Waking Ear

Blur/"Coffee and TV" -- "Do you feel like a chainstore?" What a great line.

I'll forever associate this song with the video, y'know, with the little milk carton walking around trying not to get smushed. Remember those Jimmy the Cab Driver promos on MTV? I'll do my best to recall what Jimmy said here: "You know what's so great about the MTV? You might have a movie in your brain about a song or something, y'know, a movie about your mom or whatever, and what the MTV is does for you is it says you're all wrong, hahahaha y'know? It tells you the movie, it tells you what you're supposed to be thinking, it's easy for me."

To be fair, MTV didn't play this video that much. Which is too bad, because it's a great pop song. It took me a long time to figure out that pop could be art. I'm not talking about pop art, Warhol-esque stuff. I'm talking about actually making a song that can be enjoyed almost universally, at least until it's played too many times by your local Clear Channel station. That's a talent.

I dreamt last night that there were squirrels in my house. Two. I was talking to my roommate in the kitchen, and these squirrels came in through a pipe that was connected to the outside of the house. One of them crawled right up on my shoulder, and I remember being concerned about rabies. Anyway, we chased them back into the pipe, and then my roommate stuck his entire head in the pipe. Don't know what to make of that one.