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Drive alone, for hundreds of miles and you might find yourself talking to yourself. Or maybe even your video camera:

If you needed proof that the Mason-Dixon Line really does start at the Maryland border:

A little bit of levity for an otherwise bad news Friday, sent to me by my good friend Jeremy and remixed by a friend of his. We may be in a recession, whole industries may be on the verge of collapse and we may be stuck in two, bloody wars, but at least we have....The New Puppy!

Funny or Die is hit or miss but this one is a hit, sho nuff! My only real complaint is that it's too short. Give us a couple more numbers, guys!

No matter what, the times, they are a changin'. How much and for whom is yet to be determined but the fact remains, Tuesday, November 4th was a transformative moment in American history. That said, it's now time for us to take this advantage that we've given ourselves as the electorate and run with it. What's on the agenda?
Universal healthcare, ending the war in Iraq quickly and safely and fixing the economy in a manner that ensures that the American workforce has high-paying, productive and meaningful jobs, not just low-wage service industry positions, among many other things.

If President-elect Obama is going to fix anything, he's going to need our help and our vigilance but we're not going to be able to do it ourselves. 53% and control of the House and Senate ain't gonna be enough. As the song goes, we're going to need the senators and congressmen, as well as the mothers and fathers. Their old road may be rapidly aging, but we've yet to really pave our new one.

There are signs that the youth of America might be emerging from 40 years of torpor and apathy and I hope so. For those of us in the middle, not yet old and no longer young, it is our job to do what we should have done more than 20 years ago and that's make our voices heard and make sure those that are becoming active for the first time, those young faces on videos like this one stay active. We must engage them in the process and work of a participatory democracy.

For too long the people of the United States have been silent and for too long we have allowed those in power to erode the constitution and operate without any checks and balances. That time is over. This election was a great first step, but first step it was. Unless we take back the power and the rights that we have given up, piece by piece, since the Reagan "revolution," the election of Barack Obama, as important, beautiful and historic as it was, won't achieve its promise and we will have wasted this biggest opportunity we've had in decades to change America and the world, for the better.

The Times They Are A-Changin'

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.

Copyright ©1963; renewed 1991 Special Rider Music

On December 1st, 2008 Guess where I'll be? I'll give you a hint:

No, don't be silly. Not at a Bowie show. (I wish. The man's been virtually hidden for 5 years!) But instead at New York's Museum of Modern Art for the Thurston Moore-hosted program of Bowie videos as part of MoMA's Looking At Music exhibition. While I am excited to check out the exhibition and the other artists involved (Devo, The Beatles and John Cage among them) it's really Bowie that has me chuffed. The videos were co-organized by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth and Barbara London, Associate Curator, Department of Media, MoMA.

The complete list of the program after the jump, along with some videos I'd have programmed, if I were the curator....

Watch this and then tell me you still think women aren't as tough as men. Go ahead, I dare you. You'd be crying like a baby!

According to CNN, the reporter from Georgia State TV, says the bullet was fired from the Russian-controlled area.

Warning:

NSFW!

BTW, if you don't know that this is from the brilliant, short-lived HBO series Deadwood, this will mean absolutely nothing to you. Sorry for the bandwidth.

For sure there can be no doubt that the time is now for the sequel promised in the following credit sequence, can there?

I mean, it's already been tributed:

Ok, so Matt Damn crossed a picket line and that's fucked, but DAMN, if this isn't funny. I mean, "Let's put that guitar down and go fuck Matt Damon."

My bad. This was filmed pre-strike.

It's quite possible that Of Montreal is the best live band in the history of live music. Yes, I am fully aware of how hyperbolic that is. Sue me.

I'm also aware that this clip isn't live. It's on account that the band is so amazing live that no human can accurately capture the genius on any current recording medium.* Perhaps sometime in the future there will be a way.... Pray that there is.

*Or it could just be that most live clips of them have lousy audio.....

Ok, I lied. This one's pretty damn cool:

In the Q&A for his hysterically funny new doc, Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project, director John Landis gave the best Q&A I've seen in ages. Here he riffs on Debbie Reynolds and Robert De Niro and makes us all very impatient for the DVD release of this film. Unfortunately, this is the only clip I have that really illustrates what a great storyteller and genuinely funny man Landis is (Not the best in-camera editor am I). I am willing to bet he could do a week of 90-minute one man shows and not repeat one story. There's definitely a book in there, somewhere.

Mr. Warmth screens on Saturday, Oct 13 at 9:30pm and on Saturday, Oct 13 at midnight

A few seconds of Czech Scooby Doo, recorded at about 5am, on my way up to my room from Hell in the basement of the Hotel Thermal in Karlovy Vary on July 7th.

Legendary director Sidney Lumet weighs in what he perceives as an inevitable shift from celluloid to hi-def digital production at a Q&A following a press screening of his latest film Before the Devil Knows You're Dead at the 2007 New York Film Festival. I'll be running a review of the film in the coming days as well as the complete audio recording of this Q&A session.

83 and still getting excited about new technology! The man's amazing.

Warning: NSFW!