MVP! MVP!

[This is a fee­ble attempt to buffer the pain of last night’s loss. Los­ing to the Astros can be so demor­al­iz­ing. Then again, so is watch­ing Rick White pitch.]

The kid took a no-hit bid into the sev­enth. Almost the eighth, even.

Chris­t­ian Par­en­ti updates us from Kab­ul. It’s not good news.

Down­load: Sunn/Boris — Aku­ma No Kuma

Adding drums to the Sunn O))) sound was use­ful [and less bor­ing (you heard right) than the cease­less sweep­ing drone], but the vocals on this track, run through a vocoder, recast both groups as ELO [for Darth Vader]!

My blurbs are at least six­ty-six per­cent authored by me [scroll down and see.]

New favorites com­ing soon. It may be pre­sump­tu­ous [and sad] but in the post-Pazz ‘n’ Jop era, any­thing’s pos­si­ble! [Favorite sin­gle of the moment is this.]