All entries for November 2004

CRASH playlist – Coventry S.U. (24/11/04)

Have it...

(r) = Request

• Damien Rice – "Delicate"
• Evan Dando – "Hard Drive"
• Elbow – "Any Day Now"
• Thirteen Senses – "Thru the Glass"
• Clinic – "Distortions"
• Big Star – "The Ballad of El Goodo"
• My Drug Hell – "Girl at the Bus Stop"
• The Devlins – "Waiting"
• Patti Smith – "Pissing In a River"
• The Vines – "Homesick"
• 311 – "I'll Be Here a While"
• A.R.E. Weapons – "Hey World"
• Gerling – "Enterspacecapsule"
• Atmosphere – "Trying to Find a Balance"
• Thomas Rusiak – "Hiphopper"
• Jay-Z – "99 Problems"
• Bumblebeez – "Pony Ride"
• Beck – "Devil's Haircut"
• Gisli – "Go Get 'Em Tiger"
• Cake – "Short Skirt/Long Jacket"
• Soul Coughing – "Rolling"
• Soulwax – "E Talking"
• Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – "She Said"
• The Raveonettes – "Heartbreak Stroll"
• The Posies – "Solar Sister"
• Urusei Yatsura – "Hello Tiger" (r)
• Wilt – "Stations"
• Faith No More – "Epic" (r)
• Nine Inch Nails – "March of the Pigs" (r)
• Iron Maiden – "Run to the Hills" (r)
• Metallica – "Master of Puppets" (r)
• Pantera – "Fucking Hostile"
• Machine Head – "Old"
• 3 Colours Red – "Copper Girl" (r)
• AC/DC – "Back In Black" (r)
• Kiss – "God Gave Rock & Roll To You II" (r)
• Alice Cooper – "Poison"
• Aerosmith – "Cryin' "
• Nirvana – "You Know You're Right"
• Manic Street Preachers – "Die In the Summertime" (r)
• Hot Hot Heat – "Bandages" (r)
• Sublime – "5446/Ball & Chain"
• The Suicide Machines – "New Girl" (r)
• Blink-182 – "Wendy Clear" (r)
• The Hippos – "Wasting My Life" (r)
• Descendents – "Hope" (r)
• New Found Glory – "My Friends Over You" (r)
• Taking Back Sunday – "There's No 'I' In Team" (r)
• Guns'n'Roses – "Paradise City" (r)

: 25 Nov 2004 12:18 |  Tags: Crash And Assorted Playlists |  Comments (11) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

CRASH playlist – Coventry S.U. (18/11/04)

Last week's shenanigans in full, for anyone keen to relive those "golden memories"...

(r) = Request

• Slint – "Good Morning Captain"
• Warren Suicide – "The Woman Just Stood There"
• Aereogramme – "The Question Is Complete"
• Explosions In the Sky – "Yasmin the Light"
• Oceansize – "Catalyst"
• Biffy Clyro – "Bodies In Flight"
• Broken Social Scene – "Almost Crimes"
• Division of Laura Lee – "Black City"
• Kill Kenada – "Red and Black"
• …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead – "A Perfect Teenhood"
• Engerica – "The Smell"
• Sugar Ray – "Mean Machine"
• Dog Eat Dog – "No Fronts"
• Zack de la Rocha – "We Want It All"
• Limp Bizkit – "Cambodia"
• Cold – "Everyone Dies"
• Incubus – "A Crow Left of the Murder"
• 311 – "Omaha Stylee"
• Red Hot Chili Peppers – "Zephyr Song"
• Cathy Davey – "Cold Man's Nightmare"
• Marcy Playground – "Sex & Candy"
• Modest Mouse – "Float On" (r)
• Death Cab For Cutie – "We Laugh Indoors"
• The Concretes – "You Can't Hurry Love" (r)
• The Bees – "Chicken Payback"
• The Detroit Cobras – "Right Around the Corner"
• Kings of Leon – "King of the Rodeo"
• Badly Drawn Boy – "Disillusion"
• Gomez – "Shot Shot"
• Levellers – "Just the One"
• Terrorvision – "Oblivion"
• 3 Colours Red – "This Is My Hollywood" (r)
• The Hellacopters – "Gotta Get Some Action NOW!" (r)
• My Chemical Romance – "Headfirst For Halos" (r)
• Thursday – "Cross Out the Eyes" (r)
• Smashing Pumpkins – "Bodies" (r)
• The Union Underground – "Turn Me On Mr Deadman"
• Lostprophets – "Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja" (r)
• Metallica – "Whiskey In the Jar" (r)
• Deftones – "Be Quiet and Drive" (r)
• Slipknot – "Wait and Bleed" (r)
• 'A' – "Nothing"
• Slayer – "Disintegration/Free Money" (r)
• Green Day – "Hitchin' a Ride"
• Less Than Jake – "Help Save the Youth of America From Exploding" (r)
• New Found Glory – "Hit or Miss" (r)
• NOFX - "Don't Call Me White"
• Goldfinger – "Spokesman" (r)
• The Offspring – "What Happened to You?"
• [spunge] – "Kicking Pigeons" (r)
• Me First & the Gimme Gimmes – "Cabaret"
• The Used – "Taste of Ink" (r)
• Finch – "Letters to You" (r)
• Refused – "New Noise" (r)
• Rage Against the Machine – "Vietnow"
• Audioslave – "Show Me How to Live" (r)
• Feeder – "Just a Day" (r)
• Black Sabbath – "Paranoid" (r)
• Led Zeppelin – "Communication Breakdown" (r)
• The Clash – "Janie Jones" (r)
• Billy Talent – "Try Honesty"
• At the Drive-In – "One Armed Scissor" (r)
• Disturbed – "Down With the Sickness" (r)
• Hundred Reasons – "I'll Find You" (r)
• Reel Big Fish – "Take On Me" (r)
• Ash – "Girl From Mars" (r)
• Pulp – "Disco 2000" (r)
• The Killers – "Mr. Brightside"
• Feeder – "Buck Rogers" (r)

