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It's moving weekend, for the first time in over 6 years. Exciting! Slightly terrifying! I'm not really equipped to go into the emotional details of that process right now, if only because the logistical ones are enough of a mindful. Times like this—trying to make yourself as mobile as possible and gauging the true weight of your possessions—it's best to surround yourself with music that feels like home. Even in German, this is one I can wrap myself in as I alter my center of gravity.

Kraftwerk - Computer Liebe

Yesterday's tomorrow according to Atari

Life is full of absurdity. War, congressional debate, Neil Young's Trans album. That's right, the one where he appropriates Kraftwerk. Uhh, whaaa? The story I heard is that he got a vocoder so that he could better communicate with his son who was born with cerebral palsy. It's a tender account, and it makes me think the album is more than a middle-finger-to-the-record-label act of career suicide. Who knows? Maybe it was that too. Maybe Neil wanted to get as far from himself as he could. Or maybe he got really into playing Atari. None of those layers apply to the album art, which packs in just about every lame signifier of "The Future" as any single image from the early '80s.

Meanwhile, I've got a birthday coming up, and you know, a vocoder wouldn't be the worst thing to find under a bow and wrapping paper. Just sayin.'

Neil Young - Computer Age