WOW. What a serious week we've had on this listserve. Lets take it down a notch with a little joke....

A scientist gets on a train to go to New York. His cabin also has a poor farmer in it. To pass the time the scientist decides to play a game with the guy.

"I will ask you a question and if you get it wrong, you have to pay me one dollar. Then you ask me a question, and if I get it wrong, you get ten dollars. You ask me a question first." The farmer thinks for a while.

"I know. What has three legs, takes ten hours to climb up a palm tree, and ten seconds to get back down?" The scientist is confused and thinks long and hard about the question. Finally, the train ride is coming to an end. As it pulls into the station, the scientist takes out ten dollars and gives it to the farmer.

"I don''t know. What has three legs, takes ten hours to get up a palm tree and ten seconds to get back down?"

The farmer takes the ten dollars and puts it into his pocket. He then takes out one dollar and hands it to the scientist.

"I don''t know."

Heres those CHARTS we talked about...

1. Hot Chip - Made In The Dark (DFA/Astralwerks)
2. Dengue Fever - Venus On Earth (M80)
3. Wild Magnolias - They Call Us Wild (Sunnyside)
4. Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead (Sub Pop)
5. Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals (We Are Free)
6. Jonny Greenwood - There Will Be Blood (Nonesuch)
7. Mahjongg - Kontpab (K)
8. Photos - S/T (Cherry Red)
9. Prefuse 73 - Preparations (Warp)
10. Carbon / Silicon - The Last Post (S/R)
11. Soundtrack - JUNO (Rhino)
12. Gorillaz - D-Sides (Virgin)
13. Magnetic Fields - Distortion (Nonesuch)
14. Too $hort - Get Off the Stage (Jive)
15. British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music? (Rough Trade)
16. Ruckus Roboticus - Playing With Scratches (Grease)
17. Various ArtistsACHTUNG! GERMAN GROOVES (Bureau B)
18. Billie Holiday - Rare Live Recordings 1934-1959 (ESP Disk)
19. Tyrone Ashley’s Funky Music Machine - Let Me Be Your Man (Truth & Soul)
20. Einsturzende Neubauten - Alles Wieder Offen (Ryko)
21. Lee Moses - Time and Place (Sanctuary)
22. Lee “Scratch” Perry - The End of an American Dream (Megawave)
23. Lupe Fiasco - The Cool (Atlantic)
24. Better Beatles - Mercy Beat (Hook or Crook)
25. Jesca Hoop - Kismet (Columbia)
26. Scarface - Made (Rap-A-Lot)
27. James Luther Dickinson - Killers From Space (Merless)
28. Hey Willpower - P.D.A. (Tomlab)
29. Leland - The Golden West (Rubia)
30. Trio Mediaeval - Folk songs (ECM)
31. Heliocentrics - Dance of the Dragons / Noise (Now-Againa)
32. Why? - The Hollows (Anticon)
33. Various Artists - THE BRIT BOX: UK INDIE, SHOEGAZE, AND BRIT-POP GEMS OF THE LAST MILLENIUM (Rhino)
34. Camp Lo - Black Hollywood (Good Hands)
35. Fleshtones - Take a Good Look! (Yep Roc)

Take me back one week in time. Take me back to the KALX weekly top 35s.