You can sing Madonna's "Get into the Groove" over New Order's "Bizarre Love Triange", and it kind of works. Not that I've, like, tried it, or anything.

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I have not yet found any Madonna song that can be sung over Soundgarden's "Slaves and Bulldozers." "Like a Virgin" almost works if you slow it way, way down.

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I still haven't gotten any diet Pepsi Vanilla, but I have discovered that it has a web page. Complete with annoying music. Why can't they get a sample of Madonna singing Soundgarden's "Slaves and Bulldozers"?

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I've started reading Spin magazine again, because I kind of miss the days when I used to know something about what was going on in popular music. However, I still haven't found a good way to listen to any of these bands - when I'm in the car, I'm listening to my iPod about 80% of the time, and classic rock radio the other 20%. So, I know all kinds of random factoids about bands like The Strokes and The White Stripes without actually having much of a clue about what these bands sound like.

This is actually sort of enjoyable. I have a boundless appetite for trivia; I'm not sure that I have a boundless appetite for modern popular music.

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Over the past few months, I seem to have lost my ability to read comics. I've got unread Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman comics sittin' around the house. This happened to me for my first year of grad school, too, so I think it's a side effect of the new job eating my brain. It should go away soon.

I always laugh when people talk about comics being for "illiterates", because whatever you might think of comics storylines, the actual act of decoding a comic book page is one of the most cognitively complex things that people regularly do for entertainment. It's much more complicated than reading plain prose without illustrations.