January 2010
13 posts
Future Shock →
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) →
Cold War Kids (83)
Spoon (80)
The Tikiyaki Orchestra (36)
R.E.M. (35)
Martin Denny (27)
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Why I Believe Printers Were Sent From Hell To Make... →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-17) →
Blonde Redhead (48)
Arctic Monkeys (23)
Interpol (23)
Hüsker Dü (21)
The Kills (20)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-10) →
Neko Case (30)
R.E.M. (24)
Franz Ferdinand (23)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs (22)
Friendly Fires (20)
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Support an LA band. It’s a really good...
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User error
Apparently I have to learn the hard way, like everyone else I presume, that the tumblr app on the iPhone will auto-post to Twitter unless you tell it otherwise in the advanced options. For each post. Global preference? Please?
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An annoying Spring ritual →
With these dates it seems that Spoon begins the annual Los Angeles Spring Ritual of “bands you want to see only playing Coachella”. Great if you like festivals but if you don’t…you’re screwed. Sucks to be old like me.
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2009 music: what i claim i like, what i actually...
Short version:
The xx edges out The Horrors for my favorite album of 2009.
“Sea Within a Sea” edges out “Young Adult Friction” for my favorite track of 2009.
Longer version:
My top 25 Albums of 2009 in alphabetical order.
Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
The Big Pink - A Brief History of Love
The Dead Weather - Horehound
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Division Day -...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-3) →
Danny Elfman (52)
Friendly Fires (49)
Neko Case (32)
Julian Casablancas (30)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs (29)
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Fortune
There are moments, quiet moments like this, where I sit back and feel entirely overwhelmed at how fortunate I really am.