Leap Year on a Friday--Woot?

    I don't normally care much about such things as leap year, but since it's here and it's on a Friday, I got to wondering whether it would mean anything different to me this year.

    Wonder, wonder, wonder . . . 

    OK, so it doesn't, except that maybe you could see today as a kind of gift, a day on which you can take a chance and throw your heart out there to the cosmos, metaphorically speaking, and then sit back and see if anything happens as a result.

    Sounds like a good idea, right? The thing is, I'm kind of on uneasy terms with the cosmos these days. I can't decide if it's giving me a break or sending me one giant "fuck you." I'm really unclear as to whether I'm getting a gift or it's one big joke.

    I think I'm in this frame of mind from reading the book Foreskin's Lament by Shalom Auslander. It's the memoir of a guy who grew up as an Orthodox Jew and how everything he ever learned about the nature of God warped him (in a bad way) and made him into the person he is today, which is a catastrophic worrier and non-practicing Jew, among various other dysfunctional things. It's excruciatingly honest and funny, with an extremely irreverent tone that belies the seriousness of what he's going through. I highly recommend it. 

    So what kind of music do you put with that?

The Tiny--"They Say It's Weird" mp3 off Starring: Someone Like You (buy)

Man Man--"Skin Tension" mp3 off Six Demon Bag (buy) 

The B-52's--"Cosmic Thing" mp3 off Cosmic Thing (buy)

George Sarah--"Lament" mp3 off (unreleased)

    This is kind of cool. I went through my music library and picked these songs, then I looked up the bands to put in the appropriate links, etc., and it turns out The Tiny, Man Man and The B-52's are each coming out with a new album this Spring. That's serendipity for you. Maybe the cosmos doesn't hate me after all.

tags: leap year  foreskins lament  cosmic jokes  

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