hi,
moveon are in the midst of a massive get-out-the-vote campaign.
please register to volunteer here:
http://pol.moveon.org/pac/phone/volunteer/index.html
we have a great chance to take back the house and senate, and a huge part of this involves get out the vote initiatives like this.
thanks!
moby
oh, 'greasy?' you ask?
yes, greasy.
cos i had a huge dinner last night and then a big breakfast
and then en route to the airport i stopped at a healthfood store(aka-shoppe)and bought a big bag of greasy food and then got to the airport and realized that i wouldn't be able to take it past security(well, turns out i could, but i was paranoid. and hungry)so i ate most of it and then just had a nice dinner in milan.
so if you see me on the television or perhaps in one of the periodicals that are popular with the young people you'll possibly notice that i'm greasy and porky.
well, insofar as a vegan can be porky.
vegan pork.
although i'm a vegan i still reserve the right to use animal based terms of derision and/or endearment. ok?
porky
honey
beefy
sausage(one of my favorite terms of endearment)
crabby
sheepish
etc.
oh, 'cheesy'. back in the rave days i did occasionally get the adjective 'cheesy' used to describe some of my hands-in-the-air rave records.
it's true.
and today i was at the Q awards where:
a-jonathan ross was very funny
and
b-peter gabriel was great and gracious
and
c-the british music cognoscenti started drinking at noon(i didn't. maybe i'm a sissy but i just can't bring myself to get drunk during the daytime. yes, i'm a sissy.).
now in milan then off to copenhagen tomorrow for the mtv awards on thursday.
i think they're on thursday.
i'm just presenting an award. or so i believe.
maybe that's a theme to this trip: award presentation.
yes, i'm in a hotel and i'm rambling on about nothing.
g'night,
moby
a-i'm in the uk and i just washed my hands and the soap smelled funny so now my hands smell funny. not that heinous 'dial' smell, however, but still kind of gross. this is my second update that mentions bad smelling soap. i must be bored.
b-the daytime flight from nyc to the uk is great. you sit in your little pod and look out of the windows and read books and watch trashy movies and it's utterly relaxing and nice. i could even be tempted to fly from nyc to the uk just for the relaxation value. no, i'm not schilling for the airlines, i just like the daytime nyc-uk flight. again, i must be bored.
c-tomorrow i'm giving an award to peter gabriel at the q awards. oops, am i allowed to write that? i hope it doesn't ruin the surprise.
d-then over the next 12 days i get to go to italy, denmark, back to the uk, france, belgium, germany, madrid, valencia, back to the uk, and back to the country of new york city. ok, 'nyc' isn't a 'country'. it's more of a 'principality'. well, no. but i like to pretend that it is. 'the sovereign and independent country of new york city'. doesn't that have a good ring to it? come on, america, let my people go.
e-how about those baseball teams, huh? go baseball. isn't it world series time? are the mets or yankees involved? no, that's right, they're not. that's why i know nothing about the world series. did it already happen? i'm so provincial, sorry. i also like the red sox because my great grandmother loved the red sox. i might've written about this before, but whenever there was a red sox game she would wear her red sox hat and sit by the radio and listen(she didn't have a tv. and she was 97 years old).
f-i think i'm running out of things to write about in this abecedarian series.
g-'abecedarian' is a good word.
h-i'm really running out of things to write about.
i-say goodnight now.
-moby
i have a regular/faithful republican stalwart/reader.
his name is robbie.
after the recent spate of rush limbaugh ridiculing parkinsons sufferers and republicans
lying to stay in power and being indicted i sent him this email:
-moby
robbie,
how can you call yourself a republican?
they're bankrupt, both ideologically and ethically.
you're better than that and smarter than that.
do you really want to be aligned with a party that kills innocents in iraq and ridicules parkinson's sufferers and lies and is deeply and profoundly corrupt?
i'm not saying you should become a democrat, but seriously, 'republican' in 2006 just stands for indictments and lies and hypocrisy and corruption.
the reagan republican ideal of small government and ethical, responsible governing is dead.
you're better than this, robbie.
