Silky smooth. Almost too smooth. Drums patter along under lulling, numbed synth waves while whispertalk rolls over them like a velvet red carpet. Trying not to slip into a peaceful slumber is actually difficult. Sweden’s latest chillrock, coming from The Radio Dept. conjures Slowdive and the like on their urban-edged, nighttime album, Pet Grief, at the intersection of synthpop and slowrock, backlit with shoegaze.

The highly comforting, interstellar sound flows throughout the album, and at it’s peaks, hatches a new wave beat continuity with a numbing effect broken only by piano crashes and lite guitar riffs. Reserved, cozy, and poignant.

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Video of Delmon Young throwing bat at ump

Ah, the flagrance of Delmon Young. How we love it so. This video rocks. All the people who have been saying that he “tossed” the bat at the ump are idiots. He definitely chucked it, if not tried to spear the guy. If that would’ve hit him in the grill and knocked him down, Delmon Young would now be a short-order cook at Waffle House in Bamberg, South Carolina.

Mass. Parents File Federal Suit Over Gay Book

I was waiting for this to happen. If the school gets away with its super-gay shenanigans, I will weep for our children more so than ever. If you want to teach them diversity, apply for a job at a private school and leave the public curriculum alone.

Two Teens Arrested for Myspace ‘Kick the Cat’ video

I was under the assumption that you couldn’t be arrested for anything on myspace. Err, brb, gotta delete a bunch of stuff. Oh crap.