A Part Of The Weekend Never Dies...

a truly spectacular song, and album i may add. both are shoe-ins for my best of lists which i will go into better detail later. the video reminds me of the imploding social concerns in america today...
what an original title for a post eh? haha, well it seems that the only time i have, and the only time i can ever get a post done is at school waiting for my next class to start, so here i am. and oh do i have so many thoughts on life in general to share with so many of you...
november 4th was truly a day that i will, and i hope, all of you will remember for the rest of your lives. Despite your political views, it was a historic day that has been a long time coming. It makes me angry how self loathing we can be to onto other races. and despite america "accepting" a black man as President, it is obvious that many, many people still have a problem with it. and many, many people are just afraid to say, "i don't like black people." i mean think about it, a poll was done recently that shows that 91% of people would not be honest with a poll person if the question may have been controversial or demeaning to another individual. so i was afraid, that these people who have such horrible feelings towards a race would come to a head on nov. 4th. but, we were fortunate to once again be a country of progression and took another dyanamic move forward as a country. maybe i won't leave this horrid country anymore after i graduate? hmm. nahhh.
godddddddd i don't understand conservatives...really. i mustttt portray my dismay as a Californian with prop 8 passing. not just because my aunt got married to her partner, but because as Americans we have to accept the idea that if we ever want to move forward to an equal society, allllllllllllll people must be treated that way. it is an absolute atrocity to let people's rights suffer due to a bunch of religious fundamentalists. people say that they vote yes on 8 because god says that marriage should only be between a man and a woman. bullshit. now, i consider myself an extremely religious person, but whatever happened to separation of church and state? whatever happened to equality? whatever happened to what we accomplished as a country in the 1960's? Our country has long since moved past the times of dissonance against each other. i thought what was great about being an american was how diverse our culture was? the way prop 8 passed was so hurtful because it represented what government SHOULD fear most...that the power of religious oppression has taken over our democratic ideals. i have heard so many arguments for and against, but overall i just laugh, because what people are really arguing is freedom of equality and human rights. passing prop 8 makes the rest of the world aware that we are no different then those islamic terrorists who turn to the koran for guidance. they base their bombings off of whats in the koran and what is loosely based on muhammad's preachings, so does this mean that since god mentions in the bible that marriage should only be between a man and a woman thousands of years ago, that we must turn to that as our vision of a free society? Absolutely ridiculous. inconsiderate, and immoral.
but i must also mention my discontent with the post prop 8 vision. i don't mind the protests etc. as that is our right as americans, but blaming the mormon church took it too far. Despite my discontent with the funding provided from LDS, no one is to blame but ourselves as human beings. taking our vision as moral citizens and making us barbaric animals. using children as a defense to promote the initiative took it too far, and as Californians it just seemed easier to blame a particular church, because all the people share the same vision, despite the Catholic and various other churches also preaching to pass the initiative. but we can't blame them can we? there are too many of them, its taboo, and also impossible to blame an entire sect of Christianity.
our motives as Americans should be to show we can move away from old religious oppression, and into a more sincere way of life. as i said, i consider myself a very religious individual, but i do not let my feelings toward my faith guide my feelings toward humanity. you may say, i let god guide what i do in life, which is great, but do you think god would want to oppress others in a demeaning way? God mentions many, many times in the bible how all are created under the same hand, so why should all of humanity who was created in "his image" be treated unequivacally? It hurts to know that so many of you feel so strongly about this, and how this initiative passed. every other world power, besides maybe russia is very accepting of homosexuality, but what we are doing is what Iran is doing, further denying that homosexuality exists. As americans we are prolonging the inevitable, and i just hope that since we elected such a minority to office, that someday we can look at each other as equals, and not let our religious ideals guide our views toward human rights.
Californians - we give rights to pigs, but take them away from humans? God, i love this country.
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The Change in Dance Music
if you only want to read politics, i'm done, now i'm on to what i care about most, music. halloween was truly a great night, despite filled with some missteps, it was a night i will never forget. but one thing, i need to talk about, as a lot of others have been talking about lately, is how commercial dance music and the genres surrounding it have become. while at hardfest, that became even more aware. as me and my friends just want to watch our fave acts, you can't help but be pushed around by some douchebags wearing football jerseys, or worse raider jerseys. in the past year, dance music has changed to appeal to the masses, in large due to the success of justice. justice has changed the genre forever, and despite raising the genre's record sales through the roof, the audience that has been turned on to dance and house are the people that hipsters attempt to get away from. i couldn't help but be angry when i stand in place, where i've waited for, for a long time, enjoying an amazing act, in soulwax, when i get pushed out of my place by a bunch of idiots who start screaming, "bring on justice!" with all due respect to justice, i love everything they have done for the industry, but they ARE NOT as good as soulwax, or many many other acts for that matter. but there is something about justice that appeals to everyone. whether it be the success of "D.A.N.C.E." or perhaps the mega hit "we are your friends," they have become gods in the genre, and i just don't understand why.
what bugs me is not only that myself, along with a lottt of other people are music snobs and don't like our music to become commercial, but its who likes it and why they care so much for this particular band that is so irritating. honestly, i don't think half of the people at hardfest knew who any of the acts were except for justice. but has justice been overrated from the beginning? i absolutely believe so. despite "cross" being a dynamic, and very important and well crafted album, it simply, is not thattt good. i think initially people liked it because it was a new sound that had never before been heard, but i listened to it just last week, and could barely make it through it all. the sound has been done, and redone, (better i might add). and its impact is no longer as strong as it used to be.
as "cross" has now been out for almost 2 years, justice are still touring the world, perfoming hundreds of shows a year, and not working on ANY new material. the funny thing is, justice is largely a US phenomenon. despite being big in their native france and elsewhere in europe, they are not nearly as well respected as others. in fact, i know many europeans that can't stand them... in short, justice have long outstayed their welcome, and i am very curious if they can outlive the sophomore slump. with new albums next year expected from dance powerhouses daft punk, i can only hope that they regain the title as kings, and hope that xavier and gaspard go into the studio, and don't come out till they please their initial audience, and stay away from the douchebag audience that have fallen in love as i once did...

ahhhh. well now since that is off my chest, i'm getting excited as we get closer to the end of the year, which meansssss best of lists!! i have already been preparing my three best of lists for this year, which include: the best albums of 2008, the best songs of 2008, and one i have been working hard on, the best albums of all time (1980 - present). i'm nearly complete with all of them, but the year isn't over yet, as we still have albums from kanye west (allegedly) and deerhunter etc. coming up.
as mentioned, i am a music snob, and you may have been able to tell by what i post on my blog. if you noticed, i don't post dance music, largely because that is the music that means most to me. i honestly hear, at least 50 remixes or covers, or dance anthems a week, but i only post those that i don't care if you like or not, because i always fear i will turn the radio on, and my favorite song will be playing. but despite this, my best of list will include a few of my dance favorites which will be available for download, so i will let you dance your pants off.
okayyyy so for music today, its justtt covers. the first is a classic modest mouse cover from ben lee. the next is an either you love or hate it cover of cold war kids. then a really fun klaxons cover and to close it out an always depressing ryan adams cover haha.
i think this is the longest post i've ever done...wow. well enjoy the weekend. thug life.

ben lee - float on (modest mouse cover)
florence and the machine - hospital beds (cold war kids cover)
kaiser chiefs - golden skans (klaxons cover)
ryan adams - times like these (foo fighters cover)