The Day Has Arrived

Or rather, the day will arrive in a bit over two months.

All Over But the Frontin'

Six steps to achieving musical zen, i.e. how to quit your frontin'.
1. Buy this album
2. Listen
3. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
4. Realize that not all good music requires mustaches, irony, and loopy electronic nonsense.
5. Realize that this record is intensely good.
6. Quit your frontin'

NEW 3 INCHES OF BLOOD!!!

September 8th. Mark your calendars.

You can hear a new song ("Call of the Hammer") on their Myspace.

When You Pay Attention

So it's a good feeling to buy a record, decide that you like it, and then come to realize that it was made by people that are from your town. In order to achieve this feeling one must experience all of these things in precisely this order.
This happened to me with this guy.

One of my favorite records of the year, easy.

.. Emerging from the cave bearing only bad news, only to quickly return to hibernation

Sadly, Robert Mcnamara (former US Defense Secretary) has died. I always liked him. To be fair I was not alive during the Vietnam war so my initial impression of him was formed from the movie "The Fog of War" (a film I plan to re-watch tonight)- a movie that paints him in a vastly different manner than the way he is usually understood. Still it seems to me that he was a man of two undeniable strengths: he seemed to have the best interest of the nation at heart (he left the presidency of the Ford motor company to work for the government) and he was willing to try to learn from his mistakes.

Also, everyone should see The Fog of War.