You can’t fuck with this. Don’t even bother.
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I too, love White Fence.
White Fence - It Will Never Be
When think about this Tim Presley project I get into Rob Lowe’s character from Parks & Rec and say to myself, “this is LITerally… the BEST music… I have EVER heard. I LITerally have everything that he’s ever put out on wax or cassette.” And while Chris Traeger says that about everything, I’m LITerally serious. When people ask, I tell them - White Fence is my favorite band.
So it’s not a question of blogging it, but when - I’m just bummed I didn’t beat P4K to the punch. But no matter, two new records coming out this spring - the double Family Perfume LP released in stages - makes my heart sing and me want to drink a cardio shake and run ten miles.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Winterland
Experience Hendrix/Legacy (88697934251)
2011
A whole mess of awesome on 8LPs. This should cover the day…
New Riders Of The Purple Sage - Home, Home On the Road
Columbia (PC 32870)
1974
Keeping it loosely GD related. This was produced by Jerry Garcia.
Youngbloods - Rock Festival
Warner Brothers (WS 1878)
1970
Recent score. Recorded by Bob & Betty (Deadheads should find that significant.)
Reinforcing the fact that Chris Dodd really does not get what’s happening, and showing just how disgustingly corrupt the MPAA relationship is with politicians, Chris Dodd went on Fox News to explicitly threaten politicians who accept MPAA campaign donations that they’d better pass Hollywood’s favorite legislation… or else:
“Those who count on quote ‘Hollywood’ for support need to understand that this industry is watching very carefully who’s going to stand up for them when their job is at stake. Don’t ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don’t pay any attention to me when my job is at stake,”This certainly follows what many people assumed was happening, and fits with the anonymous comments from studio execs that they will stop contributing to Obama, but to be so blatant about this kind of corruption and money-for-laws politics in the face of an extremely angry public is a really, really, really tone deaf response from Dodd.
Wow. Chris Dodd is not only an asshole, he’s a stupid, tone deaf asshole. And so are all the asshole Democrats who are on the wrong side of this issue because they want money from Hollywood. Guess what, Democrats? You’re finally starting to reclaim the populist mantle that could help you win back congress and keep the White House. You may want to, you know, get on the right side of public opinion you idiots.
It shows, yet again, that he just doesn’t get it. People were protesting not just because of the content of these bills, but because of the corrupt process of big industries like Dodd’s “buying” politicians and “buying” laws. To then come out and make that threat explicit isn’t a way to fix things or win back the public. It’s just going to get them more upset, and to recognize just how corrupt this process is. If Dodd, as he said in yesterday’s NY Times, really wanted to turn things around and come to a more reasonable result, this is exactly how not to do it
Not that it matters, and not that I’m some kind of rich mogul, but I’ll say this again: I have lost more money to creative accounting, and American workers have lost more jobs to runaway production, than anything associated with what the MPAA calls piracy. Chris Dodd is lying about piracy costing us jobs. Hollywood’s refusal to adapt to changing times is what’s costing the studios money. That’s it.
Bruce Sprinsteen & The E Street Band - Live/1975-85
Columbia (C5X 40558)
1986
Rockin’ with The Boss.
