Passenger Sid

"Ecstasy Of Gold", the mesmerizing end scene of The Good, The Bad & The Ugly.

"Philadelphia Morning", Rocky.

"And Then He Kissed Me", Goodfellas.

What are the marches for?

My favorite 3 were:

The I Don't Cares - Wild Stab

Okkervil River - Away

Eleanor Friedberger - New View

Sam Moore just sang a really great version of America the Beautiful.

...Tweedy's acoustic version of "Panthers" is pretty sweet and it would be awesome if there was a studio version of the song in that style.  (Track #3) 

Amen to that. I've heard old live acoustic versions, and it really IS great.

You're a real weirdo.

Thanks!

I get worked up over his (most) every move because they are unbecoming of the president elect of the United States of America. If Obama had replied to individuals via Twitter, mocked a persons disability, etc., then you would have truly seen people worked up over someone's every move.

I agree. Trump's narcissistic. He's defensive. He's thin-skinned. His ego is out of control (although, I'd argue ALL Presidents' egos are).

My point is that, as a fan of late night comedy TV, and movies, and entertainers and music....it's gonna be a sucky, whiny, bitch-and-moan fest the next 4 years from 90% of the entertainment media.

Probably every new record is gonna reference evil Trump. Every freaking concert I go to. Every Fallon and Kimmel and Colbert monologue.

Trump won. Fair and square. I'd rather people accept it and get out the vote in 4 years rather than complain 24/7.

I'm not a fan of Trump. But it REALLY fascinates me how worked up people are getting over his every move. He still has "elect" on his title. 

I'm gonna go out a very large and sturdy limb...Hollywood, those in entertainment media, and musicians are gonna force-feed us normal folks one helping of whine after the next in a lot of their creative output the next 4 years. 

Per DT tweet today Streep is an overrated actresss...and he has denied ever mocking that disabled reporter. Apparently he is unaware of the video of him

Mocking the guy. What an asshole.

I didn't see the Golden Globes speech, but I like Patrick Coffin's take on it. Coffin is former host of Catholic Answers Live. He writes Streep's comments in quotes followed by his take:

"Just to pick up on what (actor) Hugh Laurie said, you and all of us in this room really belong to the most vilified segments of American society right now."

Um, Meryl, I adore your talent -- I do -- but listen to yourself. You're wearing a $18,000 gown; a sleek limousine will float you home to Malibu; your net worth is north of $65,000,000; people seek your autograph, signed photo, and opinions every day of the week. I know you were going for facetious here, but...

"So I only ask the famously well-heeled Hollywood Foreign Press and all of us in our community to join me in supporting the Committee to Protect Journalists, because we’re gonna need them going forward, and they’ll need us to safeguard the truth."

Hahahahahahaahahahahahahahaha! I though she said we are going to need Hollywood celebs to safeguard the truth!

"It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter, someone he outranked in privilege, power, and the capacity to fight back. It -- it kind of broke my heart when I saw it."

This is an allusion to the claim that Donald Trump did a mock impersonation of a handicapped reporter who wrote something negative about him (Trump). I have no idea where the truth lies on this, but for now, let it be said I don't support the mocking of people based on things they can't control, like physical looks. But have you seen the bazillion mocking images and impersonations liberals come up to mock Donald Trump's looks? I'll go out on a limb and I say I doubt these break Meryl's dear heart.

As for her advocacy of the underprivileged and the disabled -- I say, fantastic. But wasn't a disabled teenager tortured on Facebook Live only days ago by four African-American adults, who forced him to say "F*** Trump, f*** white people," and all manner of other vile things, while being gagged with tape, cut with a knife, and forced to shove his head into the toilet. Beyond terrifying.

Wish the midwest portion of the tour had more cities. Darn.

I was hoping their new record was gonna be released soon. Apparently, Bono felt...post election...that maybe the band should revisit the record to make sure there's nothing more they want to say.

All us music fans apparently get to look forward to a U2 album in late 2017 or early 2018 where Bono will tell us how we should feel to have Trump as our President. 

Joy!

Summerteeth - Pieholden Suite

Would have to think a bit about the others.

Of those mentioned already, I'll second Venus Stop The Train, Downbound Train & Downtown Train. Others good train songs...

"Train Song" - Victoria Williams

"Trains & Boats & Planes" - Fountains of Wayne version

"Engine Driver" - Decemberists

"Runaway Train" - Tom Petty

"Crazy Train" - Ozzy

You have a solo drive tonight of approx. 30 minutes. You're gonna quickly make yourself a playlist. What would it look like? Mine:

R.E.M.'s covers of "There She Goes Again," Pale Blue Eyes," and "Femme Fatale" by the Velvet Underground. 

Yep, me too. 

