Rev. Wright

Bill Moyers' hourlong interview with Jeremiah Wright is essential viewing. Certainly, Wright didn't need a presidential candidate to defend him, not that that ever happened.

Just as interesting: the morning's NPR news brief reports on Wright's speech in Detroit yesterday, in which he "calls for more cross-cultural understanding" (NPR's words) and provides a relevant clip. The significance here is that the event offers a nice opportunity to encapsulate the general 'NPR' world-view. (A view with which the present writer agrees.)

playlist one

Check out today's WXPN playlist for the 10a hour, esp 10:30-11 (read up):

10 am Middays /w Helen Leicht

Kim Richey - I Know
Joy Division - Isolation
Mgmt - Time To Pretend
Ub40 - The Way You Do The Things You Do
Erykah Badu - Honey
Eddie Vedder - Hard Sun
B-52's - Hot Corner
Joan As Police Woman - Eternal Flame
Elton John - Madman Across The Water
The Staple Singers - Slippery People
Aimee Mann - Freeway
Rem - Supernatural Superserious
Little Feat - All That You Dream
Jimi Hendrix - The Wind Cries Mary
Mark Ronson - Stop Me

Smiths cover, new REM that sound like good old REM, the new Cosmic Thing, Joy Div. Wow.