WRT KZK and Jihen: despite the large amounts of suck over the past year and a half, the non-Shiina portion of Jihen had boatloads of great ideas (however half-formed many of them were) on Variety, the Variety b-sides, and the new songs on HF.
I've said it before, but again: I'd love to see TJ lock themselves in a house together for 6 months, bounce every crazy-ass idea each of them ever had off of the others, and get totally anal-compulsive about perfection to the point of hating each other for the next 20 years. They really could make a monster of an album -- something beyond even KZK, something truly new, like Music from Big Pink, or Pet Sounds, or that first David Grisman Quintet Album -- if they were deadly serious about it.
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