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so there's a cool American Analog Set / Kelly Clarkson mash-up mp3 on Stereogum, it actually sounds good. I don't like how she sings "you" as "yew", sounds like Avril Lavigne. I'll have to get that American Analog Set album, it's the newest one. They're a good band, very mellow. Here's their website.

Also, these Russia-China military exercises are kind of scary. But the way things are going with Putin getting more dictatorial, jailing prominent dudes who disagree with him, being secretive about those submarines and Chechnya, taking away freedom of the press and so on, it makes me think he wants to be our enemy or something. He seems like a real dick. So maybe a conventional military isn't obsolete.