Rainy Day

Los Angeles rains.
Rain rarely comes to the desert.
Drought, water rations.

Smog is washed away.
Rainbows splash across the sky.
Mudslides from fires.

For a 'lil while,
plants are no longer thirsty.
But my heart still is.

Obama & Wallstreet

Here's another Matt Taibbi article to depress the shit out of those of us who were really hoping for 'change' to come:

Obama's Big Sellout

(via Rolling Stone)

"Best of" Albums of the 00's

In light of how most music blogs put out disputable "best of" lists every year, and now decade, I decided to compose my own list of suggestions for the "best of" albums of the past 10 years.  I enlisted a little help from the local LA musician, wi_ngo.  We had some minor agreement with Pitchfork's "20 Greatest Albums of the 00's", but diverged a lot as well.

Best Albums - (18 suggestions by wi_ngo and maNel. Listed in no particular order yet, except that Kid A is numero uno):

Kid A - Radiohead
The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place - Explosions in the Sky

In Rainbows - Radiohead

Nouns - No Age
Mirrored - Battles

Source Tags and Codes - ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead...

Saturdays = Youth - M83
Friend Opportunity - Deerhoof
Chromophobia - Gui Borratto
Kala - M.I.A.

From Here We Go Sublime - The Field

Untitled - Sigur Rós

You Forgot it in People - Broken Social Scene

Funeral - Arcade Fire
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco
Merriweather Post Pavillion - Animal Collective
White Blood Cells - The White Stripes
Illinois - Sufjan Stevens