Coldplay Strikes Again

Ugh. I just tried to watch the Coldplay video and the music was so boring that I couldn't get past the two minute mark. The video was something about an elephant. Coldplay kills me because I really do like enough of their songs that I am interested in their new albums, but I never completely embrace an album. The best is Rush of Blood to the Head, but the others aren't uneven per se, just alternately great and sleepy.

I don't like Ezras

Maybe I'm just biased against Ezras, but I don't like that Ezra Furman fellow. He seems like he wants to be Bob Dylan, but his bandmates wish he was someone just a little more funky. And I agree with them. I also don't like Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend nor do I like Ezra Klein, the Washington Post blogger who is my age and thinks he knows everything about social policy. All Ezras I have been exposed to in the media are pretentious hipster types. There's a horrible pun of some sort lurking in here that has to do with Better Than Ezra but I don't think it should be exposed. If I was a headline editor, I'd work it in into the title of the post. (Why does every headline on ESPN or Sports Illustrated have to be some kind of wordplay/pun? I think every article in the most recent SI suffered that fate. The authors must be grinding their teeth as their strong stories are given headlines like Deja Brew.)

B+S

"Why is this happening to you, you're not child." The song of champions...champion men.

I just downloaded Arab Strap. People seem to like If You're Feeling Sinister better.

I Wish I Was This Guy