Welcome back to the Friday Mailbag. We do not have a sponsor this week, so there are no prizes to give away. However, we do have some peculiar emails to share. We'll get to those in a sec.
Now that football season has started I'm going to go back to posting random music videos. The one above is the new single by Animal Collective. They are one of my favorite bands and I just bought tickets to their upcoming show in Dallas, but their new album is disappointing. It's not that it's a bad album or anything. In fact, I've been listening to it quite a bit. It's just inferior to their earlier stuff. It lacks the layered, grow on you, addictive as hell, surprisingly catchy songs that their previous three LPs had (example 1, example 2, example 3). It's like listening to the soundtrack of a circus on LSD...or something like that.
To the emails:
Jennifer asks:
Are you guys having the State Fair photo contest again?