Archive for February 2007

Wednesday 28 February 2007

don’t ask, don’t tell…if you’re a sonics fan

By spaceneedl | Community & Culture ~ Law & Politics ~ News and Talk ~ Seattle ~ Sports & Games

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seattle is disparaged by the political right as a “liberal” city.
what with our effete coffees and our wacko environmentalism and our licentious libidinousness.
we may not yet have san francisco values…but it’s good to aspire.
this ain’t gonna help…
2 Sonics owners: No gay marriage
The millionaires who’ve turned to this state’s left-leaning Legislature to authorize a $300 million [...]

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note to wounded people: shut up

By spaceneedl | Ink & Pixels ~ Law & Politics ~ News and Talk ~ War & Peace

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Soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center’s Medical Hold Unit say they have been told they will wake up at 6 a.m. every morning and have their rooms ready for inspection at 7 a.m., and that they must not speak to the media.
that’s nice.
isn’t that nice?
the wounded vets at walter reed are heading back to [...]

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Tuesday 27 February 2007

cheney, still talking

By spaceneedl | War & Peace

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dick cheney has been right about nothing.
and yet he keeps flapping his lips.
this would matter not at all, except when dick talks, people die.
note to dick: shut the fuck up.
“I think if we were to do what Speaker Pelosi and Congressman Murtha are suggesting, all we will do is validate the Al Qaeda strategy. The [...]

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Monday 26 February 2007

gag reflux

By spaceneedl | Law & Politics ~ News and Talk

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if i read one more call for hillary clinton to apologize, i’m gonna spit up.
this has to be the worst case of taking our eye off the ball in political history.
yeah, in 2002 hillary voted to give george bush the authority to take military action against iraq. this did not, near as I recall, give [...]

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spiezio-d

By spaceneedl | Uncategorized

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why does scott spiezio hate the mariners so much?
all the team did was sign him to a fat contract and give him a starting job, only to see him totally suck.
no, he really, really sucked. epic, historic, suckitude for the ages.
To say that Spiezio struggled in Seattle is an understatement. Signed before the 2004 season [...]

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And where we are met with cynicism and doubt and fear and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of the American people in three simple words — yes, we can.
– Barack Obama

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Naturally
If anyone's been paying attention, I listen to a wide variety of music, only a fraction of which I've reviewed here at Transcendental Floss. I tend to go through phases when I'll be stuck on a particular artist or genre, really immersing in it for a few weeks at a time, and what I find so interesting and exciting is that during each phase I have this experience where I feel like there's no better music than what I'm listening to right then and there. Well, I've just discovered Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings and I can say with complete confidence that this is the best music I have ever heard. Seriously, this is magical stuff. Brooklyn, New York's Daptones Records have managed to produce record after record of fine R&B/soul/funk music using vintage musical equipment and analog recording techniques in the ultimate homage to the legendary Motown and Stax catalogs. The Dap-Kings, serving as the Daptone house band, are the modern day equivalent of Stax's Booker T & The MGs, laying down the tastiest grooves, sweetest guitar riffs, and of course the horns that make this music so electrifying. Sharon Jones is the quintessential soul singer, able to capture moments of tenderness just as easily as moments of gritty passion. Enjoy!
— Gonzo

Van Morrison - His Band & The Street Choir
As much as I love the 1991 movie The Commitments, Van Morrison, some 40 years earlier, had already proven that the Irish have plenty of soul. Perhaps my favorite album of his, His Band & The Street Choir could easily be said to share some DNA with the music of Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings (soulful crooning, grooves, horns, etc.), yet with a decidedly unique twist that is all Van The Man. This music simply makes me feel good on a deep, deep level. What's so great about Van Morrison is that he's covered such a variety of genres, from soul to blues to country to jazz to celtic to a kind of meditative, almost new age sound that is all his own, and so as I move from phase to phase of musical immersion he's very often right there with me.
— Gonzo

Be Kind Rewind
I was not prepared to love this movie nearly as much as I did. While I've liked a lot of Jack Black's work, he's a guy with limited range who I can easily see wearing out his schtick. However, teamed with a very sweet and funny turn by Mos Def, an equally sweet Danny Glover, and under the direction of the mad genius of Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep), Black's occasionally formulaic performance does nothing to keep this film from achieving success as a comedy and a bittersweet slice of life in Passaic, New Jersey. I was surprised over and over again how Gondry unapologetically went sentimental, eschewing so much of the cynicism that passes as gritty realism these days, which is music to my unapoligetically sentimental ears. I laughed. I cried. I learned that Mos Def is by far the best artist to crossover from music to acting that I've seen in a long, long time.
— Gonzo

Franny & Zooey - J.D. Salinger
I work at a university where I supervise a team of student employees. One employee, in painfully embarrassing hindsight, reminds me an awful lot of me, but before this hindsight came into focus he was a big, fat pain in my ass. Relentlessly sarcastic and arrogant, yet brilliant, this guy pushed my patience to the limit. Then, one day, I saw him sitting under a tree on campus reading Franny & Zooey and it hit me like a lightning bolt. I know this kid. I WAS this kid. So, I stopped to talk to him about the book and about Salinger in general. He'd read The Catcher in the Rye first, then moved on to Nine Stories, which, with the story A Perfect Day For Bananafish, introduces the reader to the inimitable Glass family. Franny & Zooey, then, becomes the natural next choice, with Raise High The Roofbeam, Carpenter & Seymour: An Introduction to follow, and this was exactly the same sequence that I followed 20+ years earlier. Ever since, while we're not buddy-buddy, there's been a new-found understanding between us, a sense that I'd been his shoes, that we shared some interests. Oh, and I went back and re-read Catcher, Nine Stories, and am currently falling in love all over again with Franny & Zooey.
— Gonzo

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Wednesday 28 February 2007

don’t ask, don’t tell…if you’re a sonics fan

note to wounded people: shut up

Tuesday 27 February 2007

cheney, still talking

Monday 26 February 2007

gag reflux

spiezio-d

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