Despite its flaws, the internet has one really big thing going for it: free-association. I've proclaimed countless times that I like to fire up Wikipedia and hop from one entry to another, pretending like my feeble little mind could retain all of that awesome information.

Another highly free-associative medium is hip-hop, particularly the kind I listen to, and I feel lucky that I can discover whole great new bands and albums just because one guy whose name I know goes off to work with someone else. It's how you can go from listening to NWA and Ice Cube to Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Kool Keith, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Deltron 3030, and the Gorillaz. And even if you're not a hip-hop fan, you should be able to recognize that the differences between NWA and the Gorillaz are many.

Anyway, I recently decided to give the Gorillaz second full album a shot, because even though my reasons for listening to the first one (Del Tha Funkee Homosapien and Dan the Automator) aren't involved with the project anymore, there are still some good (or maybe just interesting) people on board, like De La Soul and Dennis Hopper.

As I was reading about Gorillaz' Demon Days, I discovered that it was produced by DJ Danger Mouse who famously mixed up Jay-Z's "The Black Album and The Beatle's "The White Album" to make (you guessed it) the "Grey Album". After borrowing it from a friend, I can say it's highly recommendable, particularly if you're a fan of Jay-Z. So I went on to read about DJ Danger Mouse who is doing a project with my buddy MF Doom (called Dangerdoom), which is something else to look forward to.

And so forth. It seems like a lot of entertaniment mediums these days get their rocks off by cross-pollenating, and I'm all for it. I have a dream, that one day, we'll have no genres of anything, and Leonard Cohen and Dr. Octagon will be able to romp through fields holding hands, because in my head (and my iTunes) they already do.