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Like it says on the T-shirt like it says on your face like it says on your heart on your sleeve on your bedroom wall on the cover of your zine on your bumper sticker.
Atlas Sound: You Belong to Me (track three from this free Altitude Sickness EP, via Deerhunter blog)


Next year, a film will be released showing the Rolling Stones performing as sexagenarians. It will receive mostly favorable reviews. Martin Scorcese directs, and, according to Mitch Glazer, editor of the New Yorker's recent "Movies Rock" special issue, the Rolling Stones "are playing with more daring and heart than ever"... Rock wants to be cool. So it flirts with death. Pop wants to be heard; sometimes this happens. Twee simply has other things to do... KEITH RICHARDS GETS CREDIT FOR TRYING.


Life is stressful when you're successful.
The New Birth: Dream Merchant

And now, your moment of zen of the industry of cool:

CHRIS MATTHEWS, host of MSNBC's "Hardball" (11/19/07): Well, let me tell you, let me tell you, there’s two—Michael, there’s a big difference between what happened to Al Gore and what happened to Bob—John Kerry.

John Kerry got hit unfairly by the Swift Boat, attacking his service to his country. They conflated his opposition to the war when he came back, which we can all argue about, and his service to a country, his country, which is not really arguable. They trashed him.

But, in terms of Al Gore, he is the one who said he created the Internet. He’s the one who put out the word that he was the subject or the role model for Love Story, that he pointed the—the country’s attention to Love Canal. He stuck himself into that story.

And when Martin Peretz’s daughter wrote that piece in the Vanity Fair a couple months ago, I’m sorry. She didn’t make the case. Gore got himself in those problem areas—

(LAUGHTER)

MATTHEWS: —by vanity and showing off and trying to make himself cool. But John Kerry got unfair treatment. I think there’s a big difference, guys, big difference in how those two were treated.

MICHAEL CROWLEY, of The New Republic: That may be so, but not—

MATTHEWS: Anyway, thank you, Chuck Todd.

CROWLEY: That’s not how most—many Democrats feel.

MATTHEWS: Well, why would you expect a partisan to think anything more than partisan? That’s what partisans do think.

(LAUGHTER)

MATTHEWS: Of course you think you were rooked.

(LAUGHTER)

MATTHEWS: Everybody that loses an election says they were rooked, OK?

CROWLEY: Sure.

MATTHEWS: And they blame it on the umpire.

CROWLEY: Right.

MATTHEWS: Keep it up. Thank you, Chuck Todd. Thank you, Mike Crowley.

CROWLEY: That’s the audience they’re speaking to. Thank you.

(End Scene)