one of my favorite movies, to be honest.

should be *notdead now

should be *notdead

*dead

odd video for sure. definitely not what the song evoked when i first heard it, heh.

after watching that, i kinda would have preferred to see him go zerg against terran...

very impressive for sure

thanks for posting... this song actually brings back a lot of memories for me of that time period

why isn't this in *music? it's my new workout jam!

thanks issy!

it's canadian pop people c'mon!!

i would not be surprised if this decision backfires in a similar fashion to mccain's previous suggestion to postpone the first debate. not to compare the two as equally weighted, just in a sort of potential media frenzy

good hooks, just as you say. the first song off the CD is pretty great also, but i think i originally was compelled to purchase the album because of 'hospital beds.'

dunno whether that's on the sift, i'll check after i finish this

edit: hard to say which video i preferred, this or maudlin's. anyways, here's a link to another great track from cold war kids that sounds a little bit different.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Cold-War-Kids-Hospital-Beds-1

>> ^chilaxe:
Yawn ... I won't stop complaining until they cure old age and disease.


haha, that's the spirit!

democracy in action i suppose... it's comforting to see that the fringe gets clipped off the edge of the rug every so often.

and for the record, i would have been just as happy to see the same thing happen in some obama rally. the left isn't immune to wingnuts!

where was this at? anyone know?

where to begin... i am tempted to be drawn into qm's debate here, but i fear i can't contribute anything convincing (certainly to him) other than more fuel to flame with.

i did, however, want to stress that the housing and credit crisis currently goes so far beyond fannie and freddie and partisan politics that it really should not ever be invoked to argue against dems/republicans. to do so just shows an incomplete understanding, and it's inappropriate to try to pin this on party negligence or willful government harm. it's mostly hinged on nonfeasance (sec/greenspan), unfettered greed, as well as the mortage borrowers borrowing more than they could from lenders lending more than they should.

anyways, my real comment was that powell makes a decent point about taxes: they have to be collected. you have to hire a janitor to clean the toilets or they'd never be done... i'm sure everyone can talk about cleaning toilets better than "uncle sam's janitorial service", but that's not the point. it just so happens that of the 20$/hr paid to "uncle sam's janitorial service", about 5$ goes to cleaning the toilets. the other 15$ goes to brass knuckles for the janitors or whatever. it's a silly analogy. there's bureaucratic waste, but it's not 80% inefficient as qm suggests -- i don't know where that figure comes from. the inefficiency is secondary to the poor allocation of funds; namely, the lack of reinvestment in infrastructure, the superfluous military spending, and now trillions for banks in combined capital injections and loan guarantees.

i honestly just hope obama (since mccain is not specific about his plans for significant change aside from just vocalizing that sentiment), should he be elected, delivers on enough of his campaign talking points. i mean... what then? what if good shit happens? we really need, as a nation, to figure out how to pull out of this nose dive in order to even contemplate competing with china and india in the world scene.

and seriously, if you don't believe in global warming, you sure as hell should believe in our loss of superpower status enough to want to reclaim it.

ehh... i'd be willing to guess that most folks simply associate socialism with communism. i don't agree with the first comment made here that obama had some burden at this rally to define and defeat an entrenched semantic issue. the problem is not at all whether obama is a socialist, but rather what labels are being applied to him. quite clearly, most americans think socialism implies taking away your guns and raising your taxes, and they are unwilling to listen to obama's actual statements.

shrug. it seemed like a fitting speech to make. mccain's campaign can just fall (quite easily) back on the "dems raise taxes lol" argument, and regardless of whether it's true to the relevant constituencies, it's somehow convincing. obama is left with having to reinforce his "no, god damn it" argument. people seem to have a hard time distinguishing between "Joe's Megaplumbing Incorporated" and "Joe's local Ohio 47k-a-year plumbing job".

i guess i'm just sayin there has to be equal noise on both sides, especially when most people don't seem to be listening.