You might have noticed that I haven't been saying much about the presidential primaries.


April 14, 2008

You might have noticed that I haven't been saying much about the presidential primaries.
That's mainly because the campaigns have gone from being interesting and compelling to uh, distasteful and, well, adolescent? Post-adolescent? Pre?
Most of the back and forth between the candidates and their surrogates(oh the surrogates, oi)just sounds like playground tattle-tale-ing('ms hoover, barack said a bad word! You should give him detention, ms hoover.')
Take obamas comment recently that economically insecure people might turn to old standby's like guns and religion.
Not the smartest thing to say, but not exactly earth-shattering.
And then mccain and hillary jump on obama for being 'elitist'.
Um, huh.
Hillary and mccain live in million dollar houses and travel in private planes. They're each worth tens of millions of dollars. They got advanced degrees from fancy colleges. And they're calling obama 'elitist'?
To quote david brent from the office, 'hello? Kettle, pot, black?'
They're politicians and they're all elitist, that's a given, no?
Its not like any of the candidates live in a double-wide and spend their evenings watching dr phil and washing government cheese down with bud lights while the neighbors kids shoot cats with a .22.
I still hope that obama gets the nomination and becomes president.
And, for what its worth, even though I'm probably considered by lots of people to be an elitist now, I can say from experience that government cheese is fucking rough.
I figure I paid my non-elitist dues when I was 10 and my mom sent me to the supermarket to try and use foodstamps to get cigarettes for her. That and adjusting the wire hanger in the salvation army tv so we could watch 'a-team'.
Or doing homework in the car outside of the laundromat.
Ah, I could go on all night...
White trash rules.
And obama should stay away from bowling alleys.
It would make a good slogan:
'Obama: good president, terrible bowler'.
And the best bowling in manhattan is at the port authority bowling alley.
They sell beer by the yard. Its awesome.
Ok, time for bed.
Moby

Just letting you know

Submitted by koufuku on April 14, 2008 - 11:59pm.

Sorry...
you were probably hoping for a comment more political and related to your post, but 1) I'm Canadian (though that's probably no excuse, as American politics are pretty entertaining these days) and 2) I really just wanted to write this before the whole able-to-type-to-moby-directly thing became too popular for your reading. The first (and now last?) CD I've bought in ages was your newest one, and it's cool. But I bought it not because of an attraction to 'undeniable genius in music'... but rather because your journal is something I've been reading for a long time now... in fact, something which in itself dedicated me more to your music.

I just wanted to let you know that... though we'll probably never meet, you can consider me a friend reading your journal :-)

Thanks for the new album!

Submitted by axlk4 on April 14, 2008 - 11:40pm.

I am currently listening to Last Night, I must say I love,love,love it!! Have fun on your tour, great tunes!! I must sail off and enjoy....;o)~~~~~

~~~projecting our images in space and in time~~~

hi there

Submitted by vegmoz on April 14, 2008 - 10:51pm.

i have just found your blog because of epicourious´s cooking video (btw i have made the pancakes, they didn´t looked so well as yours, but they were delicious!)

i really admire you for your animal rights activism (your designs of Peta´s t-shirts are great!)

but I also like your music, since before I became vegan...

cheers!

t

go veg!

white trash rules

Submitted by belle on April 14, 2008 - 5:25pm.

One question, what is "beer by the yard"?

I'm not much in to politics

Submitted by brittle_liquid on April 14, 2008 - 10:22am.

I'm not much in to politics myself, it's against my personal ethic to aid and abet career criminals. To wear out an old cliche "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions". Although many people start out with lofty ideals when they enter the political arena, most budding politicians flush those ideals(or seriously compromise them)long before they have achieved their publicly elected ambitions. Have to disagree about the cheese though, I thought it was 1st rate, which isn't saying much here in Hillbilly Hell. The powdered milk and rice, on the other hand, wasn't fit for 3rd world consumption. *sigh* I kinda miss the Green Eggs and Guba'ment Cheese... That'd make a great cubist still life=8^)

www.brittleliquid.com

Can't come out to play...

Submitted by Joost on April 14, 2008 - 7:21am.

Hi Mister Moby, nice to meet you.

I'm Joost from Amsterdam but living in France for a couple of months; in rehab after twenty years of partying. It's about time to grow up (a bit).
My best friend came to visit me and brought your new album: loved it. Lately I'm really into the 'old sounds' again. Your CD might be useful for regression therapy, haha.
Just read that you will be playing in Paris tomorrow. Wish I could attend, but too late (I'm in Brittany) and in rehab...
I'm thinking about throwing a party when I return to Amsterdam though...Rehab-the afterparty. Wanna play?

Keep on doing what you do best please!
Joost