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This remains one of my favorite days of the year–when all the suburban dads are doing their fantasy football drafts at the local Buffalo Wings place…. Every year, I feel the same weird anti-Jock sentiment that I felt in High School And every year, these meme’s make me laugh!

Yesterday I went and saw the David Foster Wallace film with Candace.  It was fantastic–I will try to include more thoughts on it it soon, but it definitely reinforced my desire to read every single word this man wrote. The music in the film is also super great.

I just dropped the kids off for the first day of school, which means it is time once again for everyone’s favorite annual poll–the 2015 Album of the Summer! Last year I voted for Thievery Corporation which lost to Jack White–which is not as bad as loosing to Robin Thicke, but still not that great…This…

Here is a list from Evernote that I am moving here while I try to figure out a better way to organize my music listening Elbow The Both–Amie Mann latest band White Lung Of Montreal Cut Copy The Antlers–Familars M83 — influced by the music of the Waves Conor Oberst peiwoh saval nice gong classical…

Last night Lisa, Jack, Kate, & I went to Irvine Meadows and saw the Pacific Symphony play along with the Star Trek 2009 movie–Cody stayed with Grandpa because the movie is rated PG-13–mostly because of creepy space stuff we ran into the Dalke’s which was awesome. It was a great night out–lots of laughs, great…

This is currently my selection for the best name for a musical genre…