Here, in Middle America

• I don't have a lot for today. Because, you know, I'm on my grizzly. I did, though, find out the secret to Rai Chile's success with the ladies: classy and tasteful home decor.

• Remember when I made you sit down and watch that Jay-Z concert movie and there's that part where superproducer Just Blaze gets clowned for his video game addiction? Just Blaze's nerdiness does not end there. He's got his own YouTube channel and his own blog. I nominate him for FancyNerd Hero status.

• Now, I'm not saying they're back, nor am I saying that they ever really left. What I am saying is that The Strokes' new video is completely awesome. Ahem.

• Ok. More soon.

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• I figure we're a Jush visit, a microphone, some non-greasebomb "cans," and one bowl of crabass soup away from the second installment of The Rattlesnake Roundup. I got material, kid! (Really not really.) But seriously. When do we start filming "The Onliest Pawn Shop," the reality TV dramedy starring B-rett? I would watch that.

• I got some ads going on now on the sidebar, as well as some other crap. New motto: "CFY,K: deciding to go pro at the same point at which no one reads anymore." (Even Higginbotham was like 'Man, you put a lot of stuff up since I last checked.')

• Yesterday was Nebraska's birthday. He has the only birthday I ever remember. When I called to, you know, wish him happy birthday, The Hard Goodbye picked up mid-surprise party. It ruled.

• If this kid plays his cards right, they're going to make him King of Alabama.

• According to preeminent hip-hop blogger Bol, 50 Cent probably didn't make 400 million dollars the other day on that Vitamin Water deal.

• Lately, I have to read a lot, so I've been listening, more and more, to music without lyrics. Current rotation: the soundtrack to a movie about French soccer star Zidane written and performed by Mogwai. Shit is hot.

• New mixtape trend (that you sort of have to love): freestyles over rock tracks. Exhibit A: Lil Wayne's version of "Crazy." Exhibit B: Kanye West over Peter Bjorn and John's "Young Folks."

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Brain Delay

• Don't you think there should be, like, some stuff over there on the right? Doesn't it look empty over there? I think it does. I wonder what would look best over there. I'm putting up AdSense for now in a lame attempt to get money.

• From the No One Cares But Me Department: A rare video embed: Serius Jones in the booth over at Rap City. (You know, I've been watching Rap City for years now and I have never been this impressed by a rapper that I only vaguely knew about beforehand. Is it the steever? I don't know. It's got some stiff competition.)





• Anyway. Yes. I wonder if there's an easier way to do that. (UPDATE: There's not.)

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He Was a Daredevil Just Like His Old Man

• Recent conversations with one S. Higginblatt have revitalized my interest in the Dead Milkmen. You want to know what it sounded like to be twelve and me? It sounded like this. I've listened to this album (I, like Higginblatt, had the tape) so many times that I sort of feel like I was at the Trocadero, even though I have never been to the Trocadero.

• Here's another picture from Higginbotham's show:






















• Sorry Sorrrow is open for business, or something, complete with new name and Fight Club font (NS;JS) and blog!

• While Icky Thump may not be my all-time favorite White Stripes joint, the video for it is in the top three videos featuring Jack White. (After "Doorbell" and "Steady as She Goes." (You know you got tired of that Lego one after like two views, too, man. It is amazing the first time, but don't front.))

• You know that one guy who used to live on a mattress at the Rut on top of a pile of books and then in my old roommate's room for a summer and then moved to like the Trump towers and eats twelve dollar cheeseburgers and walks a little dog and don't kick it no more? What happened with that guy? He certainly doesn't pick up my phone calls, which sucks, because I want to talk to that dude. (He never had a CFY,K \ Sarchichan nickname that really stuck. What was it? Fishburg? Holler at me, Fishburg! Damn.)

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On the Way

[dot] It's going to be a minute. But not too long. More content forthcoming. Thank you.

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You Have Forty Eight Minutes to Kill and You Know It

• So my man Jush came up this weekend and we made something like a radio show. Y'all cats are by no means ready for this shit. Get down with the get down: The Friday Night Ride Out. (Click the picture. Turn it up. Speed me up in playback.)

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I Am Testing Your Patience

• S. Higginblatt's solo show recently opened. Are you in the San Antonio area? Yes? Then go check it out. No? Well. You got till June first to get there. Anyway, you should. And so should I. So when you go take me, too. Another shot of it:

















• Pitchforkmedia and CFY,K agree: Da Drought 3 rules. See? Now, if only they would stop reviewing records that no one has ever heard of that they don't really like. (What is the point of that?)

• Also, in the world of rap music, the old heads are talking self-censorship in terms of the inflammatory language used on rap records. 50 Cent and T.I. recently spoke on the subject at a function of some kind - I don't know specifically what it was about, YouTube is my only context for anything anymore. 50 turns his response to a journalist's somewhat reasonable questions into, basically, a 50 Cent song. He self-promotes, is characteristically clever, and throws a jab or two at other rappers. But then T.I. comes on and completely shuts shit down.

• Did I tell you I went to Asheville to visit Our Man Lamar? Well I did. It went like this: Beedle deedle peep deep, flackatalackata.

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• It's been a few days because I had to go kick it with the fam for a while and play the most epic incarnation of Catan and watch the fight that didn't end up saving professional boxing as we know it. And now I have to leave again for a little while longer because I need to have a delicious cheeseburger. Or something. I'll take a picture if I ever get there so you can see what it's like.

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