'republican' used to stand for something honorable. now it just stands for doing the bidding of big corporations and staying in power at any cost, no matter how unethical or despicable.
again, you're better and smarter than that, robbie.
i hope that you can use your insight and intelligence to see that principles are more important than partisan affiliation.
moby
from rush limbaugh mocking michael j. fox' parkinson's disease to negative ads that are egregiously offensive, the republicans have not just ceded the moral high-ground, they are wallowing in truly despicable filth.
i don't see how anyone can support the republicans at this point. i'm ashamed to share my country with these people.
please read this article for more examples.
moby
The Year Of Playing Dirtier
Negative Ads Get Positively Surreal
By Michael Grunwald
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 27, 2006; Page A01
Rep. Ron Kind pays for sex!
Well, that's what the Republican challenger for his Wisconsin congressional seat, Paul R. Nelson, claims in new ads, the ones with "XXX" stamped across Kind's face.
It turns out that Kind -- along with more than 200 of his fellow hedonists in the House -- opposed an unsuccessful effort to stop the National Institutes of Health from pursuing peer-reviewed sex studies. According to Nelson's ads, the Democrat also wants to "let illegal aliens burn the American flag" and "allow convicted child molesters to enter this country."
On the brink of what could be a power-shifting election, it is kitchen-sink time: Desperate Republican candidates are throwing everything. While negative campaigning is a tradition in American politics, this year's version in many races has an eccentric shade, filled with allegations of moral bankruptcy and sexual perversion.
The result has been a carnival of ugly, where operatives are trying to counter what polls show is a hostile political environment by casting opponents as fatally flawed characters. The National Republican Campaign Committee is spending more than 90 percent of its advertising budget on negative ads, according to GOP operatives, and the rest of the party seems to be following suit. A few examples of the "character issues" taking center stage two weeks before Election Day:
· In New York, the NRCC ran an ad accusing Democratic House candidate Michael A. Arcuri, a district attorney, of using taxpayer dollars for phone sex. "Hi, sexy," a dancing woman purrs. "You've reached the live, one-on-one fantasy line." It turns out that one of Arcuri's aides had tried to call the state Division of Criminal Justice, which had a number that was almost identical to that of a porn line. The misdial cost taxpayers $1.25.
In Ohio, GOP gubernatorial candidate J. Kenneth Blackwell, trailing by more than 20 points in polls, has accused front-running Democratic Rep. Ted Strickland of protecting a former aide who was convicted in 1994 on a misdemeanor indecency charge. Blackwell's campaign is also warning voters through suggestive "push polls" that Strickland failed to support a resolution condemning sex between adults and children. Strickland, a psychiatrist, objected to a line suggesting that sexually abused children cannot have healthy relationships when they grow up.
The Republican Party of Wisconsin distributed a mailing linking Democratic House candidate Steve Kagen to a convicted serial killer and child rapist. The supposed connection: The "bloodthirsty" attorney for the killer had also done legal work for Kagen.
· In two dozen congressional districts, a political action committee supported by a white Indianapolis businessman, J. Patrick Rooney, is running ads saying Democrats want to abort black babies. A voice says, "If you make a little mistake with one of your hos, you'll want to dispose of that problem tout de suite, no questions asked."
· In the most controversial recent ad, the Republican National Committee slammed Rep. Harold E. Ford Jr. (D-Tenn.) for attending a Playboy-sponsored Super Bowl party. In the ad, a scantily clad white actress winks as she reminisces about good times with Ford, who is black. That ad has been pulled, but the RNC has a new one saying Ford "wants to give the abortion pill to schoolchildren."
Some Democrats are playing rough, too. House candidate Chris Carney is running ads slamming the "family values" of Rep. Don Sherwood (R-Pa.), whose former mistress accused him of choking her. And House candidate Kirsten Gillibrand has an ad online ridiculing Rep. John E. Sweeney (R-N.Y.) for attending a late-night fraternity party. "What's a 50-year-old man doing at a frat party anyway?" one young woman asks, as a faux Sweeney boogies behind her to the Beastie Boys. "Totally creeping me out!" another responds.
But most harsh Democratic attacks have focused on the policies and performance of the GOP majority, trying to link Republicans to Bush, the unpopular war in Iraq and the scandals involving former representative Mark Foley and former lobbyist Jack Abramoff. That is not surprising, given that polls show two-thirds of the electorate thinks the country is going in the wrong direction. And studies show that negative ads can reduce turnout; Democrats hope a constant drumbeat of scandal, Iraq and "stay the course" will persuade conservatives to stay home on Nov. 7.
