Pigeons and Planes just gave me an extremely, extremely trill joint from indie rock / pop / folklore band Vampire Weekend. The Columbia University grads sound like Paul Simon in 2010, and I’m all about that. This new joint is called “Horchata”, and it’s the first single from their upcoming album, Contra. I hope they named it after the video game, but I highly doubt it.

I’m sitting here jamming while trying to figure out what the meaning of the song is. Those xylophones are something special though! I’m about to get some horchata in December and just sip it. Sounds great.

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DOWNLOAD: Vampire Weekend – Horchata

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yerp. senator mccain’s daughter wrote a children’s book, targeted at 5 to 10 year olds, about her dad’s life, or something like that. larry king grills her on his show. check it out.

three things:

1. is this book stuff a good idea?
2. should mccain have let her daughter on larry king live ?
3. does she know a damn thing about politics? and did she handle herself well in the interview?

and of course, anything else you’d like to add. talk to me.