Jon Brion is that guy who makes all those great film scores: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Punch Drunk Love, I Heart Huckabees. He's an impressive artist live: just like how on this album he plays all the instruments himself, he does the same live (a trick that is becoming fairly widespread among solo artists who don't want to use a band live), using samplers and scrambling around on stage arranging drum and guitar loops until he can push and twist the song into shape in front of you. He's quite the showman and I haven't seen him in years, unfortunately, though he plays at Largo every Friday. I've never been.

This is the "my girlfriend broke up with me nine months ago but I am still not over her, damnit" song. I don't even really have much else to say about it, except to say that I have listened to it and thought of several different women over the years, but these days, these less single days, I don't think of anyone at all when I hear it, which is nice.

Unfortunately, again, Amazon MP3 does not offer Jon Brion's Meaningless for download or even purchase. This is his fault for being so indie that he released his album all on his own years ago, but you can buy it at CDBaby. Here's hoping Brion stumbles on this post and goes, "Oh! I am so daft! I should put up MP3s of my awesome album on Amazon MP3! And right quick!"