Art, Entertainment, Lists, Music

My Favorite Concert Moments

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Key word here is “moments.” The following is not a list of my favorite concerts, but rather my favorite songs from the many concerts I have attended, in chronological order.Note: As with nearly all of my lists, I am only placing one song per artist per concert here with No Age having one more than everyone else because I have seen them multiple times and of course they never dissapoint. Also, there are other “favorite” concert moments of mine that are not musical moments, such as Glen and I racing to Radiohead and hitching a ride with the super cool Ray! But, this list only focues on the music. Here we go…

1) Morrissey- Shoplifters of the World Unite- 10/07
2) Radiohead- The Bends- 8/08
3) Meat Puppets- Lost- 9/08
4) Dinosaur Jr- Feel the Pain- 9/08
5) Built to Spill- Car 9/08
6) No Age- Everybody’s Down- 11/08
7) Black Lips- Dirty Hands- 3/09
8) No Age- Teen Creeps- 4/09
9) King Khan & The Shrines- Took My Lady to Dinner- 5/09
10) Animal Collective- Summertime Clothes- 5/09
11) TV Smith- Generation Y- 7/09
12) Head Automatica- I Shot William H. Macy- 7/09
13) Trevor Hall- Lime Tree- 7/09
14) The Warlocks- Shake The Dope Out- 8/09
15) The Pains of Being Pure At Heart- Everything With You- 9/09
16) The Walkmen- Louisiana- 9/09
17) Jay Reatard- It’s So Easy- 10/09
18) King Khan & BBQ Show- Too Much in Love- 10/29/09 HOPEFULLY!
19) Glassjaw- Lovebites and Razorlines- 11/18/09- HOPEFULLY!
20) Sonic Youth- Dirty Boots (opens with it!)- 11/22/09- HOPEFULLY!
21) Pixies- Wave of Mutilation- 11/27- CERTAINLY! since it is track 3 on Doolittle the album they are playing in its entirety, but since this is my favorite I hope they perform it the best.

Chris

Crime, Culture Jamming, Lists, Politics

3 Landmark Supreme Court Cases

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Here are some favorites I did for my American Politics course:

Schenck v. United States (1919)
For: Defendant Charles Schenck, a socialist, had violated the Espionage Act of 1917 by mailing leaflets informing World War I draftees to eschew military service. The Espionage Act had specifically made it illegal to interfere with the military or their activities during wartime. Since, Schenck did so, his conviction should be upheld. According to the Supreme Court, he had created “clear and present danger” and therefore his speech was not protected.

Against: Congress’ Espionage Act was unconstitutional because it violated free speech rights protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution, which reads, “Congress shall make no law…. abridging the freedom of speech.” Since, the act Schenck violated is in itself a violation of the law his conviction should have been overturned.

My Opinion: Even though, the Supreme Court upheld his conviction, I believe he should not have faced any imprisonment. The Espionage Act was invalid because it was illegal from the start. Schenck’s free speech did not create a “clear and present danger” to me and therefore it should be legal. Ultimately, the act was merely a factor of the Red Scare that swept the first half of the 20th Century, with the intention of jailing socialists, communists, and anarchists.

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News, Politics, religion

Obama Weighs Pakistan’s Role In War

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WASHINGTON — Recognizing the U.S. can neither win in Afghanistan nor succeed more broadly against al-Qaida without Pakistan’s cooperation, President Barack Obama’s war council is weighing a new role for Pakistan in the 8-year-old struggle in the region.

And you got to love how we’re so eager to “fix” Iraq and Afghanistan but we won’t touch Pakistan…which is where Osama is and which still has an al-Qaida-supporting government.

Entertainment, Lists, Music

Competition: Songs With Same/Similar Titles (#-C)

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100
100 Percent (Sonic Youth) vs. 100 New Fears (Black Lips)

Age
Age of Aquarius (Mamas & Papas) vs. Age of the Understatement (Last Shadow Puppets)

Ain’t
Ain’t No Deal (Black Lips) vs. Ain’t No Easy Way (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club) vs. Ain’t No Reason (Brett Dennen) vs. Ain’t No Sunshine (Al Green) vs. Ain’t With Being Broke (Geto Boys)

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economics, News, Politics

Kinda Large Budget Deficit

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WERS News
1.4 trillion is the amount of the budget deficit for the 2009 fiscal year, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). This deficit, the highest in our economy in over half a century, was estimated for 2009 until September 30th.

For the month of September alone, the U.S. ran an estimated deficit of 31 billion.

Patrick Yoest for Dow Jones Newswires said that “The fiscal 2009 spending is equal to 25% of the nation’s gross domestic product, which the CBO states is “the highest level in over 50 years.”

Yoest said that “The CBO in its monthly budget report states that the fiscal 2009 deficit was estimated to equal 9.9% of gross domestic product in the U.S. – the largest deficit relative to the nation’s gross domestic product since 1945.

So much for fiscal responsibility!

Crime, News

Barefoot Burglar

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CNN
…Although he is only 18, Colton Harris-Moore has been on authorities’ radar for years. “Colt,” as he is called, was first arrested for burglary at age 12, said Detective Ed Wallace, a spokesman for the Island County Sheriff’s Office. The break-in at a local school earned Colton a few weeks in a juvenile facility, Wallace said.

Local media reports tally nine arrests for Harris-Moore before the age of 15. Now police in five counties in Washington state are looking for him.

Harris-Moore dropped out of high school and, according to Wallace, police believe he spent his teens burglarizing unoccupied homes on Camano Island, a vacation community of about 15,000 people off the Washington state coast. He became known as “the Barefoot Burglar,” because, investigators say, he preferred to prowl shoeless.

Gradually, Wallace alleges, Harris-Moore moved onto more sophisticated crimes.

“He will typically break into a home or vehicle and copy down the credit card numbers,” Wallace said. “He then leaves the credit cards behind so people don’t realize they have been stolen.”

This kid’s messed up yo!

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