Long week where I didn’t get nearly as much done as I’d wanted to, due to many factors, including spring break absences at work, thunderstorm and tornado warnings, and some biological events you really don’t want the details of, but kept me within spitting distance of a restroom most of the week.

Ew.

Got a couple of nice bike rides in before the weather and, um…other things kicked in, and even through that, I got a couple of decent walks through a local park with closely-spaced facilities.

Otherwise, I waited around for people to sign things, had my mild, bland lunch of a nice baked potato eaten by…someone who remains anonymous, and the silver lining of getting a lot of reading done.

Oh yeah, there was Justice Jackson getting confirmed yesterday, which is cool. Historic on all kinds of levels (black woman, public defender background, etc), plus it’s nice to see more GenX representation on the court.  There just aren’t that many of us.

Tunes this week?  Lots of kinda twee acoustic pop from waifish female vocals dropping an occasional F-bomb, which…fine.  The band there at #6 is definitely worth your time if you’re into post-Riot-Grrl garage pop (which is a niche genre I just made up), a style also represented a bit by #12, and likely pioneered by the band coming in at #13:

1. “Gothic Surf-a-Rama” – Vampire Beach Babes
2. “Crop Circles” – Odie Leigh
3. “My Chinchilla” – Cub
4. “Play It Right” – Mountain Man
5. “How Long” – Palehound
6. “Monday” – The Regrettes
7. “Garter Snake” – Macie Stewart
8. “Used To” – Wilma Laverne Miner
9. “Helpless Blues – Solstice Version” – Fleet Foxes
10. “Plastic Jesus” – Tia Blake
11. “Lift” – Skullcrusher
12. “Combat Baby” – Metric
13. “Forsythia” – Veruca Salt