One of my favorite artists, doing his song, "Nervous Tic Motion Of The Head To The Left":

I've never seen him live, so I didn't know he does nearly the whole song by himself, except for the drums, building up the song one part at a time with a foot-pedal sampler. He really is Dr. Strings (via). Wow.

Via the SF Gate:

Proponents of same-sex marriage have introduced a ballot measure that would require heterosexual couples to have a child within three years or have their marriages annulled.

Politics can be funny.

This quiz, The Alchemist's Challenge, is far more difficult than the Bible quiz, below.

2362 other users have thus far accepted the Alchemist's Challenge. Their average score is 56 percent correct.

Out of a total of 50 questions, you answered 34 correctly – that's 68 percent correct.

Yahoo! News reports:

Women on average say they would be willing to give up sex for 15 months for a closet full of new apparel, with 2 percent ready to abstain from sex for three years in exchange for new duds, according to a new survey of about 1,000 women in 10 U.S. cities.

Sixty-one percent of women polled said it would be worse to lose their favorite article of clothing than give up sex for a month.

I've never read the thing, though I tried once, in high school. I don't think I made it even halfway through the O.T.. And I never went to church. That I was able to get even that much on the quiz, I suppose shows just how deeply the stories in the Bible are woven into western culture.

Fark's right: this will be the coolest wave picture you'll see all day.

Rob's doing '30 second' reviews. Oh yeah? Well, I'm going to do 15 second reviews. So there.

Here's a bunch of things I've recently picked up:

• The Sword - Age Of Winters. Black Sabbath + Metallica + Beowulf
• Boris - Pink. Crazy Japanese garage metal, so loud you can't tell what language the guy's singing in.
• Sonic Youth - The Destroyed Room. A B-Side collection that's better than a few of their recent official releases.
• Yo La Tengo - I'm Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass. Yummy old-school YLT is the delicious hard-candy shell surrounding a bunch of gooey new YLT that makes me wince.
• Earlimart - Treble and Tremble. The ghost of Elliot Smith told me he wants you guys to find a different sound for your next record.
• Elf Power - The Winter Is Coming. That yummy Elephant 6 vibe, in a sweet little psychedelapop package.
• Adrian Belew - Side Two. Guitar experimentalism with techno drum loops.
• Robert Fripp & Andy Summers - I Advance Masked. Just what you'd expect : Frippy noodling over Summersy guit-synth wash.
• Green Day - Warning. Not as immediately catchy as Dookie, nor as ambitious as American Idiot.
• Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique. There's one bit in Eggman that makes me go "aw yeaaaah!" every time I hear it.
• Beck - The Information. Sounds like Beck.

Subject of a spam I just got:

But Maurice may Euphrates but Cezanne it's hydroxylate !

West Valley man arrested after calling 911 over toothache

Thirty-four-year-old Brook Akins called 911 dispatchers 12 times in the span of five hours with most of those calls lasting around 30 minutes each. He said his tooth hurt and he was tired of the pain. He refused an ambulance, didn't want a visit from police, but wanted phone numbers for someone who could help ease the pain -- Oh, and he wanted illegal drugs off the streets.

Idjits.

Senator Joe Biden on Barak Obama:

I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy

Both these guys want to be President. One of them just shot himself in the foot and stuck the bleeding stump in his mouth.

Update: looks like a bad transcription of a pretty sketchy statement.