a few notes:

again, i never watched 24 before this season, but i sure find this stuff riveting. i especially like the dramatic fadeouts at the end of the show. my favorite character is the turkish mother (arzi? araz?). she's incredibly sinister-looking, and yet she's also vaguely catherine zeta-jones-ish. (as an aside, i believe zeta-jones is with michael douglas. are their kids' last names zeta-jones-douglas?...ahh, a problem we never foresaw happening, bujt it's about here.)

there was a fairly poor skit on letterman tonight, 'rupert g learns karate.' it involved breaking boards and rupert asking for a black belt and things of that nature...not nearly as strong as your average biff henderson cut.

anyway, the highlight of the skit was the soundtrack, which featured three downright hip songs: the von bondies' 'c'mon, c'mon,' the walkmen's 'the rat,' and 'debaser' by the pixies.

i guess, next to the music coordinator for the oc, the coolest music person in the world works for late night.

related to music, the newest season of vh1's i love the 90's features the 'college rock hit' of 199X, presented by lit. 1991's was sonic youth's 'dirty boots.' i'm hopeful that 'i am a scientist' will score the precious 1994 selection, but i've got to imagine that will be 'cut your hair.'

quick predictions for the years that i can think of a song for:

1993 - liz phair - 'never said'
1994 - pavement - 'cut your hair'
1996 - jon spencer blues explosion - 'wail'
1997 - superchunk - 'marquee'
1999 - magnetic fields - 'i think i need a new heart'

of course, only the first two are solid candidates. (and no, this was not completely off the top of the head...i looked at allmusicguide for hints on 1996 and 1997.

how bout them bulls?