Frank Kogan

I'm sure both of you are right about the no-viruses-via-youtube thing; as I said above, I'm fairly sure my own recent avoidance of it is superstitious. I guess my probably screwed-up logic might go something like: (1) the videos are uploaded by third parties, who might conceivably upload something dangerous as well; (2) ads on the site might contain secret pernicious malware or links; (3) anything that puts cookies on your computer can potentially cause harm. All of those theories, I know, might well sound ludicrous to people who understand computers more than I do. But any dumb theory that keeps me from wasting too much time on youtube can't be all bad.

My browser is Mozilla Firefox (which does have a little cartoon fox as its icon), and I like it a lot. Had been stubbornly using Explorer with my previous laptop, and several people told me Firefox was safer, so I switched when I bought my new one. Do use Google Chrome to access certain spreadsheets I have to fill out for Rhapsody, because they don't work on Firefox, but that's it; I didn't even know what Chrome was until last month or so, and I still have no idea how risky it might be.

I've been playing the Britney album in my car the last couple days, and most every song has something in it to hook me, though not to hold my attention for entire songs in many cases. I expect the album will move up my list, though I seriously doubt it has any chance of making my year-end top 10. Mostly, I'd say I'm impressed, from a distance, by the hook craft and sex obsession of it (including of the single Frank likes so much.) But there's nothing on it, still, that I want to play again and again. And a lot of parts annoy me, too.

I don't think I like the Sunny Sweeney EP that much more than you do -- think I found two rather than three tracks shrug-worthy last time I played it -- I like the first two songs, but neither of them comes close to "From A Table Away." On the other hand, the EP still has "From A Table Away" on it, which counts for a lot.

I probably got the idea that "Go Ape" was a single last year from Rhapsody, where it's still carried as one (albeit in a "Live From the Cherrytree house" version), here (says it was released last September; could've sworn that their Wiki discography had listed it as a single at one point, too, but maybe not; the page definitely isn't doing so now):

http://www.rhapsody.com/far*eastmovement/go-ape

I will try to drop ChuCha Santamaria Y Usted's publicist an email and suggest that he send you a copy of the album (which comes out June 28.)