One Last Note on the Obama Thing.

One last post on the whole Obama & Election & pop culture business. I've directed my procrastination effort on other subjects now.
(I actually got down to scribble some poetry ideas a few nights ago. More coming up soon, maybe.)
But I found this list of designer posters for Obama at evasion.cc (via)



(by Jude Buffum)

Russian Ice-Cap Families Do Not Melt On Judgement Day

A graphic argument via marbury, Sullivan

Shuffle, shuffle, dance, dance!

In case your living in or near Konstanz: I'll see you there Blissful chaos for great people by wonderful people. More @ Kulturladen.de

empty and cold with no one to hold

So, is everybody's Monday morning as shitty as mine?

Lo, behold - there is a remedy. Head over to Karo and check out the new great video to her beautiful song "The Sailor".
Reset your week and give it another try.

Fight the H8

In case your one of my few readers on the 'right' side of the atlantic (is plural necessary?), you might be interested in this. (more information) But you probably know all about it anyway.
I'd be there, if I could.
But staging a solidarity protest for that issue in Germany would be... odd. We have our own similar issues.

From Stage to Screen to Disc

Get Well Soon produced a new video for their previously unreleased 'Listen! Those Lost On Sea Sing A Song On Christmas Day'. That song was one of their highlights during their live shows. An EP with this gem and other songs written around - but not neccessarily about - christmas is coming out in December.

Yes We Can!?

Yes I stayed up all night to see the election.
Yes, it was a great night
Yes, I'm glad he won!

Yet some of the 'minor' decisions spoiled the blissfulness of election day. The Californian 'Yes' to Proposition 8 for example (more on that here - including a map) This great cartoon by Rob Tornoe sums it up pretty good:

Though it's so great to have a Democrat back in the White House - and especially this one - and a Democrat-controlled Congress, I up to now don't feel like the US acutally suddenly became that much more liberal. I'm still waiting for Change to happen. It'll take a while. Especially as the mess piled up over the last 8 years has to be cleaned up first. I just hope people will be patient enough and there won't be too much disappointment when things don't immediately 'Change'

Oh, and it's so nice that the election and the campaigning is finally over.... Got a bit tired of it in the last stretch.

World Election Final

The atmosphere today on campus was like on the day of the World Cup final, if not even more euphoric. And even more united - everybody talked about it, and really everybody os rooting for Obama. A (non-representative) vote on studiVZ (the German facebook) resulted in a almost unanimous victory for Barack Obama(91,7%) Though the actual race will be a lot closer, I'm pretty sure Obama will win. I'm not sure he'll actually be able to 'change' all that much, but he'll get the chance to.
I hope.
Otherwise I'll change (or at least rename) my M.A. program title...

I won't be doing any live blogging from here - other people can do that a hell of a lot better. I'll be crashing a election party.

What if Hollywood was on McCain's side.

These actually could be John Woo, Kevin Smith or Wes Anderson attack ads for John McCain.
At least almost.



(via marbury.)

MTV Commits Suicide

...basically. As I mentioned a while ago (and a lot of other people at a lot of other place, I'm sure) there isn't much Music Television left in Germany anyway. But now MTV Germany and Viva are cutting virtually every only half-bad, at least music related show on the program. Of course, they're blaming it on cost efficiency, etc.
What remains is a living corpse hold together by (reruns of) bad 'reality' shows by C-list celebrities like the daughter of Hulk Hogan. And dating shows for people who used to be in dating shows with B-list celebrities like Flavor Flav'. German speakers can check out more about this at Coffee and TV

Oh, and as a icy topping on the frosty remains of 'young' television: Viacom is also cutting the German version of Comedy Central into a sort of Nick @ Night with comedy show reruns.

Just go off the air altogether.

The Heterosexual House of Cards

Fun video on 'how to maintain your heterosexuality'. Funny, dude.
Watch it HERE

(via)

Like pouring water on burning oil.

by ahoi polloi

I did it for you.

Dowie, Dax and Teenage Angst.

