2006 November | buzz twang

It’s War on Christmas Time!

November 30, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

Where does the year go? Seems like just yesterday we were fighting the war on Christmas, and here we are… another year, another war on Christmas. Get cracking soldier! There’s a war on! Time to brush off your Liberal Agenda, shine up your secular beliefs, anti-Christmas rhetoric and do whatever it is you do and [...]

Leonard Cohen and U2

November 30, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

Tower of Song… (c/o Cursor) Well my friends are gone and my hair is greyI ache in the places where I used to playAnd Im crazy for love but Im not coming onIm just paying my rent every dayOh in the tower of song I said to hank williams: how lonely does it get?Hank williams [...]

The Evolution of Dubya’s Propaganda Box

November 29, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

Poor Dubya has boxed himself in… He declared victory: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed. – George W. Bush – May 1, 2003 But, since the war isn’t actually over, he moved the goalpost: With vigilance, determination, courage, we will defeat [...]

webuzz – Iraq, Dubya, reimagining and other words

November 28, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

The brain trust over at Newsbuster’s object to the use of the term cluster fuck “civil war” to describe the situation in Iraq, especially when the MSM they so love to hate and say isn’t important says “it’s a cluster fuck civil war in Iraq”. I’m with Obsidian Wings on this one. But, I’ll go [...]

whack a wingnut

November 27, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

A milestone, of a sort, has been reached: The US has been in Iraq longer than it was in World War II. Personally, I think it’s only a milestone worth mentioning because the right wing used World War II as a propaganda tool, insinuating that WWII was the bar by which the current war should [...]

Robert Quine and Matthew Sweet

November 27, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

The sound is pretty shitty on this TV appearance from 1992 of Matthew Sweet performing “Girlfriend”. But, that’s Robert Quine on lead quitar, (doing his best to fade into the background) which more than makes up for the bad audio in my book. buzz-twang : news and views : blog

Bob Mould…

November 23, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

Will be light blogging for a few days… but will post some music… See a Little Light… buzz-twang : news and views : blog

so long oj, hello popcorn

November 21, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

Times Talks has some interesting conversations with Jim Jarmusch, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and Robert Redford, amongst others. Just click on the mini menu to the right of the movie at the top of the page. The 14th Annual African Diaspora Film Festivalis November 24 to December 10, 2006. Check it out online. MOMA is hosting [...]

Norman Mailer vs. Marshall McLuhan

November 18, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

Will post on my thoughts on the Douglas Rushkoff and Daniel Pinchbeck dialogue soon… but, for now… buzz-twang : news and views : blog

The older I get the less I know for sure…

November 15, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

It’s interesting. Of all the music I’ve listened to over the years, for many reasons too boring to go into here, The Who has always been the real soul of my love of music. In 1982, much was made of what at that time seemed the breakup of the band. I went to the show [...]

webuzz – obvious and stupid o’ the week

November 15, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

Obvious headline of the week: Top Marine: No Plan For Post-Saddam Iraq, from an interview with Commandant of the United States Marine Corps General Mike Hagee. (Video here.) Deconstructing the Bush Presidency one Newsweek cover at a time. It’s like looking at your old yearbook: What the hell were we thinking? The pep rallies, the [...]

webuzz – political road signs

November 13, 2006 by DJ Lanphier

News Max asks “Is Dick Cheney’s Influence Waning?” which means that they either think it is or fear that the perception is out there that it is. Either way, it certainly isn’t news, since Dick’s approval ratings have been in the doghouse for awhile now. It comes down to this: anyone who gave Cheney and [...]