It is harder for Republicans to blame out-of-power Democrats for the current state of Washington, but they are equally eager to depress Democratic turnout and fire up their conservative base. One GOP strategy has been raising the specter of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a San Francisco liberal, becoming speaker; for example, Rep. John N. Hostettler (R-Ind.) is airing radio ads warning that a Democratic victory would allow Pelosi to "put in motion her radical plan to advance the homosexual agenda."
Some of this year's negative ads are more substantive, reprising a successful Republican strategy from 2002 and 2004: portraying Democrats as soft on terrorism. A host of Democrats have been accused of trying to "cut and run" in Iraq -- including House candidate Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, who lost both legs in Iraq.
The "pays for sex" ad against Kind in Wisconsin -- along with a similar one aired against Rep. Brad Miller (D-N.C.) -- may be the most extreme. It says Kind spent tax dollars to study "the sex lives of Vietnamese prostitutes" and "the masturbation habits of old men" and "to pay teenage girls to watch pornographic movies with probes connected to their genitalia." Cue the punch line: "Ron Kind pays for sex, but not for soldiers." The Wisconsin Republican Party denounced the ad, and several TV stations refused to air it, but that only got it more attention. It is the centerpiece of Nelson's Web site: "This ad is so powerful, a sitting U.S. Congressman threatened TV stations with legal action if they dared to play it."
Kind joked in an interview that he has been paying for sex ever since he said "I do." But on a more serious note, he said Nelson's attack ad is typical of modern politics, in which desperate candidates can attract media coverage and rally their base with distortion. He opposed the amendment in question -- as did many Republicans -- because he does not think Congress should interfere in peer-reviewed NIH studies, not because of any interest in teenage genitalia. That particular study, incidentally, had nothing to do with teenagers.
"Man, it's a crazy system, and it's getting worse every year," Kind said. "We rip each other to shreds, and then we're all supposed to come back to Washington and try to work together. It's a hell of a way to elect representatives."
hi,
there's some confusion around the different track listings and configurations in different
countries of 'go the very best of moby'.
this confusion is understandable, as almost every different country has it's own track listing
and configuration.
i'll try to clear it up somehow. here goes:
the album is available as either:
a: a regular CD(aka a regular cd)
b: a deluxe bonus disc edition(which features a 30 minute film about me, aka: moby the narcissist)
c: a downloadable album(aka-itunes, etc)
d: a downloadable deluxe version featuring 7 bonus tracks(aka itunes plus more stuff)-
1. New York, New York (Rock version)
2. Go (Moby 2006)
3. Go (Vitalic mix)
4. In My Heart (Sandy Rivera)
5. Porcelain (Tanzmann)
6. Porcelain (Murk)
7. God Moving Over The face of Waters
and all cd formats(outside of north america) come with OpenDisc technology with bonus content, including free downloads of songs that we recorded in santiago, chile.
here are the track listings per country:
Countries that are not the uk, france, spain, north america, or latin america:
1. Natural Blues
2. Lift Me Up (Jeremy Wheatley Mix)
3. Porcelain
4. In This World
5. Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?
6. James Bond Theme (Moby’s Re-Version)
7. Go
8. New York, New York, featuring Debbie Harry
9. Find My Baby
10. In My Heart
11. Feeling So Real
12. We Are All Made of Stars
13. Move
14. Honey
15. Slipping Away (Crier La Vie) with Mylene Farmer
UK Track Listing:
1. Go
2. Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?
3. In This World
4. Porcelain
5. In My Heart
6. New York, New York, featuring Debbie Harry
7. Natural Blues
8. Lift Me Up (Jeremy Wheatley Mix)
9. Bodyrock
10. We Are All Made Of Stars
11. Slipping Away
12. Honey
13. Move
14. James Bond Theme
15. Feeling So Real
Spanish Track Listing:
1. Natural Blues
2. Slipping away feat. Amaral / Escapar
3. Lift Me Up (Jeremy Wheatley Mix)
4. Porcelain
5. In This World
6. Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?
7. James Bond Theme (Moby’s Re-Version)
8. Go
9. New York, New York, featuring Debbie Harry
10. Find My Baby
11. In My Heart
12. Bodyrock
13. We Are All Made of Stars
14. Honey
15. Beautiful
French Track Listing:
1. Natural Blues
2. Slipping Away (Crier La Vie) with Mylene Farmer
3. Porcelain
4. In This World
5. Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?
