janelle is on bad boy?

Can we take a little bit of a timeout to talk about what’s hot in the neon valley streets? FYI Janelle Monáe is still high steppin in them saddle shoes singing love songs to cyborgs. As of 4/1/08 I hadn’t put this crazy gal from Kansas City on my playlist in months. This morning, after a long span of out of sight out of mind, just when the whole android theme was seeming like a played-out fad, I jammed her mini-album in the headphones. For all of you that must have forgot, the Sincerely Jane track bangs just as hard as it did in October. I had to play that joint today because this morning I looked in my inbox and I had a message from Janelle’s camp, the Wondaland Arts Society. On April Fools Day the WAS sent out a message to all of the cyboys and cybergirls in their rolodex announcing that they recently shook hands with the shiny suit man, signing into effect a new “joint venture” with Bad Boy records.

the class of 2012

We grew up in a warzone. The war on drugs and the war on terror. It was too dangerous outdoors so we played inside, in front of the big screen. Ironically, there were 1000 times as many violent deaths on the telly than there were outside. Thanks to 24-hour marathons of Law and Order, twenty-four people were murked in our living rooms every day. When we weren’t eye-witnessing a shoot-em-up, we were watching corporate warfare. The networks battled for our attention so that they could distribute Power Wheels, Beenie Babies and Fruity Pebbles. We didn’t choose between them. We bought all three. The first Jordans came out before we was born, but that didn’t stop us from buying them when the retros re-released. We laced them