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A few things that are rocking my world right now:

• The new Joanna Newsom album, though I've only managed to get through the first six songs so far - it's a triple LP - over two hours of music! "The Good Intentions Paving Company" is my favorite track at the moment. The way she sings the word "baby" gets me every time.
• The BYU men's basketball team. This team has been a lot of fun to watch. I feel sorry for fans who deprive themselves of enjoyment because "the team hasn't accomplished anything until they win an NCAA tournament game." It's sad that people would rather protect themselves from possible disappointment than enjoy the journey along the way. Watching Jimmer Fredette and co. play some beautiful basketball has definitely been a highlight of the winter.
• Killer Bunnies! I heard about this game from a couple co-workers and decided to buy it without ever playing it beforehand. It was a wise impulse buy. My roommates and a few other friends have had a lot of fun killing each other's bunnies and trying to acquire the magic carrot. Once we learned the complex rules and nuances of the gameplay, it's been a blast.
• I was tasked with putting together a Playlist of Awesomeness and it led me to finding some awesome new music, particularly some danceable ditties. Fantastic songs that I've been listening to as much as possible this week: "Bulletproof" by La Roux and "Heartbreak Make Me a Dancer" by Sophie Ellis-Bextor (a foxy Brit) and Freemasons, among others.
• I really, really, really want to play disc golf. Hopefully the weather will cooperate soon.

I'm sure I could come up with a larger list, but my brain is tired. I should probably sleep soon.

The Jack Donaghy Rich White Guy Humor Award goes to...

...whoever wrote these jokes for the conservative speakers at CPAC. Somebody really squeezed their mindgrapes coming up with those jokes.

To blog, or not to blog.

I was considering writing a second blog entry in as many days, but instead I have decided to hit the open road and listen to/sing along to some Radiohead.

My hunch that I would enter another Radiohead phase is proving correct.

"One day I am gonna grow wings, a chemical reaction..."

I was browsing a music message board today and there was a thread in which people were listing what they considered to be Radiohead's best song. I was pleasantly surprised to see a lot of people listing "Let Down" from the albumOK Computer. "Let Down" has always been one of my favorite Radiohead songs, dating way back to when I recorded a copy of the album on cassette before my brother Michael left home and went to college, but because of the cassette's limited size, I was only able to get the first half of the album on the cassette. Anyway, I listened to the first half of the album over and over, and "Let Down" became one of my favorite songs. The final verse of this song contains perhaps the greatest moment of any Radiohead song.

Reading this thread force me to listen to "Let Down" and some other songs from the album. While looking at the tracklist in iTunes, it struck me how remarkable the album really is, especially the first half. The first six songs ("Airbag", "Paranoid Android", "Subterranean Homesick Alien", "Exit Music (for a Film)", "Let Down", and "Karma Police") constitute one of the best and most consistently great runs on any album ever recorded. I'm struggling to think of another album that can match that six-song run.

I feel my annual period of listening obsessively to Radiohead may have begun tonight.