G'Obama!

Although it is tuesday the 4th here in the melbs, the election is TOMORROW!! I'm so freaking excited and scared. I kinda just want it to all be over, the anticipation is killing me!

So today is a public holiday here, for a horse race....yeah I said it. But tomorrow is a public holiday for me as I spend the day with my country people in a pub watching election returns!! it should be super fab and I have a gift certificate to the pub for doing so well in political trivia a few weeks ago!

I hope you all have voted will vote etc...I know I have although hopefully the election won't be close enough to count my absentee vote. How exciting is it that VA isn't even one of the most contested states (according to washington post today!) Go Big Blue!

and here folks....is my happy face!

Election 08

Three days left, well maybe four, it gets very confusing from this end of things!! But I am so freaking excited, very nervous, but extremely excited!!

I was a bit perturbed to read this earlier. It basically argues that Obama will win the election because he has recieved a lot more positive coverage in the media than McCain/Palin have. So this article says if it wasn't for the overwhelming discrepency in the coverage they've recieved the race would be closer. To that I say poo-poo!

Maybe, just maybe, McCain/Palin have recieved a lot more negative coverage because they've earned it!! The media isn't meant to be equally positive/negative about the campaigns! It's there to report on them. Now, I do agree that media should be unbiased and balanced, and ideally there wouldn't be any mention and positive and negative coverage, it would just be coverage, however, if the past eight years have taught us anything, it is that unbiased media coverage is impossible!

Back to the issue at hand, I think it is ridiculous to hold the campaigns accountable for the media's slant. I'm convinced that Obama has done more to encourage positive coverage than McCain has. He has not once landed a bellow the belt punch to either McCain or Palin, although we all know they deserved it and most of us wish he had! He really has run a good clean campaign, at least from my end, and the positive coverage only reinforces that.

As glad as I am that it's almost over, I have no idea what I'm going to do when it is! haha
read the article, what do you think?

music and censorship

What a great friday!! I went to the Xavier Rudd concert with some girlfriends and it was AMAZING!! I don't think I've ever had the privilege to see someone in such a small venue before, about 700 people! Not to mention that we were thisclose to him. No zoom on that one! I was absolutely amazing. And the great thing about small venues, as far as I'm concerned, is the artists get really into it as well. They can feel the energy and excitement from the crowd and they just feed on it. He played for 2.5 hours! I couldn't ever believe it. It's also pretty powerful that he's essentially playing in his hometown after being on tour for months and months. All and all it was probably the best $50 I ever spent!

The opener was pretty stellar as well. She's called Dallas Frasca and she's also from Victoria. She's got just the most amazing voice....you should definitely check it out! She was so powerful and had such a great vibe, I'm not sure they could have made a better pick in terms of artist energy opening for xavier.

You can't really ask for more in a concert :-)

On a very different note, it turns out the Australian government is trying to apply a filter to all Australian ISPs etc in order to moniter and control what website people in the country go to...it is of course all in the name of saving the children. But I'm sure that is the responsibilty of the parents. I don't have any children, I don't see why I should be monitored because people can't be trusted to look after their offspring. Not to mention that this filter would slow down all internet traffic by about 20-30% NO THANK YOU!

So, we went to a protest today on the steps of Parliment house to try and keep the internet censor-free...you know me, I love a good protest! It turned out to be among the most poorl organized protests I've ever been to and we decided to do something about it! So, along with about a dozen others we grabbed a beer and started brainstorming. We have committed to organizing another protest at the end of November, which gives us 4 weeks to organize...should be good. So, you are reading one of the first posts on the Melbourne Anti-Censorship Protests! If you're in melbs, please mark you calanders and make it out! This affects everyone and if we don't take a stand against censorship now where will it end?
Power to the People!