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A Fresh Charisma to Doomsday and Other Links
by Alex Carnevale
Michael Chabon on Obama makes all good men who want to come to the aid of their party want to barf.
This is close to the dumbest thing ever written:
The point of Obama’s candidacy is that the damaged state of American democracy is not the fault of George W. Bush and his minions, the corporate-controlled media, the insurance industry, the oil industry, lobbyists, terrorists, illegal immigrants or Satan. The point is that this mess is our fault. We let in the serpents and liars, we exchanged shining ideals for a handful of nails and some two-by-fours, and we did it by resorting to the simplest, deepest-seated and readiest method we possess as human beings for trying to make sense of the world: through our fear. America has become a phobocracy.
The idea that Obama is anti-Israel (he is not) is particularly important to tear down according to these people, because they are mostly Jews who are left-wingers except when it comes to Israel:
Fear and those who fatten on it spread vile lies about Obama’s religion, his past drug use, his views on Israel and the Jews. Fear makes us see the world purely in terms of enemies and perils, and leads us to seek out the promise of leadership, however spurious it proves to be, among those who speak the language of that doomed and demeaning, that inhuman view of the world.
I’m not going to get on Chabon for being a bandwagon person, but where exactly were all these people before Iowa?
i would also never diss oprah, like james frey is doing
In other news:
Watched the end of the debate, how Barack stood up and waited there while Hillary readied herself to stand…ready to pull out her chair (which he did).
Wondering if his good manners were caught by any others, and wondering whether the fickle Dem female vote (you know, the ones who voted with Hillary because he said something mean in New Hampshire) will now sway back to him.
De Niro on Obama:
Robert DeNiro took down the house a minute ago at the Obama rally I’m attending at the Meadowlands. He announced that “Barack Obama isn’t experienced enough to be president.” As he ran down a litany that included his opposition to the war in Iraq, DeNiro said: “The kind of inexperience I can get use to. That’s the kind of inexperience our country deserves. If our next president were based on the quantity of experience, Dick Cheney would be president.”
Well… let’s just say the arena didn’t break out in Cheney 2008 … I don’t think I’m the target audience.
OUR FACE IS PRESSED IN OBAMA’S BUTT AND LINKS ARE THE BM
Israel is safe from Obama.
Obama’s blueprint for change.
Hillary cries for a comeback again.
michelle as a campaign asset
I plan on writing the definitive Obama and the Jews article.
Obama our first Jewish president.
Katha Pollitt supports Obama.
Kennedy helps in California.
Could Obama create a Democratic majority?
Kevin Drum on Obama Rising.
The Clintons’ shadiest donors.
WFB on the debate.
American Conservative goes for Ron Paul.
The contours of an Obama sweep.
BACK TO YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED LINKS
“Lauren from Glebe” – Muscles (mp3)
“Marshmallow” – Muscles (mp3)
influences, via their myspace:
milo and otis, s club 7, architecture in helsinki, regurgitator, felix da housecat, abc kids, soulwax, 2manydjs, gerling, peter griffin singing rock lobster, 19th century sea shanties, underworld, nickelodeon, the streets, will.i.am, the neptunes, armand van helden, chasers war on everything, fast forward, global underground mixes, moldy peaches, sash!, robbie williams, blonde redhead, overboard, the wiggles, blood brothers, tiësto, moby, a very brady sequel, ferry corsten, the disney channel, sliders, vengaboys, timo maas, ministry of sound the annual 2002, gatecrasher wet, basement jaxx, gorillaz, ween, faithless, central station, cbs top 100, ministry of sound, dfa and modular artists, kitsune and ed banger dance jams, mauro picotto, aqua, ricky martin, sister act 2, nick skitz, mannequin 2: on the move, bay city rollers, leif garrets new band
Muscles (below) is making the kind of music I had hoped TV on the Radio would be making. Highest recommendation. Especially check out “Ice Cream,” which I posted here.
Wesley Snipes is my fucking hero!
Elton John controversy.
Macbook Air gets taken apart.
Five awesome songs from Green Pea-ness.
Five songs from us:
“Dog” – Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton (mp3)
“Almost Ready” – Dinosaur Jr (mp3)
“Spin Spin Sugar” – Sneaker Pimps (mp3)
Sneaker Pimps
“Gumdrop Tree” – The Ice Cream Floats (mp3)
“Natural Born Lover” – Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings (mp3)
Danish on the Vampire Weekend concert:
I thought the buzz was going to be justified but that was tremendously underwhelming show. Totally unfair to compare them to the strokes who actually made a lot of awesome songs.
Vampire Weekend on Very Short List made me sad. All they do is take the top story on Digg these days. I’m going to unsubscribe.
Hottest cheerleaders of the NFL playoffs.
Winter sale at Turntable Lab.
I’m not that outraged by this insurance company denying benefits.
Sean Young is one crazy betch if you haven’t heard this story.
Are women treated as sensitively as men?
The lolita bed
blue eyed humans with common ancestor?
Hottt extended version of “Ready for the Floor.”
The joy of the Velvet Goldmine soundtrack.
the glory of bad cnn headlines
Julia’s obsession with her own wiki spirals onwards.
The wonders of Sebastien Tellier.
One Grammy worth caring about.
Me doing The Week in Quotes thing.
Peggy Noonan has not been that amazing lately, but she’s been better.
Microsoft’s all hostile towards Yahoo.
Facebook’s on the decline.
If you don’t subscribe to the Mike and the Mad Dog podcast, I just don’t get you. Their interview with Roger Federer gave me a spontaneous orgasm, and their interaction with Rob Schneider and Adam Sandler is one of the funniest things of the decade.
Mike and the Mad Dog with Adam Sandler and Rob Schneider (mp3)
Mike and the Mad Dog with Frank Calliendo (mp3)
The kind of band you like but don’t love. (The Yellow Stereo)
Brooklyn Vegan deletes negative comments about The Teenagers.
julia meets two precious little girls, and presumably shows them her flickr
The art and science of power hour mixes.
Chris Berman is one crazee mofo.
Crazy bogus attorney in NY.
Cabbie punches woman in the face for paying with credit card.
Dear Potential Roommates.
Les Savy Fav on Conan.
The Editors live.
Alex Carnevale is the editor of This Recording.
PREVIOUSLY ON THIS RECORDING
American Psycho all the time.
Now I know what I don’t want.
I learned that with you.
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