The Inauguration entertainment schedule!

i want this on a headband

Man did my jaw drop. "What a BUNCH OF HEARTLESS BASTARDS!!1!...Oh. Damn. Close enough, those f&*#ers."

I hope JoJo doesn't have a wardrobe malfunction - she could pee all over condaleeza.

For Immediate Release

Contact: 202-332-4481

* www.inaugurationmedia.org
* www.dc.indymedia.org

Independent Media Space Opens to Cover Inauguration

During the events surrounding the Inauguration of President George W. Bush on January 20, 2005, the mainstream media will be buzzing with coverage of the parties, parades, and speeches that will cost the American people tens of thousands of dollars. The media will not discuss how there are reports of faulty Diebold computer voting machines and uncounted votes that have yet to be fully investigated, or that almost half of those who voted did not vote for Bush. The same was true of the last election. The mainstream media provided almost no coverage of the protests and general dissent surrounding the 2000 inauguration. We do not want this situation to occur again, and we are determined to use our voices and the voices of others around the world to ensure that independent messages are heard.

The success of delivering these messages depends upon how much unity we can create in the world of independent media. One person acting alone is one voice. Acting together, we are many voices, and can pool our resources to rise above the din of the mainstream media. We can ensure that the voice of independent media is heard loud and clear.

For that reason, the Inauguration Media Coalition, a group of independent media makers, has converged to facilitate coverage of the Inauguration. We are providing a media resource center with high speed Internet access and facilities for doing audio, video, print, photo and Web media. The space will be open between Saturday, January 15 and Friday, January 21. It will be open from 10 AM-10 PM every day, except for Inauguration Day, when it will be open from 8 AM until 10 PM, and on January 21, when it will be open until 8 PM. The media resource center is located at 624 T St. NW, Washington, DC, at the intersection of T St. and 7th St. NW, near the Shaw/Howard University stop on the green line. We are extremely fortunate to have been provided with this space by Cafe Mawonaj, a community cafe that has a wide selection of delicious entrees (including vegetarian and vegan entrees) as well as alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and fair trade coffee from Cameroon. Cafe Mawonaj will be open for extended hours during the Inauguration, from 7 AM to midnight every day.

We will be providing this space to give journalists the resources to create independent coverage of the Inauguration events, but also to give activists a resource for immediate coverage of the events of the Inauguration as they happen. If you would like to contact this resource space during the week of the Inauguration, for updates or for more information, please call (202) 332-4481. For more information on the Inauguration Media Coalition and independent media, please see our website at www.inaugurationmedia.org. To see news updates as they are produced online, please see the DC Indymedia website, at dc.indymedia.org.

droppin' f-bombs onstage, yo

also, "Vince Neil-style profanity"?! who WRITES this shit?

entertainment schedule maybe a little better this time around, this is a very very incomplete list:

1/17
Danny Krivit & Ron Trent @ the Warehouse
Diddy @ Love

1/18
TI, Young Jeezy, and Akon @ Love
Moby (DJ set) @ 9:30 Club
Les Nubians & Angelique Kidjo @ Harman Hall
Marc Anthony, Alejandro Sanz, Paulina Rubio & more @ Union Station

1/19
Common @ Love
Jay Z @ Warner Theater
Andrew Bird, Ted Leo, Tortoise, Waco Brothers & more @ the Black Cat
DJ Spinna & Bobbito @ Bohemian Caverns
Beastie Boys & Sheryl Crow @ 9:30 Club
TI, LL Cool J, Young Jeezy & more @ Harman Theater

1/20
Afrika Bambaataa & Fort Knox Five @ Modern
Doug E Fresh, Slick Rick, Biz Markie & Kid Capri @ Love
Moodyman & Doug Smith @ the Warehouse
Nickodemus & King Britt @ ESL
Blaqstarr & Scottie B @ Rock & Roll Hotel
Chuck Brown @ Old Post Office Pavillion
Elvis Costello, Sting, Sam Moore @ Harman Theater
Ludacris, Big Boi, Cedric the Entertainer, T-Pain & Lil Jon @ Marriott Wardman
George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, The Temptations, Chaka Khan & more @ Marriott Wardman

George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, The Temptations, Chaka Khan & more @ Marriott Wardman
Gaining on ya!

There's gonna be a big soca show with David Rudder, Alison Hinds and others.

A Haitian event with Nu Look.

The Delfonics are gonna be on a soul and blues bill with local act Memphis Gold (who has gotten some national attention in Living Blues magazine).

Veteran soul act Skip Mahoney & the Casuals will be apearing with the Jewels (1960s minor hit "Opportunity Knocks" and they toured with James Brown) at the Chateau(a DC hand-dancing venue--it's like swing/jitterbug sorta...)

And Springsteen is likely gonna be at the Lincoln Memorial

Great photo I just saw this morning from the weekend before the election:

http://www.backstreets.com/Assets/Images/news110208c.jpg

The Delfonics are gonna be on a soul and blues bill with local act Memphis Gold (who has gotten some national attention in Living Blues magazine).
I hope they are introduced by Bobby "The Mighty Burner" Bennett.

this one look interesting:

Black McDonald's Operator's Association Inauguration Ball
Date: January 20.
Location: City Club of Washington at Franklin Square.
Time: 8 PM.
Host: Baltimore/Washington chapter of the National Black McDonald’s Operator's Association.
Size: 350.
Program: Live music and dancing.
Food and drink: Hors d’oeurvres and open bar.
Ticket Price: $200, plus a $10 online service fee.

We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
Sunday, January 18, 7-9pm
free

Beyonce, Mary J. Blige, Bono, Garth Brooks, Sheryl Crow, Renee Fleming, Josh Groban, Herbie Hancock, Heather Headley, John Legend, Jennifer Nettles, John Mellencamp, Usher Raymond IV, Shakira, Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor, will.i.am, and Stevie Wonder

Are they gonna require tickets for that as I read elsewhere?

Items from the Mickie Dees dollar menu for hors d'oeurves for that other event?

18 artists in 2 hours=6 and minutes per act I think, or is my math off

I guess there will be many duets if they’re going to fit 18 singers plus historical readings into 2 hours.

The Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC) is pleased to announce the producers and initial talent lineup for WE ARE ONE: THE OBAMA INAUGURAL CELEBRATION AT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL, the Opening Celebration for the 56th Presidential Inaugural, to be presented exclusively by HBO on Sunday, January 18 (7:00-9:00 p.m. ET/PT). The event will be free and open to the public, kicking off the most open and accessible Inauguration in history.

The special will be executive produced by George Stevens, Jr. (The Kennedy Center Honors), and produced by Don Mischer (Olympic Ceremonies) who will also direct the special, and Michael Stevens (The American Film Institute Salutes) who is also writing the special, and will be a production of The Stevens Company in association with Don Mischer Productions.

Musical performers scheduled for the event include Beyonce, Mary J. Blige, Bono, Garth Brooks, Sheryl Crow, Renee Fleming, Josh Groban, Herbie Hancock, Heather Headley, John Legend, Jennifer Nettles, John Mellencamp, Usher Raymond IV, Shakira, Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor, will.i.am, and Stevie Wonder. Among those reading historical passages will be Jamie Foxx, Martin Luther King III, Queen Latifah and Denzel Washington. T

I want P-Funk to be playing WHILE Barry is sworn in. Shit would be real.

Like, behind the Supreme Court.

I hope Usher does "Trading Places".

You got the bailout
Now give us the money
Cuz we are tradin' places
Take off your shoes
Before you fly, Cheney
Cuz we are tradin' places
etc.

i'm gonna go see moodyman. anybody else up for it?

Now the Post is saying the concert will begin at 2 p.m. It will be broadcast on HBO on tape delay from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m.

More shows:

Comet Ping Pong Inaugural Party
Tuesday Jan. 20th
9pm-4am
Featuring musical performances by:

Federico Aubele
Vandaveer
Revival
Brandon Butler

FREE SHOW!!!

HBO will be working with cable companies to show the Lincoln Memorial show for free (but alas not George Clinton and Bootsy. Those 2 should be fun even if George comes through DC so much I stopped going to see him a long time ago).

