My friend Lisa Brenner pointed me to this Pitchfork review of Jet's "Shine On" album. The reviewer, Ray Susiki, avoids the writtnen word and simply provides a link to a YouTube video of a monkey drinking his own urine.
http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/38853/Jet_Shine_On
At risk of taking this too seriously -- it is a video of a monkey drinking (his own) pee, after all -- I think it speaks to an important point; our ability to make meaning by drawing connections between bits of available information, becomes crucial as our capacity to generate & store information increases. By the way, I've decided, not to buy the record.
Douglas Hofstadter's ideas on analogy and cognition provide more insight:
http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/hofstadter/analogy.html
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