A Combination of Things

More angry thoughts about Sarah Palin

I wonder if she is aware of what John McCain and the Republicans are doing to her? They are going to let her embarrass herself for 3 months and then throw her back to Alaska as a laughing stock and pardon my language kind of a bitch. I personally dont remember Barack Obama or Joe Biden criticizing John McCain as a person just his record as a senator. I suppose this is the crap we are going to have to listen to for 3 months. The debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin is going to be awful. Joe Biden has no opening to win because Sarah Palin has no soul. You cannot out argue someone that has no soul because it will never occur to them that they are wrong or that they dont know what they are talking about. Do you know the difference between a hockey mom and a pitbull? Pitbulls can be civil members of society while hockey moms apparently are just crazy morons. And now the media is in love with her. They were disgusted by her yesterday and now because she got a room full of equally crazy blood thirsty new born consuming conservative vampires to laugh at her ‘jokes’ they are no longer going to talk about whether or not she has not only enough experience to be president but whether or not she has an experience at all. Does she have enough experience to be the governor of any other state besides Alaska? I tend to doubt it. Im sorry if I am being mean but i really just cannot stand the sight, sound or idea of this woman. She is making seriously wish that he had picked Mitt Romney. If that were then case i wouldnt have to worry about anyone, republicans or democrats taking him seriously. Ugh.

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REM - Accelerate

 Several weeks ago i said some pretty mean things about REM. In a discussion with friends I declared that REM was totally irrelevant. While not horrible, Up and Reveal were unfocused and messy and their production out shone the songs which is something that should never ever happen unless you’re Bjork. Around the Sun was legitimately terrible. I dont care what anyone says, specifically huge REM fans, there wasnt one good song on that record and Michael Stipe sounded like he was asleep through the whole thing.

Now 4 years later they give us Accelerate and while i refuse to take back any of the mean things i said about them a couple weeks ago Im not going to beat around the bush: this record is a monster, even more so than Monster which wasnt fantastic either but did rock. On the first track, Living Well is the best Revenge, they sound like their ’80s indie mates the Replacements (when are they getting in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by the way), which is really saying something when youre talking about REM. Michael Stipe sounds super engaged, Mike Mills is singing his super high back up vocals and Peter Buck sounds like hes playing on a Minus 5 record which are all pretty good. The only thing missing is Bill Berry. this is the perfect Bill Berry record. Bill Rieflin is a hell of a drummer but sometimes his fills are just too much when all the song really needs is a little 1-2 tom and snare hit. Nice and simple and clean.

Accelerate is loud, its passionate and it has brought REM all the way back from total irrelevancy to being a band that you have to listen to. Awesome, way to make me look like a jerk REM.

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