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I’ve spent all…damn…day…on the computer doing various frustrating things. Dig this, last night I thought I might go over to the CNN site and watch some live feed stuff from the DNC ’cause I haven’t seen any of it all week and, I had remembered that I had already set it up to be able to watch the live video there. You know, it seems like any time you want to stream any audio/video you got to go through some process first.

So, I click on the thing at CNN and it informs that I need to update Flash in order to watch the damn thing. So, I screw with that for a half hour because it doesn’t want to run the app. for some reason. I finally get it going and the live feed is done for the night.

This morning I’m checking email and some guy has sent me a YouTube about some ABC guy getting arrested and I got to watch it right now because our personal freedoms are being stripped away blah blah blah…so, I wait for the coffee and it’s slow because it’s well water full of good minerals and you have to clean out the coffee maker every couple of weeks and I always forget to buy vinegar. I click on the video, might as well get worked up about jack booted thugs while I’m waiting for coffee, right? I get to YouTube…nothing. Can’t play a video, some kind of gibberish script all over the screen…now I am pissed.

So, I do a little searching and I find out that there is some kind of bug between Flash and the new version of Firefox and if you try to watch any CNN video it will try to get you to download an earlier version of Flash because the CNN site doesn’t recognize the new version or some crap. Then I’m trying to remember if I ever installed the new Firefox and no, I have not. So, I go through that whole bit, install the new Firefox and suddenly, boom-problem solved. Go figure.

But, it got mundane from there on the tech side which I won’t go in to because you are here for a Friday Night Cage Match/Fondue Party/Evolving Conversation/Dancing About Architecture aren’t you?

Well, in my frame of mind and with the current goings on, I’m in a mood for protest. Oh and by the way, just in the last hour, I heard that some right wingers are getting all balled up because Bruce Springsteen is going to be headlining a Harley Davidson event and, simultaneously Van Halen has joined the ranks of the simpering because one of their songs was played at a McCain rally yesterday. It just goes on and on.

Do you get it? People are protesting the protest singers and the protest singers are protesting because people are playing the protest songs. Fuck!

So tonight, in protest, the FNCMFPECDAA is going to unveil yet another new way of going about it.

Tonight we have simply

Protest Song?

Now, to help you on your way, I’ve taken the time to do a little research. I found out that earlier this year Rolling Stone did another one of those cheesy lists. This one is compiled of editors and readers choices so, it isn’t just the cheesy RS contributors. Now, you would think that all I would have to do would be go to the Rolling Stone site and copy/paste the list and that would be it. No…No..No…Rolling Stone put the list in one of these cheesy, photo montage, slide show presentations so you have to click through 25 separate photos to get the info. So, I found another site that had already done the work and out of graciousness, I link to Vintage Vinyl News.

So, to get you thinking about the topic which, one more time is…

Protest Song?

…here is the Rolling Stone editors and readers list of 25 best protest songs.

1. Fortunate Son – Creedence Clearwater Revival
2. Masters of War – Bob Dylan
3. Killing in the Name – Rage Against the Machine
4. I-Feel-Like-I’m-a-Fixin’-to-Die-Rag – Country Joe & the Fish
5. Sunday Bloody Sunday – U2
6. Blowin’ in the Wind – Bob Dylan
7. What’s Goin’ On? – Marvin Gaye
8. Anarchy in the U.K. – Sex Pistols
9. Born in the U.S.A. – Bruce Springsteen
10. War – Edwin Starr
11. Won’t Get Fooled Again – Who
12. Gimme Some Truth – John Lennon
13. For What It’s Worth – Buffalo Springfield
14. Fight the Power – Public Enemy
15. Let’s Impeach the President – Neil Young
16. Civil War – Guns n’ Roses
17. Redemption Song – Bob Marley
18. Working Class Hero – John Lennon
19. Revolution – Beatles
20. Ohio – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
21. Street Fighting Man – Rolling Stones
22. When the President Talks to God – Brite Eyes
23. Get Up Stand Up – Bob Marley
24. A Change is Gonna Come – Sam Cooke
25. Ignoreland – R.E.M.

and, of course, discussion is in no way whatsoever limited to this list.

I got all excited when I heard that Sheryl Crow has an innovative new marketing plan that she is calling the “Tupperware” party approach for plugging her new album. I’ve had my eye on one of these for a while now.

Magical for Molded Desserts & More!

Alas, Sheryl’s plan has nothing to do with actual Tupperware. From Billboard.

Sheryl Crow is giving away free music — a tactic she calls the “Tupperware” party approach to inspiring young people to vote. The singer announced a plan today (Aug. 21) to give a digital copy of her album “Detours” to the first 50,000 people who register three friends to vote.

Woah! Three People? You got to convince three people to register to vote in order to get a free download?

I’m going to pass on that one. I don’t know three people that should be voting. But hey, go for it kids.

Sheryl also pines for the days of good protest songs.

Crow suggested that more musicians should use their music to promote issues that affect Americans. She said she was inspired by pop musicians from the 1960s and 70s, when political songs were performed by Edwin Starr, Buffalo Springfield, Marvin Gaye and Peter Paul & Mary.

“There was healthy competition among artists to create art that was commercial and political at the same time,” Crow said. “Our music (now) is not representing the times — at least not socially and politically. Or maybe we’re just distracted.”

Uhhh…..What’d you say there Sheryl?…Sorry, I was away there for a sec….I was thinking about this groovy Hamburger Press and Freezer Set.

Get 'em Ready for Grilling!