PAID ON FRIDAY

• If I ever curate a rock festival, I'm going to call it “Humdinger.”

• It amazes me that the mainstream media still has not figured out a way to reproduce George Steinbrenner's full quote regarding Hideki Irabu. Try “pus-y” people, as in pus-filled-- “pussy” will just get your editors' collective drawers in a knot...

• A few years ago, I got deep into Ships by Danielson while my family was in Japan for the summer. Well, they're back over there for another visit, and my early pick to click is the new Bon Iver.

• And sorry, Fleet Foxes, but I'm pretty sure it's just not going to happen. I mean, there were a lot of nice, right-thinking people who liked Crosby, Stills, and Nash back in the day too, but I would not have been one of them either.

• A suburban legend from my childhood: You know in Miss You, when Mick sings “Puerto Rican girls that are just dyin' to meechu”? Well “meechu” means “fuck” in Spanish. For real. Ms Krebs of our 7th-grade Spanish class would neither confirm nor deny...

• From my 15-year old niece last weekend: “Do you still have any Sonic Youth CDs? I found the ones you gave my mom a few years ago, and I wanted to hear some more.” Youth against fascism, bitches!

• Dear Rebecca Black,
  “Friday” was transcendently pure and awful-- we've been singing it around the house for months now. I love it because it's the exact thing a 13-year old should produce with a $4,000 bankroll from mom. It's a cultural bellwether right up there with the first Ramones album. But this new American-Idolesque self-empowerment anthem? You just stepped off the curb, sweetheart.
  

• And so I leave you all today with this...

AMY WINEHOUSE

Shit, shit, shit...

MY BOY LOLLIPOP

Sebastian was playing candy shop with his friends today, selling Tootsie Pops from a foot-long red-plastic candy machine that we've had for years now.

This was his business model: one for 10 cents, two for a quarter.

Methinks the boy is onto something...

FAR AWAY EYES

OK, just like last week, I begin by declaring that I'm a fan of Continuum's
33 1/3 series.

But I just started reading the entry on Some Girls, and encountered further sloppiness not a quarter of the way in:



Now, I put this picture in front of 12-year old Lana and told her there was a problem, and she sniffed it out in under 12 seconds.

Note to caption writer: Mayor Beame is holding a copy of the Daily News, not the Post.

Which leads us to today's tabloid headline:

sliced tongue to Continuum: Get a Fecking Proofreader

LIKE AVERSION

I bought a $4 used copy of Madonna's Immaculate Collection at Bookoff in Manhattan on the 4th of July.

Which leads us to this week's maxim: Never trust anyone who wouldn't spend $4 on Madonna's Immaculate Collection.