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There goes the neighborhood as that uppity negro moves into the Republican’s party place:
Senior political officials tell Politico’s Mike Allen that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).is likely to hold a huge rally Tuesday night in the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, the site of the Republican National Convention from Sept. 1 to 4.
Tuesday is the night of the final Democratic primaries, and the choice of venue is a mischievous, aggressive way for Obama to unofficially kick off the general election campaign against Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). The location gives huge meaning to the moment, with Obama likely to frame a tough case against his new opponent in the very hall where McCain will accept his party’s nomination.
Having set expectations sky high by booking the Decemberists in Portland, the Obama campaign is pulling out the stops and blowing some serious cash by booking The Wrong Trousers in an attempt to, as the kids say, "tear the roof off the sucka".
Party on Barry.
The next day it’s going to be all empty forties, used condoms, and dead glow sticks.
(More on local kids, Wrong Trousers, here. Show them some love, they’re adorable.)
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Oooh, Techno-Trousers!
(And the day after, David Broder will take a tour of the facility, survey the detritus left behind, and whinge: “They came in here and they trashed the place! It’s not their place!!!”)
Barack will need a local band to fill the arena, and since Morris Day and the Time, Prince and the Revolution, Husker Du, The Replacements, and Soul Asylum probably won’t be available or reuniting for the gig, I’m sure Minnesota’s answer to the Decembrists can fill the arena. If The Suburbs will be there, tens of people will show up.
I’m kinda old, and that seriously gives me Hope…
So, who will the Repuglicans book to fire up the crowd? I’m voting for Phil Spitalny and his All-Girl Orchestra (bring in the feminists), the cast from The 1/2 Hour News Hour (topical political humor at its wittiest), and the corpse of Al Jolson (appeals to the Jews and the part-time Negroes). And, of course, the headliner act, straight from the Catskills, the comedy stylings of Joey Lieberman.
Bring on The Hold Steady. And Johnny McCain rocks out to the mad beatz of Myron Floren.
“the cast from The 1/2 Hour News Hour (topical political humor at its wittiest)”
I’m partial to the gang on “Red-Eye” that is televised somewhere between 1:00 & 4:00am on Fox Noise. It is fascinating that this so-called comedy show can go for a solid hour without anyone saying anything remotely humorous, and yet, they crack each other up. Makes me feel like I’m in the twilight zone.
Kudos to Barack for the symbolism of partying in McSame’s coronation hall.
I would like to see The Wrong Trousers duke it out with The Conchords in a Battle of the Bands.
Man I love the wrong trousers and that particular song as well.
oh-oooo-oh
The local band should be Atmosphere. No if, and, or buts.
http://www.rhymesayers.com/aDe…..038;cT=Bio
The Hold Steady is actually a New York band, despite so many of their lyrics being set in the Twin Cities (Payne Avenue indeed).
They are really cool. The first time I saw this video I thought it was actors w/music overlay. I fantasize that there is a host of high school jerks that claim them as best bud senior year.
As for the GOP I expect they’ll have to settle for cover band lounge acts from casinos in the Yukon Territory. Just a guess.
i seem to recall that john ashcroft and some of his radical cronies belted out some rockin’ tunes back in the day. maybe their time has come again to shine and draw in the crowd. it’d seem quite fitting to have a geriatric barbershop providing the entertainment for a mccain coronation…
Thanks for this TBogg.
My new favorite band!
I just ordered from CD Baby.
Do you think he’d do an a cappella version of “When the Eagle Soars”? A mass mailing requesting it may be in order.
Except Larry Craig was a member of that Singing Senators quartet, and you know where he’ll be during the Rumble in St Paul — the airport, Northern Crossing men’s room.
Uh, Teddy, you’re right. On the other hand, when the organizers see the ticket sales for the GOP convention they may well decide to relocate the whole affair to the Northern Crossing Men’s room — half the participants will feel more at home there anyway, and the entire crowd will fit just nicely.
OK, they covered the Buggles? That song has a place in history, it was the first video ever played on MTV. Great choice. Ironic … and I don’t mean that in an Alanis way.
And what were the dBs — chopped livah?
http://www.yeproc.com/artist_i…..cleId=1965
Show them some love, they’re adorable.
That was fantastic and I went to their myspace page and it almost killed me.
Alanis employs “meta-irony”, as in “discoursing on irony in a manner that singularly fails to provide even one example of irony”? It’s pretty subtle, that.