The entry in which I continue to gush over Joy Formidable

It's been a couple of weeks now and I haven't stopped listening to Joy Formidable's "A Balloon Called Moaning." I feel like my appreciation for this band and this record is the apex of my recent troubling love of female vocalists. Does aging cause testosterone levels to drop and/or estrogen levels to rise? Because there's really no other reason I should download a Bat To Lashes record. Oh and I've also grown tits.

Anyway, it turns out that five of the eight tracks on "A Balloon Called Moaning" are available for free download -- legally -- over here on a site called Music Glue. So go ahead and listen to them, because now you have no excuse.

As far as other media that's passed through this lovely, slightly misshapened head of mine; "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" was fucking stupid and I actually enjoyed this version much better.

Thankfully I had Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" to read afterwards, sort of as a palate cleanser. It was also a huge step up from the last book I read, which was that dreadful Chuck Klosterman turd about shitty music nobody really cares about. "The Road" was actually lent to me by my Uncle about a year or so ago, and I've avoided it since due to the big fat "Oprah's Book Club" sticker on the cover. I embarrassingly changed my mind after seeing the trailer for the movie adaptation, which I'm now even more curious about. The bulk of the book follows two people not doing much of anything, which has the potential to make for a pretty boring movie. Viggo Mortensen is in it, and he's kind of awesome, but if he starts running around and fighting dudes with his dick out like he did in "Eastern Promises," I swear to God I'm never watching another movie again.

So, yup.