new rule for concerts

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new rule: audience shall not clap 20 seconds after the song begins, and shall remain quiet until the song has concluded, or the performer makes an obvious and reasonable (and deserved) call from the crowd for participation.

this goes to you Old Timers. you havent heard the song in 20 years, you forgot the first verse… when he hits the refrain you finally realize that the song he’s playing is track 2 on his greatest hits… too late! you missed it. let it go. why interrupt a song to let everyone else know that you just figured out what song it was? you should be embarassed. sit in silence as punishment and hopefully he’ll play that song that once made you think you were the deepest twenty-something around. or just clap earlier with the rest of the real fans.

b’cause

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typing b-‘-c-a-u-s-e saves you absolutely no time compared to b-e-c-a-u-s-e. therefore it should never be employed and those who employ it are clearly d’uchebags.

Leonard Cohen Toronto 6-7-2008

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Setlist:
1. Dance Me to the End of Love
2. The Future
3. Ain’t No Cure for Love
4. Bird on a Wire
5. Everybody Knows
6. In My Secret Life
7. Who By Fire
8. Anthem

Intermission

9. Tower of Song
10. Suzanne
11. The Gypsy Wife
12. Boogie Street
13. Hallelujah
14. Democracy
15. I’m Your Man
16. A Thousand Kisses Deep
17. Take This Waltz

First Encore

18. Waiting for the Miracle
19. First We Take Manhattan

Second Encore

20. That Don’t Make It Junk
21. If It Be Your Will
22. Closing Time

Third Encore

23. I Tried to Leave You – with solos by each performer
24. Whither Thou Goest

Finally, Kidd Chris axed for being a racist.

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I can’t stand Kidd Chris. I’m glad he got fired. He had it coming.

He truly was a racist, and majority of his fans are probably racists as well.

Now I’m pretty liberal and don’t like to consider that media should be censored, but why should parents have to navigate AM radio channels to avoid his ignorant show. He was never meant for morning radio (nor was Howard Stern, yeah i said it). Go to satellite if thats your thing.

Death By Snow Blower

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Courtesy of James Bond in “On Her Majesty’s Secret Secret Service”…

…follows with the pun, “He really had a lot of guts, didn’t he?”

* Its an industrial railroad snow blower used for taking snow off alpine rails.

Mad Men – Pigeons Scene

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I had heard great things about Mad Men over the past few months, but never had the opportunity to see it. After tracking the first season down, I cozied up for a marathon this weekend. Top-notch. Great show recommended to all.

I’m not sure how many people smoked and drank back in 1960, but by my calculations, every single character on this show should be dead from emphysema or cirrhosis of the liver by 2008.

My favorite scene so far was the ending of the episode where Betty goes back to modeling and Don gets an offer from a competing ad firm. After the Draper’s neighbor threatens to shoot their golden retriever, Polly, for killing/catching one of his pet pigeons, Betty, in her nightgown with a cigarette in her mouth, takes out her son’s bb gun and starts taking shots at the pigeons as they fly over her house:

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Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

– Kurt Vonnegut

She’s not as bad as you think.

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What kind of campaign strategy targets convincing voters that they should vote for some who is ‘not as bad as you think’? Maybe you can pass it off as extreme self-deprecation.

Also, isn’t it it amazing how anti-elitism drives popular votes? Why is that intelligent and successful people are targeted as being disconnected and/or ineffectual? Why do people feel intimidated by successful people? Why don’t voters want someone better themselves to lead our country?