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Up. Down. Like a jump rope.

Christopher Weingarten on Blue October's truly awful "Jump Rope":

Seriously the song is like watching Marley And Me in three minutes and chasing it down by eating a "Hang In There" poster smeared with Valentine's Day chocolate from 1996.

Probably the funniest song review I've ever read, of one of the worst songs I've ever heard (from the F2K series).

Stagger Lee

via www.youtube.com

This is mesmerizing (and, as a reminder, what a brilliant song, too).

Speaking of algae

via The Big Picture's 2009 in photos

Omega

The deal with fish oil, I found out, is that a considerable portion of it comes from a creature upon which the entire Atlantic coastal ecosystem relies, a big-headed, smelly, foot-long member of the herring family called menhaden, which a recent book identifies in its title as “The Most Important Fish in the Sea.”

via www.nytimes.com

I wish this Times article would've ended here, because I like thinking about this proud & helpful fish.

But instead, no. Why is the ocean always so depressing?

Mastodon: "Divinations"

Speaking of metal, here's Mastodon's video for "Divinations". The video's kind of ridiculous, yes, but the song's huge & fun (I just wish there were more banjo).

Anvil

"Why am I your fall guy, constantfuckingly?" a plaintive Reiner asks, amid the angry fallout of a recording session. "Because I love you," Lips replies, quite without embarrassment or doubt. I have noticed something similar in the bond between Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt, of the British group Status Quo, and we should celebrate the way in which pairs of aging rockers tend to wind up like lovely, crumbling old married couples, with each one finishing the other’s sentences and pining when he has to go away.

via www.newyorker.com

Anvil! The Story of Anvil was one of the loveliest movies I've seen in a while. Highly recommended if you like to watch good people doing things they love.

Gaga

I'm glad for the costumery (as pop-star uniform goes, it beats bellybutton rings), and I like some of the choruses, but I am still unsmitten with the whole cloth of Lady Gaga's songs.

via www.saidthegramophone.com

That's Said the Gramophone about Lady Gaga (in the context of the inclusion of Kid Cudi's "Make Her Say" on their best songs of 2009 list). I'm in the same camp: I like Lady Gaga as an idea, and I think she's good (or, at least, interesting) for pop music, but I can't really get behind the songs.

The KLF, on the other hand...