MIXTAPE MONDAYS: Hymns to the Electoral College

(Every Monday at Tragically Hipster we'll feature a look at a band, performance, or vague musical concept, with an accompanying virtual mixtape for your listening pleasure. There's no need to thank us; it's just one more service we like to provide for you, our dedicated readers. Most of whom also write for this site.)


Don't know if you've heard about this yet, but apparently there's going to be an election tomorrow. I guess it's sort of a big deal.

To inspire you to participate in your civic duties, we hereby present a mixture of sonic delights, all themed in some overt fashion toward the concept of a free and democratic nation -- some more cynically than others. So skip school, ditch out on your work day, or just wake up before noon you lazy unemployed bastard, and spend your day at the polls. If you happen to see George W. voting at the very next booth, be sure to give him Tragically Hipster's regards, and tell him to not to let the door hit him in the ass on his way out.

On the Mixtape:

1) "This Lands is Your Land" by Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
2) "Pindar" by The Shapeshifters
3) "California Über Alles" by Dead Kennedeys
4) "Rock the Nation" by Michael Franti & Spearhead
5) "Imagine / Walk on the Wild Side" by RX featuring George W. Bush
6) "(I'm in Love With) Margaret Thatcher" by Notsensibles
7) "Behavior Modification / We Will Rock You (Bipartisan Mix)" by Emergency Broadcast Network
8) "Mass Destruction (George W. Mix)" by Faithless
9) "What If We All Stopped Paying Taxes" by Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
10) "That's What a Pimp Does (Obama Mix)" by DJ Excel
11) "Chocolate City" by Parliament
12) "George Bush Doesn't Like Black People" by The Legendary K.O.
13) "Election Day" by Arcadia
14) "Alles Neu" by Peter Fox
15) "The Star-Spangled Banner" by Rebekah Del Rio and the Section Quartet

"Love Never Fails."

No on Prop 8

Uncle Jay Explains the conventions!

For those of you who don't know my Uncle Jay...

My Uncle Jay is a really great person. I like Uncle Jay really a lot. He's a really, really great grown-up person. Anytime I am confused about stuff he does a really, really good job to explain it to me good so it all makes sense. He's the bestest. I like Uncle Jay.

Uncle Jay has his website and he makes video stories for me to learn all about the news each week. I really like my Uncle Jay! You can see him too at UncleJayExplains.com!

I like my Uncle Jay.

And I like his story this week about the conventionses.



p.s. - In case you are dense... this is not really my uncle, but I wish he were! I highly recommend visiting Uncle Jay's website every Monday to get caught up on the week's important news! If you're too lazy to go to the website, you can just subscribe to his video podcast and have it download automatically!

p.p.s. - You definitely need to go view his episode from July 2nd, 2007! This is Uncle Jay at his BEST!

Enjoy!