Encounter #108: Reach back a little bit.

He looks great here, sounds like a real person, and smart. Listen to his new album. As Carlton said, there's not a great sad song (even "Sometimes" feels good), but the flip side of that is the album just vibes hard until the end. It loves life. I love it. So I'm'a shill it a bit. --RWK

Encounter #30: Lady, live on the Chris Rock Show

C'mon... how much sexier can it get? Suit and corn rows? Skinny guitar-playing dude with a bow tie? Sheesh. When I wasn't listening to silly Bay Area hip hop in high school I was listening to shit like this. This, and, you know, Pavement. I was fucking diverse, if anything but sexy, in 1997. I had half the equation these guys embodied/embody. --RWK