shopping carts with FOUR rotating wheels instead of just the front two? you’ve got to be kidding! that’s ludicrous! i tell you, there’s something wrong with that country.

so my friend dom came back from his week in illinois today, which is good, because i love dom. we spent a lot of the evening playing the “watch music videos on mtv and mtv2 and point out exactly why they suck so much” game for a few hours. and every now and then some good stuff comes on (i really like the recent new order song “crystal”, for example), but mostly it’s validating our hatred for bands like linkin park and any rapper whose stage name starts with “li’l” by going into detail over their lack of talent, overly melodramatic “i’m in so much pain” lyrics — i.e. every new hard rock band — and so on. it’s actually a lot of fun. and i figure you have to know your enemy, so this is a good reason to say with full confidence that popular music almost entirely makes me want to vomit. we did see some decent stuff, like a good pharcyde song, so at least 8% or so isn’t downright awful. but in this world, based on my experience, that’s not really too bad a percentage.

(oh, and my roommate just showed up about 30 minutes ago also. how keen!)