BIG new music release day: Of Montreal, The Walkmen, Superchunk, Blonde Redhead, Black Mountain, Vaselines, Mavis Staples (Tweedy Produced)

Reviews for the new Thermals LP have been kind of meh & I haven't heard ANYTHING about new Interpol album, but I d-load both out of loyalty.

So I figured "What the Hell," right, and enabled my Ping account on iTunes. If you did too, people search for TJ Clark to find/follow me.

"This year Halloween fell on a weekend / Me and Geto Boyz are trick-or-treating / Robbing little kids for bags" youtu.be/KutXyPEEbQs

Because sometimes you just need to listen to The Animals: www.last.fm/music/The+An...

Rock Rule Number 753: Sleater-Kinney makes everything better. (Currently listening to album Dig Me Out).

Strange day. Change of season is certainly in the air. Everything about today has said "fail," yet excited by the clean slates that follow.

My alarm goes off in 3hrs & 45min. I must force myself to sleep now. Listening to Nick Drake to prepare myself for morning's self-hatred.

Headed to Back to School night, which the kids are are decidedly NOT excited about. Have they reached the age where they dislike school?

Scout, 3, on her imaginary boyfriend: "I'm not gonna beat him up. He's the right boy for me."