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Shoutcast: End of the World Mix
Mar. 20th, 2003 01:35 am
End of the World Mix
This is a mix I did last week with Traktor 2.0, jazzy house sounds. Comment if you need support getting connected.Enjoy!
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Mar. 20th, 2003
This is a mix I did last week with Traktor 2.0, jazzy house sounds. Comment if you need support getting connected.
Enjoy!
( Tracklist )
I keep having to remind myself that emotions will be running high in times of war. It's hard to be rational when you fear for your life.
That being said, I can't get over the cultural zeal some Americans are projecting. Yes, Iraq has weapons and so does the USA. The UN Weapons Inspection Team obviously didn't complete their job before GWB threatens war. But hey, we're the USA! Who needs the UN? Rah-rah cheerleaders, beer and football. We're #1, hey look that eagle is shedding a tear [reference to 9/11], let's find a flagpole and pledge our allegiance! Let's turn on the non-partisan news coverage on CNN! Afterwards we'll have some God-sanctioned heterosexual sex within the confines of marriage and go out for post-coital FREEDOM FRIES. Good thing we're not toiling in a sweatshop somewhere 'cause this new Gap sweater ROCKS and I wouldn't be able to afford these fabulous tasting freedom fries let alone anti-biotics.
Now, don't misunderstand me please. There are many great American people and I do believe the USA has been a great nation in the past. But it turns my stomach so when an American person says to me (and it's been said more than once) "We're American, there's nothing we can't buy". And I have to partially agree because money can buy all sorts of things.
One of those things money's particularly good at acquiring its owner is ignorance.
I believe this war is preordained and without any actual immediate threat if any threat at all. I believe diplomacy was usurped in the name of swaggering macho aggression and reactionary politics to an unfortunate terrorist attack.
Now this may sound smug but I think your real war is back at home. Are you too pompous to consider that to many, America isn't so free anymore? That the transition from benevolent super-power to waring offender is slow and gradual?
That being said, I can't get over the cultural zeal some Americans are projecting. Yes, Iraq has weapons and so does the USA. The UN Weapons Inspection Team obviously didn't complete their job before GWB threatens war. But hey, we're the USA! Who needs the UN? Rah-rah cheerleaders, beer and football. We're #1, hey look that eagle is shedding a tear [reference to 9/11], let's find a flagpole and pledge our allegiance! Let's turn on the non-partisan news coverage on CNN! Afterwards we'll have some God-sanctioned heterosexual sex within the confines of marriage and go out for post-coital FREEDOM FRIES. Good thing we're not toiling in a sweatshop somewhere 'cause this new Gap sweater ROCKS and I wouldn't be able to afford these fabulous tasting freedom fries let alone anti-biotics.
Now, don't misunderstand me please. There are many great American people and I do believe the USA has been a great nation in the past. But it turns my stomach so when an American person says to me (and it's been said more than once) "We're American, there's nothing we can't buy". And I have to partially agree because money can buy all sorts of things.
One of those things money's particularly good at acquiring its owner is ignorance.
I believe this war is preordained and without any actual immediate threat if any threat at all. I believe diplomacy was usurped in the name of swaggering macho aggression and reactionary politics to an unfortunate terrorist attack.
Now this may sound smug but I think your real war is back at home. Are you too pompous to consider that to many, America isn't so free anymore? That the transition from benevolent super-power to waring offender is slow and gradual?
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Mar. 20th, 2003 06:57 pmOptimus Prime Fighting with Army National Guard
"... it was great to have the employ of the commander of the Autobots in the National Guard."Ok, so it's just some dude who's legally changed his name to Optimus Prime. It's still funny, we need some levity lately.