Political World

In the wake of another election, I recommend four albums that seem particularly relevant to the occasion:

• The Ghost of Tom Joad - Bruce Springsteen  
• New York - Lou Reed 
• Year Zero - Nine Inch Nails 
• Oh Mercy - Bob Dylan

I think these get at how I'm feeling pretty well. And below you can watch Bob tell us how it is, which is fun. Yahoo! provided the best visual quality version of "Political World", but of course we gotta watch an ad before getting to the video, which actually amuses me. An ad before "Political World". It's not quite as good as when I watched Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story in the Visa Screening Room of the Elgin Theater during the Toronto International Film Festival, but it's getting there. Enjoy the video.

 

Does anyone need yet another politician

"Does anyone need yet another politician, caught with his pants down and money sticking in his hole?" - Lou Reed

Hegemony wins again.

Dear Utah Legislature,

My vote has been cast.

Radical Leaders, Radical Advertising

This billboard, and the story attached to it happened a while back, but I still think about it sometimes. The doublespeak here just kills me, which I guess means my freedom was lost? I guess someone's hegemonic system felt really threatened, thus leading to their own radical advertising, which preys on . . . something else, I guess - the confident and informed.