Get in.

: 22 Nov 2004 11:48 |  Tags: Crash And Assorted Playlists |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Chris Carter rather hopelessly presents – 'The Sex Files'

Yes, haven't you just been itching for that gag. For those of you who still find it funny the 386th time around, here it is again –

Now smeg off back to re-runs of My Family on the BBC. That's about your level. On a sophisticated day.

Anyway, I've noticed an astounding prevalence of sex-related topics popping up here recently like a rogue erection during P.E. class (which really was the best kind of erection for unabashed schoolyard ridicule – the immortal phrase "Haaaaah, he's got a stiffy!" could regularly be heard reverberating around the gym during Mr Kent's after-school Wednesday basketball sessions, which would often degenerate into scenes that wouldn't have been entirely out of place in Capturing the Freedmans).

Now obviously this is a potentially healthy thing (the discussion, not the small-town sodomy) – or at least as healthy as writing about doing the deed on a lacklustre University forum can be without actually doing it. I can only assume that the likes of Ele C are typing while fucking, the amount she seems to apparently think about doin' the dawg while living life to the fullest as a liberated female of the 90s (copyright Sex and City, a division of Darren Starr Feminism PLC).

However, I don't think these discussions really address the burning issue at hand (all relevant puns intended). Now it's all very well debating about "The Ideal Man" (see Bridget Pankurst's Diary - www.blogs.warwick.ac.uk/reallyshouldgetoutmore) and whether or not if a woman sleeps with 217 men in the space of a day that makes her a slag or not, but for the rest of us there's the simple dilemma of actually getting down to and taming the the beast. Which is why I now offer singletons everywhere: Mr Agreeable's Handy Handjob-Sized Guide to The Four Basic Types of Shag.

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1) "Let's Get It On"

Lights dimmed! Marvin Gaye on! "Wow-wow-wow-waaaooowww…"

Snuggle. Coo. Aren't we just the lovey ones? What a wonderful relationship we have – secure, meaningful, comfortable and laden with feintly nauseating baby-talk! So you guessed it – it's time for the pre-planned Friday night dinner/consummation package! It is, naturally, thoroughly well-spoken middle-class wholesome and about as raunchy as an evening with Barry White (not an evening spent listening to Barry White - an evening with Barry White. And he's dead now, remember). But hot damn if the "nice" quotient isn't just through the roof. Bloody shame it then has to degenerate into a screamy swear-fest six months down the line over how many people one or the other slept with during primary school.

