Songs I'm digging right now...

Chelsea - Stefy

Equal parts No Doubt and Eurythmics, this is a great summer party song, at least in my way of seeing things.

Dangerous Muse - The Rejection

Only the New York club scene could have spawned the heteroflexible, oh so ironic Dangerous Muse. If you like Fischerspooner and The Scissor Sisters, you'll like Dangerous Muse, even tho their sound is nothing like either band.

Morgan Geist - Most of All

Jeremy Greenspan, the lead singer of the Junior Boys lends his vocals to this song, which is a lovely downtempo electro cool breeze of a song.

Azzido da Bass featuring Johnny Blakely - Lonely by Your Side

Until we finally get a new album from Zoot Woman, I'll manage to survive with repeat listenings of this song. Azzido da Bass songs always have the best (no surprise, you're gonna see this coming) bass in them and Johnny Blakely, of Zoot Woman, has a voice that just does it for me every time. And I'm guessing that we're not gonna see the new Zoot Woman album until a bit after Stuart Price gets done with Madonna's tour.

Hot Chip - Over and Over (Justus Köhncke?s Baking Horse Club Mix)

Any song with the words "like a monkey with a miniature cymbal" is aces with me. And I like the rather Laid Back groove that this remix exudes...

Phoenix - Long Distance Call

I saw Phoenix in concert the night before I left New Orleans, and it was one of the best concerts I've ever seen. They've never made a bad song and they've been fairly prolific in their relatively short career. The new single from the new album, both of which are just as perfect as I knew they'd be...

The sleeper awakens... at least momentarily...

So, I figure that I could share with y'all what I'm hip to lately...

TV shows... I can't get enough of the new Doctor Who. I watched the first season on SciFi and I'm currently pirating the second season from the Web as it airs on the BBC. I went through a brief Doctor Who phase as a young lad, but that's not one of those things you admit to. But the new show has me hook, line and sinker. It's slick, funny, full of continuity and very well acted and directed. It contains just enough of the goofiness of the original series but balances it quite well with much more modern writing and acting. I also really like The Closer... thank yewww very much. And The 4400 is the best comic book tv show ever even thought it was never a comic book (but it does borrow liberally from more than a few of them). Oh, and I just discovered Footballers Wives... omg... the locker room scenes.... meeow...

In the book arena, I've recently enjoyed The Book of the Dead by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. It's the third book in a thriller trilogy. Their books are sort of what I think Michael Crichton would write if he'd grown up on a steady diet of old horror movies. Agent Pendergast in their books is absolutely one of my favorite fictional characters. I also devoured Prador Moon by Neal Asher in a couple of hours recently. Neal Asher is one of three British guys who are, IMO, the absolute best writers putting out science fiction novels today. The other two would be Alastair Reynolds and Peter F. Hamilton. (I also highly recommend Judas Unchained by Hamilton and Pushing Ice by Reynolds, both currently available at your local Barnes & Noble, you'll have to get them to order Prador Moon however.) And, of course, since I'm a resident of Louisiana, I read The Great Deluge by Douglas Brinkley. It was an incredible book, but I don't think I could say I enjoyed it...

And the next post will cover music and my favorite music blogs...