I get songs stuck in my head all the time. Most of the time I don’t even know the words, and I just end up mumbling along, probably sounding somewhat like Helen Keller in the middle of a giant tsunami. I concede that this is, in some respects, bad. But a major advantage of never truly knowing the words to a song is that I can mumble my way through just about any song, regardless of language.

Dungen - "Panda":
Vie yun batyn looooooon
langyun botyn heemmmm
shaneeen mi et om meeee
fo ault et cheen mae siiiiiner

P-Model - "ArtMania":
Oomp a da ya gutcha
atakya baka toyya
yomo kama tooma

The Mars Volta - "L’Via L’Viaquez":
L’via! Y commin my en da!
Twa peyido si cambo!
L’via! Si noco mi ensqure dar!
Una histerea di sime madre!

Sorry, I got carried away there. What was I getting at? Oh, yeah, The Mars Volta are touring next month to support their upcoming release The Bedroom of Goliath, which they promise will be "a thematically linked hole into which no self-indulgence will escape."

The album is actually called The Bedlam in Goliath, they didn’t say that, and here are the dates:

12.31.07 - San Francisco, CA - Bill Graham Civic Auditorium 01.09.08 - Burlington, VT - Higher Ground 01.11.08 - New Haven, CT - Toad’s Place 01.12.08 - Providence, RI - Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel 01.14.08 - New York, NY - Terminal 5 01.17.08 - Philadelphia, PA - The Fillmore at the TLA 01.18.08 - Baltimore, MD - Rams Head Live 01.19.08 - Columbus, OH - Newport Music Hall 01.21.08 - Toronto, ON - Phoenix Concert Hall 01.23.08 - Detroit, MI - St. Andrews Hall 01.25.08 - Kansas City, MO - Beaumont Club 01.27.08 - Boulder, CO - Fox Theatre 02.17.08 - Hamburg, DE - Docks 02.19.08 - Oslo, NO - Sentrum 02.20.08 - Stockholm, SE - Cirkus 02.22.08 - Copenhagen, DK - Vega 02.24.08 - Berlin , DE - Huxleys 02.26.08 - Zurich, CH - Volkshaus 02.27.08 - Milan, IT - Alcatraz 02.29.08 - Madrid, ES - La Riviera 03.01.08 - Barcelona, ES - Razzamatazz 03.03.08 - Munich, DE - Elser Halle 03.05.08 - Paris, FR - Olympia 03.06.08 - Tilburg, NL - 013 Music Hall 03.08.08 - Cologne, DE - Live Music Hall 03.09.08 - Brussels, BE - Ancienne Belgique 03.11.08 - Glasgow, GB - Academy 03.13.08 - Manchester, GB - Apollo 03.14.08 - London, GB - Brixton Academy