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That was a great way of letting the sane voices speak. This whole deal has many cans of worms you can open, here are a few: The U.S. can not take ownership of Arab Spring. Its successes and failures can not be attributed to or blamed on our president, or nation Revolution is always messy. It doesn't always turn out well. There is an American (perhaps human) tendency to look across the ocean and place a stamp on an entire nation of people. To say that Libya as a whole is crazy is to say that everyone in Mexico is either a drug lord, or being terrorized by one. There are Israeli anti-

Here's how I see it: Douche bag, anti-Islamic producer makes hate film. Psycho Libyans interpret it as a general American attitude and kill diplomats. Douche bag Republican Candidate tries to get traction out of it and it blows up in his face. Other douche bag Americans try to characterize Libya for homicide, the way the psychos characterized America with a hate film. I just want to sit down for a cup of tea with all of the regular folk in Libya and tell them I don't interpret one group's bloodlust as their national agenda, and that I hope they don't think American xenophobia is mine.

This might be a more likely Zeppelin live purchase for me:

It makes a subtle difference. The song will sound beautiful either way. I just like the style: fancy flat picking with hammer ons/pull offs, kind of like "Watch Me Fall" but not quite as flashy.

I'm pretty sure he plays that song with a pick.

I'll bite: pee pee? Back on topic: how will Romney bring independent female voters to his side?

I guess I'm being subtle. Let's see if I can get this out there in a 'Respector' kind of mode: The involvement of the U.S. in Israeli/Palestinian politics is a double-edged sword of being high priority and a taboo talking point (at times). We have funneled unreasonable amounts of money into Israel. Some U.S. politicians have shamed us for weakening our alliance after Clinton clucked her tongue at Israel for war crimes and human rights violations. The U.S. has himmed and hawed about diplomatic solutions as Israel has violated agreements and pushed into Palestinian territory, all the while

It's like if they decided to make an announcement that the Dems officially recognize Tibet is a Chinese territory. Before I even get into the controversial ethics of the situation, it seems so oddly non-sequiter. Kind of creepy really. I don't think God, or Jerusalem should be priorities for the U.S. government right now.

I think there is a pop music mythology that anything worth writing/performing exists in your head and in a visual/auditory conversation with other musicians. But, of course using paper, or any writing system frees you up for greater complexity. In your case you used it to layer rhythmic concepts for a greater rhythmic complexity. I've personally only used it to arrange parts for multiple instrument voices to get a lot more moving 4 or 5 part harmony between horns, keys etc. Your song is really cool because you have a percussion section driving the song, instead of just a drummer on a kit

Does anyone else find it weird that we live in a time when the Democratic party has to awkwardly stumble over adding an amendment to their platform about Jerusalem being the capital of Israel? That's weird to me.

I was out of town for a while. From this forum I have gleamed that: Michelle Obama had a good speech. Bill Clinton had a great one. Neither Romney, nor Obama are going to end the Federal Reserve. There is footage available of Democrats saying dumb things. Is this accurate?

It's true. I can see a level of snarkiness, or analness, might be a response to the deluge of artists. People trying to filter through a sea of new albums might feel more effective by being pickier, and therefore more cynical. It seems the best music journalism warrants another listen after reading the review. It might bring up points to enhance, or challenge the listening experience. Some writers at Pitchfork seem pretty good at that. If anything a site like Pitchfork gets picked on because of their cultural relevance. People resent a false pretext that what Pitchfork says is necessar

Ah ha. Got it.

Oh boy.... I didn't start buying LP's til I was a teenager. But there were albums. First cassette: First CD: Yikes.

Here's a good one. John Cusack (of all people) takes Obama to task for civil liberty issues with the help of a law professor: http://truth-out.org...as-constitution This article seems to be a good bridge between some of Sparky's more flippant remarks and the issue at hand. I for one think the Democratic Party is just as much in need of a paradigm shift (most seriously on these issues of international law and U.S. foreign policy) as the GOP. The conversation on the thread has batted (sometimes eloquently and sometimes rabidly) back and forth domestic issues, most importantly the tax

That's a good question. It is certainly easier and more comfortable to indict the artistic shortcomings of a band than to defend them. Especially when your nose is high in the air.

I think all three of those men are particularly funny.

Love that song.

Man.... if they would've happened upon Montevideo at the same time that I was that would have made my summer even better.

For my money Rubio is a truer republican than Romney, and more reasonable than Ryan.

Freudian typo?

What I expect from 'ol Joe is not factual distortions, but bumbling subversions of good taste and charisma. He's my favorite drunk uncle.

Jon Stewart on the current psychology of the GOP "A party wide persecution complex, where any reference to the collective good is somehow taken as a denigration of an individual's achievement; you did build that. A moral code that equates parental financial assistance with moxy and entrepreneurship, while equating government financial assistance with lack of character and way-of-life destroying dependency; yes, you did build that."

Most of the autobiographical information he gave to people was fictitious. His entire persona around the time of being signed was based on Woody Guthrie. He made up a lot of stories about being a train hopper and a hobo, they just weren't true. Dylan stepped over a lot of people in the Dinkytown community of aspiring folk singers in MN. He seems to have been a compulsive liar. Which is exactly what makes him interesting: the fact that it doesn't matter. The dude is like batman. The symbol he constructed of himself was so apt, and became so important to the modern American psyche that s

If it's a question of writing top notch songs, then David Byrne has a strong case. As do a ton of people named in this thread. But David Byrne as an entity is a very different machine than Dylan. The most quintessential Byrne stuff (to me) is this weird promotion for modern living which is always tilting on a knife's edge of sarcasm. The whole question of Byrne is: Does his love off shopping malls and highways come via irony, or not? Dylan had a much more earnest kind of vitriol. From his early "protest songs", to his early electric personal indictments, Dylan used metaphor and the ima