Song Choice

AND THEY'RE OFF!
Wild day of presidential campaign blitzes by Hillary and Barack camps in NH and IA. Lots of speeches which meant lots of feeds. As we wait for these campaign events to begin (sometimes hours), it's easy to let the mind wander - watching people in the crowd, critiquing the candidate's campaign signs, etc... Today, the music that they select for these events caught my fancy.
Now we all know that candidates try to get jazzy, Rocky-esque "pump-up" music for these events, but I have to question the selection of Superfreak by Rick James at an Obama rally. Don't really know if this is appropriate music, as little children are hoisted on shoulders of parents at something billed as a family-oriented event. Then I started thinking about what would make good campaign music, and how to take these candidates into the 21st century and expose new, quality music to voters across the country. Some ideas:
1) Wake Up - Arcade Fire
2) Cellphone's Dead - Beck
3) Back Again - Boy Kills Boy
4) Strange Apparition - Beck
5) Steal the Blueprints - +/- (plus/minus)
6) War No More - Tommy Guerrero
7) This Modern Love - Bloc Party
**Hit me with more, and I'll send them along to the candidates' camps!
QUESTIONING SOCIETY
It's a sad day when "Norbit" registers as making $33.7(M) at the box office its opening weekend. What's happening to our society, especially when "Norbit" seems to be laced with African American stereotypes? Are people really laughing at this crap? What's worse - "Hannibal Rising" came in at number two.