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House Mix: Turning Up the Heat
The Convention Peeps were paying attention to our Unity Thread after all, to our pre-pre-convention warmup House Party, sending us a subliminal message when they played my main song, O'Jays Love Train just before Hillary brought the house to its knees, giving up her votes by Acclamation (wait, that's not it... here it is....no, okay, this one) before Bill proclaimed "Here Comes Your Man". No time for drip-drip-drip bitter recriminations, we were busy Burning Down the House. Don't Stop Till You Get Enough. Laura was busting moves she hasn't used in 25 years, Ripper was Rapping Ridinghood, IndeSpirit Tore the Roof of the Sucka and even ClearThinker left his thoughtful pose for a minute to Get Down. So Dij, Quinn, Inde, take a bow, we rocked the joint - all those predictions of enmity? Disintegration? Don't Believe the Hype. Simple message - Dance to the Music, Stop the Fussing and Fighting, Quit Your Messing Around, or to paraphrase Dijamo, Dis Unity My Black A.S.S. It was our Finest of Hours. I was waiting for them to Paint the White House Black, but I'm sure that's cued up for tonight's big act. But it's one thing to climb to Higher Ground. It's another thing to Come Back Down the Mountain and then Do it Again.
So when you hear some D.U.M.B.A.S.S say it's all about celebrity Superstar status, some gradeschool Crush, why Obama just wants to be a Popstar, is just too Cocky, and why are we going Back to Black anyway, just tell them that Nobody Does it Better. And remind them about someone else who had a Crush these last 8 years that looked like this. Who'd like to put us in another box with Johnny. Who has a kind of Bad Temper if you haven't noticed. River Deep, Mountain High. That's the difference between the two. Open Your Eyes. And there Ain't No Mountain High Enough to get away from those C.R.E.E.P.s - so do the right thing - Fight for The Power, push the Power to the People.
Peace, outta here. Unity '08.
So when you hear some D.U.M.B.A.S.S say it's all about celebrity Superstar status, some gradeschool Crush, why Obama just wants to be a Popstar, is just too Cocky, and why are we going Back to Black anyway, just tell them that Nobody Does it Better. And remind them about someone else who had a Crush these last 8 years that looked like this. Who'd like to put us in another box with Johnny. Who has a kind of Bad Temper if you haven't noticed. River Deep, Mountain High. That's the difference between the two. Open Your Eyes. And there Ain't No Mountain High Enough to get away from those C.R.E.E.P.s - so do the right thing - Fight for The Power, push the Power to the People.
Peace, outta here. Unity '08.
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Apologies - that's IndePatriot, not IndeSpirit.
August 28, 2008 9:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
365 DEGREES! BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE!
Rec'd
August 28, 2008 9:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
Above all, we do not want to wake up to find life McSame as it ever was.
August 28, 2008 2:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow! Great and witty effort! Thanks! This should get us all through the election.
Now, if I could just fit it all on my ipod....
August 28, 2008 9:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
I was gonna thank you for all the good links, but then you made fun of my creative spelling. Meanie.
August 28, 2008 11:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
"Had fun with" is different than "made fun of". But a good example of how a moment of spite can undo hours of good work. ;-)
August 28, 2008 11:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
Mmm hmmm. Let that be a lesson to you!
August 28, 2008 12:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
A tradgic lesson. ;-)
August 28, 2008 3:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dude, she's going to go all historical on your ass - I wouldn't risk it. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Me, that's who.
August 28, 2008 5:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
You know me.... Tra la, tra la.... Just a happy, innocent lil ole Gummi Bear.
Which political savvy clearly makes me a Democrat.
August 28, 2008 6:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Quinn, you are such a jackass. But I mean that in the nicest possible way.
August 29, 2008 12:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
No joke, Don't stop till you get enough is probably the best pop disco song ever written.
