look ma, no politics.
Category: Parties and Nightlife

look ma, no politics.
instead, a couple of upcoming things:

on thursday september 18th we're having another 'degenerates' night where i'll be dj'ing with some of the guys from bloc party and the brazilian girls at hiro ballroom in nyc.
i don't know if tickets are available on line yet or not.
i think it'll go from 11pm - 4 or 5 a.m.

http://degenerates-nyc.com

and then on saturday september 20th i'm playing with the little death at
mercury lounge.
if you want tickets you can get them here:

http://www.mercuryloungenyc.com/calendar/show/1997/

also dj'ing sunday at virgin fest here in toronto(yay canada), with tickets
available anywhere you get tickets in canada.
so, hopefully see you soon!
moby

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here’s the integrity of the gop in full effect.

here's the integrity of the gop in full effect.
nice consistent messaging by gop pundits...
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/politicalinsider/2008/09/the-case-against-talking-heads.html
moby

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ok, sorry, but i just got back from a brief trip to the desert

ok, sorry, but i just got back from a brief trip to the desert and now i'm headed
to toronto and i see that sarah palin lied her way through her rnc speech.
what the hell is it with republicans and their complete ease and comfort with
lying?
do they not think they'll be found out?
this is how sarah palin chooses to present herself to the world, by lying?
the day after her speech abc ran a fact check on her speech and found that she knowingly
lied/misrepresented the truth 5 different times in one speech.
i'd love to stop writing about politics, but how do you just sit back quietly while
the opposition party openly lies about your chosen candidate?
why aren't republicans comfortable running a campaign on issues and positions?
why do they feel the need to blatantly lie and misrepresent the truth?
ugh, disgusting.
ok, off to nice, sane canada.
moby

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ah boy, sorry, but another political one.

ah boy, sorry, but another political one.
the more i find out about sarah palin the more repulsed i am by the gop.
some fun facts about sarah palin(from the new york times and washington post)-
a-when she was first elected mayor she tried to have 'morally questionable'
books banned from her towns library
b-she fired the town librarian for being too moderate, and had to re-hire her
when the people of the town wanted her back.
c-she's currently under investigation for firing a police commissioner who refused
to fire a policeman who sarah pallin didn't like.  not a policeman who'd broken the law
or been bad at his job, but a policeman who was sarah palin's brother in law, and whom
she didn't like.  she's also under investigation for taking $100,000 in tax-payer
money to pay her legal bills.
d-the pastor of her church(where she was baptised and where she's worshipped for
most of her life)said that anyone voting for john kerry wasn't going to get into
heaven and that people who criticize president bush are going to hell.
literally, that's what he said.
e-a few months ago sarah palin was leading a prayer to god that went:
"I think God's will has to be done in unifying companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that," .
yes, she was praying to god to get oil companies to build a pipeline for natural gas.
who the hell is this person, and how in any way is she qualified to be vice-president
or, god forbid, president?
eesh, what are the republicans thinking?  and now the mccain camp and the republicans are
threatening to not talk to the media because they don't like the questions the media are
asking about sarah palin, like, 'how is someone who has literally no foreign policy experience
qualified to be president of the united states?'
ok, now i promise, no more politics for a while.
moby

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ok, i’ll stop writing about politics for a while

