• IDLES’s endearing Tiny Desk concert.
    • The song title “Never Fight A Man With A Perm.”
    • Guitarist Mark “Bobo” Bowen channeling big Zoot Horn Rollo energy.
    • The unbelievably sweet nerdiness of the NPR staffers they drag onto the “stage” with them.
  • The best vegetable metaphor, from Captain Beefheart’s “10 Commandments of Guitar Playing”: “Keep that hat on. A hat is a pressure cooker. If you have a roof on your house, the hot air can’t escape. Even a lima bean has to have a piece of wet paper around it to make it grow.”
  • Watching the Democratic debate with Zaid and thinking about how debates — or national elections in general — seem to filter out the personality traits I want most in a leader: humility and patience.