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2) "Let's Get It Started... No, really, let's get it started"

Picture the scene. You're with a laydee, it's on the cards, you're about to enter the home straight like Paula Radcliffe on a particularly vigorous day. Then you realise! You'd rather not contract a zizzy case of herpes and spend the rest of the year sat across from chavvy bintslags in Coventry's sexual health clinic (after all, if you're anything like as desperate as me, you did pick this fair maiden up off the floor in Wetherspoons). So out comes the contraceptive! It's going to be a winner! Just one final hurdle to negotiate! You can hear the crowd chanting your name! It's… flopped under the pressure like a sodden piece of 'other high street brand' on a shamelessly one-sided bog-roll commercial.

The only sound you can hear as you hang your head in shame is one of those dreadful descending slap-basslines off Seinfeld. Drrr-pi-dip-pi-drrrrrr…

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3) "We Gotta Get Out of This Place"

It's AAAOOOWWWNNN!!! That prolonged knobbing drought has finally come to a deeply unsatisfactory but ultimately rather thrilling conclusion with some desperate schmo keen to fill the void in their equally meaningless existence. Huzzah! And it's good but not great, and usually over in somewhere between 3–4 minutes (dog-minutes if you've got stamina).

But wait – something's wrong here. This isn't the inconsequential, unfulfilling and decidedly embarrassing quickie you expected! There's an attempt at cuddling going on after completion of the deed! There's reaching for two empty wine glasses! There's… there's pulling a family album out from under the pillow! And it's at this precise moment that they utter the fateful words: "Let's share".

Well FUCK THAT!!!

At which point it's a few mumbled excuses about your parents coming over at 9am the next morning, feverish gathering of whatever clothes look vaguely like something you'd wear and a mad sprint through the door quicker than you can say "You've served your purpose!", leaving behind a huge great you-shaped hole where your dignity once stood.

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4) Pissed as a Bastard

See the above two, but add falling asleep either midway through or directly afterwards before any kind of profound existential connection can occur. And then waking up the next morning turning over to see something like this propped up next to you and throatily uttering the words "Round two, loverboy".

Yowsa!

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Something tells me I'm missing out here somewhere along the line…

: 19 Nov 2004 13:28 |  Tags: Inane Drivel |  Comments (14) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Freaks I have encountered recently (a.k.a. "Diagnosis Looper")

I've always had an uncanny ability to attract freaks. I don't know why. Maybe it's something about my hair they like or something. Anyway, here is a selection of the myriad weirdos I have stumbled upon in the last fortnight.

1) Conversational Sandwich Man

Picture the scene. I'm standing at the main campus bus stop talking to a friend. All of a sudden, I look up and catch the eye of a bloke sitting nearby eating a Chicken Wrap from Costcutter. Having never seen the guy in my life before, I then glance away and resume my chat. He, however, proceeds to wave his sandwich towards me while crying, "LOOK AT THAT! THERE'S SUPPOSED TO BE CHICKEN IN HERE! WHERE'S THE CHICKEN, HEY?! WHERE?!"

Diagnosis: mentalist.

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2) Jigging Buffoon in Arts Centre

Last week I found myself aimlessly lounging about the top floor of the Arts Centre. About 10 feet away sat a group of half-baked musicians from some society or other ('Badsoc', by the sound of it) banging out random classical riffs on the violin. With them was a pretty tall guy with an abominable side-parting, who proceeded to jig around in reckless abandon like some nightmare reject from Darby O'Gill and the Little People. Which wouldn't be so utterly odd if it didn't go on for AN ENTIRE HOUR.

Diagnosis: wazzock.

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3) Screaming Chav at Bus Stop

Aboard the X12 en route to the Hallowe'en Ball last Saturday, we had the misfortune to pull up alongside a group of Chavs stood waiting by a stop on Kenilworth Road. Immediately upon opening the doors, the oblivious driver was subjected to an incomprehensible barrage of noise from the group's ringleader, who proceeded to gracelessly intone:

"AAAAAARRRRGGGGHHH!!! AAAAAAAARRRRGGGHHH!!!

– Mate, can we use this ticket on here? …Whaddayoumean, 'no'? We've been waitin' here an hour! …Well when's this 'Travel Coventry' thing comin' along? …Oh, right".

At which point, he steps off the bus and continues as he started, all the while beating the side of the vehicle as it pulls away:

"AAAAARRRRGGGHHH!!! AAAAARRRRGGGHHH!!! AAAAARRRGGGHHH!!!"

Diagnosis: pikey.