ok, i'll stop writing about politics for a while, but let's just clear up some
things.
for a start, mccain and obama's 'missed votes' in the current term:
according to the washington post:
mccain missed 407 votes in the current term
obama missed 290 votes in the current term.
let's move on, ok?  obama's not a muslim.  there's nothing wrong with being
a muslim, but obama's not a muslim.  he was brought up christian and was
married in a christian church and his kids were baptised in a christian church
and he talks often about his christianity.
again, if he were a muslim it'd be no big deal to me, personally, but he's a christian.
john mccain is on wife 2.  he divorced his current wife after she had an accident.
he admits that he was cheating on wife 1 with wife 2 when wife 1 was in the hospital.
obama is on wife 1.
this disturbs me: john mccain called his wife a cunt.  oops, to quote senator mccain, 'a cunt'.  he lost his temper
in public and was recorded saying to his wife, 'at least i don't plaster on the makeup
like a trollop, you cunt.'  this is the same wife who has bought him his homes and lets
him use her private planes.
(note, 'trollop' is ye olde english for 'whore').
people talk about obama's experience being similar to sarah palin.
well, obama was the head of the harvard law review, then he was a civil rights
lawyer and a community organizer in chicago, then he spent 7 years in the illinois
state senate.  now he is currently serving his first term in d.c as a senator from illinois.
sarah pallin was a runner up in the miss alaska beauty contest, a member of the pta, a member of the wallis chamber of commerce(pop. 5,000),
the mayor of wallis(pop. 5,000), and is currently in her first term as governor of alaska.
political discourse doesn't need to be rancorous(unless it's funny).
it does sort of drive me crazy when republicans spout un-truths in order to criticize
obama('he's a muslim and a socialist!'...again, he's neither).
if you disagree with someone's political philosophy, fine, then don't vote for them.
but spreading lies and mistruths doesn't end up serving anyone very well, especially
when the mistruths are so egregiously wrong.
mccain is more conservative, obama's more liberal.  mccain is anti-choice, obama
is pro-choice.  mccain has said that he could see u.s troops being in iraq for 100 years,
obama wants to bring them home sooner.  mccain wants to make bush's tax cuts(which
primarily benefit the wealthy)permanent, and obama wants to cut taxes for the middle
class and the poor and raise taxes for the wealthy.  mccain voted against legislation
that would help women earn equal pay, obama voted for legislation that would help
women earn equal pay.  and so on.
you find the candidate you agree with and you vote for them.  if you feel strongly you give
money to their campaign and maybe try to talk other people into voting for him/her.
spreading mis-truths about the candidate you disagree with just makes you look silly and ends up cheapening the debate.
ok, time for a break from politics.
i just ask that you at least be civil with each other(or be funny.  if you're going to be an asshole
at least be a funny asshole.  same thing goes with being wrong.  if you're going
to be wrong, at least entertain us in your wrong-ness.  something like: 'obama wears
an upside down nazi flag pin made from the sweat of the devil!  and his full name is actually 'barack hussein
baby-eater mussolini witchcraft burn-the-flag socialist black helicopter herpes obama'.  see, that would be funny.
if you're going to be wrong or an asshole, be a wrong, funny asshole).
oh, and thanks for coming to wembley tonight if you came to wembley.
and then after wembley i dj'ed at re-tox(which is an awesome name for a night)in east
london.  that was fun.
moby

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ok, i’m sorry, i just can’t stop...
Category: News and Politics

ok, i'm sorry, i just can't stop...
heading out to dj in london, but i have to share this pearl of wisdom from
john mccain's wife, cindy.
when asked about sarah palin's foreign policy experience
cindy mccain talked about how alaska is sort of close to russia...
so, by republican logic, sarah palin must have foreign policy experience because her state
is only some hundreds of miles from a remote, sparsely inhabited part of russia(never mind
that alaska is actually around 10,000 miles from moscow...).
so proximity = experience?
ok, so:
i live a few blocks from a mosque, does that mean i understand islam?
and, oh, they go deep sea fishing in the atlantic ocean, and new york
is on the atlantic ocean, so that means i understand deep sea fishing?
how exciting, see all you have to do is be SORT OF NEAR something to understand it.
this means that kids don't actually have to GO to school, they just need to live
sort of near to a school and they'll be educated through proximity.
eesh.
moby

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not to be too obsessed about mccain choosing sarah palin for his vp
Category: News and Politics

not to be too obsessed about mccain choosing sarah palin for his vp, but here are some quotes

from republicans and conservative newspapers in her home state, alaska.

for what it's worth, these quotes are coming from people who actually like her...

"She's not prepared to be governor. How can she be prepared to be vice president or president?" said Lyda Green, the president of the State Senate, a Republican from Palin's hometown of Wasilla.

"Most people would acknowledge that, regardless of her charm and good intentions, Palin is not ready for the top job. "

Daily news-miner in fairbanks

"It's stunning that someone with so little national and international experience might be heartbeat away from the presidency."

