Quote of the day
"Where in the constitution is the separation of church and state?"
Incredulous US Senate hopeful Christine O'Donnell does an excellent job of bringing ridicule and discredit on the Tea Party. Give 'em enough rope and all that. The odd endorsement from a misguided former rock star won't counterbalance fundamental ignorance.
(Thanks to Neil for the link.)
Sunday, October 24, 2010
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You say that, but Toronto just had a mayoral election that suggests you're wrong.
Nay, who you met, told me about that oaf - can't believe he got in. A dark day for the city. (For anyone who's wondering what we're on about, here's the new mayor's Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Ford.)
Incidentally, Ian, there's a new post on The Art Of Noise by my work colleague Rob about Canadian music, economics and politics - your thoughts always more than welcome!
It's an interesting post, but aside from the boringly predictable "actually Canadian music is often quite good, it's just that recently you lot have been hearing about it" and "some of those bands aren't actually very good at all" points I always make I don't have much to add... I definitely think he's on to something, though.
Who aren't you keen on? I'm intrigued... (Recently got into Wolf Parade, incidentally, although I only have one album.)
I think it's true of most places, isn't it, that there's often really good stuff happening but it's just under the radar. It takes one band to force their heads above the parapet and suddenly it's a feeding frenzy and all eyes are on that city/venue etc. Almost inevitably that means a gradual dissolution of whatever it was that made the band/scene special in the first place, and the thrusting to prominence of a whole host of copyists or chancers clinging onto coat-tails.
The flipside of that, of course, is that other new interesting things are allowed to develop in relative tranquillity and isolation elsewhere...
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