np: Pyramid Electric Co.

The 2nd side is much better than the first, culminating in one of Molina's 10 best songs: "Long Desert Train" -- which gets my award for Best Song off an album that didn't make my Best of List.

OK I gotta stop...

These guys are Harvard students?

1. They just called him Jesse Molina, i think.

2. They keep calling it the Magnolia Electric Co -- like co-conspirator. It's Co. like short for Company you knuckleheads!

The Big Game Is Every Night

that last song (before "Hold On Magnolia") -- "The Big Game is Every Night", is my favorite off the MEC bonus disk. Haunting yet hopeful in that trademark Molina way.

Mmmmm... A Molina Orgy

It's not as dirty as it sounds.



WHRB is doing a 63-hour marathon dedicated to my favorite singer/band: Jason Molina -- who used to call his band Songs:Ohia, but changed it to The Magnolia Electric Co., but not before, of course, releasing a solo album as Jason Molina called The Pyramid Electric Co..

The power of the internet

Just uploaded my first change to the AAUP website!! Check out the latest controversy over the "Academic Bill of Rights" between AAUP's own Graham Larkin and right winger David Horowitz.

The Day After

Here are a few pics of my afternoon in San Francisco.



The counter-inaugural demonstration was organized by A.N.S.W.E.R. and the organizers' main messages were directly against Bush's inauguration as President and to get the troops out of Iraq.



Both struck me as somewhat limited messages. The first because it might be more effective to keep the media focused on voter (dis)enfranchisement - this is something we can change. The second because I think that we need a message that moves beyond getting the troops out of Iraq and focuses equally on the people within the country that our nation is currently occupying. There are many more Iraqis dying in this unjust war than there are American troops - if the death of one U.S. soldier is horrendous, what does that say about the deaths of thousands of Iraqis?

On a lighter note, there was much to see in San Francisco.



A critical mass demonstration also made up a large part of the action.