Dowie: OMG, I got like this totally horrible problem!! I wanna die !!1!!!1!
Daddy Gov: Easy darling. No Problem daddy can't solve. how much money do you need?
Dowie: Noo! It's different this time! I'm gonna diiiiie!!
Daddy: Oh.. That much money?
Dowie: *whipingtears* Well, a few hundred billion....
Daddy: Well, okay. But I have to talk with Mommy first, alright?

- Meanwhile in the flat next door -

Dax: Have you heard Dowie screaming? I feel bad too!!!! Oh, the darkness creeping...
Father Reg: Oh, please. Here, take 30 billion, now go back playing in your corner.

-

Daddy Gov: Well, don't get too upset, but..
Dowie starts to cry
Daddy: I talked to Mommy, and while she agreed with me after our first discussion, she changed her mind when her judging uncle showed up. "We" can't help you this time, my dear. You got yourself into this mess alone and you need to figure it out by yourself. I'm terribly sorry, but remember: You'll always be daddy's darling.
Dowie: NoooO! I hate you! Runs up to room, banging doors. Has a tantrum on the window sill, falls asleep. Daddy covers her with a blanket.

Schamlose Werbung für die gute Sache #7

Two days ago I noted on the lack of music on music televsion, Pascal over at nocheinblog.info picked it up.
Meanwhile, my pals in Union Hills decided to enter the MTV Rookie contest. You can now vote for our video for Tell Me Once and Fuck Me Twice. I'm not in the vid', as it's plain rockin', no recitin' . So do your part to get music back on the corporate airwaves, or simply do us a favor. Vote or diet.

When there used to be music on music television.

Bored last night, I switched to MTV. And in one of those sudden fits of nostalgia I seem to have quite often these days, I remembered the 'good ol' days' when there acutally used to music (not neccessarily good, but nevertheless music) on MTV, only interrupted by the occasional Beavis & Butthead or Sout Park episode. Today, South Park interrupts the endless stream of scripted, dreadful dating shows (and there even worse spin offs). And I remembered the great time when Viva Zwei was still on air. And Charlotte Roche did great, well-intended shows (instead of writing bad yet wellintended books) like Fast Foreward.

And then, Pavement's "Carrot Rope" video popped up in my mind. First saw it on Fast Forward, back when there still was music on music television.

After a few glasses of white wine..

I spend the weekend with a good old friend of mine and his girlfriend in their new house deep down in Bavaria. And though we got along perfectly (twas just like in the old days - maybe better) and I managed to get along with his new friends, I thought about the people from school I don't get along with all that well. Either by intention (didn't care to much about them during school already) or because we just live to different lives by now and have to different approaches at things. And it'll probably get worse in next few years. After all, it's only been 5 years since graduation and no one of us is out of college by now. Or pregnant. Or married. Or (financially) successful. Oh boy.

And just by coincidence. Kettcar released their okayish (-5 points for the end) new video for "Am Tisch". A song about the same theme, same atmosphere I just described.

The lack of vending machines.

Coming back from a absolutely thrilling weekend with back to back performances of the amazing Portugal. the Man and the soon-to-amaze-you Steaming Satellites, I wanted to write this piece about a possibly clever insight I had about Joyce's Ulysses on Monday night.

But first I'll have to get over the confusion that slick P.R. people are following me on twitter and the air coming in through the window smells like winter. Oh, and after a day of traveling from Freiburg back to Ulm, wednesday feels like monday and the old question of "where is 'Home', anyway?" creeps up again.

While I get that sorted out and tackle that Joyce-piece, please enjoy Portugal. the Man's "And I":

I don't care about language, I just want to be president.

Walters then pointed out that he himself had used the lipstick line, but McCain held that Obama "chooses his words very carefully" and the reference was no accident.

(via NPR)

So the ridiculous lipstick-hassle is valid now, because Obama actually thinks before he speaks, but it's not a problem with Mccain, cause he just blurts it out?

Oh boy.

Alaskan women's groups vs. Palin.

via Feministing

Palin hasn't quite arrived.. and should leave asap.