PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH!

Anna Karenina is probably the best book ever.

The best Christmas music is the Charlie Brown Christmas music. This is an indisputable fact.

Is this some stupid British thing?

hell yeah.

I sorta really love that "No One" song she's got out right now.

Did you watch the second one?

Can we extend this discussion to best music video of the year? I nominate both versions of Simian Mobile Disco's "Hustler." Version 1: Version 2:

Tylenol mixed with alcohol can potentially cause complete liver failure. So maybe that one should be avoided. And the best hangover cure is to drink an absolute shitload of water before going to sleep. Works every time.

Michigan, actually.

What did you think of this? I like it quite a bit, but it's not something I feel the urge to listen to very often. That might change with the weather though, since it seems like it'd be perfect walking-around-in-the-snow music.

Around the Horn made me butthurt today.

President Hitler loll

New nominee: Cam'ron - "Just Us"

Aren't you still in high school?

pbone's not as smart as he probably thinks he is.

Smoking weed's way more fun when you get drunk first.

Nice rack.

His "Asshole" song was like the funniest thing ever when I was a Freshman in high school.

This leaked over the weekend and I've listened to nothing else since I acquired it. It's almost completely different from pretty much everything else in his catalog. There's no club tracks, no real concessions to pop radio, no misogyny (!!), and very little "God MC" talk. This is the most direct and down-to-earth and, well, human he's sounded since Reasonable Doubt. It's remarkably unified and consistent, lacking even a single truly awful track (a unique achievement for a Jay-Z album). Overall I'd rank it just below The Blueprint and the aforementioned Reasonable Doubt.

haha

Every single one, huh. USSR? Check Helter Skelter? Check Strawberry Fields? Check Hey Jude? Check I'm sure there are more but Nope, that's all of them.

I don't think people wrote off Jay-Z just because Kingdom Come was underwhelming, but because until last month he hadn't done a single really worthwhile thing since the "Diamonds" remix. I'd say that after three (long) years of let downs and disappointments people were justified in thinking he'd fallen off for good.

Oh, also I like "Blue Magic" so far, but the whole "I saw this movie and wanted to make a rap album" thing is kind of weird. Fingers crossed. If all the recently leaked material is any indication then this is actually going to be really good. Like Reasonable Doubt/Blueprint-level good. I'm excited.

1. Ambulance Blues 2. Birds 3. Motion Pictures 4. Albuquerque 5. On the Beach