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1. I slept for thirteen hours last night. I think I'm officially caught up.

2. Random link o'the day:

Removing Roads and Traffic Lights Speeds Urban Travel. It's fascinating stuff.

3. My favorite lazy-ass food: Make pasta, any kind. While it's cooking, mash up some miso, olive oil, and garlic in the bottom of a bowl. Add noodles when done and stir and eat.

I could live on this and breakfast cereal with soymilk. I kinda have been. Oops.

Shit, I need to eat more veggies. I think I'll walk to People's again later and get some kale or something. Kale is, like, one of the most nutritious veggies ever, and it's inexpensive, and it's delicious. Oh, and easy to make, too.

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So I finally got started on Pandora Radio. I've had fun punching in all sorts of things.

And it turns out I really like extensive vamping (seriously, that comes up on almost every song), disco influences, four to the floor, and "subtle use of vocal harmony." Who knew?

So far I've heard two songs I recognize from The Fez that I didn't know, and both are recent. Heh.

So my musical tastes so far could be described as, "It's got a beat, and you can dance to it at the Fez's 'Shut Up and Dance' or Embers's goth night!"

Personally, I knew I'd be addicted when the first thing I pointed out I liked was Radiohead, and the next song they played (after "Subterranean Alien" by Radiohead) was The Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby."

After I told it I liked Justin Timberlake it tried to play Usher. NO.

Oh hey, Neuroticfish! Awesome! It played Assemblage 23 earlier.

I haven't told it yet that I like Fiona Apple for fear of being bombarded by female singer/songwriters. When I told it I liked Joanna Newsom it tried some folkier stuff on me, but I only like either outright folk music (not modern folk, but like ethnic music or square dance music or Irish music), or stuff that is really freaky folk--Joanna Newsom was given the tags psych-folk and freak-folk, which she apparently hates.

Did it anyway. I just went from a long-ass stretch of synth-pop (as in, everything also had VNV Nation and Joy Division in the "Similar Artists" space) to Regina Spektor. I dunno why, but I don't like Regina Spektor. Just not my thing.

Okay, "Parklife" by Blur. I can deal with that.

Anyway. Gonna stop now. You guys don't care about the minutiae of my music preferences.

Video for Radiohead's "Reckoner"

From Radiohead's blog:

hello
my mind is not functioning at the correct speed at the moment thanks to being in Tokyo
but however and here
is one of my favourite video things that has ever happened
for Reckoner it is, the result of somebody entering a competition to make an animation to one of the tunes on IN RAINbows.
on aniboom. you can scroll down dead air space and find all about it.. but anyway

so we asked them whether it was ok to make it the official one we use as it goes with the song so well. they said yes.

and if you're like me and find it hard to find videos on televsion any more, or even turn on the television you can watch right here.

ok now im going to fold some clothes.