Minimalism and technology keep finding beautiful ways to live together. Today’s singer/songwriter albums no longer fit in a genre to themselves, largely in part due to individuals having simpler, more transferrable methods (anyone with a laptop can make an album) of artificially surrounding themselves with musicians or noises, or transforming themselves into a chorus. The inventiveness resulting from this modern ease and freedom is immense.

Which brings me to The Go Find’s album, Miami. As the project of Dieter Sermeus, his Belgian iBook, and a few helper monkeys to carry his luggage, the album eloquently weaves standard rock vocals with Postal Servicey/euro-indie-pop computerization. Everything on Miami is seemingly synthetic because it probably is. Even his voice. He’s probably not even a real person. A hologram of some sort, perhaps.

Either way, the beats pulse, the guitar soothes, the bubbly insanity in the background sizzles and Dietermeister’s voice is instantly gripping.

There’s hardly a song on Miami that doesn’t blister a spot on your mind (or thumb) and make you think about it constantly and obsessively and rigorously for several months like a lost crack rock.

So, yeah, it’s better than the Postal Service album.

Can you match up the correct reaction with the picture above? (left to right)

A. “Guess what? I have killed your families.”
B. “$29.99 for the lobster?”
C. “You should see the bruises she gave me!”
D. “Try to figure out what I had for lunch…”
E. “Triplets?!?”
F. “…I like bread and butter… I like toast and jam…”

Answers: 1.B.2.E.3.C.4.A.5.F.6.D.

Yasser Arafat is dead: Palestinian sources

Cashing in with high death pool valuation, Yasser Arafat has called it quits on living. As of a month ago, Arafat was in the lowest 10% of most worldwide death pools, but once he became a vegetable, everyone jumped on the bandwagon.

Colin Farrell is rumored to be first in line to succeed the Palestinian leader.

Update: Who freaking knows…?

Dolphins’ Wannstedt Resigns

The celebratory parade will be held at 1 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon. Speeches given by the mayor, Shaquille O’Neal, and many Miami Dolphins stars. The party is expected to last through the weekend.

‘Ovary-arm’ transplant a success

Some idiotic Dutch scientists actually transplanted a freaking ovary into some woman’s arm. I can’t think of many worse places to be a fetus than in my mother’s arm - I’d rather be transplanted into a chicken egg. Now that would be sweet.