I surfed through the Libbie Awards and didn't see anything of interest.   Most new music in 2006 was pretty poorly done...just like the documentaries and science of that period.

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I'm very, very happy about this.  

I will say, though, Natalie looks funny as a brunette.  I'm generally not a fan of bottle-blonde-ness, but I like it on her.  As a brunette, I can see the punk-ish look working for her or a more traditional country-singer look, but not both, whereas somehow with the blonde she manages to look both a bit punk and a bit country.  But, whatever makes her happy, natch.  She's still cute enough that all of us straight girls have crushes on her. :)

I think DCX did some carbon-offsetting for their tour last year, no?  I don't know the details, but there might actually be an environmental argument to have here.

Definitely a highlight, so to speak, of American civilization.  Where would Hillary be, without The Bottle?

Being an old worn-down sentimentalist, I do not listen to this latest by the DXCX for which they won this prize, but much prefer their slightly earlier offering, "Home."

God: Have I lived too long?  Should I live, henceforth, in the Falklands?

It is totally incomprehensible to me, why these ladies got punished, after one of them expressed her God-given right to suggest that she did not think much of the president of the United States of America.

It is totally incomprehensible to me, why "supporting the troops" means wishing them ill, death and injury; why "supporting the commander-in-chief" means pursuing a policy of evil, death and destruction; why "criticizing the president's policy treasonously encourages our enemies" makes sense, when in fact we are offering to people of Iraq and elsewhere the hope that at least a few Americans are reasonable.

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Chickens are our cousins! So are other sensitive animals! Enough is enough! No more factory farms!

Canis, don't feel bad, Home is certainly easier to listen to than Taking the Long Way.  That said, it did grow on me after a while.  Also, Natalie's voice has changed, whether just because of age or because of all the crap I don't know, but she isn't a sweet-sounding country singer anymore (well, and if you were keeping track, she wasn't ever a country singer, which is fine--I kind of like the very country instruments with the kinda punk style she adds).

Actually, some of my favorite stuff is pre-Natalie, and thus disavowed by the record label, and, it would seem, by the girls themselves, but can still be found on eBay.  Their previous members (they lost Laura Lynch and Robin Lynn Macy and gained Natalie) were very, very different, much more kitschy-retro-country, but I liked that too.  They wore silly movie-star-cowgirl clothes and titled their albums things like "Thank Heavens for Dale Evans" and yodeled where appropriate.  It was great.  Not that I'm obsessed or anything...