January Music

Bored, I decided to listen to all the mp3s I've downloaded between W and Z...

Amethyst - Wake Up Call
Arthur Yoria - I'll Pretend
Band of Skulls - Death By Diamonds And Pearls
Beyond The Element - Walk Into Fire
Black Mountain - Queens Will Play
Blackamore & Company - Dead Man
Bon Iver - Skinny Love

Boyce Avenue - Not Enough

Caro Emerald - Back It Up

Chris Harper - The Pain Beneath

Closure in Moscow - Sweet#Hart

Dave Matthews Band - The Stone (I know, even though I generally loathe DMB)

Doves - Compulsion

Esterlyn - Faster, Faster

John Randolph - Rewind

Loney, Dear - Everything Turns To You

Mechanical Moth - Black Queen Style (this one got overlooked)

My Brightest Diamond - Tainted Love (Soft Cell cover...actually, their version was a cover too)

Shaka Ponk - How We Kill Stars

Small Town Boredom - Void Lighting

Spanking Machine - Cult of Lies

Summerbirds In The Cellar - Beware Of False Prophets

The Kills - Fried My Little Brains

The Kooks - Stormy Weather

The Starlight Mints - Power Bleed

Thermostatic - So Close So Near

Thornley - All Comes Out In The Wash

Tom Petty - Turn This Car Around

Warpaint - Elephants

Washed Out - New Theory

Waz - Mine to Remember

We Are Scientists - Chick Lit

We Versus The Shark - I Am Destined For Greatness

Wiskeytown - Sit and Listen to The Rain

White Rabbits - Rudie Fails

WhiteMoor - Three Words

Wintersleep - Danse Macabre

Wohllebe - Not Quite Right

Wolf and Cub - Seven Sevens

Woodhands - Dancer

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Dull Life

Yeasayer - Forgiveness

Yo La Tengo - Periodically Double or Triple

You Am I - Berlin Chair

You Me At Six - Kiss & Tell

Young Dubliners - Foggy Dew (Carbon Leaf fans who need more penny whistle tunes will like this one)

Young Vinyls - Avalanche

Youngbloods - Darkness Darkness

ZAZA - The Call

Zebra & Giraffe - Fight! Fight! Fight!

Zero 7 - Pop Art Blue

Zigmat - Machine

Zorch Boomhauer - Wanting U is EZ

As usual:

Bold = I have other songs by them in my mp3/cd collection

Italic = I'd heard but didn't like other songs by them

Neither = never heard of them before

"I want nothing but the love of the next stranger who walks through that door" - The Black Ghosts, I Want Nothing

Wakefield Discredited

Well, it's been a long time coming, but that quack Andrew Wakefield is finally having his falsefied autism study discredited. It's too damn little, way too late, though. Too much hurt has been done in his name and people who believe him are too rabidly consumed by the fabricated connection between the MMR vaccine and autism to see reason - otherwise they'd understand that Japan stopped using the vaccine a decade ago and has seen rising autism rates since.

You know how they say the path to hell is paved with good intentions? I think it's closer to the truth that damage is done through unintended consiquences. Did Doctor Wakefield intend to scare people into not vaccinating their children, and by doing so spark a reinsurgance of diseases like the measles that haven't killed scores of children in decades? Probably not. But the fact remains that he falsified a study at the behest of lawyers who were looking to sue vaccine makers over autism, and "made" the study fit the conclusions that they wanted. Everything after that was a dominio effect. Evil doesn't necessarily rely on the intentions, because in many cases like this one, you can determine it from the results instead.


I've mentioned why I care about this before, haven't I? I worked with kids with autism a couple of years after I got out of college. And I do think that they've been done a disservice through Wakefield's work - there have been counter-studies done over and over again in attempt to discredit Wakefield, and these unnecessary duplications have stolen time and resources away from other research that might help kids like those two little boys and countless others like them. What if someone who was laboring at proving that there's no link between vaccines and autism might have found a way to prevent it?


"Now that the statue has toppled, the word is all over town. The mob has already gathered to pick the jewels from the crown" - Adam Cohen, How The Mighty Have Fallen