The Recursive Muffin

Contest time!  In The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote…

So then I chose another profession, and learned to pilot airplanes. I have flown a little over all parts of the world; and it is true that geography has been very useful to me. At a glance I can distinguish China from Arizona. If one gets lost in the night, such knowledge is valuable.

…and I always thought, really?  So, OK.  Some of these images are from Arizona, some are from China.  First person to tell me which are which gets a copy of my sister’s new album Young Man in America.

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Discussing crazy riders this morning with my sister and the band.  Noah mentioned this legendary clause in Van Halen’s rider that there be no brown M&Ms. The Smoking Gun actually dug up the original, which was 53 pages long.

Supposedly, the brown M&M issue was a test to see if people actually read the rider.  Other bands have gotten much crazier: Madonna needs new toilet seats, Prince needs everything wrapped in plastic, Iggy Pop wanted seven dwarves and a Bob Hope impersonator, etc.

A (partial) breakdown of the songs I listened to on my laptop in the early summer of 2011.  I am a pretty obsessive song-listener: Frankie once threatened to beat me to death with a hammer unless I stopped playing I Left My Wallet in El Segundo on repeat.  As you can see, the songs I am obsessed with are towards the upper left; where I am obsessed with artists or albums, they re towards the upper right.  Both axes are logarithmic.

The cousins in 1985.