This is what happens when I battle a cold with booze...

More music! Kid Harpoon is a singer from Kent. People in his songs wreak havoc and destruction (so guess what they remind me of). 

Stealing Cars

Riverside

website. 

I know I just rambled about a song but...

I can not stop listening to "Lucky Bastard" by All Get Out. This live version is good too, but the Daytrotter session one is haunting me.

And yes, I currently do have a playlist titled "You're Always Afraid", featuring several songs from the episode and some others that I found equally fitting.

(also being sick for a week, then caring for someone who is sick, seems to result in getting SICK AGAIN. For fuck's sake.)

Das Lied zum Sonntag

Ben Folds Five - Mess 

There was a time that I had nothing to explain
Oh, this mess I had made
But then things got complicated
My innocence has all but faded
Oh, this mess I have made

And I don't believe in God
So I can't be saved
All alone as I've learned to be
In this mess I have made

All the untested virtue
The things I said I'd never do
Least of all to you

I know he's kind and true
I know that he is good to you
He'll never care for you more than I do

But I don't believe in love
And I can't be changed
All alone as I've learned to be
In this mess
I have made the same mistakes
Over and over again

There are rooms in this house that I don't Open any more
Dusty books and pictures on the floor

That she will never see
She'll never see that part of me
I want to be for her
What I could never be for you

But I don't believe in God
So I can't be saved
All alone as I've learned to be
In this mess I have made 

[on "The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner", 1999]

A weekend spent thinking about this episode of "Skins" , experiencing the sense of shell-shock in fandom, and the immediate instinct to write stories to make sense of it. I know, there's been a lot of "Skins" and too little of anything else here, and I promise this will change soon (I also hesitate to review the final episode of "Dollhouse", because posting it would be such a definite end). It's just that this is such a good story.

And then other stuff happened...

"And what those thoughtful, educated, well-off, well-regarded gentlemen did was invent a democracy sufficiently undemocratic to function and endure. They wanted a government run by an American elite like themselves, as James Madison wrote, “whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of their country and whose patriotism and love of justice will be least likely to sacrifice it to temporary or partial considerations.” They wanted to make sure the mass of ordinary citizens, too easily “stimulated by some irregular passion … or misled by the artful misrepresentations” and thus prone to hysteria—like, say, the rabble who’d run amok in Boston Harbor—be kept in check. That’s why they created a Senate and a Supreme Court and didn’t allow voters to elect senators or presidents directly. By the people and for the people, definitely; of the people, not so much."

NY Mag: Is Democracy Killing Democracy? , February 5, 2010

see:

Republican Virtue.  

To celebrate Squee, Part II

Here's something that somehow sounds like it belongs into "Skins" (The Whip shares a label with You Love Her Coz She's Dead, maybe that's why?)

In other news: The Sarah Silverman Program is back, Austria has a new minister for research and universities, the US policy process is broken, Archie Panjabi from "The Good Wife" is awesome, but mostly, it's Emily's episode on "Skins". Priorities, kids, priorities.

Working stream here / now here (this is like a frakking treasure hunt). 

Compare and Contrast: Rossum 2020

"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."

William Gibson: Count Zero, p29

Columnize My Randomness, Part 28

So Many Dynamos are THE PERFECT band to beat back awful winter. "It's been over a year now / The novelty of haunting has worn off. / It was cool for a while / My funeral was decent and I want to see my friends now." (The Novelty of Haunting). 

Amy Acker talks about her character Whiskey in this interview, and reveals the definite answer to one of the remaining questions the "Dollhouse" left after its finale, and Eliza Dushku explains some aspects of Echo and is really happy that they got to wrap the show up, instead of ending up with a never-resolved cliffhanger.

Daria is finally coming out on DVD in the US. I watched this when I was 15 (back when MTV was...different. Oh, nostalgia), and in terms of intelligence, characters and dialogues, this is my favourite high school series of all time, beating even "Freaks and Geeks".

Comic Book Resources has a preview of Brian Wood's continuation of "Demo", a series of graphic novels centering on people with special abilities.[via Pop Candy]

Tomorrow's episode of "Skins" is Emily's . e4 has a couple of clips that you might not want to see if you want to go unknowingly into the episode.