Political Junkie: Go Ask Alice
So Coldplay tickets apparently sold out in less than one minute on Sunday, huh? And there was tons of borderline-illicit craigslist bartering for wristbands, right? But -- come on, Gavin Newsom calling into Alice Radio to gush about how dreamy Apple-Daddy Chris Paltrow-Martin is? We thought he was working around the clock for the City! Is he just sitting around, hitting redial, redial, redial all afternoon? Is he trying to be the fifth caller to win Live 105 BFD tickets too? If he wants to meet Coldplay so bad, why not just make it a San Francisco Coldplay Day and do it that way? It worked with Dave Matthews! And look, more coyness about the mayoral iPod -- "I listen to country, alternative, and opera! I have 2,198 songs uploaded! Look at me, I'm fancy!" Oh, please.
Anyhow -- never let it be said your Junkie doesn't work for you! We've got the answer to the question we're sure you're all asking in the wake of the Newsom-Perry Farrell-"and they were all yellow" revelations -- what, dare we ask, is on Chris Daly's iPod? Answer after the jump.
Picture of Da Gavs with Alice DJs Sarah and No-Name from the radioalice.com website
Okay, before we get attacked for our insidious pro-Daly agenda or anything, we should just say that yesterday, we asked all the San Francisco supervisors by email what they were listening to on their iPod. We got back three responses:
Sophie Maxwell: Due to the volume of mail I receive daily, I am sorry that I might not be able to reply to you personally.
Guess she's still cleaning up from the slashdot attack, huh?
Sean Elsbernd: I do not own an iPod.
and Honorable Mr. Daly's. Was Fiona too embarrassed to tell us that she has the entire Andrew Lee Rugged and Buckwild uploaded to a portable music device? She's got that producer credit for it! Is Bevan Dufty busy gettin' down to the latest dance-trance tunes he's been hearing on his campaign against crystal meth in clubs? We'll never know!
So what's on Chris Daly's iPod? We'll let him tell you himself:
I don't have an ipod, but I do have some MP3 music on my Treo. Unfortunately, my screen is broken, so I can't list the music at this point. But I can tell you that I have very recently gotten back into the Replacements (my favorite band in high school). This added to some of my staples -- Springsteen (my all-time favorite), Curtis Mayfield, Fugees (along with Hill and Wyclef solo), KRS-ONE, a Tribe Called Quest, Ben Harper, U2. At a computer, when I'm writing my blog, I usually stream music in -- very frequently more commercial hip-hop of the Jay-Z/50-Cent variety.Like the Mayor, I haven't bought music online.
There you have it, ladies and gentlemen! Look forward to next week's Matier and Ross column, to be headlined: "GANGSTA Supervisor listens to anti-social music -- on your tax dollars!: Daly's anti-gun stance at odds with violent ethos espoused in song!"