6. We Are All Made of Stars
7. Find My Baby
8. In My Heart
9. Lift Me Up (Jeremy Wheatley Mix)
10. Honey featuring Kelis
11. New York, New York, featuring Debbie Harry
12. Beautiful
13. Run On
14. Go
15. James Bond Theme
Latin American Track Listing
1. Natural Blues
2. Lift Me Up (Jeremy Wheatley Mix)
3. Porcelain
4. In This World
5. Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?
6. James Bond Theme (Moby’s Re-Version)
7. Go
8. Bodyrock
9. New York, New York, featuring Debbie Harry
10. Find My Baby
11. In My Heart
12. Feeling So Real
13. We Are All Made of Stars
14. Beautiful
15. Move
16. Honey
17. Slipping Away (Crier La Vie) with Mylene farmer
North America Track Listing(released october 24th)
1. Natural Blues
2. Go - 2006
3. Porcelain
4. We Are All Made of Stars
5. Dream About Me
6. New York, New York
7. In This World
8. South Side
9. Beautiful
10. Extreme Ways
11. Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?
12. In My Heart
13. Honey
14. Lift Me Up
15. Feeling So Real (Live In London)
16. God Moving Over the Face of the Waters
i hope that this helps.
and, as it's the season, have a happy halloween if you live in a country that celebrates halloween.
if you don't live in a country that celebrates halloween, well, maybe you should take a quick
vacation to a country where they do celebrate halloween(like the country of new york city, for example).
here in nyc we have a halloween parade on 6th avenue that is fantastic.
but this year, alas, i'll be in europe for halloween and won't be able to go and watch the annual and fantastic nyc halloween parade on 6th avenue.
i like europe, but i'd rather be in nyc for halloween.
i even had my halloween costume planned out. i was going to go as corky st. claire from 'waiting for guffman'. all i'd need is a bad goatee, a bad toupee, and backwards clothes with a backwards sweater vest. an obscure costume, granted, but a good one, right?
ok, have a nice halloween.
moby
oh, i forgot to mention that 'go the best of moby(aka me)' came out in north america yesterday.
and, as shameless as it might be to schill for my own record, it's a pretty good deal(i can't objectively say that it's a good record. i think it's a good record, but taste is subjective. hopefully you'll like it).
it contains about 300 songs(actually it has 15 songs on disc1 and 8 or 10 or so full length
remixes on disc2).
if you go to itunes in north america you can get all 300 songs(well, as i wrote earlier it's actually more like 23 or 25 songs or so)for $11.99.
or you could just mug an old lady who might've just bought it and then steal her copy.
i'm not advocating mugging old ladies, nor am i advocating stealing things from freshly mugged old ladies. i'm just trying to be funny. operative word: trying.
in about 8 or 9 days the 'go the best of moby(aka me)' will come out in the rest of the world and it will have a bonus dvd with all of my videos and a little movie about, well, me(yes, i'm a complete and full blown narcissist. i'm going to go make out with myself in the mirror a la sarah silverman at the end of 'jesus is magic'. actually i'd rather make out with sarah silverman. but she's taken.).
so, to re-cap:
'go the best of moby(aka me)' is now out in north america and comes with 2 discs and a lot of music.
'go the best of moby(aka me, i know the 'aka me' joke is getting tired, sorry)' is out in the rest of the world(aka-not north america)in about a week and comes with 2 discs and all of my music videos and a movie about king mo the full blown narcissist.
-moby
p.s-i read an i-tunes review wherein the listener criticized me by saying 'most musicians wait 15 years to put out a best of'. this made me laugh and it made me realize that i'm kind of old cos 'go' was actually released 16 years ago TODAY. yes, the orginal 'go' was released on instinct records in october(or november, i don't completely remember. the 'TODAY' part just seemed dramatic)1990.
i was 25. i had hair. i lived on 14th and 3rd with damian loeb and stretch armstrong and lee millazzo. i returned cans at the a&p in union square(now it's a food emporium)to get extra money to buy soymilk. i dj'ed sporadically and was making, on average, $10,000 a year. my rent was $225 a month. i bought my vinyl at dance trax and vinyl mania. i answered the phones at instinct when i wasn't making music. and so on. and so on. now it's 2006. whoo-boy, time passes quickly.
many of us have strong opinions about the war in iraq.
but most of us have never been to iraq, thus rendering our opinions relatively compromised.
