Special Audio Edition
Two pieces of audio today that may make you cry, but for entirely different reasons. The first is a fantastically beautiful cover of The Talking Heads’ This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) by the Arcade Fire from CBC radio up North. Let me be the latest to join the loooong list of Arcade Fire fans. (Time Magazine featured the band on it’s Canadian edition cover back in April 2005. They’ve been at the forefront of the Canadian rock/indie scene since.) Their first company release, Funeral, is an excellent example of good things brewing for the future of rock.
The other audio is a terrfying piece of Senate debate from Ted Stevens, Republican from Alaska and chair of Senate Commerce Committee. Ol’ Ted (emphasis on Ol’) moves into a solid first place on the “I don’t know shit ’bout technology” leader board with his thoughts on net neutrality, replacing Orrin “Let’s literally blow up the computers of internet pirates remotely” Hatch of Utah.
Stevens was poked fun at on The Daily Show, but the sad part is, very few people have the ability to get to this guy to talk common sense into him. He’s also president pro tempore of the Senate (which means, for once, I’m almost praying Bush, Cheney and Hastert don’t meet their untimely demise simultaneously.) Stevens is the longest serving Republican in the Senate… and he’s from fucking Alaska. Since most people on the Hill refuse (albeit politely) to communicate with members of the public unless they think they can get a vote out of it, it’s going to take an able Alaskan to get through to this guy. Good luck finding that. Not surprisingly, though, lobbyists and members of the media get a FastPass to Congressional members. Hmmm… who do politicans work for again?
Audio courtesy of the CBC and Public Knowledge.org (via ThrowAwayyourTv.com)
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