• Next time someone mutters that Bowie hasn’t “done anything good since the ‘70s,” break out “Everyone Says ‘Hi’” from Heathen, 2001.

• Why aren’t OK Go completely HUGE? Especially when they make inventive videos like this with zero budget?

• Speaking of artists who should be huge, keep a lookout for Rhymefest - I’m not much of a hip-hop head, but after meeting the man and hearing where he’s coming from (there’s a song on his just-released debut that addresses something I’ve written about here…the “economic draft” that forces poor and lower-middle class kids into the military for college money), I’m a convert. My favorite track, "Devil’s Pie", uses a chopped & screwed Strokes sample, so heck, I’m on board. That, and the headlock he held me in convinced me (nice Popeye imitation I’m sporting, by the way).



And finally…

• HEAD ON! APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!
HEAD ON! APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!
HEAD ON! APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!