Jealousy is insecurity. It’s not love, because love has nothing to do with jealousy, and an intelligent woman knows it right away. It has no part, it has no relationship to love at all. It’s a selfish motivation.”
— Iceberg Slim
To politicize the masses is not, and cannot be, to make a political speech. It means driving home to the masses that everything depends on them, that if we stagnate the fault is theirs, and that if we progress, they too are responsible, that there is no demiurge, no illustrious man taking responsibility for everything, but that the demiurge is the people and the magic lies in their hands and their hands alone.”
— Fanon
the thing about voting
is there an easier way to organize voters than by designating polling places? also maybe if the locations were shifted to shopping centers and malls where people actually want to go and go anyway, would people vote more? too bad we can’t vote online. at least there’s mail in voting.. but shouldn’t voting be de-facto by mail? and would those who don’t mail it in be more likely to vote if they could vote where they shop? maybe there’d be like election day sales to encourage people to shop and vote, people love that shit. I feel like we should be proactive in making it as easy as possible for people to vote. I’m sure there’s a lot of logistics issues of having so many people in one place… but it could be worth a shot. Tuesday isn’t a major shopping day for the most part. I mean people shouldn’t need to be spoon fed voting options.. but it’s better to be realistically optimistic than ideally optimistic. no matter what year, which candidate, or which issue people aren’t wildly compelled to go out of their way when election day actually hits. but I think designated polling places is outdated at best and it’s time to consider adapting to the people, instead of the people adapting to the process. because we care, but a lot of us don’t have that fire that characterized the 60s, suffrage, civil rights, etc. it’s just a harsh reality, just like the harsh reality is that a lot of the candidates fucking suck anyways and legislative gridlock is killing our country. the election was a reaction to obama because the congress changed the conversation from being about what they should do to what he should do and has done. congresspeople don’t act because actually taking a position might make people angry, but what I never get is why people aren’t angry that nobody ever takes a real position anymore. most of their work is politicking instead of legislating, and working to assure reelection, to say nothing of their lobby interests. so if were going to have to vote for shitty candidates, at least give businesses a high five and let them sell us shit after we vote. I’m sure this idea has come up before, I wonder why it never happened. security concerns? traffic? maybe the numbers would still be low anyway and it doesn’t really matter. also it’s not like i did any research on this topic, I’m just saying. but still.
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rapture, panda bear, dead man’s, ted leo, delorean, cold cave, ariel pink, washed out, wavves, best coast (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!), soft pack, abe vigoda, the growlers
yay!
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I’m trying to come up with words for exactly what Arizona’s legislators are doing. I don’t want to be angry, bitter, petulant, weak-willed. However I think it’s important to note that Arizona’s budget problems forced them to sell government buildings for a quick cash fix, and now they’re leasing these buildings that they sold. So I guess Arizona is a true bastion of budgetary prowess along with its fine assessment of social ills (illegal immigration and educating the spawn of these illegals that they’re an oppressed minority). I’m sort of at a loss, because we could fix so many things if we wanted to… why do this? The only thing that I can really offer about the ignorant and dangerous things that people can do comes from the Verbatim page in Time Magazine: ‘Now I think we are going to be forced to hear only the horrific sounds of the gunfire and the explosions.’ (Khadiya Omar, a 22-year-old Mogadishu resident, after Somali Islamists banned music from private radio stations on April 13)
forth
MASHUP
http://wearephoenix.com/grizzly_bear_remix/
totally can’t get over this, Brian Eno + Grizzle Bizzle. it’s ridiculous how well the Eno song matches up to ‘Foreground’ by Grizzly Bear. almost my favorite of 2010 except nah. but holy shit, fucking great. i think starting foreground like 50ish seconds in is badass, but i think they match up at any point. Haven’t tried starting Grizzle first tho.
as for recent faves… Best Coast!
Protest is only seen as fundamentally American when those who have long had the luxury of seeing themselves as prototypically American engage in it. When the dangerous and dark “other” does so, however, it isn’t viewed as normal or natural, let alone patriotic. Which is why Rush Limbaugh could say, this past week, that the Tea Parties are the first time since the Civil War that ordinary, common Americans stood up for their rights: a statement that erases the normalcy and “American-ness” of blacks in the civil rights struggle, not to mention women in the fight for suffrage and equality, working people in the fight for better working conditions, and LGBT folks as they struggle to be treated as full and equal human beings.”
— Tim Wise, http://bit.ly/bDsWPt
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hilarious!
whoa, chile? »
i meant to post this around the time Chile got hit by an earthquake, but I didn’t. I want to go to there.
