Good luck getting God on the phone. Good luck getting even a tone.

Thanks to everyone for awesome L.A. song suggestions in response my last post. You are all champions of life. Writing on the internet is like screaming into a well, so it's nice to hear people screaming back. In terror, of course.

Quick music recommendation, for what it's worth:

Like The Hold Steady's Seperation Sunday, this new Thermals album is angry and loud, and deals pretty exclusively with religious faith. I think.

I love these furious records by bands who seem so mired in American faith, so terrified of a world without that structure (I forgot I needed God like a big brother), and yet are deeply aware of the absurd evil of the whole institution (I might need you to kill). Was that Pitchfork enough?

I don't know. It seems perfect for Christmas.