Annie Clark, the phenomenal guitar/multi-instrumentalist who named her debut record after an Arrested Development catchphrase, is better known as St. Vincent.

She is also known as the woman I’ll be seeing perform on Wednesday while surrounded by countless other lonely, pining slobs.

Here she is on a bed in France:

Okay, seriously? Just look at that picture for a second. Then listen to her. And then remember that she’s also in Dirty Projectors. What’s next? You’ll tell me she loves peanut butter, Arrested Development, Sam Cooke, and wants to play “That’s What You Get” on Rock Band (she’ll sing)?

The world can be so cruel to me.

Deradoorian‘s Mind Draft is out on 05/05 on Lovepump United. The song above is called, “You Carry the Deed.”

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That’s The Smashing Pumpkins (in quotes) and Billy Corgan’s “good friend,” Josh f’ing Groban, performing “Disarm” at the Bridge School Benefit. I was there, witnessing first hand the horrified reaction of thousands of Gen-X’ers as Groban waltzed out in a freshly ironed flannel and belted out what now sounded like a tune in a shitty musical about being really sad. For some reason, the only thing I could think about was how Layne Staley would have probably stabbed Groban in the neck before letting him sing “I Stay Away” on stage with him. What a nightmare.

I was also made to sit through an entire set by Groban and another by Jack Johnson, the boringest member of the Frat Rock Holy Triumvirate. One unexpected discovery was made at this concert, however: Norah Jones is the woman of my dreams. Cute as all get out and better at performing Wilco songs than Wilco themselves (true story… they, too, were pretty awful). Have a gander:

Oh, and I know this: you can add me to the pathetic list of the hopelessly devoted.

To be fair to us, Lykke Li’s first LP, Youth Novels, makes for a devastating pairing for the young lady’s charisma and her totally adorable as-if-no-one-else-is-looking style of dance. The record is a beautifully sparse, entirely infectious, and utterly endearing affair. And in it, she says that she would do anything to have me as her man.

Sold.