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I'd like to draw your attention to the new garageband.com page for piano-playing singer-songwriter Anne Heaton, who is funkier than the piano-playing singer-songwriter you're imagining. "Megan and Kevin" is irresistibly cute, or, if you're more cute-resistant than I am, try "Take Your Desire".

In other music news, I've discovered that my iPod contains, all in an alphabetical row:

• "Poor Little Fish" by the Jayhawks, from Sound of Lies
  
• "Poor Napoleon" by Elvis Costello, accompanied live by Bill Frisell
  
• "Poor, Poor L.A." from Tim Easton's latest record

This makes me happy. So does this lyric, from the Tim Easton song:

A pack of dull monkeys could write circles around that fourth-grade, mumbly-slang, stream-of-consciousness jive that you call a song--is that gonna be your story?