I flung corn at Patrick. He turned around and flung some back. I liked his answers. He’ll hate mine.

Assignment: listen to The Cave by Mumford & Sons. Assessment: harmless strum-strum music with a raspy-voiced singer and a good producer.

Assignment: listen to Don’t Haunt This Place by The Rural Alberta Advantage. Assessment: Terrible band name. Nice drum beat. Casio? Cello? Alt-Indie Meets Medium-Fi 101 vocal harmonies. I can’t see myself loving or hating anything this ensemble puts out.

Assignment: listen to Violent by Loney, Dear. Assessment: any friend of Arvo Pärt is a Friend of Blog. Bonus points for the whole One Man Show thing. As far as “Violent” goes, it’s certainly the biggest song on this playlist, and the most likely one I’ll hear again. It sounds like music that European audiences probably hear while pumping gas at the self-serve.

Assignment: listen to Laughing With by Regina Spektor. Assessment: Tori Amos wannabe. Cute voice, and I don’t mean that in a good way. Saying this about the red-headed temptress on tMiM sort of feels like making derogatory remarks about the Virgin Mary while visiting the Cathedral of Notre Dame, but what can I say? My wife will never speak to me again.

What else you got!?