Guitar talk

since last Christmas I've purchased two new guitars--a Fender American Tele, and a Gibson Les Paul Studio. They're both great, although I think I'll need to upgrade my amp--this marshall combo isn't a true valve, and there seems to be a problem with the footswitch or the connection. Anyway, they still sound great and its great to finally have an electric again. Whoo--

I think I have a tendancy to listen obsessively to certain music for periods of time--whether days, weeks or months--to the exclusion of almost everything else. There are a few that I always come back to, others not so much. Anyway, at the moment it's the Who and Pete Townshend. I really didn't appreciate bands like the Who or Led Zeppelin when I was in high school--they were badly overplayed on various AOR stations in the Philadelphia area where I lived at the time. Except for the Beatles, I didn't have much interest at all in bands before the 1980s, unless they were punk/new wave groups. It wasn't until I got into college and beyond that I actually delved into their catalogues beyond the stuff that I had been fed ad nauseum.

Obama's Senate Record

I'm gonna lay off the election here for a little bit, but wanted to post this page which lists Obama's record of accomplishments in the Senate. Save this for the next person who tells you he lacks "substance". You know, aside from being a law professor and state legislator for many years--but that's not as good as sitting in Washington for your whole career making deals with lobbyists./sarcasm

TPM

More politics/news--I hadn't read Josh Marshall's Talking Points Memo site for ages, and was surprised when I checked it out again recently at how much it had grown. It's almost like a real news site now! And not some bullshit "neutral" reporting that's really just another way of saying "corporate shills who actually favor Republicans, no matter how godawful". Did that make sense?
Anyhow, the major media outlets are mostly a bunch of whores, and they sure as hell aren't "liberal".

p.s. Okay, this wasn't "more" politics, there was another post I had drafted that I never posted, re Obama's Senate record, which I'll post above.