boomshakalaka! hello again, scottie pippen

in honor of a certain video-game reboot out today that i’m not at all obsessed with, here are three quick shots that all add up to a night on fire:

a. new guster! lead single “do you love me” is super catchy, other tracks boast “wincing the night away”-era shins-like harmonies. my instant review, which i reserve the right to change and/or expand upon after further listening, is that the washes of instrumental color are excellent, the songs range the typical guster gamut of fun to pensive. the negatives? it looks like adam has officially relinquished lead vocals to ryan, whose singing voice definitely gets better with age but needs my boy gardner to achieve that classic guster sound. also, not enough bongos in that instrumental palate.
instant verdict on the court: a three-pointer that bounces in off the backboard.

2. billy on glee! puck covers “only the good die young” after finn finds religion in a grilled-cheese sandwich.
instant verdict on the court: when my favorite show works in my favorite musical god, it’s nothing but net.

d. nba jam is back! you’d think the game would lose style points for adding in new mariokart-like power-ups and different camera angles, but by playing in classic mode, you can be blissfully ignorant of these updates. i wish i could choose him right out of the box, but my sources tell me that i just need to string together five wins to unlock my boy scottie pippen. (i do find myself wishing for more pixellation, but we can’t have everything, even in this modern age.)
instant verdict on the court: like it’s even a question: a backboard-shattering slam dunk.

now if you’ll excuse me, scottie and i have a lebron james to destroy. boomshakalaka, indeed.

bonus video! in slightly grammatically incorrect fashion, with only one lost train of thought!

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