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4) Roy Bhakta

www.blogs.warwick.ac.uk/roybhakta

Whoah! Watch out there! Wwwwwacky! Ooh, he's crazy, this one! "Nurse! Nurse! I don't smell any chicken today!"

Kerraaazzzyyy!!!

Diagnosis: saddo.

: 11 Nov 2004 14:03 |  Tags: Inane Drivel |  Comments (37) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

CRASH playlist – Coventry S.U. (10/11/04)

A big thanks to any of you who turned up last night. If you were one of the select few to brave it from start to finish (we'll call you 'The Elite'), you heard the following in this order…

(r) = Request

• Elliott Smith – "Miss Misery"
• Phantom Planet – "Big Brat"
• Kasabian – "L.S.F." (r)
• Jarcrew – "Paris & the New Math"
• Folk Implosion – "Daddy Never Understood"
• Kinesis – "Everything Destroys Itself"
• Texas Is the Reason – "Back and to the Left"
• Million Dead – "I Am the Party"
• Rufio – "Like a Prayer"
• Pretty Girls Make Graves – "This Is Our Emergency"
• Headstrong – "Backlash"
• Pitchshifter – "Please Sir"
• Downset – "Anger!"
• Skunk Anansie – "Selling Jesus"
• Rollins Band – "Liar"
• The Wildhearts – "Suckerpunch"
• The Black Crowes – "Kicking My Heart Around"
• Span – "Don't Think the Way They Do"
• Frank Black – "Men In Black"
• Crackout – "You Dumb Fuck"
• Cave In – "Inspire"
• The Blueskins – "Change My Mind"
• Mclusky – "Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues"
• The Crocketts – "Will You Still Care?"
• The Walkmen – "The Rat"
• Soulwax – "Conversation Intercom"
• Fountains of Wayne – "Survival Car"
• The Lemonheads – "If I Could Talk I'd Tell You"
• Sleater-Kinney – "One Beat" (r)
• Six By Seven – "Speed Is In, Speed Is Out"
• Interpol – "Slow Hands" (r)
• The Postal Service – "Clark Gable"
• The Fiery Furnaces – "Tropical Ice Land"
• Mo-Ho-Bish-O-Pi – "Hear the Air"
• Graham Coxon – "Freakin' Out"
• Billy Talent – "River Below" (r)
• Ugly Kid Joe – "Everything About You" (r)
• Ben Folds Five – "Kate"
• OK Go – "Get Over It"
• The Zutons – "Pressure Point"
• The Offspring – "Why Don't You Get a Job?" (r)
• Puddle of Mudd – "She Hates Me"
• System of a Down – "Bounce" (r)
• Coal Chamber – "Sway" (r)
• Metallica – "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (r)
• Iron Maiden – "Run to the Hills" (r)
• The Darkness – "Growing On Me"
• Mad Caddies – "Monkeys"
• Sublime – "Santeria" (r)
• [spunge] – "Lyrical Content"
• Five Iron Frenzy – "Mamma Mia"
• Less Than Jake – "All My Best Friends Are Metalheads" (r)
• Green Day – "Minority"
• Rancid – "Fall Back Down"
• Reel Big Fish – "Take On Me" (r)
• The Peacocks – "This Time" (r)
• The Distillers – "Coral Fang" (r)
• The Vandals – "I've Got an Ape Drape"
• Dead Kennedys – "Holiday In Cambodia" (r)
• 80s Matchbox B-Line Disaster – "Celebrate Your Mother" (r)
• The Mars Volta – "Inertiatic ESP" (r)
• Idlewild – "A Film For the Future"
• At the Drive-In – "One Armed Scissor" (r)
• Taking Back Sunday – "Cute Without the E" (r)
• Finch – "New Beginnings"
• Biffy Clyro – "57"
• Nirvana – "Territorial Pissings" (r)
• Jimmy Eat World – "Bleed American" (r)
• Feeder – "Insomnia" (r)
• Foo Fighters – "Monkey Wrench"
• Pixies – "Tame" (r)
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs – " Date With the Night" (r)
• The Strokes – "Take It or Leave It"
• The Libertines – "The Boy Looked at Johnny" (r)
• Radiohead – "Electioneering"
• Pulp – "Mis-Shapes" (r)
• Guns'n'Roses – "Welcome to the Jungle" (r)

Once again: every Wednesday night, 9pm-1am in The Studio (Coventry Students Union - opposite first stop after The Phoenix on No. 12 bus route), FREE ENTRY with NUS card or as a guest of an NUS member.

