Antipop Consortium >> Haha you fell off

Antipop Consortium - "Your World Is Flat"
(75 Ark Records, 1999)

I got this CD in early '02 and immediately decided that Antipop would revolutionize and take over the hip hop scene... That of course never happened, since they soon signed to Warp Records and detoured into techno, but I think this song should go down as a classic.  It has a jazzy feel with staccato, Meters-esque drumming, congested Q-Tip-ish vocals and some nonchalantly clever lyrics, including a reference to Soundgarden's biggest hit.  This album was released on Dan The Automator's label, 75 Ark Records, which closed shop in 2001.  The idea of people falling will never not be amusing to me, especially when the thing off of which they are falling is the edge of the earth.  I was like, "You'd think they would at least put some railing around that."

Press photo; year unknown

So my garbage collectors took my mini trash can today, which had some pieces of broken wood in it.  No, not the big main can, but rather this smaller one that I sometimes use for random debris.  This thing cost about $10-12.  I'm cool to these dudes, always giving them free bottles of Gatorade a few times each summer, and pizza gift cards last winter.  All hoppers (the guys who ride on the backs of the trucks) are taught to never take anything remotely resembling a trash can, and in fact there are countless hilarious anecdotes about people trying desperately to figure out the best way to throw away an old trash can.  Even spray-painting "Throw me away" on a trash can will generally still not get it taken; the best way is to physically destroy or dismantle it in some way in order to get the hoppers' antennae to start tingling.  So Fortuna's wheel must've really been spinning my way today.  Also, the only noteworthy movie on cable tonight was Twins, so it was not the greatest day ever.  I think tomorrow I will go raid the Borders bookstore in Metairie on its last-ever day of business and hopefully snatch that Rainer Maria Rilke book, some David Lynch DVDs, and Repulsion by Polanski.  (Note to book/music/video stores trying not to go out of business: Trying to sell Criterion Collection DVDs for $50, and tiny poetry pamphlets for $15, is probably not the smartest way to move merchandise during an economic depression.  [And the recent mind-boggling addition of Chasing Amy to the Criterion Collection negates its existence.])

Planets with similar climates: A Tribe Called Quest - "Bonita Applebum" (1990), Das Racist - "Hahahaha JK?" (2010), Basehead - "2000 B.C." (1991), Special Ed - "Think About It" (1989), Del Tha Funkee Homosapien - "No Need For Alarm" (1993).