Goldfrapp, my favorite kinda Dingbat

This new Goldfrapp video is bonkers and lovely. To quote my friend Seth at his blog http://www.sparrowhall.com/blog/ someone's been watching "Legend" again.

crabbtown blog 1-20-08

i wanna...

In the early 90's a lot of really wonderfully awful dance music was written and produced. it was silly and trite and vapid, but in ways that were way more inspired than any of the craptastic-ly boring dancepop that gets cranked out nowadays. Whenever i talk about this era of music and my foggy memories of it, I always mention a song that was literally called "I Wanna F*ck You In the A**." Whenever I mention it, people say "Oh, David... You're such a kidder!" I laugh and insist I'm telling the truth and no one believes me.
Who knew that one day this very song would be used... in a commercial! So here, thanks to some brilliant Dutch advertisers, is that wonderful song reborn!

Bush Administration Rejects California’s Global Warming Clean Cars Rules

At what point did our politicians STOP supporting state's rights? And who is employed by the EPA these days? I'm reposting this from www.itsyournature.org

Here's the NRDC Press Release:

EPA Sticks Thumb in Eyes of Governors Representing Half of All Americans, Says NRDC

WASHINGTON (Dec. 19, 2007) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today denied California's request for routine permission to implement its clean cars law (AB 1493). This rejection represents bald-faced political interference with California's decades-long authority to enforce its own clean air rules, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
Following is a statement by David Doniger, NRDC Climate Center Policy Director:
"The California standards are the single most effective step yet taken in the United States to curb global warming. By blocking the California standards, the administration has stuck a thumb in the eye of 18 governors from both red and blue states who have led the way on global warming by adopting these landmark rules.
"California and the 17 other states have led the way to cut global warming pollution from new automobiles. Their right to do so has been affirmed by three federal court decisions this year, including the Supreme Court's landmark ruling that carbon dioxide is an air pollutant, just like any other. The new energy law signed by the president today explicitly preserves this Clean Air Act authority.
"The EPA administrator claimed the new energy law sets a standard of 35 miles per gallon and thereby precludes California's more effective standards. That is just plain wrong. The energy law only sets a fuel economy floor. It requires the administration to set standards of 'at least 35 miles per gallon,' expressly giving the administration the power to go farther. And the law expressly preserves California's authority under the Clean Air Act to set independent, stronger standards to meet the challenge of global warming. Let's be clear: the California standard is stronger and more effective than the 35-mile-per-gallon floor established in the new energy law.
"EPA Administrator Steven Johnson's claim that California lacks 'compelling and extraordinary conditions' is completely indefensible. California is suffering severe impacts from global warming. Mr. Johnson's 'policy preference' for a different approach is exactly the kind of illegal free-lancing the Supreme Court rejected in its landmark April decision on global warming."

She Blows.

This clip just kills me. It seems like the laughs are over after the first minute, but they return again and again in waves. Did this woman have a pageant coach or a music instructor? Are all the beauty pageants in Arizona this bootleg? What happened? How did it all go so wrong?
Ah... but it's so right.



An interview and more info about the poor girl (now a grown mother of two) can be found here:

http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2007/10/stacy_hedger_revealed.php

It's kind of amusing.

Recharge That S*#t!

For Christmas I got an Energizer rechargeable AA battery pack. Now that I have it, I'm like "Why the hell aren't rechargeable batteries the only kinds that are sold?" It's so obvious when you think about it... Why wouldn't you spend 25 bucks on a charger and 4 double-A batteries that you would NEVER HAVE TO REPLACE?!?!
It goes without saying that it's the ecologically responsible thing to do (dead batteries take up space in landfills and leak mercury into the ground that contaminates the earth's water supply), but what about the savings? It's so much cheaper than buying battery after battery and just throwing them away. So buy yourself rechargeable batteries and save some cash... and a little landfill space.

green thom

I've always loved Thom Yorke as an artist, but I'm appreciating him more lately as he becomes increasingly involved with environmental action groups, most recently "The Big Ask"- an ever-expanding British organization fighting for better climate change legislation. In this interview Thom talks about global warming and his son as his eyes blink endlessly out of synch with each other. I love this guy.



The new Radiohead album "In Rainbows" is out now. It contains what might be my favorite song of their career, "All I Need." Here's the first video from the album- "Jigsaw Falling Into Place."



Mor info about "The Big Ask" can be found here:
http://www.thebigask.com/