More specifics on shows I mentioned above-

Sun. 1-18-

Soca Queen Alison Hinds with her band, King David Rudder, D Sweet Man Baron, Jamesy P, Kerwin Dubois, Jeremy Sookdar and Dolla. All Backed by the Sunshine Band at the former Chevrolet building located at 5929 Georgia Ave NW Washington DC from 9:00 p.m. - 5:00 a.m.

For more information on this Caribbean inauguration celebration contact 202-291-3009; 301-873-2080 or240-603-3609.

I think the soul show with Skip Mahoney and the Jewels at the Chateau is on Sat. 1-17. Skip does not update his old website and the Chateau does not have one. I heard the event mentioned on WPFW radio.

I think the Delfonics, Memphis Gold show is on the 19th at a hotel in Crystal City (near DC). I can't find nothing on the internets.

More events:

Fri. 1-16

Tribute to Obama Caribbean Style at Zanzibar
__________________________________________________________
Sat. 1-17

Carlene Carter at the Barns of Wolf Trap

Holmes Brothers (bluesy soul) at Iota

The Marquees (soul) at Harmony Hall Regional Center, 10701 Livingston
Rd., Fort Washington
301-203-6070 | www.pgparks.com

Sweet Honey in the Rock at the Peoples Congregation United Church of
Christ/Washington 202/785-9727

Raveonettes (Danish rock) at Black Cat

Tribute to Obama African Style at Zanzibar

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Sun. 1-18

Inaugural Victory Celebration Party with" Nu Look from Haiti, 9:00pm –
11:30pm
Cococabana Bar and Grill, 2031-A University Blvd, Hyattsville, MD
*proper attire required
info: www.gsrcproductions.com 301-404-3417

Mambo for Obama at Zanzibar (on one level of the club) and
All Africa for Obama at Zanzibar (on another level) Proceeds will go
toward purchasing two Oil Palm Trusts for Africare.
http://www.zanzibar-otw.com Live Performances by Lebo M, Francis
Jocky and surprise guests __________________________________________________________
Mon. 1-19

Aretha Franklin Let Freedom Ring" Celebration (MLK Day) Kennedy
Center
Concert Hall 6pm - FREE tix available @ 4pm 1 per person - w/ Aretha
Franklin, Nuttin but Stringz, and the Let Freedom Ring Choir

An Historic Inauguration Gospel Tribute at Lisner

Hideout/ Chicago & Interchange Present: The Big Shoulders
Inauguration Ball w/ ANDREW BIRD, TORTOISE, WACO BROTHERS, ELEVENTH
DREAM DAY, JON LANGFORD, SALLY TIMMS, DAVID "HONEYBOY" EDWARDS, KEN
VANDERMARK, FREAKWATER, ICY DEMONS and JUDSON CLAIBORNE, plus special
guests at Black Cat

Official Obama for Change Volunteer Victory Celebration at Zanzibar
__________________________________________________________
Tues. 1-20

Folklore Society GW Co-Sponsored Dances The 2009 Glen Echo Inaugural
Ball
7:30 PM to 11:00 PM
Glen Echo Park Spanish Ballroom (Glen Echo,MD

Demand in DC: Applauding the Empowerment of People Thru Art, Film,
and Music w/ Performances by ANTI-FLAG, UNITED NATIONS, THE AKAS,
RUINER $10 Black Cat 7:30

DesiPartyAnimal presents the FIRST-EVER Desi Inaugural Ball
Honoring Indian and Asian Americans who have made the OBAMA HISTORIC
WIN a Global Reality
At Ascot India Restaurant, 1708 L St., NW

Dream Achieved for Believers Ball at Zanzibar

Alex Hassan (novelty piano, styles of the '20s and '30s) from 6 to
7 for free at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage (and webcast and
archived on their site)

Nappy Roots (rap) at DC Nine

125 bucks for the Samba Obamba Inauguration Ball in DC club Rumberos (an upscale and spacious LatinAmerican art-bar and restaurant in Colombia Hts part of DC) with a DC-based Brazilian band, dj,
food, open bar and proceeds go to Brazilian and DC good causes

i'll be hanging upside down from the ceiling by my testicles via a big electrical courd wrapped around one of those spider plant fastening things.

aw man, I want Bootsy up on the dias with the rest of the lumaries during the Swearing-In, in full Bootsy gear.

How many events are going on in y'all towns? We got like 20 happening in Portland alone.

Chuck Brown's gonna be at the Lincoln Theatre in DC I think with Raheem DeVaughan and others (17th, 18th, or 19th???). I think he's got a bunch of gigs through the whole long weekend.

Still trying to get the rest of the info on the Delfonics/Memphis Gold show (promoted by folks who don't seem to use the internet or e-mail)

Meanwhile, the talent lineup for an official Neighborhood Ball at the Washington Convention Center was also revealed yesterday: Beyoncé and her husband, Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey, Faith Hill, Alicia Keys, Shakira and Stevie Wonder will perform. But, again, no ticketing info was released. That ball, hosted by the newly installed president, will be geared toward Washingtonians, with a portion of tickets set aside for locals.

wasn't planning on anything but I may have to go for a ticket to this one

Nice. But as a Virginia resident I probably won't be able to score a ticket unless I buy it from a scalper.

Details also were announced for a jazz-centered "Celebration of America" at the Kennedy Center on Monday. The show emerged from a conversation between Wynton Marsalis and former Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor, according to its producers. The talent includes Dave Brubeck, Cassandra Wilson and Dianne Reeves; Angela Bassett will host. Tickets are not available to the public.

So much for the most open inaugural in history...

Wynton and Sandra Day O'Connor? What's up with that?

Latino inaugural events here-http://www.cambio2009.com/events.html

no backpacks or anything for the Lincoln memorial show. Special entry points. Moran had it right about the Secret Service overdoing the security angle

rlly, this sounds worse than going to SXSW

ha

on bass: Sandra Day O'Connor

"Beyoncé and her husband, Jay-Z"

That's funny. He's also hosting a big party Friday night at Love nightclub btw.

Yes the entry points for the Lincoln Memorial show will open at 8:30 a.m. (really) and you get to stand there and freeze and not eat or drink anything all day(I think all the sidewalk vendors were banished) except for what you can fit in your coat that does not get taken away by security.

OK, now it sounds more like the Hajj for secret Muslims!

No fireworks at this inaugural either (they've had 'em at the last 7).

the most amazing part of the schedule to my mind is that obama is giving a speech at the lincoln memorial on the 40th anniversary of dr. king's march on washington, which just happens to be.. jan. 19

and the next day he'll be at the OTHER end of the mall

All Harlem Globetrotters to Wear Number 44 on Inauguration Day to Honor Incoming 44th President Obama
Ambassadors of Goodwill to Wear No. 44 Jerseys During Games on Jan. 20 to Celebrate Historic Day

obama is giving a speech at the lincoln memorial on the 40th anniversary of dr. king's march on washington, which just happens to be.. jan. 19

It's also Edgar A. Poe's 200th birthday, which fits the state of the nation to a T.

Jan. 19 is also my wife's birthday. So there.

Tracer,

Are you sure Obama is speaking at the Lincoln Memorial on Monday January 19th MLK Day? I thought he was calling that a day of service for volunteer efforts? I thought he might make an appearance at the Sunday the 18th concert at the Lincoln Memorial and briefly speak. Maybe that's what you meant. But yes the 40th anniversary is historic no matter what.

And its the 46th anniversary. 1963 right?

August 28th, 1963

Thanks. Obama may be dropping by that private jazz event at the K. Ctr Monday night after his volunteer efforts.

Are you sure Obama is speaking at the Lincoln Memorial on Monday January 19th MLK Day?

that's what my dad said though he has been known to exaggerate

ha and he even got the anniversary wrong!

i was at the 25th anniversary march - jesse jackson, john lewis. wuz huge

It's all dad's fault...

