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Uffie Gets Political

In a post on her myspace blog yesterday entitled: insanisty in U.S laws, the Uffster had this to say:

"Right... So I am just enjoying my morning coffee skimming through whats going on in the world and stumble upon this
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/06/teen.sex.case.ap/index.html

How incredibly stupid, unfair, and retarded is this! Isn't the goverment supposed to be looking for murderers, terrorists, and people that are actually a threat? Oh and wait for it...apparetnly there is a "Romeo and Juliet" law, saying its kinda ok two teens in love can have sex, but oral the guys can go to prison for 10 years.. even if hes under 18 as well? Does anyone else think this is compltely insane?

Protest time!"

I agree!
1. If it would have been intercourse as opposed to oral sex, he would not have gone to jail as dictated by the law!
2. It was consenual act - between a 15 and 17 year old.
3. The boy was 17 - not legally an adult, yet charged as an adult.
4. TEN YEARS for oral sex! Yet child rapists and murders often get sentences of 7 years or less.

Today the AP covered a case of a woman killing her preacher husband. Her sentence? Only 3 years! And she will only have to serve 67 days of it! For murder!

Tenn. wife sentenced in preacher's death

yet this boy gets TEN YEARS for a consenual act with his girlfriend!

PLEASE send an email to Georgia's top Republican senator Eric Johnson about this as he is the most vocal opponent to Genarlow Wilson having his sentence appealed. Seriously - an email is simple!

eric.johnson@senate.ga.gov

And if you agree with my numbered points, simply copy and paste them and that can be your email. See! - Simple!

'In Charge' Uffie MP3

Unhappy Anniversary

So I've been pounding the pavment pretty hard trying to find a new place to live. Everything has kind of taken a back seat-the only time I log onto email is to arrange to see places and to see if I've gotten a place and going out has kind of stopped. This Sunday I looked at the PERFECT place-near the train station so if gigs let out late I wouldn't have to take a cab. Coming back I ran into the protest march and decided to join and snap away.
Stalking across myspace a couple days ago I happened upon this track. It's kinda like a cross between LCD Soundsystem's 'Losing My Edge', 'The Jist' (only a very small bit), Baz Luhrman's 'Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)', and a bit of Why Lout?.
This is a "live" version-recorded for Xfm and the last line (which isn't in the demo) is how it ties into yesterday's protest.

'Thou Shalt Always Kill' Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip MP3

Check the lyrics at Good Weather For Airstrikes

Unless I magically get an email tonight telling me I got a place, I will be giving my one week's notice at my job tomorrow and be living in Seattle this time next week.

Break dancing against the war

Back to packing

My "Bloc Party. . . just a band" (haha) review will come shortly-saw 'em last week with Final Fantasy.

Gil! Scott! Heron!

So Gil Scott Hero is behind bars for violating his plea deal on drug charges. Appartently, the treatment facility he was in was withholding his medication to treat his HIV (of course he has HIV because bad things happen to good people) and that is why he had to leave. So how does the court respond? By sentencing him to TWO TO FOUR YEARS in PRISON. Sick if you ask me.
Especially sick when you read of another music star who gets pardoned for coke and ecstacy. Pardoned for drugs. Prison for life saving medication (and maybe and Alicia Keys concert).
Please read the entire Dallas Austin article as it's too much for me to dedicate time to finding parts to type about-hypocrisy takes away too much energy. NOT political in the least, Austin has multiple nation leaders come to his aid from across the world to save him, allowing him avoid a two to four year jail sentence.

Basically:
'Creep' vs. 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised'

(that would be a very weird mash up)

At least James Murphy will always have his records.

Veteran musician jailed

Dallas Austin Sprung From Dubai Jail With Help From Songwriting Senator, Lionel Richie