A Party Affiliation That Pretty Much Anyone Can Get Behind

noah | November 4, 2008 5:00 am

I went to PS 112 in Astoria to vote this morning, and while the school’s lobby was bake-sale-free, casting my ballot and walking to the subway put me in a good mood. The sun was shining, the air was crisp, and the promise of not being bombarded with election-related speculation was close on the horizon, at least until some idiot commentator utters the word “2012” while scrambling to fill space on whatever cable-news channel has given him airtime. Which is probably why I had Andrew WK’s “Party Hard” in my head: Sure, it was barely after nine in the morning and I was on my way back to work, instead of heading out for the evening, but my heart felt right–like it was enjoying some wine, canapes, and total fucking raging. And isn’t that what matters? A counterpoint party song, and a rundown of some notable stories that got lost in the Election Day shuffle, after the jump.

• The most recent Google News alert for “Jarvis Cocker” comes from a Telegraph piece on an auction benefiting the British music-therapy outfit Nordoff-Robbins: “U2 guitarist The Edge paid £15,000 for the Spitting Image puppet of Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker.” [Telegraph] • Scott Weiland’s Happy In Galoshes leaked today. I tracked it down, and it took me–I am not kidding–an hour to download the damn thing once I found it. And I was only planning on spending an hour with it in the first place! [Did It Leak] • Genesis can’t dance, nor can they wean themselves from the reunion-show teat: Now they’re holding out hope that Peter Gabriel will join them for one more tour of the world. [Billboard] • The idea that Google is facing off against Dolly Parton in the battle over the wireless spectrum sure seems to contradict the company’s longstanding “Don’t be evil” policy, no? [NYT] • If you work at MTV Networks, you may want to brush up your resume. [Gawker] • Keri Hilson’s album has been pushed back for the 143rd time. [Billboard] • I showed this story on Japanese music producers being arrested on conspiracy and fraud charges to friend-of-Idolator Reed Fischer, and he replied, “Someone in this story is going to get thrown off a balcony.” Or option their tale to Jet Li. [Yomiuri Daily Online]

Andrew W.K. – Party Hard [Dailymotion] Pulp – Party Hard [YouTube]