Day: June 28, 2010

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Woke up this morning and discovered that somebody had left a TV on our lawn, right near the curb, in the middle of the night. It was gone by the time I got home this evening, so either the garbage collectors took it or, more likely, somebody else drove by and thought, hey, free TV.

That’s about as exciting as the day got. It’s oppressively muggy and hot, not particularly improved by frequent short-lived rainstorms, but at least there’s air conditioning.

I did update the Kaleidotrope website, with the table of contents for next month’s issue. It’s still a work in progress — as is the whole idea of doing a July issue — but I like the idea of running the whole thing off of WordPress, to make updating it considerably easier and all in one spot.

Anyway, that was my Monday, such as it was.

Song of the day

How about a little Beck? A little “Devil’s Haircut” in fact.

I think this is the first song that turned me on to Beck, who before this I knew mostly, if not exclusively, from his first breakthrough hit “Loser,” of which I wasn’t the biggest fan. (It now feels like more of a piece with the rest of his work, but at the time it sounded more like a one-off novelty act.) I first heard the song on an episode of Saturday Night Live, an episode hosted by Kevin Spacey in 1997, with guest appearances by John Cleese and Michael Palin. I still think it’s one of the best episodes of the show I’ve ever seen — which, depending on your view of the show or a particular season could mean a lot of different things. Shortly after the show, I knew I wanted a copy of Beck’s album Odelay, with this song on it, and I got a copy for my birthday that March.

I would have been a sophomore in college at the time. I find it frankly unbelievable that that was thirteen years ago, but that’s what the dates on the calendar tell me. Anyway, enjoy the song.