ABC's "Beauty Stab" is so good! The album is from '83, not '88, like this says. In other early 80's music newsflashes, GusGus are going to record a cover of Human League's "Things That Dreams Are Made Of." If it is anything like their cover of Depeche Mode's "Monument," well, it's going to be fucking amazing.

(I'm too lazy to link to anything else right now. Sorry.)

Right now I'm reading "Underground," by Haruki Murakami. He interviews victims and victims' relatives of the March 1995 sarin gas attack in the Tokyo subway by the religious cult Aum Shinrikyo. I find it interesting that many of the people who where affected by the gas shrugged off their symptoms as "coming down with a cold." I find this interesting because there have been times when I've started to feel sick on the subway, and I am just in total denial of it. I just will myself to my stop. And that is what some of these people did too, which means they were exposed to the sarin longer. I guess this is a lesson that when you start to feel sick on the subway, get off. One of the cardinal rules of subway travel is reinforced in this book. One man was waiting for his train and noticed an empty car when the train pulled up. He saw this as a stroke of luck and hopped right in. Of course, it was empty because one of the sarin packets was in there leaking and stinking up the car, so everyone had got out. As there is never, ever, an empty subway car during rush hour, if you ever do see one it means someting is wrong, so don't get on it. Of course the only chance I get to read this book is on the subway during rush hour, so it's a little unnerving.