"At this defining moment in history - a moment when we're facing two wars, an economy in turmoil, a planet in peril - we can't afford to give John McCain the chance to serve out George Bush's third term."
-Barack Obama
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Icerocketa week ago i had a thought(something that happens rarely, at best).
a week ago i had a thought(something that happens rarely, at best).
the thought was: i'm going to belgium in a week, maybe it would be fun
to do some acoustic songs with my friend joy at a bar in brussels.
so i asked the record label to find a small bar where we could play some
acoustic songs, which they did(a cafe/bar, called belga).
belga is a fairly small place, and more than 75 people in belga would
feel really crowded.
and, well, instead of 75 people showing up around
3,000 people were there.
and it was really fun. fantastic, benign chaos.
we put up a little p.a on the street, the police did crowd control, and
everyone seemed to have fun.
joy and i had fun(even if we hadn't, um, actually rehearsed, and we had
to teach each other how to play some of the songs while we were actually
playing them).
so, thanks everyone for coming to cafe belga tonight.
in other news: why is hillary clinton still in the race?
she's starting to remind me of lara flynn boyle in wayne's world(wayne's ex-girlfriend
who won't leave.
quote:
stacy: happy anniversary wayne!
wayne: stacy, we broke up 2 months ago.
stacy: that doesn't mean we can't still go out.
wayne: well, it does, actually, that's what 'breaking up' is.).
hillary can't win. i mean, really, she can't win.
it's not possible at this point. she'll never have enough delegates, she'll never
have enough votes. she can't win.
it's not even a fun statistical improbability, it's impossible for her to win.
although she's talking about including the michigan and florida delegates
even though she and obama both agreed not to campaign in florida and obama's
name wasn't even on the ballot in michigan.
hillary, come on, exit gracefully. your act is done, leave the stage with dignity, rather
than having the 'get off the stage' clowns come on stage and pull you off in a clown car.
tenacity is admirable, to an extent.
tenacity when you absolutely can not win is just lunacy.
sometimes we have to accept things that we don't like.
i don't have hair. i accept that.
stephen hawking will never play basketball. i'm sure he accepts that.
george bush is a dimwit. i'm sure he accepts that(ok, i'm not so sure, to be honest).
hillary, you can't win, it's done. we all know it. everyone overseas knows it.
even little kids know it.
or maybe hillary is like the japanese soldier on the remote phillipines island
who was still fighting world war 2 up until the mid 1950's.
i mean, honestly, what's the point of fighting for the nomination when it's impossible
for you to win? in the meantime she's just weakening the democratic party and giving mccain
a better chance in november.
ah well.
and again, thanks for coming to the benign chaos of cafe belga earlier.
moby
this is going to be: a-self-serving, b-informative
this is going to be:
a-self-serving
b-informative
one of those 'what's up y'all! check us out on da' road while we rock! 4 U!!! lol!! jk!!!' blog entries.
i know, musicians are gross.
informative and self-serving, 2 of my favorite things.
so, on wednesday i'm playing a TINY TINY TINY little acoustic show with my friend joy in belgium.
i don't know where it's going to be, but it's going to be VERY LITTLE(like a pub in the early evening).
and then later that night i'm dj'ing in ghent, i believe.
then friday i'll be doing the phonica in-store in london, and then dj'ing at o2 with mylo and trentemoeller.
(saturday, as an aside, i might dj for a bit at mylo's bday party. said dj'ing will most likely involve
me playing donna summer and laura branigan records. i'm a really excellent bday/wedding/bar-bat mitzvah dj. just fyi.).
then off to l.a for a day.
then guadalajara and monterey and mexico city.
to avoid confusion: these 3 mexican dates will be me playing a new type of live show.
we're calling it LIVE:remixed.
it's a live show, but it's dance music, sort of remixing my music live.
most of the festivals i'll be doing this summer(well, the european ones) will be LIVE:remixed.
ok, to continue: then after mexico i go back to l.a to do some weird stuff involving playing live, i think.
then after l.a i go to demf, where i'll be dj'ing with a lot of my favorite electronic legends.
and then i come back to nyc where i build a bathtub attached to a balloon and i float around in the bath
while learning how to play the hammered dulcimer and then go off and joyne a ye olde ren-fayre and travel
the heath bringing madrigals to the gentry.
did i just write that?
ew, see aforementioned 'musicians are gross' comment.
-moby
funny future president:
funny future president:
moby
p.s-i recently watched the finalists in the 'barack in 30 seconds' competition and i was really, really impressed
with the quality of the submissions. great production value and really effective concepts. it's going to be hard
to pick a winner.
i know, everyone else on the planet is going to point this out, but it's worth remembering
i know, everyone else on the planet is going to point this out, but it's worth remembering that our
genius of a president stood on the deck of an aircraft carrier 5 years ago and stated: 'major combat
operations in iraq are finished' while a banner pronouncing 'mission accomplished' hung behind him.
30,000 u.s troops have been wounded since president genius announced 'mission accomplished'.
around 100,000 iraqii's have died since president mensa announced 'major combat operations in iraq are finished'.
does anyone remember the old miller lite advertisements wherein 2 men argued 'tastes great!' 'less filling!'
and they were both right?
well, the failure of the bush administration will, in the future, be argued along similar lines.
some people will say, 'the bush administration failed due to sheer ignorance and stupidity.'
others will argued, 'the bush administration failed due to overwhelming arrogance and entitlement.'
but why argue?
the bush administration failed due to ignorance, stupidity, arrogance, and entitlement.
ew, bush and his gop cronies are just an expensive and depressing stain on american history.
moby