Tunes for a desert island stay

Out of a conversation I had last night, I came up with the absolute must have music list for those who are on a stranded island. These are in no particular order of preference:

• Personal Jesus-Depeche Mode


• Anything by that Parliament-Funkadelic-P-Funk All Stars-Bootsie and the Rubberband-George Clinton---especially the usual suspects: "We want the Funk, One Nation Under a Groove, Aquaboogie, Bootzilla, Atomic Dog


• No list would be complete without the New Order/Joy Division collection---again the usual suspects: Regret, Ruined In a Day, Dead Souls, Love Will Tear Us Apart, Transmission, She's Lost Control, True Faith, Bizarre Love Triangle, Digital, The Perfect Kiss, Dreams Never End, Here To Stay


• Baby Love-Regina (Richards)


• Selections from Cappadonna's "The Pillage" --Everything Is Everything, Black Boy, Slang Editorial, The Pillage


• Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash


• Hank Williams' I Heard That Lonesome Whistle Blow


• Anything by the Stylistics and the Spinners would be great


• Aimee Mann and the Japanese group Flow --nuff said

I have often found ...

I have often found a certain irony in the fact that I like some tv shows that exclude people that on the surface I would have more in common with than the characters on those shows.
For example, today on hulu.com, I am mining the 'Kojak' archives. This is still to me one of the more rough cop shows around. And is quite the posterchild for testosterone. I don't think growing up there was ever a female cop in Kojak's stable and there was no real room on this series for what is usually considered "feminine." However, I love this series. My mother and I used to joke that if Kojak and [Steve] McGarrett were on the case, there would be no crack problem in America.

Most of the soaps that I watch, especially ones that take place in locations like Los Angeles, apparently suffer from a disease where the people of colour have died from some mysterious disease.

Opinions of...politics - Part 1

'Onpoint' Radio has a weekly Friday roundtable discussion about issues in the news. They touched upon a few that I should make plain where my positions are.

Geraldine Ferraro: Oddly enough, I got what she was trying to say. I do honestly have to say that there have been times where I wonder about whether or not Obama would have been subjected to some of the awful things that have been said about HRC. No one's seen fit to make a nutcracker of Obama. There was a better way of saying it and I wonder what the race would have been like if Barack had been Michelle Obama instead.