Metric (Again)

Today’s artist of the day is Metric. As detailed in a previous Artist of the Day, Metric is a new age/indie/new wave rock band. Originally formed in 1998 in New York City, they are currently based in Toronto, Ontario and Oakland, California. Their latest album was released last week, entitled Fantasies. The album received a 6.4 on Pitchfork, saying in the new album “there is a dreamy quality here that eschews the vague, easy rhymes and lyrical polemics of past Metric records in favor of romance and sex.”

From the most recent album, Gimme Sympathy:

An acoustic performance of Help I’m Alive:

And an on-tour live performance of Collect Call:

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What The Fuck Is Wrong With America (Comic Version)

See Also: Cheney Lies Again, Why Don’t We All Focus On “Looking Forward”, Babies: Not Just for Breakfast Any More!, What’s Wrong With America?, A Commentary: “War is Hell”, Crimes Against Humanity’s Grammar, Torture Works? Not So Fast…, Cheney Ordered Torture to Get Confession of Saddam-9/11 Connection, and Morning Joe on Torture: Throw Everything at the Wall and Hope Everyone Stops Paying Attention.

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WOTD followup

As a follow up to Word of the Day’s post, I’d like to throw in my 2 cents and vent a little frustration. I’m really sick of all the anti-American a-holes out there who are willing to sacrifice the ideals of America, everything America stands for, and everything that makes us great so they don’t have to be afraid of the boogy man.

If you don’t like the fact that in America, you should be willing to die as a sacrifice to lady liberty every single day, then maybe you should leave the country and go somewhere safer. The patriots didn’t lay down their lives so that we could be safe at whatever the cost. Patrick Henry didn’t say give me a tall soy latte or give me skim if you’re out of soy. He said give me liberty or give me death. If you aren’t willing to die for your ideals, then what are you willing to die for?

Anyways, two other points: Firstly, I really want to see Samuel L. Jackson as Patrick Henry, saying that famous line punctuated by a forceful SLJ mothafucker. Secondly, this was my favorite comment, props be to Foxwood:

Let’s go surfin’ now
Everybody’s learnin’ how
Do some waterboardin’ with me!

Let’s go surfin’ now
Everybody’s learnin’ how
Do some waterboardin’ with me!

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What The Fuck Is Wrong With America?

I’ll make this quick and full of pomp and outrage:

What kind of fucking country do you live in where you have to debate whether torturing someone is a crime? What kind of country do you live in when you can spend 3 years prosecuting the President for a consensual sexual act but won’t prosecute a President for authorizing illegal wiretaps and torturing people? What kind of country do you live in where the supposed ‘spiritual’ and ‘religious’ leaders think it’s OK to torture non-Christians? What kind of country do you live in where you can’t even use the word ‘torture’ but have to say ‘interrogation techniques’? What kind of country do you live in when their Nuremberg defense (‘We were just following orders’) becomes the mantra for not holding war criminals accountable for their actions? What kind of country do you live in where a major candidate in a Presidential primary openly advocates for doubling the size of America’s illegal detention centers and increasing the use of torture?

Obama, you won the fucking election. Everyone despises Bush and his administration — they spent 8 years spitting on international law, good sense, and common decency. Fucking prosecute them. God damnit.

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