I Think I'll Go With The Cape.

Hanukkah ends tomorrow at nightfall & I've only posted one Hanukkah/Yo La Tengo-related blog entry! This must be amended, so here's the video for "Tom Courtenay". As an aside, I will go on record as saying that Yo La Tengo consistently make the most entertaining music videos as far as I'm concerned (and they even hold up well when you're watching them on a computer at work with no sound).

I Don't Hate Anything About This Song.

In honor of Hanukkah approaching & as the resident WMUA Blog Jew, I thought I would give some props to Yo La Tengo, who have their annual Eight Nights of Hanukkah shows coming up soon in Hoboken. But since the dates are all sold out & making the trip to New Jersey wasn't exactly tops on my list of things to do anyway, you should just go to their website instead & spend some time browsing the "Fun" section, which I swear by as an amusing time-waster while at work. I'm particularly fond of the feature Kids Respond to "Little Eyes", where a class of Canadian second graders illustrate & write what they think of the song. It's like reading Pitchfork with slightly more spelling & grammatical errors, though without the gratuitous name-dropping.



Oh yeah, you should also get a load of the totally legit Billboard chart that has "Nuclear War" a mere five spots below Will Oldham's favorite R. Kelly jam, "Ignition".