Redoubtable Ebullience

Seriously. This is brilliant.

Being a teacher, I understand the difficultly of getting students engaged, which is why I think this teacher and this school should be highly commended. I only wish more educators would learn from this example.

Seventh graders from The Ron Clark Academy perform "You Can Vote However You Like," (using TI's "Whatever You Like" as source material):

Lyrics:


Obama on the left
McCain on the right
We can talk politics all night
And you can vote however you like
You can vote however you like, yeah

Democratic left
Republican right
November 4th we decide
And you can vote however you like
You can vote however you like, yeah

(McCain supporters)
McCain's the best candidate
With Palin as his running mate
They'll fight for gun rights, pro life,
The conservative right
Our future is bright
Better economy in site
And all the world will feel our military might

(Obama supporters)
But McCain and Bush are real close right
They vote alike and keep it tight
Obama's new, he's younger too
The Middle Class he will help you
He'll bring a change, he's got the brains
McCain and Bush are just the same
You are to blame, Iraq's a shame
Four more years would be insane

Lower your Taxes - you know Obama Won't
PROTECT THE LOWER CLASS - You know McCain won't!
Have enough experience - you know that they don't
STOP GLOBAL WARMING - you know that you won't

I want Obama
FORGET OBAMA
Stick with McCain and you're going to have some drama
We need it
HE'LL BRING IT
He'll be it
YOU'LL SEE IT
We'll do it
GET TO IT
Let's move it
DO IT!

Obama on the left
McCain on the right
We can talk politics all night
And you can vote however you like
You can vote however you like, yeah

Democratic left
Republican right
November 4th we decide
And you can vote however you like, I said
You can vote however you like, yeah

I'm talking big pipe lines, and low gas prices
Below $2.00 that would be nice

But to do it right we gotta start today
Finding renewable ways that are here to stay

I want Obama
FORGET OBAMA,
Stick wit McCain you gone have some drama
MORE WAR IN IRAQ
Iran he will attack
CAN'T BRING OUR TROOPS BACK
We gotta vote Barack!

Obama on the left
McCain on the right
We can talk politics all night
And you can vote however you like, I said
You can vote however you like, yeah

Democratic left
Republican right
November 4th we decide
And you can vote however you like, I said
You can vote however you like, yeah


& here is a second performance at a banquet for the Coca-Cola Leadership Summit in Atlanta:

Jasper Bernes keeps a politically relevant spot.

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Obama Admits He Is A Secret Kindergarten Communist:

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Monster Brains is an awesome spot dedicated to witches.

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Over the weekend, I read Philip K. Dick's Time Out of Joint.

The answer is: Wyoming.

Key words: Lunatics, Civil Defense, Lasagna

Here is a cover art gallery for the book.

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Synchronized Presidential Debating
(via 23/6)

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Belgian musical group called Stupid Bright Confetti.

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Australian artist Dean Bowen :

Crow with leaf
(2007)

Transmetropole
(2007)

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Built to Spill covering M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes" (live)

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Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, "Monkey Bee"

CHANGE: I'LL BE POSTING LARGER IMAGES & PERHAPS MORE CHANGE WILL COME, MAYBE, PROBABLY, YES, IT WILL, STAY TUNED...THINGS HAVE GOTTEN TOO STATIC...

"I'm a lazy sod, I'm a lazy sod
I'm a lazy sod, I'm so lazy
I'm a lazy sod, I'm a lazy sod
I'm a lazy sod, I'm so lazy
I can't even be bothered
Lazy Lazy"

[if you want, you can get "Seventeen" as your ringtone]

Capitalism eats the avant-garde.

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Dean McDowell

Something Alluding To Secrecy
(2008)

Behind the Shadows
(2008)

New York artist Erik Von Ploennies:

Squirrel Took My Bagel
(2008)


Snake in the Garden
(2008)


Fire Flies
(2008)

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Mister Cee’s Legendary 4 Hour Biggie Mix

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Top 10 Most Outrageous Opening Lines in Literature

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Italian artist Sara Bruko:

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Heidi Benson interview with Haruki Murakami.

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Also, legendary filmmaker Gerard Damiano has died.

Halloween in West Hollywood is crazy. And by crazy I mean crazy.

But this year WeHo is attempting to outdo itself with unsettling depictions of McCain on fire and Palin hanging by a noose:

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New issue of DIAGRAM.

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New Guitar Hero commercial features A-Rod, Kobe Bryant, Tony Hawk and Michael Phelps in an homage to Risky Business:

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California artist Isabel Samaras:

Besame Mucho
(2002)

Secrets of the Batcave, Part 2
(2002)

Thanks to my buddy Max for sending me info on the Ratatat Remixes Vol. 2 album, which is sick. If you participate in file sharing, here is a link to where you can share it.

He also sent me a link to these gorgeous pictures of the sun:

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While introducing Mark Svenvold last week, Kathy Fagan quoted a passage from T.S. Eliot's "Tradition and the Individual Talent." Have you read that essay? I had not. I came home and looked it up. Now I've read it and feel more complete. You might feel more complete if you read it. I don't know. Maybe.

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More from Chomsky on America's single party system.

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If you're interested, here's a nifty outline for writing academic journal articles.

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Joan Didion on the upcoming election.

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Listen to Josh Maday read his short story "Work Release" at Apostrophe Cast.

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British artist Gordon Cheung:

Brueghel's Highway
2004

Trophy 8
2008

Blake Butler started an interesting conversation about meaning. Personally, I am not a fan of meaning. Meaning, I don't care for meaning. In fact, I despise meaning. What I mean is, I don't mean. No thing means any thing, in my opinion. Here's a video:

ALSO

John Woo, Kevin Smith, and Wes Anderson make McCain attack ads, written by The Landline (certainly they have great meaning):

Swedish-Sri Lankan photographer Robin Jonsson:







Houston photographer Bryan Schutmaat:







British photographer Lina Scheynius :

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20 virtual places bookish people can go to hang out.

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My brother shares variations on The Morton Salt Girl.

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Crispin Sartwell recently posted the final chapter of his next book, which deals with "black nationalism emerging from the marcus garvey movement in relation to the religion and popular music and arts of the twentieth century: in rastafarianism and reggae; nation of islam/fivepercenters and hip hop, etc."

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Feist - "Honey Honey"
Directed by Anthony Seck

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The British Library is about to release a literary goldmine of rare audio recordings.

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Also, Dolemite died on Sunday.

Noam Chomsky on the upcoming presidential election:

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Los Angeles artist Eric Yahnker:

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Allen Mozek discusses some oldschool Samuel Delany books.

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Audio conversation between Charles Bernstein and Raymond Federman.

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Will has an excellent post showcasing the artwork of Tadanori Yokoo:

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Family Guy offers presidential analysis:

In anticipation of the upcoming publication of William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac's collaboration And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, dropping the first week of November, here's a cool site dedicated to images of their books:

Today, a tour through Sartorial Contemporary Art Gallery, established in March 2002 in a Georgian house in Notting Hill, London, by artist/curator Gretta Sarfaty Marchant...

Wen Wu:

Young Man from Louis XIV's Court
(2008)

Untitled II
(2008)

Chris Tosic:






Gavin Nolan:

Charmed
(2006)

Charmer
(2006)

Martin Lea Brown:

Tears of a Clown
(2007)

Dirty Rat
(2007)

Mat Humphrey:

May Day
(2007)

Red Wood
(2007)

Three Wishes
(2007)

Mikey Georgeson:

Bullet Catch
(2008)

Backwards Causality
(2008)

Cyclops:

Blood Skulls of North Hollywood
(2008)

Blaque
(2007)