Quotation of the Day

This would be featured as the quotation of the day in the NYT's daily email digest.

"If you spent six or seven years and hundreds of thousands of dollars getting a graduate degree and you end up doing this, that is not a happy thought. But it is steady work."

JAMES JACOBS, president of Macomb Community College in Michigan, on the part-time jobs his college is offering many teachers.

Best line of a remarkable week

The Daily Show

Jon Stewart: Washington was so crowded today, there's so many people... You, as a bishop, are sort of doubly handicapped in that situation, only being able to move diagonally. How is that negotiating the crowds?

Bishop Gene Robinson: Jon, you have to understand...there's a queen on the board as well.

When Brown Can Stick Around

Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around... when yellow will be mellow... when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right. That all those who do justice and love mercy say Amen.

Final words of Inaguration Benediction, Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery

Hang Loose

The Aliens and the Evil Office Man

Big Boy's "cover" for a comic book he worked on today

Matmos

Experimental electronic music. One of these dudes (Drew Daniel) is a recent PhD in English and an assistant professor at John Hopkins. He writes on melancholy. Their sound is tripped-out and fleshy.

Wikipedia: Matmos gained notoriety for their use of samples including "freshly cut hair" and "the amplified neural activity of crayfish" on their first album.

Caution: background video is NSFW.

Flying Lotus

aka Steven Ellison. This track based on Roberta Flack.

The The Impotence of Proofreading

Magnetic Morning

Doing the wonderful Kinks "The Way Love Used to Be." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5OL_dJ-vQA

The Melvins - Into the Void

Black Sabbath cover. Love the slow pace. This is live at the Kennel Club in SF, where I saw Dinosaur Jr., and others . . . can't remember.