It’s pretty amazing that the top 4 records of 2010 are already better than the top 4 records of the whole of 2009.
Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be, Ted Leo & RXers - Brutalist Bricks, Titus Andronicus - The Monitor and a new JNew joint? I’ll take my chances.
Also, I’m super Utah-Jazzed about this, hopefully it’ll be The Book of Basketball without the juvenile cursing, extreme homerism, weird stripper stories and pornography analogies.
Java II might play the best music of any coffee shop I’ve ever patronized, today, back to back to back to back: Laura Cantrell, Neil Young, Belle and Sebastian, Billy Bragg. This doesn’t even take into account the time they played an entire Specials album. If I ever walk in there and The Reigning Sound or Titus Andronicus is playing, I’m never leaving, someone bring me an indoor tent and a mummy bag.
I’ll go on record as saying hockey is dumb, but if you like it, good for you. No one seems to like anything more than Canada likes hockey, so bully for them and their gold medal. I’d rather the BCers and Quebecois get to revel in victory than some two bit American hoodlums using the game as a pit stop on their blacking-out-on-Coors-Lite-Tour. Plus, some of the best living Americans are Canadian. Neil Young, Bill Murray, Steve Nash.
Do you like the fact that I can work basketball into a four sentence hockey post?
I received a digital camera for Christmas, considering blogs mostly exist as depositories for amateur digital imagery, it was time I took the plunge. Get ready to indulge in some photographs no one will find interesting except for me (I don’t find them interesting). But hey, you’re the one who showed up here, I didn’t ask you to come.
Great present or greatest present?
View from my window during one of the countless snow storms
If I don’t post every 2 months, the darkness wins. Snow day / snowed takes away any and all of my half sincere excuses.
Here are some thoughts that no one cares about.
Blade Runner is a dumb movie, besides a few character news and the very basic sketch of the plot it is completely different than the book it’s based on (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, which was actually half way decent). My main problems with the movie? If you’re going to invoke a super serious tone, you can’t a) dress all the characters like members of the Champions, or for a more contemporary reference, the Black Eyed Peas b) intersperse the movie with inexplicable shots of a unicorn running through a forest. Sorry, these are hard and fast rules.
Next, I decide to go on one small vacation in March, and every good band in the world descends on Philadelphia. Jeepers Creepers. Black Lips and Joanna Newsom (don’t hate), and I’m missing it?
Yes, I do realize this post was written with the stilting prose of a semi literate 5th grader. Do you know what cures bad grammar? (besides more questions posed solely so I can answer in the next line) Buying me this:
I don’t think anyone will dispute that 2009 was a mediocre (at best) year for music. When Animal Collective’s 5th best album is topping charts, you know you are in for a world of hurt. That said, a few bands managed to get it done in the preceding calendar year. Here is my top 5:
1) The Reigning Sound - Love and Curses
2) Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
3) Phoenix - Wolfgang Amedeus Phoenix
4) The Black Hollies - Softly Towards the Light
5) Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
The rest of the year’s releases, jeepers creepers.
My New Year’s Resolution is not to spend more time updating a website that nobody reads.
I will; however, indulge in some shameless list making, top ten films of the decade. Get excited.
10) Dogville
9) Hot Fuzz
8 ) American Psycho
7) Ratatouille
6) Spirited Away
5) There Will be Blood
4) Grizzly Man
3) Children of Men
2) City of God
1) You Can Count on Me - They’ll be better movies than You Can Count on Me, but nothing so perfect.
This was difficult, but I think we have a list that America can get behind.
