Hat tip to Phineas for tweeting this, and then going the extra mile to hassle me in real time about actually clicking on the link he tweeted.

Total Eclipse of the Heart, the Literal Video Version:

Also, Lonnie Johnson is really amazing and I never knew!! Boo @ me. You'll be wanting the Complete Folkways Recordings.

I'm back, but you didn't even know I was gone. Been unable to log into Movable Type since Thursday, but finally the long blogial nightmare is at an end. I feel like James Stewart at the end of It's A Wonderful Life, running through the streets of Bedford Falls.

This made me laugh.

However, I no longer have a working computer and since pretty much all my music is on my computer ... sigh.

So I have done a stupid meme instead. This is called Your Debut CD I got it off the Whirlpool forums.

1. Go to Wikipedia random page. The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2. Go to Random quotations.
The last four words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3. Go to flickr's "explore the last seven days"
Middle picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

My Band: Claribel Alegría
My Album Title: Liberties than standing armies.
Album Cover: Cool pic but a bit tween punk album-cover wise.

Have at it yourself. Or not.

The band title/album is very post-rock. I don't do "post-rock." A friend once tried hard to get me into Godspeed You Black Emperor, Sigur Ros, all that stuff. Didn't take. At all. Write some godamn melodies, why don't you. And get to them in under 15 minutes. I'm doing a Schembri I realise. Shame on me.

But, I don't do post-rock. Pre-rock, of course. Peri-rock, always. There is nothing post-rock for me.