votevets.org is an organization of iraqi war vets who have returned home to run for congress and hopefully help shape a foreign policy that is based on experience, and not armchair conjecture.
is their website.
and:
http://pistolerapost2.com/zimmark/vetsweeney01.mov
is one of their ads.
please, if you can, give money and support to votevets.
thanks,
moby
a-the 'new york new york' video is on the homepage of youtube. if you still haven't seen it, well, it's there. and you can see my AWESOME breakdancing skills(keeping in mind that i couldn't breakdance to save my life. it's, as i've said, a breakdancing double. sorry
to ruin the illusion).
b-aforementioned song 'new york new york' is for sale on itunes in the uk. just fyi.
c-i have to go to the dentist again today. i know: sexy and exciting and the fun never stops here in glamorous new york.
d-i think that i've written 'new york' more times in this blog(i still hate that word)than ever before.
e-i finally saw 'team america'. you know, 'bigger longer and uncut' is one of my favorite movies of all time, but 'team america' just seemed a bit flat. i did like the generic rapport between the americans, and the sex scene was good, but it just didn't seem to be as good/funny as the southpark movie. i know, everyone's a critic. and poor hans blix...fed to a shark.
f-after reading that review i realized that i absolutely have no business reviewing movies. my review reminded me of 'reading rainbow' reviews by 9 year olds, 'this is a great book about horses. one horse even jumped a fence. if you like horses, this book is for you.'
g-that's it. time to go gird my loins and prepare for battle in the dentists chair.
h-fuck, i really hate the dentist. why am i cursed with soft and crappy teeth?
oh, that's right, inbreeding.
have a good day,
moby
cyberscot sent me a remix of 'in my heart' done by felix medersten, and it's really good so i've put it up on my myspace page.
thanks ricky and felix!
in other news: it's sunday morning and it's cold and the sun is shining and that's all that i have to report.
thanks,
moby
from time to time i look in my inbox and i see letters from some random stranger claiming that their father/uncle/brother/husband is the former president/manager/etc of the central bank of gambia/turkmenistan/sumatra and that if i'd only give them my bank account # they'd happily give me a significant fee/percentage for allowing me to transfer legitimate funds out of their country and into the u.s.
whenever i receive these(or random spam for pharmeceuticals)i wonder, 'do these ever work?'
like, for example, the guy in the bar who walks up to women and uses dreadful pickup lines and routinely gets ignored or laughed at.
these approaches(dreadful pick-up lines or 'give me your account information' spam)have to work sometimes, right?
otherwise the guy in the bar would try a different approach and the spammers would try other ways to get people's account info.
right?
so:
option one: people are using the same failed approaches over and over again in the hope that someday they'll meet with success. kind of like the 'if you put a thousand monkeys in a room eventually they'll write a sonnet' school of unjustified optimism.
or
option two: occasionally these approaches actually work. occasionally the guy in the bar finds someone naive or desperate enough to respond to his schtick, and occasionally the spammers get someone naive or dumb enough to send them their account info.
i don't know. i do know that the 'give me your account info and i'll give you FREE MONEY'
emails are fantastic and entertaining.
i hope that someone somewhere is archiving spam. in 20 years from now we'll all look back nostalgically at pre-holographic spam...'remember when spam was only text? now it's those annoying holograms who show up in your bathroom when you're in the shower.'
one generations junk is the next generations nostalgic treasure.
in fact it's one of my only regrets that i wasn't more diligent about saving photos/fliers/cassettes/letters/etc from when i was growing up and in school.
i'm not advocating hoarding, but it's probably a good idea to save stuff now(that doesn't take up too much space)and then throw it away in 20 years.
ok, that sounds like an advocacy for hoarding. maybe just save the good stuff.
or make time capsules.
no one ever regrets making a time capsule(unless it's a smallpox/ebola time capsule. then it might be regrettable.).
ok, it's late. time for sleep.
