I am listening to an excellent poetic quebec french band: Les cowboys fringants. In a nutshell, this is america today.  Listen HERE and look for a translation. Quebec can be so poetic and aware of the truth of its society in their bands. Always melancholic and critical of consummer society and the general apathy of everyone towards what is going on in the world. I am a bit homesick tonight, for the first time in years. but hearing quebec bands in French is enough.