Extreme foolishness led me to bet a dedicated Ryan Philippe fan that the villain in Antitrust was played by the venerable Craig T. Nelson. I don't know where i got this idea, but i was awfully convinced of it. In the process of learning of my defeat, i did at least learn these important things from our friends at IMDB:
The only question i can really get out of all this is: Does Goober know?
Disc One[1] of Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World makes for compelling, if disturbing, make-out music, even when the disc repeats thirty or forty times.
I've recently become fascinated with genre in music, and especially in bands that blend things from multiple genres. This applies to groups like Kinky (latin/rock/techno/DJ/norteño/funk), Gomez (britpop/rock/drum-n-bass), Ween (evidently any style that occurs to them at songwriting time), and to the Super Furry Animals.
RATW features a number of songs whose mood and melody make it surprisingly make-out friendly: The soft piano lines of "Alternate Route to Vulcan Street" and the vaguely 50s-style wailing and harmonies of "It's Not the End of the World" both set an intimate tone. "Run, Christian, Run"'s lazy, plunky guitar, and intertwined accordion and pedal steel(!) lines create an atmosphere echoed in the first lines of the song:
Rapture
Waiting to capture that moment
Postponement
Suspension of rational movement
But as with many of the other songs on the album, the slickly produced top layers hide something sinister and dark just underneath. The first verse of "RCR" suddenly switches to:
So bang on the hour of twelve
To the forest clearing we'll delve
With guns to our heads for we know
That heaven awaits us
Similarly, "Juxtapozed With U" has a seductive, lounge-y, motown-y feel. But when we get to the chorus, emphasized by the sudden removal of a voice filter which has Gruff Rhys sounding robotic during the verses, we find this:
You've got to tolerate
All those people that you hate
I'm not in love with you
But I won't hold that against you
This sort of seems like the ultimate anti-make-out song, but when your make-out partner doesn't know the words, it all works out.
Ironically, the song on the album most about love (or at least attraction), "Sidewalk Serfer Girl", is extremely disruptive with its crunchy guitar interjections. We skipped it the first time around.
[1] The US release includes a bonus disc which was evidently not included on the original European release, and which is just about as good as Disc One.