I forget whether this event was mentioned:

On Monday, January 19th, Michael Stipe and the Manifest Hope: DC art gallery will co-host a special, invitation-only party in celebration of the inauguration of Barack Obama. The party, presented by MoveOn.org, SEIU, OBEY Giant, and Shepard Fairey, is also co-hosted by Rosario Dawson, and actress Heather Graham. Live performers Santogold, De La Soul and Moby, who will spin directly after the live set.

"Santogold is my pick for album of the year, and this is easily the best event of the week," says Michael Stipe. "I plan to salute the epoch with great music, great activists and artists and a superfun crowd."

In addition to the party, the Manifest Hope: DC gallery will present a show featuring an array of the nation's most talented visual artists under one roof to mark the inauguration. The gallery, which will be open to the public from January 17th through 19th, encourages artists and activists to maintain the momentum from the campaign and bring real reform in three key areas: heath care, worker's rights, and the green economy.

hi i will be the bald guy with his head in the speaker at moodyman. come and say hi

I would but I may be at a salsa or samba thang

The W. Post says that despite that hype that HBO would be showing the Lincoln Memorial show for free, it turns out that for "legal or technical" reasons it may only be visible to those who have digital cable.

I'd love for Chuck Berry to be involved in this somehow.

That would have been great. For Clinton's first inaugural they had the guy who coordinates the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Fest arrange some of the acts, this time they're going more pop. Although they are trying for historical connections--I read that they're gonna have Sugarland's singer do "My Country Tis of Thee" because Marian Anderson sang that at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 when she performed there because the Daughters of the American Revolution would not let any Black performers sing at their Constitution Hall.

Went to the Lincoln Memorial thing. Obama's speech, Bettye Lavette, Mary J. Blige, Stevie Wonder w/Usher and Shakira, Beyonce, and Jamie Foxx's impersonation of Obama were highlights. Garth Brooks doing "American Pie" and "Shout" and a third song not so much. But my big problem with the show was the stage layout. Either to make HBO happy or to make the Secret Service happy, the performers were hidden behind an on-stage jumbotron so even if you were a crazy person who got there at 8:30 a.m. you still had to rely on the jumbotrons. Plus, despite realizing that people would be there early and waiting, all they had for pre-show entertainment was a few sporadic videos.

Gonna miss Jeezy's "My President is Black" event at Fur tonight but I like the radio ad for it.

Snif.

o man i stumbled across the Herbie Hancock/Sheryl Crow/Will I Am performance of "One Love" from that lincoln memorial thing and it was DIRE

The special will be executive produced by George Stevens, Jr. (The Kennedy Center Honors), and produced by Don Mischer (Olympic Ceremonies) who will also direct the special, and Michael Stevens (The American Film Institute Salutes) who is also writing the special, and will be a production of The Stevens Company in association with Don Mischer Productions.

The producers of the show geared the event to the non-music fan masses, thus no under 40 rockers and rappers(unless you want to count Will I Am).

So when's his speech start tomorrow? Noon EST?

When does the massive Right Wing collective heart attack commence?

so Marisa Tomei kept her top on at the Sunday thing? it IS a new era....

http://markhalperin.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/mccainobamadinner.jpg?w=360&h=235

Crying out to be animated.

I saw Aretha Franklin Monday night at the Kennedy Center's 6th Annual Martin Luther King free event. I know all the cynicism about Aretha--her voice has lost some of its range, she coasts, she's just so big in an unhealthy distracting way. But tonight she and the whole event was something special. The Kennedy Center began giving out tickets at 4 and people were lined up before that, with many ultimately not getting in.

The show had the feel of a Black church. Women in the row behind us saying, “you say it sister.” An 120 person gospel choir on a steep set of bleachers backed Aretha and the opening acts. The evening was also a tribute by the John Thompson Jr. fund to Marian Wright Edelman, the first African-American woman lawyer in Mississippi and the longtime head of the Children’s Defense Fund. She delivered a powerful speech about how America still needs to help poor children. Aretha sang “Chain of Fools” and some gospel songs (at least one from her Amazing Grace album) and talked about Martin Luther King and Barack Obama. She joined her band and the gospel choir and another vocalist for a powerful closing version of the abolitionist piece that MLK quoted a time or two—“The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” You know, with its lyrics "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on."

I think it was webcast and archived on the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage website.

http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/obamastock-4.jpg

Hay guize, which US TV channel should I watch this thing on? I was thinking MSNBC but they don't broadcast in HD (last time I checked) and... I have a big TV. Do we think they will push OlberMan and thee dykee over to reg: NBC? I don't want to be around Wolf Blitzor or anyone on the Today show.

I think they're keeping Olbee and company on cable. Not sure.

Aretha's gonna sing at the inaugural as well.

is it telling that aretha sang @ carter clinton and barry and NOT Reagan or Bushes 1, 2?

I remember when Bush 1 campaign advisor Lee Atwater tried to get Etta James to sing at a ball and she replied, "I won't be Lee Atwater's porch n#gg*." Atwater, a fan of sixties soul from his college fratboy days, did suceed in getting some folks to a ball, but it was a minor one and not like the inaugural itself.

etta james is real

Latest News

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dude, watch C-SPAN -- no goddamn "punditry"

Good idea.

Despite my cynicism about Obama's economic team, everytime I see congressman and veteran civil rights worker John Lewis interviewed I get all soft and caught up 100 % in the amazing moment

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/01/20/andrew-beaujon-live-from-the-mall/

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/01/20/inauguration-traffic-not-so-bad-cops-terrible/#comment-439854

This is not yet updated enough for me:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/

man muhammad ali looks like crap

like a 70-year-old woman

so this will be the actual Inauguration ceremony thread under the "entertainment" umbrella.

OTM

Like Curmudgeon's second link there:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/inauguration-watch/2009/01/authorities_struggle_to_manage.html

(6th and Dst Street NW)-- 9:21 a.m.
6th and D Street barriers are down. One police officer says, "I don't even care anymore."

(C and 1rst Street NW) -- 9:10 a.m.

On C and 1rst Street people ask the officers where they should go because everyone is stuck. One officer says, "I don't care - no one is listening to me - do what you want, and if a crowd breaks out I'll send them to jail."

Hmm:

Upon alighting at the North Portico, the Obamas were met by Bush and first lady Laura Bush. Michelle Obama, wearing a bright yellow dress and matching long coat, handed a gift-wrapped box to Laura Bush.

"Oh how nice, and you had it bronzed too."

bronzed bottle of Darvon

Just saw a live pic of Spielberg greatly enjoying himself in the moment, Morbs.

hey, it's a Movie Moment. (He also liked The Dark Knight.)

today's standard memo?

Hello All,

In order to reduce network load caused by everyone streaming the Presidential Inauguration on their separate computers, we will be running the webcast in the Board Room on the 4th floor from 11:45 AM to 12:15 PM.

"He's a person of ideas." - Spielberg to CBS News

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/01/20/us/20caucus_liveblog_1_480.jpg

"This is a great American movement ... This is the new beginning."

Will Doris Kearnes Goodwin just stfu already with the Lincoln comparisons? "If Lincoln were alive today, he'd recognize a kindred spirit," etc.

I bet Spielberg's Lincoln biopic, when it gets made, is nothing more than a veiled Obama parable.

unless of course the Depression is fully underway...

In which case Spielberg will remake ... My Man Godfrey?

with Morgan Freeman as Godfrey.

prob w/ Jason Statham & Asia Argento

No, I like the Obama/Lincoln/non-Depression movie better.

Cheney in wheelchair after "injury sustained moving boxes." Could this day get any better?

OMG Just saw Cheney in wheelchair footage; he looks just like the villain in It's a Wonderful Life!

does he look like Lionel Barrymore?

lol xpost

Just saw W walking with Black Osama. W must have been thinking after seeing that crowd: "Look at this shit. When I was inaugurated in 2000 people threw rotten eggs at me."

