Chuck & Sean's Trivia Playlist for 07.05.09

mcfierce:

Clem Snide :: “Joan Jett of Arc”
Buddy Holly :: “Everyday”
13th Floor Elevators :: “You’re Gonna Miss Me”
Cream :: “Tales of Brave Ulysses”
Jimi Hendrix :: “Hear My Train A Comin’” — from Jimi Hendrix Concerts, which may be out of print but is well worth tracking down. Best version ever.
The Red Devils :: “Tail Dragger”
Tower of Power :: “What Is Hip?”

LET THE TRIVIA BEGIN!

Mos Def :: “Twilite Speedball”
Wilco :: “Bull Black Nova”
LCD Soundsystem :: “Someone Great”
Jurassic 5 :: “The Influence”
Camp Lo :: “Krystal Karrington”
The Breeders :: Cannonball
The Bangles :: “Hazy Shade of Winter”
Mr. Mister :: “Kyrie”
Neon Neon :: “Dream Cars”
Liquid Liquid :: “Cavern”
Braid :: “Always Something There To Remind Me”
The Get-Up Kids :: “Mass Pike”
King Crimson :: “In the Court of the Crimson King”
Steely Dan :: “Your Gold Teeth II”
Badalamenti/Lynch :: “Just You” — This is from “Twin Peaks.” Anyone know who actually performs it?

SOUND ROUND (AMERICAN PRIDE!)

Jackson 5 :: “Mama’s Pearl”
Radiohead :: “Street Spirit (Fade Out)”
Metric :: “Stadium Love”
Led Zeppelin :: “Fool in the Rain”
Spoon :: “The Fitted Shirt”
Living Colour :: “Cult of Personality”
Justice :: “Phantom”
The Knife :: “We Share Our Mothers’ Health”
Wyclef Jean :: “We Trying to Stay Alive”
Jay-Z w/ Dr. Dre + Rakim :: “The Watcher 2”
Freeway :: “It’s Over”
Small Sins :: “Stay”
Lateef the Truth Speaker :: “The Wreckoning”
Department of Eagles :: “Nobody Does It”
The Beta Band :: “Dry The Rain” — “I’m about to sell five copies of The Beta Band’s Three EPs.”
Dr. Dog :: “The Rabbit, The Bat, & The Reindeer”
Friends Like These :: “7th Street Queen” — Featuring Craig Finn!
Death Cab for Cutie :: “Title Track”
Dr. Dre and Eminem vs. Radiohead :: “Forgot About D.R.E.” vs. “Idioteque”
Mos Def, Kanye West, + Freeway vs. RJD2 :: “Two Words” vs. “Ghostwriter”
Cut Chemist :: “Lesson 6: Lecture”
Erik B. & Rakim :: “Follow the Leader”
Ghostface Killah :: “Be Easy”

ANSWERS (CONGRATS TO THE WINNERS!)

Hall & Oates :: “Private Eyes”
Big Star :: “The Ballad of El Goodo”
Cap’n Jazz :: “Take On Me”
Prince :: “Kiss”
Cheryl Lynn :: “Got To Be Real”
Robyn :: “Konichiwa Bitches”
Sunny Day Real Estate :: “J’Nuh”
Snowden :: “Like Bullets”
TV on the Radio :: “Dancing Choose”
The White Stripes :: “Doorbell”
Those Bastard Souls :: “Telegram”
Talk Talk :: “Ascension Day”
The Mountain Goats :: “This Year”
Calexico :: “Sunken Waltz”
Brakes :: “What’s In It For Me?”
Blitzen Trapper :: “Furr”
Bundy K. Brown, Doug Scharin, & James Warden :: “Untitled” — from Directions in Music (Tortoise side project)

… and goodnight. It’s been a pleasure.

Cuban makes some good points, but at the same time, Anderson’s new book, Gladwell’s New Yorker review and Cuban’s semi-critique are all too broad; much like contemporary issues of federalism in U.S. government (how national political aspirations can adversely affect state and local governments, for example), for-profit models on the web can either succeed or fail depending on the local/national focus of the model.

You know what’s awesome?  Seeing Judas Priest for cheap.  You know what’s not awesome?  Everything else about the Taste of Minnesota.

This is how awesome Priest was.  We got all of “British Steel” from front to back and lazers shooting out from the stage out into the sky.  But $3 for a wristband to buy a $5 can of Premium is both un-American and un-Minnesotan.  Also, the “taste” part of the Taste of Minnesota is really bad news, both in that there’s a very limited selection of food and the pricing is way beyond cost prohibitive.

iteeth:

Scott Nedrelow, who I’ve featured here and here, has a show with artists Eric William Carroll and Lex Thompson at Minneapolis’ Sellout Gallery, starting tonight. Nedrelow’s current work

“began as a communication with a distant friend by writing notes on torn pages from popular art publications such as Art Forum. These texts, photographed and printed in large formats (some are over 144 inches long), have morphed into abstract forms that merge and depart from the appropriated source material. The resulting work creates a new narrative of contextual distortion that questions the appropriated artist’s motivations as well as the commercialization of contemporary art.”

It’s on view through July 18.

Nedrelow is one of my favorite local artists.  Not only is he a really nice guy, but he also does work that is intellectually engaging while looking super cool.

(and it’s busy!)

Some notes on healthcare, pt. 2

As the President cranks up the heat on the issue of healthcare, we’re going to be hearing/reading/seeing more and more discussion on the current and potential options for Americans to receive healthcare coverage.

Over the next few days, we’ll post a few basic things to keep in mind whilst the gears of our discourse pulverize the topic.

We went over the broadness of some of the terms with healthcare, but what about healthcare in Minnesota?

Minnesota has a bunch of health insurance plans that do vastly different things.

Health insurance plans pay healthcare providers for services to patients.  Because there are a lot of different services and a lot of different healthcare providers and a lot of different patients, there are a wide variety of insurance plans.

For example, there are private health insurance plans that individuals can buy (you can price them at sites like MN Health Insurance Network or eHealthInsurance), and private group plans that employers can buy for employees (this is most likely what you have if you have medical and dental coverage, and why there are group #’s on your insurance cards).

Along with these different private plans of HealthPartners, UCare and Blue Cross Blue Shield, there are also public plans like Medicaid and Medicare that cover different groups of people.  (Very broadly, Medicaid pays for folks who can’t normally get health insurance because they are poor or disabled, and Medicare is for retirees.)

But here’s where it gets a little crazy: in the state of Minnesota, Medicaid is actually Minnesota Healthcare Programs, which is run through the Minnesota Department of Human Services, and MHCP itself offers different plans to different people, some of which are actually serviced through private payers like HealthPartners, UCare and BCBS.  So our state-wide public plans are serviced by private health insurance companies.

The public option for health insurance that President Obama is currently pitching fits smack dab in the middle of this complicated matrix of private and public health insurance plans.