Gone Fishing

I’m going quiet until the end of finals (two and a half weeks from now). No posts and, assuming I can maintain any kind of discipline at all^* a significant reduction in the amount of time I spend reading other people’s posts.

^* Unlikely.

I’m leaving you with three songs that I’ve been listening to over and over again in the last few days:
Ask Me Anything, off of the Strokes’ upcoming album, encapsulates everything I love and everything I hate about this band. They’re so infuriatingly good and are so infuriatingly obnoxious about it. I specifically can’t decide whether the chorus is genius or idiotic.

The next two songs are off of the soundtrack to Stubbs the Zombie, which comprises covers of songs of the late ’50s by contemporary bands like Death Cab, Ben Kweller, the Flaming Lips, and Cake. It’s pretty great overall, but these two are my favorites:
Tears on my Pillow, by Clem Snide, just sounds great to me. I’m loving it.
The Living Dead, by Phantom Planet, is haunting and catchy and fun.

Have a nice December–I’ll be back in a few weeks.