i commented – to myself of course – that the grammys would be a lot better if instead of having current artists sing their top current hits, they should have these people sing really good old songs (and i don’t mean carrie underwood and that fat dude who looks like his name should be calvin the singing classic country ballads) like when christina aguilera sang the james brown tune which probably qualified as the highlight of the night even though it wasn’t that good but relative to the rest of the garbage (the young chris brown doing backflips and crumping and ninja-like footwork being a definite exception, it wasn’t garbage) it was pretty good.
anyway, this song by the The Arcade Fire sounds like it was some really good old hit that people sing along to on road trips or when they reminisce about a time they never experienced but totally feel they could have but is actually not. it’s a new song. and it’s good.
it’s so good, i’m linking it twice:
the arcade fire – keep the car running
all 3 of you better listen to this song.
10-4.
(10 second later UPDATE!!!L!:!LL: i actually didn’t comment to myself, i commented to my cousin)
this dub remix of chris isaac’s wicked game is more than amazing: business man – dubby games
one of the most powerful things the nightmare that is HIV/AIDS can do, probably within our lifetime, is to force the world to realize that the old paradigm that describes the agents which cause mass ideological shift in the entire world has become stagnant and needs revision. the past however many centuries human agents have been responsible for causing the ideological revisions: once upon a time there was a zoroaster and he said something about monotheism and the world changed. once upon a time there was a jesus and he had some books written about him and the world changed. once upon a time there was a mohammed and he wrote a book and the world changed. once upon a time there was a marx and a hegel and they wrote a manifesto and the world changed. and so on and so on.
not to sound overly zealous, but within this generation there has to be a realization that once upon a time there was a virus called HIV and despite it being a dead thing, it has done more than any human agent ever in the history of the world to expose an underbelly of humanity that at once conceals all the ways in which humans are responsible for the deaths of millions of other innocent humans. this is something that transcends ‘named’ activism. it’s overwhelming to accept that something as microscopic as a virus can create 40 million orphans in the ‘developing’ world, or that poor women in india contracting the virus will soon become a foregone conclusion. HIV has managed, in only the last decade or two, to lay bare all the world’s injustices for all to see. but HIV isn’t the problem, as therapy exists and it works. the problem is poverty. sexism. arrogance. the idea that to provide intravenous drug users with support somehow promotes rampant drug use. or that to encourage safe sex somehow promotes depravity.
HIV’s got a lot more in store for us and by all ‘educated’ guesses, the worst is yet to come.
here’s one of very very very few articles in the endless ream of articles on israeli-palestinian conflict that addresses what i think is the most important issue: that israel is allowed to be a victim and is allowed to set the terms of negotiation in a world that has forgotten the nakbe (the 1948 palestinian exodus/catastrophe engineered by jewish forces).
since when has furthering the cause of justice demanded that the oppressed “make concessions” before even the supposition of any reparations are to be made? were the jews expected to compromise their victimhood before the nuremberg trials were held?
