>> Do you heart Conor Oberst? Me too. Causecast’s got a documentary about Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band called One of My Kind, into which former KCRW dude Nick Harcourt’s work and Barack’s winning the election get incorporated. Watch it free.

>> Did you know Trent Reznor quit drugs and alcohol years ago? Somehow I missed this bit of news. According to The New Yorker, “In 2001, he got sober and started working out. He is now a thickly muscled man with cropped hair who favors tight black T-shirts and tighter jeans.”

>> Do your friends share their thoughts with you — or are they advertising to you, stealth-style? A story by Hari Kunzru called “Raj, Bohemian“:

Every time I met a friend, he or she would immediately make a recommendation, urge me to try something new…. At first, I shrugged it off. But … All my friends seemed to be dropping snippets of advertising copy into their conversation, short messages from their sponsors. They were constantly stating preferences for particular brands, dishing out free samples.

Perhaps nothing had changed. We’d always shared new music with one another or recommended places to eat. But now there was something different. A tone? It was hard to say.

Beware the good-looking Angeleno who insists you try a specific new brand of vodka –

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