The best sound in the world is your laughter, the best view your smile (stolen from hydragenic) I am getting deeper and deeper into the Califone record and I start to love it but I am not yet there. Hopefully tomorrow some words on the music. I really have to hold back from reading your reviews at Pitchfork, Mark. In the meantime another link post.

• Did you know that the line "Here we are now, entertain us" from Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit was something Cobain used to say when he entered a party? More information snippets on pop songs at Songfacts (via netbib)
• The classical music weblog mostly music from Brazil comes up with an interesting physiological effect of a certain instrument: "According to recent studies by the acoustics department at the University of Seil, in Munchaus, Germany, the sound waves produced by a flute can naturally and inherently create an effect that ... can be described in simple language as an enhancement of the psycho-physiological capacity for long-term sexual intercourse, through the expansion of both feminine and masculine resilience... this extraordinary effect has been known since antiquity, and it is no mere coincidence that the mythological god Pan, a satyr, played the flute."
• I want this now: Uri Caine: The Goldberg Variations. Caine performs them in all sorts of different styles: Tango, Mambo, Waltz, Bebop, Gospel, Ragtime, New Orleans and Free Jazz. Article on the pianist-composer Is it classical or is it jazz? in the Economist (via wortmetz). Tips: In case some of the images don't load on my page try the Ctrl-key in conjunction with the reload button to load the page directly (and not an old cache). The Atomz search in the upper left hand corner only found pages from June to August 2001. I fixed it so that you can search the complete weblog now.