And here I thought Leslie Nielsen would live forever. R.I.P.

Or, more generally, that I might as well not exist.

Don't ask me to get into specifics, but right now I feel like I don't exist.

I just want to note, again, that Thom Hawkins is brilliant.

Atlas Sound, Bedroom Databanks 1 & 2

My post about these albums is up here.

There will be at least one more, probably next week.

Ke$ha/Minaj reviews are up

Ke$ha in the San Antonio Current, Nicki Minaj in Clevescene.

Working right now on a long, involved thing for the City Pages music blog on these new outta-nowhere Atlas Sound blog releases; will post a link here when that's done.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Eight reasons to buy My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy today. There are probably a couple other better reasons.

Who will survive in Sarah Palin's America?

The new Michael Jackson single sucks eggs.

"7 Weekly Rap Series No-One Wants To Hear."

Pithy yet amusing.

BACK FROM THE DEAD

Jacko vs Lennon vs Brown*

Michael Jackson: Who’s the boogie man you’re thinking of?

John Lennon: The men from the press.

Bobby Brown: They say I’m nasty.

Lennon: It ain’t easy.

Brown: Spreading myself around.

Jackson: Everybody wanting a piece.

Brown: Talking all this stuff.

Lennon: They didn’t even give us a chance.

Jackson: Stalking.

Lennon: Eating chocolate cake in a bag.

Jackson: My obituary?

Lennon: Crucify me.

Brown: Why am I so real?

Jackson: Am I crazy?

Lennon: Two gurus in drag.

Jackson: On the screen.

Brown: Oh, no.

*Usually these mashups wind up on Splice Today, but this one's feeling too slight somehow, so I've posted it here.

It takes some clicking and scrolling to get there but I have an interview with Avey Tare of Animal Collective in the digital edition of the new issue of Cowbell Magazine. Click here to read it.

Checkers at Cracker Barrel - A Sunday Morning Tradition

New 8tracks mixtape! Haven't done one of these in quite a while, was in the mood.

Click here for unwanted workaday-procrastination assistance.

Really, Wal-Mart? Piping X-mas jingles over the PA in the first week of November? C'mon - I haven't even gotten all of my Halloween decorations down yet!

Fiona Apple and Quentin Tarantino, talking artistry, trash, haters, etc. Good stuff.

Lil Wayne to rap wherever possible while returning home from prison

Somehow, I didn't get around to seeing Mariah Carey's video for "Touch My Body" until today, and it was easily a thousand times more doofy than I ever could have imagined.

Carve A Pumpkin With Daddy Day, Stepping Stone School, Round Rock, Texas - 10/29/2010