Happy 2008! I swear I'm going to get better at posting this year, so let's begin right now. You have to buy this. I'm a huge fan of The Magnetic Fields and have been eagerly anticipating a new release for several years now. All I can say is wowzas...this doesn't disappoint. Dripping in sardonic wit and whiplash lyrics, this is a soundtrack for solitary times. I listened to the whole thing twice yesterday while doing manual labor and then again during a cab ride across town. Dreamy, hysterical, lonely, boppy, exuberant, reluctant, bashing, delicious music. Here are the lyrics to my favorite track "California Girls" (very fitting for the nation's current fixation on all that is "happening" in The Hills of Hollywood. Isn't everyone sick of this Britney nonsense by now??):
see them on their big bright screen
tan and blonde and seventeen
eating nonfood keeps them lean
but they're young forever
if they must grow up
they marry dukes and earls
i hate california girls
they aint broke so they put on airs
the faux folks sans derrieres
they breathe coke and have affiairs
with each passing rock star
they come on like squares
then get off like squirrels
i hate california girls
looking down their perfect noses
at me and my kind
do they think we wont, well nevermind
laughing through their perfect teeth at
everyone i know
do they think we wont get up an go, so
i have planned my grand attacks
i will stand behind their backs
with my brand new battle axe
and when they taste my wrath
they will hear me say as the pavement whirls
i hate california girls
And since we're on the subject of California, please AMPTP, for the sake of my friends who are out of work and for the rest of us who are plagued with soul sucking reality television, please give the writers what they deserve. And please start giving young viewers more shows like Ugly Betty and less shows about girls who spend most of their time modeling, talking about nothing, and getting wasted at beach bonfires.
