dear pennsylvania,

don't you dare vote republican. a vote for the republicans is a vote for a campaign that is driven by using and feeding hatred of race, difference, otherness. plus as a bonus if you look at the republican platform (and john mccain's scornful words) - women.

they are exploiting your fear. "he's not who you think he is" - a confused message but one that ultimately leads the target audience to the worst of their fears; the ones that the republicans have been stoking.

so vote positive. vote for hope. for change (as cliched and co-opted and unspecific as that sounds now). thanks pennsylvania. i know you can do it!

mark

p.s. california - vote no on prop 8. thanks!

yes, we have a show. the first in almost a year! yikes. the dear people at the rip it up festival in and around gothenberg have asked us to play so we are happy to oblige.... thank you! for more on the festival see here:

http://www.myspace.com/ripitup07

we should have a new record out by then too. hope to see you there!

if there's one thing more exciting than guille in the eurovision song content, it is a band containing two of my favourite people and musical heroes... i present to you:

amor de dias featuring lupe núñez-fernández and alasdair maclean

both from bands you may have heard of... pipas & the clientele. :-) in my imagination they sound like caetano and gal - a south london domingo. and if you live in london or copenhagen you can even see them play live. and you are the luckiest people in the world. for not only do you get the aforementioned band, if you're in london you see and hear the return of the pines (yes, that pines, the pam and joe one) and as a bonus: the would-be-goods. i feel tempted to fly over for the weekend.

so here are those dates in full:
15 march
copenhagen

28 march
positively 4th street
london