I just picked up The Dillinger Escape Plan with Mike Patton EP “Irony is a Dead Scene”. I was reading the liner notes and noticed “Mike Patton would like to thank the Los Angeles Lakers and the Rockaway Township Police Department”. Hehe…

For the uninitiated, Rockaway is two towns over from my parents house in NJ, as well as home of the Rockaway Townsquare mall, where I held several jobs…

For the even further uninitiated, I played basketball with the drummer (Chris Pennie) of The Dillinger Escape Plan back in the good ol’ Hopatcong Middle School…

The CD itself is spectacular… I never was able to get that into DEP thanks to their (former) vocalist… This CD is a one-off (?) pairing of DEP and Patton, but perhaps I will check out their new vocalist when that CD comes out… By the way, there is a fantastic cover of “Come to Daddy” on this CD…

I also found the Phantomsmasher debut for 9.99 at Newbury Comics… I wasn’t going to pick it up, but Jon’s recommendation combined with the low price made it a no-brainer…