• After years of silence, embarrassment to modern music Sufjan Stevens has finally revealed that his dead-in-the-water 50 states project was, “such a joke.” It’s easy to deny the truthfulness of one’s artistic intentions when you’re a complete fucking moron and you suddenly realize you cannot possibly achieve the goal you have set for yourself. Sorry, buddy. I don’t believe you. You’re like the wuss in high school who starts to flail his arms and yell “just kidding!” after he zings a bigger kid. Man-up and admit that you bit off more than you can chew. I love the part of the interview where Stevens says, “I think maybe I took it too seriously. I started to feel like I was becoming a cliche of myself.” Dude, you’ve been a cliche since you started playing music. You didn’t have to become anything. You were always there; a big fucking joke we’re going to look back upon and laugh at heartily decades from now. Hell, at least if you recorded 50 albums dedicated to 50 states you’d have something to hang your hat on when you die. Now you’ll leave nothing but a bunch of dreadful sonic macaroni art as your legacy. Way to go, loser. [story]

• Boy am I grumpy this morning! Thanks to the BBC’s website, I no longer care about being a curmudgeon. Feeling grumpy “is good for you,” according to an Australian psychology expert. How can someone be an expert in psychology? Wouldn’t that just make hem a psychologist? Whatever, apparently miserable people are better at decision-making than happy people, and we’re also less gullible…which is why I didn’t fall for that stupid Sufjan Stevens 50 states project “joke,” like his mongoloid fans did. Hell, even Soupjam fell for the joke, since he said he “took it too seriously.” Maybe if he stopped aping Daniel Smith for a few minutes and started to feel things other than superficial joy and Peter Pan-y “I’m gonna be a kid forever, yay!” inanities, he might actually find himself in a bad mood. At that point, he could start to better his life. Or, he could just stop making music, and it would better the lives of millions of people like myself who heard his music and immediately lost faith in humanity. [story]

• I thought Nicci’s hometown was really cool when we went there for the Gilroy Garlic Festival. It didn’t seem hick-y or backwoods-y at all. But now I’m reading that there was a UFO sighting in the Morgan Hill, San Martin, Gilroy, Salinas area last week, and suddenly I think less of the people who live there. C’mon guys, UFO’s don’t exist. Stop it already. I’m pretty sure those are just contrails in the photographs. [story]

• It could be worse, I guess. Someone from the UK believes they saw a UFO beam up a buffalo last month. [story]

• According to a recent study picked up by The Independent UK, “people who illegally download music from the Internet also spend more money on music than anyone else.” This does not surprise me at all. I’ve believed for years now that most people who engage in file-sharing or download music for free are simply doing so for preview purposes, and do so with the intent to buy what they hear if they like it. That’s what I’ve always done, and I spend way more money than I would like to admit on music. [story]

• Do you want to know what I think about the Yankees winning the World Series? I don’t even have the strength to rant about how shameful it is. Instead, I’ll just tell you that Joe Posnanski wrote a great blog post about the Yankees payroll this week. Read it and weep, you mentally-underdeveloped Yankee “fans.” [story]

• A 10-ton fishing boat was sunk by a gigantic jellyfish of eastern Japan. See, this is what happens when you test nuclear missiles in the ocean. Don’t do it. Bad things can happen when radiation combines with the natural world. You end up with giant jellyfish that can sink boats. Let’s not do that anymore, okay? Good. I think we’ve all learned a valuable lesson today: Godzilla is approaching. [story]

• Reason why Africa is cooler than North America #1,332. A 112-year old Somali man just married a 17-year old girl. [story]

• LifeHacker shows you how to eat a chicken wing with little to no mess. I’d love to see somebody try this. You will be laughed out of the sports bar, my friend. You will be beaten mercilessly. It’s a chicken wing. You don’t dart around a pussy like a little nancy boy, you dive in and eat it. Wings are one of God’s greatest gifts to mankind. Don’t fuck with perfection. [story]

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