First, musicians of note:

• Streetlight Manifesto - Because ska will never die, just get angrier. Here's an example.
   

• La Roux - Synth pop wonder-duo, everything that made the 80s great with the production values that make the 00s great. Look for the violent 'Tigerlily', the anthem of stalkers everywhere, and the dreamy 'As If By Magic', where only mind alteration can allow escape from unrequited love
   

• Regina Spektor - Eccentric ex-Soviet musician who does unusually paced and eerie tracks as part of an anti-folk movement. Gotta love one of her songs doing the rounds on Triple J at the moment, entitled 'Machine' for its odd references to the artist made into machine, and 'Blue Lips' for some of the most evocative imagery I've ever heard in a song
   

• Lily Allen - Not that anyone needs to be made aware of her existence, but Lily's mix of accessible pop and subversive lyrics, like "Everybody's at It" as an ode to drug culture, and "22" as the grim reminder of age and society's view of women affected by it, makes her surprisingly cerebral

Secondly, this comic series, and in particular this edition:

Kids Say The Most Existentially Horrifying Things



Thirdly, ignorance. I've heard it's bliss, I'd like me some of that. Can anyone hook me up?

Read it and weep!

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