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#METASWAG Summer 2011 Theme:

Celebrity Couples On The Beach

Thesis

If you can't blog three times in a month, your summer is either too lazy or not lazy enough. Personally, I've kept a fairly regular rotation of lazy and busy days, such that I never feel motivated to blog. Today's post is completely unmotivated. Worry not, fearless reader, this means it will be a short (readable) post!

Risky Summer 2011

This summer I'm taking risks! It's important. Health risks, like eating cream-cheese-salsa and chips for dinner and staying up til 7 in the morning. Social risks, like meeting new people and talking to people I haven't in ages. Leadership risks, like combining Dungeons & Dragons Club with a Feminist Book Club (can't take full credit for this lunacy). Travel risks, like driving alone to Chicago to see B.o.B. and a good friend.

All of these risk should eventually lead to some sort of constructive change in my overall performance of self, so that by the end of the summer I'll be the most well-rounded and exciting person in the entire world.

Selected nice things about being home for 3 1/2 months

> Homemade breakfast

> Playing Portal 2 and FIFA

> Quietude

> Family

> Download rates of > 1 mb/s
> No fear of being judged for crying while listening to "Purple Rain"

This Is A Music Blog (Unmotivated Edition)

Though for months I have unabashedly championed Grouper's stark and breathtaking A I A as the standalone shoe-in for Best Album Of 2011, a new record has entered the fold that is simultaneously much more listenable, and much more complex. Gang Gang Dance's Eye Contact and tUnE-yArDs' w h o k i l l are fabulous, full-blown spectacles, but neither have the something special of my newly-crowned (and obv subject-to-change) Best Album Of 2011.

Channel Pressure [2011; Software/Mexican Summer]

by Ford & Lopatin

It's The Best Of The 80s in a glitchy and modern sonic landscape, where everything sound like synthetic emeralds. I've gotta stop making good music sound bad. More accurately: simply the most well-constructed pop music of the last who-knows-how-long (since "All Of The Lights"?). The songs, while hella fun to dance to alone in your living room, reveal so much depth in headphones. I suggest trying both.

See below for a selection from this pop masterpiece.

Conclusions

Let's be honest, I've listened to Beyonce's "1+1" seven times in a row. Let's be honest again, this was not a very short blog post. It is, nonetheless, a blog post that kept me from the dreaded (2) next to May's blog output. I don't know where this arbitrary standard of 3 posts/month came from, but I darn well intend to meet it.

Happy Summer! June will be the month of regular blogging (empty promise).

"Break Inside" from above-mentioned Best Album Ever

Special Bonus Song