Listen! “It’s too late… to apologize.”

I realize they are just a …”cool” boy band that will be mocked very soon… but I can’t stop listening to their CD. It makes me tingle. I think I listen to Apologize at least 6 times a day, and I’m not even exaggerating. I made them put the One Republic CD in at work, so it plays a couple times a day while I’m there, and I listen to it to and from work… and usually when I’m blow drying my hair in the morning, and before I go to bed. It’s such a good song. Apparently it’s over played on the radio, but honestly… I wouldn’t know. I don’t listen to the radio, except for CFUV.

In other pop-news, I also got Britney Spears’ new album, it’s a piece of junk except for the song Toy Soldier. I put it on at work one day and I had a lot of people come up asking who it was saying they really liked it. After I told them it was Britney they were a little embarrassed, but seriously - it’s a fantastic song.

I also got Craig David and James Blunt’s new albums. Neither of them is anything special. I really like James Blunt’s voice… and Craig David’s lyrics. So they were disappointing or anything. Just nothing to go ape-shit over, like the One Republic CD. So. Good.

I worked 11 hours today… and then went out with work people. Gah. I need a life. I made a lot of commission today though - and hit 22% PSP… which gives me an average of 25.5% for the weekend. Fuckers can’t fire me now. (Actually, I got talking to a couple guys who have been with the company for a really long time and they think I should go to human resources with the issue because apparently they can’t make that threat.)

Other pop-ish things in my life - Surf’s Up and Happy Feet = awesome. I’m addicted to Guitar Hero. I sit on facebook on my blackberry for hours. My blackberry is sexy as hell. (The blackberry Curve…mmm) And I’m on season 2 of Heroes, which I think is pretty much the best show in the entire world … next to Sex and the City, of course. Hey - at least I’m not reading cosmo and watching the OC… I could be worse.

Fiddy might be taller, but Kanye is a better dresser, sexier, better singer, smarter, politically active… and the list goes on.

You may or may not know this about me… but I love Kanye West. Like, looove. His new CD, Graduation, came out yesterday and I got it today. I’ve been listening to it for like 4 hours straight. It is SO GOOD. So far, my favorite song is Flashing Light .

Kanye and 50 cent released their CD on the same day with a bit of a competition. Kanye is going to sell more, hardcore. Kanye reaches a wider spectrum of people, he doesn’t dress like a thug, he’s super sexy, his music is good, he’s got Mos Def and T-Pain on the album… So good. Fiddy just has one sort of sound, and he doesn’t even get very good beats going on, really. But, I’m a little biased here, I’m completely in love with Kanye, and haven’t liked Fiddy since this one song that drove me CRAZY. I don’t remember the name of the song though, I’ve blocked it from my memory. Although, Fiddy did give us the like “i love you like a fat kid love cake”. Nice. That was probably his greatest contribution to society, that one line.

I like this little paragraph talking about the two styles and men:

As on his previous releases, West measures his overflowing arrogance with self-conscious dollops of doubt, humor and vulnerability. Meanwhile, Fiddy’s outsized cockiness sounds like a comfortable artist repeating himself, afraid to tinker with his winning formulas.

BWA so true. Anyway, have a listen to that track, it’s really great. The whole album is. My little brown lover at work, Dhanung, has basically made me listen to Kanye, Craig David, Usher, Akon… etc. He’s trying to take some of the white-ness out of me.

Dhanung is the short one, Harry is the tall one. I love them both.

Speaking of Mos Def, you must check out this movie trailer, it looks absolutely hilarious. That could just be because I love Jack.

I just did a hip hop show, so I’m in the mood to put up some brand-spankin’-new hip-hop. Even though there is TONS of other new stuff… This is all wicked (and its the 2nd last week I’ll be doing this! Because then I won’t be at the radio station and won’t have my hands on all the goodies. Le Sad.)

Lanu - Mother Earth (This Is My Home - Ubiquity 2007)

El-P - Up All Night (I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead - Definitive Jux 2007)

D.O - Let’s Be Real (The North Starr - Independent 2007)

Macromantics - Moments in Movement (Moments in Movement - Kill Rock Stars 2007) *currently on tour with Deefhoof!!!!

Ttc - Ambition (3615 - Big Dada 2007) Le french and sounds like the never ending story theme at the end of it. cooool.

I realize it is Wednesday, thus I am a day late on posting this stuff - but the fact of the matter is - I skipped work yesterday so I didn’t have the opportunity to get the new music up. Better late than never… Definite favorites off this list: Cocorosie and The Pierces…. But they’re all really good, that’s why it has a couple more songs than usual, I had a hard time narrowing it down.

CocoRosie - Japan (The Adventure of Ghostface and Stillborn) 

Mos Def - Thug is a Drug (True Magic)

Dinosaur Jr. - Lightning Bulb (Beyond)

Twink - Mint Chip (Ice Cream Truckin’)

Wolfgang - Any Way You Want It (Wicked Truth About Loving A Man)

The Pierces - Lies (Thirteen Tales of Love and Revenge)

Lesbians on Ecstasy - The Cold Touch of Leather (We Know You Know)

Holy electronics. Fo serious, yo. I don’t have a billion seconds of time today, because I’m also writing a paper for a lab that is due 3 hours ago… so just the list, but for sure if you only want to listen to uno song this week - do the junior boys. The best song on the album is about 12 minutes long, so I didn’t put that one up, but the one thats on is real good.

Junior Boys - Double Shadow (The Dead Horse)

Goldfrapp - Love 2 C U (We Are Glitter - remixes off their 2005 album)

Joakim - Sleep in Hollow Tree (Monsters and Silly Songs)

The Huxtables - The Vision (A Touch of Wonder)

Jdh & Dave P. - Exile on Mein Strasse (Go Commando With…) *this ones really good…*

Capital Steps - Evelyn’s Ride (I’m not Listening)