Well that didn’t last long.

Sorry to poop the party mood but Proposition 2 passed in Florida banning gay marriage and Proposition 8 also doing same in California isn’t looking good.

And sadly this is one of the few issues President Obama is crap on.

Next time can you elect a gay president? Or an atheist for that matter?

Or is that going to take another 200 years as well?

So near yet so far – sigh.

Ok going to try and cool it on that other little voting spree, but you don’t get off lightly.

Read this blog post at Rude Pundit for why exactly opposing gay marriage is just screwed up – especially if you create precedence-making rights-restrictions to do it (can anyone saw straw man? Cue that old ‘they came for the homosexuals and they did nothing..’ spiel)

And it’s not just California; apparently I seem to have missed that Arizona and Florida have got into the act by pre-empting this ever possibly happening on their books. Cos you know, it could, not that anyone has yet. How paranoid (and phobic) is that?

But of course my lifestyle choice is the end of the world, I’m Satan’s sperm, blah blah blah. Whatever. Haven’t you got some ditzy Alaskan pitbull to go worship as a false idol or something? Or even a large cow on Wall Street?

Your back’s against the wall
There’s no-one home to call
You’re forgetting who you are
You can’t stop crying
It’s part not giving in
And part trusting your friends
You do it all again
You don’t stop trying

Standing in the way of control
We live our lives
Because we’re standing in the way of control
We will live our lives

I’ve posted profkampf’s graphic here – and twittered about this – but not really said here how disturbed I am about the division not only in the McCain/Palin camp, but also the dividing lines brought up by Proposition 8. And it deserves saying.

Love knows no gender, race, country or age, so I don’t see how true Xtians could ever ever support this. Stop playing political baseball with mine and other’s lifestyles – you can’t choose who you love. You, or more likely others, can choose to make it easier though, and lose their intolerances and just accept others for who they are.

I said recently about this ‘I’m fed up of being tolerant’ – fed up of being tolerant of idiotic nutters who say I should be dead, go to hell, or live my life – then turn around and expect me to be tolerant of their nutty beliefs. Nope it doesn’t work like that – respect and tolerance are a two way street.

So I hope the citizens of California see sense and get rid of Proposition 8 – I really do.

I found this ironic:

“If you change the definition and have no moral standard, then honestly what is wrong with polygamy?”

Yeah what IS wrong with polygamy, exactly? And polyandry and polyamory…? We have a long way to go, methinks.

I hope Obama gets in, and although he’s not great on the gay marriage question, the whole politics of control and lifestyle interference gets dropped for, you know, the small little things, like the economy, and war. Would be nice.

Why does that affect me? Well it has a knock on effect – we already have civil partnerships here in the UK, it would be nice if the U.S. could honour those, or the U.S. lead the way in showing the supposed freedoms of it’s people, rather than being second fiddle to Netherlands, Spain, Belgium, Canada, Norway, South Africa, Andorra, Australia (with limits), Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Israel, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Uruguay (and soon to be Hungary too).

And I know people who have got married and I want them to stay that way

Just got back from Brizzle – a great time was had by all, the Skip to the End show and my mix went down well despite forgetting to edit the middle bit properly (as Art of Noise once said ‘there wasn’t time’ – I did this mix in 10 hours NON STOP, including 3 new tunes done in Ableton) but the podcast version will fix this – I’ll let you know when Pete puts the show up.

And in other news – Jeb arthole said on his blog that at the Duran Duran show in Concord*, California my Burn Yr Radio bootleg got pre-show play! Wheeeeeeeeeee! That one has a life of it’s own now, nice to see my babies growing up

This town’s been raining far too long for me
To find my way to you,
You see me everywhere
I see you in my boots and in my hair and in my care
for you is such that we could never find a another way to be.

Not as downtempo as the above suggests, but a long show with mighty good music, many mighty mashups interspersed with mighty silly shit…also very sweary in places so get yr headphones on!

Mighty Mighty Clicky Linky ( 86Mb, 109mins)

• Playaway theme
• Matt Hite – I Just Can’t Get You Out of My Mind
• Magnetic Fields – California Girls
• Hercules and the Love Affair ft Antony Hegarty – Blind
• Copycat – I Feel Love is a Stranger
• I Will Shank You For a Penny – Boots
• The Illuminoids – Heart Shaped Titties
• Copycat - A Smalltown Monday Solution
• I Will Shank You For a Penny – On and On
• Hot Chip – Ready for the Floor
• Eve Massacre – A Sweet Bit Dixy
• Whitney Houston – How Will I Know (el barto and liam b re-edit)
• DJ Spanner Monkey – This Is Shit
• Celebrity Murder Party – What Time is Dub?
• Romp and Play – Reverberate (Pirate Soundsystem Vocal mix – available here)
• The Illuminoids – Fuck the Electro DJ
• Atiq & Benefit of the Boomerang – It Was There (available on Mindtrick records)
• Roger Miller – You Can’t Rollerskate in a Buffalo Herd
• Spike Jones – Gesundheit Polka
• Lawrence Welk – Clarinet Polka
• The Temple City Kazoo Orchestra – Kazooed on Klassics
• Wah Kazoo – Doctor Wah
• Doctor Sings – Time Warp
• The Rubinoos – Heroes and Villains (via Copy, Right)
• Hidden Cameras – Man That I Am With My Man
• Hot Chip – We’re Looking for a Lot of Love
• Dale B – Lose Myself Ce Matin La
• Glasvegas – It’s My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry
• Lawrence Welk – Bubbles in the Wine