or three spots open on the list of 100--you know, just in case I thought of the perfect songs to put there. But now I have 103 open spots. On one hand, yay! On the other hand: Sigh. Decisions. I mean, 100 seemed a little excessive to me. Who's going to sit there and sift through 100 of my songs besides me, anyway? And 200 ... ?
Recent searches have revealed songs that, when I looked for them previously, had been unavailable. I still want Page & Plant's "Heart In Your Hand" on my list, but I feel like that collaboration was not a popular effort, so I probably won't find it any time soon.
~*~
In news that falls under "I'll believe it when I see it," there was this little tidbit in the Metro: Best Buy to distribute Guns N' Roses new album - Best Buy has acquired the rights to be the sole distributor of the perennially delayed, decade-in-the-making "Chinese Democracy" by Guns N' Roses. Billboard magazine reports that the electronics store giant plans on selling the album by the end of 2008.
I am fairly doubtful, to say the least.
~*~
Downloaded the third episode of True Blood and a screener rip of The Dark Knight over Saturday night.
True Blood ... oh, so over-the-top so much of the time, but I'll keep watching. Of course, I'll keep watching. Because Eric hasn't shown up yet, and I want to see what they've done with his character. Alexander Skarsgård is pretty enough to be Eric, but will I love him as much as book-Eric? This remains to be seen.
I don't really need to saying anything about TDK, per se. There's a lot I could say about the strength of the good and evil dichotomy in this film versus the gray matter of Batman Begins (and the level of the good and evil dichotomy found in the literature--particularly children's literature--of largely Christian peoples), but I'm not in the mood just now.