Every Day Is Inaugural Ball-oween
― nabisco, Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:07 (fifteen years ago) link
can we start placing bets on who plays the inaugural ball?
I'm guessing Stevie Wonder, Wilco, fingers crossed for Jay-Z or Kanye
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, November 6, 2008 10:31 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark
I was hearing Lupe was a solid bet--Chicago, "conscious," nothing for the wingnuts to take of context & go nuts about in terms of his lyrics--but I'd be super shocked if there was anybody there that homie would have to face inane questions about ("President Obama do you approve of the sentiments in "Cashmere Thoughts," and what do you say to your female supporters who are offended by them?").
― HOOS HOOS HOOS on the autosteen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:07 (fifteen years ago) link
wow 4 billion xps
I find Kanye kinda obnoxious on a personal level, enjoy some of his music, thought his Katrina moment was absolutely awesome, see some parallels between him and Obama that would make him a conceivably realistic choice - that's all
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:08 (fifteen years ago) link
the boss
― ✧✦✵✶✴i feel magical✴✶✵✦✧ (ice crӕm), Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:08 (fifteen years ago) link
LOLOLOLOL - nabisco
John Mellencamp is a serious contender tho.. Indiana was a big win for Obama compared to 2004, also Mellencamp campaigned for Obama (and the Dems in general)
― HI, YOUR BAND! (Mackro Mackro), Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:08 (fifteen years ago) link
boner jamz
― metametadata (n/a), Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:09 (fifteen years ago) link
well yeah
― HI, YOUR BAND! (Mackro Mackro), Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:09 (fifteen years ago) link
teh bos
― ✧✦✵✶✴i feel magical✴✶✵✦✧ (ice crӕm), Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I think we need to find some guns and religion for daria to cling to
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:10 (fifteen years ago) link
nothing for the wingnuts to take of context & go nuts about in terms of his lyrics
are you crazy??? also hes not nearly popular enough
― Because it's a snow machine (deej), Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Al Green
― HI, YOUR BAND! (Mackro Mackro), Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:10 (fifteen years ago) link
hey guys he's from CHICAGO what if CHICAGO played get it!?!?!?!??!?!?!??!?!!??!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!
― metametadata (n/a), Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:10 (fifteen years ago) link
el boso
― ✧✦✵✶✴i feel magical✴✶✵✦✧ (ice crӕm), Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:11 (fifteen years ago) link
KANSAS could open
― metametadata (n/a), Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:11 (fifteen years ago) link
then toto could play AFRICA!>!>!>!>>!>!>!
Chicago were ultimately an Los Angeles band, though (seriously!)
― HI, YOUR BAND! (Mackro Mackro), Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:11 (fifteen years ago) link
The Suburbs are going to reunite for a special one-time performance
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Ugh... ok, Chicago if they only do first album jams like Poem and New Beginnings.
― HI, YOUR BAND! (Mackro Mackro), Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:12 (fifteen years ago) link
my friend took some really awesome pixx @ the rally - ill post some of them here soon
― Because it's a snow machine (deej), Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:13 (fifteen years ago) link
shhh deej we're talking about terrible bands with tenuous obama connections that could play at the inauguration
― metametadata (n/a), Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:13 (fifteen years ago) link
SAAAATURDAY IN THE PARK I THINK IT WAS THE 20TH OF JANUARY
― ✧✦✵✶✴i feel magical✴✶✵✦✧ (ice crӕm), Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:14 (fifteen years ago) link
smashing pumpkins obv
― Because it's a snow machine (deej), Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:14 (fifteen years ago) link
i bet theyll pick common cause hes boring and inoffensive and from chicago
― ✧✦✵✶✴i feel magical✴✶✵✦✧ (ice crӕm), Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:15 (fifteen years ago) link
NO SMASHING PUMPKINS
― HI, YOUR BAND! (Mackro Mackro), Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:15 (fifteen years ago) link
OK give Daria a break, what she's giving here is INFORMATION, not her personal opinion. Respect that.
No Common or Luda because they go to UCC. Kanye is a great fit actually and I'll eat my shoe if they don't at least invite Beyoncé and Jay-Z, who is basically now shielded from past associations by virtue of - if not his success - his marriage. Destiny's Child one-off for his girls instead? Female performer mentions thin on the ground here, disappointed!