Oh, um, you came here looking for something funny. Okay, here's a picture of a really ugly bird.

Looks a bit like someone I went to school with, actually…

: 11 Nov 2004 13:27 |  Tags: Crash And Assorted Playlists |  Comments (4) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

AN OPEN INVITATION TO ALL INDIE/ROCK/ALTERNATIVE MUSIC FANS

"WHYYY? WHY, GOD?! WHY IS THERE NOT A DECENT ALTERNATIVE MUSIC NIGHT WHENEVER CRASH ISN'T ON?!"

FEAR NOT, dear punters, for help is at hand.

The ultra-danceable alternative moshfest that is CRASH now takes place every Wednesday night at Coventry Students Union with myself as resident DJ (for anyone thinking "Who the fuck is this guy?!", I piloted Crash last year in the Union and presented numerous specialist music shows on RaW over the last 4 years!). For the next three weeks we're having a trial period in a bigger area of the venue to see if we can make this thing work and get it off the ground as a viable weekly proposition.

It runs from 9pm-1am and entry is FREE for NUS members. However, 2 guests are also permitted per NUS cardholder.

The event takes place in The Studio, which is part of the Students Union building on Cox Street in Coventry. Take the No. 12 bus and get off at the first stop after The Phoenix - the building's just opposite the bus-stop (the sign outside reads Bar 54 in roman numerals).

I don't generally prepare playlists beforehand, so the music policy is usually quite open – I work from a combination of requests and wherever the music goes. Some weeks it sways more towards indie, others it goes in a more rock-based direction; it all just depends on the general mood of the place. Playlists from the last three weeks are available for viewing online now if this sounds like your kind of thing – check out the following forum threads:

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Obviously as this is a more regular occurrence I'm also able to showcase some of the music which is considered too obscure or inappropriate for a full-Union Crash. As a consequence it's generally edgier and slightly more specialised in certain areas (though without the wanky pretensions of your average indie disco – bar the first few tracks, if you can't dance to it, it won't get played, simple as that!)

It would be great to see as many of you there as possible over the next few weeks – it's cheaper than The Phoenix and plays better music than Ikon on a Wednesday. With your support we can make this work!

: 08 Nov 2004 13:30 |  Tags: Crash And Assorted Playlists |  Comments (2) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

TOKEN POLITICAL COMMENT: an attempt to come to terms with the U.S. Presidential election

Woe betide that this blog does anything approaching partway serious, but there is something which I feel I must address. The astonishing outburst from several individuals on this very site has only increased my feelings of outrage.

I watched the U.S. Presidential elections with a mixture of anger, astonishment, disgust, dismay, embarrassment and despair. Having seen reason, logic and argument expertly overthrown by the fervor of soundbites and hollow rhetoric in the past few months, I was fully prepared for George W. Bush’s re-election – after all, pandering to his base support (“base” in this case apparently applicable in every sense of the word) carries a terrifying amount of clout in a country which declares itself so overwhelmingly religious. However, after sitting through the BBC’s election-night coverage, I have come to the conclusion that Bush and his administration are not the problem – it’s the small-minded fuckwits who vote for him.

What utterly flummoxes me (though it can probably be explained by the climate of fear generated by the Bush administration in the wake of the 9/11 attacks) is how – when many voters state 'Homeland Security' as one of their top priorities – they vote for a man who not only erodes their civil liberties in the pursuit of this security and distorts the extent of the domestic threat, but actively pursues a foreign policy which INCREASES the possibility of an attack on US soil. These people have no real understanding of the issues but react only to emotive rhetoric which seeks to segregate and polarise the nuances into handy McNugget-sized chunks.

Time and again during the BBC coverage when asked why they'd voted for their preferred candidate, Kerry supporters sombrely stated their concern for America's position in the world and advocated a more level-headed approach to both foreign and domestic issues. By contrast, supporters of Bush (sorry, "BUUUUUSSSSHHH!", as most of them seemed to holler with one defiant fist in the air) proffered few concrete reasons for their choice of candidate (“Um… I’m a religious man and I think he is too…” / “I don’t trust Kerry. I’m not sure why, but I just don’t trust him”). Now I would be quite content to let them get on with it and drown in their own shit – after all, if they choose to vote for a man whose grasp of one of the basic problems facing many American citizens society today (Health Care) involves a pretty much hands-off approach, let them reap what they’ve sewn next time the hospital bills stack up. Unfortunately, as could be seen from one glance at the red and blue areas on any diagram of Democratic/Republican vote, they represent the views of only half the population, and unfortunately the impact of American policy also echoes around the globe.

