emptee pawkets

check out the breadth and width of new music tuesday for 3/22/05:

m.i.a. - arular
prefuse 73 - surrounded by silence
bloc party - silent alarm
brendan benson - the alternative to love
copeland - in motion
the decemberists - picaresque
louis xiv - the best little secrets are kept
queens of the stone age - lullabies to paralyze
ben fold five - whatever and ever amen [remastered]
yo la tengo - prisoners of love: a smattering of scintillating senescent songs 1984-2003

dang sri-lankan mc chicks to detroit popster to a grimy debut from sing-speaky lads named after the prolific king.

see also: ingoodcompanyallstar topher grizzace will star in a movie based on, yes, web-sation of 2003 'friendster'. uh huh, that's the online community. so, damn. [via goldenfiddle ]

more on awkward walking etiquette: you see a distant friend while strolling with your iPod on. they have caught your eye with sufficient time to contemplate taking out your apple-headphones, disrupting the flow of a great tune. but you'd rather not say anything to them, and go on listening to your sweet lil 'pod. so you pass them, and half-ass take one ear-piece out, and look very strange in doing so. you have a short, standard exchange of words (while holding the said ear-piece), and then place it back in. damn, you missed the good part of the song.