Today is Super Tuesday, marking the closest thing this nation has ever had to a national primary, “the largest simultaneous number of state U.S. presidential primary elections in the history of U.S. primaries.” Twenty-four U.S. States are voting today, but delegate rich Pennsylvania won’t be participating despite efforts by Rendell to push the primary date ahead to today. I’m kinda bummed that we won’t be voting until April 22nd, but province American Samoa will be??? WTF!? It is possible, however, that after today, PA may become a pivotal state in the Dems race. We’ll see.
We’re fully behind the Barack Obama campaign here at the FRICTION NYC camp as you can see by the banner over to the right hand side of the page. Seems like a lot of other artists and musicians are in the same boat. Take Daedelus, for example, who put together the rather short hip-hop infused disco-house track below to show his support for Obama, under side-project moniker FMB (Fire Magic Blood). The track features Shafiq and Taz of Sa-Ra fame.
Today also marks Mardi Gras (as most everyone knows), which is why I chose the above picture for this post, which captures masked Mardi Gras revelers on a bus in 1977 New Orleans. The photograph was taken from Slate Magazine’s “Carnivale” collection, “images of vibrant carnival festivities throughout the world, which come to an end on the day before Ash Wednesday each year, for many Catholics and non-Catholics alike.”
[MP3]: FMB (aka Daedelus) ”Obama”
Single; 2008