"Giuliani Dressed Like a Woman and Koch Dressed Like a Man"

Boy, does this guy have some craaaaaaaazay ideas! There's a good summary of them for 2005 here.

Spread your freedom, for Inauguration Day:
"Galvanize" by the Chemical Brothers feat. Q-Tip
"Left Right" by the Chemical Brothers feat. Anwar Superstar

On the Rag

Beck's new album leaked. The slavish idiot in my brain says, "I like Beck. But all of his albums are almost immediately disposable, with the exception of Mutations and Sea Change. The rest of his albums feel like retarded monkey jokes within two months." But when was the last time I had any desire to listen to even those two albums?

So why do I care? Because I am empty. Utterly empty. I open my throat in the mirror and spy oceans of dull forever. It's the same thing you see when you look into Beck's overprivileged eyes.

Everyone hates Beck. Hell, I don't think even Wayne Coyne likes Beck.

Anyway, I'd say this album is more Odelay than Sea Change, after one disinterested listen. This might be the dumbest song:

"Guero"

I liked it better when it was called "Loser." I liked "Chain Reaction" better when it was called "Where It's At." I liked "The Golden Age" better when it was called "Five Stop Mother Superior Rain." And I liked "Black Tambourine" better when it was called "Tambourine," and Prince was singing it. And I liked that song more when it was called "10 year-old Dodgy's Testicular Surgery."

The Arcade Fire played a new song on KCRW's "Morning Becomes Eclectic" yesterday. Here that's at:

"Intervention"

I Urinated on My Desk While I Was Kicking This Song

I used to get this day off, but no more. Perhaps my new boss finds "psychological discomfort in paying tribute to a black man who tried to teach white people the meaning of civilization."

Perhaps.

"By the Time I Get to Arizona" + "Are You a Hypnotist?" =
"Are You a Visionary" by the Kleptones

It Makes Me Sterile

King Kaufman has a good column up about all the bullshit we football fans had to put up with this weekend, from Joe Buck and Chris Berman's bonerific outrage over Moss, to the ABC crew's fellation (word?) of St. Louis's just-above-average offense, etc.

It is also nice to see something of a backlash against the faux outrage over Randy Moss' celebration. Hey, I'm not defending Moss -- my opinion is that he's a total dick -- but I think people are getting sick of this century's New Fake Puritanism.

I've gone from wanting to smash the state to taking on idiot football commentators.

Tunes: "America (Fuck Yeah)" (Update: Fixed, I think)
"Rain Man" Eminem

The Dodgy Sessions 39 : Everything Is Fine

darwinian law:
that’s a good name for a game.
let’s cut off our thumbs

1. "Story of the Whole Thing" Out Hud
2. "Safe" M83
3. "Gjort Bort Sig" Dungen
4. "Who Could Win a Rabbit" Animal Collective
5. "From the Bench at Belvidere" The Boo Radleys
6. "Square Dance" Eminem
7. "Worlds Apart" ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
8. "Awesome Sound (live)" Ween
9. "The Boxer" The Chemical Brothers featuring Tim Burgess
10. "Be This Way" Ghostface
11. "Potato Salad" The Kleptones
12. "Evergreen" The Fiery Furnaces
13. "Potholderz" MF Doom featuring Count Bass D
14. "Rhagluniaeth Ysgafn" Gruff Rhys
15. "More Like the Moon" Wilco
16. "Happy Endings" Pulp
17. "In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song)" Peter Iver

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"But from what you just told me, I think you kinda had the wrong idea from the beginning. You know what I mean, Mr. Wind-Up Bird? What you were just talking about... I don't know, it's kind of impossible for anybody to do that stuff, like, 'OK, now I'm gonna make a whole new world' or 'OK, now I'm gonna make a whole new self.' That's what I think. You might think you made a whole new world or self, but your old self is always gonna be there, just below the surface, and if something happens, it'll stick its head out and say 'Hi.' You don't seem to realize that. You were made somewhere else. And even this idea you have of remaking yourself: even that was made somewhere else. Even I know that much, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. You're a grown-up, aren't you? How come you don't get it? That's a big problem if you ask me. And that's what you're being punished for -- by all kinds of things: by the world you tried to get rid of, or by the self you tried to get rid of. Do you see what I'm saying?" -- H. Murakami