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Friday: Hey, how awesome is free music? So awesome. That’s why I spend a majority of my time at various public libraries. Because instead of being hip with the times and illegally downloading music for free, I’d rather hang out with the senior citizens in the AV section of the library and check out my tunes. Oh yeah! Unfortunately, I’ll have to use a computer to get The Big Pink’s free Tonight Remix EP, which features four…wait for it…remixes of that very track. It’s on their website, and since the only thing that I love more than senior citizens is a good remix, I’ll suck it up and use my computer to get it.

Saturday: I’m such a lazybones. Whenever I sit down to recap Saturday’s news, all I want to do is post an audio file of me singing this timeless jam. Sidenote/challenge: Name me one male singer (besides Freddie Mercury) that dressed better than Elton John in his heyday.

Oh, here’s something that happened. That darling ginger-headed fellow (also known as Ian Hamrick) in M.I.A.’s “Born Free” video has responded to the hubbub about him, ya know, getting shot in it. Thanks for the quote, TMZ! "She was trying to show violence to end violence. It's for all the people that are doing the genocides in real life. Italians, Africans-- wherever it's from, it's still a genocide." Incredibly eloquent for a 12-year-old boy, yes?

Sunday: The whole Elm Street franchise concept terrifies me. Whenever I see any horror movie, I can’t sleep afterward, so the idea of seeing a horror movie with the premise of “even if you can fall asleep after watching this, YOU’LL DIE, SUCKA!” is downright terrifying. However, I’m happy that it was successful and made $36.7 million this weekend. Conversely, its success only means that more movies are on the way. DAMN YOU, PROFITABLE FRANCHISE.

Monday: I don’t mean to be awkward, but doesn’t anyone else just want to have sex/make out/hug someone when they listen to The Dead Weather? I should probably post this on Craigslist if I’m really curious, but I’m not ready to commit to that just yet. Seriously though, their music is so dirty and growly and meant for sexy-sex-sex times! Since they’re going on tour this summer (June 12 through August 3), and I’d really like to see them, I should probably figure out the best way to A) keep my pants on in public, or B) figure out how to discreetly do the nasty in public.

Tuesday: Well, it looks like The Flaming Lips shows in Florida that were cancelled as a result of Steven Drozd’s hospitalization have been rescheduled for October. All tickets to the cancelled shows will be honored for the new dates. So, the St. Petersburg show will go down on 10/13, Lake Buena Vista will happen on 10/14, and St. Augustine is on 10/15.

Wednesday: Oh, Ratatat. No one makes hipsters dance better than you do. Well, unless you count Girl Talk. I’m not sure. I think of Ratatat dancing as slightly cleaner, more focused dancing, where I see Girl Talk dancing as throwing body parts around in the inch of space that you have between you and the stranger next to you. Anyway, they’re releasing LP4 on June 8. Plan your clean summer dance party accordingly.

Whoa. WHOA. Remember how Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke went solo as “Kele”? OK, his new track is called “Tenderoni.” After I stopped giggling and thinking about not-quite-al dente macaroni, I realized that I couldn’t stop dancing to it. It is so bomb.

Thursday: YESSSSS. Antony and the Johnsons will be following up their beautiful album The Crying Light with Swanlights on October 6. As if an album wasn’t enough, a special edition of the album will be released with a 144-page art book full of paintings, writing, collages, and general gorgeousness from Antony Hegarty.