Is going to be one of those things that will stay with me for a long time.

Head First – Goldfrapp
Bonfires (Live) – Rickie Lee Jones
All the Boogies in the World – White Rainbow
Southbound Train – Travis Tritt
I’ll Be That Girl – Barenaked Ladies
Salty Dog – Flogging Molly
Gettysburg – Ratatat
Bleed – Animal Collective
Nothing’s Wrong – Architecture in Helsinki
Set My Baby Free – Ian Brown

These are the music videos I stared at in a stupor the other night, while outside Moscow, in a dacha in a still-snowy forest, surrounded by opera soloists:

(I love Timbaland. My love knows no bounds. And the soloists agree.)

(I always associate Gorillaz with Moscow, incidentally. Probably because I first really got to know them in Moscow.)