IT JUST DOESN'T FUCKING STOP. YEAH, IT'S PRETTY. SO FUCKING WHAT?

THE LONGEST NOTE HELD

How can I pick them? I don't know. Am I that in touch with every note in the world? Was I a note born as a human being? I've always fantasized about being the longest note ever held.

My three purchases of the new year (all right, I had a HP friend burn me the Cat Power, but I buy more than enough music to be allowed a few pirates in the collection) are all absolutely stellar. They all hit different chords of the human psyche. They all make you laugh, cry and rage (sometimes silently).

I urge you all to go buy The Life Pursuit by Belle & Sebastian (blimey, that's bouncy), The Greatest by Cat Power (I feel it honey; will you marry me?) and Mr. Beast by Mogwai (so beautiful and loud).

How I could have left Cat Power go unheard by my ears for so long I do not know. My mind will never forgive me.

Hold Steady, you rocked my world when you took me to The Commodore to witness Mogwai. For that I will always be in your debt.