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This video is phenomenal. M.I.A is badass. Apparently so is this Romain Gavras guy. As if gingers didn't have enough to worry about already...

M.I.A, Born Free from ROMAIN-GAVRAS on Vimeo.

High Violet doesn't come out until May 11. Whether you caught the album when you could stream it from the NYT website or not, here's a taste of three tracks played live:

And, in case you're curious about their creative process:

My mind's still a little blown that Matt Berninger can't read music or play an instrument, something mentioned in that NYT article and in the clip above.

Anyone else's breath taken away by LOST last night? It's like I was all of the sudden thrown in my face that this show is well on its way to its end. Sayid's death felt so unceremonious, if necessary. I hadn't even decided yet whether I thought his goodness would prevail over the darkness that's been inside him ever since he was "saved" earlier in the season. Jin and Sun's demise, while it was given enough time to appropriately devastate me, felt so peripheral. Is Fake Locke now simply putting our heroes in situations where it is likely someone will perish in order for him to further distinguish pretenders from his new adversary? Or did he think the bomb in the sub would kill them all? And did the bomb only detonate because Widmore actually set the bomb up? Did Widmore set the bomb up?

You can download a new My Morning Jacket tune, "Friends Again", here. My visceral reaction: It's okay, but I wish they'd go back to the unbridled southern rock energy that preceded Evil Urges.

Also, I must say, I don't understand why all these musicians are dressing up in suits and ties lately. I actually have to dress for work, and almost find it insulting that someone would choose to dress that way without being forced. Irony perhaps? That's too much. I'm not really sure what sort of ensemble I'd be rocking if I were a musician, I definitely wouldn't be wearing a suit, vest, and tie that's for good goddamn sure.

I'm gonna go ahead and keep silent on wars, floods, earthquakes, volcanoes, racial profiling, tea parties, oil slicks, and recessions for the time being. I could barely cope today in the wake of Sun and Jin's demise, I'm definitely too fragile to talk about things that are actually real.