What Did You Listen To When You Weren’t Watching The Super Bowl?

Despite being freakishly tall and quite beefy in my younger days, and therefore courted by every high school football coach who laid eyes on me despite the fact that I turned into King Spazz the minute a ball (or stick) (or curling broom) was placed in my hands, I was a shut-in music geek and as such it was my understanding that we did not care for the sporting life! And yet here is the entire musical blogosphere talking up Super Bowl commercials and “pass interference” this morning? Did not one of you hold true to the ideals of our nerdy youth and resist the Fox Sports lure?

Of course as I aged I realized my anti-organized sporting bias was silly and became a pretty serious basketball fan for a number of years, though I’ve mostly resigned myself to the game post-2001, as one will when you started out a Sixers supporter. (Philadeliphia teams, man.) And of course Maura is a disturbing baseball obsessive, to the point where she gets an eerie, glazed, serial-killerish look when she talks about the Mets.

Still, last night I went total geek and said no mas when it came to Super Bowl coverage, instead watching the new Ex concert film by Fugazi documenter Jem Cohen (muy recommended) and listened to (self-seriousness alert) a newish recording of Gavin Bryars’ spectral “Sinking Of Titanic” and plus Mary J’s latest because I needed a jolt of her particular “I’m bad, I’m nationwide” sass. While I suspect the bulk of Idolator readers, like the bulk of humanity with rabbit ears, spent the early evening hours of the sabbath watching the game, please feel free to musically commiserate here with your own alternative bowl-day soundtracks. Or call me a football-spurning geek. Your call.