i said it's not real

Essential reading/listening: Dan Love deconstructs Jay-Z's debut Reasonable Doubt (parts one, two, and three have been posted -- I anticipate the final chapters tomorrow and Friday).

PopMatters has their own brand of anthology posting in the form of Summer of Same: The 2009 PopMatters Summer Movie Preview.

mental_floss has scored a couple of hits this week: Scotch for Beginners and Ranking 10 Peppers on the Scoville Scale.

Sonic Youth.  Nashville.  July 11th.

NPR follows "one pop song, as it travels from '60s Memphis soul to Staten Island mid-'90s rap — and almost all the way back again."

Haha: 100 days of Barack Obama's Facebook news feed.

Another Björk box set?  Sign me up!

I will not stop listening to this song: