·1· Blonde Redhead (23 and Misery is a Butterfly are in transit. I heart Amazon.com)

·2· Guitar Hero (Five Stars of Fun! - Just played this for the first time. tag=essential)

·3· Heatmiser / Mic City Sons (recently rediscovered - I was iffy on this when it came out in 1996 but played it on repeat most of the 2 weeks before Memorial Day)

·4· Wilco / Sky Blue Sky (New sounds from one of my all-time faves. I’ve started to fall for it.)

·5· DM (My goodest friend visited this last weekend, I’m very grateful to know him.)

·6· The National / Boxer (Whoa! I didn’t get into their Alligator LP  much, I need to listen to it again.) [Playing Portland 6/28 & Seattle 6/29; I might be there.]

Alright.  I admit it.  All these years of killing brain cells has finally caught up with me.  Only instead of the frying egg sensation, I think it was more of a pouring of thick black gooeyness over my brain and now, at 31, I have to try and think through the La Brea tar pit that is my brain.

I’ve stumbled upon a brain power test where you run through a couple exercises and it tells you the actual performance age of your brain. The hardest part is the fact it combines images with words and I guess that pulls at two different sides of your brain.  Apparently I have a river of black tar blocking the connection between the two.  The first time I did it I discovered my brain was 65.  Oh my fracking god.

Try for yourself and let me know what you are.  Today with a little more coffee, better sleep, and some more familiarity with the test, I scored an age of 39.  Getting closer.

I’ve been playing the hell out of Desktop Tower Defense, a casual flash games where you build mazes to try to control the flow of little baddies so you can shoot them with your turrets. It’s completely addictive. I’ve started a group on there, so if you want to compare your scores to mine (and all of the rest of us), you can. Just play a game (normal level), and then add your score to group “abunchofus” when the game is over. Fun!

• Instructions
  
• Group scores (enter “abunchofus”)

I should be paying attention in class.