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Thursday, June 12, 2008
 

 

As I begin this post the thing sitting in the back of my mind is that tonight (or tomorrow morning, if you prefer) I have to be at work at 2am to help run a broadcast.  I've done it before, but it presents a weird issue when dealing with sleep.  Should I take a nap?  Or blow snoozing off all together?  I can never decide, so this time around I'm asking you.  Now provide a solution!  Alright, before the inevitable doom of work consumes me and turns me to the dark side I want to provide some Nisennemondai.  I'm not sure how you should pronounce that when you talk with your friends, but over at Pitchfork they say it means "The Y2K Bug," which is humorous.  Anyhow, they're instrumental, good and have a new album titled Neji/Tori due out July 29.  Enjoy.

:Nisennenmondai - Pop Group:  When this song randomly came through my speakers for the first time I had to stop what I was doing to see if I had stumbled upon a Times New Viking b-side or something, as it certainly has that same pop-song-buried-in-distortion sort of sound.  To be honest, though, I find it a little strange that an instrumental band would go the way of sloppy audio quality (especially if they aren't called Lightening Bolt), but I certainly can't deny that it works rather well.  I mean, I don't even have it playing right now and I'm tapping my foot and nodding my head just thinking about it.  Expect the same result on your end.

Here are the ladies being awesome live at Shibuya O-nest back in 2004.  I have absolutely no idea what the title of the song is, but I do know it's a good one.  You should definitely set aside a bit of time to see this.

 

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