August 28, 2008 11:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
Completely & absolutely disagree. And it's YOU & your ILK, so-called Demosaur, that is turning our great & historic Party into a group of flare-panted Republican Lites who never heard a beat they couldn't step on. CLEARLY, the greatest pop disco song ever written was Don't Stop 'Til you Get Enough, the ORIGINAL version.
WITH milk bottle opening, please. Harumph.
August 28, 2008 12:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
The tubes are not loading for me, and I gave blind faith relinkage. Likewise, I can't check your version. But it doesn't matter, quinn! So long as you're down with the force is love power, the sensation is lovely where we're at.
August 28, 2008 2:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Okay, I had for some reason thought this thread would rise on its own, and 5 hours later a pathetic 6 Recommends besides my own. Do I have to return to threatening kittens? Pass out cat nip? Tie this to paying off Hillary's debt? Is everyone too hung over and punch drunk from the convention? Is McCain blackmailing you until I withdraw the Hitler reference? Whatever the case, I implore you, demand from you, in the name of party unity and your family's safety, Rec early, Rec often.
(And yes, I'm waiting for just one person to report on something from the actual links, especially say a few irregularities slipped in)
August 28, 2008 2:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Popstar made me laugh (hadn't seen) but Ain't No Mountain - and seeing Tammi & Marvin that young & beautiful - just made me cry.
I think most people are just happy & hung-over from the last few days emotional blow-out... and waiting for tonight. In short, Lovin' Each Day.
(And no mocking the boy bands! Dude that wrote this one is god-monster pop song-writer.)
August 28, 2008 2:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Funny, I had a choice between a boy band and Sims2 on "Don't Stop". The simu-michael made me laugh too much. But thank you, Popstar was phenomenal, makes it worth the excessive time I spent on this just to share the appreciation. (Not that they didn't spend much much more to make the video). But just to show I'm a poor sport anyway, here's upping you one girl band. Enjoy. If you're human. And need. To be loved.
August 28, 2008 4:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
The only response I can possibly offer to that video (that won't see me placed under some sort of restraining order) is clearly to escalate. So I'll see your Russo-trash fakeo-lesbian girl band, and raise you one authentic, can write-sing-play-think, CANUCK lesbian twin sister band. The Quin Sisters, AKA Tegan & Sara.
Admittedly, T&S are not so much my thing. But you know how it is up here in Hyperborea, with all those long, dark Winter nights, when life can get lonely.
August 28, 2008 5:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow, how incredibly boring, so I can provide my most boring lesbian fan club (actually they're sisters who might not actually be lesbians but I think they started the trend), so without any further ado go bore yourself to your heart's content.
So now I think I'll switch this sad little duel to European chick-led bands that had AmeriKKKa a twaddle, parts I and II. Maybe even part III, bands that dare to attack the US with bad French Horn solos and bad accents. C'mon, Quinn, dare to stay awake, you can do it (even though no one else is left here - echo echo).
August 28, 2008 8:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Even a better version of Sugarcubes' Deus one of the better forgotten songs. Actually I think there were 3 listenable ones on their intro album.
August 28, 2008 8:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Okay, okay. Thanks for the Garbage link! I was able to click through the animated video you had chosen in order to get to a different version that had pictures of Shirley Manson. I suspect you and I may have different priorities in our relationship to Garbage.
I did like the animated version of Love Train. I had never really paid attention to those lyrics before. But now I want a version with pictures from the convention!
Also liked Popstar.
Woo-hoo! U N I T Y.
August 28, 2008 6:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not to give away secrets of the dark soul, but I imagine the Shirley Manson connection isn't all too different despite the chosen videos. Actually, if you look you'll find the videos of that one are pretty depressingly poor.
Now there's a video I'm trying to find, a popular kind of punkish/poppish slow song that made a hit, girl with short cropped blond hair & army boots somewhere around #1 Crush time.
August 28, 2008 8:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Desi, you are one helluva party host. This was brilliantly crafted and I appreciate all the time and effort you put into it.
Merci beaucoup, mon ami.
