I've listened carefully to about the first half of the new Modest Mouse album, and I must say so far I am pleased. It's no Moon and Antartica, but it is really good. Lighthearted and fun, a little different than the older stuff but not so far off.

In other Modest Mouse news, I gave my students a handout today that said "Modest Mouse Company" on it, and these two students in the back just laughed their asses off at the name. They just don't understand :( . However, when I told them it was a band name, like all the other names I'd been using for their problems, one guy said "oh yeah, I noticed that with Built to Spill Audio the other day." BLESS HIM.