Exhibit 7.8

Rocket Science

We watched the movie the other night. It was good. Not amazing or transcendent or anything, but just a good movie that wore a lot of its references on its sleeve yet was actively trying to defy expectations of where the narrative was headed. It also caused me to listen to that first Violent Femmes album again, so that's a plus. By the way, that album is more than 25 years old.

Albums that came out a month before Violent Femmes:

• Prince*, 1999
• Marvin Gaye, Midnight Love

Albums that came out after Violent Femmes:

• The Smiths, The Smiths
• Talking Heads, Speaking in Tongues
• Prince, Purple Rain
• Tom Waits, Swordfishtrombones
• Willie Nelson/Merle Haggard, Pancho and Lefty
• The Police, Synchronicity
• Kelly Clarkson, Breakaway

Albums that came out on the same day as Violent Femmes:

• Michael Jackson, Thriller

I don't know, maybe this isn't shocking information if you were around to experience them at the time, but it seems wrong somehow. Just be glad I'm giving you this information now rather than betting you at a bar that Violent Femmes was released before Purple Rain**.

Anyway, I actually wanted to post about this type of rocket science. Did anyone actually think they were going to be able to hit it? You won this round, military-industrial complex. I'd like to think a chant of USA! USA! broke out immediately afterward, but this was in Houston, so that was probably already happening***.

*By the way, when you search for Prince on Wikipedia, it takes you to an article on the monarch and not the artist. We need to fix this fast before Prince finds out.

**I wouldn't do this.

***I've never been to Houston.