Taylor dons glasses, employs venerable communication technology

Band-nerd-in-glasses Taylor Swift employs venerable communication technology to snare boy next door, defeating her evil, popular, dark-haired double:

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Hilary adrift in the atmosphere

New Hilary Duff single, "Any Other Day," seems like another attempt to ignore the U.S. market: is a Euromood piece w/ midtempo beats; the words can play as either optimistic or ominous; voice has even less weight than usual, drifts in the mood, sounding imperiled. I like this, despite Hilary's weakness as a singer.

(Would probably sound better sung by Paris, more authoritative, though probably less imperiled. It'd fit t.A.T.u. as well.)

Alienation Index for April

Compiled the Jukebox averages for the songs I like (designated YES) versus the Jukebox averages for the songs I dislike (NO) to see how different I am from everybody. I've still kept a MAYBE designation for songs I'm not sure of, though the fact I haven't ditched them yet makes it a good bet that they'll hold on.

My affinity is once again slightly ahead of my disaffinity, though the gap is narrowing and someday alienation and isolation will triumph, hurrah! This time a couple of last-minute consensus likes (Nina Sky) and dislikes (Merriweather) I agreed with helped collegiality to keep disaffection at bay, even if just barely.

( Il Si, il Brutto, il Non )

Writer's Block: You Don't Know Me

You Don't Know Me
Our friends don't always know us as well as they think, particularly when it comes to likes and dislikes. Which popular book, movie, band, food, TV show, etc. would your friends be surprised to hear that you don't like?

It probably depends on whether by "friends" you mean my flist or my irl friends - though either way I don't know how to answer, since my flist friends are used to my likes and dislikes and either already know 'em all or have so come to expect the unexpected from me that nothing I like or dislike surprises them. My irl friends, on the other hand, generally don't know enough about the books, movies, bands, food, TV shows, etc. that I like/dislike to be surprised.

So I don't know how to answer this. I mean, like, you're SURPRISED that I don't like cooked carrots except in sauces? "Oh, that Frank, I always thought of him as a cooked-carrots kind of guy. This really throws me for a loop."

"Oh, so Frank dislikes that utterly twee, utterly awful Herman Dune track, 'On A Saturday'? What a shock!" (I myself was surprised that Lex gave it a middling score rather than a zero.)

Um, I just couldn't connect to Young Jeezy's "Don't Do It." Maybe that'll surprise the five of you who know and love "Don't Do It" and are aware of my general liking for Young Jeezy.

(Frank on the street, to friend, "You'll be surprised to learn that I just can't connect to Young Jeezy's 'Don't Do It.'" "To Young Whosey's what?")

First ever koganbot poll

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