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Well Done to the USA!!!

i think this blog is getting watched or summat by the DMCA, coz my "election themed songs" post just got removed, and 2/3 of those songs are 4 years old, and the other is surely a bootleg/meant to be passed around!?
I feel like I havent been posting enough, so tonight/tomorrow im gonna do a BIG catch up of loadsa recent stuff I am liking, and also post some heroes sneak peek for next week!
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do it.
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first things first, cant believe I haven't reported about this before, death cab are touring Europe and the UK in november, and yes I will be seeing them for the first time! hopefully 2/3 times!! sheffield academy, hopefully notts rock city, paris bataclan!
Europe:

November 12 - St. Georges Market - Belfast, Northern Ireland
Tickets on-sale August 22nd at: http://www.ticketmaster.ie

November 13 - Ambassador Theatre - Dublin, Ireland
Tickets on-sale August 22nd at: http://www.ticketmaster.ie

November 14 - Corn Exchange - Edinburgh, Scotland
Tickets can be purchased here.

November 15 - Rock City - Nottingham, England
Tickets can be purchased here.

November 16 - Colston Hall - Bristol, England
Tickets can be purchased at: http://colstonhall.org/boxoffice/whatson/Event789

November 17 - Carling Academy - Sheffield, England
Tickets can be purchased here.

November 19 - Alexandra Palace - London England
Tickets can be purchased here.

November 20 - Crossing Border Festival - The Hague, The Netherlands
More information available at the Crossing Border Festival website: http://www.crossingborder.nl/home_en.php

November 21 - Muffathalle - Munich, Germany
Tickets on-sale date TBA

November 22 - Les Halles - Brussels, Belgium
Tickets on-sale August 20th

November 23 - Paris, France - Bataclan
Tickets on-sale August 19

November 24 - Ringlokschuppen - Bielfeld, Germany
Tickets on-sale date TBA

November 25 - Admiralspalast - Berlin, Germany
Tickets: on-sale date TBA

in case you didn't know! rumours of an autumn EP are flying around, hopefully to include casino blues (ben played on his solo tours of 2007)
the above picture is of ben at the democrat national convention! Zooey Deschanel is the woman in the picture, and Jenny Lewis and Jonathon Rice were also playing along with the guy from Nada Surf. They basically each played a couple of songs, Ben did the sound of settling and brand new colony, as well as this is the dream of evan and chan (im pretty sure) with zooey.
links to various death cab/bg songs cant be upped as hotlinkfiles is being a twat, so mediafrie links im afraid
Ben Gibbard-Casino Blues (Acoustic)
Ben Gibbard-Couches in Alleys (Live Acoustic)
Death Cab For Cutie-Grapevine Fires (Live in London 08)
Death Cab For Cutie-405 (Acoustic)

onto barack, although i dont usually talk politics here, ill make an exception for senator obama.
Bill Clinton said:
"Everything I learned in my eight years as president, and in the work I have done since in America and across the globe, has convinced me that Barack Obama is the man for this job. He has a remarkable ability to inspire people, to raise our hopes and rally us to high purpose. He has the intelligence and curiosity every successful president needs."
Hilary Clinton said:
"Whether you voted for me, or you voted for Barack, the time is now to unite as a single party with a single purpose. We are on the same team, and none of us can afford to sit on the sidelines. This is a fight for the future. And it's a fight we must win together."
Al Gore said:
"His experience has also given him genuine respect for different views and humility, in the face of complex realities that cannot be squeezed into the narrow compartments of ideology.

His experience has taught him something that career politicians often overlook: that inconvenient truths must be acknowledged if we are to have wise governance."

Barack Obama said:

"We meet at one of those defining moments - a moment when our nation is at war, our economy is in turmoil, and the American promise has been threatened once more."

"Tonight, I say to the American people, to Democrats and Republicans and Independents across this great land - enough! This moment - this election - is our chance to keep, in the 21st century, the American promise alive. Because next week, in Minnesota, the same party that brought you two terms of George Bush and Dick Cheney will ask this country for a third. And we are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look like the last eight. On November 4th, we must stand up and say: "Eight is enough.""

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If only europe could vote in this election haha...
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...if you live in London, dont vote fucking Boris Johnson.
Boris was in the Guardian Weekend Q&A this weekend, but instead of giving interesting answers, half of them just treated the interview as a key part of his campaign, citing the trait he most deplores in others as "the arrogant waste of London taxpayers money". I also loved the answer to "what would your super power be?"="super-freeze ability to cool down the planet. say goodbye to global warming gloom" he clearly doesnt understand the problem in any depth (as admittedly lots of people dont-but a potential mayor of London should!). Climate change is something Ken Livingstone is extremely strong on. Its well worth a read
Here are just a few of the lovely views the supposedly harmless bumbling old fool off Have I Got News For You has:
On Gay Marriage: "if gay marriage was OK - and I was uncertain on the issue - then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men, or indeed three men and a dog."
On Liverpudlians: "deeply unattractive psyche", and at the Hillsborough disaster, "drunken fans at the back of the crowd who mindlessly tried to fight their way into the ground"
On Papua New Guinea: "Papua New Guinea-style orgies of cannibalism and chief-killing"
On Jamie Oliver: "I say let people eat what they like. Why shouldn't they push pies through the railings?" at the same conference David Cameron lauded his campaign as "social responsibility in action"
On Portsmouth: "one of the most depressed towns in Southern England, a place that is arguably too full of drugs, obesity, underachievement and Labour MPs"
On Tony Blairs visits to the 3rd world: "the tribal warriors will all break out in watermelon smiles to see the big white chief"
and finally to the BBC Asian Network
I'm down with the ethnics. You can't out-ethnic me. My children are a quarter Indian, so put that in your pipe and smoke it.

Ken Livingstone transport policies are second to none, and he promises to "Take over Tube contracts from Metronet, improve trains, invest more in cycling and walking, expand police teams, 24-hour Freedom pass, 500 more hybrid buses by 2010" where Boris' main transport investment would be large increases in policing.

Dont let Boris Johnson in, vote Ken!
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