for some soothing brooklyn baroque-pop

JF called yesterday morning with directions to this article in the Village Voice. Good press for a band that should get more of it.

You can download their Daytrotter session for free (songs are at the bottom of the page).

softer worlds make softer girls

We all agreed. My psyche can be summarized by the following.

foucault got nothin on these fools

Some man I once knew and maybe(?) loved had me read his copy of The Language Instinct, which made me "maybe love" him all the more. Years later I got Dre to steal me a copy from the usc bookstore that's now sitting on my mantle. This is by way of saying: read it, and watch this!, and Stephen Pinker is cool kids club of the old school.

(as my sister would say...) Gaston Mania!

This is Rico's puppy, Gaston.

Abbe says "this dog is a muppet."

I want one.

part time punks drink imported beer

Spaceman 3 at the Echoplex was the shit. I got tired early. And I got sad for about an hour, which I think comes with drinking too much while in a crowd of hipsters (tight pants and retro shoes abound!). But they covered kraftwerk and made me smile.

"Founder/mastermind of SPACEMEN 3, Sonic Boom brings back the songs: namely, tracks from the first 2 Spectrum records AND the Spacemen 3 back catalogue. Backed by a full band (members of FUXA). No noise. No ambience. No experimental audio." - Part Time Punks

i claim no shame

This is what happens when you give J something to read. She writes a crappy poem.

I found the following, while filing shit, from several months ago when I'd decided to try reading every essay I could find on Islam. God love the internet.

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Hezbollah is nobody's puppet
Hezbollah is not Syria or Iran's puppet.
Literally means "party of god"

Hezbollah is a Shi'a Islamic paramilitary and political organization
based in Lebanon.

an agent sums it up

"What were we talking about? Oh yeah. You grew up on a farm, you hate animals, you're hardcore."