-moby
a republican running for office in southern california sent a letter to latinos saying that they could go to jail if they vote.
awesome.
so let's see...
republican pedophiles? check.
republican vote suppressors? check.
republicans indicted for fraud? check.
and so on, and so on.
apart from the fun of schadenfreude it's almost amazing how quickly and comprehensively the republican party have fallen apart.
now most republicans aren't mentioning the war or national security in their campaigns, and most republicans are doing everything in their power to distance themselves from bush and the white house.
the democrats still might lose the mid-term elections, but it's safe to say that most republicans are not sleeping too well these days.
i wonder which of the following the republicans will try in the next couple of weeks?
raising the terror threat to yellow or orange?
asking bin laden to send in another threatening videotape?
lowering gas prices to $.25 a gallon?
comparing democratic amputee vets to hitler or pol pot?
it really is a shame that not a single republican is actually voting on republican accomplishments.
why is that?
well, uh, cos the only republican accomplishments seem to be a hyper-inflated deficit, a needless and bloody and expensive war in iraq, a poorly waged war in afghanistan, a disastrous response to katrina, tax-cuts for the wealthiest americans, outsourcing of jobs, and making sure that the teaching of evolution is kept out of classrooms in kansas.
should be an interesting mid-term election.
moby
thanks everybody for coming to tonic last night.
(and thanks especially to dj mr bill for dj'ing at the end of the night!).
i love playing live in tiny venues.
i know that every musicians goal should be to play huge stadiums, but i much prefer small venues that hold 150 people.
i actually don't understand why the rolling stones would choose to play stadiums when they could play tiny venues instead.
ok, stadiums have their place and can be big and dramatic, but tiny venues are so much more fun.
we ended up going out until quite late last night so i'm feeling a bit, uh, slow today.
but thanks again, i hope that you all had a good time.
moby
bill maher might have his shortcomings, but his epistles are always really good.
-moby
Oct. 13, 2006 | If you think the worst thing Congress doesn't
protect young people from is Mark Foley, wake up and smell the
burning planet. The ice caps are cracking, the coral reefs are
bleaching, and we're losing two species an hour. The birds have
bird flu, the cows have mad cow, and our poisoned groundwater has
turned spinach into a side dish of mass destruction. Our schools
are shooting galleries, our beaches are cancer wards, and under
George W. Bush -- for the first time in 45 years -- our country's
infant mortality rate actually went up.
Read the labels on your food. It turns out the healthiest thing
you can put in your body is Mark Foley's penis. He was probably
the first fruit those pages ever came into contact with that
wasn't drenched in pesticide.
But that's America for you -- a red herring culture, always
scared of the wrong things. The fact is, there are a lot of
creepy middle-aged men out there lusting for your kids. They work
for MTV, the pharmaceutical industry, McDonald's, Marlboro and K
Street. And recently, there's been a rash of strangers making
their way onto school campuses and targeting our children for
death. They're called military recruiters.
More young Americans were crippled in Iraq last month than in any
month in the past three years. And the scandal is that Mark Foley
wants to show them a good time before they go? When will our
closeted gay congressmen learn? Our boys aren't for pleasure.
They're for cannon fodder. They shouldn't be another notch on
your bedpost. They should be a comma in Bush's war. If I hear a
zipper, it had better be on a body bag.
Why aren't Democrats and the media hammering away every day about
who we're supposed to be fighting for over there and what the
plan is. Yes, Mark Foley was wrong to ask teenagers how long
their penises were -- but at least someone on Capitol Hill was
asking questions. We're the predators. Because we have an entire
economy built on asking young people what they want, making the
cheapest, sleaziest form of it they'll accept, and selling it to
them until they choke on it and die.
You know who's grabbing your kids at too young an age? Merck,
Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline, by convincing you they're depressed,
hyperactive or suffering from attention-deficit disorder and so
they must all get medicated. The drug dealers hooking your kids
aren't in South America, they're in the halls of Congress handing
out campaign donations to your congressmen. Mark Foley says he
never slept with those kids, and I believe him, because American
children are so hopped up on pills I doubt any of them could get
it up.
From 1995 to 2002, the number of children prescribed
antipsychotic drugs increased by over 400 percent. Either our
children are going insane -- which we might look on as a problem
-- or, more likely, we have, for profit, created a nation of
little junkies. So stop already with the righteous moral
indignation about predators -- this whole country is trying to
get inside your kid's pants because that's where he keeps the
money Daddy gave him to stay out of his hair.
I don't care if Mark Foley had been asking boys to describe their
penises because I have some sad news for you: Your kid is so
larded out on Cheetos and Yoo-hoo, he can't even see his penis.
We live in a country where the ultimate consumer is an obese 16-
year-old hooked up at one end to a Big Gulp and at the other to a
PlayStation. So many of our kids today are fat drug addicts, it's
almost as if Rush Limbaugh had had puppies.
