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the hip show was good. here's the set list from last night's show. one of the highlights for me was hearing the last of the unplucked gems:

When the mystique varies thus
You can send a man to bury us
It's hard to say, it's sad but true
I'm kinda dumb and so are you

There's something great about a room full of people singing that lyric. It reminds me seeing Beck, with everyone singing: I'm a loser, baby, so why don't you kill me. I hadn't heard them sing this one live since that first show. Nautical Disaster was great, as usual. It was another great moment listening to the lyrics while people threw their hands in the air and jumped up and down. He was singing:

One afternoon, four thousand men died in the water, here. And five hundred more were thrashing madly, as parasites might in your blood.

I could imagine the people in the audience as if they were in water. I wish Gord's mike would have been louder so everyone could hear his stream of consciousness words + singing at quiet moments of the song or in between songs. And I think my friends and I were the only non-Canadians there.

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I'm going to see the tragically hip at the fillmore tonight. The first time I saw them was in Austin, TX at South by Southwest '95 (at the no longer existent, sadly, Liberty Lunch). They were supporting Day for Night. It was one of the most amazing live music experiences. I was instantly a hardcore fan. I've seen them several times since and I've never been disappointed. My friend jake was at that show in Texas, too, and I'm going with him and matt tonight. There's nothing like a poetic rock show.

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and they walked on down the hall

Al Gore and the Internet: "...Gore meaning, obvious to anyone who knew the record, was that he did the political work and articulated the public vision that made the Internet possible. No reasonable person could conclude that Gore was claiming to have invented the Internet in any technical sense." [via rc3] And here's an article in Salon on the subject.

Fairvue Central >> We Didn't Start the Weblogs:

We didn't start the weblogs
No, we didn't incite 'em
But we're trying to write 'em

michael moore: "One month from today, I am hoping against hope that the Non-Voting Majority in this country will decide that they've had enough of the b.s. and go behind that curtain for just a few minutes and rock the nation. It is the only day every four years when the average schlump has more power in his or her hands than all of media, all the oil companies, all of Congress combined. With the flick of a switch or the stroke of a pencil, we outnumber the bastards by 99 to 1 on that single solitary day in November. Nothing, literally nothing, is stopping us -- other than ourselves and our belief that it can't happen."

megnut pic. "gourds" is such an ugly word. And they aren't really that bad...especially in a colorful bunch like this. ;)

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