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Monday, June 13, 2005

There's a track on hitomi's Traveller CD called "SPEED☆STAR", whose opening I swore was identical to the Smashing Pumpkins' "Tonight, Tonight." Except when I put them back-to-back (or as close as the CD changer allows), they didn't quite sound exactly the same. This isn't the first time I've done this: I derided Pearl Jam for making more money with a riff lifted from Living Colour; similarly remember being outraged when "Egypt, Egypt" got airplay over any Kraftwerk—history bore me out on that one, though; and for the decade I searched for the soundtrack to Barbarella, I heard the theme in a dialogue-free mountain-climbing short film that's come my way more than once and again in Pizzicato Five's クレオパトラ2001. Don't even ask me about people I think look alike. If it's creativity to see relationships where they don't exist, or at least where others can't, then what is it when you're wrong most of the time?

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