Elvis Costello will forever have a lifetime pass into my teeny tiny exclusive VIP section of absolute favorite musicians, regardless of his modern-day hits and misses, alongside Stuart Murdoch and Robert Pollard and the respective hot chicks who occupy said imaginary VIP club.
Which is why, when Costello announced his new album was entitled “Momofuku,” I immediately hopped onto the handy internet searching engine Google Dot Com to get to figure out what, if anything, this surely inspirational bit of unparalleled, witty sardonicism meant. According to Rolling Stone:
Did Costello, who currently lives in New York, name his new release after the hottest restaurants in the city: chef David Chang’s Momofuku Noodle Bar, Momofuku Ssam Bar, and the new, impossible-to-get-into Momofuku Ko?
“We’ve heard he’s a fan of the restaurant, but I doubt he’d name his album after us,” says [Noodle Bar Owner David] Chang. “That would be too weird. It blows my mind. There’s just no way! He’s Elvis Costello, for Christ’s sake!”
True, it would appear out of left field for Costello to name his new album after a series of Ramen bars (based on the name Momofuku Ando, creator of Ramen), but to what else could this awfully specific word refer?
What’s the fastest way to turn an aging, mentally unstable mother of two pop star back into the hot young thing she was at 16? Why, animate her latest music video of course! And so, they did with Britney Spears‘ latest single off of her addictive Blackout album, “Break the Ice”. The video brings to mind the genius animation that defined early 1990′s “Liquid Television”, 
