Thursday, April 27, 2006
Neil Young has hurt Neil Cavuto's Feelings. Next stop...Canada
Neil Young as of now unreleased new album is called Living With War. Apparently it describes in no uncertain terms Young's politics at the moment, included is a song called "Let's Impeach the President". Neil Cavuto of Fox News takes issue with this and wants to know why the big bad Canadians are picking on us? Note: Cavuto makes it clear that Young is a CANADIAN.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200604180008
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,193259,00.html
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Little Venice in Valencia
Monday, April 24, 2006
The Democrat's Big Chance...
The Democrats' Big Chance...And how they could blow it
This is an article from Slate.com written by Zuzanna Kobrzynski, Melonyce McAfee, and Sonia Smith. It is a summary of how several political and entertainment magazines perceive how and if the Democrats will be able to properly seize the moment.
http://www.slate.com/id/2140067/
Friday, April 21, 2006
Scott McLellan Resigns
Scott McLellan resigns after realizing that his ambitions of someday becomming a real boy and his career as the White House Press Secretary seemed to be cancelling each other out.
http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/news/politics/white-house-press-chief-resigns-$392798.htm
http://www.progressiveu.org/085312-press-secretary-scott-mclellan-next-to-go
http://www.berkshireeagle.com/editorials/ci_3733987
Flashback - Music Review 1906
Ca. June 24, 1906
Well, Mr. James Scott has done it again. On the heels of "Moose Snout Rag" and "Monkey Paw Rag" comes "Frog Legs Rag", which is certainly his finest contribution to date and will certainly turn the 1906 Grammys on its ears. Mr. Scott's transgressions in the opium dens of San Francisco with Mr.(?) Annie Pooter this past March have all been forgiven as all of the proceeds for "Frog Legs Rag" are going to the Stanford White San Francisco and Mount Vesuvius Relief Funds. Mr.(?) Annie Pooter makes his(?) musical debut with Mr. Scott as he(?) takes up with the fiddle and will be performing with Mr. James Scott tomorrow night in Madison Square Garden as part of a charity concert for architecht Mr. Stanford White's aforementioned relief foundation. New York playboy Harry K. Thaw is expected to sit in with Mr. Scott and Mr.(?) Pooter on the jug. That should really get all our legs moving.
Thursday, April 20, 2006
April's Listening and Reading Recommendations
The Brave and The Bold is the collaberation album between Tortoise and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. It unifies the stylistic diversity between the two artists, taking on 10 songs including covers of Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, The Minutemen and Devo.
Consider The Lobster is a collection of essays written by David Foster Wallace. Wallace takes on a wide range of topics with each essay reading as different as the last, with the exception of one common link, the extensive footnotes and endnotes. The narrative footnotes and endnotes drive the essays into a direction that never takes away from the issue at hand, but provides further information and humor. He covers the Academy Awards of Porn, the subtle humor in Kafka's writing, September 11th as perceived from a small town in Illinois, John McCain's rise and fall and rise and fall again in the 2000 presidential campaign, the relevance of ghost writers behind popular athlete's "autobiographies" and how the right wing has managed to dominate AM talk radio and will likely continue to do so regardless of America's political climate.
Both are well worth your time.
Retraction
A choice of phrasing in my piece on Easter has been regarded as less than accurate. Here at Inner Sense Abroad it is our intentions to redirect, but never to mislead.
I referred to Spain as a "God-fearing, Catholic country". Apparently this is inaccurate. Spain is not God-fearing and since the death of Franco, the Catholic Church has very little if any political influence. Nor is Spain actually a country. You can see where this phrasing might have caused some confusion. Feel free to insert "God-chiding, agnostic stomping ground" into the questionable sentence.
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Easter Fun-day
A Republican Proposed Health Care Reformation (and it doesn't involve Halliburton)
Mitt Romney the Republican governor of Massachusetts has proposed a new common wealth health care plan for his state. It is not a universal coverage plan, but does seem to be a babystep in the right direction. Lest his Republican allies fear that he's gone too far off the "Not rich? Better luck next life" mandate, Romney does manage to take some shots at the Clinton family in each of the articles.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008213
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/2005-07-04-health-insurance
Welcome to Inner Sense Abroad
Welcome to my blog Inner Sense Abroad. While I haven't exactly figured out what I will do here, I have decided that my ego needed a little stroking so I have carved out my own little niche right here in the world wide web.
Check back often, perhaps we will engage in tantalizing in-depth political discourse. Possibly you will be offered some insight into any books that I am reading or music that I am currently listening to. Maybe I will post some pictures and talk about being here in Spain (let's be realistic, that's probably what I'm going to do). Hell who knows maybe I'll turn this into an amatuer porn site. There is also the likely possibility that I will do nothing other than take up valuable web space while entreating you to this picture of someone's Rawk Grandma. We'll see what happens, if I proceed with this I'll be just as impressed as any of you.