However, what troubles me most is the issue of Bush’s prospective nominations for the Supreme Court (a process which is looking ever-more likely to succeed in a Republican-dominated House and Senate) – very soon we could be witnessing a blanket ruling on several basic individual freedoms (sorry – "moral issues") which NO state claiming to be a free society has the right to legislate on.

For the record -

• Under the Constitution of the United States, it is NOT okay to limit scientific progress on the basis of extremely sketchy and ill-reasoned religious beliefs when the well-being of the rest of the world depends on its outcome (besides, Bush’s views on “the sanctity of human life” really square with his attitude towards the death penalty – and apparently all human lives are sacred as long they don't originate from the Middle East).


• It is NOT the place of any government to rule what a woman can and can’t do with her body (wake up, morons – if we are talking true individual freedom, the life, security, hopes and dreams of an already-living, fully-formed individual takes precedence over that of an undeveloped human. WHAT IS THE POINT OF BRINGING A CHILD INTO THE WORLD IF THAT CHILD WILL NOT HAVE THE FULLEST OPPORTUNITIES THAT CAN BE AFFORDED TO THEM? If you claim to be "pro-traditional" or pro-family, disagreeing with this statement puts you at complete odds with your beliefs).


• Likewise, it is NOT the place of any government to rule who a person can and cannot choose to love on the basis of sexuality.

It’s ironic that Republicans constantly bang on about scaling down big government and keeping out of people’s lives when every ideological stance seems intent on setting limits on peoples’ freedom – their logic is selective at best, and fuelled by ignorance and hatred at worst.

I’ve been wandering round feeling furious for the past few days and it is only now that I’m starting to understand why. With this election, America has taken two steps to the right, and very soon we could be witnessing a rescinding of 40 years’ worth of progressive social policy in the name of "moral" convictions which fall at the first hurdle (if God created humans, why did he instill in them the ability to be attracted to someone of the same sex?).

So by all means blame Bush, but don’t think that it is solely his administration which is culpable for the actions of the next 4 years. Blame the zealots who attribute the 9/11 attacks to the pervasive influence of gays, “perverts”, feminists and abortionists (stand up to be counted, Rev. Jerry Falwell). Blame the people who cluelessly attempt to impose abstinence on the will of a confused and horny teenager, and think that oral sex is only now prevalent in schools because Bill Clinton put it there (newsflash: it’s always been there, idiots - that's what teenagers do). Blame any American who views their nation as an organic evolution of God’s will and apply misguided concepts of “America” to an isolationist stance determined to exclude the rest of the world. This is NOT the teaching of Christ, but a warped aberration of his most basic humanitarian principles – but don't worry, keep believing that Jesus loves you all and I'm sure you'll do just fine, morons.

And of course, let’s not neglect those ever-trusty idiots on the left as well – blame the feeble-minded few who refused to see the bigger picture, those who were anti-Bush but refused to vote for Kerry and will now have to live with the consequences of their objection for another 4 years (yes, Kerry was far from ideal, but a vote less for Kerry was tantamount to a vote for Bush, such was the strength of the Republican stronghold).

God knows, the system is far from perfect and not nearly as representative as it ought to be, but it is difficult to criticise the outcome of a free election when a sufficient majority of the popular vote went Bush’s way – if this is the will of the people, then so should it stand. Just as any advocate of free speech is bound to suffer views which they consider reprehensible in the name of upholding the principle, so too must we consider the fact that many Americans consider Bush to represent their best interests. However, what makes the whole affair so thoroughly depressing is the complete lack of reason, common sense and understanding underpinning their decision. In one Ohio bar, they asked a woman why she'd voted for Bush. Her reply?

"Um… because of my husband".

Behind her, a redneck-lookin' fella grinned moronically and held up his fist in jest.

Words utterly failed me. But then what do I know – I’m just another bleeding heart liberal sinner condemned to hell for not loving The Saviour.

: 05 Nov 2004 12:52 |  Tags: Po-Faced Analysis |  Comments (8) |  Close comments |  Report a problem