I’m missing everyone’s birthday these days, but Mitch Benn reminded me of a birthday that I really should have remembered. So Happy Birthday War!
Monthly Archive for March, 2008
Please pretend I said something EXTREMELY witty here - something that totally enticed you to listen to the show.
Listen via the player on my website’s sidebar or one of KCSB’s webcast options.
NonDescript, Tuesdays, 9am-10am PST (12pm-1pm EST)
KCSB-FM 91.9 in Santa Barbara
Show Playlist @ Website
Standard Podcast [60:34m]: Artist, Song, Album
Country Teasers, It Is My Duty, Satan Is Real Again (Or: Feeling Good About Bad Thoughts)
Dictators, What’s Up With That?, D.F.F.D.
Flamin’ Groovies, The Slide, Rock Masters Vol. 3: ‘Sneakers’ EP and the Rockfield Session
Gang of Four, Not Great Men, Entertainment
Greg Brown, I Don’t Want to Have a Nice Day, The Live One
The Jolly Boys, Bring Back Lou-Lou, Sunshine ‘n’ Water
Kids These Days, The Hips (The Captain), All These Interruptions
Momus, Finnegan The Folk Hero, Folktronic
Nouvelle Vague, Shack Up, Bande A Part
Pointed Sticks, No Use For U, Perfect Youth
The Pooh Sticks, Working On a Beautiful Thing, Optimistic Fool
Silver Jews, How Can I Love You If You Won’t Lie Down, Tanglewood Numbers
Sluts of Trust, Leave you wanting more, We are all Sluts of Trust
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, We Can’t Help You, Real Emotional Trash
Dogs Die In Hot Cars, Godhopping, Please Describe Yourself
Tom Lehrer, Poisoning Pigeons In The Park, The Remains Of Tom Lehrer [Disc 2]
I received this comment over the weekend from someone calling himself BorderRaven in Quote the Raven, ¡Nunca Más!. Yes, he just responded to a post I made ten months ago. Typing… hard? Words…. elusive? Point… nonsensical!
Save Our State is a bunch of well-informed people who follow a Patriotic stance to protect our nation against the long term failures of the elected government to enforce immigration laws. We ar not an anti-immigration group, but an anti-illegal-immigration group. We stand on the street to confront the evidence of failed government, and we vote. After you read the US Constitution and Amendments, read the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo, the Gadsen Purchase Treaty and the Capitualtion of Couenga. Spain ruled the area for a few hundred years before Mexico took control, but Mexico ruled for 37 years. This is America, there is a border, and we will fight to preserve our sovereignty.
Citing 150+ year old treaties means oh so much in relation to our modern immigration situation. Hey, there was another American institution in existence during the signing of these treaties that would be right up Save Our State’s alley!
Why bother addressing current U.S economic policy responsible for decimating the agricultural sector in Mexico and, therefore, driven jobs that were once plentiful in Mexico to the United States? No, let’s simply reduce the conversation to a bunch of nationalist ideology tinged with standard racist rhetoric and wrap it tightly in some insane form of patriotic fervor. It’s the perfect recipe to get the ill-informed all riled up. Hell, maybe you can even get Lou Dobbs to throw out some bogus leprosy statistics to help fuel the paranoia about these “dirty brown people”.
But all of that is irrelevant.
Southern Poverty Law Center and the Intelligence Project has categorized four chapters of Save Our State as tried and true, bonafide hate groups. Groups like Save Our State are a blight on this country, and the people involved in these kinds of organizations should be ashamed of themselves.
We don’t need to protect our sovereignty from illegal aliens. We need to protect our sovereignty from groups like Save Our State.
The playlist for this week. I’m very tired.
Listen via the player on my website’s sidebar or one of KCSB’s webcast options.
I command you.
NonDescript, Tuesdays, 9am-10am PST (12pm-1pm EST)
KCSB-FM 91.9 in Santa Barbara
Show Playlist @ Website
Artist, Name, Album
The Majestic Twelve, Condoleeza Check My Posse, Schizophrenology
Metric, Dead Disco, Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?
Dirty Looks, Carrie, Turn It Up
Say Hi To Your Mom, Your Brains vs. My Tractorbeam, Numbers & Mumbles
Destroyer, Your Blood, Destroyer’s Rubies
Momus, Smooth Folk Singer, Folktronic
CocoRosie, Butterscotch, La Maison De Mon Reve
Madvillain, Rainbows, Madvillainy
Pere Ubu, Breath, Cloudland
The Von Bondies, It Came From Japan, Lack of Communication
The Streets, Fit But You Know It, A Grand Don’t Come For Free
Stereophonics, Madame Helga, You Gotta Go There to Come Back
My Robot Friend, You’re Out Of The Computer, Hot Action!
The Makers, Lover Lover, Psychopathia Sexualis
The Come Ons, Hip Check!, (title track)
Hot Snakes, Our Work Fills the Pew’s, Automatic Midnight
Tom Lehrer, It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier, An Evening Wasted With…
Absolutely none of these are from personal experience. Ahem.
10. Wanna’ hear about my stressful day at work?
9. So, how many pages did you write today?
8. Is there a reason you didn’t do the dishes?
7. How come we never go on vacation?
6. Did I tell you my parents are visiting this weekend?
5. Can you go buy me some beer?
4. When you graduate, don’t you have to start paying back your student loans?
3. So.. what’s for dinner?
2. Aren’t you almost done?
1. When are you going to get a job?
