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PlaylisT COVeR ARTisTs PlAYlisT in the spirit of recycling, this week’s playlist features a selection of some excellent and surprising covers. everything old is new again! For more song covers, check out www. coversproject.com. and don’t forget to email your favorite song(s) to tpB’s Music editor amanda nyren at anyren@theprintedblog. 8 “act nice and gentle” - Black Keys Black Keys do the Kinks’ “Act Nice and Gentle” justice, adding a little southern rock twang to the mix. http://www.tpburl.com/9fr16y “Borderline” - the Flaming lips The Flaming Lips’ cover of my favorite 80s Madonna hit is just as good, if not better, than the original. http://www.tpburl.com/7gy4st “i Poke her face” - Kid Cudi w Kanye West Okay so this Kid Cudi/Kanye West rehash of Lady Gaga’s acoustic “Poker Face” is really more of a sample than a cover. But when the track is this good, why quibble? http://www.tpburl.com/3m2s95 “rave on” - M. Ward M. Ward has covered David Bowie, Daniel Johnston and Billie Holiday, but his fresh take on Buddy Holly’s classic “Rave On” is easily his best adaptation. http://www.tpburl.com/vc0fn2 “20 dollar” - M.i.a. M.I.A. puts her electropunk warrior princess spin on The Pixies’ cult classic “Where Is My Mind.” http://www.tpburl.com/6n0y53 “nobody does it Better” - Radiohead Thom Yorke’s whiny vocals seem made for this yearning Carly Simon hit. Plus, the song choice reassures us that Radiohead is not too elitist to enjoy 70s soft rock. http://www.tpburl.com/kym58j “superstar” - Sonic youth Featured in the lovable indie flick Juno, Sonic Youth’s rendition of The Carpenters’ “Superstar” is a haunting twist on a saccharine power ballad. http://www.tpburl.com/v9fqz7 “Take me to the river” - talking heads Talking Heads’ version of “Take Me to the River” is arguably more famous than the original, done by soul man Al Green. Just try singing this song without picturing David Byrne in his boxy spongebob squarepants suit. http://www.tpburl.com/y1578f PhoTos adverTising david Brown we are hunTed We are hunted aggregates social networks, p2p networks, music forums and blogs to compile a chart of the most popular songs in the blogosphere based on sentiment, expression and advocacy rather than a mere download count. it’s a smart and highly addictive way to discover new music. here, this week’s top nine emerging songs. (as of april 29, 2009) moTh’s wings Passion PiT tpburl.com/62g5bv ares (villains remix) BloC ParTy tpburl.com/m86j7c Thank you god for fixing The TaPe... inTelligenCe tpburl.com/kdp9xw adverTising givin’ uP (don diaBlo remix one eskimo tpburl.com/16gt0r yellowsTone Joe and will ask? tpburl.com/4b2869 heavy Cross The gossiP tpburl.com/zxn7gc The PrinTed Blog is PrinTed By John s. swifT Co., inC. www.JohnswifTPrinT.Com (847) 465-3300 raven (Crookers remix) The Proxy tpburl.com/qfn6dg leT love rule 2009 (JusTiCe remix) lenny kraviTZ tpburl.com/1mbzjk your way xu xu fang tpburl.com/yrfzvj wAnT TO Tell OuR ReADeRs ABOuT YOuR Business? OuR ADs ARe CHeAP AnD HYPeR-lOCAl. TO see AD RATes AnD HOw ADVeRTisinG wiTH THe PRinTeD BlOG will HelP YOuR Business, wRiTe ADVeRTisinG@THePRinTeDBlOG.COM.