I'm guessing Harry Whittington actually shot Cheney in the ass

Cicely Tyson looked nuts. Love her!

ghwb hobbling around in a yellow turtleneck and purple scarf o_O

Bush the first not looking good

Barbara looks more and more like my old piano teacher.

you musta been one scared pupil

having a really hard time dealing w/the endless commentator genuflecting over here

C-SPAN?

commentators know their place in the imperial machine

Could this happen???

cspan nice call

commentators know their place in the imperial machine

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is that a lyric from your punk album morbs

ghwb hobbling around in a yellow turtleneck and purple scarf o_O

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this plus the cane is a good look, kinda pimpy

just needs a scarf and a broad-brimmed hat

i mean a cape, he has a scarf as noted

no mark, sitting in yr third-rate dominionland

now you just need a chorus

Afghanistan surge
One war for another
Yeah yeah yeah

lol

motherfuker theres a LOT of cold people out there

the whole steez of this celebration is pretty classless imo - the washington aesthetic is ass

my sister has been texting me from down on the mall, she said it kind of sucks, supercrowded and cold

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20090120/i/r458514399.jpg?x=400&y=245&q=85&sig=_unD2y4rKM6L02HqwMSihw--

tuskegee airmen

they get cold too

a LOT of cold people out there

They shoulda dressed themselves.

< /Eastwood >

after the ceremony everyone should celebrate by pushing cheney down the stairs

cheney in a wheelchair = vice president blofeld

xpost into the Potomac

Nice sports arena announcer voice on whoever it is.

"Hey, I'm Joe Biden, yeah!"

Joe Biden is such a punk

Play Louder | 11:35 a.m.

Mr. Bush and Republican leaders are coming out, looking very grim as some in the audience start booing them. The brass band picks up as if to drown out the boos. Vice President Cheney is being wheeled out in his wheelchair onto the podium.

joe biden will f u up man

What is this wheelchair shit? If they want sympathy, bring him out on a gurney.

please recommend me a stream that works

What did Hoyer just say?

Getting good coverage here, moonship:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/mmedia/postpoliticstv.html

George Walker Bush!
Barack H. Obama!

lol

lolling every time a) this announcer says something, b) a fanfare starts up

Oh Dianne.

did Brokaw rlly compare Dick to Dr Strangelove?

I can't believe Feinstein was ever mayor of SF.

good luck usa.

She's not going to talk for the next ten minutes, is she?

Oh bless.

I wanted Cheney in a iron lung.

lol rick warren is such a low qual shlub

widmark needed now more than ever

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/03/27/arts/widmark450.jpg

this is like the least eloquent prayer ever

God Rick Warren looks like a slimeball. Probably moreso than Cheney

awmighty gawd blablabla scripture blablablabla Israel blablabla

oh fuck off

nice work brownie

this guy is a famous public speaker o_O

Transfer of power for the 44th time? Apparently arithmetic isn't Warren's strong suit, eh eh?

Hahah, I stepped away briefly and came back to see Warren there with his head bent down and I thought, "Wait, Tim Russert's dead."

Rev Wright to thread

he can't even get his prepositions right

I can't find a .gif of the clown w/ the hook from Showtime @ the APollo

The Real Preachers Of Orange County

i wouldnt by a sandwich from this guy - much less this shit

UNITY

this fake emotional gravitas voice is sooo bad

"jesus h christ"

I keep clicking back over to see if he's done yet (my speaker volume went down to mute immediately).

I for one am moved.

In fact, I need to run to the bathroom, brb

the way he just said SASHA made me lol

he said "Sasha" in such a sassy way

don't you "commit people into God's loving care" at their funerals and not before?

haha wtf is going on

I thought this guy was supposed to wear Hawaiian shirts and sandals all the time.

ok here we go

Lets redeem this ceremony Aretha.

don't you "commit people into God's loving care" at their funerals and not before?

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oh no he's going to kill them all

I would love it if Aretha busted into R-E-S-P-E-C-T right now instead of the scheduled programme

I'm afraid that butterfly is going to eat her head.

aretha and warren would make a cute couple imo

Frickin' choppy feed. Oh well, none of the other ones would be better I figure.

Wait a minute, why does she sound like Prince?!

ARETHA YOU ARE MY HERO FOREVER

This is the real benediction.

BO looked like he internally lolled (lilled?) at 'sasha' too

Knowing how large Aretha is these days, that bow on her head must be HUGE.

this Aretha performance is either great or crap, I'm not sure

shoulda got beyonce

her voice is great but the backing vocals took this in a direction i was not expecting.

Yay Robert Bennett! I guess.

ie suck

the britishes national anthem there, wtf?

One minute left for pardons, y'all.

(xpost) I was going to say, ripping off the tune of "God Save The Queen" much?

joe the biden is a lil amped up today

yeah huh i wonder why

We ripped it off long ago. Get over it, Britishes.

This next five minutes is going to blow my mind.

Isn't Obama supposed to say banana any minute now?

Thank You Mr. Justice

YO YO MA

(banana: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090115/ts_alt_afp/swedenusobamapoliticsbettingoffbeat_20090115180442 )

john williams??

classy

all right the whole music section is awesome as far as I'm concerned

Barack looks like he's a real music fan. I dig that.

yeah, nothing wrong with john williams.

So, b/t Pearlman and Ma, how many $$$ worth of instruments are on that stage?

And the viewing audience takes a bathroom break

wait... this isn't original music!

watch out, someone's on the roof!

would still rather have Parliament

john williams is super corny

has someone on gearslutz already posted about which microphones are being used? is that question even funny to anyone on this board or should i go somewhere else?

wow @ v. v. modern arrangement by Williams!

this suite will by #1 on iTunes later today

would still rather have Parliament

Gainin' on Ya!

"Lord of the Dance"?

ok drawn out resolve of the tune is cornball for sure tho, if expected

wow @ v. v. modern arrangement by Williams!

I was thinking that -- not what I expected at all.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the President of the United States of Hollywood.

"chocolate city"

this classical thing is great

So, b/t Pearlman and Ma, how many $$$ worth of instruments are on that stage?

Yo Yo Ma is playing some sorta carbon fiber cello, because of the weather.

Oh, duh, Lord of the Dance is based on the Shaker tune "Simple Gifts". Hence....that.

xpost
john
this is not a real inauguration, they are filming a movie. the song has to be long enough for credits to be added later.

hahaha he's eating it

what the hell

Ooh, shaky start, BO.

Okay, I'm loving all the goofs. Seriously!

He was thinking about the speech so much he flubbed the easy part

omg loved the little omg yr president wtf look michelle gave him there

aw he fluffed his lines!

ok even the most cynical here gotta give it up because this is an awesome moment

would still rather have Parliament

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burned that bridge in 1776 suckas

3 words

ABOUT FUCKING TIME

dudes hulu's stream is eating it any better place to watch??

ok even the most cynical here gotta give it up because this is an awesome moment

― J0hn D., Tuesday, January 20, 2009 6:06 PM (50 seconds ago) Bookmark

Don't go to michellemalkin.com then.

Also, to hell with John Williams, should have been Henry Threadgill.

lol i didnt even notice bush sitting there until now - should the old prez really have to sit thru this? seems like a bummer

cnn.com is working fine for me, at least for audio. video is meh.

Well, I'm liking the full-on smackdown on things.

OUR COLLECTIVE FAILURE TO MAKE HARD CHOICES = my inner Catholic swooned at that

get a tv morans

hooray! @ energy strengthening enemies, preach it

when does he give Bush a public booting

Roberts blew his lines btw

get a tv morans

I am sure Congressman Moran and his family have televisions.

the gender-neutral construction throughout this speech is rad imo

we already knew, but dude sure is a great orator

smooth, too, I didn't notice until you mentioned it

RESTORE SCIENCE TO ITS RIGHTFUL PLACE

LOL WHAT IS BUSH SR WEARING

yeah that line owned

RESTORE SCIENCE TO ITS RIGHTFUL PLACE

nice wooooo!

yes stick it to those small government fuckrs ty

george sr busted out that outfit from his cold war days

Watch the birth certificate crowd: They're now gonna be saying that Obama isn't president 'cause he flubbed the oath.

lol cut to bush during eroding of freedoms section

goddamn america OWNES

he just pooped on bush but good

lol cut to bush during eroding of freedoms section

Haha, yeah. I wonder if it's finally sinking in with him a bit.

save you some time:

http://drudgereport.com/flashosi.htm

this is boring.

