Sgt Dunbar & the Hobo Banned - "Everything Is, Pt. III". Messy. The kind of guy whose bracelets always break, whose watches slip off his wrist and shatter on the asphalt. Very good at climbing walls. Favourite movie is The Great Escape. One day he was buying milk and interrupted a robbery. He got beat up good, but saved the owner $400. He gets milk for free, now. He brags about this to his friends. "Not everyone gets free milk," he says. Sometimes he stops mid-way through: "Not everyone gets fr-" he says, reaching to catch his watch before it hits the pavement. [buy/myspace]

Acoustic Ladyland - "Sport Mode". Marty doesn't regret jumping off the cliff until about 15 seconds in. The first seconds are just oh, wow, hey, but then, well, shit! The cliff was high as hell but the water is hurtling toward him at the speed of fall. The sun is shining, the sky is azure, but the water's not going anywhere except closer. He bucks in the air, he twists, he tries to reorient his body so the wind will push him away, away, or up and into a puffy cloud. No, no. No, Marty is falling and he can't do fuck about it. He lowers his head, he closes his eyes. He's a plunging rocket and it's going to be good. [MySpace/buy]

(astronaut image by Ove Kvavik)