Band: The Mercury Program
Album: A Data Learn the Language
Best song: “Fragile or Possibly Extinct” is the most robust.
Worst song: “Gently Turned on Your Head” isn’t strong.

I do this every year and I’m not completely sure why I do it, but I do. It’s something of a tortuous exercise and no one really cares that I do it, but I do it nonetheless. Alex Taft was a great friend of mine and one who was taken away far too soon. It’s been five years since Taft passed away in a Colorado car crash. It’s been a tough five years, largely because the passage of time makes him seem less important. He is not.

I had a dream last night about Taft, which I do not find to be a coincidence. Since his death, I have had dreams pretty consistently about him. Continue reading →