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(If This Is) Paradise

Word from Jon is that the new David Byrne Brian Eno album is awesome.

This awesome, though, Jon?

(Those commas look totally weird. Maybe that sentence doesn't like being written. Makes me think of Calvin getting his picture taken. Metaphorically, of course.)

(Nothing But) Flowers is track 5 on Naked. I think it's one of those songs that gets much much more enjoyable when played through headphones, in enclosed spaces, or at high volume.

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Two Dimensions Are Better Than One

Safely distant in Beijing, I heard whispers from the States in the summer of 2006 that the cool kids had come to a consensus. They'd decided that all rock and roll lies somewhere along the U2-Radiohead continuum.

U2 is a pole. Radiohead is a pole. Every other band or musician, emotionally, walks somewhere on the tightrope in between.

Summer 2006 happens to have been the time the Crash Test Dummies finally clicked for me. And, cool kids or no cool kids, Crash Test Dummies do not live on that line.

And nor do Ween. Or Tenacious D. Or Phish. Or the Talking Heads.

I'm pretty sure the cool kids now consider summer 2006 the distant and unenlightened past, but, just in case, Just Shoot Me, Baby.

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