― thesaurus is not a 6000 year old bag of bones, sarah (suzy), Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:15 (fifteen years ago) link
MY LIFE WITH THE THRILL KILL KULT
BET ON IT
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Also the dirt-off-shoulder as some kind of explicit Jay-Z riff seems really off to me -- surely the gesture's been in general circulation long enough that it's not some direct reference
I guess, but Jay-Z was the first thing I thought of when he did it
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:17 (fifteen years ago) link
http://bp2.blogger.com/_mIPUrjIVnas/SAeh8Dr5k6I/AAAAAAAAACk/mGKl6tP3sp0/s400/2340317881_662005e885
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Dirt off shoulder? This is a thing?
― Fred Dalton Township (Laurel), Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Female performer mentions thin on the ground here, disappointed!hard pressed to name a big female performer from Chicago, apart from Mavis Staples.
who would be a great choice, actually.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:19 (fifteen years ago) link
You can have them all...
Dwight D Eisenhower's first inauguration in 1953 was the longest ever. It included 73 bands, 59 floats and horses and elephants and lasted four-and-a-half hours.
― fat penne (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:19 (fifteen years ago) link
This is not particularly surprising considering how often Jay-Z is mentioned around this particular demographic combined with how much time we all waste here!
omg I really hope Obama gets an elephant instead of a puppy, gangsta
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Ha, Shakey, I wouldn't have thought anything strange about considering it a gesture stemming from or with particular currency in some broader "hip-hop culture" or whatever weasely words you want to put there -- there was just something odd about quoting the single like the dude invented it
― nabisco, Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:20 (fifteen years ago) link
daria read the postmortem for the awesome stories basically
yeah, i'm trying. i just can't help but be stunned by the degree to which.. this is a group of writers i suppose.. they have internalized so many right wing talking points from the past few decades. there is specific language to this that continually jumps out at me. liberal media, my ass.
hey no worries i don't feel like anyone is getting on my shit here.
― T-PALIN (daria-g), Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:20 (fifteen years ago) link
hard pressed to name a big female performer from Chicago, apart from Mavis Staples.
Liz Phair, duh
― jaymc, Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:20 (fifteen years ago) link
is she actually "big" anymore? I used to work with her dad.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Daria I have a hard time thinking of that group of writers as having internalized anything right-wing (and besides, the group of writers listed there are basically just the Newsweek reporting sources listed throughout, not authors) -- maybe helps to remember that they are talking about campaign optics more than reality here, so of course the language is going to play against party narratives on both sides.
― nabisco, Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:23 (fifteen years ago) link
mod request: move thread to ILM pls
― I DIED, Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:24 (fifteen years ago) link
nah shakey, she's slimmed down quite a bit
― BYE! GOOD (latebloomer), Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Killdozer, for god's sake
(ok, now following I DIED's lead from here on out)
― HI, YOUR BAND! (Mackro Mackro), Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:25 (fifteen years ago) link
No results found for "petition for sam prekop as inaugural ball performer".
― nabisco, Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:26 (fifteen years ago) link
― metametadata (n/a), Thursday, November 6, 2008 5:09 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS
― i love to hear this again and again (gbx), Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:27 (fifteen years ago) link
^^not American
Didn't Steel Pulse play at Clinton's '93 inaugeration?
― fat penne (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:27 (fifteen years ago) link
YOUR INAUGURAL BALL MUSIC PERFORMER PREDICTION THREAD
― sleeve, Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:28 (fifteen years ago) link
oops shoulda said 2009
nabisco, i'm afraid i don't understand what you're saying with that..
― T-PALIN (daria-g), Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:31 (fifteen years ago) link
mavis staples is a great choice - i post it here now bcuz i dont feel like posting in an entire thread devoted to this discussion
― Because it's a snow machine (deej), Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:34 (fifteen years ago) link
didn't staples put out an album on election day?
― metametadata (n/a), Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:37 (fifteen years ago) link
The Obama campaign did not want to get caught up in trying to satisfy all the interest groups that make up the modern Democratic Party—the one that had lost seven of the last 10 presidential elections. The John Kerry campaign set up elaborate liaison offices dedicated to ethnic groups, organized labor, groups for the disabled, for women, for gays and lesbians.
^^ OK, stuff like this, writers like -> "interest groups" make the democrats losers, winning campaigns shouldn't do much of anything to work with them.
― T-PALIN (daria-g), Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:38 (fifteen years ago) link