if you like girl talk...

(i can't stand it, personally)

...you can stream their new album, all day, here. listeners have catalogued the 372 samples via wikipedia, and the site's creator developed a player which  lists them in real-time.

the power of the internet!

who is brian eno?

i told you all that i was going to go to a cd store and buy congratulations, the new mgmt album. well i did. (11 bicuits by the way) i went to grimeys. the next day i learned grimey's was voted as the 8th best indie record store in the nation (one of 2 from TN in the top 15). coincidence, maybe.

well, on the album, and on snl, there is a song called "Brian Eno."

this is what andrew vanwyngarden had to say about the track:
“It’s kind of a vampire-punk-rock song about finding Brian Eno in like a cathedral in Transylvania. He’s like a dark wizard. We originally asked him to produce the track, but he hadn’t heard of us.”
i can freely admit that while the name rang familiar, i had no idea who brian eno is. for some reason, in my head the picture associated with the name is james iha's face.

so brian eno, (nee Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno) is an english musician and composer who basically pioneered ambient music and has produced or collaborated on some of the best music of the past couple decades. also, if you had windows 95, he is responsible for the start up sound that you probably have nightmares about when your computer crashes. from what i can tell, this musical theorist and installation artist is basically a genius, so thanks mgmt for helping me figure it out.

i just spent 30 minutes reading this.

a list of animals with the largest body parts
it took me that long because i was googling something from almost every fact i read!

bonus link:
a duck's corkscrew you-know-what (thx g.pervimalz!)

wikihow of the day

jicyww.

gangles and i are am going to make a funnel trap when she gets home. i'll let y'all know how it works.

jicyww

...how to make sugar glass.

warnings:

• Sugar glass is still sharp! There's still a good chance you'll get cut.
• No, it does not taste good. Don't eat it.

thx bun.