PhoTos CiTy life unsluMMinG By vmichael | 4/13/09 | Time Tells tpburl.com/twvpdc I am reading Michael Meyer’s The Last Days of Old Beijing which is an excellent journal about the death and life of a traditional Beijing hutong, which is a narrow lane of courtyard houses. I was reading about how the planners and developers considered these areas slums even though they functioned extremely well and served more as incubators of improvement and socialization than harbingers of decay. Yet crime statistics that “proved” the area was overcrowded were enough to mark it for demolition. As Meyer described it, I thought immediately of Jane Jacob’s Death and Life of Great American Cities and the story of Boston’s North End, which was statistically a slum but visibly NOT. I only had to turn the page and Meyer told of Herbert Gans’ 1959 article on Boston’s North End and Jacobs’ coverage of the same subject and her wonderful term for what was happening in these traditional “stable, low-rent areas:” Unslumming. Wow. There it is. For the last quarter century we have had only the term “gentrification” but the problem with that term is that it describes something that can happen with old buildings - like much of the near north side of Chicago or Wicker Park - OR with new buildings, like those unprotected areas near Old Town and Wicker Park where the values rise so fast and high that the developers are putting up $2 million Lollapallazzos on spec. Like this one on Burling. Which is probably $5 million. But “unslumming” DOESN’T happen with new buildings. It only happens with old buildings. I had forgotten Jacobs’ term, but it exactly describes what happened in North Kenwood and Oakland in the early 1990s, which I chronicled in Future Anterior four years ago ( http:// www.arch.columbia.edu/futureanterior/past_issues/vol_2_2_2005.htm). In Meyers’ Dazhalan hutong in Beijing, as in the 1950s North End and 1990s North Kenwood, people with middle-class aspirations were unslumming their neighborhoods by rebuilding them bit by bit and little by little and with the existing buildings. But - as Meyers quotes Jacobs - such neighborhoods are doomed because no one is making a fortune on them. No fortunes, no big plans, no developers, just tons and tons of incremental improvements in safety, in socialization, in economic strength, in morality and education. A brilliant story of reclaimed humanity and human progress, but one with no place in our limited, clumsy economy. It’s funny. In politics this Spring, the LOSERS are whining about socialism but when it comes to real estate development, it works the same under socialism and capitalism. I noticed it when I first went to China in 2003: In communist China huge skyscrapers were built not because they were needed but because there were pension funds that needed to invest in real estate, whereas in capitalist USA huge skyscrapers were built not because they were needed but because there were pension funds that needed to invest in real estate. Neither country makes room for the aspiring middle class that wants to do what Jacobs counseled: Save the people and fix the buildings. But in socialist China, that approach doesn’t show enough progress fast enough for government officials and it doesn’t show enough profit for wealthy developers. In capitalist USA, that approach doesn’t show enough progress fast enough for government officials and it doesn’t show enough profit for wealthy developers. So you see the difference, right? Right? Preservation as we know it today derives from a postwar effort to rebuild with what was already there. It was opposed to centralized planning in the form of urban renewal and it was opposed to catastrophic development in the form of big projects. Preservation actually points the way toward a third economics, a democratic economics that frees us from the clumsy hands of the cadres and the equally clumsy hands of the hedge fund managers, from the destructive tendencies of two outdated approaches to city building. PhoTos anna donlan | tpburl.com/pcr8s3 Kari otero | tpburl.com/qrz1sh PoliTiCs THe MeGHAn MCCAin GOP By Tabitha hale | 4/21/09 | Pink elephant Pundit tpburl.com/c8zqs6 So if we learned one thing from Meghan McCain it’s that the GOP is like, so not relevant. Her dad showed us that moderates are wholly ineffective because they never really know who they are appealing to. What ends up happening is that they appeal to no one. When your platform is murky, your ideals are blurry, <strong>AND</strong> you are uncool, you just don’t stand a chance. People will choose the real thing over Democrat Lite. Meghan McCain is the DEFINITION of a moderate. What she DOES do well is embody the typical uninvolved voter. The masses thrive on superficiality, no matter how much those that are paying attention bemoan the ignorance. Melissa Clouthier says it well: Republicans need to do better. they need to be more principled and more defined and also appeal to people who find smooth talking, fine suits, fabulous mascara and superficial trappings important. to ignore either part of this puzzle will cause us to lose again. That hurts, doesn’t it? However, the problem we’re running into is that we tried to appeal to the superficial crowd without making sure they were prepared for the national