We know it’s a ways away, but we’re already excited to see The Dodos play Spiegelworld on September 28th. If you’re not familiar, go buy their record now. Here’s a taste:
Download “Fools” by The Dodos here.
We’ve also been LOVING The Acorn’s absolutely essential “Glory Hope Mountain” which was shamefully excluded from our best of 2007 list. We hadn’t heard it! It’s a odd mix of Califone and Talking Heads which somehow works perfectly. Again, if you don’t own it, run out and buy it now.
Download “Flood Part 1″ MP3 by The Acorn here.
We also need to do penance for neglecting to mention Delta Spirit’s Ode to Sunshine when it came out last year. It could be more aptly named Ode to The Kinks and Stones. And if you like either of the aforementioned, you’ll dig “Ode to Sunshine.”
Reminiscent of “Let’s Spend the Night Together” Delta Spirit’s single “Trash Can”
is a good place to start. You can grab the MP3 here.
Neighborhood artists will open their studios Saturday June 7th and Sunday the 8th from 12 to 7pm. Hundreds of artists will be showing work in their own studios and in group shows at venues in the neighborhood. There will also be dozens of artist-organized events throughout the weekend.
We personally think Hillary’s reasons for refusing to concede are monetary in nature. She wants the Obama campaign to give her money to pay off her supposed debts. [Even after lending her campaign $5 mil, the Clintons are still loaded]. Still, The Guardian makes a compelling argument about her intentions.
Once again, it’s all about Hillary Clinton, who delivered the most abrasive, self-absorbed, selfish, delusional, emasculating and extortionate political speech I’ve heard in a long time. And I’ve left out some adjectives, just to be polite…. What’s her game? It’s this, I think. It’s not merely to be vice president. Although apparently it is that. I take it she and Bill have decided that being Obama’s vice-president for eight years is the most plausible path to the presidency. But she did not on Tuesday night merely try to make a case for herself as a good vice-presidential candidate. She held a rhetorical knife to Obama’s throat and said, in not so many words: I’m still calling some shots, buddy. You offer me the vice-presidency, or I walk away. But she has also forced Obama into a situation whereby if he chooses her now, he looks weak. So that’s the choice she is hoping to impose on the nominee: don’t choose me, and Bill and I will subtly work to see that you lose; choose me, and look like a weakling who can’t lead the party without the Clintons after all. Now that’s putting the interests of the party first, isn’t it?
FINALLY! The AP is reporting that Obama has “effectively” secured the nomination: “The 46-year-old first-term senator will face Sen. John McCain of Arizona in the fall campaign to become the 44th president.”
From the AP
Barack Obama effectively clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, based on an Associated Press tally of convention delegates, becoming the first black candidate ever to lead his party into a fall campaign for the White House.
Campaigning on an insistent call for change, Obama outlasted former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in a historic race that sparked record turnout in primary after primary, yet exposed deep racial divisions within the party.
The AP tally was based on public commitments from delegates as well as more than a dozen private commitments. It also included a minimum number of delegates Obama was guaranteed even if he lost the final two primaries in South Dakota and Montana later in the day. The 46-year-old first-term senator will face Sen. John McCain of Arizona in the fall campaign to become the 44th president.
We’re secretly going to miss you Hil. Now go away.
