Where’s Antarctica? Oh, yeah.

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Sooooo, Mike Watt may have never come close to doing anything as dizzyingly wonderful as his Minutemen stuff but I still leap on every new release that he has a part in. And dude has a lot of fingers in a lotta pies. Musta had somewhere around 10 different releases with 10 different bands in the last year. This is his latest, a collaboration with Deerhoof’s John Dieterich under the name The Hand To Man Band.

It’s a gentle piece but a bit weirdy too. And that bass always puts a smile on my face. Gonna give it a few swings by before I make my mind up proper.

You can download this track for yourself from a Post-Consumer Records sampler on their Bandcamp. There’s some interesting stuff on it so I’d recommend getting the whole sampler but if you just want the single go here.

Wed. Blank o’ the day! Little something I came up with this morning and haven’t been able to get unstuck from my internal jukebox.

There are “Keep Boise Weird” stickers available online for the first time! Follow the link!

I read this online somewhere, does it accurately describe the Republican agenda? I think that the author left off repealing the health care plan that Obama signed in 2010.

1) Dismantle Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid
2) Reinstate the “Don’t Ask / Don’t Tell” law
3) Ban all state same-sex marriage laws
4) Reduce taxes on the rich and corporations
5) Shrink programs that help the poor
6) Cut off federal medical assistance for people without insurance
7) Eliminate programs that provide international aid and assistance
8) Abolish the SEC and other federal programs that regulate the securities and banking industries
9) Abolish the EPA and all environmental regulations
10) Abolish the Department of Education
11) Make all abortions illegal
12) Eliminate support for Planned Parenthood and other women’s rights groups
13) Ban the birth control pill
14) Weaken child labor laws, allowing younger teens to work longer hours
15) Destroy public labor unions
16) Weaken all unions
17) Create laws to make voting and registering to vote more difficult
18) Regulate speech and Internet communications
19) Destroy PBS and National Public Radio
20) Eliminate all public funding for the arts
21) Reduce spending on infrastructure
22) Establish Christianity as the national religion for the USA
23) Ban all Muslims from entering the US or becoming citizens
24) Ban all mosque construction

From the article: 

“AP is a massive institutionalized bureaucracy that feeds news stories to nearly every newspaper and radio/TV station in the United States. They are so large that top-down control of single news stories is practically impossible. However, research clearly indicates a built-in bias favoring official US government positions. The American people absorb these biases and make political decisions on skewed understandings. Without media systems that provide fair, critical and accurate reporting, democracy faces a dismal future.”