_ Every half-bookish NPR listener the world over probably heard this radiolab episode that begins with a detailed analysis of Kristen Schaal and her pal Kurt Braunohler doing their Kaufman-esque absurdist routine, and now it has been pointed out by Rebecca Haithcoat in LA Weekly that this Kaufman moment may be making another appearance with Jay-Z and Kanye West...in other news, these Jefferson Friedman string quartets are really great - as is Chiara’s performance, and there are even two Matmos remixes of the quartets on the album. I’ve been really taken with the remix idea myself after doing one for NewVillager’s song Lighthouse. Going through the audio stems that I was sent to do the remix was akin to taking apart a Kaleidoscope then reassembling it into something else entirely, and the process challenged me to use materials that I wouldn’t normally associate with my own work or sound...but I digress...beautiful juxtapositions seem to abound as of late whether it be Beethoven and Black Metal or thoughts on screen savers and office novels. Well, perhaps David Foster Wallace can sum all of this up for us via The Pale King, “above and below were a different story, but there was always something disappointing about clouds when you were inside them; they ceased to be clouds at all. It just got really foggy.”