Rod Stewart's "The First Cut Is The Deepest", which only recently did I realize was a Cat Steven's song.

I really like Let's Fight. As for Millionaire, I think they made the right choice to not record/release.

(CHRISTMAS SONGS)

The BBC Radio special was pretty nice. Liked hearing the Near Wild Heaven demo.

I love R.E.M.'s early records as well. Murmur, Life's Rich Pageant and Reckoning are my favorites. I'd put those 3, along with Out Of Time and Automatic in my Top 5. The latter 2 would be at my top. It's really hard to rank all their albums, but I feel those 2 are R.E.M. at their absolute peak.

(THE SADIES)

Out Of Time is, I think, R.E.M.'s best record. So good. 

Like we should have been praying for Obama the last 8 years, we should all pray for Trump the next 4.

You keep bringing up these hypotheticals, if this city was taken out, if this group didn't vote, if the electoral college was this, etc.  We can't guess what would have happened, all we can really do is look at what did happen.  The fact remains, of the votes that were cast, a majority of them went against not only Trump, but Republican Party.  I am not saying the outcome of the election should be changed, but the party that won the election needs to understand.  That is it.  But clearly it won't.

 

 

 

A better sports metaphor is a basketball team scored more points, but its opponent was given a few extra points because their stadium was farther away.  

I think my metaphor works pretty well. Both sides know the rules going in. Each side must strategize the best way to come out on top. Trump was able to flip a few blue states. 

If it was, oddly, declared by President Obama and Congress that the 2016 Election was gonna be re-done in a month. And if the law was changed to be that the popular vote winner would be declared President. If my life depended on picking the winner, I honestly don't know who I'd pick. I truly believe the country, added altogether, is split. 

I have no problem with people saying Hillary won the popular vote because it's true. But I also think that saying that is implying that, of the 2, she's the one that most Americans want to be President. I don't believe that.

It's worth pointing out that we're all taking a leap assuming Hillary would have won the popular vote had winning the popular vote been the known criteria to win going in to the election.

Had say, Conservatives in California known the popular vote determined the outcome of the Presidential Election, perhaps more Conservative would have gone to the polls. Maybe more liberal voters would have voted in West Virginia. It's impossible to know how the voting turnout might have changed if the Electoral College was scrapped.

So  yeah, Clinton voters can yell "scoreboard" all they want, but I think deep down they know how meaningless that claim is. If a basketball team makes 50 baskets but they're all dunks, they're gonna lose to a team that makes only 34 shots, all of them 3-pointers.

Quit saying "majority of american voters" Both candidates got about 25% from American Voters. 

 

Majority of votes? Yes. Majority of voters? No. Half the voters did not vote. 

That's a good point. We'll never know who'd actually win every 4 years if every eligible voter actually voted.

I don't think a candidate can claim a dominant victory while losing the popular vote. 

Did I miss the memo that says you only truly win a Presidential election if you can win the electoral AND popular vote?

Okay, Trump's win WASN'T dominate. Let's call it "fairly convincing". Winning 30 of 50 states fits that's description I think.

Like ANY Presidential winner would....with a majority in both houses...Trump will do his best to please those who voted for him. He knows in 2 years the Congress could flip. To the victor goes the spoils.

He certain can DO whatever HE wants.  But SHOULD he?  No matter how you SHAKE it.  A majority of PEOPLE did not vote FOR Trump.  A MAJORITY of the voting PUBLIC did not want Trump as their PRESIDENT.  

 

I am not refuting the claims he is president or the electoral college should be abolished or whatever.  I am saying when a large number of the population does not want you as president, that is something that you have to acknowledge.  Also it is important to note that majority of votes cast in the House and in the Senate were for Democrats.  http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/11/10/democrats-won-popular-vote-senate-too/93598998/.  So the Republicans have control of the Senate, Congress, and the office of President, but they did not get the majority of the votes cast in any of them.  This is through the way our system of government or through gerrymandering.  I am not for getting rid of the electoral college, or the two rep model of the senate.  But gerrymandering is something that is the biggest threat to our democracy.  

 

All I am saying is that the Republicans cannot go throwing around that they have a mandate and the majority of people elected them for their policies.  They simply did not.  They should understand that, they should respect that.  I am not saying it should be abortions, pot and free money for everyone.  But understand that the Republicans values are not necessarily those of the majority of Americans.  

 

Also SERIOUSLY, what is with the RANDOM capitalization?  Super ANNOYING to read.   

You make fair points. But Trump has ZERO responsibility to try to please the left. It was a pretty dominant victory. 

One more thing. Clinton got around 5 million less votes than Obama. Where did all those voters go? I think it speaks to the fact that the excitement lever for her wasn't there. If she couldn't excite enough people in Florida and Ohio and Michigan and Pennsylvania, then she deserves to lose.