Hey DPers!

I think you all should totally come down to Alberta Street Public House tonight for Chervona's French-Russian Friendship Party, featuring Russian Punks Chervona and French flamanco gypsies Dgiin!

I'll also be DJing French and Russian music, and of course any requests you have (if I have it, I play it!) -- starts around 8:30pm with vodka and champagne specials all night long.

More info here if yer interested.

Oh so pretty!

Hello friends in LJ Land!

I'm DJing on St. Patrick's Day for the Red Elvises at Dantes!

You should all come and see the show! And Me! And I'll be throwing down all kinds of rad stuff. A bit surfy... a bit Irish. Who the fuck knows?!

I'm sorry I wasn't a better friend.

I hope this song finds you well.

Watching this Healthcare Summit 2010 got me thinking....

What the bloody hell is wrong with Congress?

You have two sides who have some fundamental differences. Fine, whatever. Welcome to politics. You also have many things in which no one disagrees on ANYTHING. Well, maybe five or ten, but by and large, no disagreements.

So whyyy whyyyy whyyyyy can't we put the things we agree with in separate bills and pass this shit tomorrow while we continuously work on things which we disagree with?

We could pass so many rad awesome cost saving measures right now. Easy-peasy. Apparently the House did that a few days ago, voting 400 something to not very many to prevent Insurance companies from being shielded against anti-Trust lawsuits. Fucking rad. Why can't we just keep doing that? Why does it all have to be one massive bill?

Well, let Uncle Xander tell you. Because it's so much harder to sneak shit into a bill that's only 50 to 200 pages long as opposed to nearly 2000. Porkfat is harder to find in a giant pig.

So what's the easier way? Shucking it into 2000+ pages. Sweet heart deals, buying senators, etc. But in a smaller bill? They are so much more apparent. SO HEAVEN FUCKING FORBID WE DO THAT.

Hey! US SENATE! HOUSE OF REPRESENTIN'!

THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS

"Two weeks into 2010, gang bloodshed is becoming more grotesque as drug lords ramp up their attempts at intimidation. Last week a victim's face was peeled from his skull and sewn onto a soccer ball. On Monday, prosecutors in Culiacan identified the remains of 41-year-old former police officer divided into two separate ice chests.

"You wonder how this will end, and it seems impossible," said Daniel Vega, an architect in the northern city of Monterrey. "I doubt Mexico can override drug use, especially since demand for the drugs, as well as all the money and weapons, come from the United States."

People sometimes ask me why I've never done drugs... and this is one of the reasons why

This is my (aproximate) playlist from today.

I may have left a few out or out of order...

dionysos - le jour le plus froid de monde
the denver gentlemen - the lord, he speaks to me
goldfrapp - lovely head
vagabond opera - minouche

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los fabulosos cadicallacs - il pajrito
th'legendary shack shakers - iron lung oompah
the pogues - the gentleman soldier

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the monks - monk time
the sonics - shot down
thee headcoats - by the hairs of my chinny chin chin
howlin' wolf - do the do*
firewater - borneo*
the mummies - shut yer mouth

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gogol bordello - super theory of super everything
david byrne - wicked little doll

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tom russell - stealing electricity
they might be giants - man it's so lound in here
slim cessna's auto club - americadio
noir desir - l'homme presse

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the red elvises - boogie on the beach
the hackensaw boys - gospel plow
vagabond opera - the party*
rev. horton heat - loco gringo's like a party*

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the ophelias - palindrome
yma sumac - malambo no 1
sen. robert byrd - red bird
sparks - it ain't 1918
calexico - corona

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dionysos - old child*


* = request


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Next radio show is 2-4am ... so in like... 14 hours!