the king of carrot flowers

i have no mind. robot! is what i have been recently. it is exactly 1 more week until razorlight and the futureheads. tres exciting. and i don't want to do any work and i just want to sit and drink hot chocolate and feel all fuzzy and warm. i feel like eating muffins.

and again, pete is a flippin' cunt. poor carl.

i saw dogs die in hot cars. the band, that is. their album is fantastic. their live... not so much. perhaps it's because they are a fairly new band and don't have a lot of experience plus it was their first date on their us tour. so they were nervous. or something. the bass player was not very good. and he kept on telling the sound guy to up the volume of the bass. not a great idea. it's such a pity since their album is so fantastique. maybe they will be better the next time around. tho, i really liked the first opening band. they were frickin' hilarious. i have never seen anyone move like that ever in my life. i didn't even know that people were capable of moving like so. it was like a ferret crawled up his bum and he was trying to fight it. he must be an alien like me. but apparently they are opening for the futureheads next week so i will be able to see his glorious moves again.

jean-pierre jeunet is coming. weee.



hounds of love/the futureheads

when I was a child: running in the night,

afraid of what might be

hiding in the dark, hiding in the street,

and of what was following me...



now hounds of love are calling.

i've always been a coward,

and I don't know what's good for me.



here i go!

it's coming for me through the trees.

help me, someone! help me, please!



take my shoes off,

and throw them in the lake,

and I'll be two steps on the water.



i found a fox caught by dogs.

he let me take him in my hands.

his little heart, it beats so fast,

and i'm ashamed of running away



from nothing real--

i just can't deal with this,

but i'm still afraid to be there,

among your hounds of love,

and feel your arms surround me.

i've always been a coward,

and never know what's good for me.



do you know what i really need?

do you know what i really need?

i need love love love love love, yeah.

you love it cos you're stupid and shallow

yeah so about bush. i say he's a wanker. my scottish boy faced man friend says bloody cunt. and we aren't even from the us. i still think it's ridiculous that the gay marriage thing got passed. gay people have longer relationships than any straight people i know. tis true. here's what michale moore has to say about him. so don't go and slit your wrists kids. instead move to england or canada with me.

Dear Friends,

Ok, it sucks. Really sucks. But before you go and cash it all in, let's, in the words of Monty Python, 'always look on the bright side of life!' There IS some good news from Tuesday's election.

Here are 17 reasons not to slit your wrists:

1. It is against the law for George W. Bush to run for president again.

2. Bush's victory was the NARROWEST win for a sitting president since Woodrow Wilson in 1916.

3. The only age group in which the majority voted for Kerry was young adults (Kerry: 54%, Bush: 44%), proving once again that your parents are always wrong and you should never listen to them.

4. In spite of Bush's win, the majority of Americans still think the country is headed in the wrong direction ( 56%), think the war wasn't worth fighting ( 51%), and don't approve of the job George W. Bush is doing ( 52%). (Note to foreigners: Don't try to figure this one out. It's an American thing, like Pop Tarts.)

5. The Republicans will not have a filibuster-proof 60-seat majority in the Senate. If the Democrats do their job, Bush won't be able to pack the Supreme Court with right-wing ideologues. Did I say "if the Democrats do their job?" Um, maybe better to scratch this one.

6. Michigan voted for Kerry! So did the entire Northeast, the birthplace of our democracy. So did 6 of the 8 Great Lakes States. And the whole West Coast! Plus Hawaii. Ok, that's a start. We've got most of the fresh water, all of Broadway, and Mt. St. Helens. We can dehydrate them or bury them in
lava. And no more show tunes!

7. Once again we are reminded that the buckeye is a nut, and not just any old nut -- a poisonous nut. A great nation was felled by a poisonous nut. May Ohio State pay dearly this Saturday when it faces Michigan.

8. 88% of Bush's support came from white voters. In 50 years, America will no longer have a white majority. Hey, 50 years isn't such a long time! If you're ten years old and reading this, your golden years will be truly golden and you will be well cared for in your old age.

9. Gays, thanks to the ballot measures passed on Tuesday, cannot get married in 11 new states. Thank God. Just think of all those wedding gifts we won't have to buy now.

10. Five more African Americans were elected as members of Congress, including the return of Cynthia McKinney of Georgia. It's always good to have more blacks in there fighting for us and doing the job our candidates can't.

11. The CEO of Coors was defeated for Senate in Colorado. Drink up!

12. Admit it: We like the Bush twins and we don't want them to go away.

13. At the state legislative level, Democrats picked up a net of at least 3 chambers in Tuesday's elections. Of the 98 partisan-controlled state legislative chambers (house/assembly and senate), Democrats went into the 2004 elections in control of 44 chambers, Republicans controlled 53 chambers, and 1 chamber was tied. After Tuesday, Democrats now control 47 chambers, Republicans control 49 chambers, 1 chamber is tied and 1 chamber (Montana House) is still undecided.

14. Bush is now a lame duck president. He will have no greater moment than the one he's having this week. It's all downhill for him from here on out -- and, more significantly, he's just not going to want to do all the hard work that will be expected of him. It'll be like everyone's last month in 12th grade -- you've already made it, so it's party time! Perhaps he'll treat the next four years like a permanent Friday, spending even more time at the ranch or in Kennebunkport. And why shouldn't he? He's already proved his point, avenged his father and kicked our ass.

15. Should Bush decide to show up to work and take this country down a very dark road, it is also just as likely that either of the following two scenarios will happen: a) Now that he doesn't ever need to pander to the Christian conservatives again to get elected, someone may whisper in his ear that he should spend these last four years building "a legacy" so that history will render a kinder verdict on him and thus he will not push for too aggressive a right-wing agenda; or b) He will become so cocky and arrogant -- and thus, reckless -- that he will commit a blunder of such major proportions that even his own party will have to remove him from office.

16. There are nearly 300 million Americans -- 200 million of them of voting age. We only lost by three and a half million! That's not a landslide -- it means we're almost there. Imagine losing by 20 million. If you had 58 yards to go before you reached the goal line and then you barreled down 55 of those yards, would you stop on the three yard line, pick up the ball and go home crying -- especially when you get to start the next down on the three yard line? Of course not! Buck up! Have hope! More sports analogies are coming!!!

17. Finally and most importantly, over 55 million Americans voted for the candidate dubbed "The #1 Liberal in the Senate." That's more than the total number of voters who voted for either Reagan, Bush I, Clinton or Gore. Again, more people voted for Kerry than Reagan. If the media are looking for a trend it should be this -- that so many Americans were, for the first time since Kennedy, willing to vote for an out-and-out liberal. The country has always been filled with evangelicals -- that is not news. What IS news is that so many people have shifted toward a Massachusetts liberal. In fact, that's BIG news. Which means, don't expect the mainstream media, the ones who brought you the Iraq War, to ever report the real truth about November 2, 2004. In fact, it's better that they don't. We'll need the element of surprise in 2008.

Feeling better? I hope so. As my friend Mort wrote me yesterday, "My Romanian grandfather used to say to me, 'Remember, Morton, this is such a wonderful country -- it doesn't even need a president!'"

But it needs us. Rest up, I'll write you again tomorrow.

Yours,

Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
www.michaelmoore.com