I went to this bar in Paris' 20th arrondisment last night and saw a "band" called Dead Rock Machine...I'm now in love with the guy on the right who's name I don't know AND I'm obsessed with their music. It even sounds good bone dry sober!!!
Seriously though, these guys are really cool. I don't know if the label band is exactly right, but I guess so. I don't know. I always think of bands as a bunch of people up on stage with more...traditional instruments.
But thats just me...

Anyways, here they are playing at the same place i saw them last night about a year ago:



and this is their myspace...I highly reccomend them, even if you aren't really into the whole techno scene (i'm definitely not i listen to country and some rock...)
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=74457751

(I can't get my photo thing to work for some reason...)

BUT...

Perez Hilton

This guy is good. Realy really good. Seriously, he turned his hobby into a totally successful career. And yeah, sometimes he can get a little snarky. But I love it.

I wonder where he gets all his info from. He usually has info up there before major tabloids pick it up. Like when Heidi and Spencer eloped…he had it up before ANYONE else did, including MTV.
And yeah, he’s not exactly the nicest guy in the world and he usually doesn’t blog about the most life changing stuff. But he’s still able to turn something he used to do as a hobby into a carreer, and a successful one that has made him pretty famous.

My buddy back home Katie goes to NYU and she was in a paparazzi shot of Katie Holmes and Suri Cruise a few months ago. She spent HOURS stalking Perez Hilton trying to see if the photo was up with her in the background. It never showed up, but damn that would’ve been cool!

I found an interesting article on CNN
here: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/12/02/slaves.white.house/index.html

Its cool that everyone is so excited that there is going to be an African American president in office come january. I'm really excited. Even the French are excited!
The only thing is, I think people should take the focus off the fact that Obama is black. Yes, its cool, but its unfortunate that he's known more around the world as the first black president rather than the first democratic president in a while, or as a champion for change, or whatever else. Maybe that's just how things are in France right now. Certainly the political climate over here is different- France was %99 for Obama at the least.

So, this article basically talks about the "irony" (not in a sarcastic way) of how they discovered that slaves were involved in the construction of the White House and the Capitol, and now there is an African American family moving in. OK. Cool. Why do we need to keep prodding this? People should focus on things other than his racial identity and skin color.

One line in this article really irked me. ""The apple cart has been turned over here when you have the Obamas -- the first African-American couple -- now actually management and you are having in some cases white Americans serving them," says presidential historian Doug Brinkley."

OK...so its ok to try to turn the tables and have a slavery-like attitude? I'm sure thats not what this guy was saying at all, but when I read that it kind of hit me the wrong way. Aren't we past all this by now? Maybe its where I come from that race really is not a factor anymore...but I can't help but be a little offended by the fact that this guy Brinkley makes it sound like the only accomplishment Obama made was being elected while being black.

Hardly. I really hope people stop focusing on his skin color. I think there are many more important things than that...seriously.