My friend Jeff gave me a copy of the new CD remaster of this David Byrne/Brian Eno disc—and it's great. Now Byrne and Eno, "in keeping with the original spirit of the album," offer listeners access to the original multitrack recordings and a chance to remix them through a Creative Commons license. They also offer a chance for the remixes to be posted in a daily Top 20, as chosen by the site moderators.
<I>Canadian Driver</I> gets us past the front gates.
<I>Bwah ha ha haaa!</I> The mad professor is still the perennial favorite.
<I>McSweeney</I>'s again—and all too believable.
Hmmm. Okay, we're not talking real hi-fi here, but a good read nonetheless.
Damn. Today it's 5:45pm and I'm just getting started. At least I'm not alone; Elizabeth is still here, worrying about page numbers and layouts so that JA can worry about other things.
My wife insisted that I post this, "the best exam answer ever." Not that it did the guy any good.
Through the courtesy of Fred's two feet—and the Kaavya Viswanathan kerfluffle. Or something.
Kurt Andersen says that it's probably too late for Kaavya Viswanathan to claim "the similarities were part of a deliberate postmodern intertextual take on 'real' genre novels." Umm hmmm.
In other words, yawns <I>are</I> contagious.