I feel like I should be a thousand times more excited about this than I am.

wtf at drudge

and NON BELIEVERS

BITTER SWILL OF CIVIL WAR FUCK YEAH

yay still reppin for unbelievers

Choom gang must be flipping out right now

I was about to post that. Contrast to Bush Sr. who said atheists should be charged with treason.

Christ, the feed is choppy as hell now for me, CNN isn't coming in much...

are you kiddin this makes me wanna fukkin hulk out and rip my shirt off like darko milicic

Choom gang must be flipping out right now

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lol

shit it's great to again have a president who can string sentences together like this, not to mention words.

you know he didn't write this rite?

finishes w/ George Washington i c

FAIR PLAY

you know he didn't write this rite?

Bush didn't write a damn word. He couldn't read a damn word like he meant any of them, either.

Bush applauding there, "yeah, I guess..."

you know he didn't write this rite?

he actually writes a great deal of his own stuff

yep

aw bush gets a hug

bush is like, "let me gtf back to my ranch"

How dare you shatter Brainwasher's crystal palace.

oh noes, poetry

what, it's not over?

what is this bullshit!!!!!!!!!!!!

you know he didn't write this rite?

He approved that message.

time for a cigarette. Want to join me president?

Malia gave Dad's speech a thumbs up. "Good Speech." was what I think she told him.

I love it.

xpost haha

Storm imagery=A+

this poem is like the log lady intros to bravo's twin peaks marathon

I have to turn off the TV, suddenly I'm at slam night at an Austin coffee shop.

hahaha

where the fuck did they find this shit? behind a 13 year old's desk?

STITCHING UP A HAM.....BOOMBOXES

Choom gang must be flipping out right now

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lol

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It's called "Wilin'" when black ppl do it.

srsly this is actually the worst poem I have ever heard

worst poem

Damn close, if not spot on.

Great speech though. I feared this day would never come

idk wtf y'all are talking about, so i'm glad i cruised right after the speech.

i did do some finger-snappin and chin strokin to "restoring science to its rightful place" tho.

poem was better than its author's reading skills

"on the brink, on the brim, on the cusp"

In the thesaurus?

is lowry the fag lover?

xxxxxp: and it's NOT Maya Angelou?

reading in the sense of speaking

Talking. Very. Slow. Ruffling. Papers.

lol who's the crypt keeper here

I enjoyed the speech, 'we' ain't going to Mars though.

this is proper religion here

"We wore an Onion on our belt, which was the style at the time"

every church has to have a priest who makes you think "oh fuck" when he walks out onto the altar...

no allusions to Angelou's dinosaurs, gay and straight?

Michelle looking mischievous there, like she knows she'll be getting some sweet presidential love later on

Damnit, I am so inspired by this whole shebang. Seriously.

Great speech though. I feared this day would never come

so did we all. And I love how the speech was all about that we all have to suck it up and DO things, and HELP people.

ok compare the gloriousness of this to the nonsense improv of rick warren

Reverend got new teeth in specially for today, I hear

You don't get 2 million people in DC and not put on a show. Morning Pulse, a contemporary dance troupe that interprets the works of Maya Angelou, is scheduled to go on from 2-5:00 pm.

"Back then we called nickels Bees on account of them having bees on them. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say..."

what's the break in time on new teeth?

"We wore an Onion on our belt, which was the style at the time"

lol

x-post "A HE'D SAY....B WOULD USUALLY FOLLOW"

someone make a wav file of Warren saying 'SA-SHA!"

Jimmy Mod: new teeth high five!

ok compare the gloriousness of this to the nonsense improv of rick warren

No comparison at all. It denigrates this wonderful benediction by even doing it.

I think he said "look over our angelic R'lyeh" tho

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2234/2232160985_647627e90a.jpg

New teeth

There's so many people on that balcony, it's gonna take ages to clear...my stomach would be rumbling for lunch.

Bill Clinton fast asleep there

RHYMIN

RED MAN CAN GET AHEAD, MAN

Hahahahahaha

BEST PRAYER EVER

this is fucking awesome

This guy is bringing it correct. FUCK YEAH.

DUDE

haha

TURN THOSE FROWNS UPSIDE DOWN

Sea Chanters

'tis a gift to be simple.

You see, Eric, John Williams arrangement = Spielberg metamovie.

best speech ever?

http://www.hhv.de/images/cover5/63283.jpg

Brown can stick around - I just hope he didn't mean Gordon

Sea chanters: Shouldn't they be swaying a little, now they're on firm soil?

hell yeah THIS is an anthem

www.whitehouse.gov

AMAZING

this man has got me saying 'amen' to my computer.

What did he say about yellow people? I need a new away message on facebook.

i dont know how to say this but its nice to see all of this black vernacular having its chance to speak before its original practitioners pass on

http://isobamapresidentyet.com/

ah now circus music, lovely

Kate G. is wondering if Obama was going for the whole Princess Bride "Impressive Clergyman" effect with his selection of the Rev. 2 minutes ago - Comment

man i can't believe after these 8 years that the prez speech just contained nods to atheists and muslims that were positive and helpful, so awesome

http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/3783/image001wk8.jpg

Chains has come to America

no props for Sikhs or Buddhists though :(

lol @ scalias beret

Six degrees of separation, and you can't use obama's lapel pin to cheat.

ok, who was this preacher you were all goin on about? I left the conference room when Bam thanked W.

so is anyone covering the escape departure ceremony?

http://www.slate.com/id/2209137?nav=wp

wait until i am president. house music will be the ONLY religion I give props to. fuck everyone else.

'tis a gift to be simple.

Certainly came off better than that cold, cerebral poem.

Get on that copter!

Lowery = a star.

xpost house music cosign

Somethign about the transfer of power crumbles these guys: Dubya aged five years in 45 minutes.

Certainly came off better than that cold, cerebral poem.

Truth. Delivery aside, that poem chapped my lips and fingertips.

drudge report's headline is "Obama flubs the oath"

What is wrong with this BBC man's ears?

plz post Cheney-in-chair foto

He flubbed the oath, but did the oath change by a word or two? Did Roberts improvise some shit to throw Obama off?

my building's cafeteria IN CANADA was standing room only for this, out the door and down the hall, blocking the elevator banks. good luck usa.

Lowery telegraphed his awesome punch here

i can't believe after these 8 years that the prez speech just contained nods to atheists and muslims

yeah the atheist thing in particular I was like whoah

did anyone else see this on cnn?

"THE INAUGURATION OF BARACK OBAMA IS SPONSORED BY STARBUCKS" WHO WANTS ME TO "JOIN THE GRASSROOTS MOVEMENT"

THIS is why i am fucking cynical.

Obama may turn out to be a great president but this bullshit trite "soulful" pastiche musical commercial that will be repeated in endless variation kills me already.

Alfred, I know for sure Roberts skipped "faithfully" at the beginning

(I swore in Coolidge)

celebratory ice skating!

time for my luncheon with the dignitaries of a crown heights pizzeria.

Forget skipping "faithfully." Did Roberts really call Obama "Senator" after he was sworn in?

Andrew Sullivan sez Roberts fucked up too: "The highlight so far: a quartet that looks like the America we love, a score as deep and as meditative as this moment demands. And an oath bungled by both Justice and President, as the moment simply overwhelmed their human capacity to grasp it. But we are all grasping it now. And, as it happens, it is beyond our grasping."

so what's going on now? they showed the speech at work (the only working stream they could find was on mlb.com, lol) and i skipped after that.

Did Roberts really call Obama "Senator" after he was sworn in?

No, it was before the oath.

drudge report's headline is "Obama flubs the oath"

No, it's the fact that Benjamin Button is the best movie of the decade.

lol cheney in the chair

so what's going on now? they showed the speech at work (the only working stream they could find was on mlb.com, lol) and i skipped after that.

