Foo FIghters ACL Youtube playlist

well, i've been toying with playlists on youtube and i think this is the closest i can come to recreating the Foo Fighters portion of Austin City Limits music festival from September 28, 2008.
Lots of them are my clips, a few of them are not. If you visit this playlist on youtube you can see the higher quality versions.

in case you missed it

I accidentally purchased the Tuesday newspaper, with headlines of record turnout for many MLK marches. I am currently boycotting this newspaper, mostly due to the endorsement of McCain. oh well, so they got 50 cents out of me this year. Something tells me that will be all from me this year.

In the meantime, here was Wednesday's cover...in case you missed it. historic editon....HA! yes. that really seems like quite a gimmick, and as such...this picture is in black and white to highlight the change.

Crawford, TX - January 19, 2009

It seemed somewhat appropriate to pay a visit to the Crawford Texas Peace House this past Monday. I am still not sure how it all ties in, but it was MLK day and Bush's last day, well...it seemed like a natural place to go.

According to Google maps, the place is about 3.5 hours from my house. I sent an invite to many people and was a little sad that only 1 friend ended up going. We really had a nice time, well at least i did. I was also a bit saddened that it was not very busy, but according to the "staff", most "activists" were going to Dallas or Washington, D.C. for the big day Tuesday.

I'd only ever been to this place once, and i must admit there were a lot more people the last time in 2005. Still...i thought to post some images. I hope to remind people that the peace cause should not die now that GWB is out of office. But hey, don't let me spoil the fun.




strange-ish panoramic-ish picture




Peace fence




AdkenC by the reflective ball and tree




Raymond thinking up something for the geocache notebook. we stumbled upon a gps game. i left something from the crazy day before at the coast.




The labyrinth (center pole says "may peace prevail on earth" in several languages)


Reflective ball fun




Memorial @ Camp Casey III




Iraq Veterans Against the War @ Camp Casey III



Entrance to Camp Casey III





Peace House panoramic photo 1



Peace House panoramic photo 2



Ready for the celebrations!




Restaurant with tasty burgers / a note on gas prices in Crawford.

From the vault

Somewhere in the stockpiles of junk cds...i have a cd with this video. It takes up the entire cd! I always liked this video, and a long time ago a good friend of mine gave it to me. There was no youtube then and i was always very grateful as i like the song and video. Anyway, tonight i was organizing tunes using Songbird. I just recently discovered this media player and i'm loving it! I have a lyric plugin installed, and honestly i don't think i'd ever paid as much attention to the lyrics of any song until i started using that feature. Amazing, but i think i still love the song as much as i did back then...and now thanks to Songbird i know so much more about it. Without further ado...

Song: Coffee and TV
Artist: Blur
Album: 13

Do you feel like a chain store?
Practically floored
One of many zeros, kicked around bored
Your ears are full but you're empty
Holding out your heart
To people who never really care how you are

So give me coffee and tv
Peacefully
I've seen so much
I'm going blind
And I'm brain-dead virtually
Sociability is hard enough for me
Take me away from this big bad world
And agree to marry me
So we can start over again

Do you go to the country?
It isn't very far
There's people there who will hurt you
Cause of who you are
Your ears are full of the language
There's wisdom there you're sure
Til the words start slurring
And you can't find the door

So give me coffee and tv
Peacefully
I've seen so much
I'm going blind
And I'm brain-dead virtually
Sociability is hard enough for me
Take me away from this big bad world
And agree to marry me
So we can start over again

So give me coffee and tv
Peacefully
I've seen so much
I'm going blind
And I'm brain-dead virtually
Sociability is hard enough for me
Take me away form this big bad world
And agree to marry me
So we can start all over again

Oh...we could start over again
Oh...we could start over again
Oh...we could start over again
Oh...we could start over again

(dis)connected

you. damn you! i could see it wasn't real since before, but you were that first domino and now there's no setting back up. the illusion is over. how many was it? 98? 99? 199? all gone in an instant. it has been easy and nice to start from zero. i figured i could see who was who and what was what. well...that honeymoon is over and there's no point in going back.

its been more than a year now, and it's saddening that despite the number displayed, it sure feels like the actual number is 0. i know it's only a microscopic fraction of the world out there, yet it seems pretty representative to me.

sorry, just drunk on some thoughts. don't get me started on the real world. time for bed.


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