Not a wildly important reason to post, but...

I read something today that thoroughly summed up my thoughts on Girl Talk much better than I had summed them up myself. From the A/V Club's Popless feature:

"Consider Girl Talk's Feed The Animals, an energetic party record assembled by Gregg Gillis with his usual mash-up flair. I thoroughly enjoyed Girl Talk's Night Ripper, and on first pass through Feed The Animals, I thought Gillis had come up with another winner. Then, upon listening more closely, frustration set in. Gillis has a knack for combining hip-hop, alt-rock and kitsch-pop in such a way that it all meshes seamlessly, but though his albums are broken up into individual tracks, those tracks don't generally display much internal cohesion. They flow out of what comes before and into what comes next, as Gillis adds and drops samples with no clear pattern or purpose, beyond making listeners smile and say, 'Hey, I recognize that!'"

Also, apparently The Rosebuds put out another record this year. I should go listen to that. Night Of The Furies was pretty outstanding. How did this go so under my radar?