Our interview with Nietzsche was a smashing success. After a rocky start (he lied about his age, bemoaned the state of music, threw in a plug for Richard Georg Strauss (but not Wagner), and don’t even get him started about modern culture), he recommended these decadents, collectively named Darlings’ Cabinet of Sundry Horror. AKA my iPod’s new favorite thing.

So today we ask Sir Isaac Newton for an introduction; that guys knows everybody. Pythagoras of Samos was free. We got together over vegan sushi and red grape juice. He didn’t really want to talk about pi or e^***, but he certainly opened up about music:

– Tinyfolk. Says last.fm: “Tinyfolk is Russ Woods (and sometimes Meghan Lamb) from Bloomington, Indiana. Tinyfolk began in 2005 an awkward, flightless phoenix that unmajestically emerged from the ashes of Russ’s Newburgh, Indiana-based lo-fi project A Pilgrimage to Save This Human Race and gradually learned to do things like tie its own shoes and use Apple’s Garageband.” A brand X blog has also declared their extraordinary rendition of “I Don’t Believe You” by Magnetic Fields: “A cross between John Darnielle and David Cross put through a filter of Nintendo sounds. It’s almost mesmerizing in it’s awfulness. Also, it’s funny.” Go to their last.fm page and download damn near everything for free.

– I am Spoonbender. Formed in 1993, the band name predates that whacky scene in 1999′s way-overrated The Matrix. Instead it refers to the phenomenon in general — and likely to the trickery behind it — and not to the metaphysical tomfoolery suggested in a turn o’ the century pose-fest.

– Last one, because I’ve been kissing frogs for three days for this post: Prague. Lo-fi. Nice lo-fi production, too. Not really my thing.

I will say that — after one round of competition — Fritz remains your best bet for music recommendations. Pythagorus — old fuddy duddy that he is — just wasn’t up for the challenge.

^***Yeah, I get it. When I typed out that laugh line I was confusing the Pythagorean Theorem with the Quadratic Equation. Get it? Pi and e can’t be expressed in algebraic terms, not even the algebraic terms, i.e. the Quadratic Equation? Great joke, methinks. But it suffered an egregious casting error.