As I was thinking about leaving work to go home (I tend to work until I’ll too tired to do anything reliably well) I texted Candy if she needed anything from Target. She texted back that she wanted some reduced-fat graham crackers. Everything is so exciting in this – the best of all possible worlds.

I was going to stop at Target because today is when Lana Del Rey’s album dropped. I’ve been a fan for a while now and have written too much about her before. Still, I wanted the CD. I could have downloaded it from iTunes or Amazon, but… maybe I’m a bit of an old fart – but I still like to have something in my hands for my hard-earned money.

Plus, a little surfing at lunch told me that Target was selling the real, live, and solid Compact Disk for eight bucks – plus two bonus tracks. A pretty good deal. There were only two left when I got there.

So, do you want a review? How can you review music? Like always – Lana Del Rey is the kind of thing you will like if you like this kind of thing.

She is criticized for being fake – and she is. Her music is a lush laconic illusion. There isn’t much there, but there is a vision, however manufactured, and the vision is unique, entertaining and fun to listen to. In this age of the music “industry” what more can you expect? The title song starts with the words, “feet don’t fail me now.” I like that.

Christ, who knows what’s good and what isn’t in these days? I have a stack of albums that once meant a lot to me; I thought that the sounds from them were genius. I turned to these for solace during difficult times and now I can’t even listen to them anymore because they take me back to those times and I can feel the panic rising. I wish I was young and listening to Lana Del Rey – she is better if you don’t have to worry about anything. Shit, why waste time writing about something you don’t like? Life is way too short.

Here, I’ll list just a few of the WordPress blogs from the last few hours with a Lana Del Rey tag. Read ’em and make up your own mind, please, while I try to get some short story scenes pounded out, ride my exercise bike for a while, and listen to Born to Die on repeat.

Don’t listen to me, I couldn’t even find the reduced-fat graham crackers.

• Lana Del Rey – “Born To Die”: Album Review
• VOLUME UP/ DOWN: LANA DEL REY ‘BORN TO DIE’ REVIEW
• Lana Del Rey “Born to Die” Album Release
• THE TRAGEDY OF LANA DEL REY
• Album Review: Born To Die by Lana Del Rey
• Lana Del Rey’s “Born To Die” is D.O.A.
• Sobre Lana Del Rey & Born To Die
• Lovely Lana
• Lana Del Rey – “Born to Die”
• Lolita In The Hood
• Lana Del Rey – Born To Die
• STYLE VS. SOUND: LANA DEL REY
• Album of the Week: Lana Del Rey, Born to Die
• Lana Del Rey – Born To Die
• Fake It ‘Til You Make It or Made It ‘Cause You Faked It? A look at Lana Del Rey
• Lana Del Rey Gets The Superstar Treatment by Fiat
• Lana Del Rey did fine on ‘SNL,’ says Lana Del Rey
• Lana Del Rey leaving her hotel in Paris, January 30, 2012
• LANA DEL REY – ‘BORN TO DIE’
• Lana Del Rey – “Born To Die”: Album Review
• The Verdict Is In: Lana Del Rey’s Album Finally Comes Out.
• Lana Del Rey – Born To Die
• Lana Del Rey Retort of the Day
• Travel Tuesday: Lana Del Rey – Born to Die

Oh, I do have one legitimate complaint… one of my favorite Del Rey works, Kinda Outta Luck, isn’t on the CD. Well, at any rate, here it is. For your pleasure.