I spent much of this past holiday weekend huffing, and watching MTV. (Kidding about the This is 2007, people and I have asthma.) I really did watch a lot of MTV,
however, and I noticed that Mark Ronson must be paying those savvy programmers lots of money to bookend every show with his songs. The Smiths cover, "Stop Me," is pretty interesting, but I had to think reeeeeally hard about deciding to like his cover of Radiohead's "Just." are kind of like child pageants. I need a reggae version of Paranoid Android (Radiodread, come on!) like a baby needs a spray tan. And a couple of Eastern Music Festivals ago, I listened to banging out his favorite Radiohead songs on a piano- it made my butt hurt.
That said, I might like the Mark Ronson cover since it doesn't make me want to stab anyone. Despite my own karaoke butchering of "Optimistic" (I was too drunk to know what I was doing and what the hell kind of karaoke director makes "Optimistic" the only Radiohead song in the playlist anyway?!?), Radiohead is still kind of sacrosanct- they are above both criticism and covers! In the end though, I'm not sure I even care enough to come down on one side or the other.
Because I can't stand keeping the plague of simulacra all to myself, and because I care about you, the reader, I'm gonna post the video for "Just."
What do you think- "meh" or "marv?"
An "interesting" post on ginger root has been added to It has no references or sources, so it was probably posted by a weirdo who has a thing for pan-asian cuisine.