Oh, and since the link on my selection -- that had me bustin moves I hadn't used in...ahem...25 years -- got left out, here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wevVoB9IdFg
August 28, 2008 7:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, that was really indecent, don't know how that link failed, didn't notice until I quoted. Hope the 25 years wasn't embarrassing - quite frankly, they were new to me so we all appreciated the art education and free expressionist raunch-a-thon, politically correct or not. We know you're still loyal to Obama whatever happened - what goes on the dance floor stays on the dance floor.
August 28, 2008 8:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm learning to own my old age. (Ugh.) It ain't always easy, though.
Sooooo, uh...you ummm....you were watching the things we were doing on the dance floor??? **blush** Decent of you to keep mum on that, Des.
August 28, 2008 9:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks to Quinn's amazing brain cleaning technique, I've had those brain cells miraculously dispensed with, with only a primitive vestigial whisper of what may or may not have happened. And if anyone starts squealing on me, they'll get the same treatment, or maybe just an old-fashioned leucotomy.
August 29, 2008 2:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
Nasogastrics, baby. Colonics for the mind...
And the ass will follow.
August 29, 2008 3:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
LOL!
August 29, 2008 4:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
Des, you rock and now you have given me a new post tagline :)
Dis Unity My Black A.S.S.
August 28, 2008 11:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Marketing genius that I am ;-)
August 29, 2008 2:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
Well, after watching Obama's speech, and after hearing the McCain campaign's initial official response....I just gotta say that Big Jim--er...Big John learned tonight that You Don't Mess Around with Slim
August 29, 2008 12:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ok, when I said T&S weren't "so much my thing," what I meant was, "had never managed to make it through a song before." BUT. One million YouTube hits later, I figured it must be either my taste, or there are some really boring lesbians coming through college these days. But furk it, McLusky's more my mood tonight anyway. Can never have too many Welsh Hardcore bands I figger. So To Hell With Good Intentions.
My love is bigger than your love SING IT!
August 29, 2008 1:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, good intentions never pan out, just go with your baser instincts. They're more often right anyway.
August 29, 2008 3:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
That was a serious thing that got laid on McCain tonight, Des. Did you see it? Holy fuck. I can only say I've lived/breathed politics for 40 years, across 3 countries full-time, and not seen that before. Anywhere. Forget the hype, and park the bullshit - that sorta thing just doesn't happen in politics anymore. That was better than Blair or Thatcher, Trudeau, Clinton or Reagan - it just WAS. Got to go back to RFK to find a pol even close. And I don't even know what to compare it to in other fields. Someone on top of their game, killer instinct, class, savvy and savage.
Only thing I've found to compare him to was Ali. A while back I said he felt to me like he had the MAKINGS of an Ali - cool, let the other guy overextend, and then... BANG, right on the point of the jaw. Billy & some others weren't so sure. But baby, if that wasn't a young Ali tonight, it was at least Sugar Ray. Fast, sharp, lightning footwork and then... fierce. Maybe people still feel bad losing to this guy, maybe he even turns out to be shit at governing, I donno... but tonight I'd say nobody, no how, should feel the slightest bit bad about coming close to that guy. Hillary's the Smokin' Joe of our generation, and you gotta bleed for those that are that great... but arrive at the same time as an Ali. 'Cause tonight, fucking Obama started to show what he's got. And dude is a MONSTER politician. I'm not into the Kool Aid either. That was just - professionally speaking - Boom Boom, Out Go The Lights. Night for now... be interesting in the AM.
August 29, 2008 3:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
I've about become convinced Obama's team has studied and is employing the John Boyd's OODA loop concept.
I'm enjoying watching this unfold. It's like watching Bugs Bunny v Daffy Duck. Or the Roadrunner v Wile E. Coyote.
August 29, 2008 4:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
For the sake of Unity I'll steer clear of the OODA conversation, but I suspect you're right.
August 29, 2008 4:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
I just posted my response - as approving as you could expect for me.
August 29, 2008 4:52 AM | Reply | Permalink