I grabbed the new Beck CD yesterday. It’s good. Danger Mouse [the producer] is OK in my book… though he has not always been: In the beginning, I was both underwhelmed by “the Grey Album” and annoyed by his usurpation of a favorite cartoon character’s name. Thus-configured, I chose to ignore his musical contributions and silently resent his existence. Well, it turns out that Gnarls Barkley is pretty damn good. In fact, “the Odd Couple” is my favorite album of the year, thus far [critical note: I think I have heard 2 new albums this year, total].

Anyway, I would love to add this CD to my cd database, but I seem to have deleted the database and all of my maintenance tools, during a linux-related debacle [for the nerds: debian unstable to openSUSE 11]. A half-hearted attempt at recreating the database from that most recently generated report [linked mere sentences ago] is currently underway.

I have to leave now. The kids need drinks.

The End.