Quote of the day

Alan Jacobs: "The what-I’m-listening-to thing always strikes me as aspirational rather than documentary. It’s really not 'what I’m listening to' but rather 'what I would be listening to if I were actually as cool as I want you to think I am.' " I'm listening to Tak, a band of Cambodian trans-gender goatherds. It's sort of like Bruce Lee meets Nine Inch Nails by way of Sufjan Stevens. Cambodia is the new Canada, you know. I mean, you did know that, right?

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