In conclusion, we can pretend that the biggest threat to "our
children" is some creep on the Internet, or we can admit it's Mom
and Dad. When your son can't find France on a map, or touch his
toes with his hands, or understand that the ads on TV are lying
-- including the one in which the Marine turns into Lancelot --
then the person fucking him is you.
-- By Bill Maher
fuck fuck fuck.
cbgb's closed yesterday.
fuck.
poor cb's.
it was a dump. it was disgusting. it was a hole that looked as if it had last been cleaned in 1974. the toilets were breeding grounds for plague and e-bola.
but it was an iconic and remarkable place that served as the starting point for blondie and the ramones and television and talking heads and patti smith and the nyc punk rock scene and so on and so on.
new york eats it's children.
i guess that's the way it's always been and the way it will always be.
it's hard to say to a real-estate developer: 'you should give up the millions of dollars you could possibly make by turning this space into condo's, and instead allow the past to remain intact because it has great significance.'
so now cb's is gone.
poor cb's.
to recap:
mudd club-condos
cb's-condo's, most likely
palladium-nyu dorm
mars-parking lot, soon to be condo's
peppermint lounge-retail store
filmore east-bank
etc.
etc.
someone like taschen should do a photo book of iconic nyc locations and what they are now.
ok, goodbye cbgb's. you will be sorely missed, even if you were disgusting.
-moby
p.s-i actually have this theory that it will be impossible to destroy cb's, as the combination of graffiti and old paint and weird bacterium and urine and cigarette smoke will create some new substance that will be stronger than adamantium.
hi,
just getting home from a long day at the beacon theater.
but a nice day.
long day of rehearsals and run-throughs and then the 'night of too many stars' autism fundraiser.
i think that every single funny person in the states was involved.
john stewart and will ferrel and jerry seinfeld and ricky gervais and david cross and adam sandler and mike myers and stephen colbert and jack black and etc
etc.
i've played at a lot of charity fundraisers, but this one was hands down the most entertaining.
ok, it's been a long day so i'm going to sleep now.
more later.
hopefully see you tuesday,
moby
more updates. or blogs.
or what have you.
i'll make this one relatively factual.
with a list.
i love lists.
a-i did an interview for air america yesterday. air america filed for chapter 11 yesterday.
someone should buy air america. they already have the brand awareness and good numbers. and there's a surfeit of vc money floating around. some angel investor should buy air america and spend $50,000,000 on marketing and on-line strategy and expanded range. it's a good deal, whatever the asking price.
b-it is perfect in nyc today. 58 degrees and not a cloud in the sky and it's perfect. and i was just reading the economist on the roof while eating blueberry pancakes(sad little blueberries, all shrivel-y and expensive at the end of the season)and the economist(not the most liberal of magazines)basically said that the only hopes that the republicans have for retaining the house and senate are incumbency, weird districts, and corrupt voting machines. wow, that's a compelling case for continuing republican leadership...
c-we're doing(by 'we' i mean 'band and i')the tonic show on tuesday. tonic is tiny. fantastic, but tiny. and i'm hoping that we'll be able to release 5 or 10 tickets on the night of the show. i can't promise anything, but that's what i'm hoping. tonic only holds around 200 people. it should be fun: 90 minute live set with band followed by dick-master-dee-jay-mo-b-on-the-wheels-of-cheese-y-rave.
d-the 'best ofs' are being released soon. and they're all, for better or worse, different... the north american 'best of moby' cd's are coming out on october 24th. and they will include a bonus disc with a whole bunch of full length(and fairly rare)remixes.
the best of's in the world outside of north america will be released on november 6th, and will include a bonus disc/dvd(in most countries)containing a little movie about me(aka-the narcissist)and almost every music video i've ever made.
the track listing for all of the 'best of's' are different from country to country. i'd say: 'collect them all!', but that'd be a lot of collecting...
e-'slipping away' with myelene farmer and me has now been #1 in france and switzerland. mylene is much cuter than i, and she sings better, too. thus the #1 single...
f-yes, pedantically, 'mylene is much cuter than i' is grammatically correct. or so i believe. right? no? ok.
g-on sunday i'm performing as the house band(along with the losers lounge)at the comedy central autism fundraiser. it's kind of nuts how many amazing comedians will be a part of this. ricky gervais, sascha baron-coen, mike meyers, john stewart, etc. it should be fun, even if i don't know how to spell the comedians names.
i guess that's it for now.
in closing: buy air america, come to tonic on tuesday, enjoy the republican melt-down, 'best of's' coming out soon, 'slipping away' #1 in france in switzerland, sunday autism fundraiser.
i guess i could've avoided the long list and just had the a.d.d summation.
but i like a good list.
thanks
moby
October 13, 2006
Book Says Bush Aides Dismissed Christian Allies
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 — A former deputy director of the White House office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives is charging that many members of the Bush administration privately dismiss its conservative Christian allies as “boorish” and “nuts.”
