A handful of things I’ve been too busy to mention:

#1: I was interviewed for the Music Edition of VPR’s Switchboard, which aired on Tuesday. Murf from False 45th phoned in to school ’em on the new Yo La Tengo, who they subsequently referred to as “Yellow Tangles” no less than three times. They eventually realized their mistake, but it was pretty funny while it lasted. I do believe you can stream the archive from the VPR link.

#2: Speaking of False 45th, today’s ’06 celeb retrospective features Ben Maddox of Farm. Yesterday was Tanner & Ben from from Nest Material.

#3: Steve Coogan is really funny. Who among you watches Saxondale?

#4: GWAR is sold out, suckers.

#5 My refined year-end faves ran as a feature on Dusted today. The list is somewhat different than the one I originally posted here, as I took more time to ponder. In addition, the prose is modified to affirm my position as an all-important musical-linguistic analysis operative.

#5: I saw a commercial for Yoplait with two ladies dishing in a spa. This thing could send the feminist movement back by at least a decade. The ad is generally offensive, but when the *actresses* get *deep* it becomes unbearable. Here’s an honest-to-goodness example of their exchange:

“Yoplait is like Zen wrapped in karma wrapped in chocolate.”

Apparently, this product is akin to the state of stillness that reflects the thusness of all — manifest and unmanifest — combined with the all-penetrating law of binding causality that subtly affects all — manifest and unmanifest — mixed with a sweet foodstuff.

I came up with a bit of copy for their next campaign: “Yoplait is like the ten thousand things wrapped in Kalki’s sword of obliteration with a vanilla creme demi-glaze.” Feel free to post your own version in the comments field.

I thought I’d be the first to go wide with this one, but evidently other bloggers find it ridiculous, too.

Casey Rea was the Seven Days music editor from 2004 until 2007. He won the 2005 John D. Donoghue award for arts criticism from the Vermont Press Association.

37 replies on “Random Precision.”

  1. Neil, you can’t be simultaneously above and inside the fray. Unlesss you’ve got the power of Zen+ Karma + Chocolate.

  2. Yoplait is like Alanis Morisette’s grasp on the word “ironic” wrapped up in Yellow Tangles marinating in the intellectual bile of everyone on this comment page.

  5. I know, and Scientology is inherently nonsensical and self-contradictory. I was just trying to knock out some of the competition.

  6. “I would like to contest the Scientology entry as it is mythologically inaccurate.(the prize should be those extra GWAR tickets you secretly stashed away)”Yea, but isn’t that the point? I mean, you CAN’T wrap Zen (a form of a religion) up in karma (a metaphysical series of cause-and-effects). That’s plain kooky talk. So I most respectfully defend my entry, as the style-standard set by the stupid commercial is mythologically inaccurate. And dumb.

  9. i fucking hate that yoplait commercial. it drives me nuts. i have to change the channel when it comes on now. the other thing that drives me nuts is Activa. the yogurt for women that helps their digestion / constipation problems. because it has probiotics in it! wow what an idea. they have to add back the probiotics because theyve turned yogurt into a sugary dessert void of nutrition or health benefit. crazy world man.anyways……

  10. I’m just worried we’ll all get taken to task by an ornery anonymous commentator who feels some perverse kinship with TV advertisers.

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