Leonard Cohen Toronto 6-7-2008
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
the world is in the toirlet
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A Century and 3/4 of Progress
“Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Conforms” was the motto of the 1933 Chicago’s World Fair (A Century of Progress)… it’s unintentionally very creepy 75 years later, considering the states of politics, the economy, and the environment. Maybe thats just my internal luddite/technophobe talking.
Finally, Kidd Chris axed for being a racist.
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
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
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:
How do you sleep at night?
“On a bed made of money.” – Don Draper
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.
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?
The Kills – U R A Fever
whole ‘nother
why do i say that?
“thats a whole ‘nother problem.”
i know i hear it around me pretty often, its not a scranton thing as i hear it in philadelphia as well.
whole ‘nother: [adjective] additional but separate. (whole other + another?)