Gonna share a little story here as it's relevant - Chance came into the fast food joint where I was working a couple of years ago. I hadn't gotten into his music yet, but several of my co-workers were huge fans and absolutely lost their shit when they saw him. He tipped well and then after his friends were done…

I had a great conversation with an acquaintance a while back about how unexpectedly solid that album is, and about how many bands had great late-career records that are criminally underappreciated (see: entire Jimmy Eat World discography post-Futures).

I mean, he has a spoken word part on their latest album.

I grew up with Dzhokhar, the younger of the two brothers who committed the attacks. I'm absolutely going to ignore the movie (I don't need another fucking Mark Wahlberg Saves Boston movie), but as a Trent Reznor fan I'll probably check out the soundtrack.

Hell yes. I have a new desk and chair coming from Ikea today, and I can't wait to spend part of my evening putting it all together. Something about the feeling of success when it all fits together and you have the final product in front of you is really cool. I've designed and built my own furniture in the past, and…

It's even better on the musician's end. Their pricing is brilliant, if you're a tiny independent artist like myself they take no fees until you've started making some money, their customer service is second to none, and when you're setting up your page, if you have a question, chances are it's in the FAQ and explained…

My friends have a lovely cat named Yossarian (after the Catch 22 character, of course). For the most part, we call him Yo-Yo, though Catssarian gets tossed around from time to time.

Oh my god, just found that. Incredible.

My Explosions in the Sky vinyl preorder just arrived. One of the most beautiful album covers I've ever seen, and the rest of the album art matches that quality. The album itself is also really fucking good. Between that and the new Mogwai, I'm going to have some good listening time tonight.

But Gary Johnson is still kinda nuts. Last election cycle, I was on my college campus and I ran into him on my way back from class (he had just finished giving a speech, I guess). I asked him about his stance on student loans (he says that they shouldn't exist, but hadn't offered a suggestion on how one would pay for…

It's stunning. I've been using Wacom devices for ages but got to try an iPad Pro recently and holy crap. It's just pretty much perfect. I can't afford one at all but it's on a completely different level from the competition.

Easily my favorite episode. Such an insane setup, rivaled only by the way everything falls into place over the second half of the episode.

Seriously, the show gets a lot of shit, but when it was on, it was ON. Their first Star Wars special gets referenced a lot in my house, particularly any time we have to move a couch (which is surprisingly frequent)

Are you in an Efrim Menuck side project? It sounds like a Godspeed! You Black Emperor album title.

And All That Could Have Been is so incredible. A friend suggested that as the entry point to NIN and couldn't have been more right. Honestly, live albums in general are usually great entry points for bands with long careers, they're basically greatest hits albums but they flow better and have the added bonus of not…

My friends and I constantly make this joke - anytime we have a really bizarre conversation or argument, one of us will just interrupt with "The gang…"

He also said basically the same thing about Brand New, who had already put the shirt he's wearing in one of the widely circulated photos of him back up for sale, with all proceeds going to an AIDS related charity (they didn't give any explanation or statement, as per usual with that band, but we all know why).

Jeez Lewis. You should probably see someone about your Lana Del Rey addiction.

I'm always down to listen to Prince jamming out. His guitar tone on this is spectacular.

Sadly, there's simply no program that lets me create as complex and specific smart playlists, as easily as iTunes does. I've tried everything else, and I'm let down every time. The rest of iTunes can go suck a dick but smart playlists are so fantastic that I can't see myself migrating to anything else anytime soon. If…