The Sound of the Crowd

Tears For Fears, Start Of The Breakdown:

Scratch the ice
Let the telephone ring
Sense of time is a powerful thing
And we love to laugh
Love to cry
Half alive
We love to
Go slow when we’re dancing for rain
Dry skin flakes where there’s ice in the vein
And we love to cry
Half alive

Is this the start of the breakdown ?
I can’t understand you

Kirsty MacColl, Soho Square:

One day you’ll be waiting there, no empty bench in Soho Square
No I don’t know the reason why I’ll love you till the day I die
But one day you’ll be waiting there
Come summertime in Soho Square
And I’ll be painting stars up in the sky
Before I get too old to cry before my birthday
I hope I see those pigeons fly before my birthday
In Soho Square on my birthday

Joe Jackson, flying:

the older i get the more stupid i feel-i don’t
know what’s going on/ tired of trying to be strong when
i should be crying/ the further i go the less distance i
see-leave behind another home/ the harder i try the less
people i please/ the older i get the more lucid i feel-let
it go and let it come/ tired of trying to belong-when i
could be flying

Optiganally Yours, Oar:

The waves hit the caves and the men underwater
try to swim through the shards of light.
The ship’s run aground.
All hands overboard.
I can’t stay afloat.
My raft’s taking water.
My friends, if you see my oar float alone
then you know I won’t be back and I never made it home.
Wave bye.
I’m gone.

My pal Corey, who lives out in LA, informs me that a flyer advertising this odd webpage “is currently being plastered around town.” If you go to the page, you’ll see it’s a collection of links to sites about Dubya and/or the 2004 election.

Whoever made the page says “All of these groups have IMPORTANT THINGS TO SAY. Or so they say.” Their links include Ann Coulter, Air America, AL Franken, Working For Change, Salon, the BBC, Sean Hannity…and this blog.

Actually, I like the sound of that…”Ben Varkentine: Wolf Caretaker.”

Now that the bra-ing season is here.

Keith Olbermann has some good things to say about McCain singling out Michael Moore from the podium. He thinks it may not have been the smartest thing McCain ever did.

“It is a lesson unlearned by generation after generation of politicians of all stripes, religious leaders of every denomination, and moralists of any other field: If you want to belittle something in the media, ignore it.”

The gall. The colossal, unmitigated gall. GOP delgates are mocking Kerry by wearing “purple heart” bandages.

Ok, questions:

Have you ever in your life seen anything so pathetic?

How did the GOP become the party that mocks veterans? Is it just because anything is acceptable to them when it comes to keeping Bush in power? Because I don’t get that either. It would seem to me that even if you agree with him on virtually every philisophical point, I don’t see how you can look at his record & not see he’s incompetent.

Best line I’ve heard lately for those hunting for a reason to re-elect Bush: It’s like school–he failed, and now he has to take it over…

See I decided I was gonna do this thing. This isn’t going to be my usual blog entry about politics, ’80s pop icons, books, random quotations, or bits of gossip. This is about me. You see, tomorrow is my birthday, September first. I’ll be 33. A big year for me, as I don’t think most of you know. I’m not even sure if any of you know. But anyway, a big year for me partly because for quite a long time now I’ve had a feeling, irrational I know, that I’m not going to survive it. Where did I get this idea? Well believe it or not, it comes from John Belushi. 33 is the age he was when he died, and even though there are at least as many differences between us as things we have in common, that little bit of data has always stayed with me and I’ve long identified with him in a weird kind of way.
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1. They’re trying to suck dolphins–one of my three favorite animals, along with cats and wolves, you’ll remember–into their sick little game.

2. They’re trying to smear George Soros as getting his money from drug groups.

Isn’t that amazing? It reminds me of when Bush Sr. was running against Clinton–he went on Larry King and smarmily implied that when he (Clinton) was a college student overseas, he might have been a spy for the Russians.

After all, we just don’t know. Can’t say. Don’t have the facts.

For Jon Stewart’s Robert Novak: Douchebag of Liberty file. Though I’m leaning more towards Robert Novak: Corrupt, hypocritical scumbag myself.

Speaking of which: It’s been a long time since I’ve linked to something by Josh Marshall. Too long.

Corrupt, hypocritial liar.

In one blow, it demontrates that:

1. Baldwins are stupid.

2. Born-again Christians are stupid.

3. Actors are stupid (sorry, Corey).

What the hell more do you want out of life?