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appropriate background music
If current predictions hold, Republicans will need appropriate background music this coming Tuesday to help them emote in a way consonate with their new status. I would like to suggest the well-loved Albinoni Adagio in G Minor, for Organ and Strings. Turn on the TV, leave off the volume, and watch election returns with that in the background.
But what about other voters who are not Republicans? And even some Republicans who have decided the Bush Presidency has written checks its competence can't cash? Don't they need background music?
The voter awoke around dawn
She put her shoes on
By Swifty | November 2, 2006 in Afflicting the Comfortable, Carnivalesque, Culture, Current Affairs, Democracy, Politics, War | Permalink
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Well, I hope so, but seriously. There hasn't been an election in nearly the last decade that I didn't expect the same, only to find the funeral music welling up between my own floorboards.
Let's hope, anyway...
Posted by: CR | Nov 2, 2006 11:20:08 PM
It shouldn't be logically appropriate, should it? I don't think they watch returns anyway. They ought to watch 'the Thief of Baghdad' with the sound turned down and then shouldn't Condi and her chamber group just play 'Tel Aviv Medley' including the 'Theme from Exodus,' 'In a Persian Market,' and 'Roll, Jordan, Roll'?
Posted by: Patrick J. Mullins | Nov 3, 2006 12:04:39 AM
Patrick's probably right. But I want them to listen to something like Beethoven's Moonlight Serenade. Something fu - ner - al. But you're right of course they won't. But if CR's fears are realized, that's the kind of thing I'll be listening to. So I guess the Republicans win on that one.
Posted by: Swifty | Nov 3, 2006 12:29:57 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/03/us/04pastorcnd.html?hp&ex=1162616400&en=808cf25dcc9ce1a9&ei=5094&partner=homepage
This guy's the featured preacher-creep from the famous May, Harper's issue! And he's been consorting with the Bushies every Monday and helping them wipe out gay marriage. And here we've got him snorting meth and paying male prostitutes for services ordinarily rendered!
After this, I'm strangely thinking that they may actually be listening to the Moonlight Sonata, and Bush says 'I always did love the Moonlight Serenade,' and Condi so pissed she finally says to him 'That's by Glenn Miller, honey..' and Cheney says 'Who are YOU to tell HIM who wrote anything?' and you left out 'Joshua fit the Battle of Jericho,' for chrissake! Don loves that, because it proves that Iraq is such a notable success! and Laura says 'Now, George...don't sulk...you still get to bomb Iran if you want to...'
Posted by: Patrick J. Mullins | Nov 3, 2006 12:58:54 PM
Oh it's just unbelieveable the thing with this gay anti-gay pastor. I mean it makes you want to read more Freud! Because some of these Republicans are seriously in denial. The word 'denial,' you know, is not just a word in the title of a recent Bob Woodward book. Or apparently; is it that the fractured subjectivity typical of the postmodern condition is helping people learn how to refine compartmentalization?
Posted by: Swifty | Nov 3, 2006 1:07:59 PM
'how to refine compartmentalization?'
In some cases yes, because it would be an active choice. In Pastah Ted's case, the answer is 'no', less because 'redefine' (which is what has happened to the minister who is continuing to go steady with his wife) is a forced and therefore passive choice, than that 'refine' does not cling to such a persona by any stretch of the imagination, even in times when class is supposed to have long been only a matter of money.
Now, Mike Jones, on the other hand, is so deliciously laaowww, so hoddibly duh-ty...now he HAS refined his compartmentalization as a hooker, which includes no longer being one (probably as of this week, when the money got ponied up, although we still don't know what he was making with his clients, and enquiring minds would like to) while making appearances on KUSA in a revealing T-shirt proving that he was trying to catch even bigger fish. Not at all bad for 49. Hilarious about his indignation about the Pastuh Ted's hypocrisy.
Last 'Sexual Encounter' (as per 'The Starr Referral''s Harold Robbins section) was in August. Watch 'A Cold Wind In August' with the sound turned down, and turn on Percy Faith's arrangement of 'Theme from a Summer Place' for background folklore.
Posted by: Patrick J. Mullins | Nov 3, 2006 4:26:19 PM
'President Bush cast his vote in Crawford, Tex., this morning and then returned to Washington to watch the returns over dinner at the White House with a group that included Ken Mehlman, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, and Karl Rove, his senior political adviser.'
Well, they do watch them, if one dares to believe anything other than 'Democracy Now!' Now, it's 10:43 EST, and my new attempts to discover appropriate background music are largely failing. Perhaps a Ricky Martin record would work for this little plastic crew. I remember that George H.W. and his baby boy were laughing together when the returns were coming in 2 years ago, but I thought they weren't watching them. The legendary graceless Bush nonchalance may be ending along with our most recent long national nightmare--at least the beginnings of it may be receding--as I write these here ponderous words and portentous...
Posted by: Patrick J. Mullins | Nov 7, 2006 10:47:55 PM
Background music: this, of course!
Posted by: Charles | Nov 10, 2006 7:49:12 PM
http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/2006/11/bill_maher_new_13.html
Posted by: | Nov 18, 2006 9:59:08 PM
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