The former deputy director, David Kuo, an evangelical Christian conservative, makes the accusations in a newly published memoir, “Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction” (Free Press), about his frustration with what he described as the meager support and political exploitation of the program.
“National Christian leaders received hugs and smiles in person and then were dismissed behind their backs and described as ‘ridiculous,’ ‘out of control,’ and just plain ‘goofy,’ ” Mr. Kuo writes.
Still, Mr. Kuo’s statements, first reported Wednesday evening on the cable channel MSNBC, come at an awkward time for Republicans in the midst of a midterm election campaign in which polls show little enthusiasm among the party’s conservative Christian base.
Mr. Kuo writes, “for most of the rest of the White House staff, evangelical leaders were people to be tolerated, not people who were truly welcomed.”
The political affairs office headed by Karl Rove was especially dismissive of the Christian Right, Mr. Kuo’s book says. It says staff members in that office “knew ‘the nuts’ were politically invaluable, but that was the extent of their usefulness.”
Without naming names, the book says Bush staff members complained that politically involved Christians were “annoying,” “tiresome” or “boorish.”
ok, seriously, how many more republicans are going to have to resign or step-down or be indicted before america wakes up and realizes that the gop are utterly corrupt? let's play a game, from memory how many leading republicans can we think of who've been indicted or investigated or forced to step down in the last year?
bob ney
mark foley
scooter libby
tom delay
susan ralston
bill frist
jack abramoff
that's just the tip of the iceberg, but it's all that i could think of from memory in 30 seconds.
who else?
if i were a republican i'd be furious(and, as i'm kind of a lefty, i'm actually pretty happy...schadenfreude).
the republicans have squandered their power.
remember the 'contract with america' in 1994?
it promised:
1-fiscal responsibility(now the republicans have given us the biggest deficit in the history of the united states).
2-national security(now the republicans have given us a war that the nsa/cia/fbi/et. al. have agreed is creating more terrorists and making the world egregiously less safe).
3-a return to moral values(so...asking a 15 year old congressional page to send you naked pictures of himself...that's
the moral high ground?).
i know that some of you are republicans. don't you think it's time to admit that your party has fucked up?
i mean, really, what do republicans stand for anymore?
and now we see that the religious right were pretty consistently ridiculed and made fun of in the white house(David Kuo, an evangelical Christian conservative, makes the accusations in a newly published memoir, “Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction” (Free Press), and that conservative christians were only used by the white house to get votes.
it can't be a particularly happy time to be a republican.
-moby
for some reason the armand van helden mix of 'new york new york' wasn't playing on the myspace player.
i have no idea why, but i took it down and replaced it with 'make love, fuck war', which is a song that i did with public enemy a few years ago.
i think that we did it for a compilation record, but it didn't get a lot of attention because, well,
it's an anti-war song with the word 'fuck' in the title.
somehow i've been able to work with most of my musical heroes.
not to be a shameless name-dropper, but here's my shameless name-dropping musical colaboration list:
made 'make love, fuck war' with public enemy
played 'me and bobby mcgee' with kris kristofferson at an imnf fundraiser
played 'walk on the wild side' with lou reed at a naral fundraiser
played 'why does my heart feel so bad?' with elton john in l.a
toured with david bowie
played 'heroes' in my living room with david bowie
danced with joe strummer in a bar a few weeks before he died
played 'new dawn fades' with new order
played a lounge version of 'sweet child o mine' for axl rose
played 'helpless' with bono and michael stipe
traded guitar solo's with slash while playing 'whole lotta love' at roseland
and so on.
i know, name dropping is shameless(or, well, shameful)but it's amazing to me that i've had the opportunity to make music with so many people whom i idolized when i was growing up.
ok, thanks
moby