Ode Upon a Snooze Button

Rock and Roll is all about sex and drugs and the call of a comfortable couch.

There's this thing called the "Contrast Podcast" where a gaggle of music bloggers gather 'round a weekly topic and offer playlists and blather and such.  They're dragging their way through the seven deadly sins; this week's edition finally reaches sloth.

Which is the implied topic of the week every week here.

I was saddened to scan their selections and not see one of my favorite songs of all time.

Pedro the Lion - The Longer I Lay Here (mp3) (buy)

I'm a fan of form fitting function, and not only is this a lazy-sounding song - dig the solo that could barely be bothered - Bazan fearlessly embraces convenient metaphors.  "Laziness cuts me," he drawls, "Like... fine cutlery."  Well na na naaaaa, na-na naaa na-naaa na-na, to quote one enthusiastic Canuck.

But "Longer's" lovely the way laziness can be, taking time to give lines like "excellence, industry, diligence, naturally" their phonetic due.  He rhymes "ridiculous" with "lick this."  You're only going to come up with that sort of stuff after contemplating the ceiling for a good long while.

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Not Adorable Dept.:  Last night's Telepathe set-list.

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Tom Waits has named his to-be-announced-Monday summer tour after the critical reaction to whatsherface's covers album.  "Glitter and Doom," coming to a theater hopefully near me, hopefully actress-free, deets after the weekend.

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