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Sunday mornings are for remembering how much you love "Selena"! (Usually in heavy rotation on TBS, but today in commercial-free glory on HBO.)

Favorite scenes:

• When the bus breaks down at the side of the road, and the guys are in awe to meet "Salinas" ("Anything for Salinas!").


• All of the concert montages, but especially the one after Selena and Chris are married and Abraham has accepted him into the family.


• When Selena and her friend are in LA before the Grammys, shopping for a dress, and her fans mob her after the nasty store owner dismisses them as not being able to afford a dress.

Such a great but sad story.

"Shall rise..."

So for whatever reason, last night I got "Love is Stronger than Death" from The The's Dusk in my head—I don't know, maybe it was a dream, or something—so tonight, I just had to rip the CD. I forgot how much I loved this album! I hadn't listened to it in a year or two. So fantastic!

But so the funny thing is that I use Clutter to automatically add album art to the albums I rip into iTunes. And Clutter, in turn, uses Amazon's web services API to search for the proper cover art to display. But of course, "the the dusk" doesn't provide a very good set of query terms to Amazon's search API (damn you Matt Johnson, with your overly clever band name!).

And so, do you know what I ended up with?

Oh, fuck no! Not Matt Dusk!

(For anyone who doesn't watch more television than is healthy: Matt Dusk performed the theme song, and was a frequent star, on Fox's The Casino, a Mark Burnett show from a season or two ago. It started out as the chronicle of two internet-rich guys who bought The Golden Nugget, and then devolved into some weird once-per-week profile piece about people at the casino doing things like getting married, rather than about the casino itself. And in the process, got a lot less interesting.)