more than this

"Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land. And I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!" April, 1968

I'm... a ...
muslim
a terrorist
a foreigner

redistributin
socialist
baby
killin
commie

ghost written
tax raisin
job stealin
fist bumpin

community organizer
senator and
hope monger

dad
husband
law professor
a harvard grad

tall man
puppy owner
resident of Grant Park and

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF LOVE
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF LOVE!!

sheeeeeeeeee....

( (original cast recording) )

Am I crrazy or does The New Pornographers' Chump Change totally cop a riff from The Shins' Girl Inform Me? They totally do! Dan Behar, did you rip those guys off? I don't care or anything, I don' think it's actual ripping off, I'm just saying it's weird how similar.

1:50 into the song, the refrain!
"It is okay to be seen
Don't dethrone the drama queen
Just for putting everybody in their place "

That sounds exactly like The Shins
"this is no umbrella to take into the wind,
but before we begin, is there nothing to cure this anxiety?"

Maybe that's the point? Is this a kind of parallax cover version? I don't know enough about the making of Chump Change. Well, either of them, really. It was weird though.
EDIT**: and All for Swinging You Around is totally referencing Berlin! Something off Pleasure Victim. The totally Awesome Masquerade I think! Or maybe The Metro Here's Masquerade for your pleasure:

Gawd look at that. I think I still have a crush on Terri Nunn. IN MY DEFENSE I was thirteen when I got this record (yes, record!) Fuck "in my defense," this era of Berlin is awesome. Suck it, ironic detachment.

Never Cross a Picket Line by Billy Bragg

Five hundred men sacked for refusing
To ever cross a picket line
The voices down the ages warning
Never cross a picket line
You must never cross a picket line

Two years gone by but still they never
Ever cross a picket line
With their wives and children they stand together
Never cross a picket line
You must never cross a picket line

Look away, look away
Look away out west to San Francisco
Look away, look away
Look away down south to Sydney Harbour
Where the dockers have organised
The world's longest picket line

Technically this is an illegal strike
Never cross a picket line
But technically workers have no rights
Never cross a picket line
You must never cross a picket line

Oh, I want to live in a Brand New Britain
Never cross a picket line
Where workers rights are enshrined and written
Never cross a picket line
You must never cross a picket line

Look away, look away
Look away out west to San Diego
Look away, look away
Look away out east to far Osaka
Where the dockers have organised
The world's longest picket line

The Tories are gone but there's no improvement
Never cross a picket line
Now where is the might of the Labour movement
Never cross a picket line
You must never cross a picket line

Look away, look away
Look away down south to Auckland City
Look away, look away
Look away out west to old Vancouver
Where the dockers have organised
The world's longest picket line

Where the dockers have realised
You must never cross a picket line

memo to lio, this is what I was quoting Saturday. I don't actually think of independents as "scabs!"

There's a new Arcade Fire song making the rounds and it is awesomely lush and upliftingly hurting. It's exactly what an Arcade Fire song should be. There's a lyrics site that has the lyrics, and they are total bunk! I can type very fast so I did a better transcription the other day, with a few sections I'm not absolutely certain of marked by square brackets. I preserve it here for my own interest--and yours if you like.
( Intervention )

Thanks to Slashdot and Wikipedia I have now learned that Avant-garde composer George Antheil, a Lutheran, and actress Hedy Lamarr--yes, DeMille's Delilah--invented and held the patent on a secret communication system. They built it to help precision torpedos avoid jamming! (hey, David Weber fans take note, these guys helped invent the very EW which has saved Honor Harrington's life innumerable times, perhaps At All Costs should have named the technology "Lamarr" or "Delilah" instead of "Apollo") As wiki points out "Lamarr's frequency-hopping idea served as the basis for modern spread-spectrum communication technology used in devices ranging from cordless telephones to WiFi Internet connections. In 1997, the two of them received an EFF Pioneer Award for the invention."

Apropos of...well, everything I'm sure...Antheil was also notorious for carrying around a pistol in his jacket and he would take it out during concerts, placing it on the piano if the audience grew restive.

I wonder what the conversation was like on the day they hit the idea.

George, be a dear and pour us another martini. Cecil, darling, I simply cannot be on the set tomorrow. George, you remember George? The little kraut with the gun we met in Paris last year? Well George and I have just been talking about how hard it is to control a torpedo with a radio since the enemy could find the frequency of the control signal and block it. Yes, jam, dear, very good. But if the signal was always changing it would be very hard to pin down and we could simply steer the torpedo right up to the enemy ship and blow it up! Boom! Hahahaha. Well, you'll just have to wait.