It seems kind of fitting that I say good bye to 2008 with a song like this...a song that probably seemed very relevant before November 4th and already seems a little bit dated, like a 60's protest song.
I've probably said before how shocked so many of my friends (including myself) were by the 2000 election. We simply thought of Republicans as old people and bible nerds, surely they could never unite to over come the basic "rightness" of the Clinton Administration...but that was the shortsightedness of youth. Never having seen the pendulum of history swing, I was honestly stunned that a simple blow job could sway the country so dramatically.
And now, as we sit on the brink of a new era, and Chris Walla's protest song sounds so dated...I have to fear that the same complacency will set in with the American left again. "No one is going to elect a Republican after what Bush has done"...but the pendulum always sways.
Musically, Walla was always the brains behind Death Cab, but sadly his voice is reedy and not that interesting...and it's sort of shocking that anyone could have a more reedy voice than Ben Gibbard (Oh and on that subject, how does that wussy little emo boy end up engaged to Zooey Deschanel? There is no justice in the world)
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