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pandora is fucked yet fun

i know pandora isn't perfect, but for goodness sake tiffany's i think we're alone now does not belong on my dance music superstar gui boratto station.  though it was worth it to see pandora's explanation.  good thing because i wasn't aware tiffany had a subtle use of vocal harmony.  maybe by harmony pandora means the thousands of screaming teens during tiffany's mall tour.  still i did like the tiffany (could've been) but not in this context.  and if you look closely, yes i do have sara bareilles radio, but that's okay because i only heard of her from that rhapsody commercial where she's playing piano and singing in that guy's living room.  i was all, why is fiona apple both on a tv commercial and oddly happy?

high art, low art and somewhere in between

some really tacky wannabe culture jammer is vandalizing seattle fire hydrants by painting them gold. hydrants, at least those in seattle, are supposed to be either green, yellow or red to indicate the level of water pressure. not bright shiny sloppy spraypaint disco rollerskate gold. whoever you are, fire hydrants are not a toy. firemen are. now i am not entirely unsympathetic to the need to modify public objects. lots of us have culture jamming urges. i personally want to stick tiffany pictures on the seattle art museum tiffany exhibit signs hanging from every pole downtown. i always thought teen pop queen tiffany (ex-teen ex-pop ex-queen still tiffany) would make a fine lamp and that a lamp would make a fine pop star.

now here's a couple of pictures of steve hooper's feet for no reason, unless you're into that kind of thing, in which case there is a clear reason.