I Don't Know What The Point I Want To Make Is, But...

I just read a brief article (more of a blurb, really) in a newspaper from a few days ago about how some politician lady is demanding an apology because when she was a guest on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, house band The Roots played her on with the following song:



I guess Jimmy Fallon and Questlove both aplogogized when Politician Lady got offended, but she's still bitching because NBC didn't apologize to her, even though NBC wasn't told in advance it was going to happen. (It was, according to a quote from Questlove in the article, "tongue-in-cheek and spur-of-the-moment.") 'Cause, you know, when I'm pissed off about something, I demand apologies from larger authorities who have nothing to do with my complaint.
(Non-sarcastic example: When a restaurant in New Orleans Square in Disneyland stopped serving beef stew in a bread bowl, I was bummed out but I didn't demand restaurant sponsor Stouffer's apologize.)
Politician Lady is mad because she thinks it was a jab at her because she's a Conservative Politician Lady. And it probably was, but who cares? Her issue should be with The Roots (whose frontman apologized) and not with NBC (who had nothing to do with it).
Now, here is my commentary about the situation:
I don't watch Jimmy Fallon, I'm not really familiar with The Roots and have only just recently started listening to Fishbone. I'm so uninformed on politics, I can't tell you Political Lady's name (I could if I bothered to look it up, but I don't care that much).
What I wonder is, if no one in the media had made the connection and pointed out that The Roots were playing a song called Lyin'Ass Bitch when Political Lady walked on stage, would she be complaining right now?
I mean, yeah I'm stereotyping, but I have a very hard time believeing a middle aged, conservative politician is familiar with a punk-pop-ska-metal-rock-soul fusion band like Fishbone.
Maybe if everybody who recognized the song had kept their mouths shut, I wouldn't have to get annoyed reading about some politician who's throwing a tantrum because The Roots don't like her. Or whatever.
Is it a free speech issue, maybe? I think so?
At any rate, it's a catchy song. I hope if I'm ever famous enough to be a guest on Jimmy Fallon, The Roots will play Lyin'Ass Bitch when I walk onstage.

Be seeing you.
-Sally

My But It's Been A While

When was the last time I posted on my dear Twenty Pounds Of Crazy blog? I can't even remember. To all of my zero readers, I do apologize. I must have been busy or something.
Probably the most important thing that's happened to me lately didn't actually happen to me. Amanda and Ivan, two of my best friends, got married last month. Here's the highlight reel:



A week ago I went to see a documentary about Fishbone, which was good enough to make me seek out their music. Sadly, I can't afford to buy any of their albums (I'm still unemployed) but I can watch their music videos on Youtube. So far my favorites are Sunless Saturday:



and Modern Industry:



Of course, the reason I went to see the movie in the first place was because I heard Eugene Hutz was in it. (He was, but for less than a minute.) And we all know how much I love Eugene Hutz (and, by extension, Gogol Bordello. ... Actually, I guess I loved Gogol Bordello first and Eugene Hutz by extension. Whatever):



On Halloween I hung out with my friend Dan, who showed me a video of his band (Don Juan Y Los Blancos, who are working on an album; assuming I don't forget about this blog completely, I'll probably write an entry when it comes out. Not that anyone reads this, but at least I'll feel like I helped promote it) playing in Vegas a few weeks ago:



But I think the video I've been watching most of all is Prisencolinensinainciusol by Adriano Celentano. This is what English sounds like to Italians, apparently. And it's pretty much spot on (and the song is catchy as all fuck):



Even better than that, though? This NW5 video. Oh my god, you guys, I'm seriously. It's so good! So good! (Also, I really want to see the movie it's promoting. Der Wixxer, indeed!):



And that's about it for me. Still job hunting, getting back in the mood to watch movies, listening to a lot of music as always. In a couple weeks my mom and I are going to go see They Might Be Giants in Anaheim. I certainly hope they'll play Marty Beller Mask:



But they probably get that a lot:



Be seeing you.
-Sally