February 18, 2004
A Brief But Sincere Moment of Appreciation.
I wanted to take a moment to appreciate my goodest pal Jessica Hopper, who is a fount of creativity, wit, and motivation that should be an inspiration to every human being on the planet for how one should live one's life.
Her blog tinyluckygenius aka the Unicorn's tear is up there with Drudge Report and Unisys Weather on my list of daily must-read websites, and has the honor of Best-Named Blog EVER EVER EVER not only because it's hilariously evocative, but every time I think of the name, I hear Jessica's voice say it aloud in my mind and it just makes me smile.
Jessica is one of the rarest of people, who not only have amazingly great ideas of the sort that most people chalk up to "great idea, will never happen" status; but she ACTUALLY GETS IT DONE. Case in point: When Jessica said "Hey I want to make an album of covers of love songs for Valentine's Day and get all my friends in on the action and have it done close enough to Valentine's Day to actually be relevant," I sort of chuckled to myself and said "Sure, Jessica, that sounds like a great idea!" while not really believing it since I'm a cynical bastard with no spare time to devote to such projects, nor the guts to make time. So of course it was much to my surprise that other less-cynical people, with much less free time than I, started buying plane tickets to Chicago to join in the fun, and after what I can only assume was much hard work and late night re-re-re-takes, managed to come up with the CD of amazingly amazing music which I found sitting on my coffee table last night.
As soon as the first faux-but-not-too-faux soul diva melismas of Mary J. Blige's "It's Never Been" ceded into a raucous laugh-infused breakdown, I knew this was a work of genius and stupendous achievement. Tim Kinsella's deadpan delivery of Latimore's "Let's Straighten It Out" underscores how the whole affair walks a tightrope of balls-out killer mix-tape fodder without falling into either pit of self-indulgence or cross-eyed irony.
Anyway, I just wanted to express my appreciation to J-Ho and the entire crew of folks who worked on Muy Romantico. I'm sorry I could only lend gear to the project and not more of my time.
Posted by Josh at February 18, 2004 05:36 PM