Sweep the leg, Johnny! It’s 2005, and I’m feelin\' happier than Ding-Dong Donnie Rumsfield at an all-you-can-eat lie buffet! Today was a pretty special day for me: they swore me in (No swearing!) to play president again. Yee-haw! So, rather than wow you with some genius insight (like I usually do), I thought I’d just give you a recap of my swear-in hootenanny:
Judge Rehnquist: Are you ready, kid?
Me: Aye-aye, Captain.
Judge Rehnquist: I can\'t hear you!
Me: (louder) Aye-aye, Captain!
Judge Rehnquist: Ohhh... who lives in a pineapple under the sea?

\"The word \'arcana\' is derived from the Latin word \'arcanum\', meaning mysterious and magical. We came up with it to represent the magic that is found within our studio.\"
–Sean O\'Reilly, Arcana Studio

Anyone even remotely interested in rock music knows the grand leads of Neal Schon. Whether with Journey, Santana, or one of his many interesting side projects, Schon’s guitar sound has become part of collective consciousness. The solos from his many hits are not just mindless noodling; they are mini-compositions in their own right.

The Walking Dead is another gem from the seemingly unstoppable Robert Kirkman, which has quickly escalated on my list to my absolute favorite read. Why? Zombies, zombies, zombies!
I love fucking zombies. Wait, that doesn’t sound right....
Anyway, these undead creatures have been my passion for the last few years, and before this book came out I didn’t think I would ever find a comic book that would accurately capture the drama/horror of a zombie invasion. With The Walking Dead, though, we have a winner.

Ooo, goddamn! I\'ve got to admit to you that I don\'t know if I\'m even supposed to review this or not, but it\'s so damn good that I\'ve got to!
Last month I told you about the magic that is aeon grey and Angle, who are a couple of MCs from Iowa (which I\'m convinced is the new motherland of hip-hop).

I don\'t like cops. If you knew me personally, this wouldn\'t come as a surprise to you. And before you get on my sack about \"My dad is a cop and blah blah blah...\" just chill the fuck out. Just like the suburban white woman that tries to make up for separating herself from minorities by having a \"black friend\", I have a friend that is a cop. He is a police officer in the San Francisco area, and he even voted for Bush! (Gasp!) But he\'s still one of the kindest and nicest people I\'ve ever met, and I love him dearly.

I Am Charlotte Simmons, the latest novel by Tom Wolfe, is the first I have read by this well-known and respected author. It may well be my last.
I really wanted to like this book, but I felt like I was swimming upstream against a current of words. I was exhausted by the redundancies and overly inflated descriptions. I decided that I would give this tome (676 pages, thank you very much) until page 200 before giving up on it completely, but around page 175, I was interested enough that I decided I would finish it.

What you might know by now: I love Mike Doughty.
What you might not know by now: He recently released a collected two-disc package of his solo albums: Skittish and Rockity Roll.

The great thing about Freak Films is that I only review the movies I love. The bad thing is trying to put into words why I love them. This month’s Freak Film is Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, and I’ve wanted to write this review since I saw it in the theatre.