Comments on: The Great Trans-Atlantic Tax-Themed Song Battle ’09

By: Gab

Gab — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:09:22 +0000

Oh, believe me, I had no actual belief you would go to one of those things unless the purpose was to people-watch. I meant it in a very sarcastic way because I have been following this story since rumors about protests on Tax Day and tea in the mail started and, well… Look at the morons in this video:

http://www.phillyd.tv/2009/04/16/tea-party-done-wrong/

Yeah, Obama is *really* a fascist pig because he is, ’nuff said. And all that crap about Lincoln? Give me a break. Mailing bags of tea to members of Congress? I can’t help but think, “Wasn’t one of the biggest reasons for the original Boston Tea Party a lack of representation, while your protests are aimed at… representatives…?”

And the new protests occurred the day this was posted, so I immediately thought of them as one of those “ill-informed protest[s]” you brought up. And, as if you couldn’t tell already, I’m rather irked with them. That’s a long rant, of course, so I’ll just bow out somewhat gracefully now, ahem.

Anyhoo, no, you’re not a moron, ergo I didn’t *actually* think you’d be at one of those things. W00+.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:43:26 +0000

(just kidding, i liked that one.)

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:43:05 +0000

mlawski fail, god win.

By: mlawski

mlawski — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:09:54 +0000

@Rob: Which was in turn a reinterpretation of the classic “Genocide and Jews.”

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:05:44 +0000

@shechner – “Funky Darfur” is a bonus track on the upcoming reissue of The Coup’s classic “Genocide and Juice”.

By: shechner

shechner — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:55:17 +0000

@Gab:

Hrm – I worried about my political affiliation being misconstrued with this article. Rest assured, madam, that I’m a bleeding heart liberal of the kind one only finds in The Peoples Republic of Cambridge, MA. My beef isn’t with taxes, so much, as their misuse, or of songs pertaining to them which are inadequately funky.

‘Cause frankly, I can’t think of a topic matter which, when set to an adequately funky fake down-beat, some #9 chords and a tritone substitution, doesn’t get the people dancing. Seriously, if someone traveled back in time and brought ~1973 era J.B. to the present, he could kick out “Funky Darfur,” and it’d cook. As would the bajillion hip-hop tunes that sample it.

By: Gab

Gab — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 06:00:36 +0000

Did YOU go to a Tea Party yesterday?

By: stokes

stokes — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:11:42 +0000

That acapella section is pretty wacky.

By: Kelley

Kelley — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:29:50 +0000

Was just about to comment on that myself perich. Is it sad that all I remember from taking Latin all through High School is the calendar?

By: perich

perich — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:48:23 +0000

Nitpick: the ides of April are on the 13th.

http://www.amurgsval.org/squishy/ides.html