James Montgomery’s recent piece for MTV, “Are We Ready For Barack Obama’s Emo America?,” is great not only because of the juxtaposition of stereotypical American values and musical genres, but because the work gives support for emo as a generally progressive and positive mode[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Inauguration’
January 19th, 2009 - 1:32 am § in Perfect Lines
Kumar goes to Inauguration…
Biggest WTF moment of the “We Are One” concert celebrating Inauguration might have been this: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r76WeTXuLs] Kal Penn?! What? You mean the guy from Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle? As a major part of the opening weekend festivities for the [...]
December 31st, 2008 - 4:05 pm § in Perfect Lines
9 Things To Look Forward To in 2009
2008 is almost gone as the New Year will arrive in a matter of hours (or it may have already arrived depending on when you read this). So, in anticipation for the number of times I’ll forget to put “2009″ on whatever documents need a proper year, here’s a little listing of 9 [...]
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