Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space

Before the nerd levels spiral out of control, the management is proud to announce that *bitter defeat*, after crawling out of the primordial blog soup some two-and-one-half years ago, has finally developed opposable thumbs and started to walk upright. What this strained metaphor is trying to say is this: As an occasional music blog, *bitter defeat* has been way behind the times in terms of making mp3s readily available to visitors...until now. *bitter defeat* has graduated into the murky, semi-legal world of mp3 blogs. Abandon hope all ye who enter here.

In that spirit, Sprites's "I Started a Blog Nobody Read" seems the perfect inaugural track. The title pretty much says it all.

Sprites - "I Started a Blog Nobody Read" [mp3]
[Buy it from Darla Records]

And now back to the nerd spiral...

Tomorrow night is the season premiere of Battlestar Galactica. That I should be excited about this comes as little surprise. I am a nerd. However, this will be the first time that I have ever curtailed my Friday-night drinking schedule in the name of sci-fi. The show is simply that good. In honor of aliens and spaceships and Frito-stained, breakfast-burrito-eating, still-living-with-mom nerds everywhere, the management presents... A SMALL SELECTION OF NERD-APPROPRIATE MUSIC:

Peter Schilling - "Major Tom" [mp3]

Mogwai - "New Paths to Helicon, Pt. 2" [mp3]

Tina Turner - "We Don't Need Another Hero" (From Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome) [mp3]
[Buy All the Best]

And in honor of the November 2 premiere of The OC (because, in addition to being a nerd, I am also apparently a teenaged girl)...

Phantom Planet - "California" [mp3]
[Buy Music from The OC Volume One]

So there you have it. It's a whole new game now, folks. The esotericism is about to fly off the chain around here. Get ready to right-click until your fingers fall off and you get carpal tunnel syndrome all the way up to your face.