Minor Revelations

1. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Michael K from DListed is a genius.

Anyone who can make fun Catherine Zeta-Jones, plastic surgery, and The Joy Luck Club in one fell swoop deserves a Nobel prize of some sort.

2. The Necessity of a Thao Nguyen/Feist duet

I made a lovely mix to play in the car and realized that the only thing that could be better than back-to-back Thao/Feist songs is a song featuring both Thao and Feist. Feist is a Canadian Thao and Thao a Vietnamese American Feist. They've both got smoky voices, catchy-ass songs, play with white dudes, and are adorable. Okay, so Thao is cuter. She can't help it, she's Asian. So what's it gonna be, ladies? May I suggest a mash-up of Ms. Nguyen's "When We Swam" and Ms. Feist's "1234"?

3. The Resurgence of "Whoomp! (There It is)" True story: When I was in the sixth grade, everyone in class had to bring in their favorite song or a song that was important to them and give a speech explaining said significance. I remember bringing playing that song "Numb" by U2 because I had just received the cassette tape for my birthday. Another girl brought in Michael Jackson's "Heal the World." And then there was TJ, a white kid who had broken my pencil box while we were roughhousing and never replaced it like he said he would, regaled us with his favorite song: Tag Team's "Whoomp! (There It Is)." He said Tag Team was one of his favorite groups and even then I probably thought to myself, "They got more than one song?"

But Tag Team is having a resurgence, 17 years later. Because as you may have heard, there are rumors of a Barack Obama cameo in the "Whoomp!" video. And perhaps that wasn't David "Bud Bundy" Faustino in the video, but rather a young Rahm Emanuel before he lost the finger. Of course, my favorite version of "Whoomp!" redux as of late belongs to the folks at Parks and Recreation, which had a stellar season in my opinion. Leslie befriends a gentleman who was ran for mayor as a teenager, using "Whoomp!" at his swearing-in ceremony:

We just need Andy Dwyer (the amazing Chris Pratt) and his band MouseRat to do a cover and I'm set.