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I still can’t get enough of Coldplay’s new album… if you haven’t done yourself the favor and bought it yet, you’re really missing out!

Just saw the video for the song No Handlebars which has had me riveted for the past couple of months since first hearing it while in Florida.

The lyrics to this song are an absolutely brilliant portrayal of the humanistic bent that our culture continues to take on. Tracy and I have had several conversations about the song, it’s lyrics and its hidden as well as overt meaning. There are strong political overtones towards President Bush and the War in Iraq, there are strong overtones towards what we as man have accomplished and continue to push for (holocaust) in our dealings with each other as we leave our child-like innocence. But what I think is most fascinating is how this song shows exactly where we begin our arrogance–childhood.

Lyrics | No Handlebars | The Flobots

I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars
No handlebars

Look at me, look at me
hands in the air like it’s good to be
ALIVE
and I’m a famous rapper
even when the paths’re all crookedy
I can show you how to do-si-do
I can show you how to scratch a record
I can take apart the remote control
And I can almost put it back together
I can tie a knot in a cherry stem
I can tell you about Leif Ericson
I know all the words to “De Colores”
And “I’m Proud to be an American”
Me and my friend saw a platypus
Me and my friend made a comic book
And guess how long it took
I can do anything that I want cuz, look:

I can keep rhythm with no metronome
No metronome
No metronome

I can see your face on the telephone
On the telephone
On the telephone

Look at me
Look at me
Just called to say that it’s good to be
ALIVE
In such a small world
All curled up with a book to read
I can make money open up a thrift store
I can make a living off a magazine
I can design an engine sixty four
Miles to a gallon of gasoline
I can make new antibiotics
I can make computers survive aquatic conditions
I know how to run a business
And I can make you wanna buy a product
Movers shakers and producers
Me and my friends understand the future
I see the strings that control the systems
I can do anything with no assistance
I can lead a nation with a microphone
With a microphone
With a microphone
I can split the atoms of a molecule
Of a molecule
Of a molecule

Look at me
Look at me
Driving and I won’t stop
And it feels so good to be
Alive and on top
My reach is global
My tower secure
My cause is noble
My power is pure
I can hand out a million vaccinations
Or let’em all die in exasperation
Have’em all grilled leavin lacerations
Have’em all killed by assassination
I can make anybody go to prison
Just because I don’t like’em and
I can do anything with no permission
I have it all under my command
I can guide a missile by satellite
By satellite
By satellite
and I can hit a target through a telescope
Through a telescope
Through a telescope
and I can end the planet in a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust

I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handle bars
No handlebars

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I missed last week, so here’s two weeks worth… can you tell I’m really liking the new Coldplay album? Coldplay continues to amaze me as their music continues to evolve with every single album, yet at the same time remaining true to who they are as musicians. Great stuff!

I’ve long been infatuated with the music of David Ford… here’s a great video, that is incorporates an impressive use of loops off his newest CD “Songs for the Road”…

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I absolutely love the new Weezer album, and I simply can’t wait for the new Coldplay album to release on Tuesday! This is the only reason why I truly love summer… great new music!

Weezer is simply brilliant, and their newest music video proves it! It’s a compilation of all the viral videos of the past all in one… It’s really good.

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Death Cab’s new album is really good. I’m not a huge fan of their earlier stuff, but they really found their sound with Transatlanticism and haven’t looked back! Great stuff!

Victor LeBeau, a retailing analyst who helped shape our economy after WWII said:

Our enormously productive economy…demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption…. We need things consumed, burned up, replaced and discarded at an ever-accelerating rate.

(ht: the story of stuff)

This quote certainly shed an enormous amount of light on this video by Radiohead “All I Need”

There are a ton of spiritual and moral implications surrounding this, and although I’m not sure exactly how it all fleshes out it is certainly something I am thinking though and questioning on a bigger scale.

(All of this thought was sparked by the Radiohead video and furthered by watching the video with Annie Leonard The Story of Stuff)

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I really, really like the new album Honeysuckle Weeks by The Submarines. I can’t get enough of it!