On and On On and On

This weekend I managed, through laziness and stupidity, to miss free shows from Oumou Sangare and Tamar-kali and Earl Greyhound and Here We Go Magic and Bachlorette and who knows who else.  And that festival in Williamsburg or Bushwick or wherever that featured fuzzy bands.  (I missed Jenny Lewis through sheer determination.)  Today, I'll miss that free show from Saul Williams and Janelle Monae.  (You shouldn't, though!)

Instead I ate an enormous quantity of Nathan's hot dogs.  And did my darndest to ignore Sarah Palin.  Because I am an American.

I also listened to this record approximately eighty hundred thousand times.  I even bought a portable listening device -- the first I've owned in years, the first since I bought a boombox for the back seat of the four-door navy blue '87 Chevette hatchback I drove in high school (the radio didn't work) -- just so I could continue to not stop listening to this record out of doors.

Above is the official-like vid for "Ryuukou/Vogue," the opening track on Superficial Gossip, and you will probably roll your eyes as soon as the rapping starts (guy's name is apparently Mummy-D, he's got the great stuff kids went for (c.1992 B.C.)), and you will probably giggle at the Jamiroquaintness of the video.  And then you will start tapping, and then you will start bouncing, and then you will laugh heartily out loud at the "Wooo-ooo!s" and then you will find yourself hitting "Replay" eighty hundred thousand times.  It's better as a lead-in track on the record than it is as a stand-alone song because it gooses you up for whatever's next, but it also works if what's next is this same track.

Now if you'll excuse me, I think I have a record to listen to.

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