Rave: Sigur Ros

With their new album, Hvarf-Heim, which dropped Tuesday, Sigur Ros has, in my mind, seized the mantle of best band in the world from Radiohead. I'll reconsider this judgement in a few months, once I've had more time to let this album grow on me.

That said, never has so beautiful an album had so ugly a name. HVAAAAAAAAAAAAARF!!!

Anyway, go listen to this thing. It's incredible.

President Gon' Getcha

Try as I might to resist, I've been pulled back in by Dennis Kucinich's goofy, alien-believing craziness. I loved him in '04, and I love him now.
Hat tip to Rebecca Traister @ Salon for this link: Take the quiz, and hop aboard Kucinich's magic love barrel, careening off the waterfall of political suicide!

Dick in a Pandora's Box

My birthday came a couple days early this year, as Easy Eddie announced that he wants a full audit of the Philadelphia Parking Authority. Is there a single person in Philly that would be against this? Besides the PPA staff, of course, but they scarcely qualify as human.