Biden took a shot of Jaeger.

michelle obama looks like sigourney weaver. that's been bugging me for ages. also lolled at "SA-SHAA!".

posting to this thread is like ringing for glastonbury tickets btw.

Cheney is so old man Potter.

also lolled at "SA-SHAA!".

^^ thisssss

coffee shop @ work was packed and everyone lold at this

nods to atheists

Bill Maher in the tank for 8 years now.

Cheney is so old man Potter.

I hope not. Potter got away with everything, leaving George to find his own bell-ringing reward. I suppose if you believe in hell, it's comforting.

yeah really funny...

think Bush just said "i'll be in touch" to Michelle

i guess the nice thing for cheney having the wheelchair is that he doesn't have to stand up while someone else is sworn in.

The conference room lol'd at Aretha's most flamboyant melisma

would be kinda funny if Bush stopped on the edge of the chopper and did a big salute, "JOB DONE FELLAS. 10 4 MOVE OUT"

Woah, helicopter...hey wait Obama and Joe are still on the steps!

Everybody at my work watched the whole thing on big TV, in the lunch room, with egg foods and baked foods and juices and other things. Was super great, with lots of clapping and crying and reflective coffee drinking. Thought the poem was lovely, clear & direct & even moving, though a not-suprising riff on "To Be of Use". Best part was old mustache dude closing with stuff about letting yella get mella. Feels good to be American.

If only Bush would say "Screw you guys, I'm going home"

I'm praying for a Henry Blake moment in about 1.5 hrs tbh

to that chopper in particular, obv.

loollllll crowd chanting na na na na goodbye

my building's cafeteria IN CANADA was standing room only for this, out the door and down the hall, blocking the elevator banks. good luck usa.

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My workplace in Canada set up TVs in 5 meeting rooms. In the room I was in, you could hear a pin drop.

"never much cared for inaugurations........not my FORTÉ"

Brian Williams just said Chief Justice Roberts is the one who messed up the words

JtM, living another 20 years will be a better punishment for the Decider, and I really don't need to hear a Bam eulogy for the man

yes, Brian Williams tells you an hour after I did

ABC News: "Chief Justice John Roberts is a man who has made very few public missteps in his life--but he appears to have made one when swearing in Barack Obama. Roberts slightly flubbed the oath, which then tripped up Obama.

The oath is contained in the Constitution: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

But when Roberts swore in Obama, he flipped some of the words, saying: "I will execute the office of president to the United States faithfully."

yeah, the "to"! That was a weird one.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/change_has_come_to_whitehouse-gov/

OK, I seriously doubt anything today topped "Na Na Hey Hey."

nice penmanship, mr president!

yeah I know it was mentioned before but i would more stock in something confirmed by multiple sources

Video of the Na Na Hey Hey Goodbye? can't find on YouTube and I missed the live broadcast. I swear I've been wishing all month long that this should happen.

jill biden's knee high boots are cuet

fffuck i missed lowery!!

xp Is there really doubt that people were singing Na Na Hey Hey Hey Goodbye (or whatever the title is)? I heard it loud and clear at least twice on the MSNBC broadcast.

Best moment of the day, though, was Chris Matthews comparing the Bushes to the Romanovs. I mean, I know the Bushes are unpopular, but still!

"Na Na" confirmed by NYT blog & others

unique three dimensional satellite reconnaisance space photo technology coming right up on CNN

(wtf?)

anyway, despite what you might correctly perceive as my skepticism, God help and save us all.

hear hear

well, let's thank Obama then for including nonbelievers in his Vision of America.

yes God save you heathen stoners too

There is almost nothing as entertaining as pictures of Cheney being pushed around by a young white woman:

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/6548/cheney2xs6.jpg

What Alfred said. I mean, seriously, what more does one want short of sucker punching Bush and Cheney in full view of hundreds of millions?

announcing their indictments?

cheney is slowing morphing into dr strangelove

> what more does one want

A youtube video appears. Richard Perle is in a room with an Iraqi flag hung behind him. A hooded man is reading a statement in arabic...

here in boston, the strand theater in uphams corner (a heavily african-american/cape verdean section of dorchester) gave a free showing of the whole shebang. when i stepped into the lobby from the street, it sounded like a 747 was revving its jets in the auditorium. this was during feinstein! there was like a whole elementary school sitting behind me. they loved warren's "sa-sha!!". much mirth at lowery's red man get ahead man lines too. balloons dropped from the balcony at the instant barack had been sworn in.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/12/21/business/21Norris_190.jpg

http://www.mid-atlanticmortgage.com/xSites/Mortgage/MidAtlanticMortgage2/Content/UploadedFiles/WonderfulPotter4.jpg

lol:

re: Great Shame [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

Actually, coming after Rick Warren prayed for Obama's humility, I thought that was a powerful moment. John Roberts — known for a record of flawless performances — has a powerful lifetime appointment and is tremendously impressive. But John Roberts is also human. As is Barack Obama. As is every man and woman having lunch in the Capitol right now — even the press reporting on it are!

I thought the mishap was a good and gentle reminder, or at least could/should b

http://i.realone.com/assets/rn/img/1/2/8/4/22774821-22774823-large.jpg

"Congratulations! The bums lost!"

What say you, professional douchebag David Horowitz?

Who else got that John Williams tune totally stuck in their head now? (j/k)

CNN reports that Ted Kennedy has collapsed at the luncheon.

ah no way

Differing reports -- one has it as Robert Byrd, the other as Kennedy.

full speech

Well, that didn't take her long to adjust to new realities.

She's like a Mary Kay saleswoman who just won't leave.

a Mary Kay pink cadillac in the white house driveway equals ... em, something i guess.

both Byrd (something not clear yet) and Kennedy (long seizure)

btw John Williams tune is a 160-year-old Shaker hymn:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Gifts

It used to be the theme of CBS Reports, and apparently Weezer covered it.

wasn't Daily Show live at 11 a.m.? I assume they're rerunning same tonight.

Good thing the cameras were off for the luncheon, then.

Bizarre - they were sitting at the same table, too

on the other hand: - brain tumor/operation + excitement -> epileptic seizure wouldn't be that abnormal either

I just kind of started to like Orrin Hatch.

"We fight all the time, but we're like fighting brothers - when we get together, people usually get out of the way."

and

"When they put him into the ambulance, he flashed me that old Irish grin..."

What a shitty thing to have happen on a day like today.

Maybe Byrd was just playing along so Teddy wouldn't look so bad.

http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/images/headshots/bios_odonoghue.jpg

I know the main thing is his colour and so on, but such a young first couple, too

Interesting "man, I'm going to have to get used to this" kinda stuff -- Obama reached out to shake hands with the military guy who was with them during the troop review, and the military guy saluted -- Obama has to switch the handshake to a salute.

ABC site sez Byrd was "upset and distraught" in response to Kennedy sitch, and that he had to be helped out of the room. No suggestion that it was health-related, except for a strange mention of the fact that he "was conscious when he was taken from the room." Most other sources make it more clear that he "collapsed" and had to be helped out by medical personnel.

ha wow that is right out of sorkin

xp

http://drudgereport.com/ri.jpghttp://drudgereport.com/ri.jpghttp://drudgereport.com/ri.jpg

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/hillary_clinton_mouthing

hay guys what is the official schedule from this point forward? i wanna turn back to the inauguration when it's not a car going down the street

So that "unique three dimensional satellite reconnaisance space photo technology" that Wolf Blitzer promised a while ago is just a regular satellite picture with a pulsating blue dot that represents the location of the limo?

Guess they didn't fire hologram guy, then.

ok, the Daily Show is live at its regular hour, 11 ET. That makes sense.

btw I didn't pay any attention to the news yesterday due to food-related illness (ps I am not at all down with aging if it means that my stomach turns into a grousy douche) so I didn't know until googling just now that Cheney pulled a muscle in his back yesterday

on the other hand, I did know about "Simple Gifts" go go chorister knowledge

who hasn't heard "simple gifts"?