Anchorage Daily news

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ok, i can’t help myself.
Category: News and Politics

ok, i can't help myself.
here's john mccain talking about his running mate to people magazine:

Sen. McCain, of all the candidates you considered, what drew you to her?
JOHN: Obviously, I found her to be very intelligent and very well-versed on the issues. But I think the important thing was that she's a reformer. She's taken on special interests since she ran for the PTA and the city council. The courage, I guess, is what most impressed me.

ha ha ha.
she's qualified to be president because she's battled the special interests at an alaskan pta meeting?
whoa.
i mean we all know how vicious those alaskan pta meetings can be. it takes a candidate of true merit and courage to battle special
interests at a small town pta meeting.
one minute you're arguing with the lunch-lady lobby about the cost of school lunches and the next minute you're across
the table from russian president medvedev talking about strategic arms limitation treaties.
are they for real?
from membership on the city council of an alaskan town with a population of 5,000 to vice president of the united states?
mind boggling.
can anyone take them seriously at this point?
moby

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ok, just heading to uk now.
Category: News and Politics

ok, just heading to uk now.
one last political observation:
the day that obama gave his speech in denver last week was the anniversary of martin luther king's 'i have a dream' speech.
and next thursday when john mccain plans on giving his speech in minneapolis will be the anniversary of the introduction of
the edsel.
the edsel, in case you're unaware, was the least successful big automobile launch in the history
of the automotive industry.
it's basically synonymous with failure.
ok, enough about politics for the time being. hopefully see you in london or toronto.
have a nice weekend.
moby

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i think this is blog 42.
Category: News and Politics

i think this is blog 42.
the truth is that i have no idea.
right now i'm at jfk getting ready to fly to england for the last show of my summer euro-tour, which will
be at wembley stadium with pendulum and carl craig on sunday, come by if you're in london.
i'm writing this last convention blog(even though the convention is over and i'm far from denver)because
the nice people at blender asked me to write a 'wrap up' blog about the convention.
so, to wrap up, politics are:
1-like sausages, less appealing when you know how they're created
2-like sports for people who don't really care about sports(like me and my effete, nerdy, limousine-liberal friends)
3-like an old hooker, more attractive when you're looking from a distance(and/or drunk).
i've always been politically obsessed. i was raised by politically obsessed family members, and i grew up playing
in hardcore punk bands, where a big part of the hardcore ethos/credo was political engagement.
another big part of the hardcore ethos/credo was being loud and confrontational, which has pretty much only
gotten me into trouble since i left the hardcore scene. eh, whatever, i'd probably be annoying even if i wasn't
loud and confrontational. i'd just be quietly annoying.
i love politics. well, i love politics as long as i don't actually spend too much time with politicians or
their underlings. politics is fun from a distance, and it's great conversation fodder when you're drinking beer in a shitty bar and you don't
want to talk about sports.
but if you've ever spent time around the lower echelons of the political hierarchy you learn pretty quickly that politics
isn't/aren't exactly glamorous.
less glamorous than the music business, even, and that's saying something, as the music business is about
as glamorous as a foot.
and not even a sexy foot, more like an accountants foot on day 3 of his vacation hiking through the adirondacks.
i had fun in denver. i saw some wacky left and right-wing protesters(i'm still trying to decide if it's healthy to be so angry about
issues that are utterly beyond your control), i ate at this great restaurant called 'watercourse'(with fantastic
art depicting herbivorous bunnies going on a killing spree, and a giant buffalo sharing a tiny canteen with a squirrel), i saw
some great art at the shep fairey gallery event, i saw some more wacky protesters(now i'm trying to find out if the anti-bird
porn movement is real, or just the work of someone funny like tom sachs), and i got to dj, which i love.
i also watched a bunch of genuinely moving speeches, and i realized that the democrats have more politico-rock-stars than the republicans.
at the dnc convention you had ted kennedy and bill clinton and hillary clinton and barack obama and a ton of relatively
young and smart and optimistic people.
at the rnc convention they're going to have cross-dressing rudy giuliani and only-kept-alive-by-the-blood-of-baby-ducks dick
cheney and gw bush and...who?
dark days for the republicans.
plus it looks like new orleans is about to get hit with another hurricane, right as the republican convention is getting underway.
and plus john mccain's vp nominee is a novice who lists 'ordering chinese food' as the bulk of her foreign policy experience.
it almost makes you feel sorry for the republicans. well, it would make you feel sorry for the republicans if they weren't a bunch of fear-mongering lunatics who are primarily interested in making
sure that every child in america learns that dinosaurs and humans co-existed 5,000 years ago and that embryonic stem-cells are best
respected by being thrown into dumpsters.
ok, time to go to the uk.
thanks for reading my inane convention blogs.
and, as always, i think that 'blog' is a disgusting word.
thanks
moby

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