SOUTH DaCOLA MUSIC CLUB
1981-1998
Dead Can Dance
I’ve never been a big fan of New Age, but somehow DCD has mixed traditional Irish folk music with the musical style. The lead singer’s voice is remarkable. I suggest you get the box set (above) it includes 3 CD’s that spans their entire exsistence and a DVD that has interviews and about a 17 minute performance in Dublin. The band’s live performance on the DVD is incredible. At one point they have 4-5 percussionists playing different instruments. DCD is not depressing, but they are haunting. You can tell they are a little influenced by Fairport Convention (Richard Thompson).
NOVEMBER 19, 2007 – THE TRUTH
As next year’s election gears up it seems our politicians are at it again, feeding us lies and misinformation so they are not painted as being negative. Just ask Howard Dean how well telling the truth helped his campaign for president? It seemed the more Dean talked truthful about the problems facing America, the more the media painted him as negative. In fact leading up to the Iowa Caucus, 70% of columns written about Dean contained negative language to describe him, according to a study done by FAIR magazine. But this isn’t about Dean, but a bigger problem we have in our country; fearing the truth. Take for instance the run up to the Iraq war, only one American news source, Knight Ridder, was saying the WMD’s do not exist. And where did they get this information? Right off of the US government’s own website that outlined the UN weapons inspections. So many people in the media were ignoring the truth about WMD’s even the Knight Ridder journalists covering the story started to doubt themselves.
Why do we paint people who tell the truth as negative? Have we become a society that can no longer handle the truth? Are we so thin-skinned and apathetic that we just don’t want to be bothered by it?
I want you to know that sometimes my cartoons will show the ‘ugly truth’ about an issue, and that’s not being negative, that’s be honest. We need more of it in America.
NOVEMBER 16, 2007 – JIHAD? C’MON MIKE!
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckbee was crying ‘Jihad’ the other day. Mike, I think you have been living in Arkansas way too long. We are in Iraq for only one reason: Oil.