Maybe the guy upthread who called it a John Williams tune.

lowery transcript

http://blog.beliefnet.com/stevenwaldman/2009/01/rev-lowery-inauguration-benedi.html

grabbed from beliefnet for the impressive comments

pretty much the only thing the news should be doing is interviewing old black dudes

they had a 100 year old black dude on the other night who literally picked cotton back in the day and he was like, heaving with sobs

CNN, your technological magic stuff sucks. (some guy zooming in on a touch screen, yada yada)

WHERE ARE THE HOLOGRAMS

seriously i hope teddy k is alright. i have a soft spot a mile long that makes me awwww whenever i see him.

WHERE ARE THE HOLOGRAMS

http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/jem-and-the-holograms-jem-and-the-holograms-629860_1024_768.jpg

Is there any consensus on why Feinstein was ceremony MC? Now I really hope they show Penn/Milk making gag-face over her on the Oscars.

She's like Jasmine on Angel.

She was the chair of the Inaugural Committee.

How much is CNN being paid for this "awesome incredible miraculous" photosynth stuff (some tool that sticks pictures together like any panoramic picture program can do)? Isn't this illicit plugging? Jeez.

Is it just me or is Rev. Jackson really quite hard to understand? I don't usually have this much trouble with American accents :-(

This is some awesomeness. I really really wish I still lived in DC.

wow what are the odds of this username thing happening

lol at both of you

crazy he's just walking in the open like that

one of my friends' current Facebook status is "xxx wishes they would just get in the damn car!"

Alright...I'll switch to my own personal one.

^ A+

Is this how it works?

Joe Biden wanted to go stop at the Dubliner for a pint.

I want to try.

This is way more fun than it should be.

^^ A++

Alright, so Baracktimus just threw the "hang loose" hand gesture to the Punahou Marching Band from Honolulu.

This man is quite possibly the coolest man ever elected to national office.

Punahou Marching Band is the official soundtrack to Choom Gang

BLAM, prez and vp are the only national offices, and so re Lincoln it doesnt get any cooler than manic-depression.

Maybe the guy upthread who called it a John Williams tune.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, January 20, 2009 4:10 PM (1 hour ago)

person upthread probably got it directly from television: i've heard multiple ppl on tv state this was a tune composed by john williams (including msnbc, during the live ceremony). benefit of the doubt @ sarcasm there maybe?

BLAM, prez and vp are the only national offices

Dr. Morbvious

hmmm, are u the guy who thot Russert was a giant of journalism?

I've only read the last 3 posts in this thread, but I'm pretty sure the song (if you're talking about the one that was played right after the speech) was arranged by John Williams.

On CBS they distinctly said "arranged by John Williams", so chalk one up to Katie Couric!

Feinstein said "arranged by John Williams" but CNN's crawl on the screen later left out the "arranged" part.

at the ceremony what they said was, it was an arrangement by john williams.

Williams did the arrangement as per MSNBC too . . .

Morbs, are you in sackcloth and ashes today, or just rolling around naked in glass?

wait wait does anyone know who arranged that song they played?

xxp: yes. It's usu misattributed to Aaron Copland.

I don't answer Q's from ppl with 13 words in their motherfucking handles. just seems wrong.

hmmm, are u the guy who thot Russert was a giant of journalism?

Maybe. But I've posted drunk before.

John Williams is probably the greatest composer of ALL TIME

well yeah as long as he has a good arranger working with him

who knew morbz was superstitious

same w/ character names from overrated TV shows

wait wait does anyone know who arranged that song they played?

I believe it was Lisa Kudrow (RIP).

im still trying to work out who is attributing morbs rolling naked in glass to aaron copland

an unfinished work.

love this thread

lol Morbs rolling on glass all the way to Sleepy Hollow, NY

I don't answer Q's from ppl with 13 words in their motherfucking handles.

So, "Er, no comment"?

aww teddy will be released in the morn

morbs, you have answered many of my questions over the years even when i haven't asked any

I kid bcz I love!

thread certainly proves jaymc's assertion that no one here is gushing over The Man. QED

anyway, entertainment ends tonight, governing our shipwreck nation begins tomw. Nighty!

i welcome our new SAVIOR

word on the street (aka my gf) is that this parade is too much for Obama. "He still has to go to 10 balls!"

Let's wrap it up, folks.

anyway, entertainment ends tonight, governing our shipwreck nation begins tomw. Nighty!

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, January 20, 2009 10:35 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

This Morbius fellow sure does go to bed early!

He's going to take a power nap and then haunt all our dreams tonight.

"He still has to go to 10 balls!"

... Anyone?

http://i44.tinypic.com/11r8w78.jpg

AWESOMEAWESOMEAWESOMEAWESOMEAWESOMEAWESOMEAWESOMEAWESOMEAWESOMEAWESOMEAWESOMEAWESOMEAWESOMEAWESOMEAWESOMEAWESOMEAWESOMEAWESOMEAWESOMEAWESOMEAWESOMEAWESOMEAWESOMEAWESOMEAWESOME

Exactly what I was talkin about.

In India and Venezuela, the sign is used colloquially as a reference to sexual intercourse, and the hand may be moved in the direction of the pinky finger, as to mimic penetration.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaka_sign

Ah, jaysus....you've never been to Hawaii, have you?

lol "the shaka"

UGH i switched to Fox just out of curiosity and Glenn Beck is tearing apart Obama's speech with attempts to compare it with quotes from Madison and Jefferson...there's something SO despicable about this asshole, that rubs me even worse than an obvious blowhard like Hannity...

..what is it? the fact that he's a 1000% moron and even keeps admitting it ("i'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer"), and yet still has a right to talk on television ...? there's something that's driving me LIVID about just hearing him

all public talking head types have an element of sociopathy to them, beck doesn't have anything else

he's the worst. at least bill o'reilly brings (unintended) lols.

beck is just a sniveling twat.

they sense their recently diminished relevancy and got nothing else to go on

"What's that stuff that -- you call them a 'band' -- that people are reacting to? Music?"

Has glenn beck gone over to fox from headline now?

Ed, he did months ago...

sociopath seems otm. he's like some rabid ron paul freak who has a blog and cant wait to tell the world his personal path to salvation.

other Fox commentators - Brit Hume, that main anchor guy, Shepard, that morning show bitch - were a lot more gracious than this dog

Shepard Smith is kind of awesome.

you just want to do him

I mean, ever since Katrina changed him his lipstick is more purplish than ever, and he don't take shit from anyone.

i liked his joe the plumber pwn

Shepard Smith is the shit.

Best picture EVER:

http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k294/sdsgirl_1998/s640x480-1.jpg

NA NA NA NA, HEY HEY HEY, GOODBYE!

Shepard Smith is the shit.

Best picture EVER:

http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k294/sdsgirl_1998/s640x480-1.jpg

NA NA NA NA, HEY HEY HEY, GOODBYE!

^ I want footage with singing as soon as someone finds it.

st back from drinking/viewing. I may have some gossip later tomorrow when friends who were in the seated bits/going to the Mid-Atlantic Ball give postmortems. Some thoughts:

OMG BBC commentators BRING THE SUCKAGE, special A++ extra stupid brought by Frei and Kay; we decided they were passed over for BBC LDN jobs back in the mists of time and BBC should have gone. with. that. OH WAIT from Wiki: 'In 1990 Frei took a holiday in Zimbabwe and persuaded aid worker friend Katty Kay to become a journalist.' THANKING YOU MATT FOR FINDING THE BRITISHES ANSWER TO MEGYN KELLY. Let us engage these ladies in an air-eating/scenery-chewing contest. Loser has to loofah Bill O'Reilly.

Gore comes in. Friend: Tipper does not look CRAZY today. Me: she has taken her Ativan!

Referring to the POTUS limo as The Beast will put the wind up the Antichrist bunch, etc.

Hillary caught in a few batshit insane OH HAIIIIIII faces, much LOLs.

Newsnight clusterfuck of Hitchens, Sullivan, Ted 'I was in Selma' Koppel and CHUCK D. This is why I like Newsnight clusterfuck panels.

And finally...Rick Warren, what were you DRINKING? I am so, so glad he was so, so crap. Lowery and 'nonbelievers' FTW.

