Oh, my god, this is the randomest piece of political art

[maeve66]

I've ever seen! It's AWESOME. And it's CANADIAN. And it's my own dearly beloved COMRADES (I guess), the New Socialist Group -- at least, I found it on their website.

Watch on YouTube

To those who might know (and sabotabby, I'm looking at you!) is that a real group? Who the hell are they? Afghanada, Canuckistan... it all comes together. Also, hockey is fucking nuts. As a sport. I'm just saying.

I wish there were a cricket version of this song/protest.

PS -- this is even more random, but, thanks to springheel_jack, I now have an icon he stole from the internets, of Stephanie Meyers's heavily-powdered Mormon vampire teen. Voila:

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[(Anonymous)]

It's a real band:
http://www.theconsumergoods.net/

[sabotabby]

Yep, they're real. First time I've heard them, though.

[shanrina.livejournal.com]

Not sure I totally got the video, but the icon made me giggle. I'm not planning to see the movie (at least not in theatres...maybe I'll get it from Netflix someday, but I doubt it) but I'm actually really looking forward to the hoopla that's going to surround it for some reason.

[maeve66.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Edward doesn't do it for me, at all. And I like the blood-sex-death thing, too, much hotter than Mormon sublimated passion and hand-holding. Oh -- but a friend just loaned me three vampire mysteries set in the South, by one Charlaine Harris. I haven't started them yet -- apparently there are at least eight, so far. And she told me that HBO is going to make a series based on them, done by the same people who did Six Feet Under. I don't have cable, but... that's pretty damn tempting.

[shanrina.livejournal.com]

Oh, you mean the Sookie Stackhouse books? I've heard of those, but I haven't been able to make myself read them yet. I've been disillusioned with urban fantasy for awhile now, to the point where except for a few authors who I know will be good (and Stephenie Meyer because it's like a car wreck where I just can't look away) I'm just not willing to make the effort anymore, mainly because mystery plots usually bore me and those plus paranormal romance seem to make up almost all of the urban fantasy published these days. (Sorry, my opinion on urban fantasy is turning out to be one of my favorite topics these days.)

I do like vampires, though. I like the blood-sex-death thing too, but even more than that I think I'd like to see some really homicidal vampires.

[maeve66.livejournal.com]

I mean, I think I get it... but how would you describe "urban fantasy"? Is it what I tend to think of as chick lit à la supernatural? Or more... Charles de Lint?

I don't know if I'll like these Southern vampire/gothic/contemporaries... but I'll give them a try. I seem to be on a Southern kick right now, anyway: I am also reading Erskine Caldwell's God's Little Acre and WAYYYY at the other end of some spectrum from that, though also in Georgia, a Black teen chick lit confection called Hotlanta by Denene Millner and Mitzi Miller. It seems a bit like Terry McMillan for the younger set.

[shanrina.livejournal.com]

I haven't read Charles de Lint, but from everything I've heard about him, I'd like to see more of his kind of writing. From what I've heard (again, haven't read him) he would fit under my definition of urban fantasy. But most of what comes out these days is either mystery, or paranormal romance, or both. I admit I don't like mysteries much and probably never will. I do like paranormal romance sometimes, but not when it seems to be taking over the whole subgenre. I'd also stick things like Neil Gaiman's American Gods (which, unfortunately, I hated, but I'd love to see something like that from an author I do like) under the category of "things I'd like to see more of in urban fantasy." I guess really I'd just like more of a selection in urban fantasy because it really is one of my favorite subgenres, but most of what comes out these days seems to be much too similar to what's already out there.

[bikenerd.livejournal.com]

the new socialist group is definitely real. some of my best friends are...

[maeve66.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know that! Me, too! No, I mean seriously, some of my best friends are... JB, and HS, for example. I wish they blogged!