spotlight. Republicans have a propensity to devour their own - if they’re good at nothing else, they’re good at self-destruction. Which is what they’ve effectively done. I’m a conservative first. I ended up with the GOP simply because, like most conservatives, I tend to vote with a lesser of two evils mentality. I think a lot of us are fed up with voting AGAINST people. It’s high time we had someone to vote FOR. A GOP that represents McCain style “big tent” Republicans does nothing but turn us into Democrats… and further alienate the base. What the GOP seems to forget is that liberty is NOT a partisan issue. It is NOT something that belongs to Conservatives - it transcends race, gender, sexuality, and politics. What we’re seeing is the buy-in to the Democratic lie that liberty is a government issue, when it is truly a human issue that the government in its current form infringes upon. Rick Moran at Right Wing Nut House posted what should have been a depressing article. Oddly enough, I was slightly energized by the end of it. The depressing part was that even under the most conservative American President in history, government did not shrink. Reagan said that once government is there, it never goes away. And it’s entirely too true. This is not a new problem - this has been a long time coming. Pure logic - when something keeps growing, and never shrinks, it is eventually going to get too big. And the GOP can stand around preaching small government all day long, but the hard truth is that they have not EVER been able to make it happen. The fact that their credibility has been completely blown away is not going to help win elections. Moran refers to the GOP hope that Obama will in effect win the next election for them the “illusion of opportunity”… and I have to admit that I don’t think he’s all wrong. The reason I’m inspired? It kind of chased away my sense of fear. Why should our principles be tied to a party? There is little logic to our fear of a GOP failure. As conservatives, we should understand that no insitution is ever “too big” to fail. We’re willing to let bankers, the auto industry, and everyone else fail in the name of capitalism… why are we any different? Do we TRULY believe that in the absence of the GOP another would not rise up? The majority of our country is center right. The hole left in the absence of the GOP WILL be filled - our country is not going to just hand itself over to a one party system. I had someone on Twitter tell me that if the GOP dies “America will be consumed by neoleft darkness. The world will be a jungle. Civilization will be finished!” Can we say dramatic much? It’s exactly this kind of fear that keeps us voting for McCains in the hope of hanging on by a thread instead of starting over. It happened with the Whigs, and it can happen again. I’m not saying that we should throw the GOP out the window. I’m not saying we should all put on tin foil hats and start running around trying to run for Congress. All I’m saying is that the death of the GOP does NOT mean the death of America - that if the recent conservative/ libertarian movements are any indicator, there will be a quick rise of another party. Maybe it would be nice to have the GOP out of the way to give someone else a chance. Just hypothesizing here folks. Liberty is non-partisan. I think that we should strive to be as well… why would you hang on to a sinking ship when you can jump off and build a new one? Thoughts? PhoTos feaTured Blogger TABiTHA HAle http://pinkelephantpundit.com http://smartgirlpolitics.org http://twitter.com/pinkelephantpun Tabitha hale is a new face on the political scene. a 25-year-old college grad, she is a recent addition to the conservative political blogosphere. since returning to her home state of north Carolina, she has made her voice heard as the Pink elephant Pundit and gained exposure for her unapologetic approach to political commentary as well as for her self-proclaimed obsession with social media. she holds a special affection for Twitter, where roughly 20,000 followers check her updates daily. Chris Kitahara | tpburl.com/7z0tw6 although serious about her beliefs, Tabitha makes light of her addiction to all things political. “i refer to myself as a future recovering political junkie,” she says. some of her current projects include writing for Pink elephant Pundit and american issues Project and working as a board member of smart girl Politics, an active grassroots organization supporting conservative women. her most recent undertaking is an internet radio show launching this week on rfC radio, aptly titled “raisin’ hale.” despite the rapid growth of smart girl Politics and the buzz surrounding hale, grassroots politics doesn’t pay the bills just yet. she still juggles a 40 hour-aweek job and active church life in addition to what she refers to as her “political alter ego.” “There’s life outside of politics. That’s how i plan to keep it,” she says. This is just the beginning for hale, who doesn’t plan on going anywhere. “i’m trying to be a voice and say things that need to be said – it’s a passion. i’ll be around for a while.” VieWS expReSSed in Content do not neCeSSaRily ReFleCt the VieWS oF the puBliSheR oR the pRinted Blog inC. 9
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