I'm sure you've seen it, but i'm marking this for me, for posterity.
For the fact that I got to share this incredible time in a state of utter happiness and joy and that for that moment at least all was right with the world.

With the promise of things actually being better, and words like Hope and Change not even seeming like meaningless buzzwords, designed to sell us products and broken promises.

An element of the great unjading as shared by so many people, so as to actually believe, if just for 20 minutes, in the universal togetherness of man and mankind and the idea that the past is not all that we are, the future is wide open, and that we shall indeed overcome.
WE SHALL OVERCOME!

We are greater than the sum of our parts, and we will not be denied.
There is not a thing that we can't do.



My favorite part:

So let us mark this day with remembrance, of who we are and how far we have traveled. In the year of America's birth, in the coldest of months, a small band of patriots huddled by dying campfires on the shores of an icy river. The capital was abandoned. The enemy was advancing. The snow was stained with blood. At a moment when the outcome of our revolution was most in doubt, the father of our nation ordered these words be read to the people:

"Let it be told to the future world...that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive...that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet [it]."

America. In the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words. With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come. Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.

Current Mood: Proud

I'm a stone cold Humanist, ok?
I believe the separation of church and state is one of the most important issues of our lifetimes, I'm determined for the advancement and evolution of popular opinion to allow people like myself to believe (or not-believe) what we want to without threat of being prostelyzed to.

The last 8 years have been all the more awful, because my lack of belief in a supernatural entity has made me feel like a 3rd class citizen. Humanist and atheists mentioned only as red meat for the religious zealots the former president's base.

Here's the deal:
Non-believers got a shout out in a President's inaugural address, out of 43 other presidents and 203 years, how many times has that happened?

Let's try NEVER!

Way to take the air out of something really beautiful and monumental over semantics.

Looking at the comments on my friends list, I had to say something:
You are seriously going to split hairs, here?
Are you kidding me?

Perhaps he should also have included the Transgendered Vegan Chronologically Advantaged Developmentally Challenged Handicapable Peoples Front of Judea Knitting League of the Agnostic Americans Rotary League, as long as all the appropriate boxes are checked off, right?

Just feel the flow and realize that things don't happen overnight, ok?
Pedantic Liberal Orthodoxy, is still pedantic as in: marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects and MISSING THE POINT!

Current Mood: annoyed

And now that i've made friends (and influenced people!), time for a House of Awexome setlist (show roundup to come later, i'm working backwards).

First of all, a remarkable success, just as fun as last time, and super rad. Great to see Tobias, H-Bomb, firebreath, tokyo_tv (and awesome S.O.), Brian "Jet" James from Mount Vicious and his gf Nicole, Lindsey, Corie, Layla and many others. whataboutprom was a trooper at the bar, even though it was clear that she didn't really want to be there.

I still have no idea how I'm going to handle a monthly on a monday since that's MV practice day, but i'll figure something out, it's too fun not to.

And now: a setlist:

Artist - Song
AC/DC - It's a Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock and Roll)
Afghan Whigs - Debonair
Ramones - Needles and Pins
The Who - Substitute
Sweet - Teenage Rampage
Sparks - Amateur Hour
Stooges - No Fun
Queens of the Stone Age - 3's and 7's
Van Halen - Panama
Heart - Crazy On You
Alice Cooper - Go To Hell
Shudder To Think - X-French T-Shirt
Federation X - Hydrogen, Nitrogen, and Bullshit
Torche - Across The Shields
Gang Of Four - Damaged Goods
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Today's Lesson
Stooges - Down On The Street
Eagles of Death Metal - Stuck In the Metal
Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker
Led Zeppelin - Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)
Wire - Three Girl Rhumba
Wipers - Over the Edge
Cheap Trick - I Want You To Want Me
Police Teeth - Northern California
Buzzcocks - Everybodys Happy Nowadays
Torche - Vampyro
Stay Gold Pony Boy - Dukes of Fuck
Mr. Bungle - Retrovertigo
Thin Lizzy - Running Back
Paul McCartney & Wings - Band on The Run
Melvins - Civilized Worm
Franki Valli and The Four Seasons - Beggin'
Chambers Brothers - Time Has Come Today
Spoon - Advance Cassette
Rolling Stones - Street Fighting Man
Joan Jett - Bad Reputation
Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Otis Redding - Hard To Handle
DEVO - Girl U Want
Alice Cooper - Is It My Body?
Mountain Goats - This Year
mcclusky - She Will Only Bring You Happiness
Ozzy Osbourne - Mr. Crowley
New York Dolls - Personality Crisis
Queens of the Stone Age - I Wanna Make It Wit Chu
Les Savy Fav - The Sweat Descends
Turbonegro - Self Destructo Bust
Journey - Any Way You Want It
Electric Eel Shock - Rock 'N Roll Can Rescue The World
Federation X - The Most Unlucky Sound
The Amps - Bragging Party
Talking Heads - Road To Nowhere
Sweet - Ballroom Blitz
Sparks - Mustache
Future of the Left - The Hope that House Built
AC/DC - What's Next to The Moon?
Grinderman - No Pussy Blues
Thin Lizzy - The Cowboy Song
Bob Dylan - Highway '61 Revisited
Tom Petty - Runnin' Down a Dream
The Clash - Lost In The Supermarket
Le Tigre - What's Yr Take On Cassavettes?
Blondie - Atomic
Plastric Bertrand - Ca Plane Por Moi
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - I Hate Myself For Loving You
Van Halen - Hot For Teacher
Ramones - Surfin' Bird
Pulp - Common People
The Who - Baba O'Riley
Styx - Come Sail Away
Queen - Under Pressure
Franki Valli and The Four Seasons - Can't Take My Eyes Of You
Kiss - Strutter
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There
Alice Cooper - No More Mr. Nice Guy
Judas Priest - Living After Midnight
Wire - Dot Dash
Sparks - Amateur Hour
Heart - Magic Man
The Clash - Should I Stay or Should I go?
Louis Prima - Just a Gigolo
David Bowie - Heroes
Tom Waits - Heartattack and Vine
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put a Spell On You
David Bowie - Changes

Most notable was a crowd of people that had just gone through SF and replaced all of the BUSH street signs with OBAMA signs. Brilliant!

el_normal ninja'd off with one, which I imagine will make a damn fine souvenir.

I mentioned that I didn't think anybody was paying the slightest bit of attention that the last song I played was Changes by Bowie, but lo and behold, I got called out on it!

I even took a little bow.
Yes, thank you... I do kind of know what i'm doing at this rock DJ thing don't I?

Anyway, next one won't be on a holiday... plenty of advance notice, I think you SF folks would like it, so I advise you to come on out.

Current Mood: happy