Reliably informed that search for Chief Technology Officer is tough, candidates are not passing vetting eg. Sergey Brin had a paid internship with Halliburton and another candidate failed the vet because once upon a time worked for Bear Stearns.

^^

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2009/tc20090115_815265.htm

"President-elect Obama has two executives in mind for the top technology job, one from Cisco and one from Washington, D.C. Both were born in India."

In the spirit of 'since when has a chicago politician been trustworthy/on the up and up,' my leftist tin-foil hat sez he put rick warren up there for him/modern evangelisim to be embarrassed on national TV... esp. when juxtaposed w/ Lowery bringing down the house later on in the show.

A Massachusetts man stopped by police along the New Jersey Turnpike amid a suspicion that he was taking explosives to Washington, D.C., prompted a 25-mile closure of the highway east of Philadelphia on Tuesday evening.

At about 6:30 p.m., New Jersey State Police closed the turnpike at exit 1 through exit 4 as a precaution. State troopers, FBI agents and turnpike officials continued to investigate along the highway that leads south to Washington.

New Jersey State Police spokesman Sgt. Stephen Jones said troopers took a 27-year-old man into custody following a car stop in the southbound lanes of the turnpike near Exit 3 in Woodbury Heights.

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/18525107/detail.html

^that will be some scary white guy with meth teeth.

Friend said that Cisco guy failed the vet too. His own boss failed, obv, but is probably going to serve in some other way.

I would like to think JtM's tinfoil hat is on the right frequency. WARNING TO SOCIAL CONSERVATIVES: do NOT play poker with Barack Obama. Just, y'know, don't.

I'm not imagining the 30 Rock episode where Jack beats Kenneth @ poker

I don't watch 30 Rock so I know not the specifics here. I have applied the 'would YOU play poker with this man LOL' concept to stem any maternal Fox-based kvetching.

anyone watching the inaugural ball? "first thing, how good looking is my wife?", scary sting beard, jay-z with malcom x glasses?

Where can you watch it online?

It's on ABC but I doubt they're streaming it.

Yeah those Jay-Z glasses, wtf? Also, Jamie Foxx's 'this is how black men dance' joke was just bad, bad.

http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/2895/obamazf8.th.gif

U GUIZE CNN.COM RIGHT NOW

What's that song Stevie Wonder is singing now on the Neighborhood Ball on ABC--"All About the Love Again"?

Did you all see Obama doing the bump...

"Obamas juggle inaugural balls"

cant... stop... making... ball... jokes

first word to this caption is positively mood-lifting

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20090121/capt.a8fe7feed51c4c40a6017943e6f5aae2.bush_texas_welcome_txms108.jpg

Former President George W. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush greet the crowd before a 'Welcome Home' rally, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009, in Midland, Texas.

“The American Music Ball has been cancelled, according to a rep for the Marriott Wardman Park hotel where it was to have been hosted.

However, some of its big-name entertainers will find a home at another struggling inaugural fete — the Heroes Ball, which suffered a sudden loss of its talent lineup over the weekend. Among the names headed to the Heroes Ball are George Clinton, Ben Vereen and Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, according to a rep for the Heroes Ball.

Um, Washington Post, Harold Melvin is dead.

W looks a little disheveled. Laura looks distant, as usual.

Did they do it on the plane ride home?

"Let me invoke my executive privilege, just one more time"

sorry

i lold

O speaking at ball right now. Fox is running live vid and has some white-balance problems.

and now he dances with his lovely wife to the live band doing "At Last"

clicking over, we now have QVC selling plenty of O schwag

CNN.com being rickety!!!

The RIAA Ball for charity---that is the RIAA trying to prove they do something other than go after downloading

Wyclef Jean is trying to appear at every Ball and every club it seems

haha one of my buddies from college was playing keyboards in that live band at the Neighborhood Ball

Curmudgeon, aren't they billed as Harold Melvin's Blue Notes now? The Post still got it wrong, of course.

Yep.

Just saw The Dead (ex- G. Dead) playing fairly loud in the background with tuxedoed folks taking cellphone pics as a local tv newswoman was trying to do a report from the Middle-Atlantic States Ball I think it was called. Weird

Reading on the "Post Rock" blog how the go-go bands keep doing gigs all weekend as well at the standard out of the spotlight locations.

Mary J. Blige, Beyonce and Young Jeezy all guested with Jay Z at his expensive ($500 I hear) show at the Warner Theater the other night.

jesus h christ shakira and sting doing signed sealed delivered is criminal

this whole thing is really a hot a mess though

*a hot mess

damn damn damn! I was at work til now and while I watched the inaug the whole day intermittently online, I didn't get to be present for this thread: "live".

shakira is singing some bouncing 60's pop-sounding thing, sounds real good. stevie himself doing a terrible stevie song now, just as criminal as above

hips don't lie!

ack! too bad! Sorry that stevie exposure was not up to the real deal. I had the good fortune to be at (a small) event where he was performing for the 1st time after having the flu, (a year ago?) he was phenon, but a bunch of us filled in the blanks for him and sang, so I am a ppor judge, it was all about seeing him perform some of his hits before we or he were dead.

Terrific Rosanne Cash story on playing inauguarations
http://measureformeasure.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/18/my-inauguration-story/

That is a great story.

Bitter losers are bitter about the "unnecessary shots" at poor innocent GWB's administration (and they're already wishing for mentioning another terrorist attack, so the democrats will be un-reelectable)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/us/politics/22web-baker.html?hp

oh boo-fucking-hoo. they're lucky the current admin isn't actively seeking (that we know of) to hold Bushco accountable for federal crimes.

SCANDAL:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/arts/music/23band.html?hp

The somber, elegiac tones before President Obama’s oath of office at the inauguration on Tuesday came from the instruments of Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman and two colleagues. But what the millions on the National Mall and watching on television heard was in fact a recording, made two days earlier by the quartet and matched tone for tone by the musicians playing along.

The players and the inauguration organizing committee said the arrangement was necessary because of the extreme cold and wind during Tuesday’s ceremony. The conditions raised the possibility of broken piano strings, cracked instruments and wacky intonation minutes before the president’s swearing in (which had problems of its own).

haha i was wondering abt that

yeah i was asking the wife about the violin playing it looked fishy to me and she used to play violin--wife could neither confirm nor deny

also she was wondering how the piano would stay in tune in those conditions

Should have got Obama to mime along to a pre-recording of the oath.

http://www.foxnews.com/images/root_images/081208_lipsyncing.jpg

Didn't that Itzhak Perlman guy used to play on Milli Vanilli and Ashlee Simpson records?

Unrelated to that-

So Jay Z and Arcade Fire were on a bill together for a private show Wednesday night for several thousand Obama campaign people at the DC Armory.

I wonder what they're thinking...

http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2009/malia_sasha/malia_sasha_10.jpg

"Is this how daddy will look in eight years?"

http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/a-new-photographer-in-the-white-house/?partner=rss&emc=rss

GET A LIFE - man, don't you miss when journalism was about news instead of this 24/7 yapping about nothing at all?

lol @ pic

Has to be something dodgy about the family being decked out in J Crew.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/23/obama-endorse-j-crew

"You guys know your president, right? You know the one with the big ears? Wait a minute, he ain't my president. He might be yours; he ain't my president. But I tell you that woman he had singing for him, singing my song — she's going to get her ass whipped. The great Beyoncé. Like I said, she ain't mine. ... I can't stand Beyoncé. She has no business up there, singing up there on a big ol' president day, gonna be singing my song that I've been singing forever." - Etta James

file under "statements made by people with a history of mental illness approaching the age of senility"

referring to Etta, just to clarify.

"big ol' president day"

still wondering why Beyoncé is such a nitwit, tho

is "Beyoncé" your codename for Obama for the first 100 days?

Don't you get it, they're both black celebrities

http://i64.tinypic.com/hv9xly.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw_Bd-13YCk

wow, this is the second go-round for 3 doors down, eh?

his actual set-up is even more hilarious:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz6YUz4grNM

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