I Take It Back...

... sort of.

I am still wrangling with the genius feature of the pod. My past annoyances with it have lessened since previous rants, but some irritation remains. For example, it has a habit of instead of using remixes rather than the original you want to use - it does this for Music Sounds Better with You by Stardust. Don't tell me you can use genius for a song if you can't, you annoying thing.

Nonetheless, yesterday it came up with the best selection of 25 tunes. Not that each one was a total favourite, but I loved the variety and sheer weirdness of the tunes it came up with - the juxtapositions were just bizarre, but ace. It gives me hope that genius is learning about me and so, in turn, coming up with record selections more along my lines. So, having not made a list for yonks, I thought I'd reproduce it for you here... lucky you.

1. Paris by Friendly Fires (starting song)
   
2. The Eraser - Thom Yorke
3. Just Like Honey - The Jesus & Mary Chain (am definitely getting into them, that will be my next retro discovery)
4. Spooky - Dusty Springfield
5. I Turn My Camera on - Spoon
6. Long Hot Summer - The Style Council
7. Fight Test - The Flaming Lips (I do not listen to this enough)
   
8. Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
9. The Hurting - Tears for Fears
10. Baby Boy - Beyonce feat. Sean Paul
11. Balloons - Foals
12. Lovesick - Friendly Fires
13. Eat Yourself - Goldfrapp
14. Sea Within a Sea - The Horrors (best album of the year pour moi thus far)
15. Don Gon Do It - The Rapture
16. No One Does It Like You - Department of Eagles
17. Turn It on - Franz Ferdinand
18. Golden Phone - Micachu
19. Naive - The Kooks
20. Cheap and Cheerful - The Kills
21. Strict Machine - Goldfrapp
22. I'm Sticking With You - Velvet Underground
23. Kids with Guns - Gorillaz
24. Lovin' You - Minnie Riperton (no, I'm not joking!)
25. On Board - Friendly Fires

Oh no he DITTINT

Oh yes, he really, really, really did.

This is absolute genius.

If you did not catch the August 7 Daily Show, you missed out.

Bob Allen is a Florida politician who authored a bill to outlaw public lewdness. He also was caught by an undercover policeman, to whom he offered $20 if the said policeman would allow Mr. Allen to fellate him. That would be a delicious irony of sorts, regardless. Nonetheless, it gets better - or, indeed, worse.

Because Mr. Allen is blaming his dropping to his knees on the fact that there were many black men around in the park, and he thought he would "become a statistic."

Others will comment on the evils of this guy, endlessly, no doubt. But aside from the horrendous racism at play here, there is something that particularly bothers me about police staking out to stop men having sex with other men. It just seems... grossly bigoted. Do they tend to loiter around hetero dogging grounds? I'd be surprised, somehow. The policing of it stems from a puritanism that indicates that people might see, and those decent god-fearing people will somehow be damaged by seeing sex, particularly gay sex.

So my joy is tampered somewhat. Only somewhat, mind you.

UPDATE: Have a look at the Daily Show's take on it, and John Oliver's better excuses.