Just a couple things from me went up this week. I reviewed the new album from Memory Tapes, which was very strong. It’s actually one of those albums that makes wish I had a radio shift since most of the songs on it would be perfect to drop in the middle of a set to enliven it.

I also tapped out another very positive review, this time for the movie Terri, which contains what I think is John C. Reilly’s best performance to date. Strangely, I wasn’t supposed to receive this movie. The promotional folks said they weren’t sending out screeners for it, but then, lo and behold, it landed in my mailbox after all. Lucky for me, since it’s good enough to jockey for a place in a best of the year list.

All that goodwill was countered handily by my contribution to this week’s List Inconsequential, which burdened me with the cruel task of listening to “Drops of Jupiter” repeatedly to figure out the best way to write about it. That was brutal.