CUCKOO

Listening to the Magnetic Fields' Reno Dakota today, and amid the dizzying "You know you enthrall me/And yet you don't call me/It's making me blue/Pantone 292" and among the cleavingly clever "Reno Dakota/I'm no Nino Rota/I don't know the score" sits the shitty little line "You have just disappeared/It makes me drink beer."

Only it's not so shitty in the context of all the best-damn-showtune-ever! lyrics swirling around it. The bastard starts to shine, and struts along elegantly in its $50 coat.

He might be too this, he might be too that, he might be too "too too" but damn that Stephin Merritt is good...