Diamonds deep in the earth.
Jack Nicholson has a really good line about Stanley Kubrick in A Life in Pictures--the bonus documentary that comes with the Kubrick DVD box set (which also includes everything from Lolita through Eyes Wide Shut)--which I think goes something like, "Everyone pretty much acknowledges that he's the man...and I still feel that underrates him." That doesn't quite read on paper the way it sounds coming from Nicholson--with a little bit of cool swagger shifting to true reverence and humble certainty in the span of a few moments. But that's roughly the feeling I have about Kaki King and her record from last year, ...Until We Felt Red. The highest praise I could bestow upon Red would only be the tip of a very mammoth, very involved iceberg, which is probably the highest praise I can think of in itself. The best records tend to leave you pretty speechless and with a million things to say, I suppose.

Kaki King - "...Until We Felt Red" (from ...Until We Felt Red)
Kaki King - "Soft Shoulder" (from ...Until We Felt Red)
Kaki King - "Night After Sidewalk" (from Everybody Loves You)

Song of the day is a toss-up between "I'm Set Free" and "One of These Days"--the former from the "closet mix" of The Velvet Underground's third record, the latter a track from VU, but in this case both courtesy of the Peel Slowly and See set (you can get this for $25, GET ON THAT SHIT). Videos of the day are "20 minutes of The Nation of Ulysses in South Dakota" and Das Oath's "Awesome Rape". Magazine cover of the day is from the February 2007 issue of Outdoor Life (you have to lean in really close to see it).