…and here I am watching the second half of The Hamptons tonight. I’m going to refrain from launching into a hateful diatribe about why the majority of people in this documentary depress and anger me so much…it’s just not worth the energy really. I’m sure it all goes without saying for anyone who would be reading this blog.

I will say this – I am very distressed by the fact that virtually every person who ends up in any sort of reality or documentary programming speaks almost entirely in junk English. It’s just a lot of very dull, inarticulate people trying hard to sound intelligent. It’s repulsive.

Well, I can try to cheer myself up by reminding myself that today I stumbled upon a whole concert worth of Malkmus/Jicks mp3s. It’s a reasonably nice sounding recording from mid-April in Buenos Aires. The show is notable mostly for containing several new unreleased works-in-progress songs; plus two Pavement songs (“Here” and “In The Mouth a Desert”) and several half-assed covers including R.E.M.’s “The One I Love”, Oasis’ “Champagne Supernova”, Radiohead’s “Creep” and “High & Dry”, Sheryl Crow’s “If It Makes You Happy”, and The Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy For The Devil”. If you’re just going to go for two of the new songs; I say go for “Oyster (aka Crimson Alligator)” and the first untitled song in the set – the mellow keyboard-heavy number with the lovely chorus “oh Sherry, don’t you cry Mary”.

Other good news includes the fact that The 2nd Annual Siren Festival on Coney Island is right around the corner, and Sleater-Kinney and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs will be on the bill. I can’t say I’m too excited about seeing The Donnas or The Shins, though…