Slaraffenland - "Polaroids". A hundred cannonballs in uneasy orbits above your head. You fired them only one by one, over the years, and not often. You thought nothing of it. You liked the fizz and boom. But now you wait for the bus, you lie in bed, and you imagine them swimming up there, each in a separate trajectory. You wonder when one of the things you set in motion will lunge at your resting form. It's the only thing you dream about. It's the only thing you hope for.

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Detroit Cobras - "You'll Never Change". She sings this: "You walk around looking mean and evil, each and every day." But no one's walking, here; it's all slither. A golden slither in the guitar, a silver slither in the doobie-doobie-doo. Sin displayed in all its sweetness, all its pocketful of glimmer. (People were badder when the radio sounded like this.)

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Elsewhere:

The motley cover-songs of Jacob M. Ruefer.

Carl Wilson on Hilary Clinton and Celine Dion.

And... Ill Doctrine is the outstanding new video blog by hiphopmusic.com & WBAI's Jay Smooth. Hiphopmusic was of course part of a recent hostile takeover by Just Blaze. (Seriously though, the new hiphopmusic.com lineup looks awesome.)