Israel... The Things I Find

Derech Hemelach by Israeli Rap Group Kele 6

Tonight, I had a couple friends over to watch a movie. In the spirit of the season we chose to watch A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. The fascinating part about this episode was the incorporation of Franklin, the only black character in the world of Charlie Brown. If you look him up on wikipedia, there are references to Franklin being Schulz's manifestation of political opinion against segregation. However, certain things do seem to catch one's eye in the 1973 special A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. Notably, Franklin dresses in a rather loud pair of striped trousers, plays on a baseball team (the jackie robinson effect), and greets charlie brown with low-five handshakes.  what's wrong with this picture?

and this one?

and thus, franchise defeats meaning.

Fuck Guitar Hero

Please... let's stop blurring the line between music and video games.  

Anyway, now that I've said that, I must admit that I've finally decided it's pointless to put up my playlist from the radio shows anyway, because I don't even like most of what we play.

What has music become to me?  It's hard to find something I get really excited about these days...  I feel de-sensitized.

Happenings

So, tonight was the night of the USC acoustic cafe where my good friend and fellow musician Cayla Fralick played a wonderful set.  We've been discussing her doing guest vocals on the the current demo album I'm recording - Success to the British Navy, under the Moniker Thoreau.

 

Another great thing that happened tonight is that my good friend David, who runs the SCene SC music aggregator blog, has enlisted me into the organization's staff.  This means I get business cards... for truth.  If you're in a band and looking to sell ad space on the site itself, hit David up.

Unfortunately, I doubt I will be attending the Copeland show tomorrow at New Brooklyn Tavern, good journalism grades are a primary achievement.  It's still sure to be awesome though. 

Why The Hell

Are Fleet Foxes SOOOO Damn Good?????????????????

one of my new favorites.  

Fundraiser Show

Bakari is acting hood as shit tonight.

"i'll cut any nigga ass who try to steal ma fries... an dats troof."
- Bakari Lebby

So tonight on flip the script, we're playing a special funraiser show that invloves bakari playing an hour set of Taking Back Sunday, and me playing an hour of Bright Eyes. It's probably the only time we'll ever be able to play top 40 albums and material so If you love wither of these bands, or both, be sure to tune in to flip da script radio tonight.

pens, bitch.

Moveon.org

You've probably heard of this campaign already, the one about moveon.org sending personalized videos to people by request of their friends.  These videos feature a fake news reporter saying that a certain individual (Your name) is responsible for Barack Obama for losing the election.  I received one of these e-mails the other day and it's extremely well done.  Now here's a question... will this actually increase voter registration?  I highly doubt it.  First off, I think it's improbable that their tactics of humor fueled  actually would convince someone bitter or lazy enough not to vote to correct such behavior.  Who is the ass hat who came up with this?  Do they even realize that the reason why people do not vote might be because they are not registered?  If so, this campaign was planned at an unfortunate time, because registering to vote has already hit the deadline?  Apparently is within keeping of moveon.org's reputation of wasting money... a la "General Betray-Us" ads that were run in the NY Times and created such controversy they had to be withdrawn weeks after they were run for blasphemous content.  I like spending money too moveon, but at least on things that are practical.