And thus it was said. A woman named Aquaplane came home to find in her mailbox a mix-CD from someone who telepathically knew she was curious (but not $19 each curious) about The Januaries and (of course) The Strokes. Her heart leapt. Just previous to this she had stopped at her local library, where she guiltily betrayed The Corrections by obtaining the latest novel by her beloved Julian Barnes and the novel that inspired, in part, The Corrections, Paula Fox's Desperate Characters (a beautiful slim Norton paperback whose lovely pages she can't stop smelling.)