Freaky new cartoon or psychotic hallucination? You be the judge.

While in Iowa over the holidays i awoke late one night (somewhere in the 3-4am range) and groggily looked at the television that V had left on to go to sleep by. It was on Cartoon Network, and i saw a show that had me wondering if i was a) watching the latest bizarre addition to Adult Swim, b) still asleep and having a really twisted dream, or c) hallucinating in my sleep-deprived state. Further encounters have suggested the answer was a), although i can't rule out multiple episodes of c). The show is Super Milk Chan, a cuckoo Japanese-style cartoon about a spritely red-hooded girl and the insane characters she interacts with. That's about all i can say, i still have little to no idea what's going on in any given episode.

I remember in 1995 telling my roommate that i thought that Dave Grohl's post-Nirvana debut as Foo Fighters was pretty good. He had a contrary opinion, but i continued to harbor a fondness for the former grunge drummer. Granted, we all were a bit overexposed to Kurt Cobain by the time he died, but that shouldn't detract from what was a brilliant musical mind. Or from Grohl's continued rise to prominence. I think "Everlong" was the first indication that Grohl had emerged from Cobain's shadow, particularly the intimate acoustic version that got a decent amount of radio airplay. More recently, i find myself amazed by the song "Times Like These". I think it resonates at a level far beyond what was indicated by Grohl's promising but clumsy preliminary efforts like "I'll Stick Around". Again supplemented by an interesting acoustic interpretation, the song offers a compelling analysis of Grohl's musical history and the sort of wistful nostalgia that i'm a sucker for.