Today's sounds and words

The Magnetic Fields' "69 Love Songs" may be the most perfect album in years. I have just listened to the song "I Don't Want To Get Over You" enough times to make my ears bleed, and I'm not quite sick of it yet. Also just read John Hodgman's Areas of My Expertise, which is quite a larf. You can hear him read the names of 700 hoboes online.